Ages ago, during my quest to design a sampler for my friend's little girl, I came across these gorgeous websites (thanks to Wild Olive's suggestions - I hope she won't mind me repeating them). I came across them again whilst tidying up my draft blog posts the other day and got distracted by them all over again.
They have some scrumptious colour palette suggestions and I'm tempted to get lost in them again looking for some interior colour scheme inspiration. This one could almost be the inspiration for the colours in our living room carpet.
They're a really good way of learning about colour too I think, especially if you're not that confident with mixing colours together (either in what you wear or things around your home). Using an image you like - either one you've taken yourself, or one you've seen in a book, magazine, blog (!) etc - as the basis for a colour scheme is a great and simple idea. All you need to look at is the blocks of colour and 'separate' them out (as these websites do for you) and, hey presto, you have your colour palette.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
Design Seeds
Color Collective blog
Creature Comforts Blog - color crush posts
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Thursday, 15 January 2015
Monday, 20 February 2012
Sampler design
I thought it was about time that I gave you an update on the sampler designing I mentioned in my earlier post. Not that there is an awful lot to report. It has been slow, to say the least.
I'm reasonably happy with the design. It was a bit of a fiddle copying out all the various bits I'd found to create a comprehensive (I hope) whole. I'm really looking forward to getting our new computer so that I can start using design software for this stage. But adapting the design of 'big brother's sampler' was quite a good way to start, I think.
The next step was choosing colours. Now, this is when I think the design software would have been REALLY useful. Unfortunately, I don't have silks for all the colours I've chosen so far, so it is a little difficult to tell whether or not they'll all work together yet. At the moment, what I have looks a bit 'bitty', but once I get the 'main colours', hopefully it will all start to look a bit more like a design (rather than a a bad jigsaw!).
Sorry - no photos this time. I'll try to include one in the next update - once I have all the silks etc - so that you can see how I'm getting on.
I'm reasonably happy with the design. It was a bit of a fiddle copying out all the various bits I'd found to create a comprehensive (I hope) whole. I'm really looking forward to getting our new computer so that I can start using design software for this stage. But adapting the design of 'big brother's sampler' was quite a good way to start, I think.
The next step was choosing colours. Now, this is when I think the design software would have been REALLY useful. Unfortunately, I don't have silks for all the colours I've chosen so far, so it is a little difficult to tell whether or not they'll all work together yet. At the moment, what I have looks a bit 'bitty', but once I get the 'main colours', hopefully it will all start to look a bit more like a design (rather than a a bad jigsaw!).
Sorry - no photos this time. I'll try to include one in the next update - once I have all the silks etc - so that you can see how I'm getting on.
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