Hi everyone - Dolly here with a challenge for you all - a colour challenge this weekend.
As part of a class by Shimelle I was introduced to this amazing site
http://www.design-seeds.com/
Design seeds has the most amazing colour combination cards and they are just so beautifully showcased.
Apart from making you want to scrap and giving you hand to do that – they are just beautiful to sit and drool over.
Have fun enjoying the site but the weekend workout challenge for you all is to use this colour card to inspire your creativity.

It might be a page, a card, a home décor project. But let the colours inspire you to create.
I used the colours to make a clock for our newly decorated library.
The clock was one I had had for years, always meaning to decorate it. This was the perfect opportunity.
I painted the edges of the base board cream and then used a truly gorgeous piece of K and Co paper from the Blue Awning range (my favourite range ever!) Part of the paper is flocked and lightly glittered as you can see here.
I used some scraps of wallpaper samples (the paper that never made it to the decor in the room) to cut some butterflies and to add to inked and stamped papers I had made to match to make the flowers.
I also used scraps of the same sample wallpaper for the text (well it is in the library so it had to mention books). The paper has a gorgeous shiny stripe that looks lovely in real life.

I hope you can see how the colours in the sample inspired the piece of work.

I hope that the colours inspire you to create. Do leave us a link so we can see what you have come up with.
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Thanks Dolly, it's such a cool, restful palette, it was a pleasure to use. (and that site is a fab resource)
I chose taupe linen, and pale robin's egg stranded silk for rows of simple embroidery stitches, sampler style.
On top, I placed a photo of my grandson, on a vertical piece of cream mountboard for contrast, with pale jade ink sponged edges.
Placed in a thrifted frame, it gives me joy.

I miss him.
Eleanor
x
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Hiya Claireliz here, with my attempt at this gorgeous colour palette.
I had a photo in mind for this as soon as I saw the colours, it's one of my friend Jo, taken at a friends wedding the other week. Jo is one of my closest friends, she is also very crafty, she gets just as excited over new stash & pretty things as I do, and we can giggle & eat cake for hours on end...
For the journaling I used a quote from Bernard Meltzer (although I changed the "he" to a "she" to make it fit.)
A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg, even though she knows you are slightly cracked.
A quote I feel sums up our friendship perfectly.
I loved working with this colour palette, & will be using it again, I also really enjoyed using a girly photo with colours that I would usually use for more masculine layouts. Thank you Dolly :D
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