Color Play

I was checking out www.coloraddictionblog.blogspot.com and followed a link over to www.colourlovers.com where I started perusing the endlessly wonderful color combinations.  Then I started creating my own color palettes!  I have created a couple so far and people have actually commented on them.  I’m Loribeads over there if you want to see what I’ve been up to.  Here’s one of the combos I put together:

I call it Casual Friday because it reminds me of all the khaki pants and blue jeans I used to see when I worked in a big corporation.

The really cool thing you can do with the colour lovers site is upload a picture and it will pick colors out of the photo and you can create a palette from them.  I used a photo of some murrini we made:

And got this palette:

And then I tried this photo:

And got this palette:

Well you get the idea.  Try the colourlovers site for yourself!  It may give you as much inspiration as it gave me.  If nothing else, it’s a great time sink.

I’m Lori Peterson and you can find me at loribeads.com, loribeads.etsy.com, loriandkim.etsy.com for murrini and I am also blogging here and twittering there.