Spring 2014

Each time a season fades in the next one, I write on my Facebook pages a verse of the song "The Voice" by Celtic Woman. This time I've used one of my miniature to welcome Spring.

The idea for these Crocus flowers comes to me from a real Crocus composition on the web. Crocuses are little plants from the Iris family, they are cultivated for the saffron from their stigmas. Crocuses paint Winter and Spring meadows and woods with their wonderful purples and yellows.

Here the table of Crocus colors, their remind to Pantone colors for 2014.

Here a collage with some lovely creations from my Etsy Team :)

1. Green lace collar - Callmemimi
2. Purple ACEO print with violets - LetterapSy
3. Amethyst jade necklace - Elettrarossa
4. Handpunched butterflies in the shades of purple – VeraPaperLab

Everything sprouts again.

Radiant Orchid

Pantone®is a USA company, a worldwide authority on color. It defines color standars, identifies colors, classifies them and it is a reference point for designers.

Each year, from 2000, Pantone® choices the color of the year. For 2014 it is Radiant Orchid.

I've played with the colors that, according with Pantone®, match Radiant Orchid and I've obtained interesting palettes, I hope they may be inspiring :)

Radiant Orchid comes from these colors

Complement colors of Radiant Orchid

Radiant Orchid combines well with these colors

Neutral colors that Radiant Orchid lives up

Interesting palettes

Hair tie I've made in Autumn 2013, the button in the centre comes from Il mio bottone and it contains Radiant Orchid. I love so much the combination green - purple.