2014 Pantone Color of the Year is Announced!

Click the photo above to read the whole report!

I can imagine beads using hues of this color using CiM's purple palette of colors!
Mixing these with the pink and purple silver infused glasses from Double Helix Glassworks, 2014 has lots of promise!

Enjoying the present and looking to the future

First to the present...

I was thrilled to see the new March issue of Bead Trends is now out to the stores. I was honored to be featured in this issue with my design named "Our Love".
The design is a combination of rich purples including CiM's Eggplant( a great base for silver frit), Effetre Purple Glycine and lots of Double Helix silver glass decorations!
Check out Bead Trends website and their Facebook Fan page!



Now to the future...

As with fashion, jewelry has it trends and forecasts. As most fashion forecasts can be subjective, I prefer to use color forecasts to provide me the guides within I can be inspired to create my bead sets.
Working with lampwork glass rods remind me so much of playing with my crayons as a child. Vibrant colors, mixing and matching to create new collections of color designs. Maybe that is why I am attracted to glass so much, as the colors available are vast and there are always new ones to try and experiment with.

The color forecast experts, in my opinion, are the Pantone group. In watching their forecasts over the past decade, it is amazing to see how the colors that they predict, end up in more products than just clothing and paint products. Walk in any department store and you will see the colors they have forecasted show up in household items, food labels, storage containers and even toothbrushes! Turquoise was the color for 2010 and it was everywhere!

Pantone's 2011 color of the year was announced a few months ago and I blogged about it in this past post. Now the fall color forecast was released a couple of weeks ago. Below is a snippet of the color palette!
Over the next few months, I will be creating bead sets that will get you ready to create jewelry pieces for fall 2011, let me know if you like what you see and if a particular color is your favorite.

Love to hear from you!

Smiles,
D.

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Spring 2011 Color Forecasts, how will you use them?

Looking for inspiration for Spring 2011 jewelry designs?
Pantone has released their color forecast for next season and below is a snapshot of the palette.


In her overview, Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®, conveys that “By cleverly combining complementary colors, those that are opposites on the color wheel, they have created a striking intensity to the palette. These unique color combinations make it possible for consumers to pair existing pieces in colors traditionally associated with fall, with new favorites to punch up springtime wardrobes.”

Check out Pantone's site and download the 2011 Spring Report, click here.

Over the next few weeks, I will be highlighting some bead sets using these color hues that are convertible in CiM- Creation Is Messy as well as Effetre glass colors.

I can already imagine experimenting with Beeswax (CiM Stoneground or Effetre Opal Yellow) paired with Honeysuckle (CiM Razzleberry) and Peapod (CiM Celadon).

How will you use the new Pantone palette in your designs?

Smiles,
Darlene