Giving In
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At the last craft show, my booth was back-to-back with my friend Jo's hand-linked jewelry booth. She was looking over my Sticky Notes and said I should stitch designs in pink and blue on brown. I knew she was right because I knew those colors are "in" - I see them everywhere.
At the last craft show, my booth was back-to-back with my friend Jo's hand-linked jewelry booth. She was looking over my Sticky Notes and said I should stitch designs in pink and blue on brown. I knew she was right because I knew those colors are "in" - I see them everywhere.I wondered why I hadn't done this before and I think it's because to me, they were so cliche. Like, what, red, white & blue isn't a cliche? Been done a million times? So what? I think I was thinking those colors are a fad and would be passing soon. I'm so silly sometimes. Glad I listen to my customers and friends.
I've been messing around with a new design for a couple of days and it just wasn't working. Yesterday, I started fresh at the end of the day - and this one worked out easily. Go figure.
In this design, I think I almost like the solid color stitching instead of the variegated. I know I like light stitching on dark paper so these color combinations are definitely a keeper. (I know this paper looks black here probably, but this is a really dark chocolate brown paper but I have a bunch of pieces ready to stitch on a lighter milk chocolate brown paper.)
(Thanks Jo!)
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I've been messing around with a new design for a couple of days and it just wasn't working. Yesterday, I started fresh at the end of the day - and this one worked out easily. Go figure.
In this design, I think I almost like the solid color stitching instead of the variegated. I know I like light stitching on dark paper so these color combinations are definitely a keeper. (I know this paper looks black here probably, but this is a really dark chocolate brown paper but I have a bunch of pieces ready to stitch on a lighter milk chocolate brown paper.)
(Thanks Jo!)
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posted by Stefani at 5:12 AM
4 Comments:
I like chocolate.
dark chocolate........mmmmm
You give me WAY too much credit!!! But I think the less likely combinations of pink & brown, teal & brown, blue & brown, and peach & brown and turquoise & brown are turning up in everything from clothing, jewelry, decorating and now post-its and note cards...go figure! I can't take the credit cause my graduate assistant at the college wears those combinations daily! In the seventies our colors were orange & brown, olive & brown, gold & brown...earth tones...which I still love...! And now that I gave you that great advice I need to go home an look at my jewelry combinations and apply it my own craft!
those are so pretty!
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