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.

Faux zinc

In the previous post I've written about the faux zinc candle holderhouse, well, I've create another house, this time in miniature.

I've drawing it on the base of the bigger one, there are some differences between them such as less windows and no window to introduce a light. It is possible to make a hole on the bottom or on the back of the house to elettrify it.
Near there are an alder fruit, that looks like a tiny pine cone, and a juniper berry, that looks like a deep red apple.

Another faux zinc item, that I've made after a long time, is the candle holder. This time I haven't use a polymer clay candle but a thin plastic one, so white and perfect to have a lovely contrast with the candle holder.

I'll make other faux zinc miniatures, I've already work on some of them, sure I'll match faux zinc with flowers and vintage labels.

You can see the little house and the candle holder on my shop on Etsy.

My warm home

White, light grey, red and all the colors of the winter Nature and a lot of light! This is the style of the northern Europe, so stylish in the latest years also here, in the sunny Italy.

It is difficult, even if not impossible, to find items that fit this cold but sweet style. For example the zinc houses to hold tea lights I've fallen in love with.
I have find them only on the web, Christmas was near and I've wished to create one of them for myself. This is the result.

I've realized the template with Adobe Illustrator after an inspiring surf on the web. I've printed the template on a 300g cardboard, painted it in black and then in silver with irregular brush strokes.

The tea light is a LED tea ligth, no real candles for the paper house ;)

In the dark of the night I've changed the tea light with a short LED chain, the effect is warm and inspiring.

If you'd like to do the house, here and here the tempate in PDF, winter is long and a warm light is always welcome.

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