Lily Bud Color Palette-002 (Premo)
Includes 4 Premo Sculpey Color Recipes: — Lily Bud — Peaceful Garden — Quiet Turquoise — Mystic Morning.
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** This post is an introduction to one of our paid color palettes.
I am always amazed at the color transformations that happen in the garden. Colors which begin quiet and peaceful like the soft greens, blues and peach tones in the lily bud photo above; Can become vibrant and outspoken later on as the flowers open up and mature. You can get a glimpse of the vibrant colors these unassuming lily buds ended up blossoming into, at this link: Day Lily Coral Palette
Lily Bud is the serene peach color of the new forming Day Lily bud. Peaceful Garden is the soft yet bright green at the base of each bud. Quiet Turquoise is the tranquil color of the tiniest buds as they are beginning to form. And Mystic Morning is the blue-green stems supporting the blooms.
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I have often looked at the "natural palette" of the Rocky Mountains where I live - azure sky, forest greens and deep clay reds - and thought that the combination was inspiring...but I didn't let it inspire ME to actually reflect these hues in a piece of art. I am very new to polymer clay, but mixing colors and learning to select meaningful palettes for my bead projects are first and second on my list. I hope to keep an open mind to unexpected color combinations, but also to look to nature for some "tried and true" ideas. Thanks!
Sue P
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Dear Cindy. The recipe cards are so nice. I am a painter and didn't think that I would need the recipe cards because I am so used to mixing paint colors together...well...I LOVE THE RECIPE CARDS!!! You have shown me that there are sooooooo many different colors that I can make from my clay! So many different greens, blues, reds, purples, yellows, and even metallic colors and different natural "white" colors. Thank you so much! // I AM really looking forward to everything to come here at your site in the future, and am really enjoying everything that is now within my reach from the past, just by signing in to "my new library."
Cindy E
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WOW - Your inspiration not only comes across in my clay world but in my world of color too. I'm not very disciplined when it comes to making my own colors even though you have it all layed out for us. I am so inspired by this group of colors that I will try my best to use them in some of volume fourteen tutorial beads I will be sending in as soon as I am up to it. Once again, thank you for being you Cindy. You not only ROCK MY WORLD with creativity you COLOR MY WORLD. You definately have inspired my inner me. Love and Uuuuugggggggs,
Peggy B
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Yes I have thought about publishing a color recipe book, Kelly… if only there was more time in each day to get everything done that I would like to be able to get done.
WOW!! Beautiful colors!! Cindy, have you thought about creating a recipe book with all your colors so far and maybe a few exclusive ones? ;)
Thank you everyone! This is a very different palette for me. The colors are much softer and muted than my usual colors. Am going to enjoy working with them!
@Silverleaf and Anna: Be careful which flowers you eat. Make sure you know for sure which are edible and which are poisonous. I actually have some deadly flowers as well as edible flowers in my garden, so I am quite careful which ones I pick for salads. Wouldn’t want to kill off my family and guests with a pretty salad! LOL
@Jocelyn: You would be quite disappointed with the state of my garden right now. Sure if you take a closeup of an individual flower, it looks grand. But the big picture shows there’s a lot of pruning and weeding to do! Unfortunately I have been too busy to do a good job on it this year.
@tattingchic: Thanks for your comment. Those tatting shuttles were gorgeous! Since it does go through some stress, you will need to experiment a little with design and follow my suggestions for giving your polymer clay shuttles the strength they will need to stand up to the wear. Practice with scrap clay until you get a design that works. Do let me know how it goes and do make sure to ask for help, if you need it!
@lynn: I’m glad you enjoy the recipes. Membership to the Polymer Clay Library is less than $4 a month if you want to get the rest of the recipes plus all the videos. I think you would really enjoy getting them.
@Josie: Thank you! You made my day!
Roll on September. Had some beads but I had no idea what to put with them these colours are just perfect. Cindy your a genius.
I love ALL the color palettes. But I only get the free ones. Oh well better than nothing at all. Cindy you have a knack for mixing those beautiful colors, thanks for sharing some free ones. Lynn W.
Hi There! I saw your comment on Shade Tree art and I wanted to thank you for that! I may try to make a tatting shuttle from your suggestions! Since I saw her polymer clay tatting shuttles I’ve thought I might try it, but it’s good to see what a polymer clay expert has to say! Thank you! :)
Cindy, all these fantastic colors from your garden make me want to see more of it. Do you think you could share some more pictures? You folks seem to be “in the zone” for perfect lilies, and I am dying to see what else is growing out there, LOL!
Oh my! I like all your color paletts Cindy but these are simply stunning!! I love them.
Silverleaf@ I think it is cool that you eat flowers. :) Don’t forget rose hips.
I like edible flowers! Nasturtium flowers and leaves are nice in salads (quite “peppery”) and I like zucchini flowers too (except we call them courgettes here).
I saw a salad on TV once that was almost entirely made of flowers and it looked amazing. I went into the garden straight away and picked flowers off chives, borage, calendula, primroses, lawn daisies, clover, nasturtiums, dandelions – you name it, if I knew it was edible I picked it! Some are not so nice (daisies), but others I definitely liked. Yeah okay, I’m crazy. ;)
Some people put the buds in salads. You can do same with nastersium (spelling-?).
I have also heard of people frying zucchini blossoms and “fiddleheads” which are the new ferns coming up through the ground.
the color palette is really pretty.
Pretty! Am I right in thinking that you can eat daylilies?