Category: inspiration

I hope you’ll humour me with my colour me happy post today. I thought that light green would be in abundance and yield an array of eye catching results that would have me scratching my head and trying to work out which to use. How wrong I was, well that was until I found the…

I was very excited by my colour this week, I just had a good feeling that turquoise would yield some great results. It’s not a colour I normally go for, although I do have a turquoise shirt that I just love. Here’s what I found:TOP: mlwdesigns Teal Sunflower print (close enough to turquoise to me).MIDDLE:…

Who knew that the colour associated with 1970s bland would yield such treasures in my colour search today. To be honest I didn’t hold out much hope with beige… but just look at what I found:TOP: Badbird’s Gold Fish – this one made me smile because the last two weeks the little one has brought…

The colour pickers cannot understand these deep colours so once again I have resorted to just a keyword search. Isn’t it funny how a colour can have an instant association? Navy made me think nautical and France… I have also just returned from seeing the Masterpieces from Paris exhibition for the second time so I…

Blue is not a colour that registers with either colour search engines… by the way. I should really have posted some of the results just to prove the point. So here’s what I found by searching for ‘blue’ which returned 14653 results.TOP: Winter Lights Set of 3 prints from T R Mack Studio just made…

  You’ll be pleased to know that the Etsy colour search tools did not let me down this week, here’s what I found:TOP: Photoglassworks tree and bird glass pendant. I know it was the background that matched my colour but when this appeared I just couldn’t let it go. Isn’t it gorgeous?MIDDLE: Sick on Sin’s…

  I just knew that a search for indigo would yield something inspired by Japan. I was happy to see that I was right. I should add that the old Etsy colour search once again let me down. It just couldn’t understand my colour request and it returned some very strange results. Give it a…

This week not only did the old and new Etsy colour search engines disappoint I had to completely abandon them in favour of a keyword search. I found nothing that grabbed me with either colour pickers but look at what I did find with my ‘purple’ search:TOP: Andie’s Glass focal bead. The bead is beautiful…

Once again I thought this would be an easy task this week as fuchsia is such a bold garish colour that I assumed it would prevail in my colour search. Once again I almost gave up on the old search tool but that was until I found the top picture…TOP – Jellybeans – A Spring…