Colour inspired home decor

September 18, 2011

Colour inspired home decor

It's been a foul day weather wise buta fab day scrapping wise today.

I want to share a home decor post I did for IACW last month. As part of a class by Shimelle I was introduced to this amazing site

http://www.design-seeds.com/

Design seeds has the most amazing colour combination cards and they are just so beautifully showcased.

Apart from making you want to scrap and giving you hand to do that – they are just beautiful to sit and drool over.

I was inspired by this one.

I used the colours to make a clock for our newly decorated library.

The clock was one I had had for years, always meaning to decorate it. This was the perfect opportunity.

I painted the edges of the base board cream and then used a truly gorgeous piece of K and Co paper from the Blue Awning range (my favourite range ever!) Part of the paper is flocked and lightly glittered as you can see here.

I used some scraps of wallpaper samples (the paper that never made it to the decor in the room) to cut some butterflies and to add to inked and stamped papers I had made to match to make the flowers.

I also used scraps of the same sample wallpaper for the text (well it is in the library so it had to mention books). The paper has a gorgeous shiny stripe that looks lovely in real life.

I hope you can see how the colours in the sample inspired the piece of work.

I have made several pages today that I can'ts hare yet as they are design team pieces for soon to be released loveliness, but I can share my LSNED.

I loved having a forbidden Starbucks yesterday but the lesson is, when you break your diet and come off the wagon, it is awfully hard to climb back on the next day.

Today I am thanful for