Purple Phase: purple with teal, coral + black

Hello, hello.

It's a rainy old day here and I'm wearing all black and brown ... so I'm going to indulge in a splash of colour ...
With today's palette, and the project I made with it, I'm hoping to show :

• that it is possible to use lilac in a non-twee, non-cute manner!  

It is possible! I swear!

All you need is ... orange [or 'coral' if you want to be fancy about it, which I do]:

The inspiration for this scheme came from the seagull illustration I cut from a 1970s children's book:

The colours from each of the additional items I added were all taken from him:

• I inked the edges of the lilac [Basic Grey] backing paper to reflect the colours on the wings;
• But this meant the image blended in too well and was lost - so I added the spotted paper in a deeper, punchier shade.
• The striped strip helped tie in the purple and teal shades;
• The [7Gypsies] word sticker and [Jillibean] baker's twine picked out the yellow in the beak;
• And the bunting stickers [by LilyB Designs] picked out all of the shades I'd used:

And that all important shade of coral came from his legs:

And I repeated this with a little scrap of crocheted trimming in the ideal shade! [I love it when I find just the right thing to match!]

So, maybe next time a lilac card, project or outfit feels in danger of straying into 'too cute' territory try breaking-up the cool shades with a lively touch of coral.

Just think 'seagull card'. What could possibly go wrong?! ;-)

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I've got another outfit post on it's way using similar shades as today's palette, so I'll see you then.

Julie