Colour Inspiration
market photo via here, pastels via a beautiful mess, room via bright bazaar
I stuck to a similar palette as last week's color inspiration, but amped up the intensity by focusing on the bright, bold colors of places like India and Morocco. I love how they have a way of being richly saturated and luxurious, but at the same time also very earthy and natural. (Wouldn't it be an amazing experience to be in India during the Holi festival?)
dress via here, streamers via our labor of love, flowers unknown
I normally don't use clothing in my boards, but wow, what an amazing dress.
streamers via somewhere splendid, martha stewart cake via once wed, painting by rachel sumpter
nothing better than sherbet on a hot summer day
tassel garland via confetti system, top right photo via elizabeth messina, guitarist via elizabeth anne designs
pairing navy and pink almost always means preppy. I wanted to show how that isn't always case. By throwing in charcoal gray, gold, silver, seafoam, and white it makes it all a little more hipster and a little less country club. Of course if you add the confetti system to just about anything it's already going to be more fun.
"Lilac & Rose" copyright courtney khail stationery and design (feel free to share, but please give me credit and link back to my site.)
Week three of my new design introductions is the design "Lilac & Rose." I love how unique the lilac is- the color gradients, the shapes, the "petite-ness" of them. While they all follow the same basic design (petal numbers, growth patterns, etc) there are such beautiful nuances in them. I wanted to balance those nuances with the familiarity of a common everyday rose. By playing with scale and deconstructing the plant, I was able to bring focus on the individual lilac blooms as opposed to the entire plant. Once I did that, I arranged them in an almost dance-like pattern around the rose in order to keep your eye bouncing around the composition instead of getting stuck in any particular section. And given that I'd already taken a lot of artistic leeway with the lilacs size and shape, I decided to go ahead and play with color as well- morphing the normal purple into a warmer magenta, then a purple-ish orange and finally into a yellow.
Since the design itself has a lot going on, I opted for a simpler, clean layout that focused on the names of the couple and utilized a lot of white space so your eyes wouldn't get overwhelmed.
foliage and table photo via hoot and heart, chandeliers via abby try again, burlap via the paris apartment
Like those color names? I kind of felt like I was working for a paint company right then.
top photo via snippet and ink, charles villyard cake photo via design*sponge, benjamin dell photo via once wed, car via convoy
mad men photo via vanity fair, lucky strike ad via here, bottles via martha stewart
I love how bold this combination is (annnd I kind of love that it includes Jon Hamm as Don Draper.)
lyndie dourthe photo via concrete and honey, landscape via oh my deer, david seidner photo via santa barbara chic
strawberries via tiny white daisy tumblr, open sign via personal collection, tent via party perfect
To me, strawberries are synonymous with summertime-and paired with crisp white and grass green nothing is more nostalgic. Makes me want to nap in a hammock, eat grilled corn on the cob and catch fireflies. Can you tell I was raised in the South? I would have added something about being barefoot, but that would just leave the door wide open for the jokes...
Happy first official day of summer!
glass photo via decor8, hydrangea via peonies and polaroids, lace via tumblr
My grandmother collected glass electrical insulators and they were always in such barely there beautiful colors- one in particular was this lavender color. Such a calming palette; kind of makes me want to find a lavender field, curl up on a blanket and read a book.