Bergenia Blossom Palette | Polymer Clay Color Recipes

Vol-047-B Series [Premo Sculpey]
1B: Bergenia Blossom
2B: Lemon Grass
3B: Pink Coral
4B: Exotique

Don’t these colors just make you feel alive! So fresh… so full of Springtime possibilities. Just the kind of colors to pull you out of the Winter dull drums and into a bright new beginning.

These stunning flowers are the blossoms of the Heartleaf Bergenia (Bergenia cordifolia), or more commonly known as Elephant Ears.

The Heartleaf Bergenia’s flowers are kind of a fleeting thought as far as flowering plants go. With this particular species, it is all about the large Elephant Ear shaped leaves. The flowers are there for just a short while, leaving the showy leaves to strut their stuff for most all of the growing season.

Although it is a perennial plant, in our temperate area of Vancouver BC, it acts much like an evergreen, with only a few of the older leaves dying back in the Winter.

But when these flower spikes do show themselves, they sure are pretty… as this close-up photo that Doug took in our front garden last year, so clearly shows. Just look at all the neat colors that can be seen! It was hard to pick just four as the inspiration for our next B-Series Recipe Palette!

Everyone who is subscribed to my Polymer Clay Guest List will be able to download the recipes free, one per week on Friday mornings during the month of April 2012.

• Bergenia Blossom (Recipe 047-1B)
• Lemon Grass (Recipe 047-2B)
• Pink Coral (Recipe 047-3B)
• Exotique (Recipe 047-4B)

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… Bergenia Blossom is the vibrant lavender purple that paints the pretty petals of the Heartleaf Bergenia flowers. Lemon Grass is the lemony green found on the tip of the stamen. Pink Coral is the fabulously bright and cheery pink coral color, found on the calyx and stems of the flower stalk. And Exotique is the deep plum purple hue found in the shaded throat of the flower as it warms its face in the sun.

The recipes described above are from the Volume-047 B-Series Palette. They are free to download for everyone subscribed to my Polymer Clay Guest List, Friday Email Newsletter.

If you want to see the Volume-047 A-Series Color Palette that paid library members will also receive during the month of April, then click here: Grape Hyacinth Palette | Polymer Clay Color Recipes

You give us all so much inspiration Cindy and by giving away your B series we all thank you for the hard work and thought that goes in putting each one together. ~Elaine-F

While I have lots of fun trying Cindy’s great clay and beading techniques, I too am fascinated by the science? art? of colour mixing. The earthtones were always my faves, but now Cindy is making me look at the brighter flower tones with a new appreciation! ~Monique-U

I love all the color palletes you have created for us and always look forward to seeing what you come up with. ~Jeanne-C

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