{"id":19402,"date":"2015-01-19T03:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19402"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T01:37:08","slug":"columbine-bud-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-081-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/columbine-bud-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-081-a\/19402\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbine Bud Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-081-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Columbine<\/a><\/a>1-<\/span>A<\/span>: Elderberry Wine
\n<\/span> 2-<\/span>A<\/span>: Vintage Peach<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n3-<\/span>A<\/span>: Blue Dusk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n4<\/span>–<\/span>A<\/span>: Columbine Bud<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

When Doug gave me this photo for the Vol-081 A-series color recipe palette, I had a hard time figuring out the flower. I kept thinking that it looks like a Columbine… but then got hung up on it’s petals and leaves. They seemed to be too fuzzy… like you see on house plants such as an African Violet.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I called Doug up on my cell (his office is downstairs on the other side of the house, so we often call each other on the phone to communicate), and I asked him, “What plant is this photo from? It looks like a columbine but is fuzzy like a tropical houseplant.”<\/em> He said he had photos of the some of the open flowers from the same photo shoot, if I wanted to take a look at them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well sure enough it was a Columbine! I had never seen a macro photo of one, so those tiny hairs were never visible to me… especially before getting my new glasses at the end of December.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing that is cool about this particular Columbine, is that it was Bee-Made<\/em>… that’s my way of saying that the bees created this hybrid by cross-pollinating the Dark Blue Columbines (which I had planted in our garden myself), with the White Columbines that mysteriously arrived on their own one year. This created some stunning pink Columbines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another cool thing is that this hybrid Columbine developed with multi-petals. The White Columbine flowers actually had single petals, which means that around the head, there is only a single row of petals. Most wild columbines tend to be of the Single<\/em> variety. My Dark Blue (almost black really) Columbine, on the other hand, was a Double<\/em>, with two rows of petals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well…<\/em> this new Bee-Made<\/em> hybrid had a Gazzillion<\/em> rows of petals (too many to count).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Any who… when this little beauty is closed, it has lovely Elderberry Wine colored edges, that bleed into a Vintage Peach color with a base of Yellow Green. Just the perfect combination for a new Spring 2015 Color Palette… don’t ya think?<\/span><\/p>\n

I do hope you enjoy this Vol-081-A Series color palette chosen for the Valentines month of February 2015.<\/a><\/span> \"Columbine<\/a><\/p>\n

The following Vol-081 A-series Falling Color Palette will be added to the Polymer Clay Members Library<\/a> at the beginning of February 2015:<\/span><\/p>\n