{"id":19477,"date":"2015-02-23T03:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2016-03-10T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:29:35","slug":"carrot-cake-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-082-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/carrot-cake-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-082-b\/19477\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrot Cake Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-082-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carrot<\/a><\/a>1<\/span>-B<\/span>: Butter Yellow
\n2-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Carrot Cake<\/span>
\n3-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Brown Butter
\n4-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Fondant Leaves<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It makes me chuckle when I see the photo that Doug chose for this months B-Series Color Recipe Palette. Not that it is particularly funny… but it is the one flower I made for the cake, that I didn’t actually like very much. It was included just for an extra punch of color to fill an empty spot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I wrote about the cake last week for the Vol-082 A-Series Palette<\/a> post… I won’t try to make a long story even longer. Instead, I decided to share a bit of info about the whole process of what it takes to be able to bring these color recipe palettes to all of you, each and every month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole color recipe palette thing came to be, way back on June 8th, 2008 with this Rhododendron and Fern<\/a> inspired palette.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up until that point, I had been sharing some color mixing advice and a small collection of color recipes I had made and collected over the years. It wasn’t until Doug had taken this lovely photo in our garden of the Rhodie in full bloom, that I was inspired (with some prodding by Doug), to create a color recipe palette using colors from the photo.<\/span><\/p>\n

With that, came more photos and more palettes, until the 2 complete palettes (A and B series with 4 colors each) were being created every single month. Now today, we’re at Vol-082-B. That equates to over 656 color recipes that I’ve mixed up over the past 7 years!<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the early days, polymer clay artists had their own blends of colors that they worked with. And I assume a few of their ‘secret’ recipes were shared around the community from time to time. There were also a few published recipes in books for making faux amber and jade and imitation stones. But in general, if you wanted a color other than what came in the package, you had to mix it up yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to today, and practically everyone and their dog<\/em> has color recipes available. Though we have yet to see anything that is presented quite like we do… with the color chips overlayed onto inspirational photos… and the clever stories of course (and recipe names) that accompany the palettes ;-)<\/span><\/p>\n

Any way… during the making of all these PcT color palettes, Doug (and in a few cases our daughter Willow), have taken a lot of beautiful photographs… which all needed to be cropped and edited to include titles plus the color chip overlays.<\/span><\/p>\n

I select 4 colors that I think go well together, from each photo, and cross check that the palette isn’t too much like any of the previous Volumes. The colors then receive their names… which also have to be cross checked to make sure there aren’t any doubles. (I once made two different shades of purple that I named Butterfly Garden, that an astute member picked up on even though the palettes were created more than a year apart. I guess I thought it was a really pretty name!)<\/span><\/p>\n

After all that, the colors are then mixed until I get an exact match. More cross checking. Doug then creates the actual recipe cards and gets everything published here at the blog and at the library web site and in the weekly newsletters.<\/span><\/p>\n

So as you can see, it is quite the lengthy process… so long that I’m guessing most of you stopped reading before even getting to this point in the article… LOL<\/span><\/p>\n

I do hope you enjoy this inspiration for our next Vol-082-B Series color recipes for March 2015, and learning more about how these colors actually come to be<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Carrot<\/a>Everyone who is subscribed to our Polymer Clay Guest List<\/a> will be able to download the following recipes free, one per week on Friday mornings during the month of March 2015:<\/span><\/p>\n