Tuesday 20 January 2009

Precious time!

Life is hectic this week and I seem to have so much to do and no spare time to do any of it. I am plodding my way through 5 assignments for my NVQ but taking a crafty break every now and then. I just can't help it!

I am working on a little project for Nikki at DewDrop Craftz and have all these ideas floating around. Don't forget you have 'til the end of the month for a chance to win a Flower Girl Stamp, pop along to the DewDrop Craftz blog to find out how!

Lou has just released another fabby Dottie and George download collection and I have an image all printed and cut out, sitting on my desk calling for me to colour it in! you can see a few examples of the Back 2 Front collection here.


Having a few images in need of colouring I was delving through my Prismas when I had this brainwave. I tend to decide on the image I want to use, choose my papers and then sort my prismacolors to match. I ofthen end up with these little scribbles of colour on scraps of card to find the best colour match. So today I took it one stage further.


I had already got myself a basic list of Prismacolor codes and names so I adapted it a little into an Excel spreadsheet and made myself up a colour chart. It won't be complete as there are plenty of colours I haven't got (YET) but I tried to make it as comprehensive as possible at the time I made the origianl list.


Hopefully it will save me a little bit of time trying to colour match.

4 comments:

Hazel said...

Good idea, Adele. I've done one for my copics, but not for prismas. x

Pink Feather Paradise said...

Thats a fab idea.. Its surprising the company don't send out colour swatches, you would think it would help their sales!

xAlex

Nikki said...

You need to be selling that sheet....lol

Sarah said...

hehe after posting that link to the one on SCS I still haven't managed to do my colour chart.