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I have been mixing colours to use for my Spectrum Year Challenge. It has taken a while because I have been tweaking the colours slightly in the hope that all 7 palettes will play nicely together by the end of the year. If you are related to several… strong personalities… and you’ve organised a family event you know what I mean!

Autum View by Design Seeds

Orange palette colour chips

My colours are more saturated than those in the palettes because I find desaturating a colour as difficult as waking a baby. Logically I accept that it may be necessary, but it still feels wrong! (By the way the actual colour chips look a bit different in person to how they appear in the scan above.)

Here are the recipes using Fimo Professional, and percentages for the quantities (click here to see why):

Beige

  • 99 white
  • 0.45 true yellow *
  • 0.05 true green *
  • 0.5 black

* (0.5% mix of 90 true yellow 10 true green)

Peach

  • 90 white
  • 8 true yellow
  • 2 true red

Orange

  • 95 true yellow
  • 5 true red

Red

  • 60 true red
  • 40 true magenta

Chocolate

  • 50 white
  • 17 true yellow
  • 25 true red
  • 8 black

Light Grey

  • 95 white
  • 1.5 true magenta
  • 3.5 true blue
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