From persimmon to peach, marmalade to mandarin…there’s a color that is not normally seen in my craft space that is invading my studio. That color is orange! In many shades, in various forms, this color I usually don’t play well with is not only invading the craft stores, it’s also working really well on my pages too!
While this is the usual time of year for shades of orange to make a cameo in my fall seasonal projects, this year it’s more than that. Paired with aqua, pink, grey, green, blue, and many more colors, I’m finding orange to be the perfect accent. Here are some of my favorite basics in orange:
Above: American Crafts “Nightfall” Thickers (Elm – Rust), Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress cardstock (Wild Honey), Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade), Studio Calico Mr. Huey’s mist (Custard), Ranger Perfect Pearls mist (Mandarin).
Where is orange showing up in hot new product lines? Here are a few noteable places it has popped up:
Orange makes a cameo in the debut release of the Amy Tangerine for American Crafts line.
A line featuring orange that is technically a themed (autumn) line, but still a very versatile product option, is Autumn Press by Studio Calico.
Stretching the concept to the more coral/peach tones as well as a more yellow-orange, we find this color paired well with aquas and a nautical theme in Pink Paislee’s Nantucket line.
The Alla-Prima line from Prima features orange hues combined with aquas and creams. This is one of my favorite combinations, and the result is such a feminine line.
Farmhouse by Crate Paper is another strong release that features orange. The rustic look is unique, and somehow the line manages to incorporate a lot of colors well.
Looking for products that are just straight up orange? Nobody does beautiful vivid colors like Doodlebug! Their Tangerine color is a great orange hue, and available in so many of their products.
If you are a fan of using orange hues in your fall scrapbooking I strongly suggest you take a look at these products, as well as others that are not as heavily themed. While Halloween products are nice, I am finding myself more drawn to these items that can be used year-round, and with a variety of my favorite colors.
Do you have orange in your stash? Are you working with it or is it a color you avoid? These days, it seems you can’t walk down the scrapbooking aisle without seeing quite a bit of it!
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Thanks for this post. I’ve been using a lot of orange in my summer layouts. It’s perfect for Fall ones too, of course. Now I just need to figure out how to use it in Christmas layouts! Love those Doodlebug products.
Great products you featured! I love using shades of orange through out the year. I love it! Not sure how to use it for Christmas or Valentine’s Day!
It’s my favourite colour so anyone that makes a card in orange would definitely attract my attention.
I absolutely love the orange doodlebug buttons and need to find them soon!
I love orange! I’m glad to see it moving beyond fall. I think it adds such a fun pop to greens and blues- that’s my favorite way to use it.
I do like orange, mostly peachy or rusty tones.
I do like orange although I tend to lean towards the pastels and such! Interesting cos’ we had a design team challenge awhile ago using the color orange. It was fun.
Thanks for the yummy inspiration, May!!
oh my golly i LOVE orange! I love all shades of it! I use orange alot… darker hues in the autumn, fun oranges in spring and brighter shades in the summer! The only time I don’t use alot of orange is in winter!
I love orange too – having a boy it works well on my pages as I tend to use a lot of blue
I hope scrapbook manufacturers are reading this!! I LOVE orange for scrapbooking, but sometimes I have a terrible time finding things in orange. Take the fairly large ribbon selection at my Archiver’s as well as a few LSSs. They have a lot of black, white, red, pink, blue, green. But very little orange. It never fails to amaze me how hard it can be to find accents in orange!!!
So please, scrapbook companies, if you are reading this, make more things in orange! We’ll buy them!
Orange is the new black. It goes with almost everything in my world. Great article, May.
I love ORANGE too, especially my orange handled Fiskars scissors
I have lots and lots of orange and love it! Of course, I’m a Fiskateer, so there’s a little dab of green in there too!
I’m always a fan of a good orange! Love it!