I laughed my leg off when I first saw Color Coach in the annual catalogue.
It's billed simply as a "Swatchbook with a card for every colour in our collections". What's the point of that? You'd have to be an SU fan of stalker-ish proportions to pay £13.50 for what is essentially an advert for more things you can buy from SU.
Anyway, having now played with it, it turns out I was wrong. Color Coach is actually an immensely useful little tool, particularly if, like me, you're a bit 'chromatically challenged'.
I have a problem putting colours together & the process can often take over an entire crafting session. I've got a colour wheel & a very good book on colour theory, but none of it has sunk in. I need a system which basically tells me what to put with what. Colour for Dummies. Color Coach is that system.
What you get with Color Coach is a swatch book, with a page for every colour SU currently features across its product ranges. The really useful bit is that when you flip each card over, printed on the reverse are 3 suggested colour combinations featuring that particular colour. So, if you've got a particular ink or DSP you want to work with but you don't know where to go next, Color Coach acts as your jumping off point.
You don't need to own the entire SU range to use it (imagine that, though...). If you've not got the colour specified on the card, try substituting a similar one.
In the card below, I wanted to use up some green Old Olive paper from Polka Dot Parade DSP (126902). I wasn't seized by the colour combinations on the back of the Old Olive swatch card, so I flicked through the pack until I came to the reverse of the Pool Party swatch card.
This suggested mixing Old Olive with Crushed Curry & Pool Party. I didn't have any a crushed curry or Pool Party cardstock, but I did have Daffodil Delight & Coastal Cabana. They were similar enough to substitute &, after throwing in a bit of Real Red to make things pop, I ended up with a very pleasing colour combination that had taken minutes to put together.
I won't need Color Coach for every project. But when I'm short on time & inspiration, I know it will guarantee great results in minutes.
Products featured
Polka Dot Parade DSP in Real Red & Old Olive
Make a Cake stamp set (126742)
Ink pads in Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Postage Collection stamp set (happy birthday sentiment - hostess set)
Coastal Cabana DSP from 2013-15 in Color pack
Daffodil delight cardstock
Arrows textured embossing folder
Scallop trim border punch (cut into snippets & used to frame label)
Word window punch (sentiment & pinwheel)
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