More inspiration via the Antique Marketplace, this time in the form of vintage fruit crate and can labels. I grabbed them for brainstorming color combinations, and thought you might like a little eye candy!

This one is my favorite, so I thought I’d take it over to Colour Lovers and try making a palette of it. This is something new I’ve been playing with. I absolutely love how easy it is to create palettes and test them out. This is immensely useful for me so I thought I’d give you a peek on how it works.

First, you enter the URL of the picture you want to use as inspiration. The image pops up in the corner window and colors are sampled from that image automatically. From the list of sampled colors, you refine your palette.

From there, you can test that palette on different pre-existing patterns. I love this feature because I can see what sort of pattern and scale the colors “like”.

You can also swap the colors around and play with the which colors you want to be where. Not only is this helpful, but it’s pretty fun!