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This month I hosted a challenge on Instagram called the #PRINTMIXCHALLENGE ! It was all about how to mix prints and wear them together. I have a section of my book dedicated to this as well if you’d like your own guidebook to wearing color and prints!
Each week Andrea Jones and I gave a different tip and included photos during the week showing how we apply that tip to pairing prints together!
The 4 we covered in our IG challenge were:
“Busy Prints with Simple Prints.”
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“Same/Similar prints with different colors.”
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“Playing with Scale”
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Here is a dress I made with a large scale Papercut print and a smaller hand-painted print purse as well as my scarf with a tiny woven pattern. Pairing large with small prints works because the smaller print recedes while the larger print is dominant!
“Similar colors/color schemes that tie them together.”
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Both of these pieces (the shirt and the pants) have a rainbow of similar colors (because I designed them in the same collection of course) so they work together even though they are both busy prints!
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I have written a lot about this subject over on the Spoonflower blog so I don’t want to be redundant! Go read everything I had to say over there. And the rest and lots of examples…. In the Wear Happy Color: A Guide to a Colorful Wardrobe book!
I’ve been terrible at blogging on my own blog, so I want to stick little snippets of what I write elsewhere over here sometimes. I hope you don’t mind the briefness of this post, and go read more in depth where I’ve taken loads more time! Thanks for stopping by!