Last week, our introduction to Journey With Color was about the beginning of Stampin’ Up! colors which didn’t happen until their 1997-1998 catalog. This week’s step of the journey will be about the first changes that Stampin’ Up! made to their color collection.
There were two small changes made Stampin’ Up!’s color collection in their 2000-2001 catalog. The first one was replacing Rocket Red for Real Red (which is still with us today!). I don’t remember Rocket Red but from the old catalogs I’ve looked at it was a bit brighter and not as deep of a color. The second change in this catalog was removing Lucious Lime for Creamy Caramel. They were pretty short on shades of brown in their catalogs back then and had quite a few greens.
The Neutrals grouping of colors first showed up in a Stampin’ Up! catalog in the 2004-2005 edition. It included White, Vanilla and the new Basic Brown.
To keep current in the world of color Stampin’ Up! made a big color change in their 2005-2006 Catalog. Stampin’ Up! is all about stamps, ink and paper and color is a big part of these items. It was important for them to keep the colors fresh. The 2005-2006 catalog saw 9 colors retired and 12 colors added as well as some switching of colors from one grouping to another. Below is a little summary of these changes.
Brights
There was only one little change made in this color group. Positively Pink was exchanged for Pixie Pink, a slightly bolder and brighter shade.
Earth Elements
Going Gray and Basic Black were moved from this group to the newer Neutrals group. Not Quite Navy moved from the Rich Regals group to this group and the new color Pumpkin Pie was added.
Rich Regals
The most changes happened to this group. I’ve already mentioned that Not Quite Navy left this group for the Earth Elements. The colors that were retired from this group were Eggplant Envy, Forest Foliage, Baroque Burgundy, Rose Romance and Marvelous Magenta. This left room for the new colors Handsome Hunter, Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Bravo Burgundy and Elegant Eggplant.
Soft Subtles
Here three colors retired and three colors were added. Mauve Mist, Mint Melody and Bliss Blue left and Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue were added.
Neutrals
This new group is where Going Gray and Basic Black were moved to. White and Vanilla got their new names of Whisper White and Very Vanilla. (You don’t want to lose that alliteration!). The new color Sahara Sand was added to the group.
I wanted to share a form with you that had all of these new colors on it but thought I might be easier just to send you to an electronic form of the catalog. This way the pages of the catalog have only been scanned once and you might get a better idea of what the colors actually looked like. So click here and then scroll down to pages 8 & 9 to view Stampin’ Up!’s colors with this change.
Which of these new colors is your favorite? Which color were you sad to see go? I’ll say that Pixie Pink was probably my favorite addition as I do love PINK! Forest Foliage was probably the color I most hated to see go. How about you?
Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!