Pantone has produced their color pick for 2021. Or should we say picks! With 2020 being a rough year for everyone around the world, Pantone’s color picks Ultimate Gray and Illuminating challenges a ‘forward’ thinking for the future. We will dive into Pantone’s meaning for their color picks for 2021 and we’ll give you a fun DIY jewelry to embrace this color combination!

2016 was the year Pantone debuted a first-time, duo-color that blurs the line of femininity and masculinity; Rose Quartz and Serenity. With the current event of 2020, it is no wonder their pick for 2021 doesn’t blur the line of colors but complement two opposite colors that works “together to support one another.” While Ultimate Gray is justly a neutral gray color, Illuminating is a bright yellow, it is “a marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting.“

Pantone states, ” Emboldening the spirit, the pairing of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 [Illuminating] highlights our innate need to be seen, to be visible, to be recognized, to have our voices heard. A combination of color whose ties to insight, innovation and intuition, and respect for wisdom, experience, and intelligence inspires regeneration, pressing us forward toward new ways of thinking and concepts.”

How do you feel about Pantone’s picks for 2021?

DIY Beaded Silvery Yellow Diamond Color Block Earrings

We love the color combination and the emboldening message it represents. Here is a fun design using the two colors in our pair of DIY earrings. We’ve made a simple colorblock diamond earrings using Delica beads in a brick stitch.

FOLLOW the FREE Pattern Tutorial for these earrings HERE!

Items used in earrings: SB00290, SB00141, TCZ0078, A006585, A002413 & A006767

Pantone has chosen the spotlight color for 2020. Classic Blue. It is a ‘solid and dependable blue hue we can always rely on.’ Here is how Classic Blue is characterized:

Because Pantone has continuously given us variations of blue hues in the past, it can be safe to say that blue is a reliable and dependable color that we all find ourselves designing with and wearing through the years. And it is definitely a bold color. Here are some items to get you inspired with the classic blue:

• Blue Hematite
• Blue Druzy
• Majestic Blue Swarovski® Crystal
• Blue Tassel
• Lapis Gemstone
• Dumortierite Gemstones
• Sodalite Gemstones

Items in image: A008060, Z007741, TC02545, Z006089, SW01800, SW02259, Z015066, SW01736, Z020677, Oval Druzy, HEMMB4RL-F, DAG8RD-BLU-F-8

Here are some easy DIY earrings to get your 2020 started.

Blue Glass Glowing Earrings

We combined some of favorite beads like glass, miracle and Swarovski, tied together with some gold findings! Plus, we just love the gold flakes in the glass bead.

Items used in earrings: SW01726, A019696, A014931, Z018412, SB00107, A019605, Z015066 & A014108

Directions:

1. On a headpin, slide the following beads and make a simple loop:
   3mm Swarovski bicone bead, wavy disc, miracle bead and seed bead.
2. Open eyepin loop and slide on bead dangle from step 1. Close loop.
3. On the eyepin slide on the following and make a simple loop:
   Seed bead, glass bead and seed bead.
4. Open earwire, and slide on your dangle and close loop.
5. Repeat all steps for other earring.

Majestic Blue Drop Earrings

We don’t use much of the kidney earrings, but love them all the same. They work great with a simple drop crystal or charm, as the kidney drapes and elongates the earring itself.

Items used in earrings: (2) SW01840, (2) SW01820, Z003274 & SW01830/TL00264.

Directions:

1. Follow the instructions from our Epoxy Blog Post of mixing your epoxy solution.
2. Add a small dot of mixed epoxy to your glue-in setting.
3. Place your oval crystal stone in the setting, firmly pressed in there.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for other crystal and setting.
5. Let pieces dry or cure for a few hours or until it’s dry.
6. Slide dangle through your kidney earring, through to the loop. Using your round nose, pinch the opening of the loop to cinch loop, gently.

Blue Blue Golden Tassel Earrings

One highlight of our 2019 are tassels and love how this pair of earrings combines our love of tassels and connector/links components!

Items used in earrings: (2) SW00734, (2) Z016742, SB00107, A019605, TCZ0139 & Z006091

Directions:

1. Twist the loop on the tassel 90 degrees so that loop run across the other way.
2. Open tassel loop, slide through hole of half circle connector (curved side). Close loop.
3. Open eyepin and slide through other hole of half circle connector. Close loop.
4. On the eyepin slide on a seed bead, pearl and see bead. Make a simple loop.
5. Open earwire loop and slide on your pearl/tassel dangle. Close loop.
6. Repeat all steps for other earring.

Pantone 2019 Color of the Year has come out and they’ve named Living Coral as their muse! Check out our bead and supply selection to play off this moving color!

 

Living Coral

Living Coral is a social statement that humanizes the consumers. It also mimics the literal meaning of coral reefs and how it gives home to a translucent array of colors, species and size. How would you define Living Coral?

(Image via Pantone site)

 

Product Selection

Here, we’ve taken the color of Coral and found products that are similar in color to help with your inspired, Color of the Year designs. For gemstones, we chose Cherry Quartz that has a similar hue or Red Avertine like this collar pendant. Another thought I had when first looking at Living Coral, was how it reminded me of Rose Gold. So some Rose Gold Hematite beads would work nicely also. Even check out Swarovski Pearl – Coral, it’s similarity is close also.

Products shown above: Z013685, SB03214, RAVPEN-PT-RC, Z018089, KT00216, KT00269, CHQ10RD-8

 

Living Coral Pearl Earrings

We made a simple pair of earrings using Swarovski Pearl – Coral. And because coral reefs have porous corals, we accented the pearl with porous lava beads!

Items used in earrings: A014108, Z008489, SW00722, Z018414, Z018412, LVA8RD, SB00107 (optional)

 

What do you think about Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year?