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I got the urge to work on Christmas cards this week. For the focal part of the front, I am using a 3.5 x 3.5 piece of Night of Navy. I pulled all my pieces out of the storage spot first, then opened two recently ordered packages of the assortment "rich regals" and got the sheets from them. When I dropped the newer pieces on my desk, I realized that they are slightly darker than the older pieces.
Now, the window in the room is covered with black-out material, cuz I have Lupus. The paper is stored in a magazine holder, with only the top edge facing the light. Each sheet is perfectly even in itself, so I know it hasn't faded from light exposure.
I grabbed my ring with all the SU! colors, to check, and it matches the newer sheets. The older ones are definitely NIght of Navy, too dark for anything else, but I just can see a difference.
Is it normal to have a slight variation from batch to batch of SU! cardstock?
Slight variation is normal between batches. You'll find that with card stock and yarn for example. That's why most yarns have a dye lot number on them so when buying for a project you are supposed to buy all the skeins with the same dye lot.
Any place that has a "color formula" for their certain colors also will have an allowable RANGE; darker to lighter that the batch can vary between those numbers. I've run into card stock color variations plenty of times, especially if it 's a year or more between orders of the same color.
Luckily; when making something like cards, you are only sending ONE to a person or family so as long as you are careful not to mix pieces with shade variations onto one card the only one that will know will be you!
Unfortunately I have found that to be true with other manufactures of paper that I've gotten in large quantities - I figure it has to be similar to dye lots in yarn?
I do not mind so much that the cardstock does not match perfectly as its to be expected - but when the ink so far off then it really irritates me.
My Taken With Teal is a perfect example.
Dye lots can vary, whether the media involved is paper, fabric, or any kind of fiber. Some variation is to be expected and is considered normal. Frustrating, though, I know.
I was painting at a new food pantry the other day and we needed another gallon of the wall paint. Found out after we started putting the new gallon on the wall and it didn't match that they had a new computer making the colors and it didn't match. So it isn't just CS.
I have some not quite navy that doesn't seem to match anything I have but am sure that's what it is. Oh well, as one of the above posters said, usually only one card goes per family so it really doesn't matter that much.
I have noticed this too. Sometimes it's very slight and sometimes it's so significant that it's almost unrecognizable as the same color. I have two packages of Bliss Blue (pre 2004) that are completely different. One is a brighter blue, the other a greyed down version.
Bliss Blue was one of the colors in the past that drifted so much from the original that it was finally retired and replaced with Bashful Blue (which almost matches one of my very old Bliss Blue samples).
Since then, SU supposedly introduced more color controls, so there should be less variation in current batches.
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I have noticed the same thing in the Designer Series Paper. Different packages of the same paper will have slight variations in several patterns. It didn't bother me, I was just surprised that it was so noticible.
color consistancy, SU!
