CR84FN # 59

Morning all, today brings us another new colour challenge from CR84FN. This week we would like to see you use the colours of Coral, Brown and Tan. A lovely rich warm palette, that called for a rich combination of pretty papers and image. Well, for me it did!

A few weeks ago I went to the Newbury Artstamps exhibition, which is held at Newbury Racecourse.
This is my third time of attending (they only come once a year to this area) and it was a whistlestop visit, as I had to collect my son from a party in nearby Newbury.

As I whizzed through the stalls, I spied Clarity Stamps, a company that has a unique packaging on their stamps. The stamp is pre-set onto its own acrylic block, and is coloured blue so that you can see exactly where you are stamping. An ingenious product, but my problem is storage - they are rather unwieldy, but I digress!

I spotted this stunning image, not sure what she is called, as there is no outer packaging on these stamps, just the stamp and block. So, I have called her 'Lovely Lady'!

Upon further investigation, she is called 'La Plume'.

I really didn't feel as if I had done this beautiful image justice, but I did try! I used Promarkers to colour her, but my only quibble was at the end, what colour should I make the feather? I settled for a pale ivory and coral tone. I used a Craftwork Cards card base, and layered some very fitting paper from my stash - it's either MME or Cosmo Cricket, sorry I can't remember.

I layered some beautiful coral lace (a gift from my friend Helen) and over this some tan velvet ribbon from The Ribbon Reel.  I mounted the image onto some coral Bazzill, and hand cut around the edges. I then mounted this onto some kraft Bazzill card, onto which I had stamped some flourishes from Uniko Studios Flourishes and Swirls set in Versamark for a little subtle background.

I then added a Spellbinders Persian Motifs & Accents border in kraft card, and added some clear gems which I coloured with a coral Promarker.

I recognised this image as being created by the Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, so after little research this is the original:

She really is gorgeous!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly

I Love Promarkers

Do stop by the rest of the D.T for some wonderful inspiration!

Mona

Sue

Andrea

Heather

                  Pauline - that's me!
Shannon

Deborah

Guest Designer - Monika Davies

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline