Let's Get Arty - with Lily in the Garden!

There's a new challenge blog which I heard about on Jan's blog

which looked interesting so I thought I'd join in with.

You can find all the details at

Let's Get Arty

This is a 'Colour Swatch Challenge' and

the first thing to do was choose one of my photos

- here's Lily in the garden taken last year.

The colour swatches on the right have been generated

by a website called 'Chip It' 

and has turned my photo into a palette - how cool!

The challenge is to create a project using

at least 4 of the colours from the swatches.

I printed off the swatches and found some sari ribbon

which seemed to fit the bill.

(I only ended up using two of them though - along with some

other bits and pieces for the other colours).

A paper doll came to mind, I haven't made one for a while.

Using old packaging, I cut the body shape using

the above Sizzix die.

I rubber stamped one of the lovely faces from Clare Lloyd's

new set as show above - and glued it onto the die cut head.

I dressed the body with strips of the sari ribbon.

I gave her some hair using embroidery thread.

 

Did you notice her jewellery - a necklace and

matching bracelet of Rose Quartz.

So what colours did I use?

As close as I could get them anyway -

Nankeen - for the dress

Honorable Blue - also for the dress

Reverie Pink - the jewellery and legs

 (although you can't see the colour in the photos)

Tricorn Black & Porpoise - for the hair.

What a fun challenge!

Thanks for looking :)