Dancing Queen Nataliya - OSAAT - challenge #190

This weeks challenge for One Stitch At A Time was an 'anything goes' challenge using the gorgeous dancing queen, Nataliya. This is such a fabulous image. I love fairies/angels and basically anything with wings and I utterly adore butterflies. And this image was all of the above rolled in to one. 

This weeks sponsor is the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet and the winners prize is all the images the DT used in challenge #188.

Here is my creation for this weeks challenge.

I decided to try something different this week - I wanted to get back to my 'grungy' crafty style. Be a bit more natural to myself rather than trying to force something which basically - I'm just not!! 

I have come to the conclusion that any image can be used by any crafter regarding their personal style. Over the past few months I've felt like I had to craft a certain way because of the image I was using. Soooooo, I have decided not to think about it like that in the future. Be me. Craft MY way. 

So, that is what I did with this image.
I hid my ProMarkers and got out my scrummy coloured pencils. And not just any coloured pencils.... my fabulous metallic coloured pencils.... and got to work.


I wanted to give the image a 'Degas' feel to it. I love Degas' dancers. They are some of my favourite works of art. I wanted to create a dreamy feel, a splash, line, area of colour rather than a concentrated, focused, 'stick to in between the lines' colouring. And I thought the best medium for that was pencils.

I coloured in the image using greens, blues and purples. Then I tore around the image to 'cut' it out. 

I didn't want to just 'plonk' the image on to a standard size card. I chose a piece of mount board to work with.

I painted it with a olive coloured emulsion paint. I randomly stamped the background with a honeycomb stamp from Indigoblu then heat embossed it with white sparkle embossing powder. 

I collected bits of ribbons and lace and stuck them along the bottom and up the side of the mount board. 

I die cut some flowers from different fabrics, inked them and made a rosette by layering them together.

Then I inked around the edges of the torn image and stuck it in down. I took some blue satin ribbon and made a criss-cross pattern in the top corner to mimic the ballet shoes. I then painted it with distress inks.

I took a piece of muslin cloth and cut it in to small squares and frayed the edges.

To finish, I made two holes in the top of the board and tied some more ribbon to make a handle. 


Ingredients:
* Distress Inks, Peeled Paint, Chipped Sapphire, Broken China.
* White sparkle embossing powder.
* Blue satin ribbon.
* Muslin cloth.
* Different fabrics to create rosette.
* Spellbinders flower die.
* Honeycomb background stamp from Indigoblu.


Check out the challenge blog @ 
www.onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.co.uk

Thanks for looking, hope to see you soon, toodles.