Passion for Markers - Flowers...

 Good morning, dear Blogger buddies and a happy Tuesday to you all! I'm popping in to let you know about our new challenge that starts today over at Passion for Markers...

The lovely Marie is in the hostess chair with an easy, peasy theme of 'Flowers'...this could be floral papers, floral images or floral embellishments...

We're being sponsored by Colour of Love who are offering one lucky winner a choice of 3 digital images from their online store...

We were lucky enough to get an image to play with and I picked out the ever so pretty Maiara Indian Maiden...

I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed colouring up this image and love the way she turned out...for all you Promarkerists, here's the colour list I used :

Skin - Putty, Tan , Cinnamon

Hair - Caramel, Auburn, Henna, Umber

Lips - Dusky Rose, Antique Pink

Feathers - Honeycomb, Halloween, Spice, Powder Blue, Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cadet Blue

Shawl - Powder Blue, Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cadet Blue, Pastel Green, Soft Green, Peacock Green

Accents - Sunset, Firebrick

I picked out some coordinating papers, including the mandala style floral one to compliment the colours in the image and mat Maiara onto a dark brown with two photo style corners.

I used the hydrangea type die from Tim Holtz Sizzix Funky Floral #2 to cut some small flowers in coordinating colours and added some in her hair and around the image, with a leaf die as a background. I added a pale blue fishtail flag (one of my go to embellishments when you just need something) and a stamped sentiment from the Wild and Free set that came free with SC&P some time ago...

I hope you can find the time to play along with our simple challenge this week and look forward to visiting your blogs.

Crafty hugs,