Pantone-Inspired Spring Colour Challenge Recap

I wanted to send  out a big thank you to Heidi and Marissa for organising the Pantone-Inspired Spring Colour Challenge this week. Has been so much fun trying out the new season colour trends and linking up with others doing the same! Have discovered some wonderful new blogs too :)

Here is a brief recap of my outfits:

Pantone-Inspired Sping Colour Challenge - Poppy Red

Last day of the Spring colour challenge hosted by Marissa and Heidi.
They saved my favourite colour till last! Poppy Red!

I'm back down the at the bottom of the garden today as I think I lost a hair tie here whilst on my Lemon Zest shoot earlier this week.

I don't remember climbing the tree that day? Although that shirt did make me do some crazy things!

Hmm. This is going to harder to find than I thought. Can you guys help me out? Here is the main area I was in. (My hair tie is black).

And here

And briefly here too.

Doh! Fine! I admit. I just tried to pass on all the hard work to you so I could muck about with the leaves again.

(I really did loose a hair tie though. If you did see it let me know as I still haven't found it.)

Cardigan: Target

Scarf: Thrift shop

Skirt: Katies

Shoes: Big W

Earrings: Harris Scarf

Also linking up with:

Pantone-Inspired Spring Color Challenge - Linen | Refashioning of the Week

Hmm. Today is Linen in the Pantone-Inspired Colour Challenge hosted by Literate & Stylish and The Modern Austen. Now this one has had me puzzled for the last week. At the moment I'm writing my blog over three seperate computers and on each of these three computers the colour looks really different. My first impression was that this colour was a light, clear rose, then I saw it as a light beige and finally a light orangey peachy pink. I always though that Linen was more of a brown but I'm going to cover all bases here anyway.

My various interpretations of Linen this week

Stockings are the closet thing I have a beige linen in my wardrobe!! I know they don't really count - but they do allow me to wear more of a spring outfit for my Autumn challenge. My band-aid and foundation match the linen beige too. For the pinky linens I'm seeing I think my earrings are good. The gems in my scarf have at least two of the shades of linen I see as well, the pink one and a the more orangey one.

Top: Big W

Skirt: Target (actually refashioned from dress)

Shoes: Target

Earrings: Dressing Your Truth

Band-Aid: Coles

Scarf: Target....mostly..

Yes!!!! You got me!! This is a refashion! Take it away Refashioning of the Week snoop....

Do your remember this black scarf I bought on my $50 shop? Well I did have an ulterior motive for buying this!........ Adding sew-on gems!!!!

This scarf was really wide so I folded in half and sewed the sides together. 

I then folded in half again.

The gems I bought were just from the local craft store, it was a really good packet as it had a mix of all sorts of shapes and colours.

I arranged the gems into a flower pattern. I'm sure any pattern would look great here - flat-back gems look amazing on anything.

After all the gems were in place I proceeded to glue them on with super glue. The one I used here is a new purchase that I'm very excited about. It's called Ultimate Glue by Crafter's Pick and it's a non-toxic, water-soluble superglue. 

Remember to use gloves and work in a ventilated area when you are using stronger glues. 

Once all the gems were glued I proceeded to sew them on (this really in an optional step, if you use enough glue if should hold them well-enough).

It did take a while to sew this (1hr). Just as well I recorded The Voice the other night! Go Celia, Jackie and Harrison!

I actually only had enough gems to do a bit less that half of it - but I don't think it really needs more and sits better by being quite minimal.

This amazing necklace is what  first inspired me to make the scarf. I bought it from Portmans earlier in the year. I originally got the gems with the plan of making a similar necklace. I'm still going to try to make something like this but I thought a scarf is more appropriate for this time of year (Autumn for me). 

Is Linen here? Maybe I should have worn this instead?

Join us this week at the linkup at either Heidi or Maissa's blog. There is still time! And the best colour is yet to come!

Also linking up with

Pantone-Inspired Spring Color Challenge - African Violet

Morning!

Hang on. (Question) Aren't you supposed to be wearing African Violet today?

Yeah! - I made this pair of earrings especially! And my African Print scarf????

This is the second day of Heidi and Marissa's Pantone-Inspired Spring Color Challenge. Today is African Violet. I love wearing violet but due to a major wardrobe renewel in the last year I don't really have any to wear at present! I am quite upset about this. :( I made these earrings from sew-on flat back gems. All I did was put a hook through the hole - they look pretty good and seem to match the Pantone chart well (I wrote a tutorial about this previously - there are two methods I showed, this is the second one further down the page). I wore my purply-blue blazer too (do you remember this from my $50 shop?) which matched well with the violet earrings.

My full outfit shot as I brave the early morning Autumn cold!

And my shoes as an afterthought. I got to get some boots.

Blazer: K Mart
Scarf: Dressing Your Truth
Skirt: Millers
Shoes: Target
Earrings: Made em'
Bangle: Diva

I just thought. I have to take a shot of my earrings as they don't show at all well here. I'll do that first thing tomorrow morning (my bed time now). Here is a similar pair I made earlier.

(And if I had a violet top, shoes, necklace and awesome rose bag)
Thanks to Polyvore. Click image for clothing details. 

Join us this week at the linkup at either Heidi or Maissa's blog!

Pantone-Inspired Spring Color Challenge - Emerald

I'm participating in a blog linkup this week which means I'm going to have to get super organised! The linkup is shared over two absolutely wonderful blogs I discovered during the week, Literate and Stylish by Heidi and The Modern Austen by Marissa. For this linkup a colour is designated for each day of the week to celebrate spring with- yeah yeah yeah, I know - it doesn't make any sense as I'm in Australia and facing an increasingly chilly Autumn! As I usually consider Autumn to be one of my favourite seasons, I feel it's appropriate to celebrate along anyway! Today is emerald green. It's a work day for me too, which means all black and a great chance to wear my emerald green cardigan!......

Oh no! What's this?

Car insurance renewal!! :(

As I have such a busy week ahead and only half an hour before work - I'm sorry, I'll need to multitask here!

Car Insurance Done. Fashion Shoot Done. Ok off to work!

Here's a better shot of my necklace (it didn't come up too well in previous photos). It's from Lovisa. I didn't make or refashion this one! Here is also what I might have worn if it were spring - and yes well spotted! I didn't think I was going to able to slip this one past you! The skirt was indeed a refashion from a former dress.

Autumn Outfit

Cardigan: Target

Shirt: Target

Skirt: Harris Scarf

Shoes: Big W

Necklace: Lovisa

Potential Spring Outfit

Top: Big W

Skirt: Target (refashion)

Shoes: Harris Scarf

Necklace: Lovisa  

Join us this week at the linkup at either Heidi or Maissa's blog!