Elizabeth Flatla, our customer from Norway, prompted us to create a
new section - Works of Our Customers. She has e-mailed us photos of her
own works, based on our designs - portraits of composers and writers, musical
instruments and sculpture by Michelangelo.
Here is Elizabeth sitting in the "cofferoom" of her studio. She decorated
the whole house herself.
Boldness to experiment and a good imagination helped Elizabeth to create
these original and attractive compositions that incorporate several different
designs in different styles. |
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| For this collage Elizabeth used the design Young
Lady in Straw Hat. |
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| David
by Michelangelo was embroidered in "blues" and then put on to a lid
of a wooden box. |
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| This stunning wall hanging was created using the designs of Vivien
Leigh. The writing says "Gone with the Wind" in Norwegian. |
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| For the Mozart composition Elizabeth painted the fabric in different
brown colors for an "antique" look, then printed the sheet of music onto
it, embroidered the fabric, and finished with gold paint. This project
used our portrait of Mozart. |
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| The two projects were fulfilled in a similar style, but on fabric of
different textures. The designs used are the portraits of Beethoven
and Bach
and our Musical
Instruments Set I. |
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| In this collage, Elizabeth used the portrait of Shakespeare
combined with a modern background to give an original and surprising effect. |
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| This fifth composition was inspired by the Art of the Renaissance.
Elizabeth used the Pieta
by Michelangelo, with a similarly themed background and a classical
corner. |
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| This is a rendering of Edvard
Grieg. The composer’s portrait lies on a background of mountains and
forests, together with some handwritten music. At the bottom, peeking out
from behind the portrait, you can find a Norwegian troll. Grieg admired
Norway, and wrote music devoted to its landscape and culture. |
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| This project uses our Strawberries
design, although the colors were slightly changed to blend the embroidery
with a background. |
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| This project shows the portrait of Marie
Antoinette, surrounded by roses from our Small
Roses Set. The background, in this case, were some antique-looking
columns, with roses showing through the arches. |
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| Another of Elizabeth's works. Here she used the portrait of Tiberius
on a background that was printed, painted and appliqued. |
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| Elizabeth put some of her crochet work around a bit of cotton fabric
and put in on to a heavier linen fabric and embroidered one of the jars
from very popular Jam
Jars Set II. This was painted with strong coffee and a bit of gold
paint to get the right colour. The lace was painted a burgundy colour with
a touch of gold. |
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| Elizabeth embroidered Chocolate
Lady on one-color fabric and appliqued a frame from a golden fabric
with small roses around her. |
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| The most recent collages by Elizabeth are "blue". In the first one
she uses the famous Thinker
by Auguste Roden. For the second collage Elizabeth used the detail
from Michelangelo's
Pieta. Both of the results are very original, dreamy and beautiful. |
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| In this collage Elisabeth used the design Michelangelo.
Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici. |
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| The latest collage is devoted to Napoleon. |
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