Ovo by Cirque du Soleil

2 weeks ago my Hb and I attended a performance of OVO by Cirque du Soleil. OMGoodness me it was truly amazing. We have always wanted to see them perform but for various reasons have never got our act together to get tickets.

Even just visiting the Royal Albert Hall is delightful, it was my first ever visit.
The Albert Memorial opposite the hall has recently been restored and even on a very wet January day shone out like a beacon. Victoria must have loved her Albert very much...and she obviously had a lot of money to spare in those days! I am sure that she would be delighted to see the hall and area still visited by many people from all around the globe.

 The carvings around the memorial are incredibly detailed.

The Hall is also undergoing some renovation work and when finished will be stunning

Inside has already been renovated and is full of red carpet and lush furnishings and of course pictures and statues of Queen Victoria

 and Prince Albert

 We had seats in a box in the Grand Tier

and when we stepped through to our seats this was our view

the ceiling had eggs suspended too

To sum up the "story" it is all about an egg, a ladybird (bug to my USA friends) and a fly. It's very funny and the athleticism of the performers just blew us away. I thought I would share a few photos as incredibly they are quite happy for you to take them as long as there is no flash.

Some are a little blurry due to the lack of light but I actually think it adds to the atmosphere.

 I decided to make myself a tag as a "Moment" for Jane's Journal.

 I was lucky enough to be the Christmas winner over at Rubber Dance stamps and had just received lots of goodies. I chose these 3 stamps which I though were perfect...an egg, some delicate flowers from the bird set and the fab butterfly girl,

I used all the colours from the performance on the base by blending my distress inks and also added some stencilling. The delicate foliage was then stamped with archival inks. 

I fussy cut out the butterfly girl and added a wink of stella sparkle to her wings. She reminds me of the performers and I stood her on the egg, which I also fussy cut out.  I die cut some hearts to hold the egg with lots of love and added some very appropriate chit chat words.

Here are a couple of close ups

And one last one to try to show the sparkle on her wings.

I would like to enter my tag into the following challenges

Rubber dance colour theme/use hearts I went with the hearts.
Rubber dance forever challenge I used all Rubber Dance stamps on my tag
Penny Black and more Love hearts and flowers
Pile it on 3D embellishments my corrugated card hearts
Artistic Inspirations 1/3 anything goes
Simon says stamp Monday love is in the air
Deep Ocean love is all around
Simon says stamp Wednesday It must be love
Frilly and Funkie 1/3 all you need is love
Craft Stamper take it make it 2/3 February

It really was a most memorable show and really cheered up the most wet, chilly January Saturday.
 If you get a chance to see it you will not be disappointed. It is an absolute treat.

Before I go a quick heads up that Visible Image Stamps are back on your TV screens this weekend (10/11 Feb). The shows are on Create and Craft TV (channels SKY 674, Freeview 23, Virgin 748 and others) Saturday at 4pm (UK time) and Sunday 10am (UK time) They are launching the Zodiac stamps with some fab demos by Mark and Pauline...

and I will be waving at some of my samples 😁

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x