Having seen it now I am not sure if I am going to like doing it this way but I won't know until I do it will I.
It is strange how everybody sees the colours differently-so I went to the Colourlovers site where Sharon submits a photo and they choose the colours from the photo (I think that's how it works anyway).
I then went to Pam's site because she choses the DMC thread colours that will match the selected colours.
So all in all this is the nearest that I could get to what has been submitted and I rather like it now--and I seem to have plenty of"stuff" to do all the embellishing so I'm rather pleased.
Now all I have to do is get stuck into it.