LIM Flag colours

I love this weeks challenge, I knew straight away what I would do for the Welsh flag, this is what I have found out about it, most of which even I didn't know!  I live at the bottom of the country near Swansea.

Y Ddraig Goch or Red Dragon

Map of UK, Wales is in the pink :)

According to Ancient and Heraldic traditions much symbolism is associated with colors. The colors on the Welsh flag represent the following:

• • White - peace and honesty
  • Red - hardiness, bravery, strength & valour
  • Green - hope, joy and love acred significance

• The Meaning & History of the Welsh Flag
  • The Welsh flag is known as Y Ddraig Goch, the Red Dragon 
    how to say the Welsh,
    Y is pronounced - U as uh! not why, 
    Ddraig - Thrige the th as in the and a hard g as in get, 
    Goch  - another hard g as in get, o as in oh! the ch has to be pronounced in the back of the throat! as if you are gargling.
    Now try it, LOL. 
    I'm not a Welsh speaker, but can read, say and understand a few words I can also sing the National anthem.
    
  • The Romans carried banners bearing Dragon emblems - it is believed that legends about dragons were passed to the Romans from the Persian Empire
    
    
  • The Welsh hero Cadwaladr carried the dragon standard in the 700's (not 1700's)
    
    
    
  • The Tudors claimed Welsh ancestry and their livery was green and white. The Tudors claim to the English throne was strengthened by this association
    
    
• The Welsh flag has been officially used since the 1950s
  
  
  • Welsh Land Size : 8800 square miles
  • Climate / Weather of Wales : temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
  • Welsh Population : 2,946,200
  • Former Name(s) : Cambria
  • Welsh Main Industries :  machine tools, electric power & automation equipment, communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods
  • Welsh Agricultural products : cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish
  • Welsh Currency : British pound (GBP) Stirling
  
  

Now on to my card if I haven't bored you too much.

I had an Elizabethe Dulembo digi HERE of a wonderful dragon, I used Shellys.images.co HERE "grass" and made up the sentiment, the font I used is Freebooter Script, because I thought it suited his tail :). coloured in PS

Oh! sorry, I added the Union Flag a little later than the rest, as I forgot to add it

The Union Flag was a little harder, of course it was red white and blue, but what image, I eventually found an image from TLC Vintage HERE and thought her perfect for my interpretation (big word there, are you impressed?) coloured in PS, the font is Fashion Victim and I used a gradient in PS to make it red, white and blue too, I then mounted her onto blue and red card from Papermania and  Stickled her hair piece.
I hope this VERY long post hasn't been too much for you, but you have found out a little about my country. Diolch (Thank you)