Sketch Challenge 345, which I flipped on the side.
Dirty Dozen Fan Club Theme for August 2011: In Your Footsteps. The stamper who has most influenced me with her stamping is Anna Wight, aka SweetMissDaisy. I fell in love with her coloring, so I had to purchase and use Prismacolor Pencils. Then I saw her watercoloring and wanted so much to make mine look even 1/10th as good as hers. So I began trying to perfect watercoloring (as you can see, I have a ways to go). Now I'm on to Copics, trying to learn to shade and use them to great advantage as does she.
Anna is a trendsetter, a joyful, creative free-thinker. Her vibrant personality comes out in the images she creates for Whipper Snapper Designs, Inc. and in the cards and projects she creates. She can do elegant, shabby chic, cute, clever, clean and simple, layered, distressed, you name it . . . . And she also believed in my abilities enough to ask me to be one of the Featured Designers for the cling-mount sets she illustrates for Whipper Snapper Designs.
In this card, I used watercolors in honor of Anna and sponged on Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the main image while it was in the Curved Rectangle Nestabilities, another technique Anna employs. I also sponged the corners of the paper and the edges of the flowers. I also chose this stamp because Anna lives on a farm in Texas and loves to preserve garden "truck" and to cook.
Thanks for being my inspiration, Anna, for believing in me, and for being my friend. Oh, and keep illustrating and blogging so you can go on inspiring.
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 GMT Views: 2475
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Registered: October 19, 2004 Location: Warsaw, MO Posts: 16999
Tue, Aug 23, 2011 @ 2:06 AM
What a gorgeous image, and I love the way you shaded the raspberries...! They are so fun to color. Anna is brilliant - an inspiration to me too! Thanks for your sweet comments in the DD gallery, and thanks so much for playing along with us this month!
Registered: September 7, 2005 Location: On the Farm. Posts: 10807
Tue, Aug 23, 2011 @ 1:09 PM
Awwww, I received this card in the mail today and rushed to your gallery to find it online.
And what do I find, not only a photo of the beautiful card, but all these nice things you've said about me! Well, what else can I say but thank you, thank YOU, and well, you brought tears to my eyes.
Thank YOU!! I LOVE the card!! It's perfect in every way!!
Registered: December 15, 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 5806
Sun, Oct 09, 2011 @ 10:55 AM
what a great tribute to your friend - you incorporated the techniques that she inspired you with. this is beautifully coloured, shellie; the raspberries look good enough to eat. before i had to give up gardening, we used to grow them so this brings back fond memories.