Swearing Helps

 Ha, maybe its even true eh? I have spent some time thinking the last couple of days that when you lose your mama you lose your biggest fan. I knew my mom read this blog and She was also the person who always excitedly asked if I watercolored something ( even years ago before I owned a paint brush) so, I had the encouragement as I have been learning that also. It just struck me hard when I had seen the home page of her cell and she somehow ( I don't even have this) has a short cut to this blog on her home screen.

It was just a "wow" moment for me. So, yesterday I had some free time when I would normally be painting the next weeks sample or watching the video anyways and I started cleaning off my desk and I came across this Penny Black How's Tricks? dog on the other side and so, I stamped him on some Artist loft watercolor paper with Acorn ink and added a layer of Daniel Smith paints to him.

 

The humor of this dog being a scaredy cat just makes me smile. I have a lot of second hand stamps I picked up over the last couple of years that have not seen ink (by me) yet and or that I bought knowing they would tickle my mom's funny bone. I know I have a sentiment that reads "don't be a scaredy cat" but, I didn't see it when I was thinking of what to do with this. and that lead me to go see if anyone had ever posted a card with him in Splitcoaststampers. ( and if they did, they didn't use the name of the stamp on the upload as it didn't find anything for me to see with this particular pup) but, I did see the sample makers for the Featured Stamper challenge had started loading to the gallery so, I pivoted and went and looked at Cyndi Evan's Gallery and kept coming back to this Emerson Chick ( which I own I think I probably even have that die) but, I knew I could work to tweak the idea of this with this dog. So, I did. 

I did add more paints to the pup, and a little tiny bit of black fineliner pen to the pupils and the nose lines of him when the paints were dry. Cyndi's gallery has a lot of fancy backgrounds for her cards and I just thought, well if you cut a hole and counter sink the image behind some printed background paper it would give you another change. I kept the humor and the clean and simple style, but I changed the stamps and made my card square. This brick print is from the BoBunny Once upon a lifetime collection pad and the Sentiment here I used my Misti to do it twice and get it so bold. is from The Casual Fridays This Sucks set. This card is 5 1/2" square in real life, I did use some DOX vintage photo ink along each the cut edges of the printed paper. And that's about it for my Saturday evening, I hope you all are doing well & thanks for stopping by.