Intimidation

One of the Bellariffic Babes, Crafty Cath, made this gorgeous card and I was totally smitten with her colouring - so much so, that I made her card my desktop background for weeks!  Cath very kindly stamped a few images and popped them in the mail to me.  I looked at them, then Cath's card, then the images, then her card and so on and so on.  I was completely intimidated and could not even start to colour one.  Well here we are 4 months later and I thought to myself, why stress so much?  My highest compliment to Cath would be to CASE her card....giving her all the credit, of course :) and so here is my card.

The image is Sorry Shanna from Stamping Bella and the paper was still on my desk from this card.  Yes, I know, time for a clear up!  I had Cath's card up on my computer and followed it bit by bit.  It took me ages and I can't remember the last time I used so many copics but I'm really pleased with the end result.

I even tried to draw in some grass!  Oh, and I used pencils blended with gamsol too for some shading on her dress and a bit of pale blue shading around the image - just like Cath!  I kept the card pretty simple as I wanted the image to be the main focus, so just the Open Scallop Border Die-namic from MFT and some SU Daffodil Delight ribbon.

So, thanks Cath for the inspiration, the images and the courage to finally try it!

Cheerio.....Leslie