Whipper Snapper Release: Harvest Blessings

I'm very excited to be a Whipper Snapper Featured Designer for the next two months, especially since I'll be using a sweet friend's and (albeit transplanted!) fellow Texan's wonderful illustrations.  Anna Wight's whimsical fall drawings have been transformed into rubber for you to enjoy in two new cling-mount rubber stamp sets, Harvest Blessings & Give Thanks. 

A third set is also being released this month . . . Crazy for Chickens.  If you know Anna and follow her blog at all, you know she IS crazy for chickens and shares some of her own farm chicken tales with you on her blog, SweetMissDaisy/Sassy & Sweet Notes. You can view the contents of all three sets over at Anna's blog today and you can visit Whipper Snapper to pick them up.  Anna signs the first 100 stamp sets of each release, so you'll want to be among the first to purchase them!

I adored the sweet scarecrow girl in the Harvest Blessings set, so that's what I chose to work with first.  If you know Anna, she's infamous for her fabulous watercoloring and her images are perfectly designed for it.  So I dusted off my reinkers & watercolor brush, watercolor paper and StazOn ink and went to work . . .

 

After stamping the scarecrow, I masked her off to stamp the sunflowers and then hand drew in the stems and added some more horizon line doodlings.  I adore this sentiment, too . . . "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower".

It felt so good to watercolor again and after doing so, I wanted to showcase this sweet painting more permanently than just on a card, so she became a framed fall keepsake (photo area is 3.5" x 5.5" and the frame is 9" x 7" overall):

 

Supplies:

• Stamps: Whipper Snapper Harvest Blessings cling-mount set, illustrated by Anna Wight
• Ink: Black StazOn ink, Ranger Adirondack dye reinkers
• Paper: Stampin' Up Watercolor paper, Flair Designs patterned paper
• Accessories: Water reservoir brush, The Paper Studio buttons, Stampin' Up Linen Thread & Mustard grosgrain ribbon, Spellbinders Ribbon Tag Trio die template, Michael's frame

I hope you'll visit the other Featured Designers over the next few months, to see what they've created for this release, too:

Sherry Cheever
Blog: http://sherrycheever.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
SCS Gallery: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/go/badsherry

Denise Marzec
Blog: http://thepaperlandscaper.blogspot.com
SCS Gallery: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/go/peanutbee

Jessie Rone
Blog: http://canyousayaddictedtostamps.blogspot.com
SCS Gallery: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/go/knightrone

Paula Williamson
Blog: http://paulatracy66.typepad.com/paper_possibilities
SCS Gallery: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/go/paulatracy

I'll be back over the next few weeks with some more artwork with these sets, too, so keep checking in!

I'm sorry my 500K hits giveaway has been delayed just a bit . . . I wanted to create something with the prize I'll be giving away, so I'll be back a little later this week with that announcement!

Comments

[denise (peanutbee)]

1.

Wow, Sharon, this ROCKS! Super watercoloring, great masking, and I love the DP!

[Judy Bilodeau]

2.

What an awesome card....I just love fall and the colors....the watercolors are so wonderful....Love it!

[Danni]

3.

This is amazing!! What vivid, wonderful colors! Very nice!

[Tamara]

4.

Great watercolouring. I am really impressed!

[chris]

5.

She is adorable and you did a terrific job with a wonderful autumnal results.It's my favorite season of the year.

[Anna Wight (SweetMissDaisy)]

6.

Awwwww, she's so sweet in her field of sunnies!! I'm so thrilled to be sharing the fun with you, Sharon!! =) -Anna.

[Jessie/knightrone]

7.

Gorgeous work!!!! I love your coloring on this super cute image!! Awesome stems too!!

[Jami]

8.

Wow Sharon - your watercoloring is awesome! Great idea to make this a framed holiday decor piece!

[Heather]

9.

I love this - so fun and colourful and cheerful :)

[Rose Ann]

10.

I love how you've made this a piece of artwork (well...really all of your creations are). You obviously still have the touch with your watercolors!! ;) Fabulous!!

[Conniecrafter]

11.

the frame is so cute and your creation for it is even more special, so love the scarecrow, you don't see as many girl ones, and the flowers are great to, excellent coloring!

[Linda C.]

12.

Fabulous artwork! Beautifully done!

[cathy tidwell]

13.

This is just gorgeous! I love that scarecrow! I just placed my first order with Whipper Snapper, had to have them Halloween sets, lol..and now THIS!!

[paula]

14.

Sharon your watercoloring is awesome! i love the scene you put together and how colorful you made it all look...fall is my favorite time of year! :)

[Jamie Wilcox]

15.

Sharon, this is so pretty!!

[Deborah Golan]

16.

Wonderful! Going over to see the other goodies! Have fun! Deb

[Donna B]

17.

this is SO cute, I love it Sharon! congrats on her Guest Designer, love her stuff!

[shel9999]

18.

Oh my goodness, this is fabulous, Sharon! Your watercoloring is superb! How fun to work with Anna's images! Can't wait to see more! :)

[Leslie Miller]

19.

Such fantastic coloring! Oh, my gosh, this is so CUTE! Congrats on your new gig! I'm going to LOVE seeing your designs with these fabulous stamps, Sharon!

[Debbie Olson]

20.

Beautifully watercolored, Sharon!

[Kacey]

21.

This is gorgeous! I love that you watercolored it! So vibrant :-)