A lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk…

So my favourite artist, Betty, was feeling sketchy and she did up this awesome image, Princess Anna, a bit of fan art but when I saw it I immediately thought of Anne with an ‘e’ from Anne of Green Gables so that’s how I coloured her up.

That’s the great thing about images you really can see anything in them.  I do love how she has turned out.  I teamed her with some paper I’ve had for ages from Close to my Heart from the appropriately named Avonlea collection, the lovely grey-greens and blues went really well with Anne’s red hair and her lovely brown dress.  So, OK, it is missing the requisite puff sleeves but is mightily pretty anyway.  To this day I don’t know why they changed it to a light blue dress in the movie, looks so much better in glorious brown.

The sketch follows the current one at Outlawz.  I had the perfect embellie for the diamond element but unfortunately I only had one so I had to settle for these instead.  They started out silver but I wanted them a deep copper tone, like the one I really wanted to use, so I coloured them with my Krylon Leafing Pen and then darkened them up with some Distress Ink.

Now as I’ve coloured up an image I’m entering this in the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  I’ve also got patterned paper, two kinds, so am also entering this at Fan-Tastic Tuesday in their current challenge.

As this image is fan art it cannot be sold but Betty was giving it away free with a $10 purchase at Simply B Stamps.  Be sure to join the SBS blog or the fan page to keep up to date with new releases and awesome freebies like this.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eye G21, G94, 0

Lips R00, R02, R05

Hair E08, E11, E18, E95, YR14

Dress E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Embellishments

FabScraps ~ Filigree Embellishment

Prima Say it in Crystals & Fimo ~ Meadow Lark

Inks & Paints etc

Krylon Leafing Pen ~ Copper

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Bundled Sage, Gathered Twigs, Pine Needles & Walnut Stain

Wink of Stella ~ Gold

Papers

Close to my Heart ~ Avonlea

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow ~ Dirt

Ribbons & Trims etc

Embroidered Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Anna

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #188 ~ Colour a Stamped Image

Fan-Tastic Tuesday # 29 ~ Use a Patterned Paper

Outlawz Sketch Challenge

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