Banana Split Sunday!

Jami at 2RedBananas gave us this William Templeton painting, Banana Bandit, as our inspiration for this week's Banana Split Sunday challenge. My eyes were drawn to the colors and textures of the sky, walls and foreground. Looking through my stash of paper, I found a sheet of DCWV Old World paper that mimicked the same colors and textures, and things started to flow from there.

Don't you just love this adorable dog from Jami's set, Gunther's Greetings?! When I first got my 2RedBananas sets and saw him, my heart melted! Then I found these fun companion prints from Sonburn Designs and just had to have them. I'm so glad they worked with the colors for today's inspiration because I've been wanting to ink this puppy up! I stamped him in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored him with prismas and baby oil. A few faint shadows were laid in to his left using a Copic Blender Pen and cool gray. I paper pieced his scarf, then added a little dog-tag charm. The sentiment was inked with Really Rust and Brocade Blue markers, then over-stamped with stamped off Creamy Caramel paw prints. I added a few buttons to bring more blue forward and tie the design together.

For the inside, I added a matted strip of the designer paper, then stamped a faint paw print in the bottom right corner.

I know just the dog-lover who should receive this card! You know who you are! I was thinking of you the entire time I made it! :)

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