Spread the Stamp: Elphaba-Rose

This a bit of prettiness for the Spread the Love Event

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A very little bit of prettiness.

Well - an over-sized stamp of semi-prettiness. Sorry My double sized stamps are totally useless as stamps...

...but there's twice more love in them, I suppose.

I can't figure out how to get sharp detail in a tiny little space. I'm sure the great and glorious Adobe oozes sharpness and detail like a wounded behemoth.

All the templates I could find were for precious Photoshop, so I had to build my own base. Someday, I'll figure things out like using mysterious 'layers' and effects and how not to make things by adding a little detail and flattening and saving and reloading and rinsing and repeating for everything.

BLURGH. I don't want to even think about how much time each stamp took in my one-a-night quest to have good intentions slay the goliath of artistic inability.

Someday - maybe- I'll sell enough plasma to buy Photoshop. Or someone will point me in the proper direction of a user friendly artistic tool chest.

Paint.NET. I love you - but you are a harsh mistress.

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Nicknames.

I use them a lot in my snappy patter lifestyle. 'Bestie' says it is because I distance myself from people. I suffer from Sawyer Syndrome. Quite the contrary -oh receiving end of: 'Bestie', 'McBesterson', 'Fats', 'Slaps', 'Slappy', & on one particular evening 'Mrs. Susan Levine'. Anyone can be 'Cindy' or 'Rich' to everyone else in the world.

Special people should be special.

They can be whatever to everyone else, but to me they are unique.

They are my friends. They are special. They are a part of me.

They are loved.

I know Bestie knows this because he lives with the dark knowledge of when I use his real name he is about 5 seconds away from an emotional outpouring or the receiving end of my tiny fists of rage.

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ELPHIE

I remember I saw Fantasia once and apart from Mickey and the Hoard O Brooms, there was a scene with fountains.

These fountains shot out amazing colors that danced and twisted and exploded across the screen.

That did happen in Fantasia, right?

I must confess I did watch Fantasia in the state it is recommended to watch Fantasia in. (*koff*)

It may have been a dream.

I have crazy dreams that involve more 'lovely' sleep drool than normal.

Regardless, whether those fountains actually happened or not, it is what I think of when I see Elphie's colorings.

Colors dance, explode, swirl, twist, fade, and burst again. Intertwining, subtly mingling and then standing proud and bold.

She is a weaver of colors.

I am always amazed.

And sometimes there is a little drool.

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Elphie is the amazing colorist

The icon is a crop of her former avatar and ID which I awlays thought was very soft and lovely