Sande presents Snow Angel by Katerina Koukiotis

Hello eveyone!

Sande is here with you today. 

Today I am showing you an altered box. It is a special gift to someone. 

I have used this beautiful image by

  Katerina Koukiotis called "Snow Angel".

I just adore this image!! She is so very gorgeous! 

I have colored her with Copics.

 You can find this Beauty at the Sweet Pea Stamps store 

as a digital only.  

There is much more fabulous images at Sweet Pea Stamps so don't forget to pop over!

Hope you'll get some inspiration here and create something great!

Don't forget to come back every day and see other DT's outstanding creations!

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Holley presents Beautifully Red by Katerina Koukiotis

 Have you seen the new shaded images at the Sweet Pea store?  These images make coloring so simple an easy, you can still add your own shading techniques and colors, but you can also just print them out in black and white and leave them as they are OR just add a single highlight color (like skin tone) OR do full coloring to add even more depth.  Here's a stunning image from artist Katerina Koukiotis called Beautifully Red.

Here's a closeup of this lovely image, the paper shown here that is actually stitched is wall paper!! Did you have any idea of that?  Lots of places you can get fabulous free remnants the perfect size for stitching up and making little fun boxes for your cards.

 

Have a great weekend and be sure and check out the newest images from artist Katerina Koukiotis, esp. these fun pre-shaded ones.

Cheers, Holley

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Jane presents Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

Time to make another of my tea bag holders which I so love giving as gifts :)   I started by cutting all my sections for the tea box holder from a pattern I made.  I then covered the box with some awesome hand made paper a friend brought me back from her holidays, the colours were just perfect for the digi I had coloured earlier.  Before attaching the hand made paper I embossed it with a Spellbinders embossing folder, not a deep embossing as the paper is very soft and did not want to hold the embossing well.

Next I went to town with lots of die cuts.  The image was mounted on turqouise card, the same card the box was made from and also some matt gold card.  I added one of the a Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders to one side and a Spellbinders Les Papillions 2 butterfly. Another of these butterflies was added to the back of the box, and in the centre of each butterfly I add a small turquoise butterfly gem.  For the label I used Spellbinder Ornamental Tag 1 and added another butterfly gem.  For the swirls I added around the box I used Spellbinders Floral Flourishes.  All the die cuts were cut using the same turquoise card I used for the box and the matt gold paper which I glued on one side, this gave me die cuts which matched the box both from the front and the back sides.  A little gold bronzing powder was added to the top rim of the box and there we go, all done.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis
• Colouring Medium - Faber Castell Polychromos 
• Dies - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders, Spellbinders Les Papillions 2, Spellbinder Ornamental Tag 1 and Spellbinders Floral Flourishes
• From my Stash - gems, hand made paper and bronzing powder

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Holley presents Dark Fairy By Katerina Koukiotis

Here's one of the newest images at the Sweet Pea stamps store from artist Katerina Koukiotis called Dark Fairy.  WOW. This image is just stunning. I comes with a lot of shading already in the image, which makes coloring it more straight forward than many other stamps.  This image would also look just stunning in black and white.  Be sure and click the link to see the image in black and white at the Sweet Pea store.

 

Here's a close up of this stunning image which I used copic markers to color over

Be sure and check out all of Katerina's amazing images here.  She has some gorgeous ladies, some beautiful angels, some adorable kids, and some wonderful Halloween theme.  Then drop by our Sweet Pea Stamps Friends and Fans page to check out our most recent contests, sales, and card sharing!  We look forward to chatting with all of you there!

Cheers, Holley

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Tera presents Cherry Blossom Fairy Baby by Katerina Koukiotis

Hallo,
       My day to share a Sweet Pea Stamps project and by now you may have noticed that I love to make baby gift boxes... well I have another one for you today, complete with a memory book.
  I used Katerina Koukiotis's new image for us called 'Cherry Blossom Fairy baby'  and colored her up with polychrome pencils. This image and a couple more new ones from Katerina are preshaded so it makes them very easy and quick to color.
  I really love this little sweet face - especially the lips :)
  For the box - I decorated it with pretty papers and added some gold drawer pulls for the feet and one decorative one for the lid, added some bows and a flower and some gold corner stickers. The edges are all edged with gold metallic pen.
  The inside bottom of the box is lined with pink felt . Inside is the memory book (approximately 5 by 7 inches) and it has 5 pages and is decorated with the same and matching papers as the box.
  In addition to the image on the book I added a bow and some pretty ribbons to the rings holding the pages together.
   All for today - Take Care
       Tera

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Heart Stitches Notebook Featuring Katerina Koukiotis' Heart Stitches Digital Image

Linda Tagg Mixed Media/2015

Heart Stitches Notebook

Katerina Koukiotis' Heart Stitches Digital Image

3" x 5" Index Card Notebook

Spectrum Noir Markers

String

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Altered paper bag for a ballet girl - Sande's view

Hello all you lovely crafters!

Sande here with you today showing a DT creation of mine. 

This time I have made an altered paper bag by using this gorgeous image from

  Katerina Koukiotis called "Ballet de Papillion".

I have colored her with Copic Markers and didn't want to ruin it with many decorations.

 You can find this Beauty at the Sweet Pea Stamps store 

as a rubber stamp and as a digital.  

There is much more fabulous images at Sweet Pea Stamps so don't forget to pop over!

Hope you'll get some inspiration here and create something great!

Don't forget to come back every day and see other DT's outstanding creations!

Hugs, Sande xx

Heart Stitches

Here's a gorgeous Sweet Pea stamp from artist Katerina Koukiotis called Heart Stitches.  This beautiful image is currently available both in rubber stamp form and as a digi stamp.  I just adore this sweet girl even though she is heart broken on this card.  I am using lovely cardstock and embellishments from We R Memory Keepers to complete this card.

I colored up this image using warm grey copic markers with bright red colors.  Be sure and check out Katerina's gorgeous images in the Sweet Pea store.  We also have an awesome group that you can share your work in and join in regular contests to win prizes on Facebook, it's Sweet Pea Friends and Fans.  Be sure and check us out!

Cheers, Holley

I am Blessed

 This gorgeous Sweet Pea image is from artist Katerina Koukiotis and is called Snow Angel.  Isn't she stunning?  be sure and check out the artist's coloring as well so you can see how different it looks my my coloring here.  I thought I would start off February with this wonderful image as I am celebrating my five year anniversary of the brain surgeries that saved my life.  Now that's a real blessing!!

 

Here's a wonderful close-up of this stamp:

Be sure and check out all of the amazing stamps from this artist at the Sweet Pea store and share your gorgeous creations with us at our Facebook Page--Sweet Pea Friends and Fans.  In celebration, I am having a great celebration for my fifth anniversary, Sweet Pea stamps will be some of the wonderful prizes given, so I hope you will come and celebrate with me, just as Sweet Pea stamps does.  Drop by my blog and check it out.  Hugs Everyone!

Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis- by Ria

I soo adore this little stamp Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis I coloured her with Alcohol markers and enhanced a bit with pencils. The white dots are made with a white Molotow marker.

Here is the card I created with her. 

I used Tattered Lace Dies and the Paper is from a big block from The Paper Studio.

I hope you like my card :)

hugs Ria

Halloween in White

 Happy Halloween everyone!  Here's a great card I did today on some gorgeous paper in whites, as you can see it has a shimmery background that is embossed with ghosts.  Then I added some off white paper in which I die cut and embossed a graveyard scene as well as some grave stones and some skull and crossbones.  Can you just imagine the ghosts flying up out of the graves?

This gorgeous image is called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star from artist Katerina Koukiotis.

Here's a close up of the image, I think this gorgeous image could be used anytime of year!  Here in Austin we have a huge bat colony that is quite famous, so everyone loves to see bats.

You can download this gorgeous image and make a card for that Halloween treat today! or grab this stamp and use her for any other fun project you like.  If you do, share your creation with us over on the Sweet Pea Stamps Friends and Fan page at Facebook.

Cheers, Holley

Heartstitches by Katerina Koukiotis...

 

Hi, 

Today I want to show you this beautifull stamp Heartstitches by Katerina Koukiotis.

I coloured with Spectrum Noir markers and pencils, the papers are digipapers made by Moi :)

I love stitching on cards so I first punched holes in my papers and then handstitch it all around.

Materials used:

Heartstitches by Katerina Koukiotis

Spectrum Noir markers and pencils

Papers by Moi

Flower and Snowflake punches

Cutting die

Roses

Buttons

I hope you enjoy my card.

hugs Ria

Love Never Dies

Here's a stunning image from Sweet Pea artist Katerina Koukiotis called Love Never Dies.  What a stunning image.  I truly can not imagine losing some one so near and dear to me.  I added a simple sentiment in vellum "become STRONG," but I know that is so very hard at such a real trying moment in life.  There's gorgeous glittered cardstock in the back and some beautiful lace at the bottom.

 

Here's a closeup of this image, she's currently available in digi as well as rubber format.

Drop by and check out all of this artist's amazing stamps at the Sweet Pea store.

 

Cheers, Holley

Behold the Lamb Katerina Koukiotis - Jane's view

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Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you my DT creation using the digi Behold the Lamb by Katerina Koukiotis

I am still on my family Christmas card mission and this one is for my Mum :)

I started off by colouring the digi in my Mum's favourite colours, blues and mauves.  Once coloured I fussy cut her (the digi that is, not my Mum hahaha)

 Promarkers used to colour the image

Next I cut some blue stiff paper to form the cascades in my Tri-Fold Cascade card.  I plan to use just blue and gold for the background folds so on one section on each side I used my rolling pin and a snowflake embossing folder.  By doing it this way I can control where the embossing is.

Next I dapped over the top with gold stamping in.

On another section I used gold embossing powder - it look a bit messy here but the end result on the card is what I was after.

I covered the base of the card with the same blue stiff paper that I used for the cascades and then, using adhesive spray overlaid with some semi transparent and gold swirl wrapping a friend gave me which was the wrapping on some flowers she was given.  Yep, my friends are pretty good a passing all their bits of wrapping etc. onto me :)

 I have been playing around using metal sheets and dies, I love the effect of the metal.  Here I have used gold metal sheet and the Crafty Ann Flourish-5 die.

 Final bit to do before finishing off was the bow.  Using ribbon to match the blues and mauves in the digi colouring and metal wire to hold the bow tight I did not want to waste the ends so wrapped the wire bits around a toothpick to make spirals.

 And here we have the finished card.  I have used gold line stickers around the front edge and a peel off sentiments.  Three gold flowers were also added, they came from another friend who found them attached to a box of chocolates that somebody had brought into work.  A fair bit of recycling going on in this card :) :) :)
Side view

 Front view

Ingredients

• Digi Behold the Lamb by Katerina Koukiotis available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Dies - Crafty Ann Flourish-5 die
• Promarkers
• Ribbon, flowers, peel off stickers, material and embossing powder from my stash

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a happy crafting day :) :) :) 

Dreaming of Aquamarine Tides

Hi Suzanne joining you today with......

DREAMING OF AQUAMARINE TIDE illustrated by Katerina Koukiotis.

You can purchase this fabulous image in rubber or digi format.

An amazing title for an amazing image.

I have used so many products and so many techniques, too many to list. I really wish I had recorded the making of this one. I love the finished project.

Hope you love it too, love it enough to head over to Sweet Pea Stamps and purchase your very own Dreaming of Aquamarine Tides.  I would love to see your project.

Thanks for stopping by.