Customer Gallery Submission: Carolyn Gibson

Carolyn shares her beautiful artwork today.

Elaine Cox's  Dreamy Sand Castle:

 Meredith Dillman's Fairy Lights:

ching-chou kuik's Dance of the Butterfly:

Elaine Cox's Playing with Stars:

Meredith Dillman's Blue Fairy:

Meredith Dillman's Japanese Fairy:

ching-chou kuik's Pick a Pumpkin:

Customer Gallery Submission: Aletha J. Williams

Aletha shares her beautiful work today.

ching-chou kuik's Pick a Pumpkin:

Customer Gallery Submission: Karina

Karina shares her beautiful works today.

ching-chou kuik's Holly Night:

ching-chou kuik's Misty Reflections:
 

ching-chou kuik's Pick a Pumpkin:

Elaine Cox's Blue Nocturne:

Birthday Witches......

I wanted to share with you a card I made for my dear Sister In Law's birthday. It is in the middle of October so I thought the witch was fitting.  I didn't want to make her scary since I hold nothing but loving feelings for her. I chose ching-chou kuik's "Pick a Pumpkin". I thought she was classy yet still was the look I wanted. Fall, Halloween, beauty......... You can buy her as a single stamp or on a page with three others at where else, Sweet Pea Stamps.

I colored my image with copics and then dusted her here and there with some stickles. I love my sparkle.  My background was done with chalks and then I cut her out with my scalloped nestie that I edged with distressing walnut ink. The sentiment was computer generated and received the same treatment.  I tied a tulle bow around the card and then added three prima flowers with a gem stone in the center.  To finish it off I tucked raffia in two colors behind the bow and the flower to give it a bit of a rustic look, as if she just came out of the pumpkin patch! 

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Bewitched

I love Halloween, the chill in the air, the rustle of leaves and all that wonderful candy - what could be better Today I hope to help everyone get in the mood with several wonderful Halloween themed cards. I hope you enjoy them.

Samantha Rawlings Lil' Witch:

Elaine Cox's Kitty Pumpkin Witch:

ching-chou kuik's Pick a Pumpkin:

Seeing Red this Halloween

What a fun image to color! I had never done red hair before. I thought it would work well on this image and it was lots of fun to do! I went with a fun red/purple chalked background. I chose to keep the layout very simple since I wanted the image to be the focal point.

Supplies used on this project:
Image-Pick a Pumpkin, Ching Chou Kuik Sweet Pea Stamps
Papers-Neenah Smooth white card stock, black card stock, red glitter card stock, glossy black card stock
Copics
Skintones-yr0000, e000, e51
Eyes-bg05, b21, b23, 0
Hair-r35, r46, r59, 0
Hat/dress-w5, w7, w9, v15, v17, v09
Pumpkins-yr15, yr04, yr09, yg91, yg93
Kitty-w3, w5, r35, 0
Misc-red and purple chalks for background, Versamark pad for background, 3 red flat back gems (Hobby Lobby jewelry section)

Cute little buttons

I haven't felt like playing with paper lately, but rather with other materials where I can use my Sweet Pea stamps.

Here I have made custom made Sweet Pea buttons. I've used nestabilities to cut out shapes in shrink plastic. I stamped with black staz on ink and set it aside to dry a while. When the ink was dry I coloured the images with oil pencils. Make sure to punch holes before you shrink the plastic. After you have shrunk them - either using a heatgun or oven - let it cool for a little while and ink the edges with a silver pen.

You can colour it to fit any piece of clothing you want and the best part: you will never have to change all the buttons because you lost one and didn't have any extra.

Stamps I have used:
pick a pumpkin plate 53
time flies, plate 38
red hearts, plate 28

Connie-Wonderful Wickedless Witch

I started out with soft, muted colors and somehow went pink-wild.

Whoever heard of a witch wearing pink?

Well this one does and she does it well!

You will find this beauty on plate #53 by ching-chou kuik in

the Sweet Pea Stamp store by clicking below:

Sweet Pea Stamps

I tried to keep my card to a standard A2 size but couldn't get everything on

so it grew into a 6" square.

The dp is unknown from my stash. I used Spellbinder's

Nesties "Doodle Parts" and "Classic Frame", a Martha Stewart

border punch & corner punch, Copic markers,

pearls by Queen & Co. and SU! dye ink "Really Rust" and "Tuxedo

Black" by Memento.

Can you find my little "improvement" in the verse so it matches the witch-y theme better?

Thanks for looking!

Connie

Customer Gallery Submission: Victoria Murray

Victoria shares her beautiful works today.

 ching chou kuiks Black Haired Lady:

  

ching chou kuiks The Serene Night:

  
ching chou kuiks Nostalgia:

ching chou kuiks Merry Season:

ching chou kuiks Pick a Pumpkin:

ching chou kuiks Winterberry and Spring Witch:

Mag - Pick a Pumpkin

Hi Ladies,
Thanks so much for all your lovely comments,
they really make my day each time :)

CONNIE :
To make the white shadow around the witch,
first, I color all my background with
different colors of Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks.
Then, with the edge of a little chalk eraser,
I come all around the witch to take away
a line of color.

That's all, just easy :)

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Hi everyone,
Here is a card I've made with my
fave combo colors : fall colors :)

I used an image from Chin-Chou Kuik,
"Pick a Pumpkin".

You can find this image on plate 53.

Papers are from Bazzill and Basic Grey
The butterfly is a Tim Holtz Alteration die.
The big flower is from Prima (Ameruse collection).
I colored the image with Copics and used
a Spellbinders Classic Frame to put in.
The background of the image is made with
Pearlescent Chalks from Pebbles Inc.

Here is the list of the Copics I used :

Skin : E50, E01, E11
Hat and dress : R81, R83, R85, R89
Hair : Y32, Y35, Y38, YR18
Cat : R00, blender

Have a magical day !!!
xxx
Mag ;)

I'm Feeling a Little Fall-ish!

Hiya! I thought with all of the summer weather a lot of us are having I would try to bring in a little cool fall breeze! Okay, I just love this image and would use any excuse to stamp with it!! This is another gorgeous ching-chou kuik image, called Pick a Pumpkin.





The Details:
Stamp: Pick a Pumpkin - ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection (sheet 18, plate 53) from Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: October Afternoon, Dark Chocolate and White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Walnut Distress Ink
Copics:
Skin; R00,E00,E11,E13,R20
Hair: E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes: YG93,YG95,YG97,YG99,E08,E09,E18,E25,E27,E29
Pumpkins: Y38,YR14,YR15,YR18
Background: BG72 w/BG000 and C0 over it
Cat: W3,W5,W8, BG000, BG72
Misc: Ribbon (Taylored Expressions), Sakura Clear Stardust pen

I hope your weekend is wonderful!
:-)Traci

Customer Gallery Submission: Linda

Linda shares her beautiful works with us today.

Elaine Cox's Art Collection Pirate Captain Mermaid:

ching chou kuik's Caribbean Treasure:

ching chou kuik's Spring Luna:

ching chou kuik's Unregrettable Pirate Life:

ching chou kuik's Dragonfly Fantasy:

ching chou kuik's Misty Reflections:

ching chou kuik's Fluttering Butterflies:

ching chou kuik's Bamboo Serenade:

ching chou kuik's Pick a Pumpkin:

ching chou kuik's Blue Eye Fairy: