Connie-CASE This Sketch!

I played with CASE This Sketch today and came up with this card.  Using stamps by   Sweet Pea Stamps plate 14 The Gumdrop Gang (an oldie but a goodie!)  handmade bakers twine, teeny red gems, Cuttlebug embossing folder,  MS circle cutter and Copic markers. It was harder than it looks to line up the circles but I think I like how it turned out.

Connie-Molly aka the Gum Drop Gang

I couldn't resist putting Molly inside the window.

My scanner wants to blur her slightly so just

pretend she is inside looking through a pane of glass.

I stamped and colored her on white paper and cut

to fit behind the Madison Window die by Poppy Stamps.

Other dies by the same were the window box and grass strip.

I put some tiny roses and little stamens from the Wilton aisle at Michael's

among the grass in the window box.  (They looked like tiny flowers to me!)

Background is embossed with folder by

Sizzix "Branches, Swirls & Ribbons"

I sponged a light Distress color around the window 

frame itself to define the edges and set it off

with a black paper frame to define it more.

Popped up the window box and felt it was finished.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out 

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for good stamps with good deals!!

Connie

The New Lisa Victoria Castles

There are wonderful new Castle images coming out from artist Lisa Victoria. I had the chance to make some adorable cards with one of them in two sizes. I call this card "My home is a castle" because we all like to believe that we are living in a real castle, don't we?

The saying comes from Plate #19. I used Bazzil Swiss dotted paper in the background and some Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut out the image.

There was a similar image that was smaller, this one gave me several cute ideas such as tiny fairies, elves and sprites. But at the moment I am making a birthday card for a little girl. Every little girl wants to get a castle for her birthday! Even when I was a child I wanted to have a doll house that looked like a Castle.

For this card I used Olivia (Plate #14) and some great stamp sayings (Plate #9). I added in some wild metallic pink paper and used a border punch from Fiskars. I added a princess crown on top of Olivia because all birthday girls need a crown.

Hope you are all looking forward to the Lisa Victoria Castles.

Cheers, Holley

Molly

This is Molly from the Gum Drop Gang at Sweet Pea Stamps. She is part of a stamp sheet Plate #14 with Olivia and some wonderful sentiments. All of the Gum Drop Gang sheets are currently on sale! The "Be Mine" and "Easter" sheet would be great to get a head start on some Valentine and Easter cards. For those of you with kids in sports there is a FABULOUS sheet called "Sports" that would be fun for congratulations or cheer them up cards. Also for coaches and scrapbook pages!!!

Molly

I am so anxious for some lovely weather and SPRING! Yesterday we had a snow storm, YES a snow storm all day. I was determined to pretend it was Spring and pulled out my first Sweet Pea Stamps love - The Gumdrop Gang.


What could be more Spring like than Molly with a bouquet of flowers and white patent shoes?

Connie-Sweet Pea Paperclip Bookmarks

Today I have a sample of a very quick project for you!

Paper Clip Bookmarks

Supplies:

Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Large Circle dies

Nestabilities Standard Small Circle dies

Sweet Pea Stamps (Plate #14)

Copic marker BG01

Memento dye inkpad "Tuxedo Black"

White & aqua cardstock scraps

glue dots

oversize paper clip

Directions:

1)  Cut 2 each of circles

2)  Stamp saying on white circles, trace over words with Copic marker & affix over aqua scalloped circles

3)  Line up circle combos (one on each side of clip) and adhere to each other and clip with glue dots

4)  Slide your new bookmark over your book page to mark it!

*My sample shows both a finished bookmark and an untouched paper clip.  These are about 3.5" long and may be found at most office supply stores.

I cut the Sweet Pea saying stamp apart to make it more versatile.  You may see the original Sweet Pea stamp plate HERE.

December Guest Designer: Kimberly Stouffer

Please welcome Kimberly Stouffer, our first guest designer for December. She has created three beautiful cards, the first two use images from the ching-chou kuik fantasy art line plate #22.

This card was created with The Gumdrop Gang plate #14.

Count Your Blessings

 got some great venetian style papers from Pressed Petals that I think look wonderful with Sweet Pea's Angels from sheet # 17. This set of stamps is one of our best sellers!

I stamped the large angel once and the small angel twice with Black ink from Memento. I trimmed out all the images and mounted the large image on silver paper. I covered my card with printed cardstock from Pressed Petals, inking all the edges with ColorBox Chalk ink. I mounted the smaller angels on opposing sides of the large angel and mounted tiny buttons with glue dots.

The saying comes from sheet #14; The full saying is "Count your blessings, not your birthdays" but for this card I only wanted to use part of the saying. I carefully inked the part of the saying that I wanted and stamped it on white paper.

Many people think of this plate as a holiday theme plate, but I think it is much more than that. Here's a nice example of how to use the image for a non holiday card.

Happy Friday everyone!

Holley

Birthdays and balloons!

Birthdays and balloons go together like ... ice cream and chocolate sauce!!! That's why this image from Sweet Pea plate #14 is a great choice for birthday cards....
For both of these cards I used my Cuttlebug and the birthday greeting embossing folder.
On the left I used a piece of Core'dinations paper. This paper happened to be brown on one side and pink on the reverse side. After running it through the Cuttlebug, I sanded the brown side to reveal the pink core of this paper. I trimmed the brown paper to slightly smaller than the pink card, but before I attached it to the card, I wrapped a sheer brown ribbon around the bottom edge and tied in a knot. I took a small piece of white cardstock and laid a piece of Punchinella over it before spraying with Glitz Spritz. (Punchinella is sequin waste, the leftover piece once the sequins are punched out.) (Glitz spritz is a watercolor type spray made with water, mica, and possibly some dye ink.) After this piece of white cardstock dried I stamped the image with black ink. The corners were trimmed with a corner rounder before attaching to the center of the card.
For the card on the right, I ran a piece of yellow cardstock through the Cuttlebug with the birthday embossing folder. I attached the yellow embossed piece to orange card using square colored brads in the four corners. I had found some multi-colored rick rack at JoAnn's and thought it would be just the right addition to this card. I cut a piece to fit the height of the yellow piece and glued it down the left side. I stamped the Sweet Pea image onto yellow cardstock with black ink and trimmed around the image. Then, I attached the trimmed image to orange cardstock and trimmed following the same lines I had trimmed on the yellow piece. I just wanted to make her pop off the card.
There are a lot more ideas for using this image.... Show us what you come up with....
Chrissy

Connie-Loves me, Loves me not

Sweet Pea Plate #14 is packed full of great images!! Check it out by clicking HERE It's ON SALE right now so hurry.........

Supplies:
Sweet Pea Stamps plate #14
Nestabilities "Labels One" by Spellbinders
ribbon from a swap
felt flower by Prima
glitter brad by Oriental Trading
SU! Markers
Corner rounder punch by Creative Memories

I cut the shape in my Cuttlebug and edged with a marker for a border then stamped my image and colored it. I stamped the saying all over a white panel and rounded the corners and cut 2 small ribbon slots, ran ribbon behind and tied. Layered this together and added flower.

Tuesday with Molly

Have you seen the new stamps in the Gumdrop Gang that are coming? If not, let me introduce you to Molly. She is such fun to play with. She is also on sale through TODAY!


Don't forget that there are a couple of fun things going on right now with Sweet Pea Stamps including the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for October!