Rachel Anderson's Opalite

Rachel Anderson's Opalite sheet 4 Plate 20 

"It's my my birthday"♥

Hi everyone!

It's been a long time since I've had something up over here, but with a lot of thing going on in my life just now, there isn't so much time for pleasure/hobby for me, unfortunately..BUT I really hope that will change soon!;) I really miss you all♥

Anyway...Today I am sharing a card that I have made using up some of my scraps!;)

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For this card I've used this lovely image, from Sweet Pea Stamp, by ching chou kuik's , called 'It's My Birthday',and you can find her here, alone, or together with 3 other beauties, on Plate #20

I have coloured my image with markers, Copic's off cause!;))  I have cut out my image with a rectangle nestie and backed it with a BEAUTIFUL "heart-frame" and a few other dies, from Hobby-Hagen (isn't it soo beautiful, do you think!?;D).The gorgeous papers are from Inkadikido and Bo Bunny,  I have used a retired die for my corners , and all the edges are being sewed with a sewing-machine-

"It's my Birthday" in the dies "Sweetheart Frame"

She's soo beautiful!♥

I've been using these Copic colors:

Skin: E21,00,000,0000, R21

Hair: E57,E55,E53,E51

Dress and Wings: BG75,BG72,BG70 V12, V10, V00
Shadow: C3,C1,C00

Thank you for visiting me!! I appreciate all the sweet comments!

Wish you all a beautiful day♥!:)

Hugs, Ellen

Winter Wonderland

Hi dear fellow Sweet Pea Stamps lovers just like me! Today I want to show you a card I made with another image of my faves; it is 'Winterberry' by the fabulous artist ching-chou kuik's. She is such a beauty and is perfect for making Christmas cards as well. 

She is available as a single stamp, and on Plate # 20 together with three other amazing images, and two of them perfect for Christmas cards as well. 

And know what?? This image and all other Christmas related images are on SALE with 40 % off. So don't you just have to have them?

I coloured this fabulous image with Distress Inks. The papers are from TOGA, a french company. The snowflake border is Tim Holtz and the snowflakes die is from Whimsy.

Thank you so much for your visit. I wish you a magical day and look forward seeing you here again.
Hugs, Karina

Daphenes Dilema

I think we are all faced with the same dilemma as this cute little fairy at some time in our life. However, I truly believe that it's the inner "beauty" that counts. So for my card today I used Lisa Victoria's "Daphenes Dilema":

I used vellum card stock as my card base as well as gold mirror card stock. The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo dye ink and after die cutting the image panel. I used chalks and distress ink to blend the background and the edges.
The image is colored with copics but I did add a little glitter to the wings with glitter pens and then used glass effect gel on the skirt which I left uncolored.

I couldn't resist to add the "Do you believe" sentiment from Plate #20.

I'll be honest, I couldn't get the card to look right no matter what I tried (heck I couldn't even get this blog post sounding right), in the end I left it as you see it here. Like I told my husband, "some days it just isn't happening" :-).

Daphenes Dilema is available as a single stamp or as part of Plate #49 and if you haven't stopped by the Sweet Pea Stamps store, you need to hop over there and check out all of the awesome sales going on.

Sparkly winter wishes

Having made quite a few Christmas cards in the last week I thought it was time to be a bit more adventurous. I decided to play a bit with colours for this winter card. It doesn't even have to be for Christmas - it would work great as a birthday- thank you- or even get well card at this time of year.

I have used Winterberry from plate 20. I love the little snowflakes around her and matched the image with a patterned paper that had snowflakes on it too. I coloured the image with promarkers in matching pink and blue shades and added a white twinkling h2o to the flowy part of her dress. I finally got my sakura gelly roll in the mail and had to try it out on the snowflakes for some extra sparkle.

Dreamy Mermaid

Hello! I have made a quick card today (well, quick once I figured out what I wanted to do - that part took FOREVER!) that uses one of Elaine Cox's beautiful mermaid images (called Dreamy Sandcastle), one piece of cardstock for the card, one piece of DP and 2 ribbons. I am happy with the final, simple look, but I spent hours putting things on and taking things off! I finally decided to just let the sweet mermaid be the star!

The Details:
Stamps: Elaine Cox's Dreamy Sandcastle (Plate 52), sentiment from ching chou kuik's Plate 20 - both from Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: Fancy Pants Designs, Nautical Blue Dark (Prism), White for image (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Vintage Photo Distress Ink, Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: Y15,Y17,YR04,YR09, E08
Tail: R24,R29,R39,E08.E18
Sky: B91,BG10
Water: B95,B97,B99
Sand: E30,E31,E33,E35
Misc: Ribbon (brown - SU, Scarlet Jewel - Papertrey Ink)

:-)Traci

Whimsical Holiday Mermaid

Stamp: Ching Chou Kuik's "It's My Birthday", Plate 20

One of my favorite Ching-Chou Kuik images is from the very first CCK release. It is called "It's My Birthday", and there are so many possibilities with this image. Here, I turned her into a holiday card. I thought the hanging stars looked a lot like holiday ornaments!

The background color is a vintage, patina-like color I achieved by layering my Copics in G21 and B00.

5 Cards from my blog candy giveaways

I wanted to share with you the cards I created to go with my 5 days of Blog Candy Giveaways. The first was was created with Masked Fairy In Green by ching-chou kuiks plate #33.

The 2nd card was created with Merry Season by ching-chou kuiks plate#20.

For my 3rd card I used Rising Flame ching-chou Kuiks Plate #24.

I used September Rhythm ching-chou kuiks Plate#25.

And for my last card I used Fantasy Easter Ocean ching-chou kuiks Plate#30. You can find all these images here on the Sweet Pea Stamps Store.

It's My Birthday

Hey it's Angela here to show you a card I created with It's My Birthday from ching chou kuik's fantasy art collection sheet #1/ plate#20. These are not colors I create with often but I wanted to try something a little different. So I went for more of a summer look. Wit all the cold weather and snow we have all had this year, I wanted something to remind me that warmer weather is right around the corner.

I hope she warms you up as much as she has me when I was coloring and creating this card. The card base itself is 5.5 x 5.5. So you can see that the orange scalloped circle(Memory Boutique) is a little bigger than a 6x6 card. But I just loved the orange color of this and was going to try to make it work. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. The image was Stamped on Georgia Pacific CS(I already had this image stamped before I started using PTI White CS "Paper Trey Ink" which I prefer to use now) colored with copics and then I added some glitter glue to the stars and her tail. I also added more shimmer with come spica pens and sakura pens. The chipboard swirls are by Colorbok, that I cover in white pigment CTMH ink and then covered them in some Martha Stewart fine white glitter. I also colored the little prima flowers with my copics to match the colors in the image. I added some yellow bling to the centers of the flowers and a circle bling by Me and My Big ideas around the big yellow flower. I hope I this inspired you to try something different.

Copics Used:

Skin: E000,E00,E11,R20,RV02
Hair: E47,E50,E51,E53,E55
Oranges: YR09,YR07,YR04
Yellows: Y17, Y08,Y06,Y11,Y0000
Blue Greens: BG13,BG11,BG10,BG000,BG000
Greens(Tail)- YG25, YG03, G05

Moving Magic

I've made a card with a moving panel that displays different messages. It uses four different sayings and the main image Dragonfly Fantasy.

It might not look that spectacular at first glance, but the fun part is that you move the tab up or down on the left so that the frame reveals different messages...

I wrote the word "magic" above the image with black glitter glue. 

/Katarina

ATCs

Here I have a quick project perfect to bring on a vacation :) Stamp up some images, bring your favorite colouring medium, maybe some glitter and you're set. I stamped the images on a bit heavier paper and cut them the right size for ATCs (artist trading cards) Since I always colour my images to match the patterned paper I use I never colour them in advance. So this is a perfect project if I just feel like practicing my colouring skills or I'm off somewhere for the weekend.

Here are two ATCs I finished during Christmas break:

This image is It's My Birthday from the ching chou kuik Fantasy Art Collection.

This image is Merry Season from the ching chou kuik Fantasy Art Collection.

ATCs for Valentine's Day!

I love making ATCs for Valentine's Day!! Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasy Art images really are perfectly sized for making ATCs. Images clockwise from top left: Red Hearts, September Rhythm, Poppy Love, Winterberry.

Sometimes I leave them as is....

Sometimes I like to embellish them....

For this ATC, I added some Japanese washi tape, some bling, and the butterflies, and moth are clipped from the images: "Dance of Butterfly" and "Come Softly"

I'll be back this week with some altered ATCs and some ideas on how to incorporate your ATCs into Valentines! Don't forget to play along in the customer card challenge this week. This week's challenge is ATCs, using Sweet Pea Stamps images and ONLY 3 COLORS. Please see the challenge post here, or the right side bar for more info. I look forward to seeing your creations!

Customer Submission

Carla Hiebert created this beautiful card, she uses ching chou kuik's Fantasy Art image Merry Season. Thanks Carla for sharing your work!

Getting ready for 2010 birthdays

This Ching-Chou Kuik image from Sweet Pea plate #20 is perfect for birthday cards. And with 2010 here, I need to build up my stash of birthday cards!!! How about you?
I had created some background paper using watercolor mists that I created using pearl-ex, so I used a piece of it and stamped the image with black India ink. I trimmed the paper close to the image and edged it with gold Krylon pen. Then, I used glitter glue and 3-D Crystal Lacquer to add some interest to the image. I mounted this onto a piece of decorative card stock that was also edged with the gold Krylon pen, and I added a piece of decorative edging/ribbon to the bottom. I selected a blue card and punched decorative photo corners in the top of the card so that I could slip the mounted image into it.

After stamping the image with black India ink I painted it with Twinkling H2O's. I trimmed the piece close to the image and then used a decorative corner punch. After mounting it onto a slightly larger piece of metallic gold card stock I used the same decorative corner punch again. I had some backgrounds that I had created using alcohol inks that worked great with this color scheme, so I mounted the piece onto the background, used the corner punch, and then outlined with a gold Krylon pen. I attached the piece onto a bright pink card, tied multi-colored fibers around the spine, and added 3 gold star-shaped brads to the bottom of the card.
Who wouldn't love to get this card for their birthday??
This is a great image.... Chrissy

Sweet Pea Valentines

With Valentine's Day soon approaching I find myself reaching for my red and pink Copics! I love the colors of Valentine's Day, so here are some Sweet Pea Valentines with some of my fav Heart Day color combos!!

A few of my favorite Copic Valentine-y colors: R22, R20, R39, R29, R35, R37, RV000, Rv02, RV04, RV06, RV10, RV13, RV14, YR02, YR65

Image above: "Come Softly" Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasy Art Collection, Sheet #5, plate #25

Image: "September Rhythm" Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasy Art Collection, Sheet #5, plate #25

Image: "It's My Birthday" Ching-Chou Kuik's Fantasy Art Collection, Sheet #1, plate #20

Customer Challenge Submission

Kerry Kung sent us this pretty card for the Challenge Submission, thanks so much Kerry!

To be in the challenge this month all entries must have:

1. any Sweet Pea stamped image 
2. background paper
3. ribbon
4. somewhere on the card must have the color BLUE, any shade
5. any Sweet Pea stamped sentiment

Hello!

Hi! My name is Traci (WickedPixie on blogland!) and I am thrilled to be a part of the Sweet Pea DT! I have been in love with these stamps since I first started seeing them on Randi's and then Mag's blogs. Then I came here and saw all of the wonderful creations by the rest of the DT and the customers cards....magical! I have been married to my supportive husband for 20 years and we have a 10 year old daughter. We currently live in Alaska. I have a love for crafting and creating things but have narrowed it down over the years to stamping, knitting and clothing sewing. Most of my sewing right now involves Renesaince Fair costumes.


My card today uses Winterberry from ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art sheet 1 (plate 20). She is colored with Copics and accented with a little bit of Stardust Stickles and a Sakura Clear Stardust pen.

The Details:
Stamp: Winterberry from ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art sheet 1 (plate 20) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: DP-My Mind's Eye, Close to Cocoa - SU, PTI White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:C3,C5,C7,C9
Clothes:RV91,RV93,RV95,V01,V15,V06
Kitty:C1,C3,C5
Background:BG10,BG11,RV06,E55,E57
Misc: Stardust Stickles, Sakura Clear Stardust pen, Darice gems

Thanks so much for the warm welcome!
:-)Traci

Winter Fairytale

Although the Christmas Holiday is over, Winter is in full swing here in the middle of the US. With the blizzard raging on for two days over Christmas, I grabbed my Copics and colored this winter beauty; ching-chou kuiks Winterberry. She is part of Ching-Chou Kuiks Fantasy Art Sheet #1 (Plate 20).

The base card stock is from Strathmore, purchased in the art section at the local hobby store. It's hard to tell in the picture, but it's a matte glittery blue. I also used my Nesties Labels 2 dies and found my eyelets/snaps storage case. I thought the green snaps gave enough of a pop to the card and helped pull in the green from the dress. Honestly, I was just so happy to actually sit and color again, that I didn't pay any mind about color composition - I just enjoyed the coloring :-).

If you haven't seen this plate, you don't know what you are missing. You will want to stop by the Sweet Pea Stamps store to check out Winterberry and all of her friends!

Thanks so much for stopping by and wishing you a wonderful new year from all of us here!

A beautiful moon

This wonderful Ching-Chou Kuik image is available on Sweet Pea Plate #20.
I started by stamping the image with black India ink and then painting with Twinkling H2O's. I trimmed close to the image and then punched the corners with a 'ticket' punch. After edging with a silver Krylon pen I mounted the image onto silver metallic card and then onto a larger piece of decorative cardstock. Before attaching this all to the card I wrapped a purple ribbon around the right side and simply tied it into a knot. I took 2 paper flowers, painted them with twinkling H2O's, and attached with a gemstone brad to the lower left corner of the mounted image. Rather than center the decorative card stock onto the gray card, I lined it up with the right edge of the card. Sometimes I get too caught up in centering and besides, I think it looks better this way.
Check out this image and all the rest that are waiting for you at Sweet Pea stamps! Chrissy

Winterberry - Mag Card 3

Hi everyone !!!
Today I want to share with you a card that
I made with the gorgeous Winterberry Ching-Chou Kuik's stamp
I really LOVE to colour these fairies, all the details are just fantastic...
I'm in love with these stamps !!!

Stamp : Winterberry Ching-Chou Kuik from plate 20
Papers : Bazzill, Me&My Big Ideas
Prima Flowers, Kaiser Pearls, Snowflakes and Frame from Quickutz Die
Ice Stickles, Metal Corner from Tim Holtz Ideaology

Copics :
Skin : E00, E11, 20
Dress/Hat : YG91, YG95, YG9, E04, R20
Hair : W1, W5, W9
Cat : W1, W5

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I wish you a Merry Christmas
and an Happy New Year !!!

May all your wishes come true...

Mag