Customer Gallery Submission: Leslie Krochta

Leslie shares her beautiful cards today.

Joanne Schempp's Love Lace:

ching chou kuik's Time Flies:

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

Something Witchy this way comes....

Here she is, the most adorable mini witch stamp from Sweet Pea artist Elaine Cox. She calls this one "Best Friends." Too sweet. There's a whole sheet of these adorable witch stamps that are just perfect for your Halloween themed cards.I also added a great Sweet Pea saying "Have a 'boo'tiful day!" Hope this card makes all of you ready to do some great Halloween cards.

Project Materials: Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah, DCWV Metallic); Rubber stamps (Sweet Pea Stamps); Border Punch (Martha Stewart); Sewn Border(Linda Weber); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Brads (Around the Block, Bo Bunny); Adhesives (Pop Dots, Glue All);

BONUS PROJECT!!!!

Elegant Lady on the Moon
This stamp is an elegant image from Artist ching-chou kuik in her Fantasy Art line for Sweet Pea Stamps. My version here looks so very different from her original coloring on the website. I thought this image could also be converted into a Halloween style image if you liked. The stamp is called "Time Flies."This card folds down the center. To ensure that it opens of course, adhere the image to only half of the fold. I used a lot of white ink to make the coloring on the backdrop of the card lighter and silkier. I wanted it to look like fabric, like the image is floating on top. Then I added a row of small buttons on each side of the crease where the card folds together.

Project Materials: Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Rubber Stamps (Sweet Pea Stamps); Ink (Memento, Versamark); Buttons (Jesse James buttons); Adhesives (Popdots, Glue Dots, Double stick tape); Color (Copic Markers);

Happy Stamping!!
Holley

Customer Gallery Submission: Dawn Knight

Dawn Knight shares her beautiful works today.

ching-chou kuik's Plate #43:

ching-chou kuik's Time Flies:
 

ching-chou kuik's Unregrettable Pirate Life:

ching-chou kuik's The Dragonfly:

ching-chou kuik's The Moth:

Magical wishes

The image I've used is called time flies. I thought this image really suited the blue paper as it has swirls and butterflies on it. I really wanted to make the card over-the-top as I sometimes feel like I don't decorate enough. I love those decadent cards with enormous amounts of embellishments and layers. So whenever I felt like stopping myself I ignored that impulse and inked, tore and layered some more.

I worked quite a while on this card and loved every second of it. As usual I coloured the image with promarkers, cut out with a circle nestability and layered on a bigger circle of orange bling cardstock. I added stickles glitter in colours "waterfall" and "stardust" on her and on the middle of the cut-out butterfly. The blue card base is stamped with a butterfly stamp with versamark ink and then embossed with a light blue embossing powder with some glitter in it. On top of that I added a piece of orange patterned paper with glitter embossed parts. I tore the top and bottom to make it a bit more vibrant. On top of that are two pieces of paper. They are actually cut as one strip from a 12x12" paper and then cut in two. I used a corner punch on them and after that I cut out a scalloped circle with my nesties which I embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder. Finally I stamped the text "mystical wishes" that can be found on Elaine Cox' sheet 5 plate 46 in a blue ink and embossed with glittery powder. I then layered it on a tiny piece of orange bling card stock and attached to the right hand side of the card. And there you have it :)



















/Katarina

Customer Gallery Submission: Danielle Hayes

Danielle shares her beautiful works with us today.

ching-chou kuik's Time Flies:

The Gum Drop Gang - Hayden:

Carnival mask

I'm finally back with a project that I'm over the moon about. I got the idea as soon as I saw masked fairy in green. She is holding a mask which I thought would be wonderful for this project.

This is my first try to decorate something that isn't too flat. I'll share my tips with you so you can do the same. It's not that difficult, but the result is stunning.

Here's what I used:
a plain white mask - I got mine in a hobby store for $3
some kind of ink or paint - I used distress ink in green, blue and red
a selection of stamps and thin paper (like the one you use to gift wrap)
decoupage glue
black ink + colouring medium - I used promarkers
glue
ribbons and bling
my sewing machine to attach ribbon to the rubber band (optional)

Start by inking the edges of your mask. Don't ink the mask itself unless you know exactly where your images will go. After making the left side I thought I was done so I inked the right side with bright red. Then I realized I wanted another image to be the focal point. Unfortunately when I glued her on, the bright red shone through. That's why the fairy on the right is so red around her face. So learn from my mistakes :)

Set the mask aside to dry and stamp up your images on the paper (I only had light pink, a packaging from a gift, but if you want your colouring to be more accurate you should use white. I used what I had). I tried to stamp where there were no creases to get a good impression. I also tried to choose stamps that could easily be cut out with no tiny details. Colour them and cut out.

Now for the fun, and scary part! Gluing them on. DO NOT put the decoupage glue on the images. Since the paper is so thin it will rip. Put the glue on the mask instead and the image on top. If you have slightly more glue you will be able to smooth the image out properly. Put the images so they go outside the edges. Cut away so there is about 1/2 inch or less and fold it around the edges.

Work this way one image at a time. Don't be afraid to use parts of an image to cover up any white parts. I used a wing to cover up a spot on the top.

When you're happy with the result fill in any white parts with ink or paint. When it's dry, brush on some decoupage glue over the whole mask to seal it and make it more durable (we wouldn't want the mask to get ruined in the champagne rain, right?)
Now the only thing left to do is to decorate the mask even more. I thought it looked great as it was, but something was still missing. I inked the rubber band, but didn't think it looked elegant enough, so I tried with different ribbons and lace I had until I found the best combo.

The trims I used were stretchy which was perfect for the rubber band/neck holder. It doesn't have to be perfect, just needs to stick.  If you don't have any stretchy trims you could cut away the rubber band and attach long silky ribbon that you tie at the back of your head. Didn't think of it until now. I sewed mine on with a seam made for stretchy fabrics. Another solution is to pull the rubber band while you sew. This will make the ribbon you use to scrunch up when the rubber band goes to its original form.

When you're happy with that attach some trims around the edges. I found these mini-clasps a tremendous help while waiting for the glue to dry. Just make sure you don't leave them over night as they will glue to the mask!

Finally glue on some bling around one of the eyes.
Tadaa! You have the most wonderful (if slightly itchy around the forehead) mask on the whole carnival.

Here's a tip when working with the images: If you want to use an image and a side is "chopped off" so to speak, you can either put that side close to an edge OR do like I did with the image above. If you have an eye for details you will notice that the wings are not really hers. I used a wing from  midnight waiting, stamped it twice and coloured one from the front and one on the back of the paper to make it mirrored. Then they are cut out and aligned so the main stamp image can be put on top without the edges showing through - because they do. Another reason that this stamp was so great - her straps on her shoulders cover up the edges.

Stamps used for this project:
Masked fairy in green
Moonlight whispering
Love is gone
Midnight waiting
Forest blue
Time flies

Hope you've gotten inspired to use your Sweet Pea images for other than just flat items. If you do, make sure to let us know so we can take a look.

/Katarina

Connie-"Time Flies" Made Time Fly For Me!

I was drawn to this lovely image by ching-chou kuik

when I first saw it and still love it. It is named

"Time Flies" and you will find it on plate 38

HERE

I used Cryogen White cardstock to stamp her on and colored with Copic markers.

I layered papers by DCWV "Old World" and Basic Grey "Sugar Rush".

I punched some leaves (Punch Bunch) a small tree (EK Success)

and the flowers were punched with my *new* Nellie Snellen punch that is a set of punches that also embosses the punched shape.  I cut them from the same papers I used for layering.

Here is a closer view of them:

A little sheer ribbon, some pearls by Kaiser and rhinestones by K and Co.

tops this one off.

I am really trying to improve my Copic skills, please bear with me.

Customer Gallery Submission: KymKreates

KymKreates shared her beautiful work with us today.

Dark Royalty:

Fluttering-Butterflies:

Blue Eye Fairy:

Time Flies:

Customer Gallery Submission: Cheryl Baker

Cheryl Baker shares her beautiful card today.


Time Flies:

Time Flies

Times Flies from ching-chou kuiks Fantasy Art Collection is a classic beauty. I was able to pair the image with some washi paper sent to me from a friend in Japan. I used my gold paint pen to edge the image, paper and border. I also put some gold on the white brads so that it all matched the gold in the paper.

Mag - Time Flies

Hello everyone !!!
Here is a card made with
"Time Flies"

from Ching-Chou Kuik's Plate 38 :

Ching-Chou Kuik's Time Flies from plate 38
Punch Bunch Ferns
The corners are Quickutz dies
The flower is made with a large ribbon.
Prima center flower and swirls Say it in Pearls

Copics used :
Skin : E0000, E01, E11, R20
Hair : YR16, YR18, W5
Moon : Y32, Y35, Y38
Clothes : G20, G21, G24, G28
Belt : R22, R24, R27, R29


I hope you will enjoy :)

XOXO
Mag