Variations Week with Pumpkin Sprite: Aletha’s View

Aletha here and it’s my day for our Variation’s Week featuring Mitzi Sato-Wiuff’s Pumpkin Sprite rubber stamp. Mitzi’s sprites are some of my favorites among her rubber stamps in the Sweet Pea Stamps shop.

I had a lot of fun doing my first Halloween themed card for this year. Pumpkin Sprite was colored with Copics and some added bling was added with glitter pens. Next step was to trim her with a circle die, add black ink around the circle, and mount her on a circle die cut in orange cardstock. This orange die cut has black ink around the outer edge also.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 04, 11, 21, and R20

Pumpkin body: E08, 29, 31, and YR04

Treat bucket and flower hat: YR20, 21, 23, 24, 27

Leaves and stem: G40, 82, 94, 99

Cat: C1, 5, 7, 9, and black Copic liner

Cats eyes and inside of bucket: YG21m 25

Background: W00, 0, 1, 2, 3

I had a lot of fun with my various dies too. I cut out all the elements and before I detached them from the die I added black ink to the embossed areas. For the bats eyes I decided on some Liquid Pearls. Last embellishment is the pumpkin brad in the upper left corner. After all was done, I decided that Pumpkin Sprite is trying to decide if she wants to go on with her Trick or Treat evening.

My complete recipe for Pumpkin Sprite:

• Stamp: Pumpkin Sprite rubber stamp by Mitzi
• Cardstock: SU in Basic Black and Marigold Morning
• Designer Paper: Gina K’s Spooktacular You!
• Ink: Black Licorice
• Liquid Pearls: Daffodil
• Brad: Teresa Collins Haunted Hallows
• Dies: Celebrations Pierced Circles, Witche’s Brew, Graveyard Scenes and Shapes, Nested Bats (all Spellbinders)

I wanted to remind you all that we have a monthly challenge at One Sweet Challenge. There are fantastic prizes there. Over at our Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook group, we have a bi-weekly art contest. That prize is one digi stamp from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. You must use a Sweet Pea image, the theme is always “Anything Goes,” and you can enter as many times as you want. Each entry MUST be a new project. How easy is that? For all the upcoming events and sales visit our Sweet Pea Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you visit every day for more Sweet Pea inspiration.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer

Dragon Keeper at Sweet Pea Stamps

Aletha here with an inspiration piece for today. I chose an image from one of my favorite artists Charmaine Flannery. Her images are so much fun to work with. I think what I like about Ms. Flannery images are her facial features and subject matter. Sweet Pea Stamps has her art at rubber stamps or digital images, whichever media you want to create with.

My image, Dragon Keeper, was colored with Copics. I added some accents with glitter pens and a white gel pen. After trimming the image, distressing with Distressed Ink, I layered Dragon Keeper on several layers of cardstock.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 04,11, 21, R20

Hair: E21, 25, 29

Wings and Dragon:

YR01, 12, 16, 18, and

BG11, 13, 15, 18, 49

To complete my piece I layered designer paper on several pieces of cardstock and mounted it on my card base. I then added a strip of designer paper to that and attached the main image. For my embellishments I added pearls, mini metal dragonflies, and a few die cut swirls. I did not have any “orange” pearls, so I decided to color six pearls with a YR18 Copic. Now my pearls matched my design.

My complete recipe:

• Digital image Dragon Keeper
• Copics, glitter pens, white gel pen
• Designer paper: DCWV, Inc., the Mariposa Collection
• Cardstock: Stampin’ Up!’s Only Orange and Island Indigo
• Charms: Dragonflies from Frost Creek Charms
• Ink: Peacock Feathers Distress Ink
• Die cuts: Spellbinder’s Die D-Lites Corners and Accents 2
• Pearls: my stash

I hope you stop by every day for more inspiration from this awesome Sweet Pea Design Team. Come check out our Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook group. We have a bi-weekly art contest to win a digi of your choice from Sweet Pea Stamps. We also have a monthly challenge at One Sweet Challenge blog. A gift certificate is the prize for our challenge blog.

Thanks for the visit. If you have any questions, you can contact me.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Stamps Designer

A Gothic Fairy at Sweet Peas Stamps

Aletha here with a project from one of my favorite artists at Sweet Pea Stamps. That artist is Teresa Sherman. All of Teri’s images are available in digital format or as rubber stamps, your choice.

Today, the image I chose, Gothic Fairy, is in the digital format. Gothic Fairy has been coloring with Copics and after trimming I applied some Black Soot Distress ink to the edges. She was then layered her on some tan cardstock with the edges distressed and more distress ink added to those edges. To finish the final bottom layer I die cut some black card stock and aged the edges with white gesso. After the gesso was dried I layered the first two layers. My main element is complete.

My designer paper is from my stash. The edges were distressed and Black Soot Distress ink was added to the edges. This was then layered on tan cardstock that was treated the same way as the designer paper. This final layer was attached to the black base card and the main element was attached to that. My embellishments are roses and metal corners.  These were also aged with white gesso.

Have you checked out our One Sweet Challenge? I hope you join us. If you do, and you used a Sweet Pea image, head over to our Facebook’s Group art contest.  The one going on right now lasts until July 7. That gives you plenty of time to make some Sweet Pea goodness.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you stop by every day and check out what Sweet Pea’s Design Team has in store for you. If you have any questions, you can always contact me.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer