3 New Sheets Released

If you have not checked out our site recently, these are our three newest sheets:

Plate 56

Plate 55

Plate 54

Pirate's Treasure Mermaid

This adorable image is by Elaine Cox and called Pirate's Treasure Mermaid. It is part of Plate #46 which has nothing but fabulous images on it. I think the kitty cat with the eye patch on this one is just the CUTEST thing EVER! It makes me giggle. I couldn't help but make the fish look like the goldfish crackers, the temptation was too great. Treasure for the mermaid and treasure for the kitty cat- gold all around!

Connie-Enchanting Gold In Purple

My rendition of this lovely image from plate #41 has little gold, but lots of purples.

It is by Ching-Chou Kuik of course....see those huge eyes??

You can see this plate (and all of the gorgeous images) by clicking

HERE

I used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, a Martha Stewart lace border

punch, a corner rounder by Creative Memories, my Nellie Snellen flower punch-embosser

.....and that is just for the cutting part!

Also used were Copics for color, pillow stickers by 

K & Company "Elegance Black Glitter",

metallic dots by JoAnn's and white Cryogen cardstock.

This cardstock was made for Copic markers as they slide on so smoothly and the sheen is out-of-this-world pretty IRL!

Thanks for looking

Connie

Today we welcome Christine Riley!

Hi everyone! :) My name is Christine Riley and I was just asked to join Lynette's amazing DT for Sweet Pea Stamps. I am so excited and so honored to be asked. I thought I'd share just a little bit about myself. I'm happily married to my wonderful, dear husband and am a mom to two adorable fur babies. I'm an attorney by day and a stamper/scrapbooker/crafter by night. I love all things stamping and scrapbooking related. I live in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, very close to Northern Virginia where I grew up. While I love to stamp any image I can color in (I LOVE my copics), I especially love anything that has to do with fairy tales and make believe. I guess there's a part of me that will never grow up :) When I found Sweet Pea Stamps, I was so excited. All of these images are so "me" and working with them truly brings me joy. I'm so excited to begin my work with Lynette's amazing design team. Thank you so much, Lynette, for asking me to join your team.

Here are some cards to share with you:

ching chou kuik's Dragonfly Fantasy:



ching chou kuik's Bamboo Serenade:



ching chou kuik's Spring Luna:



Big Hugs,
Christine

Mag - Enchanting Gold

Hi everyone it's Mag :)

Here is a card I've created especially for
one of my fave artists on blogland,
Mrs Angela Sowell.

I know that my card arrived safe in Tennessee,
so I can show you.

I used Enchanting Gold for this card,
a gorgeous image from Ching Chou Kuik.

I've added some jewelry on this beauty.

I hope you will enjoy.
I wish you a magical day.

Hugs

Mag :)

Introducing Lisa Cook!

Today we welcome Lisa Cook to the Sweet Pea Stamps design team!

A little about me.
I am a stay at home mom of two teenagers. My dear husband and I have been married 19 years. I'm so lucky to have a family that is supportive of my stamping addiction. They don't even complain that my crafting area hogs the most space in our basement.
I have been stamping for 12 years now. I love all different sorts of stamps, but tend to focus on images that need coloring. My medium of choice is Copic marker. I do enjoy colored pencils, water color pencils and painting with inks.
I have been a fan of Sweet Pea Stamps for a long time and feel so lucky to be creating for Lynette. I look forward to sharing my work with everyone and finding inspiration from those already here too!

Lisa shares her beautiful cards with us today.

ching-chou kuik's Bamboo Serenade:

ching-chou kuik's Enchanting Gold:

ching-chou kuik's Red Hearts:

Altered CD Calendar

I have had the idea of creating a calendar with the little tear off months forming in the back of my mind for a while now. This is the first attempt, there are some wrinkles to iron out but it turned out pretty cute.

To make it stamp and color the dragon (I used copics) and then trim it out. Cut out a mat and glue it onto a CD. Tear a piece of coordinated paper about 1.5" x 3" and adhere it from the left edge of the cd in the center - the right side of the paper will fall about 1/3 of the way from the right edge of the disc. Using a Lavendar colored distress ink pad I inked the edges of the disc and swiped it across the paper a few times.

Adhere the dragon to the right side of the disc with it's wings extended over the edge a bit. For the calendar I did a quick search online for a printable one, what I used wasn't that great but it works. Print it out on a solid coordinating color and cut out the months. Cut mats from a darker paper that about about .25" wider and .5" taller than the calendar pages and adhere each one. Use a piece of double sided tape along the upper edge of each page to attach them all and stick to the base.

I used Prima flowers to embellish along with Rock Candy Stickles from Ranger and some rhinestones. The hanger is a fancy paper clip from Making Memories, I just bent the plain part of the clip out so it can rest on a wall hanger.

I am thinking of creating a few of these as part of a teacher's gift set for the upcoming school year. Well I hope you enjoy it!

Masked Fairy Plate 33

Hi everyone, Micki here.

I went to my 'colored, but don't like' box to see what images I needed to finish and my eye came across Ching-Chou Kuik's 'Masked Fairy in Green' from Plate #33 which I had put aside because I wasn't happy with the wings.

I don't know what I was thinking using those colors, I guess I was just playing around with my copic colors. Anyway, I was really happy with the way the skirt turned out and decided to finish coloring this image. I also wasn't too concerned about matching copic colors with paper. I also used a silk flower on the card. I'm still trying to get the 'knack' of adding embellishments (aka silk flowers) and have it look right. Sigh, work in progress, lol. But what the hey, right? With everything going on, no one needs more stress... keep it fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by and definitely head over to the shop and remember.... we want to see YOUR creations. Happy stamping!

Please Welcome to our Design Team----

Please welcome Christine Riley and Lisa Cook to our team. I am so happy to have them join us. Keep your eye out for their wonderful creations!

Happy Birthday!

I love this wonderful image called Elaine Cox's Black Butterfly Fairy. If you have seen the image on sheet #1, Plate 34, you will notice how different the final image looks when using the colors that I selected for this card. I paired it with an adorable saying that comes on the same sheet of rubber stamps. "A fairy happy birthday to you."

I added some shiny silver specialty paper that I used a border punch on with a Fiskar's border punch. I also think some extra bling would have looked beautiful on this image, esp for her earrings. I am definitely gonna do up the image that way next time. I just love this stamp!!

Have a great day all!

Holley