Overstock Sale!

We have several stamps (6 pages worth) on our sale page right now. If there is a certain stamp you have been deciding on, check to see if it is on our sale list. This sale is for a limited time, until our stock runs low.

We Have Done It, Sweet Pea Has A Challenge Blog.....

We know you all love your Sweet Pea Stamps so we are here to let you know about our new challenge blog starting on September 15th.

"In A Sweet Pea Dream"

The challenges will be enticing and exciting and held bi-weekly on Wednesday's !

Check us out, grab our banner, become our follower and meet us there on the 15th! Can't wait to see you!

Lady in Green

This beautiful stamp "Midnight Waiting" comes from Plate #29 and is very special to me as it was my first card I did after an intensive surgery done to remove the entire left temporal lobe in my brain. I have been saving this card to share with you all until this week, which is my 6 month post operation anniversary celebration. I have been having a huge blog candy celebration for which Sweet Pea donated several wonderful sheets of rubber stamps.I shared this card along with a huge list of winners this week. I have been so fortunate due to the wonderful success and newly found health that I now have that I just had to share my blessings with all my stamping friends. I hope you all enjoy this card. It was the first one I made after the surgery. Big Hugs to you guys!! If you haven't checked the list to see if you won a prize, be sure to check it!

Hugs, Holley

Little Seahorses

For my card today I was determined to do a little more with the background than I have been lately. Funny thing is I had picked a DP with waves that I was excited about using with this underwater beauty and I pretty much covered it all up! I used my scalloped square Nestabilities for the piece under the main image and a Sizzix photo corner die for the corner pieces. They are both covered in stickles and then I added some gems to the corner pieces. The main image is colored with my Copics and the background is colored with Twinkling H2O watercolors.

The Details:
Stamp: Little Seahorses (Elaine Cox Plate 48) - from Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: Bo Bunny, Papaya Puree Dk, Island Mist Light (Prism), White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20,R02,R05
Hair: E50,E53,E55,BG45,BG49,BG72,BG75
Tail: YR15,YR18
Seahorses: YR21,YR23,YR24
Misc: Twinkling H2o's, Scalloped Square Nestabilities, Sizzix Photo Corner die, Stardust Stickles, Darice gems, Taylors Tiny Twinkles, Sakura Clear Stardust pen.

:-)Traci

Labor Day Special!!!

Labor Day rubber dollars for you!

For every $20.00 you spend (before shipping &/ or tax),

we will send you, via e-mail (on Tuesday, Sept. 7th), a $5.00 gift voucher to be

used anytime through Sept 30th.

(i.e. You spend $80.00 you will get a $15.00 gift voucher. Spend $100 you will get a $20. gift voucher, and so on).

This offer is only good for orders placed on Monday Sept. 6th (excludes past orders)

Be the world to one person

Woohoo, I'm back! I'm so happy to be showing you today's card. Distressing is not really my strength, but I would really like to get better so here is one of my tries. I think a lot of "me" shines through. It's not like the styles I'm trying to copy that I see out there, but that's ok. I'm quite satisfied with my way of approaching distressing too.

I used spring spread from sheet 13 plate 42. The text is also a sweetpea stamp from sheet 7 plate 29.

There are a LOT of layers on this thing - 10 in total if you count the text panel and the brown background card. All papers are inked with distressed ink, tattered rose and/or vintage photo and then distressed with a mat knife or vice versa. (hey, I use what I have, but I WILL get a proper distresser tool some day) The pink panel is dry embossed with one of the cuttlebug embossing folders. Image coloured as always with my beloved promarkers and this time I used darker colours to make the image glow like some of the DT members do. I'm quite happy with the flowers and her skirt. I also coloured her background which I normally don't do to make her stand out. The flower has a piece of mesh that I also inked with vintage photo. In the middle I have a brad which originally had a cavity - the pink pearl fitted perfectly in there so I glued it on to make it more custom made.

A very busy card for me, but I like it a lot, how about you?

Sweet Pendant

I have a fun project to share with you today. I made a pendant with one of the tiny Sweet Pea images. When I first saw those tiny little stamps on the sheet I had no clue what on earth I could do with them. I had these glass slides and metal holders in my stash and thought it would be really fun to make a pendant. I am so pleased with how it turned out! I admit I did have to get out those extra strong glasses so I could color the tiny image hehe. Ah the joys of growing older! Anyway...it was super fun and would make a great gift for any special lady!

Supplies used on this project:
Image-mini Sweet Pea Stamp from sheet 14/plate43 (sold only as a full sheet)
Papers-Neenah white card stock
Copics-
Skintones-yr0000, e000, e51
Hair-y21, e53, y26
Flowers-r81, r83, r85
Blue background-b00, b01
Gray background-w1, w3, w5
Misc-black Sakura glaze pen, black sticky gems, 2 inch glass slides(two) and a metal holder -Inkssentials, black fibers/ribbon

Poinsetta Fairy...

My card today is my first Christmas card of the year!!!! When I saw the new designs that ching chou kuik's was designing for Sweet Pea I could hardly wait to get my hands on them.  This vision is called Poinsetta Fairy.  You can get her at Sweet Pea Stamps and can be bought as a single stamp or with three other luscious beauties.

I colored her with my copics and after seeing what the artist did I figured why mess with perfection so for this first card I colored her in the same colors as she did.  I think she has the most exquisite face.  She reminds me of my Granddaughters Barbie doll.  I added some stickles to the flowers and leaves and then covered her wings with transparent glitter. I also added some crystal stickles to the ribbon and the large poinsettia flower.  The leaves for the flower were made with green ribbon and the lattice was punched with a MS double loop punch. My signature background was done with chalks. Thanks for letting me share with you today!

"Life's Beauty Inspires Me To Kreate"

A Bevy of Beauties...

Ok, so the title phrase has been stuck in my head for a couple weeks now so if I use it somehow maybe it will go away....so here is my bevy of beauties:

This is a card I made for a challenge - the theme was Aloha -  the image is from the ching-chou kuik collection and is title Kimono Butterfly Mermaid. And what is more perfect than a memaid sitting on the shore in the evening light to say aloha? She was colored with pencils.

This next card was from last month's Sketch Challenge at Stamper's Quest. The image is Elaine Cox's Pirate Captain Mermaid:

And this one is for Stamper's Quest monthly theme: Reflections. It features ching-chou kuik's Cherish Christmas. I invite you to visit Stampers Quest where I have a tutorial for creating the technique!

Hope you have a great weekend! j

I Miss You

I have a super quick post for you today. I love this new image from Sweet Pea Stamps. These images are SO much fun to color. This particular image is called The Silentness and I think she's gorgeous. I colored the image with copics, then added Stardust Stickles (my fave, I love the sparkle). Next I created my card base out of SU cardstock. My DP is from The Paper Co. (I got it at Michael's). I added a bow, pearls, and roses from Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is also from Sweet Pea Stamps. What do you think?

Well, thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day! :)

Hugs, Christine :)