Customer Gallery Submission: Holly Huckabee

Holly shares her beautiful works today.

ching-chou kuik's Spring Luna:

ching-chou kuik's Merry Season:

ching chou kuik's A Bunch of Love:

ching chou kuik's Embrace the Moonlight:

Enjoy the sunrise

Is there anything more beautiful than watching the sun rise.

It is the promise a new day, a new start, a new beginning.

This Rachel Anderson stamp Sunrise captures that feeling beautifully.

I used Echo Park For the Record papers for this card, and was lucky enough to find a sentiment that I thought fitted perfectly.

This stamp can be purchased on its own, or together with three other images on Rachel Anderson's Sheet #2, Plate #111.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hugs 

Renee

Connie Fong's Cherry Blossoms

OOOOHHHH!!! I loved this stamp when i saw it! It reminded me of my favorite movie... Memoirs of a Geisha...when they were in the garden... surrounded by the cherry blossoms... and she was with the chairman...GORGEOUS...BUT,I digress...

Anyway... I colored this image with distress inks after I stamped it onto watercolor paper with stazon jet black. I really love the soft effect of the watercoloring and how it adds to the peacefulness of this stamp. I added some stickles to the center and then of course flowers and glitter and all kinds of shiny stuff.

Here is a closeup... thanks for popping in and see ya soon... I just got a ton of new stamps... some more time available and I am ready to get crackin!

Oh yeah, on my blog,in honor of the new contest here I am offering blog candy! Stop by Dawns Rubber Room to check it out! 

Halloween Cards

Today I would like to share some Halloween themed cards.

The first one features the newest release in the Conie Fong collection, titled Kiki's Pumpkin.

This is Katerina Koukiotis's Pumkin Pixie:

This is Katerina Koukiotis's Wicked Moon:

and ching chou kuik's Divine:

 

I hope you have enjoyed your stop today and will return next week when I will share some more Halloween treats!

New Release!!! Plate #196

Anna Marine's sheet #5, Plate #196 now on pre-order!

More details on website

Meet Grendalyn

Here's a wonderful image from Sweet Pea Artist Terra Bidlespacher called "Grendalyn"(Plate #182). Isn't she great? I love this artist's work. If you click the link and see Terra's coloring and design of the image, you can see that this image wasn't necessarily meant as a halloween theme image, but if you look at my coloring and card layout here, that is exactly how I used it!

Sometimes I think it is great to see how another person uses an image when I get a stamp and how differently they may color it and make it look. Take a peek on the Sweet Pea Website and see how the artist makes this image look compared to my card today.

Here's another great idea that I have for this stamp, I have the most delicious printed paper in a halloween theme and I want to stamp this image on it to cut out the hat and the outfit to make a paper-piecing. That would look so cute! She would look wonderful with some Halloween patterned paper Hat and matching outfit!

Hope this card is putting you in the Halloween Mood!! Be sure to stop by the Sweet Pea store and check out all the great images from this artist and so many others!

It's celebration week for me at my blog due to just passing another milestone post-brain surgery! In celebration, my personal blog's postings this week are full of candy, and I am gonna give-away a wonderful Terra Bidlespacher stamp to someone who leaves a comment on my blog (CLICK HERE) posting! Go check it out.

Cheers, Holley

Fluff Dry

Hi, I have a card to share with you that I created using one of Joanne Schempp's images called "Fluff Dry". She can be bought as a single image or on Plate #10, Plate #178 .

I used some Prima papers, wired ribbon, pink flower ribbon, aqua and pink bling and the sentiment is from Sweet Pea.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are loving all the new images being used.

Have a wonderful day.

Hugs:)

Angela

New Releases: Plate #193, #194 & #195

Pre-order yours today!

Plate #193: Lisa Victoria
Plate #194: Karen Middleton:

Plate #195: ching chou kuik:
more details on website, under 'new items'

Halloween is this month...

and you know it will be here before you know it. I love all of the Halloween stamps that Sweet Pea Stamps carries but I have yet to color each and every one up. I really think Halloween needs to be a longer holiday, don't you think?

So for my card today, I used Terra Bidlespacher's Adellia:

I wanted to give her a sort of ghoulish, witchy skin color which I don't think I've achieved, lo but by using distress inks on all the papers and the edge of the image panel, I was able to really dull the more vibrant colors. That makes the green skin really stand out I think. Just don't look at her cheek make-up.... don't know what I was thinking!

The sentiment was cut from the background paper (old SandyLion - Jeepers Creepers I think) which I edged with Distress Ink. I had extra punched bats so I added two dots of red gel gloss for some eerie eyes.

Terra Bidlespacher's Adellia is also available as part of Plate #174

Definitely make sure to check out all the wonderful Halloween stamps available... perfect opportunity to use colors you wouldn't normally use. Hope you were inspired...... thanks for stopping by.

Twilight Halloween

Hi dear Sweet Pea lovers. Do you love Halloween as much as I do? So I want to show you another Halloween card I made recently. And Sweet Pea Stamps haves the most amazing images to create a Halloween project. Just see this gorgeous image by the fabulous artist Elaine Cox. It is called 'Twilight Halloween'. Isn't this little witch just the beautiest? I fell in love with her from the first sight. The paper I used for the background is by Crafty Individuals. The other embellies are from my stash.

On the SALE there is always quite a selection of gorgeous image, so the best opportunity to rise up your collection. Just check it out.

Thank you so much for looking. Have a magical day!
Hugs, Karina