Love Magic

Well this card is definitely a witch, but she is strikingly beautiful and certainly not looking like a Halloween theme card.  I just had to make her now though, as I think you could change up the colors used and make her in to a more Halloween image you wanted. I also think she would make an awesome Valentine card.  She's from Sweet Pea artist ching-chou kiuk and she is Love Magic (Plate #249).  Can you just imagine the spells and potions she is creating?

Here's a close-up of this wonderful image that you can also buy in digital format.  I added a simple embellishment of a die cut heart from Memory Box and some perfectly matching buttons to go with her.  I think she's gorgeous all by herself on this card.

 

Hope this Love Witch casts a spell on you today.  Drop by Sweet Pea and check out all the amazing stamps from artist ching-chou kiuk as well as the fun images available for Halloween.

 

Cheers, Holley

Sapphire from Norma J Burnell

Hi All,
today I have a card I created using the stunning Sapphire designed by Norma J Burnell, this is part of the Fairy Tangles collection and is available in red rubber or digi.  Initially all the amazingly intricate details were a little scary, but once I began colouring it was an utter pleasure to work with, plus I absolutely loved the end result!

In this clip I walk you through the basics of colouring with sparkly watercolor paints and give you a few tips and tricks for getting the best results.

I hope you enjoy watching, and don't forget to pop over and join the Sweet Pea Stamps Group on Facebook!

Kate Palmer

Ching Chou Kuik's Blue Eye Fairy

I've been having a bit of a tidy up in my craft room recently and have rediscovered my big box of red rubber Sweet Pea Stamps. I love working with digi stamps (and the instant gratification of being able to buy new stamps and use them straight away - no waiting for the post man! :D) but I do think that sometimes the easiness of picking a digi stamp from my computer and printing it makes me neglect my beloved rubber stamps...

So this week I have decided to put the digis aside and remind myself of all the gorgeous rubber stamps I have in my collection of Sweet Pea Stamp purchases...

Beautiful stamps like Ching Chou Kuik's beautiful Blue Eye Fairy:

I coloured her with my Promarkers in pretty pastel shades and gave her some lovely pink hair: :)

I used papers in coordinating colours and added lots of delicate die-cuts...

And pretty flowers...

This image is now available as both red rubber or digi stamp from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

Ching Chou Kuik's Golden Mermaid

Shanna here with a new card to share with you. This is one of my favorite color combos and I think it goes perfectly with Ching Chou Kuik's image The Golden Mermaid. She comes in DIGI and RUBBER.

Items Used:

Sweet Pea Stamp Golden Mermaid by Ching Chou Kuik

Lily Bee papers

Wild Orchid Flowers

Copics

Prima Flowers

Cheesecloth 

Distress Inks

Stickles

Forget-Me-Nots and Rebecca Sinz

Aletha here with an inspiration piece to get your mojo going for the week. My little piece of art was inspired by the artist Rebecca Sinz and her beautiful portraits of some very interesting women. The digi stamp that I used for my card is "Forget-Me-Not." Sweet Pea Stamps also has it available in rubber for all you rubber stamp enthusiasts, Sheet 4 Plate 242.

This was definitely a study in blues. My mood is not blue; it was the “Forget-Me-Nots” that helped me with my deciding color. I guess I could have made them a different color, but blue is out of my comfort zone, so I thought I would give it a try.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 11, BV000

Hair: E50, 53, 43, 57, 49

Forget-Me-Nots: B60, 63, 66, 69

Background: W0, 1, 2, B60, Blender

I hope you visit this blog every day. There’s inspiration galore from Lynette’s talented design team. We’ve also got our monthly challenge going on at One Sweet Challenge. This month the theme is to use brown, yellow, orange, and red.

After you have entered our challenge, come inspire more people in our Facebook group. We would love it if you would “like” our Sweet Pea Stamps page and stay up-to-date with all the happenings at Sweet Pea Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great and creative week.

Aletha Jane

SPS Design Team

Sweet Pea Stamps' Dorianna of the Sea

                                                      Sweet Pea Stamps 
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                                                       Norma J Burnell's
                                                                             Dorianna of the Sea
This is Sweet Peas Norma J. Burnell's "Dorianna of the Sea"  from the "Tangled Collection".
This is a beautiful image. I colored her in Prisma Pencils and watercolors and adorned her with Graphic 45 paper cuts and flowers from Petaloo. Dorianna of the Sea is available at http://sweetpeastamps.com.
I hope you have as much fun coloring her but I know you will.

Thank you
Susan Salyer

Treat Hummer

Norma J Burnell has a fabulous fun style with all the zentangles and such through out the images.  I just love them and am captivated by their whimsy.  THEN, I saw THIS ONE, Treat Hummer.  LOOOOOVING it!!!  Do you see all the fun details?  The mouse with the witch hat, the eyeballs and the tiny jack-o-lantern?  More fun to color than you can imagine.



Get Inky!
Alex

Ching-Chou Kuik - Iris Grace

Here is a card I have made using a Sweet Pea Stamps image by Ching-Chou Kuik called "Iris Grace".  This image is available as a digital stamp, single rubber stamp and as part of a multi-image plate (Sheet 53, Plate 248 - Iris Grace comes on the multi-image sheet with Tropical Queen, Bird of Paradise and Sparkling Angel).

The image I have coloured in with Promarkers/Flexmarkers, highlighted areas with my Sakura Stardust clear pen and distressed around with Tim Holtz's Brushed Corduroy distress ink.

I used a Spellbinders scalloped circle to cut the aperture out of the front of the card.  I then cut out the same shape from a piece of corrugated brown card.  It took a few times to get it to cut as it was quite thick but it did it in the end.  I then painted the die-cut shape with some acrylic paint and then distressed.  

The backing papers I have used in conjunction with kraft card are from the Polkadoodles Double Sprinkles of Kraft Cd-Rom.  The the papers/embellishments have been distressed with Tim Holtz's Brushed Corduroy distress ink.  The card has been finished off with various die-cut shaped, peel-off sentiment and flowers with peel-off circle centres.

Variations Week : Alex's View

I was sooooooooooooooo excited when I learned what the variation image is for this week.  She is ADORABLE and it is HALLOWEEN!  How could I be happier?  I can't!

This cutie is Priscilla by Conie Fong.  I went outside my box and just colored her however I wanted, them pulled out papers.  I was fortunate and found a great match in some of my Halloween papers.  Then I used some die cuts to complete the card.

I hope you are enjoy all the variety by the DT while using the same image.  I love seeing what everyone creates.

Get Inky!
Alex

Variation's Week: Holley's View

Here's my take on the variation this month using an adorable image from artist Conie Fong.  This cutie is called Priscilla.  Isn't she the cutest?  What an adorable little witch.  I colored her up in copic blues B91-B94 with a tiny bit of purples V12-16 and orange YR04.  That big skull there was actually something I found in my grocery store of all places, I suppose it's just for use as a decoration, but it was too cute not to go on some cards!

Here's a close up of this fun image, which is also available as a digitial-stamp (click here).

When I look at the close up of this image, don't you love that little 'ol spider on top of the broom?  that's too cute!  Hope you get some fun images for Halloween.  Sweet Pea stamps has a bunch of gorgeous Halloween theme images, which is so my favorite holiday to make cards for.

Cheers, Holley