Time for Easter Greetings

Here's a stunning Sweet Pea stamp from artist Joanne Schempp called Brandy. She's sold in digi-stamp format and I thought she would just be perfect for Easter time because of the stunning flowers that she has.  Those Lilies are just stunning.  I used one of the Sweet Pea Vertical sentiments to add a simple and perfect saying to the card.

Here's another wonderful card that's just perfect for the spring time season, this stamp is available both in rubber form and in digital form.  Must say that I love both, but I am very much a huge rubber stamp fan.  This wonderful stamp is called is called Zoe from artist Valerie Wade.

She's just super cute and I added a fun saying from Cosmo Cricket (sticker) that says "You are the only thing I need."  Just perfect for the love of your life be it family, friend or hubby. 

 

Easter is rapidly approaching now as it is March 31st this year.  There's plenty of time though to grab a wonderful digi-stamp and get some beautiful cards made for those special family members.   Have you seen the new sale?  there's a HUGE sale going on in the store now (click here).

 

Cheers, Holley

Variations Week: Holley's View

Here's an awesome image from Sweet Pea artist Joanne Schempp called Irish Chic, I have made this card for variations week during which all the design team is showing different cards using the same stamp.  I just love this girl!  I also added a perfect sentiment from the Simply Verticals Holiday Plate (plate #13).

Hope you guys are ready to make some wonderful cards for St Patrick's Day,  there's a number of wonderful stamps at Sweet Pea for this holiday. Be sure to check them all out.

Luck o' the Irish to ya! 

Holley

Almost Easter....

Hi Everyone,

I thought with Easter right around the corner, I would color up ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Easter Ocean from Plate #30.

I'm excited to say that I've finally tried my hand at easel cards. Not just a regular easel card but a twisted easel card with an additional twist:

Intimidated by easel cards would put it mildly. They down right scared me, however, stubbornness prevailed, lol and OMG, they are a blast and are truly easy (even for "get-it-wrong-try-again" me).
And with these beautiful Sweet Pea Stamps images, I'm always thinking that they need to be displayed. These easel cards are perfect for the recipient of the card to display right out of the envelope.

Since I always stamp out several images at a time, I have a drawer full of ready to be colored Sweet Pea Stamps images as was the case with Fantasy Easter Ocean.
She is stamped with Tuxedo Memento ink onto Gina K 120# pure Luxury card stock. This card stock is awesome to use if you do NOT want any bleed through from your copics, however, the blending is a little different. For one thing, it takes a lot more ink to soak the card stock and even then the end result is still not like it would be using Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth. But that's ok, I love to see different results.

Now the added twist to my Twisted Easel card is that I did not use a "topper" which sort of allowed a 3-D effect when the card is twisted into the easel form. Oh, this is only my 2nd ever easel card created so as is the norm, there are some goof ups...:

Here is the card closed:

The sentiment in the left hand corner is from Plate# 1. I once again used some left over gift tissue, scrunched up as a border. Double stick tape works great when one is too lazy to pull out the sewing machine :-).

The "Happy Easter" sentiment on the inside is from Holiday Verticals, Plate #13 stamped, then cut apart.
Of course I didn't take a straight on shot of the sentiment, but you get the idea.

Fantasy Easter Ocean is a gorgeous image stamp and perfect for Easter or any time of the year and NOW is the time to get this gorgeous stamp if you don't already have her in your stash. Fantasy Easter Ocean (single stamp) is on sale .... right now. Hurry over to the Sweet Pea Stamps shop today!!!! You'll be glad you did!

Thanks for stopping by.

A Twilight Halloween

Hi Everybody Micki here.

Before I talk about my card I just wanted to say that last week's Customer Gallery submissions were absolutely outta this world. I always enjoy the variety of cards and more than once I have thought "Now why didn't I think of that". Wonderful array of cards everyone!

For my card today, I pulled out some forgotten metalic paper and colored up Elaine Coxs' Twilight Halloween. Only too appropriate, as I was watching Twilight while coloring up this beauty.

I can't tell you how much fun it is to experiment with this image. I've used some of the darker Copic colors such as BV08 and B79 in the background. For the hair I used R14 and R08 and then came back with N6 to add shadows.

I used my Viva Decor Pearl Pen for the stars, flocked brads and metalic craft trim for embellishments.

For my sentiment I used the Halloween sentiment from Holiday Vertical - Plate 13. This set is a must have! Seriously, I love that the sentiments are vertical because I always seem to think about a sentiment last. Which means I assemble my card and then realize I ran out of room :-). And I love to cut the sentiment apart like I did in this card.

What do you think? I hope you like it and if you get a chance, head over to the Sweet Pea Stamps shop to check out the specials and while you are there, pick up this beauty then grab your coloring medium of choice and experiment! It's addicting......

Supplies used on this project:
Card Stock/Papers:
Neenah Solar White super smooth, Kraft Ribbed card stock, DP retired SU , Bazzil orange, The Paper Co. Bronze Iridescent Metalic paper
Copics:
Skin: E00, R02, E000 (blush: R20)
Hair: R14, R08, N6 and Pitt Artist Pen Red #127
Dress/Hat: V12, V15, V09, V17 and a little of FV2
Gloves/Hatband: YG03, YG07, YG00, G14, FYG2
Moon: R08, YR07, N5, Y38, Y04, Y15
Tree: E47, E57, E30, E33, E34
Owl: R05, E97, W-3, E08, C02, owl eyes Pitt Artist Pen Yellow #109
Leaves: FYG2, R08, YR65, YG25 and Pitt Brown #180 & Yellow #109
Background: BV08, B79, N5, N3, N1
NOTE: I used Pitt Artist Pen in Gray #272 to outline
Misc- Orange eyelets-Making Memories, black metalic trim-Design Work Crafts, Inc., Nestabilities Labels #8, Ice White Pearl Pen-Viva Decor