Untouchable - Jane's view

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Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image 'Untouchable ' by Linda Biggs which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

I am trying something a little different this time, printing on dark paper and colouring with my Faber-Castell - Polychromos colour pencils.  I printed the image four times just so I had a few spare copies to practice with lol.  Unfortunately the paper I have used which is a green/gold metallic type is not loving my camera at this point but I am sure you get the idea.

 Next I coloured the image.  I do love the vibrance of these pencils but have to admit they did not like my paper very much and blending was pretty hard.  Maybe I just need to practice some more to get the hang on it.

 I plan on a very straightforward card this time, concentrating on the image and then just the single colour of the paper.  Once the image was coloured I then cut it with a Spellbinder Oval die. Next I coloured some lace with my Promarkers to match up with the colour scheme,

 I then embossed and die cut another sheet of the green gold paper for the background of the card and finished off die cutting a flower with the same paper.  The die I used is a Marianne Craftables Flower.  I finished of with Olive stickles on the flower and around the edge of the card.

 For the inside I used more of the green/gold paper and added a soft mottled green paper for the writing area.  This was then embossed using the same embossing folder as for the front of the card.

 And here we have the finished creation.

Ingredients:-

• Image - 'Untouchable ' by Linda Biggs
• Colouring Medium - Faber-Castell - Polychromos colour pencils and Promarkers
• Dies - Spellbinders Ovals and Marianne Craftables Flower
• From my Stash - lace, brad and Stickles

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

Linda Bigg's Dark Shores with Suzi

Today I'd like to share with you all my project featuring the work of this months featured artist Linda Biggs.  I chose to use the gorgeous 'Dark Shores' image, as it features a truly stunning mermaid;

The image title makes you think of the sun-setting, but I decided that I'd make it a sunrise, and combined it with some gorgeous sunshine papers and a 'Here comes the Sun' sentiment.  Here's hoping we all get to see lots of the Sun really soon.

You can find this image in both Rubber and Digital Format in the Sweet Pea Stamps Store, along with lots more beautiful images.

Bye for now
Suzi
xxx

Featured Artists - Linda Biggs - Fairy Freak

Good Morning,

For todays inspirational post I've used the gorgeous Sweet Pea rubber stamp Fairy Freak by Linda Biggs.
She's also available as digi stamp
You can find the rubber stamp in shop HERE
the digi file HERE

Here's my card

EXTRA MATERIALS:
Cardstock black & smudged blue, 3d glitter paint, sentiment stamp, clear embossing powder, color pencils.

For the background I've used colors that are entirely different from the ones I've used to color the image, but I totaly like how this turned out.
The image realy pops off the background.

We have a verry nice and friendly group on facebook and we would love to see your make with any of the Sweet Pea Stamps.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Sweetpeastampsfriendsandfans/

I hope you enjoyed my project

See you again next week

Huggsss, Angelique

Artist Of The Month Nataliya's View

 Today is my day to post at Sweet Pea Stamps DT Blog. This week we are showcasing Artist of the Month Linda Biggs. Here is one HERE.

 I didn't make Tags for a long time, so with this image i think Tag will be nice to give together as a present with box of Tea .
Image colored with Distress inks and background with chalks.

Here is some close up photos with some details.

 Flowers that i have lots fun making it

Thanks for stopping by.
Nataliya

Featured Artist Linda Biggs: The World is Full of Possibility

This week at Sweet Pea stamps we are featuring artist Linda Biggs. This fun image is called Sweet Pea.  I thought it so fun to see a fairy standing in a bowl of sugar near a teabag, what more sentiment could go with that than "The world is full of possibility."  I had to add this artistic butterflies on the same idea.  More importantly, in thinking of all that has gone on in my life, I truly know that the world is indeed FULL of possibility and even when YOU have given up, there is someone right around the corner who has the answer for you.

Be sure and check out all the amazing images from Linda Biggs in our store and then drop by and chat with us in our Friends and fans group on facebook!

Happy Friday Everyone!

Holley

Rainbow Moon - Linda Biggs - Tera

 Hallo,
   Showing you today a 'playing card type' card - in that it doesn't open but is decorated on the front and back.
  The front shows this lovely Mermaid fairy from Linda Biggs called Rainbow Moon. I colored her with copic markers and then added glitter to wings, seashells, parts of her tail and the stars. I covered the whole front of the card with clear lacquer for durability.
  I really like this sweet fairy a lot - perfect combination of mermaid and fairy :)
  I used some gold corner stickers and a gold metallic pen on the edges and the back is gold sparkly paper with a medulla on it.
  All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Featured Artist Linda Biggs by Janine

Hello SPSfriends,

It is the Artist of the Week and we are showing you all kinds of stamps with Linda Biggs.

I choose for digi Untouchable and i colored her with my distress markers.

I used all kinds of embellisments i found in my craftroom..

I buy to much..but i think most of or crafters do,hahahah

i really need to take older stuff, but there is so much beautiful new stuff.

So this was Janine with Artist of the week 

Featured Artist Linda Biggs... by Ria

This week the whole team is featuring artwork from the Fabulous Linda Biggs...

For my card I used Fairy Freak and I printed it on watercolour paper and coloured with watercolouring pencils. I am renewing my love for watercolouring pencils and paints after neglecting them for years hahahaa. I didn't use designer papers this time on my card I just used cardstock and a dotted crosshatch embossing folder by Tattered Lace to create my background.

Hugs Ria

Featured Artist - Linda Biggs - Sande's view

Hello everyone!

Sande here with you today showing a card 

I have made by using one image from our featured Artist

  Linda Biggs called "Rainbow Moon".

Such a beautiful image.

 You can find this and the other Linda's images at the Sweet Pea Stamps store 

as a rubber and digital.  

There is much more fabulous images at Sweet Pea Stamps so don't forget to pop over!

Hope you'll get some inspiration here and create something great!

Don't forget to come back every day and see other DT's outstanding creations!

Hugs, Sande xx

Featured Artists - Linda BIggs - Jane's view

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Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps.  As it is Featured Artist Week the whole DT are working with images by Linda Biggs and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Medicine Woman which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

I have a bunch of design papers from magazines and they just seem to sit there unused so I am making a conscious effort this year to attack the pile lol.  With that in mind my first step was to choose my backing paper and then colour my image around those colours.  With that done I used a peel off birthday sticker in white and airburshed it with my Promarker, one of the colours used in the image.  I should add the image was coloured with Promarkers and I chalked the background. The sentiment was, once dry, placed on some of the DP used for the background and then die cut.

To finish off the card I used a Dreamcatcher die from Cherry Lynn which I airbrushed and Sizzix  - Ornate Hanging Sign.  The sentiment was cut with Xcut tags. a lace border was added along the bottom edge and a bow tied with the same lace and then airbrushed with my Lilac Promarker.  Finally, some pink Stickels on the dreamcatcher and pearls picking out the three main colours, pink green and blue.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Medicine Woman by Linda Biggs and available from Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi
• Colouring Medium -  Promarkers
• Dies -  Dreamcatcher die from Cherry Lynn,  Sizzix - Ornate Hanging Sign and XCut tags
• From my stash, lace, pearl brads, blue gems and Stickles

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

Summery butterfly wishes

Finally a card from me and let me tell you: I had so much fun making it. A dear internet friend of mine is having her b-day soon and I decided to make a special card for her. She mentioned in her latest e-mail she was into pink/green and shabby chic at the moment. I found these papers that are both and since the colour combo is one of my favourites I was excited to start. Choosing an image was tricky, but as soon as I saw this stamp called Untouchable by Linda Biggs (plate 81) I knew it would be perfect. I wanted to make it super girly and summery and wanted to add more embellishments and details than usual. I think I managed to learn something new as the card is a bit outside my comfort zone with all the details. If nothing else I managed to learn to measure the whole paper properly, or at least try on a piece of scrap, before I go all out with the punch, lol.

The little butterfly on the stamp is the exact shape and size as one of the butterflies on the border punch. I cut it  out, embellished and raised up the wings a bit.

I am SOOOO Glad that I FINALLY

...made this gorgeous image into a card! This is from Linda Biggs's and it is called Bella's Paradise.

I had this image colored for a while and then I finally decided to make it into a card and i am so glad that I did! i had a blast using all of my copics to deck her out and then i used glitter and ribbon and punched and here she is!

Here is a close up of the little darling!

Thanks for stopping in!

More ATCs

I got so inspired by my last ATC that I decided to make some more. And I'm just warming up. This is a great way to try out new techniques as the area to work is so small (about 2.5x3.5") It's also a great way to use up anything small you might have: paperscraps, bling, punches etc.

I have stamped directly onto patterned paper as I love the sheer look it gives. It's perfectly fine to colour on although you might not get a brilliant shading (great for us that hasn't perfected our colouring skills)

For this pink/green I used one of Meredith Dillman's stamps from plate #94. She is actually holding an egg, but attaching a flower made the image more versatile. The word stamp is from ching chou kuik's sheet 7, plate 29. I kept it a bit distressed and added gold. Love that combination.

For my other ATC I used Linda Bigg's "Bella's paradise" from plate 81. The patterned paper already had the black detail. All I had to do was stamp and colour. I love the underwater effect here. I also went a bit crazy with my glitterpen and added dimensional glaze on the black swirl to the right. Finally before mounting I punched a border and attached it to the right to even out the ATC layout.

Connie-Little Fairy Freak Mermaid

I got rid of some stress today with this cute image by Linda Biggs titled

"Little Fairy Freak Mermaid"

At first I was hesitant to start, but once I began coloring it was easy.

My background is a fun one from Technique Junkies named 

"Bingo Blast" and that determined the colors I used today.

I stamped the image with Tuxedo Black dye ink by Memento

and cut a shape by Spellbinders (Labels 9).  I edged this

with a grey Copic marker and colored it with

Copic and Prismacolor markers.

A few touches with my Stardust clear glitter pen 

by Sakura and some ribbon scraps from

a no-name ribbon finished this off.

I left it blank inside as it seems usable for many

different occasions.  

Thanks for looking!

Connie

Customer Gallery Submission: Narelle Harrison

Narelle shares her beautiful cards today.

Brigid Ashwood's Pinkie:

Meredith Dillman's Japanese Fairy:

Linda Bigg's Plate #83:

Linda Bigg's Plate #88:

Customer Gallery Submission: Karina

Karina shares her beautiful artwork today.

Linda Bigg's Bella's Paradise:

ching-chou kuik's Growing Dazzle:

Elaine Cox's Maggie:

Rock On Tiny Purple Creature!

Hi! I have made a card today with an image by Linda Biggs, who is one of the new artists that Sweet Pea Stamps now carries. This image does not come individually, but does have some fun sentiments on the sheet!!


I wanted to make this one a little more Clean and Simple than I usually do, with a lot of white space. If you have seen the original colored image then you know I messed up and interpreted part of her body as part of the flower (the green I colored as leaves!) but I think it looks fine if you don't know how the artist originally intended it!


The Details:
Stamp: Linda Biggs Plate 83 (Sweet Pea Stamps)
Paper: Whisper White, Orchid Opulence, Basic Black (all Stampin Up), White for image (Copic XPress)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: V01,V04,V05
Clothes: YG00,YG21,YG23,RV04,RV06
Flower: V000,V01,YG21,YG23
Misc: Sakura Clear Stardust Pen, Ribbon (Offray), Cuttlebug Embossing Folder (Coolio), Nestabilities Rectangles Dies

:-)Traci

Christmas is finally over!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Now it's time to get back into the swing of things. I have 3 cards to share with you today and all are new images from Sweet Pea Stamps. The first 2 are from one of the newest artisit at Sweet Pea Stamps and her name is Rachel Anderson. For this 1st card I used "Angelic" by Rachel Anderson sheet#1/ Plate#95. Isn't she so adorable?? Here are the colors I used for her Hair. BV0000,BV01,BV02,BV04

For my 2nd card I used another Rachel Anderson image from the same sheet and the name of this image is Snow Fae. You have got to check out her website to see her GORGEOUS artwork, go HERE to see her work.

For my last card I used Medicine Woman by Linda Biggs sheet #3/ Plate #93.

For her skin I used E15,E13,E11 and E01.

I'm so glad you stopped by today. I hope you have a wonderful day and get lots of crafting time in with Christmas finally being over with.

Oh and Sweet Pea Stamps still has a 25% sale going on so go and stock up on all your favorites. Time to spend your Christmas money!! lol!!