Featured Artist Week: Brigid Ashwood by Shanna

Yay I am so excited this week is here. Artist of the week is still pretty new and I love seeing what each of the designers pick for their choice of images. Variations week is fun too sharing each designers talents for taking the same image and making into to something completely different.

So this week our Artist we will all be sharing is Brigid Ashwood. Her stamps are all available in rubber only. She has such a unique style especially with her steampunk creations. She also creates fun fairies. 

So for my image I chose Firefly! I love this image. Something so fun and challenging about it but I took on the fun of coloring her with my copics. Next time I need to try pencils once I get better are pencils. I think even watercoloring would be a perfect fit.

Thanks so much for stopping by Sweet Pea Stamps. Make sure you come back daily for more inspiration!

Brigid Ashwood-steampunk

I really love the steampunk images that are available from Sweet Pea Stamps. They provide such a different feel to a card, and are always so much fun to colour.

The cards I am showing today are from Brigid Ashwood's Sheet #3, Plate #104.

I wasn't sure how I was going to tackle this amazingly detailed image.  So I just started with the skin and hair and then it all just fell into place.

For this second image I really wanted to try my hand at a monochromatic colouring.  So I chose the Cool Greys and set to work.

  The image had a soft feel to it, so I tried to make the card a little more feminine.

It is amazing how to images from the same sheet of stamps can yield such different results.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hugs Renee

Customer Gallery Submission: Barb Foster

Barb shares her beautiful cards today.

Jennifer Nilsson's Sugar and Spice Dragon:

Meredith Dillman's Plate #104:

ching chou kuik's Jeweled:

Thinking of You

I am in love with this beautiful image from artist Brigid Ashwood. She's elegant. She looks so deep in thought and I added a wonderful "Thinking of You" stamp to the top of the card. This gorgeous woman comes from Plate #104 with another stunning stamp.
I wanted to make part of her look almost wooden and the other part look human so I am mixing a family of brown copic markers with skin tone copic markers. These colors go wonderfully with a brown cardstock base and red/black highlights. The border punch is from Martha Stewart and the bling I used is from Queen&Co.

I think this image itself makes the card say everything. A few beautiful embellishments to highlight the image is all it takes to give a wonderful greeting to the person you are thinking of.

Hope this card inspires you to go make a card today!
Cheers, Holley

Repose

Hi everyone!! It was so nice outside last Wednesday that I took my pic's outside and took full advantage of the sunlight. This image is one of Brigid Ashwoods most recent images at Sweet Pea Stamps. I really love this image so much and she is called "Repose" and can be found on sheet #3 Plate #104.

My Checked background DP is from K&Company and all the rest is from a Tim Holtz stack. I distressed everything and colored her with my copics. The border was created with a BIG EKSuccess border punch, the big rose is from Wild Orchid Crafts, Maya Road brown leaf pins, American Crafts vintage brads, Black border was created with an EKSuccess border punch, Oval Nestie and Foam tape for dimension( actually I use Kids Fun Foam for my dimension instead of foam tape, it is much cheaper with the amount I use, as it goes on every card I create and I can cut it to the size or sizes I need). Try it! It works great and will save you money.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Copics Colors

E000,E40,E41,E42,E43,E30,E13, E11

Hair: E51,E15,E17,E33 ,E39 and E59

Highlights with a Sakura White Gel Pen.

Repose

Today I want to share with you one of the newest images of the fantastic artist Brigid Ashwood. You can find this lovely stamp on plate 104. It comes with another fabulous image and will be shipped by 7th February.

This time I coloured her up with watercolor pencils. I wanted to keep up her wooden touch. I love her melancholic glance. Take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps to see this image and many more wonderful stamps.

Hugs, Karina

Brigid Ashwood's Steampunk Bee and Firefly

I'm back today with another image from Brigid Ashwood. This one is her Bee image from her Steampunk artwork. Believe it or not NO COPICS!!!! I colored the whole image with Twinkling H2O's. This set is on pre-order now, sheet #4 /Plate#105.



After I painted the whole image, I masked the bee and sprayed a small amount of Glimmer Mist over the background. I added alot of pics to show you all the glimmer from the Twinkling H2O's.

Here is a simple card using the same image I showed you earlier this week Brigid Ashwood's Firefly. I stamped it on some kraft paper and used Distressing inks around the image and used a white gel pen to add some highlights. I wanted to show you that even though this image has alot of detail you can still not color it and the artwork is still just as beautiful.

I added some art tape, safety pins and that was about it.

This image is on sheet #3/ Plate #104 and both can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Brigid Ashwood's Firefly

Hi everyone, I'm jumping in to show you one of the new stamps/images that is on pre-order now. This artwork is by one of our new artist Brigid Ashwood. Her Steampunk artwork is so beautiful. The name of this one is FireFly. She is on sheet #3/ Plate #104.


I decided to make a travel journal book. This is going to one of my friends as she does alot of traveling and this wood be a great way for her to write down things while shes there so she don't forget before she get home.


Here is a close up of the image. I tried to make it alittle more rustic so if it got worn it would look like it was made that way.


I used some Tim Holtz DP and metal clock pieces. The rest of the DP is from DCWV Journey's collection, distressing inks, K&Company chipboard flower piece, clear sakura glitter pen, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Chipboard flourish.

Here's another view to show some of the dimension.

Remember to check out all the stamps Sweet Pea offer HERE and to see what's on SALE.

Hope you like the Journey Journal book and thanks for stopping.