A Bad Hair Day and The Butterfly Dragon

This sweet image is from the Lisa Victoria collection, it is available as a single or included on Plate #72 along with three additional cute images.

This is another Lisa Victoria image, Bad Hair Day can be found on Plate #49 with three additionally fun images.

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Come on...just one little kiss?

I just love this adorable image - it is from the Lisa Victoria collection and is titled Daphenes Dilema. You can pick this image up along with three additionally wonderful images on plate #49 or check out the sale pages where this sweet image can be found for half off! The sentiment can be found on plate #50. It was colored with copics and the paper is BoBunny. ttfn!

Tea Anyone?

This adorable stamp comes from artist Lisa Victoria and is called "Bubble Fairy". You can find this stamp on Plate #49. I love this adorable little fairy taking a luxurious bath in a tiny tea cup. I used some stickles to highlight the bubbles in the bath and Gel Pen to illuminate the wings on the fairy. It's hard to see the wings because the shade of white and puffiness of the ink doesn't show up well in the photo.
I thought this saying went well with this card "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." It comes from Plate #76. I added some wonderful Prima flowers and Making Memories brads to the paper to highlight the final image.

Have a Fairy Day!

Holley

Daphenes Dilema

I think we are all faced with the same dilemma as this cute little fairy at some time in our life. However, I truly believe that it's the inner "beauty" that counts. So for my card today I used Lisa Victoria's "Daphenes Dilema":

I used vellum card stock as my card base as well as gold mirror card stock. The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo dye ink and after die cutting the image panel. I used chalks and distress ink to blend the background and the edges.
The image is colored with copics but I did add a little glitter to the wings with glitter pens and then used glass effect gel on the skirt which I left uncolored.

I couldn't resist to add the "Do you believe" sentiment from Plate #20.

I'll be honest, I couldn't get the card to look right no matter what I tried (heck I couldn't even get this blog post sounding right), in the end I left it as you see it here. Like I told my husband, "some days it just isn't happening" :-).

Daphenes Dilema is available as a single stamp or as part of Plate #49 and if you haven't stopped by the Sweet Pea Stamps store, you need to hop over there and check out all of the awesome sales going on.

Bubble Fairy

Lisa Victoria's Bubble Fairy is such a sweet image, I love the beautiful teacup and how imaginative pixies and fairies can be.

Gimme a kiss, Baby!

You just gotta love this fun image from artist Lisa Victoria. This adorable stamp is called Daphne's Dilemma. I can just chuckle while I imagine the sweet talk this frog is trying to give to this girl. This stamp comes on plate #49 and has the cutest saying to go with it! "Sometimes, you have to kiss a few frogs to find a prince." You don't see this saying on my card above as I used it on the inside of my card. On the front of this card, I used some great sayings that come from other plates of Sweet Pea Stamps "Enchantment" from plate #38 and "Sending you O's & X's" from Gum Drop Gang's Be Mine.

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Cheers, Holley

Connie-Bubble Fairy

I've been itching to get this gorgeous Sweet Pea stamp inked and finally had time today to play.

I stamped the Bubble Fairy by Lisa Victoria with Tuxedo Black ink by Memento

and colored with Copic markers.

Then I did some "fussy cutting" and trimmed it out.

I then cut some light blue paper with a Spellbinder die

"large scalloped octagon" and ran that thru

a Cuttlebug embossing folder "bubbles"

I punched one side of some peach paper with a 

Martha Stewart border punch "shells"and

finally layered it all together.

I popped the image up and added some blue gems

to replace the bubbles I cut off.

Also added small gold gems along the punched edge and

some Stickles on the wings.

Oh yes!  I tied some sheer ribbon around the cup handle also.

I hope you like this as much as I do.

Connie-Daphenes Dilema-Mosaic Technique

It's hard to color an image carefully and then cut it into pieces, but that is just what I did!

I turned it over and drew lines on the backside, numbering as I went for easy reassembly.

After cutting apart I affixed it to a scrap of black paper, setting each piece just

a little apart from the next so the black showed.

I layered this onto some yummy textured paper by Paper Temptress and

added some black gems by Want2Scrap.

Stamps used were by 

Sweet Pea Stamps
from the Lisa Victoria line, plate #49
This particular image is titled
"Daphene's Dilemma"

**Don't worry about getting the edges even as you won't. Rather put it together matching image
lines and then trim edges. I mounted it all on another black layer then.**
You can do any pattern and any size piece and it will look just fine when finished.


Thanks for looking.
Connie

Bad Hair Day?

I love this wonderful stamp from Lisa Victoria called "Bad Hair Day". Haven't we all had that? Now perhaps I never had a tree branch in my hair but post brain surgery (esp when they shaved only parts of my head, lol!) I can remember some funny looking days. I just love this little girl and I had to use this stamp as soon as I got the sheet!

I did my card on the Bazzill dotted Swiss paper with iridescent ribbons and felt flowers, colored in my image with wonderful shades of Copic markers and used the Hello Sunshine saying from plate #8. I punched the bottom of saying with a border punch and added some ink to the saying with a colorbox chalk inkpad.

Bubble Fairy

When I saw Bubble Fairy drawn by Lisa Victoria for Sweet Pea Stamps I instantly fell in love! A fairy taking a bubble bath in a teacup- PERFECT! Such a sweet fairy and such a dainty teacup.


I first stamped the image with Memento Ink so that I could color it with my markers and not have to worry about it running. The flowers on the teacup made me think of Forget-Me-Knots. If you have never had the opportunity to see Forget-Me-Knots in real life, not only are they blue, but they have a really pretty pinkish/purplish center to them. I tried to capture that in my coloring.



After I finished coloring the image I put Pixie Dust Shimmerz on the wings for the proper 'fairy look'. The pink velvet ribbon, jeweled center Color Me Crazy florettes (my go to flower right now!) with inked edges and Basic Grey Koshi paper finished it all off.