Fly me to the moon

Here's a stunning maiden from artist ching chou kuik of Sweet Pea Stamps from Plate #101. This gorgeous stamp is filled with love and come with several wonderful sayings. For this card though, I imagine her sitting on the moon and looking out across the world for her lost love. I added a wonderful but very simple sentiment "MISS YOU" from Plate #98.I wanted to do the coloring in monotone theme within the same red color family of copic markers so I chose R32, 34,37 and 39 for the outfit, the hair, the mermaid's scales, the tiny butterflies, and the hearts. I used an assortment of the red tones on each segment so that each would match and blend in with the adjacent parts. I added a simple sentiment "Miss You" to the card and lots of bling in assorted sizes to add a little pop.

Hope this card inspires you check out this set. One other thing that I love on plate #101 is the wonderful sentiments: "I love you. Not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." "I am life a falling star who has finally found her her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever-Amy Tan" and "Happy Valentines Day"

BONUS CARD I had a little extra time this week, so I wanted to share an extra card with you all, here's one of my favorites using a beautiful image from artist Elaine Cox called "Spring Owl Fairy". It's sold individually and on Plate #55. I wanted to also make this card in a wonderful monotone type theme except with blue as the highlighted color so I colored the maiden's dress in blue and then did the embellishments on the card in all different shades of blue. The adorable saying comes from Plate #40.

Have a lovely day! Holley

Kimono Lantern Fairy

I have a very dear friend who is in Japan. I feel very blessed that several years ago our paths crossed and I had the opportunity to meet and get to know this precious lady from across the ocean.  She is on my mind often, but even more so in the past week.  One evening while thinking of her I grabbed the Sweet Pea Stamps Kimono Lantern Fairy image drawn by Elaine Cox and some gorgeous paper that my friend sent me and created this card.  The cardstock is actually a navy blue that matches the blue in the paper and image, but computer screens don't always cooperate when it comes to color.

I used my gold pen to add additional lines on the background paper and on the edges of the flowers

I hope this time finds you and yours safe and sound!

Get Inky!

Alex

Little Black Unicorn ...

 I made this for my Sweet Darlin' Kerry's 7th Birthday.  She likes unicorns and pony's so I thought she would like this one. I used one of the stamps from Elaine Cox's Art Collection called "Little Black Unicorn". I think she is just adorable.  Her face is so very sweet and innocent!  Perfect for a young girls card! You can get her as a single stamp or with three others and a sentiment at Sweet Pea Stamps.

I decided that this little lovely deserved a gate fold card!

My stamp was colored in with copics and then stickles were added to give it sparkle. Now that wasn't enough so I added some tiny little gems to give it some more!!!! He wings, the star and the sun were also frosted with a healthy dose of glitter. After all what little girl doesn't like glitter?????  I matted her with a punched mat and then a sentiment from Sweet Pea.  The final elements were the bright pink bow and the tri colored flower with a big brad that I have had in my stash forever!!

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Pretty Little Unicorn

I had the best time coloring this image! It's just so cute and girly! I loved adding the sparkles. I like the background she has too, but for the challenges I wanted to enter I needed it to be mainly black, white and pink. I'll use it again and do a cool background with it.
I was always intimidated by black hair coloring...but the W's in Copics make it a breeze! Thanks for letting me share it with you~

Supply List
Image-Little Black Unicorn, Elaine Cox for Sweet Pea Stamps

Papers-Neenah Smooth white card stock, DP TPC Girlfriends, solid black and pink card stock

Copics
Skintones-yr0000, e000, e21, e51
Hair-w3, w5, w7
Dress-r81, r83, r85
Wings-w1, 0
Unicorn-w1, w3, 0, rv00, r81
Eyes-b21, b23
Lips-r11, r81
Grass-yg91, yf93

Misc-white lace (by the yard Hobby Lobby), pink sticky gems, white sticky pearls, Stampin Up scallop border punch, 3 black buttons, 1/2" circle punch (for dots on top of black buttons), Smooch "illuminate" for wings and "silver" for unicorn horn, Decoart Glamor dust fine glitter for wings, dimensional adhesive

Elaine Cox Collection: Plate #55

Today I have a few cards from the Elaine Cox plate #55 to share.

Kimono Lantern Fairy:

 

Little Black Unicorn:

Red Robin Fairy:

Spring Owl Fairy:

Little Black Unicorn in White

Hi! I have to say I really love Elaine Cox's images and this one, called Little Black Unicorn had me giddy with excitement when it was previewed to the DT a while back. Then it arrived when I was getting ready to go on vacation and I wasn't able to use it right away like I wanted. I am so glad I finally got to play with it! I colored it with my Copics and added some glitter in the form of Stickles to the Unicorn body and the outside edges of the picture (after I inked them up!). The ribbon was a white silk ribbon that I colored to match using my Copics.


The Details:
Stamp: Elaine Cox's Little Black Unicorn (sheet 8, Plate 55) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: Fancy Pants Celebrate, Papaya Puree Dk (Prism), White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Magic Thatched Straw and Mango Madness, Pallete Hybrid Raspberry Fizz
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: E08,E09,E18,E49
Clothes: YR04,YR07,YR09,RV25,RV29
Unicorn: B01,Y17,YR04,R81,R83,RV23,RV25
Background: YG00,YG03,YG25,Y00 w/E50 over it, YR21,YR23
Misc: Stardust Stickles, Silk Ribbon (Taylored Expressions)

I hope your day is magical!
:-)Traci

Make a Wish

Hi everyone :) For my card today, I just had to ink up this gorgeous image illustrated by Elaine Cox and available at Sweet Pea Stamps. This particular image is called Little Black Unicorn and I think this is one of my absolute favorite images. I colored the image with copics and then shaded around the top of the image with SU's Rose Red ink. I added Stardust Stickles to the unicorn's horn and to the fairy's wings. Next I created my card base out of SU cardstock (Always Artichoke and Rose Red). My DP is from MME. For some finishing touches, I added a bow (tied with my Bow Easy), pearls, Primas, and roses from Wild Orchid Crafts. What do you think?
Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs, Christine

Birds of a feather wedding card

This time I have played with one of my new DT stamps from sweetpea called red robin fairy (from Elaine Cox' series) I don't think you have seen it here on the blog yet. It's one of my new favourites since I'm cookoo about animals and especially birds.

I originally wanted to make it a wedding card for a blogger. Since she didn't get back to me with her snail mail addy I didn't add her and her future husband's names. Instead I left it blank so it might not look very wedding-like. I still feel like it might be missing a saying or something to the left. I was thinking about writing: "birds of a feather" but I don't know if that saying would be suitable for a wedding?

I like the colour combo and the fact that I used dies as embellishments and not the usual flowers/bling/brads. And I coloured in the background too, for the first time.

Summer Colors

Now that the real FIRE of summer is here in Texas, I just had to use the heat of summer to make a card. As August hits, we will be over 100 degrees just about 100% of the time. Even when it cools off, it will be in the 90s. Pretty crazy when you wait to go outside until 8 or 9pm and find out it's still in the upper 90s!! That's the trade off you get around here for the lack of snow all winter. Well the FIRE has inspired me for this stunning stamp of Elaine Cox. It's called Magical Springtime. If you have seen the original colors used, you can see the difference based on the color set that i have selected and used on this card.


The card uses wonderful cardstock from Paper Temptress; fun flowers from Prima; Brads from Basic Grey; the Friendship stamp from Plate #55; Bling and Pearls from Martha Stewart and Queen&Co. The image was colored using Copic Markers.

Hope your summer is hot, hot, hot! Be sure to take a dip in the swimming pool!
Holley

A Little Polka Dotted Unicorn

Stamp: -Elaine Cox's "Little Black Unicorn" Sheet #55

I absolutely adore this little unicorn image by Elaine Cox! So many possibilities. Reminds me of my old My Little Pony collection. I gave my little unicorn some pink polka dots.

The background is a Tim Holtz embossing folder. I used Brilliance Pearlescent Purple and Colorbox Peony ink. The strip of charcoal paper, I stamped with bleach.

Bleaching tip:

Bleach stamping is so much fun! Pour a tiny bit of bleach onto a folded napkin placed on a plate. You must use fresh bleach (after it's been sitting out in the air awhile it isn't as strong). And stamp onto the napkin, making sure you have a coat of bleach on your stamp. Then, stamp onto dark cardstock. Hold the stamp there for a few seconds. Sometimes it takes a while for the bleach to work it's magic. Also, some cardstocks work better than others (something to do with the core of the cardstock), so experiment.

Always immediately rinse your stamp off. Do not let the bleach sit on your stamp. If you are concerned about ruining your stamps, then set aside some old stamps you don't use much for "bleaching use only".

Have fun!

Little Black Unicorn

Do not adjust the color of your screen. My little black unicorn is white :).

This is one of the newer images by Elaine Cox for Sweet Pea Stamps and is part of Plate #55 and I think it is so sweet. I colored her to coordinate with the background paper. I wanted some texture so ran the circle through the cuttlebug and distressed it with some light blue chalk ink. It is rather glaring in the photo, but in reality the felt heart matches the pink in the unicorn's main and tail. I wish the picture was more accurate. Evidently I need to learn some new photography techniques for felt! The sentiment is from Plate #57.

-Alex-