Variations Week - Holley's View

Here's my take on a stunning image from Sweet Pea artist Norma Burnell named Posy.  Haven't you been loving this image?  I decided to chose two colors as the focus for this card, turquoise and violet.  I just love how the bird in the image is holding two tiny flowers so I added two birds to my card and put small flowers in their beaks.  I added a simple sentiment "Live Laugh Love."

 

Here's a close up of this stunning image, she is available both in rubber as well as digital format.

Be sure and drop by the website to see all of Norma Burnell's stamps.  Did you know we have a great Facebook group where you can share your cards that you make with Sweet Pea Stamps?  We do! We'd love to see your creations! Click Here. 

 

Cheers, Holley

Variations Week: Lina's View

Norma J Burnell is one of my absolute favorite artists. I just love her images, her way of coloring and all the gorgeous little details.

These are also images that I enjoy to color very much myself. So I thought that I'd record me coloring, so you can see how I approached this image. I do not talk in this video, there's only music, but I hope you can tell how I go about my coloring process anyway. It took me about 1½ hour to color her, so I sped up the video, so you don't have to watch through all that.



I spend most of the time coloring, working on the skin and getting it just the way I wanted it. I find that if I do a decent job with the skin, I can often get away with errors on hair and clothes. The copics I used are in the video, but in case you don't want to go through it, here's the list:

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13
Wings: BG10, BG11, BG13, BV0000, V20, V22, V25
Hair: E50, E51, E53, E55
Yellow: Y32, Y35, Y38, E34
Green: G40, G43, G46
Shadow: C2, C3, C4
Lips: R20, R21, R22
Eyes: B91, B93, B95, B99

I really wanted the beautiful image to take up center stage on the card, so I kept the rest of the card pretty simplle. I used a die to cut out vellum, and then run it through an embossing folder. Adding some purple ink on top of that vellum tied it in nicely with the colors of the image. Adding a few flowers and the card was done.

The stamp, from the Sweet Pea Stamp store, is Norma J Burnell's Posy which can be found in Digi and Rubber.
Thanks so much for stopping by today
/Lina

Variations Week with Posy: Aletha’s View

Aletha here with my view of Norma J. Burnell’s Posy. I fell in love with Ms. Burnell’s “fairies tangles” a while back. When I found out that Lynette was going to carry the stamps, I went to town. Now you can also get them in digital format too. For my project I used the digital format.

Posy was a joy to work with. She did not need too many embellishments, but just enough so that you do not lose sight of Posy. I colored her with Copics and did some glitter accenting with a gel pen. I trimmed and layered Posy on red and black cardstock. The last touches were some designer paper, corner die cuts, and flat-backed pearls. I hope you like her.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 04, 11, 21, and R20

Hair: E25, 29, 31, 50

Background: W00, 0, 1, 2, and V01

Flowers & Tangles

BV01, 02, 04, 08

V01, 06, 09, 20

R20, 22, 27, 89

If you haven’t joined us at One Sweet Challenge, I hope you do. Our June challenge is “Hit the Beach.” We also have a little “art contest” going on in our Facebook group. That theme is “anything goes,” and you MUST use a Sweet Pea image.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you stop by and check out Sweet Pea Stamps daily inspiration.

Aletha Jane

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Variation Week with Jane

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Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps for our Variation Week.  This week all the DT are creating an item using the fabulous digi 'Posy' by Norma Burnell.

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My daughter and SIL's 5th Wedding Anniversary is coming up and so I have to make them a card :) I don't fancy a traditional hearts based one so I am going to create this card around their wedding theme instead (colour wise that is).

To begin with I coloured the digi with Promarkers

Promarkers used

Next onto my favourite technique at the moment - using my rolling pin and an embossing folder to emboss only the areas I want and not have an all over effect and the amount of pressure to create the desired result.  Here I am using and Embossilicious folder.

I don't want a plain background and instead of air brushing as usual I have used the Spellbinder die Fantastic Flourish Two to make a stencil.  Alas I forgot to take photo of the end result but that was probably because I was not very happy with the outcome.  I airbrushed with Burgandy to match the digi and the ribbon I will be using which was from one of the original rolls of organza ribbon used to make my daughters wedding invites :)  Looking at the end result it was much to harsh, so coffee and a rethink was in order.  In the end I used white mulberry paper with a gold thread running through it to cover the card, this allowed the burgundy to show throw just a wee bit.  I then cut some of the original paper from my daughters wedding card I made (each year I make her and SIL a card which has the same ribbon and the wedding paper incorporated into it - yep I am a sentimentalist lol) using the same Spellbinder die.

Time to create the mounts for the digi and I finished off with Liquid pearls.

 While the pearls were drying I made the tag which will be partially hidden under the mount.

Needing something else and it had to be flowers lol.  I used  Marianne Designs Creatables LR0106, Flower set  and Lavender.  The flower petals were airbrushed with Promarkers to match the flowers in the digi and then assembled.  Some pearls were also added and a few gems.

 And here we have the finished creation.

Ingredients

• Digi -  'Posy' by Norma Burnell
• Promarkers
• Dies - Marianne Designs Creatables LR0106, Flower set  and Lavender.  Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals and Fantastic Flourish Two
• Liquid Pearls
• Embossilicious embossing folder
• Pearls, gems, organza ribbon, from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope in some small way our inspiration has helped you have an awesome crafting day :) :) :)