Tera presents 'Predatory' by Rebecca Sinz

    Hallo,
     Lately I have been going back to some of my favorite images from Rebecca Sinz because I just love her animals - like this wolf. This image is called 'Predatory' and I colored them up with prismacolor and polychrome pencils. I really love wolves and hope I did him justice!!!
  I layered the main image to a shimmery gold cardstock and edged both layers with gold metallic pen and then added some gold corner stickers.
  All for today - Take Care
       Tera

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Tera presents 'Midnight Travelers' by Rebecca Sinz

     Hallo,
      I had some fun with Unicorns today - as a young girl, I like many loved Unicorns - and I still do so of course I had to hace this great image from Rebecca Sinz called 'Midnight Travelers'
   I colored them both with prismacolor and polychrome pencils and then layered the main image to some shimmery gold cardstock. Then I added a bit of glitter and gold corner stickers.
  The first one is a gold unicorn with a rainbow mane and the second is the classic white unicorn.
   Have a great day!!!
        Tera

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Tera presents 'Fierce' by Rebecca Sinz

Hallo,
  I am showing you this beautiful Tiger and beautiful companion today - I have had the rubber version of this stamp for a long time and hadn't colored them up in forever....just recently got them in digi form so I could make them a bit bigger if I wanted.
  I colored them up with a combination of prismacolor and polychrome pencils and then edged both layers with gold metallic pen. I layered onto a gold shimmery cardstock and then added some corner stickers for accents.
  I am thinking I may have to do a white tiger version of this image with the lady having white/gray hair......
  All for today - Take Care
    Tera

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Holley Presents Midnight Minions by Rebecca Sinz

 Here's an awesome image from Sweet Pea Stamps Artist Rebecca Sinz.  This beautiful image is called Midnight Minions. What an awesome image for a Halloween card!  Can you imagine a girl playing with some skeleton animals? I was really enamored with this art.

 

Here's a gorgeous close up of this image, colored with copic markers.

 

Be sure and check out all of Rebecca Sinz's amazing images at the store and share your wonderful creations with us on our facebook page, Sweet Pea Stamps Friends and Fans.

Cheers, Holley

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Tera presents 'Blue Companion' by Rebecca SInz

Hallo,
  My turn to show off some Sweet Pea goodness again today. I am using an image from Rebecca SInz called 'Blue Companion' and colored her with a combination of prismacolor and polychrome pencils.
I just love dragons and this is such a great image!!!
  I edged the layers with a gold metallic pen and the bottom layer is a shimmery gold cardstock. I then added some light touches of glitter and some gold stickers.
  All for today - Take Care
       Tera

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Tera presents 'Feral' by Rebecca Sinz

Hallo,
  I have had this image for quite some time in rubber form and just recently also got it in digi form, hadn't colored them up in awhile and I really like this one a lot!!!
  This image is by Rebecca Sinz and is called 'Feral' - I colored it with a combination of prismacolor and polychrome pencils
  I layered the image to a shimmery gold cardstock and edged both layers with gold metallic pen. I also added some sticker for a bit of accent.
  Too bad I cant sit and color for a couple hour every day - I seem to go in spurts, right now I have a bunch of images colored and needing to get made into projects so guess I had better get back to the craft room.
  Take Care
     Tera

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Tera Presents The Protector By Rebecca Sinz

 Hallo,
   Love this sweet image from Rebecca Sinz with the fox. I colored her up with prismacolor pencils and added her to the collection of Tarot/reading cards that I am making as a full set of 44. Lucky for me I have a ton of great images like this one to work with!!!!
  I backed her to some heavy shimmery gold cardstock and added gold edging and some gold stickers.
  She was such fun to color and I couldn't resist coloring her hair to match the fox - I need to do a version with a gray fox and another with a white fox :)
   All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Hope - 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 'Hope' by Rebecca Sinz which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

I have not made any of my candles recently and now seem to be on a bing with them.  I did one a couple of weeks ago, this one today and another one in the pipeline which I am trying to do a video tutorial on - that is a challenge in itself lol.  Anyway, here is todays candle :)

So many folks ask how I do these candles hence the trying to make the video but in the meantime I will do my best to explain the basics.  I start by using temporary adhesive spray on a piece of paper about 220gms in weight and then lay the tissue paper over the top doing my best to avoid any wrinkles.  Next I trim the excess tissue paper off so it will run through my printer with no issues.  To prepare my wrappers I use a template I made of the candle sizes I use regularly.  I then browse through my photos to find a suitable background.  For this wrapper I used two images, the sky was a photo I took in the Maldives on my 25th Wedding Anniversay - a fabulous second honeymoon lol, and for the foreground I used a beach scene taken while lying on my belly to get the rocky outcrop.  Next, in Photoshop, I imported the two images and removed the sections I did not want, here it was all the see and sky from the beach photo so I was only left with the rocky outcrop which I thought would be perfect to place the digi on.  Next I removed all the background from the digi so I was left with the equivalent of a .png image which I could then hand colour in line with the Terms of Use of most of the image we use these days.

I use crayons to colour my candle wrapper images as I find they work the best, this one was coloured with Faber Castelly Polychromos

And here is the image fully coloured.

Next I tried something new and tried rubber stamping a gold border, sentiment and a floral design to represent stars.  The sentiment worked fin and the flower stars were not to bad but the border was a disaster.

When working with candles it is imperative to think of fire safety, I would so hate to be the cause of a fire in somebody's home from one of my candles, so I have a couple of produces which are totally safe for decorating.  One is a gold dust and the other is a water based varnish.  To cover up the rubbish gold border I used the gold dust and tried to get a a vibrant distressed look.  This was applied with a soft sponge for the top and then I used a wide paintbrush to sweep around the upper section of the wrapper. To balance the gold out I added some more to the rocky outcrop at the bottom of the candle. Finally a quick layer of the candle water based varnish to add a shine and all done :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - 'Hope' by Rebecca Sinz
• Colouring Medium - Faber Castelly Polychromos
• From my Stash - gold dust, candle varnish and the candle.

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

Wither by Rebecca Sinz - Tera's view

 Hallo,
   I have had this beauty colored up for awhile and decided it was high time she got finished  - I went on quite a coloring binge with my Sweet Peas, so now I have a huge stash of images colored up and waiting for their turn to be finished off :)
   This image is Wither by Rebecca Sinz and I colored her with my prismacolor pencils and cut her out with a Spellbinders die. I found some pretty butterfly paper that looked great with the colors and used it as background but I also fussy cut several butterflies too - I cut out 2 of the little blue one that sits on top of her wing so I could layer him up for a bit more dimension.
   I inked up some white flowers to match and then added glitter - I used stickles ice so clear except the sparkles to her wings, the butterflies, and the flowers, lastly I added a few gold corner stickers.
   All for now - Have a great day!!!
      Tera

Regal

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Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to attempt an image I got some time ago Regal, by Rebecca Sinz.  I just love this image so much but it has taken a bit of courage to see if I can colour it

I first printed the image on craft card as I wanted a natural look and then I coloured the image with Spectrum Noir blendable crayons.  For the backing paper I used something very special to me, some paper I bought when I visited Kenya last year.  i have been waiting for the perfect card and I think this was the one to cut into the roll for <g>

Lots of mounting going on with this card, the base layer then a black layer which was sprayed with Crafter Companion Gold spray, then another layer of my Kenya paper which I embossed.  The digi was mounted on black card and some peel off corners were added to the four cornets.  I used some gold netting which I placed behind the mounts and also some rather fancy black lace which looks like medallions.  To finish off three black buttons.  I do love how this turned out, suitable for male or female and the subject so close to my heart.  I am going back to Kenya again this year to visit our friends which is so exciting.  Kenya was where I met my husband, got married and had our kids before we returned to the UK in the mid 80's.  Last year was the first time we had been back, a hard decision to make as it is were our hearts live and we knew going back and having to leave again would be such a hard thing to do.

Ingredients

• Image -  Regal, by Rebecca Sinz
• SN blendable pencils
• Dies - Spellbinders Scalloped Squares
• Crafters Companion Kraft Card, Gold Spray
• Ribbon, lace and buttons from my stash

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a happy crafting day ahead of you :)

Featured Artist - Rebecca Sinz, Milos view

This week is "Featured Artist - Rebecca Sinz".

I made a card with "To Bid You Farewell".

Big hugs from Milo

Featured Artist - Rebecca Sinz Glimmer of Hope

Aren't you loving all the images featuring artist Rebecca Sinz this week?  The card I am sharing today is using Glimmer of Hope which is currently available in both Rubber and Digital format.  Be sure and check out the artist's original coloring so you can see how different my coloring looks.

 

Here's a close up of the stamp itself. I colored it using copic markers and framed it using a wonderful diecut from Spellbinders in a metallic blue paper from DCWV.

I finished the card with a gorgeous sequined lace in black topped off with a Turkish lace on the bottom followed with some lace butterflies.  I hope this card inspires you with a glimmer of hope today.  Be sure and check out all of this artist's gorgeous stamps.  She does the most awesome lady images and many ladies with gorgeous animals and flowers.

Cheers, Holley

Featured Artist Week - Rebecca Sinz with Suzanne

Hi, today I would like to share this fabulous image by Rebecca Sinz.

FORGET ME NOT and you can purchase in rubber stamp and digi.

I really enjoyed colouring her, well actually I love colouring any image from SweetPea Stamps lol.

Here she is, what do you think??

I have coloured her with my Copics, cardstock is Bazzill, DP from Kaisercraft, paper doily, butterfly punch, liquid pearls, the Forget Ne Not flowers are created from a punch, Lindys Stamp Gang Sprays, yellow Bazzill cardstock and black Pearl Pen. Lace and braid from stash.

I hope I have inspired you, thanks so much for joining me today.

Hugz Suzanne

Featured Artist Week - Rebecca Sinz Wither

Rebecca Sinz makes pictures that very much speaks to me. They're so full of emotion and very very versatile. I chose Wither for this weeks Featured Artist. It's this beautiful dark angel with a withering rose. But the beauty of coloring your own images, is you can totally change it, just by adding different colors. So I went for a more spring like feel with my card.

As always I used my beloved Copics to color her. These are the ones I used:

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E21, E13
Wings: G43, G40, G20, YG0000, C00, BV0000, BV000
Hair: E50, E23, E25, E27
Dress: V20, V22, V25, V28
Leaves: YG61, YG63, YG67
Red: R14, R24, R59
Background: C00, B60

And I just couldn't help it. It's another easel card :) But I really think the beautiful image deserves that extra attention it gets, from the easel fold.

To make it even more spring like, I cut out vines using my Silhouette Cameo, and added som white and purple flowers. With a few doilies, some lace and a pearl-string-thread, I thought the card was pretty much finished.

This image can be found in the Sweet Pea Stamp store as a digi and rubber stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.
- Lina

Artist of the Week with Rebecca Sinz: Aletha’s View

This week is one of the most fun for me at Sweet Pea Stamps. We get to pick out our favorite image from a particular artist. This “Artist of the Week” is Rebecca Sinz, and the image that I chose is Deadly Night Shade. You can shop for the rubber stamp or the digital image. Sweet Pea Stamps has whichever format you want to create with.

I went to the dark side with Deadly Night Shade. I created a very simple mixed-media piece. I colored Deadly Night Shade with Copics and trimmed the image. Then I layered that image on two colors of purple cardstock and trimmed the edges with black lace.

My substrate is a 5” x 7” canvas board. I scrunched up some dark purple tissue paper and adhered the tissue to the canvas with DecoArt’s Decou-page. The final touches were some metal corners.

There is still some time to join our Once Sweet Challenge for May. Our theme is “flowers.” We also have a bi-weekly contest on our Facebook group. This contest that started on May 19 is our art contest. It is always anything goes, and you must use a Sweet Pea image.

Thanks for stopping by!

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Stamps Designer