Cards for the Kids

Today I have a few cards to share. The first is Samantha Rawlings Lil' Angel, an adorable image that is just dreamy. It was colored with copics and the papers are MME Love Me Do.

 

These two cards are from the  Brigid Ashwood collection, plate #74. Both were colored with copics. The details in these images is awesome - Zam has a pocket full of coins flying about which was the inspiration for the embellishments. He reminds me someone you would have to keep a really close eye on and not make a bet with.

Remy, on the other hand, seems pretty sweet still - he even has a teddy bear still. He would be the one that would have all kinds of treasures, in his pockets, that he has found during his daily adventures. I thought it would be a good card for a first night away from home or even starting school.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit today - have a great week!

Little Sweetheart

Some of my favorite 'cute' images available are the Little Sweethearts by Samantha Rawlings for Sweet Pea Stamps.  There are actually three different sheets and this cutie is on the most recent one, plate #125.

I can not remember which plate this sentiment is from, but it seems to fit perfectly with this Sweetheart.

Get Inky!

Alex

Samantha Rawling's Little Sweethearts

I decided that this week I would pull out the cute little images from Samantha Rawling's Sheet #3, Plate #125. 

I couldn't decide which image I wanted to colour most, so I ended up making two cards.

I love this little ladybug.  For the background I masked the image and then applied some Distress Ink over a stencil. It is hard to tell from this image, but her little bow has been paper pieced.

How free does this next little girl look. I again masked the image as well as some cloud shapes and applied Distress Ink over the background.  This card makes me smile.

The sentiments used on both cards are also found on this sheet of stamps.  How cool is that!

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Have a great week.

Hugs Renee

A day filled with sunshine

This sweet fairy on Plate #125 by Samantha Rawlings just make me think of sitting outside in the sun on a beautiful Spring day.  Since it was snowing at my house this morning, I guess it isn't in my near future to do so, but I can certainly dream! 

Get Inky!

Alex

Thank you!

Hi again!

Today I have this little thank you card to share with you all. It is a card I made especially for all those wonderful Sweet Pea Stamps blog hoppers who stopped by my blog and left me such beautiful comments.

Thank you so much!

This gorgeous image can be found on Samantha Rawling's sheet #3, Plate #125, along with three other extremely cute images.  These images are so cheerful, that they are bound to brighten anyone's day.

I kept the card pretty basic, using a Nestabilities die to cut the shape of the card.  Adding only a few embellishments really let this image pop out from the background.

Thank you for joining me today.

Hugs 

Renee

Ready for Bed

Today's card features a sweet image by Samantha Rawlings called Ready for Bed and can be found on Plate #58. She was colored with copics and the papers are Prima.

I love Samantha's images they are perfect for cards for children.

Li'l Butterfly Fairy

Today's card features one of the adorable images from Samantha Rawlings - Li'l Butterfly Fairy can be found on plate 62 along with three other equally sweet images.

She was colored with pencils, the papers are mostly Basic Grey and a bit of Cosmo Cricket. Don't forget to enter your vote for the Stamp Off contest - thanks for stopping by!

Lil' Dragonfly Girl

This is one of Samantha Rawling's adorable images called Dragonfly Girl - she can be found on plate #125, along with three other equally cute images. The kite is just a hand cut shape I added - once I had the image down on the paper I just knew it was my youngest child flying a kite.

Connie-Same Stamp Different Looks

Today I'd like to show you 3 different cards made from the same stamp so you can see just how versatile Sweet Pea stamps really are.

I began with a stamp by Samantha Rawlings from plate #58

which you will find

HERE

for this card I also used a phrase stamp from plate #2

Supplies:

floral edger punch by EKSuccess

Viva Decor Pearl Pen

gem and dp unknown

I fussy cut the image after coloring with Copic markers

and popped it with foam tape

for this card I embossed the 

Happy Birthday folder in my Cuttlebug and

cut the frame using Spellbinders "Labels 9" dies.

Other supplies were:

Stardust Gelly Roll pen by Sakura

Copic markers

star brad from my stash

I sponged light blue ink around the frame but it is hard to see in my scan.

For my final card I used the paper piecing technique,

matching the dress to the designer paper.

Other supplies used:

SpellBinders "Labels 14"

Copic markers

Stardust Gelly Roll pen by Sakura

sticker words by Class A Peels

ribbon and dp unknown

I edged the mat with a Copic marker which

is hard to see in the scan.

I know that I could have gotten even more cards from

this very versatile image, but I am already behind on one of

the birthdays so had to get them finished and mailed.

Thanks for looking

Connie

I love you - deeply

What a fabulous image and colours for this card, don't you agree? It makes me happy just looking at it. I love the slightly different colour combo with pale turquoise, green and vibrant red. And who said you can't have flowers under the sea?

The image I have chosen for today is one of Samantha Rawling's little sweethearts called lil' mermaid from plate 62. Being a scuba diver this image is very close to my heart. Imagine seeing one of these creatures during a dive!

I have coloured the little mermaid with my promarkers. The papers are so vibrant and beautiful that I wanted to keep the card simple. The only thing I did was to doodle a bit on it. I wrote "I love you" around the little heart on top right and doodled scallops around the image and bottom panel with a silver pen. Other than that I let the image speak for itself - so to speak :)

Thanks for stopping by today.
/Katarina

Customer Gallery Submission: Regina Hess

Regina shares her beautiful cards today.

ching-chou kuik's Shining On:

ching-chou kuik's Dream of Dahlia:

 ching-chou kuik's Purple Woods:

 Samantha Rawlings Little Cake Girl:

Let's Read....

Today I wanted to share with you some goodies I made for my older Grandkids!!!  I think one of the most important things is the love of reading and I have always bought and have book readily available for my babies when they come over.  I decided for the ones that are at least old enough to understand what it would be used for I would make special book marks.  Here is just a sampling of the one's I have made.

 For my older granddaughters I used one of Samantha Rawlings Little Sweethearts called "The Butterfly Fairy". She can be purchased as a single stamp or with 3 other adorable sweeties at Sweet Pea Stamps.

The boys got a book mark with this cute as pie dragon from Lisa Victoria's Fantasy Collection called "First Day of School"available as a single stamp or with 3 others, one I will show you next from Sweet Pea Stamps.

And last but not least the little girls got this bouncing ballerina also from Lisa Victoria's Fantasy Collection called "Dragon Ballerina" also available as a single stamp or on a sheet with 3 other wonderful stamps at Sweet Pea Stamps.

Thanks for letting me share with you today.  Don't forget to check out our challenge blog - "In A Sweet Pea Dream" and try your hand at the current challenge!

"Life's Beauty Inspires Me To Kreate"

Bringing some sunshine with the rain

That is how this particular image by Samantha Rawlings for Sweet Pea Stamps always makes me feel.  The actual name of the image is Lil' Butterfly Fairy, but I see her peeking out after hiding under the flower during a rain storm. 

She is colored with my marker with some Stickles on her wings and the butterfly.  The paper is from Basic Grey and the glittery flower is one of the Petaloo Velvet Hydrangeas.

Here is hoping your day has a lot of sunshine in it without the rain!

Get Inky!

Alex

Have a Fairy Happy Birthday!

This sweet image is from Samantha Rawlings Little Sweethearts collection. She is called Little Fairy and you can find her on Plate #58. I just love this sweet girl. This image I colored with different shades of watercolor pencils and then used a blender pen to mix the colors together.

I used a set of Nestabilities to cut out the saying from plate#34. This fairy saying used on this card is on a wonderful sheet of images from Elaine Cox. I love to use the Fairy Happy Birthday saying all the time! I added a cute mix of red/black embellishments to finish the card along with dusting the edges of the card with some Colorbox Chalk ink in black.

Bonus Card, I saw this stamp on sale on the Sweet Pea website and just had to show you a wonderful card with it. I just love this image from ching chou kuik called Blue Eye Fairy.

The beautiful hair of this maiden so made me fall in love with her! She is on sale for 50% off!! WOW. Only $2.64. Take a peek at all the sale items by clicking HERE, this image is many pages into the sale section.

Have a stampin' great day!
Holley

Our Little Angel

Today I am featuring another one of the many artists of Sweet Pea Stamps.  This is Samantha Rawling's Lil' Angel! This is my first time creating with one of her Little sweethearts and I adored it!!!  My sweet little Angel Gracie will be having her 3rd birthday soon and I made this one for her.  With as many Grandkids as I have I have to stay ahead!

I colored my sweet thing with my copics and then glossy accents were applied to those big eyes of hers.  Her wings were covered with Glitter Institutes transparent glitter and yellow stickles were added to her hairpiece.  I then added the little white dots to give some more dimension with my Opal Liquid Pearls. I added a bit of lace to keep the softness I wanted and a homemade flower from ribbon with a tiny bow behind. To finish it off I made the sentiment on my PC, added it to a tag and tied on our heart with a little charm! 

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"Life's Beauty Inspires Me To Kreate"

Thanks a munch

Ok, so it's a slightly corny sentiment, but I wanted this to be a thank-you card and this is the best I could do, lol. I hope it makes sense to you using "munch" instead of "bunch". I'd definitely like to munch some of those cakes!
Since I've been a bit tired of Halloween and autumn themed cards I decided on something totally different. It might have been a good idea to start on my Christmas cards, but that would be out of character for me. Why not saving it until the very last minute instead, lol.

So for today's card I've been colouring one of Samantha Rawling's cuties called cake girl. I got myself these patterned papers a while ago and as soon as the stamp came through my mailbox I've been wanting to use them together.

She is coloured with my promakers and cut out using one of the nestabilities. The edges are "burnt" with walnut stain distress ink. The little tag is a cuttlebug die and the text is written by hand (it shows unfortunately) I like how the smaller squares turned out. I rounded  two corners - diagonally. I think it creates a look like they are spritzed out, kind of like whipped cream or even the girl's hat. I also added some glitter to some of the details on the patterned paper and a little liquid pearls to the whipped cream on the girl's piece of cake

Two Lil' Halloween Cards

Hello! I thought I would bring you a couple of last minute Halloween themed cards today! For the first card I used Samantha Rawlings sweet Lil' Witch. I made a frame around her using four fancy corners cut with a Sizzix die and I tried to "connect" them on the long sides using tiny black gems. It is a little more crooked than I had hoped....but I still like the original idea!

The Details:
Stamp: Samantha Rawlings Lil' Witch - (sheet 2, Plate 62) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: K&Co (I think), Black and White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: E000, E00,E11,R00,R20
hair: YG21,YG23,YG25,YG17
Clothes:V04,V06,V17,C5,C7,C9
Pumpklin and Car: Y15,Y17,YR16,YR18
Misc: Sizzix Corner die, Spellbinders Label Die, Taylor's Tiny Twinkles, Darice Gems

For my second card I used Elaine Cox's Little Witch Cat. I colored the image with Copics and added a little Diamond Stickles around the moon and a little Crystal Effects to the kitty's eyes. I am not sure I really love how that turned out, but it is good to try something new sometimes, right?


The Details:
Stamp: Elaine Cox's Little Witch Cat (Sheet 9, Plate 59) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: Bo Bunny, Black and White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Cat: W5,W7,W8,W10
Hat: V04,V06,V17,Y06
Background: BG32,BG34,BG16 all w/W1 over, YG03,YG25,YG17,Y000,Y00
Misc: Martha Stewart Web Border Punch, Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Diamond Stickles

Happy Halloween!
:-)Traci

Connie-Eat More Cake!

Isn't she just the cutest?  

You can find many more cuties over at 

Sweet Pea Stamps

Especially those Samantha Rawlings images.

I stamped the girl and colored with Copic markers.

Then I added some Scribbles 3D paint in shiny white to the brim of her hat.

IRL it stands out but my scanner doesn't want to share.

I have a closer view below but still not showing well.

The tiny red brad in the verse is from Oriental Trading, 

the paper by 7 Gypsies.

Thanks for looking!

Connie

Little Pirate and Ready for Bed

I created 2 cards with 2 of Samantha Rawlings images Sheet #1 Plate #58 at Sweet Pea Stamps. This first one is Little Pirate. I colored her with copics and used some distressing inks to age the paper. The sentiment is from a ching chou kuiks set. I added some Daisy D's DP to a piece of chipboard and then stamped the BELIEVE on it.

I added a vinyl decorative border from K&Company. The newspaper DP is also from Daisy D's.

This sweet little image is called Ready For Bed.

I added a spellbinder cut out classic die frame and covered it with glitter and added some adhesive stars in pink to the background.

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We have so many new stamps available and soon to be released.
I added some pastel chipboard hearts and the sentiment is also from the same set.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lil' Witch

I just love the cards I can do for the Halloween season. This cutie comes from artist Samantha Rawlings of Sweet Pea Stamps. She's called Lil' Witch. What a dear!! I really like the anime style designs of this artist. Right now Sweet Pea sells two sheets of designs from her. This image is one of my favorites. As the card says "Have a 'boo'tiful day!"That saying comes on the sheet of stamps, plate #62. I used copic markers to color the image and found wonderful skull and crossbone silver ribbon to add to the metallic mica-based purple sheen cardstock that I used as my cardbase. It came out just bootifully!

Cheers, Holley