Cold

This beautiful winter image comes from Sweet Pea artist Marlon Teunissen and is called Cold.  She's available as a rubber stamp as well as a digital image.   I am using a shimmery flocked paper in the background with a combination of blue/brown paper for winter theme.  Here's the sentiment I added "Live in a way to make happy memories."  I love how she looks so lost in thought.  Also note that she definitely has some steampunk theme given her hat jewel and coat embellishments.

Here's a closeup of the image itself

Here's a sweet bonus project I did, a quick and cute birthday card for my niece Desi, who turns 18 today!  I am using one of the Veritcal Sentiment stamps from Sweet Pea stamps and an adorable angel stamp from artist Karen Middleton. This gorgeous angel is called Blue Star Angel. She was just perfect for my niece.

 

I hope you liked these sweet CAS (Clean and Simple) cards today!

 

Definitely drop by the Sweet Pea store and check out all the gorgeous images from this artist.  Also, drop by our Sweet Pea Stamps Friends and Fans page to share your gorgeous creations with us. We have regular contests there with wonderful prizes, regular coupons and lots of fun!

Cheers, Holley

Variations Week: Holley's View

Here's an awesome image from Sweet Pea artist Joanne Schempp called Irish Chic, I have made this card for variations week during which all the design team is showing different cards using the same stamp.  I just love this girl!  I also added a perfect sentiment from the Simply Verticals Holiday Plate (plate #13).

Hope you guys are ready to make some wonderful cards for St Patrick's Day,  there's a number of wonderful stamps at Sweet Pea for this holiday. Be sure to check them all out.

Luck o' the Irish to ya! 

Holley

Celebrate the New Year!

Here's a great stamp from artist Elisabeth Bell. This adorable girl is celebrating the new year. I took the blue from her blowing horn and added wonderful die cut flourishes all over the card as an image of her noise flowing out to the world that the new year is here! Welcome 2012!

Here's a close up image of this adorable stamp, called Party Play, it's sold individually (CLICK HERE), and can be used on wonderful occassion where you need to send out a card to shout out good news to someone. The vertical Happy New Year sentiment comes on a whole sheet of sayings (CLICK HERE) done in a vertical format, these go so perfect with this stamp!!
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year! I hope we can all have as much fun stamping our lives away as we did in 2011! Are you making resolutions for 2012? I think mine should be more fun! We all take time to do so much serious stuff all day long and are so stressed out. Why not make a resolution and PROMISE ourselves a little piece of fun everyday. 10-20 minutes of happiness and laughter, crafting, hugging our loved ones, walking outside, those can be the best minutes of the day everyday. Promise yourself that this year!

Cheers, Holley

Airship Dreams

Hi Everyone,

Today I'm sharing my card featuring Meredith Dillman's Airship from Plate #98. I love the steampunk/victorian look and feel of this image. The sentiment is from Simply Verticals - Plate #4.

I knew that all the little details on her clothing would be perfect for using small rhinestones:

Although the picture doesn't show it very well, I used Viva Decor's Glass Effect gloss:

I used Millwood Classic Crest card stock which is a tan/beige color with specks....that's why her skin has that freckled look.

This is my 3rd attempt - yes, sadly my previous attempts to do this gorgeous image justice as far as my coloring was concerned, failed miserably, lol. However, I am really really pleased how this card turned out.

Funny, isn't it...how it kinda happens when you don't expect it to. I was coloring this image in my sun room on the lounge chair using my lapdesk while watching TV.

Thanks for stopping by.....

Birthday Packages

Who doesn't like packages, especially when they are wrapped all pretty and filled with gifts, right?

Cupcakes and Presents, Plate #31 is one of my favorite sets because it's so versatile and can be colored very quickly. And that, my friends, is always a good thing because I am always doing things at the last minute :-).
I again went to my favorite standby for the sentiment, Simply Verticals, Plate #4 and just cut the letters apart to create the sentiment horizontally.


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It's a Pink Thing.....

Hi Everyone,

All three of my granddaughters will be celebrating birthdays within the next couple of months. Gracy, the ornery middle one, is the first one. She will be turning 4 and like I mentioned, she is the ornery, tom-boy. So it was a no brainer to use this sassy little girl from Karen Middleton's Plate #140.

Now, this image has sassy written all over it, lol! Obviously, the hot pink was mandatory as was the hot pink Stickles. I remembered that I've had these star eyelets and that these would make perfect spots to hold Stickles.

The sentiment is from Simply Verticals - Plate #4 which was stamped with pink dye ink and then embossed with some old pink embossing powder.

Fun stamp to color. And I'm pretty sure the onery 4 year old will love it!

Thanks for stopping by!