Skeletal Candle Holder

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I decided to work with the image Skeletal Candle Holder by Teresa Sherman. This is the creation I submitted as inspiration for One Sweet Challenge, hope you will join in, it is certainly a fun one to do - All Saint Day / Day of the Dead.  I thought it would be rather appropriate to make a candle box gift card for this, only the second one I have ever made and I am pretty pleased with the outcome.

After making the box I then started on the decoration.  The digi image was printed out on metallic paper and I just put a little colour here and there, mainly on the flame.  The background was airbrushed with gold around the flame area.  The black streak you see in the photo is a bit of a boo-boo, it is the reflection from the side of the candle area and is not on the image in real life.

Next I cut out the letters for the word remember, using a Tattered Lace alphabet die, these I then coloured with a silver metallic pen.  I cut the front of the card a little smaller and added a black lace border.  The final part of the decoration was the die cutting of the digi and adding a black glitter border then some leaf swirls using Cheryl Lyn's Tropical-Flourish which I then cut into sections.

 For the inside I used a Sizzix die and matt silver paper with black glitter paper for the border, nice and simple but I feel it works great for the overall effect.

 So here we have the inside of the finished project.

and the front view.

Ingredients

• Image -  Skeletal Candle Holder by Teresa Sherman
• Promarkers
• Dies - Sizzix 657938, Cheryl Lyn's Tropical-Flourish and Tattered Lace alphabet die
• Metallic paper, black glitter paper and lace from my stash

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

Teresa Sherman's Skeletal Candle Holder

Teresa Sherman's Skeletal Candle Holder 

A Gift for those with a Dark Side

This is a sampling of the domino set I decorated at my husband's request. I used Teresa Sherman's Skeletal Candle Holder  for the image. They are stamped in Black Staz-On and heat set. It is simple but doing a whole set of dominoes is still a bit time consuming. Sorry my pic is a bit blurry, sometimes I just can't hold the camera steady for anything.

Some Awesome Halloween Images

I just love Halloween and Sweet Pea Stamps has the most awesome images for the occasion! Today I have a few cards to share that feature several of stamps from the Teresa Sherman collection.

This is is titled Skeletal Candle Holder:

Love's Faded Memory:

La Rosa Muerta:

They were all colored with copics.

Stop on over at the Sweet Pea Stamps store and pick up these wonderful images and more!!! Shipping is free but hurry that special ends today!!!

Meet Eva the Witch

Meet Eva the Witch.  This awesome image is designed by artist Teresa Sherman on plate #213.  I love how mysterious she looks.  To enhance that look, I fussy cut her out and layered her on a piece of shimmery gold paper.  I mounted her on a double layer of double stick tape, so she is actually quite high on the card. 

Then I added some major shimmery bling behind her.  It's thick bling covered in glitter and all black, but it gives a wonderful radiance about it and really makes Eva the Witch stand out.  Here's a close up of this wonderful stamp:

Drop by the store and check out all of  Teresa Sherman's images, including a new sheet, plate #222.  As a extra this week, here's another awesome stamp that is designed by Teresa, it's called Skeletal Candle Holder, plate #216.

I am using a wonderful border punch to go with it from Martha Stewart and a saying stamp from Sweet Pea stamps.  Isn't this stamp great, here's a close up, I think many people might like this for occasions other than Halloween!

Be sure and check out all the great holiday theme stamps and especially the brand new Teresa Sherman stamps!!  They are perfect for Halloween.

Cheers, Holley