Spring Moony Night by Janine

Hello fans,

I (Janine) love to do all kinds of themes and I decide to go Asianstyle this time 

 This pretty asian girl called Spring Moony Night from Ching Chou Kuik.

I colored her with my distress markers and used all kind of material

You can find it on my blog

Next wednesday i am back with a card for the artist of the week!

We have some new artist and stamps in the shop, come take a look!

Spring Moony Night

Here's one of the originals from artist ching-chou kuik called Spring Moony Night (Plate #22).  This image is just stunning, I had some gorgeous ribbon with a whole rainbow of glittery sequin colors and I was looking for the perfect image to match.  I think this image really does the trick.

I added a wonderful saying "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Indian Proverb" (Plate #8).  I just love the forlorn look on this beautiful mermaid's face.  It's as if she is already imagining the beautiful flowers of tomorrow.  Perhaps she is holding out that lamp and awaiting the arrival of her lover to come home.

Hope you will check out the great sale at the store, right now there is a variety of stamps on sale for $1, $2 and $3 each!  Check it out.  Also, the winner of my blog candy was announced this week on Wed.  Be sure to check.

Cheers, Holley

Autumn to Spring

Hi everyone.  Today I have 2 cards to share with you the first one has an Autumn feel to it and the second one has a Spring feel to it.

I love the colors of this first one, so warm and comforting.

I used an older image by ching chou kuiks called "Spring-Moony-Night".

Sheet #3, Plate #22.

 I used some new 6x6 papers from BoBunny.

This one reminds me of Spring.  I used one of Conie Fong's images from her very first sheet, called
"Serenity", Sheet #1/Plate #185.

Sorry my last pictures aren't that great.  I really need a better camera.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day.

Hugs:)
Angela

Spring-Moony-Night

This beautifully detailed stamp is ching-chou kuik's Spring-Moony-Night. It is sold individually or as a part of Plate #22. I love the wishful look on her face, as though she is holding up a lantern waiting for her partner to come home. Next time I use this stamp, I am going to either cut the background out and use black paper or I will just color the background dark blue or black.


The image is stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers. I mounted the stamped image on printed paper, the same paper that I stamped the Thinking of You sentiment (plate #4). I used some detailed paper ribbon from K&Co across the bottom and enhanced it with bling.

Have a wonderful day!

Holley

Customer Gallery Submission

Today Janiel Corley, Tammy Maynard, Trish Lucey, SarahK and Jean Blenkhorn share their artwork with us.

Janiel Corley's artwork features the Shining On image.

 Tammy Maynard shares these to beautiful cards, she is using the Shining On and Red Hearts images.

SarahK's cards feature Spring-Moony-Night and Love is Gone.

Jean Blenkhorn shares three cards featuring Love is Gone, Black Rose Fairy and Fairy of the Night.

Trish Lucey shares these great creations with us, she uses Winter Watcher, Purple Woods, Fly Butterfly, Love is Gone, Black Rose Fairy, and Blue Eye Fairy.

 

  

  

  

  

 

Thank you ladies and all the wonderful customers who shared their beautiful work this week. If you would like to have your artwork showcased in the gallery please send it to Jennifer as an attachment. Our next customer submission week will be March 7 - 13.

Light of my Path

©ching-chou kuik's Spring-Moony-Night

As much as I love the 'clean & simple' style, sometimes I love to play with bold, bright colors. Right now I am really loving the teal blues and oranges. Can you tell? With our Christmas blizzard which kept us house-bound, I was able to just sit and color. It took me a while to get back into the rhythm. But this beauty, ©ching-chou kuik's Spring-Moony-Night from Plate 22 literally inspired me to play with those bold, bright colors of Copic markers that I tend to shy away from. The card came together relatively quickly too.... scrap paper from my stash of scraps. The ribbon is recycled. It was part of the packaging from a gift journal. The sentiment is also from Plate 22 and as is the norm for me.... worked perfectly to hide a little 'oops'!

Have you seen the newest stamp release by ©ching-chou kuik's 'Fantasy Art Collection'? Absolutely beautiful! Make sure to head over to the Sweet Pea Stamp shop and check them out.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to send us your creations with any of the Sweet Pea Stamps!

Cards using the Ching-Chou Kuik images

This oriental themed image is available on Sweet Pea plate #22. I love the pinks and blues so those are the colors I chose to paint this image with.... I used my Twinkling H2O's to do just that! I trimmed the image and mounted it onto decorative card stock that also seemed to have an oriental theme. Before selecting and attaching the next layer of matting I attached a silver dragonfly brad in the upper left and 2 flower petals with a colored brad in the lower left. I then mounted the decorative card stock piece onto a slightly larger pink metallic card stock. I selected a pink card and used a corner/photo punch in the lower right corner before inserting and attaching the matted piece to the front of the card.






I've always liked frogs!! Maybe that is what draws me to this image which is also available on Sweet Pea plate #22, along with the image used above, two other images, and 3 versatile verses.
I painted the image with Twinkling H2O's and a water brush and then trimmed close to the image.I chose colored card stock that would help bring out the colors I used to paint with. I trimmed the green cardstock slightly smaller than the gold card, leaving a little extra off the left side since I knew I wanted to add the ribbon. I punched both the right and left side of the green card stock with an EK success border punch that not only cut the zig zag pattern, but also embosses dashed lines along the edge. The decorative paper used under the image was given to me by a friend; it was a great addition to the card. And the ribbon, which I had purchased for autumn themed cards, was also a great match.
Have fun with these and all the other Sweet Pea stamps!!!
Chrissy

Fantasy Art Collection 3

These images are from the ching chou kuik Fantasy Art Collection sheet 3 - Plate #22. The images were stamped with black VersaColor ink, colored in with pencils and Copic Markers. The bases are mica card stock and the background papers are various pieces from my stash. Add a touch of bling with a Sakura Stardust pen, Queen and Co. rhinestones, ribbons, and Prima flowers finish them off.

 

 

Customer Card Submission

These ATCs were created by Etha Schuette, thank you Etha for more pretty cards! You can find all of the ching chou kuik Fantasy Art collection on our website.

Spring Moony Night

Spring Moony Night is one of the newest stamps from the ching-chou kuik line previewed at the stamp release. It is included on plate 22.