A WISH... That Came True For Me!!!

Oh... How I have wanted to be a Sweet Pea Design Team member since my friend introduced me to them! And as of March 1, MY WISH CAME TRUE!!! That's right! I am the newest member of the Sweet Pea Design team and I couldn't be happier! I get SO RELAXED creating with these gorgeous images! No matter how I color them... or what medium I use... I ADORE these stamps! For this card, I used Brigid Ashwood's Pinkie...one of the Phunky Phairies... 

I stamped her onto watercolor paper and then I used stamp pad ink to water color her. I am quite pleased with the result.I also used some atyou spica glitter pens and ribbon,buttons and one teeny orange clothes pin, small enough for a phairie! Thanks so much for stopping in a checking out my post!

Flutters

I love this wonderful stamp from artist Teri Bidlespacher. This stamp is called "Flutters" (click here). She's just adorable! I couldn't wait to get this stamp when I saw this design. I colored her up in a combination of pinks and browns using Copic Markers.

I added a wonderful saying "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein" I used some adorable tiny ribbon and bling from K&Co along with some Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut out the image.

Hope you all have a day filled with mystery!

Cheers, Holley

Connie-Flutters by Terra Bidlespacher

Today my card uses an image by Terra Bidlespacher, a new Sweet Pea artist.

Her name is "Flutters" and you can find this stamp on plate #103

by clicking 

HERE

I used 2 different papers by DCWV from the Blossoms & Butterflies stack

and a butterfly border punch by Martha Stewart that I trimmed

to fit.  The green pearls are from Kaiser with Copic markers for color and

ink by PrintWorks "Sage Green" with the textured green base

card by Paper Temptress.

Thanks for looking.

Connie

Pinkie a Phunky Phairie

I enjoy the Phunky Phairies drawn by Brigid Ashwood and have seen the DT and customers at Sweet Pea Stamps create some beautiful things with them.  I decided it was my turn to play and colored up Pinkie.

As a hair twirler myself, I absolutely love that about Pinkie!!  She works so well with the "I Love You" vertical sentiment from one of the image plates.  I adore vertical sentiments and love that Sweet Pea Stamps has two entire sheets of them here.

So- have you done anything "phunky" lately?

Get Inky!

Alex

Amanita Muscaria and Summer Fun

Hi everyone. I am back with another card to share with you. For this card I used
Rachel Anderson's "Amanita Muscaria" at Sweet Pea Stamps. She can be purchased as a single or on sheet #2 Plate #111, with 3 other gorgeous fairies.

As soon as I went through my paper and found this Ambrosia DP by Basic Grey, I knew what colors I wanted to use on her. I love the vibrant and radiant feel of this card.

Her skin is a little darker in real life and not as washed out as the pictures show.




I added a lot of layers and dimension to this card.

Here are the supplies I used
Stamp: Rachel Anderson's Amanita Muscaria at Sweet Pea Stamps Sheet #2/ Plate #111
Paper: Basic Grey Ambrosia, black and red CS
Image was stamped on Mohawk Color Copy Brilliant white 100lb Cover CS
Ink: Memento Tuxedo
Accessories: Acetate frame trimmed on bronze (behind the image)
Spellbinder Border Die
Quickuts die
flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Orange self adhesive bling
Foam tape for dimension
White Sakura Gel pen
Image colored with copics

Here is another card I created last week. This image is Summer Fun by Caron Vinson at Sweet Pea Stamps. She can be bought as a single or on a sheet with 3 other adorable fairies Sheet #2 / Plate #89.

I used some DCWV DP, jewelry making shells and beads, Fiskars tear drops, spellbinder oval and flower dies, Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, fiskars border punch, chalk on background, glitter glue and glitter.

The image was colored with copics.

Check out Sweet Pea stamps and see what's new, so many new stamps to add to your wish list.

Thanks for stopping by

Daphenes Dilema

I think we are all faced with the same dilemma as this cute little fairy at some time in our life. However, I truly believe that it's the inner "beauty" that counts. So for my card today I used Lisa Victoria's "Daphenes Dilema":

I used vellum card stock as my card base as well as gold mirror card stock. The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo dye ink and after die cutting the image panel. I used chalks and distress ink to blend the background and the edges.
The image is colored with copics but I did add a little glitter to the wings with glitter pens and then used glass effect gel on the skirt which I left uncolored.

I couldn't resist to add the "Do you believe" sentiment from Plate #20.

I'll be honest, I couldn't get the card to look right no matter what I tried (heck I couldn't even get this blog post sounding right), in the end I left it as you see it here. Like I told my husband, "some days it just isn't happening" :-).

Daphenes Dilema is available as a single stamp or as part of Plate #49 and if you haven't stopped by the Sweet Pea Stamps store, you need to hop over there and check out all of the awesome sales going on.

New Release!!!! plate #125

Samantha Rawling's Little Sweethearts sheet #3, Plate #125, now on pre-order

Details on website

Please welcome----

Dawn Knight, our newest design team member. You will be amazed at her beautiful artwork.You can view here work here:

Dawn Knight

You seen her work posted here a few weeks ago, using plate #75 Phunky Pharies, check back soon to see her post as an 'official' Sweet Pea Stamps design team member.

Butterfly Collage

Today I would like to share a simple card using the Butterfly Collage image from plate #27. This sheet includes two additional stamps and two sentiments and they are all beautiful!

Wishing you a wonderful day!

Masquerade Anyone????

Today I show another Caron Vinson's stamps called Fall Masquerade Fairy.  I decided to do her in bright colors and was thinking of Mardi Gras in New Orleans!!! I adore the style of this artist.  You can purchase this beauty at Sweet Pea Stamps. She can be bought as a single stamp or on a sheet with 3 others and a sentiment.

She is colored with copics and a bit of chalking as a background.  A thick layer of glitter on her wings and some stickles on her dress.  I spritz some glimmer mist on the corners and on the bow and feathers.  Do not know how it shows in the picture.  Gem stones finish the glitz and glam!!!  I hope you enjoy!

"Life's Beauty Inspires Me To Kreate"