Lots more Karen Middleton

Today I am showcasing more of the featured artist - Karen Middleton. Aren't her images wonderful? These to cards show just how cute her images are. They were both colored with copics.

This is the Pincushion Fairie -

This standing card features Little Treasure, Light Yellow and Flutter By -

 

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and don't forget you can pick up the sheets with these images and many others at a special discounted price!

Lovely in Lavendar

This winged beauty is another stamp by Meredith Dillman entitled "Wisteria". Her wings are so elegant! I love how she lends her self to sparkles!!!

Supply List
Image-Wisteria, Meredith Dillman for Sweet Pea Stamps

Stamp Ink
Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper
Neenah Smooth white card stock
Designer Print-Bo Bunny "Jazmyne"
Solid Color Card Stocks-Unknown

Copic Markers
Skin tones-yr0000, e000, e30
Hair-e32, e23
Clothing/wings-v91, v93, v95, v99, 0
Leaves-yg61, yg63, yg67
Vine-w3, w5, w7, 0
Background-b0000, b000, b00

Misc. Supplies
Lavendar roses
Martha Stewart Leaf Punch "Frond Branch"
Wide Lace-Maya Road
2 stick pins and misc. beads
Magnolia Doohickey Die "swirls"
Cuttlebug or Big Shot
Gold "thank you" charm
Adhesive gold gems
Stickles-"diamond"
Smooch illuminate
Chalks
Scotch ATG gun and adhesive
dimensional adhesive

Don't forget!

There are some wonderful offers and fun this weekend at Sweet Pea Stamps. If you haven't had the chance to take the blog hop there is still time to get into the drawing for the $15 gift certificate to the store. See the link here.

All orders placed through July 4th will be entered into a drawing for a $44.44 gift certificate to the store. And to make things even better check this out:

limit one per person per order

July 10 - 16 is customer submission week. To have your beautiful creations featured here on the blog just email them as attachments to jennifer.

Wishing you a happy 4th of July!
Sweet Pea Stamps

ching chou kuik's Spring Butterfly

Today I have this cards to show you that I made with  one of the newest ching-chou kuiks  images on sale now, at Sweet Pea Stamps.

Her name is Spring Butterfly, and you can find here here, sheet 36,-Plate #143!

I have coloured her with Prisma Premier Pencils, and the paper is from TPC studio."Grandma's attic"!

I have painted some of the flowers, paper and embillishments with white Gesso, and I like the "Shabby look":)

I LOVE butterflies, so this image was a perfect choice for me!
I've added some glitter (Stickles-Star Dust) on her wings:)

All the flowers are from Prima, and was originally a flower branch, which I cut up!

The swirl is a dies from Marianne Design, and butterfly punch from M.S.

I dont know the name of the fabric behind the image ( is it harsh?;D).

Well, there's definitely a lot of ching-chou images to inspire, so I will definitely make more cards with these beautiful stamps:)

Wish you all a  beautiful day!

Hugs, Ellen

one per person, per order please

Luna Fairy

I realize that summer is upon us, but I am not ready to let go of the thoughts and images of spring.  This is Luna Fairy drawn by Joanne Schempp.  You can get her alone or on a plate with 3 other gorgeous images by Joanne Schempp.

Get Inky!

Alex

Welcome to the Karen Middleton Featured Artist Blog Hop!

Dancing Leaf

We hope you enjoy your travels today where we will be featuring the wonderful works from Karen Middleton. Currently, all full and half sheets in the Karen Middleton Collection are discounted 25%! All orders placed by July 4th will also be entered into a drawing for a $44.44 gift certificate to the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

Your stops along the way include:

Alexandra Lundgren
Angela Sowell
Connie Piotter
Dawn Knight

Ellen Kristiansen 

Jennifer Willis
Karina Lange

Lisa Cook
Micki Harper
Renee Ludlow
Sweet Pea Stamps 

Leave a comment at each of the stops to be entered into a drawing for a $15 gift card to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! The hop will end Monday evening, July 4th and the winner will be announced Tuesday.

*If you have trouble finding the comment link on our International DT blogs just look for the word Kommentare at the bottom of their post and click that link.

Multi coloured blocking

I've had so much fun playing with today's card. It's a technique I've never used before I think and I came up with it all on my own (although I had inspiration) I'm proud of it and thought I'd share it with you.

If you're not very happy with your colouring of the sweetpea images  - you don't have to be! There are so many ways to use your stamps and this is one of them.

I started by inking different stamps in different bold coloured inks on white paper and embossing them with clear embossing powder. After the powder has cooled off I inked the whole image with a contrasting colour with a direct-to-paper technique (which means you dab the inkpad directly on the paper) When I was happy with the result I wiped the images to remove any ink that was left on the raised embossed part. This will make the images pop. Finally I cut out different sized blocks and mounted them together. I added the little ribbon and bow to add some more interest to the card.

It's a super easy technique and I hope you'll give it a go. All you need is some embossable inks (I used small versacolor) and some clear embossing powder. Have fun!

Images used:
ching chou kuik: Seahorse plate 79
ching chou kuik: cheshire cat illusion plate 41
ching chou kuik: autumn harvest plate 57
Elaine Cox plate 102
Meredith Dillman: peacock fairy plate 76
Nikki Burnette: Tulsa
Sentiment: plate 30

Please Read!

I hate to do this, but I have been taking a major loss on shipping lately and had to raise my prices. Most overseas shipping that I end up paying is $13.95 and USA is normally $4-$5. The new prices is as following:

All USA mailings will be going in flat rate mailers and be $4.95

Overseas will be as following:

under $10 will be $5.95

$10- $20 will be $7.95

over $20 will go in a flat rate mailer of $13.95 (no matter how large of a order)

Canada customers will be $5.95 unless it is a large order and needs to go in a priority envelope, which then will be $11.95

(our website does not calculate International shipping and charge you the USA rate, so if paying by Paypal, we will request the difference

For the month of July to offset this new change, all orders will get 2 unmounted stamps (our choice) free in their pkg. (this is over a$10 value)

ALSO through July 5th, all orders will be discounted 10% (past orders excluded)

3 new releases- Plates 170, 171 & 172

Plate #170 by Anna Marine:

Plate #171 by Katerina Koukiotis:
Plate #172 by Rebecca Sinz:

now on pre-order. Details on website