Featured Artist Week: Brigid Ashwood by Ali

This week here at Sweet Pea Stamps the Design Team are featuring the artwork of Brigid Ashwood. We are each working with her gorgeous stamp designs and I chose to create with this great stamp called Margox:

I love Brigid's Phunky Phairies range of stamps and I have a few of them. They are great to colour in and the characters have a funky attitude to them that I love. I coloured Margox with my Prismacolour pencils.

I also added some interest to the image by using a Versmarker pen and Silver Pearl embossing powder to heat emboss the background section of the image. This powder gives a lovely sheen when the light hits it:

The design for my card was inspired by the circular background section of the image... I had the idea to layer the image over a circular aperture in my card. I decorated the inside of the card with pale pink paper that would show through the aperture... here's how it looks with the card fully opened:

I used nesting dies to cut the circular aperture in my card front and in a layer of white card which I had trimmed to fit the card front. I decorated the white card layer by flicking paint across it and then heat embossing the edges with Shabby Pink Frantage embossing powder.

To finish off, I attached my cut-out image over the aperture and added some flowers and a gemstone border around the aperture:

Brigid's stamps are available in red rubber from the Sweet Pea Stamps store and for this week only are on special offer. :)

Featured Artist Week: Brigid Ashwood by Nataliya

 Good day everyone. today we have Artist Of the Week, at Sweet Pea Stamps Brigit Ashwood. And i chose to work with her super cute image call "Pinkie" and you can find her HERE.
Here is my card.

 I colored image with Copic Markers and cut it out with my favorite trusty scissors from SU.

 Here is some of my embellishments.

 Embossed background and rose in Heart was stamped distressed . Rose i colored with distress ink, by using sponge. this stamps you can find at Heartfelt Creations.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs Nataliya

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Featured Artist Week: Brigid Ashwood by Sylvia

It's time for artist of the week.

And this time it's Brigid Ashwood's art.

I have chosen "Remy". 

The art is only availble as a rubber stamp

witch you can buy at

Sweet Pea Rubber Stamps

I think "Remy" went to Jamaica!

"Ya Man!"

I had so much fun coloring him.

All the little details, like this cute little bear in his bag

and the tattoos. Just gorgeous!

I have colored with my distresspads and markers.

And ofcourse I had to add some sparkles on Remy.

Sorry Remy, but after all, you're a Fairy! 

The background paper I have made of a piece of

aquarelpaper and distresspads and water.

After it was dry, I embossed it.

To give it a something masculine, I added a 

wooden button with a raffia rope through it.

On the left side of the image I added a die from Memorybox

( I think ).

Check out the other projects from our lovely 

DT members.

Sylvia

xxx

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Featured Artist Week: Brigid Ashwood by Aletha

I hope that your week is going good! Mine has been going pretty good, along with time in my studio, so I really can't complain.

This is Artist of the Week here at Sweet Pea Stamps. Our artist this week is Brigid Ashwood and Her Phunky Phairies. She has some of the most interesting images to work with. I don’t think that I have a favorite, but I did choose Repose. I love Steampunk and when I get to practice making Steampunk, I jump at the chance. You can find Repose and other Phunky Phaires by Ms. Ashwood in the SPS shop. This particular rubber stamp is found on Plate#104.

Repose needed to be a little melancholy, so the colors I went for were rust and mauve grays. My dies cuts were a lot of fun to add also. I wanted them to pop out, but behind this beautiful image. I used some copper wax rub-on, let that dry, and then buffed the copper with a paper towel. Now they look a little more metallic. All the details will be on my blog on Wednesday, AJ’s Designs.

We have a fun challenge over at One Sweet Challenge. The theme is “things that go bump in the night.” If you do enter, and use a Sweet Pea image, please come by our SPS Facebook group and share your little piece of art. There’s a lot happening at Sweet Pea Stamps. Stay up-to-date on them all by “liking” our SPS Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by. Be sure and stop by every day for more Sweet Pea inspiration.

Aletha Jane

SPS Design Team

Variations Week: Shanna's View

Hey everyone. Shanna here with a new creation. 

Well with halloween around the corner it is time for the Halloweenies to please come out! 

I am using Teresa Sherman's image Halloweenies Mummy. It comes in RUBBER and DIGI form. If you get the rubber it also comes in a mini set as well as a full plate of rubber with the other images from the set. 

I colored him green as I really wanted the pop of color on my card. 

Items Used:

Sweet Pea - Teresa Sherman's Halloweenie Mummy

Echo Park Papers

Copics

Cheesecloth

Distress Ink

Variations Week: Jennifer' View

Today's card is Teresa Sherman's Mummy from the Halloweenies line of image. Isn't he cute?

Thanks for stopping by!

Variations Week: Holley's View

 Here's a fun image from Sweet Pea artist Teresa Sherman for this week's variation.  My stamp this week is called Halloweenies-Vamp.  She's so cute. I colored her up with purple hair and made a pink card using gorgeous shimmery mica cardstock.  I know it might not look a lot like Halloween, but I think the image itself gives the Halloween vibe. 

Here's a close up of the image herself.  There's also a fun Frankenstein, Mummy, and Witch available in this collection of stamps, both in digital as well as rubber format.

I hope you have fun making all those Halloween cards.  So many great images to choose from!  Enjoy and be sure to check out what's on sale at the store.  Cheers, Holley

One sweet challenge

Don't forget out challenge site , were you can have a chance to win  a free digi ($6 if using a sweet pea stamp, $3 if using a differs stamping company image. Octobers challenge;

Welcome to the October Challenge!

Wow, can you believe how quickly this year has flown? It's that time of the year when things get a little spooky so our theme for this month is things that go bump in the night!

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