Valarie Wade

One of artists over at Sweet Pea Stamps that make such sweet faces on her characters is Valarie Wade. I have been longing to color up some of her images.


I used my paper from Fancy Pants-Park Bench. I used one of my Spellbinder dies to create the embellished doily look on the card. I then cut the doily in half and added it to the two corners.

I colored the image with my Copics:

Hair: C9,7,5,3,
Skin: E15,13,11
Dress: Y19,15,11 and B000

Be sure to check out some of the wonderful images that Valarie has in the shop.

4 Crafty Chicks-Anything Goes
4 Krafty Girlz-Anything Goes
Crafting For all Seasons-Anything Goes
Inky Impressions-Anything Goes
Paper Shelter Challenge-Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters-Diecuts and Punches
Wonderful Wednesdays-Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge-Summer Colors
Try it On Tuesday-Things with Wings

Make It Crafty Coloring Image

This crazy has just been so busy with the kids being home and all the fun activities we have been doing so I do apologize for my inconsistent posting.

I am just popping in with a colored image I did for the Make It Crafty Contest. One of the things I love is that is a true coloring challenge so you can just pop a colored image into the contest.

This month the challenge was blond hair for the Easy challenge or creases and folds for the Hard Challenge.

 

 

This is one of the first times I have tried to added creases and folds that were not in the clothes to begin with. A bit tricky and still have a bunch of practice to do but pretty happy with the progress.

 

For the blonde I used:  Y11,Y15,Y19,YR24

Purples: V25,22,20

Green: G9,5,2,00

Skin: E110,000,R20

 

Hope you like it and hope to get it into a card soon.

 

 

Sweet Pea Stamps-Featured Artist week Lisa Victoria

This week our featured artist is the super talented, Lisa Victoria. She has some amazing dragon and fantasy themed digis and stamps that are sure to amaze you.

I decided to use the image,  Fire Dragon. 

I had this great DCVW paper called Once a Upon a Time that was perfect to pair with the image. I then colored the dragon in Copics and tried to get a more reptile scale feel with it by dotting the scales on in different shades of green.  I added some stickles as well to the dragon and distressed it with my ink pads.

 

 

 

Some Odd Girl Card

Just popping in today with a recent Some Odd Girl Card I made . This is one of their fairy digi images and wanted to get it colored up.  Paper is MME and the sentiment is actually from a Tiddly Ink digital set.

I saw some great Copic color choices and decided to try this one out.

Hair/Flower: YR000, YR01, YR02, YR04, E15
Skin: E11,E00, E000, R22,R20
Green: YG02,YG06


I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Designs-based on sketch
Love to Create-Bright and Sunny
Eclectic Ellapu-Anything Goes
That Craft Place-Anything Goes
Pumpkin Spice-Anything Goes
Sister Act-Anything Goes
Some Odd Girl Linky party-July
Wags and Whiskers-Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday-Anything Goes

Sweet Pea Stamp Card

 

Hello everyone. Recently finished up this card with one of the newer artists at Sweet Pea Stamps, Enys Guerreo. This image is called La Chica de Vitral

I decided to soften the image up because she just looked so beautiful to me. I colored the image with my Copics and decided to add some freckles because I am very freckling and like to add more realistic dimension when I color.

I used the following colors in my card:

Skin: E22, 21, 11
Hair: E01, 13,15,18
Dress;: BG 72, 78

Greeting Farm Card

Happy Thursday. Today I wanted to showcase a recent card I made with this adorable Greeting Farm Set I have. I decided to try something a bit new and will still need to work on. Over at a another site I love to follow, Make It Crafty, they offer challenges to test different skills and one a few weeks ago was making curly hair out of non-curly style. It is not the best but my first time and definitely going to try it again.

I used MME-Miss Caroline Collection for this one and colored the image with my Copics.

Used Dress-Created Strips with R24, R22, W3
Hair-E47,44,51
Skin: E23, E21, E11, E13


I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

Farm Fresh Challenge-Stripes or Plaid
Seize the Sketch-based on their sketch













4 Krafty Girlz-Anything Goes
7 Kidz College Fund-Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafty-Anything Goes
Color Throwdown-color inspiration
MarkerPop-Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge-Forever Young

Sweet Pea Stamps-Variation Week

Hello Everyone. This week we are showcasing one of the newest artist to join us at Sweet Pea Stamps-Heather Valentin.  This week we all used the image Molly What a Catch.

These images are only available as rubber stamps but we have a fabulous selection to choose from. So be sure to stop by and check out all the fabulous images she has available.

I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

613 Create-Anything Goes
Fairytale Challenge-Summer
Scribble and Scrap-Anything Goes
2 Cute Ink-Kids
Deep Ocean Challenge-Add a Sentiment
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations-Water
Artistic Stamper-Down by the Seaside
Live & Love Crafts-Down by the Sea
Natalie and Amy Challenge-Summertime

Birthday Card

One of my oldest and dearest friends had a birthday recently so I had to get a card ready for her. We do not live that close anymore so we do not see each other a lot but this image reminded me of our college days of our get togethers so thought it would be perfect to use.

I think almost everything I used on this card may be retired by now. I used a stamp from Stamping Bella that I am not sure if still available but I always loved the Bella collection. I then used a sentiment stamp and die set from Taylored Expression.  The paper is from MME stash.  Of course colored the image with my Copics.


I will be entering this one into a few challenges as well:

Cupboard Trilogy-Birthday
Stamp and Create-Birthdays
Pumpkin Spice-Anything Goes
Treasured Times-Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy-All about the Girls
Aud Sentiments-Anything Goes
Creative Moments-Anything Goes/Celebration
Colour Q-based on colors

Layout

Happy Monday. The girls have all started their summer camps this week and seem excited to have something else to do but "sit around". 

I was able to squeeze in some crafting recently for the family and decided to do a layout for my daughter's recent communion. So excited to get a layout done within the same year the event actually happened...WHOA.

For this layout, I was inspired by a sketch I saw. I used my die-cuts to create the flourishes (Cindy Loo Cart) by Cricut and also used a paper set I got at the craft store. Also used my border punches for the brown polka dot stripe on the bottom. 

Now I had to add some touches of blue because my daughter's favorite color was blue and she reminded me that I have to reflect her tastes too so I had the cross in my stash and used a label I made for the favor in the layout as well.


I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

Loves Rubberstamps-Anything Goes
Anything But a Card-Anything Goes
Time for Scrap-Anything goes
Charisma Cardz-Show Us What else you can do (anything but a card)
Crafting by Design-Anything Goes
Through the Craft Door-Anything Goes
Simon Says Monday-I ought to use this more (my Cricut and punches)

Sweet Pea July Challenge-Red, White and Blue

Hello everyone. It is now July is it time for our new monthly challenge at Sweet Pea Stamps

 

The theme for this month is

 

Red, White and Blue.

 

 

I decided to go with one of the many gorgeous images available by Ching-chou Kuik

With this one I decided to color the image in the colors of Red and Blue and use white on the background.  I used my stencils to create the background.

I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

Crafter's Café-Red,White, Blue
A Step in the Dark-Anything Goes/Dark Fantasy
Paper Time Tuesday-Red, White and Blue
7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes
Inky Impressions-Red,White and Blue or Patriotric
Crafty Sentiments-No Designer paper

Sweet Pea Stamps-Helena Basket Full of Cats

Today I decided to showcase another card using this adorable image by Helena Reis called "A Basket Full of Cats".

Since I got the bright colors of Summer on my mind this color set just made sense to me. I colored  the image with Copcs. The sentiment is from my sticker collection and then I used an online sketch I found. Added a mini bow I used for my bows I use.

Hope everyone has a great day.
I will also be entering this one into a few challenges as well

Sugar Pea Designs-based on sketch
613 Avenue Create-Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey-Anything Goes
Suzy Bee Craftin Challenge-Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic-Summery or Flowers
4 Crafty Chicks-Stripes
7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes

MFT-Pizza Box

Popping in with a quick box I did for my end of year gift boxes to the teachers yesterday.


I used the Splitcoast Stamper tutorial to create a Pizza Box to hold the gift for the teachers. The paper is from a paper stack I got at the Craft store.

I used the sketch from MFT sketch challenge and this adorable image from them as well via the Pure Innocence line but not sure if this one is retired or not as I am not seeing it on the site. Colored the image with my Copics.

The sentiment is actually from another stamp company, My Craft Spot, that I added in the middle of the chalkboard.


I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

MFT Sketch-based on Sketch
Stamp and Create-Thank you
All Crafts Challenge-Anything but a Card
Crafty Boots-Thank you
Sunshine Mail-Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge-Color Me Happy

Sweet Pea Stamps-Artist Weekly Connie Fong

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the quietness on the blog. The winding down of the school year encompasses lots of activities but we are all on summer vacation now!!!

Whoa though I wonder how long it will be before I hear "I'm bored" lol.

Today I am showcasing an adorable image by Conie Fong image. I used Butterfly Princess

 

I colored the image with my Copics and used paper from my MME stash as well as some bling. This lovely image is available in digi or rubber.

 

I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

 

MarkerPop-Use Yellow

Melonheadz-Use a Kidz Image

Glitter and Sparkle-Include Yellow

A Girl Who Crafts-Anything Goes

Reeves to Scrap=Anything Goes

SeemaCrafts-Make it Cute

Altered Eclectics-Anything Goes

The Cupboard Trilogy-Use Yellow

Kitty Bee Designs-Fantasty/fairytale Creatures

 

 

 

Variation Image-Norma for Sweet Pea Stamps

This week at Sweet Pea Stamps our team is using the gorgeous image from Norma Burnell image, Posy, for the Variations Week.  Today I decided to do a more colorful version of the image as fairy images seem to conjure lighter brighter weather and colors in my mind.

 

I colored the image with my Copics and used paper from my stash. The bling is from my Prima collection with some added colored gems I had.

 

I will adding this card into a few challenges as well:

 

Charisma Cardz-Sparkle and Shine

7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes

Crafting by Design-Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafts-Anything Goes

MarkerPop-Anything Goes

Without Words-Femme Fatale

Imagination Crafts-All that Glitters

 

 

 

Mo Manning Card

Hello Everyone,

 

Popping in today to showcase a new card I made with an image with Mo Manning. Isn't she just adorable?? I adore this image and love the sentiment that came with the digi set too. Been working on  learning to merge and angle my sentiment together with my image.

I colored the image with my Copics.

 

Used:

Dress: BV00,01,02 (used BV04 to add the dots), Y19 for the trim

Skin: E23,21,11

Hair: E29,27,23

Flowers: R24,R22,20

Sky: B01,00

Grass: G02, G00

The paper is a mixture of papers I have in my stash from MME paper.

 

I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

 

Love to Create Challenge-Make It For the Kids

Bella and Bronte Facebook Group-Anything Goes Contest

Ditzie Digi-Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time-Anything Goes

Pile it On-Use Patterned Paper

A Creative Need-Anything Goes   

Marker Pop-Anything Goes

Art by Miran-Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly-Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart-Anything Goes   

 

 

MIC Birthday Card

Today I am back with a card I made with my niece in mind. She loves anything to do with Paris so when I found this paper I thought it would be perfect for a Birthday card for her.

I combined it with this darling image from Make it Crafty called Tress Dancing. I colored the image with my copics and used paper from my MME paper pad I have. I added the leopard print pants cause she loves leopard print anything too.

I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

Make it Colorful: Use Pink and Brown (easy Challenge)
Squirrel and Fox: Girly
Loves Rubberstamps: Anything Goes
Love to Create: Birthday
Jo Scrap Shack-Birthday
Oddball Art Stamp-Girly and Glam
A Creative Romance-Girly
Sketch Saturday: based on sketch # 255

Greeting Farm Sketch Card

Hey everyone,

I finally got to put a dent in my stash of colored images and get them into cards. I have a tendency to color and color and they just kind of stay in a pile sometimes.

Here is one I did for the Greeting Farm Sketch challenge in mind.

 The paper is from Fancy Pants-Park Bench collection. I used the sketch from The Greeting Farm challenge. I colored the image with my Copics and did paper piecing on the outfit. The sentiments is from my sticker stash.

I will also be entering this one into the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments-Anything Goes
Loves Rubberstamps-Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly-Anything Goes
7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes
2 Cute to Ink-Yellow, Gray, Blue
Use Your Stuff-Patterned Paper
The Corrosive Challenge-Anything Goes
Greeting Farm-Farm Fresh Friday (sketch)
Kraftin Kimmie

Happy June Everyone-Sweet Pea Challenge

Happy June! I always love the approach of June since it means the end of school, warmer weather, beach days and a mega Birthday month here in this house so let the fun start.

 

Since it is the start of June, that means a new monthly challenge has started for One Sweet Challenge. This month our challenge is

 

Hit the Beach

 

I decided to use one of the adorable Mermaid image stamps by Elisabeth Bell in the Sweet Pea store.

 

 

 

 

I colored the image, Oceanessa with my Copics and added some Stickles to the background of the image. I used paper from my Echo Park stash.

 

I will also be entering this card into a few challenges:

 

CMD-Challenge- Summer

CraftyHazelnut Patterned Paper-Anything Goes

 The Squirrel and Fox-Girls

7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes

Open-Minded Challenges-Fairy Tale or Fantasy

Crafty Catz-Anything Goes   

Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes

 

 

 

Happy Birthday-SOG girl card

Hey Everyone. I managed to quickly finish a birthday card with this adorable Some Odd Girl Stamp I have had in my collection.  This one is called Birthday Mae. I used some paper from my stash and colored the image with my Copics. The sentiment is from a Little Darlings Sentiment set and the doily I cut out on my Cricut

I will be entering this card into a few challenges: 

Some Odd Girl Facebook Group Challenge and May Linky Party

AllSorts-Birthday

Time for Scrap: Anything Goes
My Favorite Things-Wed Sketch Challenge

Brown Sugar-Anything Goes

Seize the birthday-Anything Goes Birthday
MarkerPop Challenge-Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge-Anything Goes
Just Inspirational Challenge-Birthdays
Stamp and Create-Spring Colors
 

School Day Layout

Hey Everyone,

I am back again but this time with a recent layout I did for this school year. I am trying my best to get my pictures done in a timely manner.

 

The paper is from a recent pad from MAMBI I got at the local craft store.  I used my Cricut to create the circle #4, arrows and the tag (that is from the First Few Years cart).  The other die cut is also a Cricut cut.

 

I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

 

 

Rhedd and Rosie-No Flowers

Sketch-N-Scrap-Tamika's # Challenge

Crafty Scrapper-Use Layers

Stick It Down-Based on their sketch

 

Sketches in Thyme-Anything Sketch from anywhere