Featured Artist-Regan Kubecek

Welcome back to Sweet Pea Stamps. This week all the members of the fabulous DT are Featuring the gorgeous images from artist-Regan Kubecek.

I decided to create this card from the lovely image called Hopeful Heart.

I colored the image with my Copics and used paper from my stash. The sentiment is from my sticker stash.  I will be entering this card into a few challenges as well

Quick Creations Inspiration Post-CC Designs

Hello Everyone. It is Olivia here for an Inspirational Post for Quick Creations. 

Today I am showcasing the newest stamps release from CC Designs! Have you seen these cuties in the store yet. 

I was fortunate enough to use the stamp, Dear Diary, by artist Roberto Rascals.  I thought this card would look great as a gatefold card. If you are interested in making a gatefold card, I used the tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers.

 I colored the image with my Copics and then used my Spellbinder dies to cut out the image and the scallop dies around it. I used my wood veneers for a sentiment. The paper is from the Doodlebug Springtime Pad.

Hope you enjoyed this card and be sure to stop by and check out all the great products available. 

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

7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew-Stripes
Ladybug Crafts-Bright Colors
Party Time Tuesday-Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the “Crafty Sentiments Designs’ blog hop”!

We are so excited to have you join us today!

 

At each stop of the hop we hope you will be inspired by the creativity of the design Team from “Crafty Sentiments Designs”. You are sure to find many wonderful projects that will be at the top of your crafting lists! If you happened across this post out of order, please head to the "Crafty Sentiments Designs’ blog" to start at the beginning of the hop.

Now how about some blog hop prizes??

3 of the new rubber stamps release will go to 3 different hoppers In order to win you will need to leave a comment each day on all the blogs.

What do you need to do to be eligible for these amazing prizes?

1. Become a follower of each blog in the hop, if you aren't already for the 4 days “Blog Hop New Releases”.

2. Leave some comment love at each stop for the 4 days “Blog Hop New Releases”.

3. If you do both of the above, check back here at the “Crafty Sentiments’ blog” for the winners on 28^th November !

Today I am showcasing one of the newest stamps called, Hanging Hearts.

 

 

As usually I colored this adorable image with my Copics and used an assortment of papers from my stash.

 

Now for the blog hop lineup:

- Craftysentiments Blog
- Goldie
- Céline
- Bettina
- Suzette
- Audrey

- Olivia
- Jackie
- Valou

I hope you have enjoyed the first stop on our wonderful hop! Be sure to head on over to the other stops for more inspiration, comment and become a follower to be eligible for the prizes!

Good luck!

Sweet Pea Stamps-Keeping the Faith

Today for Sweet Pea Stamps I am showcasing one of the newest rubber stamps  by Ching Chou Kuik's called Keep in Faith

 

 

I really love this skin combo that I used to give her a more sun tanned looked and got to use some of my MME paper stash pile.

Copics used are:

Skin: E25,E23, E21,R34
Hair: E49, E57, E53
Sunflowers: Y19,15,11, YR04 with a touch of stickles
Eyes: BV11,BV00

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

Copic Spain-Anything Goes
SweetPea Stampers-Thinking of you/sympathy
Jo's Scrap Shack-Anything Goes
Sister's Act-Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty-Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday-Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments-Two or More Designer Paper

Good morning sweet crafters and welcome to our brand new challenge for Crafty Sentiments

, "2 or more papers design"!

Now the DT have as always worked super hard to bring lots of awesome inspiration but just before we see what they have to offer us how about a quick look at this weeks amazing prize.

 

Today I decided to showcase one of my favorite stamps from Crafty Sentiments called Annabel-Sweet Treat

 

 

I used an assortment of papers from my MME paper pad and decided to do some paper piecing as well on this one.

 

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

 

Party Time Tuesday-Anything goes

Dream valley Challenges-Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge-Your Favorite Technique (I love doing paper piecing)   

Catered Crop-Anything Goes

Penny Black and More-Anything Goes

Copic Spain-Anything Goes

Brown Sugar-Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

Christmas Around the Corner Sweet Pea Blog Hop

Christmas is Just Around the Corner Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sweet Pea Stamps Christmas is Just Around the Corner Blog Hop! Today our wonderful design team members are featuring a plethora of gorgeous Christmas themed images in both, rubber and digi format, to inspire your Christmas crafting.

 

Karen Middleton's Bauble Mouse

For today I decided to showcase one of the lovely stamps by Conie Fong called Sally and Snowball.

 

Please visit each of our talented team members' blogs and leave a little love - a comment on every hop post will enter you into a drawing for a $20 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! As an added bit of fun share the hop on Facebook tagging Sweet Pea Stamps for a chance for a $10 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! Winners will be chosen around the first of next week.

Sweet Pea Stamps blog 
Ria
Holley 
Milo
Sande
Suzi 
Aletha
Olivia 
Nataliya
Tera 
Jane
Jennifer

 

Also check out this great coupon just for hopping along. Thanks for stopping by!

expires 11/16/2014

It is time again for my Guest DT for Quick Creations Store. This month I was lucky enough to get to use some fabulous Tiddly Inks stamps.  For this card I used the stamp called Willow's Birthday Fairy.

 

 

 

 

I colored the image with my Copics and then decided to use one of the great dies also available in the store. This die is from Die-Versions Celebrate Die.  The papers are from Imaginisce Little Princess and embellished flower from Prima Fabric Ballroom Flowers.

 

 

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

 

MilkCoffee Challenge-Hand Colored image

7 Kids college fund-Anything Goes

Scrapyland-Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday-Anything Goes

 Creative Moments-Anything Goes/Celebrate

Top Tip Tuesday-3 or more papers

   

Variation Week-sweet Pea Stamps

Hello everyone,

Today is my turn to showcase one of the gorgeous images by Karen Middleton called Archway angel.

 

This image can be found as digital or rubber stamps.  As usual, I colored it with my Copics and used an assortment of papers from my stash.

Ms. Middleton has so many gorgeous image so be sure to check out her stuff. Be sure to check that the site, Sweet Pea Stamps.

Betty's 40 Birthday Blog Hop

Today is Betty Roberts 40th Birthday!!! 

 YES the BIG 40!

 so we thought we would make it as special as we possibly can! ...
the Awesome Rachel Sharp http://sharkie19.deviantart.com/?rnrd=118353
drew us up an image to use for Betty's Birthday!!
A whole bunch of AMAZING, SUPER TALENTED ladies
have done some UNBELIEVABLE projects for you to see, they have all been mailed out to Betty
so she should get some AMAZING mail...
but we thought you would all like to see these FANTASTIC projects..

 

 

 You should have been directed from Floss - http://crabbiescards.blogspot.co.uk/ site.

 

 

Since I know how much Betty loves Halloween, the Halloween colors were the first thing that came to mind. I colored the image with my Copics as usual. Now this is a big hop to get that coffee and enjoy.

 

Next on the list is Rochelle http://rochelleayris.blogspot.co.uk/.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTY!

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the ...

 

Whimsy Stamps November release BLOG HOP!

The Whimsy Stamps DT and GDT have been sharing some amazing creations made with the new stamps and dies over the last couple of days, and today we are celebrating their release with a GRAND BLOG HOP!

The hop starts today (Wednesday November 5th at 12.00PM noon ET) and ends on Friday November 7th at 12.00pm noon ET. If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to start the hop at Louise's blog.

For today's project, I inked up

Wee Stamps: Snowflake Dancer

I colored the image with my Copics and used some Liquid pearl and stickle to make it shine a bit more. The sentiment is from another great Whimsy Set called Holiday Noteables 1. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One lucky hopper will win a $25 gift certificate! To enter the draw, simply leave a comment at EVERY stop along the hop by 12.00pm noon on Friday November 7th.

Here is the full blog hop list

Louise Roache Crissy Armstrong (GDT)

Jacque Beddingfield

Iris Wiechmann

Olivia Marmara (GDT)

Ellie Stover

Lizzy Smith (GDT)

Danni Bindel

Shannah Bartle

 

Thanks so much for visiting today. It has been a fantastic experience being a GDT this month at Whimsy Stamps. Happy hopping!

 

 

Whimsy Stamps November Rubber Stamp and Die Release Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the Whimsy Stamps ...

November 2014 Release
 

I am thrilled to join Whimsy Stamps as a guest designer this week to help showcase their November release!

This week Whimsy is releasing 19 *BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps/ stamp sets and 4 *BRAND NEW* coordinating die/die sets, and they will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and selected Whimsy Stamps retailers TOMORROW. Whimsy is thrilled to welcome Olivia Marmara, Lizzy Smith, Mi Ran and Crissy Armstrong as Guest Designers for this release.

 

 

 

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

 

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Crissy Armstrong and Elisabeth Bell stamps being released this month. For a full reveal of these stamps, hop on over to the Whimsy blog!

For today's project, I inked up Candy’s Christmas Candle by Elisabeth Bell.  Isn't she just the sweetest image! I went with the classic Christmas colors for this image as I colored it with my Copics and used an assortment of papers from my Christmas paper stash. I also get to use one of the great new Dies being release as well called Stocking Border Die on the interior of the card.

 

 

 

 Now it's time for you to continue today's hop! Don’t forget to leave a comment at every stop along the hop to be entered into the draw to win a gift certificate:

 

Debbie Eastman

Olivia Marmara (GDT)

Shannah Bartle

Jacque Beddingfield

Lizzy Smith (GDT)

Shelby Thomas

Crissy Armstrong (GDT)

Bev Rochester
 

 

And be sure to visit the Whimsy blog again tomorrow for the release day grand hop! Thanks so much for visiting today. Happy hopping!

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

It is time for a new challenges over at Crafty Sentiments and this week the challenge is one of favs.... 

 

 

Make it Sparkle

 

Now I love to add some type of sparkle or bling to my cards so this one was pretty easy for me. I decided to showcase one of the adorable fairies from the Lollipop Dreams collection called Petal Fairy

 

 

 

 

I adore so many of the new Lollipop Dreams stamps and this one is no exception. As always I colored with my Copics and then went Stickle happy for the rest of it.

 

I hope to see may sparkly creations in this next challenge.

 

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

 

Crafting from the Heart-Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion-Bright and Sparkly  

MarkerPop-Anything Goes

 Loves Rubberstamps-Anything Goes

Copic Marker Spain-Anything Goes

The Sisters of Craft-Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

Sweet Pea Stamps-Poinsetta Fairy

This week for Sweet Pea Stamps I decided to showcase one of the images from Ching Chou Kuik called Poinsetta Fairy.

 

I have always adored this image and love using it for Christmas card.

 

 

I  colored the image with my Copics and tried a new hair recipe I really like and actually wrote it down lol.

Hair: E47,E57,E43,E53
Skin: E11,E00,E000, R20
Flowers: R29,27,24
Dress:G09,7.5
Wings:G02,G00

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

Crafty Blogger Network-Anything Christmas
Paper Minutes-Christmas and Red
Christmas Card Challenge-Anything Goes Christmas
Allsorts Challenge-Christmas
Hiding in my Craft Room-Any Holiday
Ching-Chou Challenge-Anything Goes

Featured Artist @ Sweet Pea Stamps-Helena Reis

Since I still have Halloween on the brain, I thought this adorable image from Helena Reis called Trick or Treat.  The paper is from my stash of Halloween papers. I used a variety of Copics to color this one up. 

Our lovely Lynette from Sweet Pea also gave us some sentiments to work with and thought this one was perfect for a Halloween theme card.  See sure to check out all the lovely images available from Helena at Sweet Pea Stamps.

Since this will most likely be my last Halloween Card for the season, I have decided to enter this one into a few challenges.

Shopping Our Stash-use Halloween colors
Crafty Boots-Fall or Halloween
Dream Valley Challenges-Halloween
Without Words-Boo (Halloween theme)
Sentimental Sundays-Too Cute to Spook
The Corrosive Challenge-Halloween
Pumpkin Spice-Halloween
Sweet Pea Stampers-Halloween
Fairytale Challenge-Happy Halloween

Crafty Sentiments Challenge-Use a Sentiment

It is time for another new challenge for Crafty Sentiments.

This week, new challenge is:

 

Use a sentiment,

(all you need is add a sentiment somewhere on your card/project)

The fantastic prize is the great stamp! Isn't it perfect for the upcoming holidays?

prize

Today I decided to use this stamp called Sing a Long.

 

I have decided I am more classic style with making my cards and I think I will embrace it instead of trying to get all embellishment happy here. I colored the image with my Copics and did it a bit different in which I tried to match the image to the paper (I usually do it backwards). I am also trying to perfect different skin shades.

 

Copic Combo:

 

Skin: E35,34,31,R32

Hair: E49,47,44

Outfit Blue: B97,95,93

Orange: YR07.04

Guitar: E57,55

 

So I hope to see your lovely creations in our challenge and check out the adorable stamps available over at Crafty Sentiments. I just posted the new sale info as well for those who love a bargain.

 

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

A Random Fan-Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door-Anything Goes

Loves Rubberstamps-Warm Colors

PPinkydolls Challenge-Anything Goes or Halloween

Paper Nest Dolls Challenge-Anything Goes

That Craft Place-Girly but no Pink (3rd entry)

Whimsy Stamps DT Call

Hey everyone,

I have always been a lover of the many designers over at Whimsy Stamps and was super excited to see they are having a DT call. I have always had a passion for using stamps over digis, especially rubber stamps and I have adored the artists past and present that have worked with Whimsy. I would be honored to use these fantastic stamps and dies as a designer.  So I am throwing my hat into the ring with a few cards I made this week.



The first one is from an adorable image from the Wee Collection by Sylvia Zet called Dandelion Girl. I colored her with my trusty Copics and used a variety of papers from my MME paper pads. Also used one of my punches to create the border trim.

 

 

Copics used were :

 

Skin: E15,13,11R20

Hair: E 49.47.44

Dress Green: G29,28,21,20

Orange: YR61,65

Dandelion: touch of C1

Sky: B0000,B00,B01

Can: C3,2,1

 

 

I also had time to use one of the fabulous Whimsy Stamps in the Little Cottage Collection by Elisabeth Bell.  This beauty is called Miss Chloe. 

 

Again I added a mish mash of papers from both Bo Bunny and Fancy Pants. I colored the images with my Copics. The sentiment came from one of my Whimsy Sentiment Stamp set called Everyday Notables Saying 4 which is such a handy set for your cards. I also did some sponging to add more color to the image itself.

 

Copic Recipe

 

Skin: E11,E00,E000, R20

Hair: E37,35,33,31

Dress/Flowers: B18,14,12

 

 

Best of luck to all who are entering and for my followers thanks for the well wishes. Here is the info if anyone else is looking for more info.

 

 

 

 

Zuri Artsy Crafty New Release

It is time for another new monthly release here at Zuri Artsy Crafty. This month Zuri has three new images for you.  Here is my new card with the image, Flora.  Isn't she a doll?

I  colored the image with my Copics and used one of my MME paper pads. Be sure to stop by our page to see all the wonderful creations made with the newest release.

Cupcake Thief Card

Today I created a birthday card for my daughter who birthday is next week. She is NOT a fan of pink and loves blues so that was the starting point for my inspiration. She also loves cupcakes too so this one was a no brainer.

 

I used paper from Fancy Pants Collection called Park Bench and I think I may finally be done with this pad (yes I did the unthinkable and used up a paper pad lol).

 

I colored the image with my Copics and used some ribbon trim I had in my stash as well. The sentiment is from my collection.

 

Skin: E11,E00,E000

Hair: E49.47.44

Dress: B02,01,00

Yellow: Y19,15,11

Grey: C5,3,1

 

 

I will be entering this one into the following challenges:

 

7 Kids College Fund-Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More-Make your Mark-Coloring

That Craft Place-Girly but no Pink

Penny's Paper Crafty-Anything goes

WordArt Wednesdays-Anything Goes

Stamping Bella-based on Sketch

Party Time Tuesday-Anything Goes

Crafting at the Weekends-Anything Goes

 

Variation Week @ Sweet Pea Stamps-Conie Fong Joy to the World

This week our team is showcasing one of the new Holidays inspired images by Conie Fong called, Joy to the World

 

This image struck me as a perfect classic Christmas card image and color scheme. I colored the image with my copics and used some paper from my Collection.

 

Be sure to stop by all this week to check out the brilliant work from my teammates

 

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

 

Deep Ocean Challenges-Christmas in October

Inky Chicks-Christmas

Party Time Tuesday-Anything Goes

Classy Cards-Polka Dot Christmas

My Perfect Life-Anything Christmas

We Do Doobadoo-Christmas

Delicious Doodles-Christmas in October 

Christmas Stampin All Year Long-Color Combo