For a Boy

Time for a new challenge at One Stitch at a Time and the theme is For a Boy.

 

For my card I've used this sweet Blockhead digi stamp by Stitchy:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Prismacolor pencils...

 

 

...and teamed it with nostalgic pastel papers, a die-cut greeting, and some pretty flowers.

 

 

You can enter the challenge as many times as you like if you use a Stitchy Bear product and will be in with a chance of winning our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product are limited to 3 and will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

 

The Koi

Another Sweet Pea Stamps card from me, this time using Ching Chou Kuik's The Koi:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Prismacolor pencils....

 

 

...and added detail with a white gel pen and some Stickles glitter glue.

 

 

I decorated an easel card with seaside-theme papers from Crafty Individuals and added gemstones and paper blossoms.

 

 

You can find this beautiful stamp in digi or red rubber format at the Sweet Pea Stamps store... and don't forget, until 7 March all Ching Chou Kuik digi stamps are on sale at 25% off.

Wings of Love

For my Sweet Pea Stamps creation this week I have used Joanne Schempp's Wings of Love digi stamp, which I coloured with my Prismacolor pencils.

 

 

 

 

 

This stamp is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

Vintage Heart

This week at Sweet Pea Stamps it's our Featured Artist Week and this month the DT are featuring the gorgeous artwork of one of the newest additions to the roster of Sweet Pea artists, Charity Dauenhauer. I chose to work with this beautiful stamp called Vintage Heart:

 

 

I love the mix of steampunk, fantasy and romance in this image - just perfect for a Valentine's card, actually. ;) I coloured the image with a mixture of Promarkers and Prismacolor pencils and carefully cut around it.

 

 

I decorated my card with papers in warm tones (and continuing the heart/romance theme ;D) and textured gold mirri card. I added some delicate vintage lace and layered the image over it using foam tape.

 

 

I love the warm glow that this textured mirri card gives when the light hits it.

 

 

This stamp is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

 

A Rose By Any Other Name...

This week is Variations Week at Sweet Pea Stamps, where all the Design Team create projects using the same stamp. I always love Variations Week as it's so amazing to see how people can take the same image and create such amazingly different projects using it. :)

 

The image we're using this week is a new stamp from Concetta Kilmer called Rose:

 

 

I went for a soft pastels colour scheme for my card and decided to colour the image using my Prismacolor pencils, for a nice soft effect:

 

 

I die-cut the image out using a decorative oval die and decorated my card with pretty floral papers. I layered on a doily and a punched border strip before attaching my image using foam tape.

 

 

To finish things off I added detail around the edges of the image and in the corners of the card using a pink Perlen Pen.

 

 

This gorgeous stamp is available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. And don't forget to check the Sweet Pea Stamps blog each day this week for more great projects designed using this stamp.

 

Featured Artist : Charmaine Flannery

Each month at Sweet Pea Stamps we showcase the work of one of our fabulous artists and this month it's the turn of Charmaine Flannery. For my creation this week I chose to work with her Blue Mermaid digi stamp:

 

 

I coloured the image using Prismacolor pencils and added some white Perlen Pen to the bubbles:

 

 

 

I decorated my card with patterned paper and used a gold marker to edge the paper and the image. I attached the image using foam tape and layering it over a decorative doily.

 

 

I finished off the card with lots of pretty blossoms and some flourishes dotted with the Perlen Pen.

 

 

You can find all Charmaine's gorgeous stamps in the Sweet Pea Stamps store, in both red rubber and digi format.

 

Anything Goes

Time for another challenge at One Stitch at a Time and it's a firm favourite - Anything Goes. And as the festive season is upon us, we're going to give you an early Christmas present... you've got a whole 5 weeks in which to enter this challenge. :)

 

The Design Team are taking a bit of a well-earned break over the Christmas period so this challenge is going to run until 11 January 2014. Don't forget that if you use Stitchy Bear products on your creations you can enter the challenge as many times as you like during that period and each entry will give you a chance to win our main prize. You can still enter without using Stitchy Bear products but you are limited to 3 entries and those entries will go into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear digi outlet.

 

For my creation for this challenge I used this Rose digi stamp by Crafty Girl:

 

 

The style of this digi really put me in mind of tattoo art so I went for a kind of funky, alternative style for my card. I coloured the image using my Prismacolor pencils and cut it out using a decorate oval die:

 

 

I used a card blank in a tentfold format and cut a card panel slightly smaller than my card front and covered it with washi tape in a contempory chevron pattern.

 

 

I attached my die-cut image using foam tape, overlapping the top edge of the card a little.

 

 

To finish, I stamped a greeting and trimmed it into a banner shape, matting it onto a larger banner cut from black card.

 

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Creative Corner - Color It

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin' for the Weekend - Use Some Red

Stempelsonnen Challenge - Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seahorse Illusion

I've been experimenting with my Prismacolor pencils recently... getting a bit more adventurous in how I mix and blend colours. I did my experimenting on this gorgeous digi stamp by Ching Chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps. It's called Seahorse Illusion:

 

 

I tried using contrasting instead of toning colours on some of the shading and I rather like the effect it gives:

 

 

I didn't want to overpower the lovely colours on the image with too much colour in the background so I kept my card fairly simple. I tried out my new Inktense blocks to make a soft colour wash on a panel of watercolour paper and layered a piece of cheesecloth over it.

 

 

I finished things off with a fragment of punchinella, some pretty flowers and some dots of .

 

 

You can find this image in digi and red rubber format in the Sweet Pea Stamps store.

 

Featured Artist: Rachel Anderson

It's Featured Artist Week at Sweet Pea Stamps and this month the Design Team are showcasing the stunning artwork of Rachel Anderson. I chose to work this this beautiful stamp called Amanita Muscaria:

 

 

I'm going through a bit of a minimalist, CAS phase at the moment and I think the clean and simple style works well with this pretty framed image. I coloured the image using Prismacolor pencils and added highlights to the white dots on the mushrooms using a white gel pen:

 

 

I kept my card really simple, matting white card onto black card for a border and layering a die-cut flourish behind the image. It would be easy to add a simple stamped sentiment to this card for whatever occasion I might choose.

 

Rachel's beautiful stamps are available in both digi and red rubber format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store and will be on special offer for this week only. :)

Bingo!!

Who doesn't love a game of bingo? And we crafters love to get creative with our very own version, don't we? I love bingo challenges, they are such fun and push you to think outside the box a little and use techniques/ideas that maybe you wouldn't usually.

 

We're having a bingo challenge at One Stitch at a Time this week. If you've never done one before, the concept is really simple. From the bingo card below, choose elements in a line across the card (across, down, diagonally, however you like) and use those elements in your creation.

 

 

Here's my bingo creation - I used the Great Tit Pine Cone digi stamp by Ike's Art and my choice of bingo line was: CAS, Ribbon or Twine and Green.

 

 

I coloured the digi stamp using my Prismacolor pencils...

 

 

And trimmed it into a panel to fit the front of my card. I matted the panel onto green cardstock and wrapped twine around it before attaching to the card front using foam pads. I also added a small stamped greeting.

 

 

I've been getting quite into the whole clean and simple style lately, it makes for such striking cards. :)

 

You don't need to use a Stitchy Bear product to enter the OSAAT challenge but if you do you can enter as many times as you like and you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize. You can enter no more than 3 times without using a Stitchy Bear product and those entries will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

 

And don't forget to let us know which elements from the bingo card you used! :)

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Thank You

Colour Me Creative Challenge - Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges - Thankful

Di's Digis Designs - Thanks/Thanksgiving/Harvest

Hiding in my Craft Room - Thanksgiving

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Card Crafter's Circle - Thankful/Thank You

Card Makin' Mamas - Thankful Tidings

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - So Grateful

Digi Haven - We Give Thanks