SOS254 - Seahorse Mermaid

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called The 4 Elements and we want everyone to choose and element (earth, wind, water, fire) to use on their creation.
I choose water and this lovely stamp with mermaid and seahorses from Sweet Pea Stamps (designed by Ching-Chou Kuik)

 I colored the image with alcohol markers using a color palette from Sunday Stamps. I embossed the whole image with UTEE for extra glossy/watery effect,
Papers are from Stampin Up and flowers from my huge stash.

Challenges:
kitty bee designs - fairytale/fantasy
Through the Purple Haze - under water
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Bingo - pearls, patterned paper, embossing
Sunday Stamps - colors

Sweet Pea Stamps - Calla Lily Valley

here is a card I made for the first part of the Progressive challenge on Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook group. The theme is Anything Goes with Sweet Pea image.

I used a Ching-Chou Kuik image called Calla Lily Valley and colored her with alcohol markers (Spectrum Noir  & Blendabilities). Added some Stickles here and there and a glittery butterfly.

I'm also entering it into these challenges:
Crafty boots - butterflies
The Crazy Challenge - embossing
Pile it on - Fantasy

Acacia Fairy in Blue

I was feeling blue (Avatar blue, not sad blue) so I colored The Acacia Fairy from Norma J Burnell (digi from Sweet Pea Stamps) in shades of blue and created this card:

Added Stickles and pearls on her wings for extra magic :) and here is a detail:

Challenges:
Sweet Pea Stampers - things with wings
Crazy Challenge - bingo - diagonal - lace, digi, die cut
Crafty Bloggers Network - bingo - die cuts, ribbon/lace, pearls

Sweet Pea Soft Wind with no Patterned Paper

I was asked to be a guest designer for the current challenge at Paper Crafting Challenges where there want participants to use no patterned paper.
I was honored and came up with this:

The image is called Soft Wind and it's from Sweet Pea Stamps - colored it with Spectrum Noir Markers. The background was made with Encaustic wax technique (melting crayons with hot iron)
Addicted to Stamps - coloring
4 Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Girly

SOS148 - Earth Day Notebook

Good Morning and happy Earth Day! Yep, today is Earth Day so our challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to up-cycle or recycle something on your project.
I up-cycled an old composition notebook and created this:

there is also a recycled paper doily (one of the bottom layers, painted over)

The image is from Norma J Burnell's Fairy Tangles Collection and is called Will-O and the Wisps - colored with Spectrum Noir Markers, flowers and embellishments are mostly from Prima
Chalelnges:
Card Mania - Fairies
Through The Purple Haze - Creativity Strikes
Allsorts - birds and feathers
Pumpkin Spice - Coloring

Here and forever spring notebook

Here is a spring looking altered composition notebook I made. I went a little crazy and used anything and everything I had on hand :)
The woodland fairy  is a digi from Sweet Pea Stamps called Here and Forever

 as you can probably see I used a lot of yellow acrylic paint, some green too... there is also a doily, embossing paste, shabby green frantage embossing powder, prima flower and charm, washi tape, pearls and butterflies....

and here is a close-up:

Challenges:
One Sweet Challenge - Ringing in Spring
The Crazy Challenge - Spring Is Here
Make My Monday - mythical creatures
Anything But a Card - Spring

Sweet Pea Stamps design team call

Sweet Pea Stamps are having a design team call, so since I just looove their stamps I decided to give it a try. Here is a card I made:

I used one of older Ching Chou Kuik's mermaids - I don't know the name, but if you do I would be grateful if you let me know.
Image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers and embellished with Stickles.
If you would like to see more of my Sweet Pea Stamps creations check out these blog posts:
Northern Nightfall
Dark Lilies
Katie

I'm entering it into these challenges:
Make My Monday - grown up card
Make Something Monday - use stamping
As You Like It - favorite 3D texture and why - I love feather and flowers (make people want to touch and explore the card)

SOS138 - Shiny Dark Lilies

It's Tuesday, and time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. This week our theme is Oh, Shiny, and we ask you to use something shiny on your card.
For my card I used a Sweet Pea image (again) from Ching-Chou Kuik called Dark Lilies

The image was colored with Spectrum Noir markers. I used stickles on the lilies, in her hair and on the flowers too
and here is a detail:

Challenges:
ABC Challenge - E is for Embellish (flowers, ribbon, butterfly)
Crafts Galore Encore challenge - bling
Card Makin Mamas - make it sparkle
Southern Girls - Bling, Bling, Bling

SOS137 - Love Me Tender

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Love Me Tender and we ask you to make something with the theme of Love or Valentine's Day.

For my card I used Ching Chou kuik's Poppy, from the Mist from Sweet Pea Stamp and colored the image with alcohol markers. Paper and card stock is from Stampin Up.

One Sweet Challenge - Love
Sweet Pea Stampers - Valentine/ Love
A Creative Romance - Show some Love
Sister Act - anything goes

SOS135 - Winter Blues

Good Morning! It's time for another challenge at Shopping Our Stash, and this week our theme is Winter Blues. We ask you to make a card or other project with the main color of blue. It doesn't need to be all blue, and you can include any other colors you like, but when we look at your card, we should be able to say, "Oh, blue!"

 For my card I used one of my neglected Sweet Pea Stamps and colored her in with alcohol markers (I probably used all shades of blue I have ) :)

Challenges:
613 Avenue Create - anything goes + winter blues
Just Us Girls - color challenges (blues + brown)
Card & Scrap - use bling
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - square and feminine

Sweet Pea - Inner Tender Fairy in brown

Good morning! We have a new challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers and the challenge is "fantasy" so that can be anything like fairies, pixies, mermaids, unicorns, witches etc. Very easy, since most of  Sweet Pea stamps ARE fantasy :)
For my card I used fairy stamp from Ching-Chou Kuik called Inner Tender

I stamped it on watercolor paper and color it with watercolor pencils and water based markers. Then I distressed the edges and played with frantage embossing powders and mica flakes. Then just a bit of lace, Prima metal filigree embellishment and butterfly and it's done! :)


Challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Things with Wings
The Crafter's Cafe - Embossing
Divas By Design - Lovely Lace
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - In Distress
Use it Tuesday - Trends - Frantage embossing powders and mica flakes (I had to buy 5 different colors of each as it seemed that all cool cards have them) :)

Sweet Pea Stampers - Northern Nightfall

Time for a new challenge at Sweet Pea Stampers - the theme for the next 2 weeks is embossing - wet or dry.

I used  Ching chou kuik's Northern Nightfall digi - colored it with alcohol markers and added a bit of fran'tage embossing powder to the top. The background panel was brayered and then embossed.

I'm entering it into these challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Milk Coffee Challenge - show your coloring skills

Sweet Pea Stampers - Under the Sea

I don't know if I mentioned it before..so just in case I didn't.. I was lucky to be chosen for Sweet Pea Stampers design team. I'm on Team A, but since I didn't have time to make anything for Team A's challenge 2 weeks ago I decided to play along this week. The theme of the new challenge is Under the Sea. Sweet Pea Stamps has literally hundreds of mermaids, so this is really an easy one :)

I used Elaine Cox's Atlantis Bower (mermaid 1) digi. It's colored with alcohol markers and added stickles for extra shine. Sketch is from this week's Mojo Monday challenge.
I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - By the Sea
Charizma Cards - girly
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - inspiration picture

don't forget to check out beautiful Sweet Pea creations by my team mates!

SOS100 - Pink mermaid

Wohoo! It's challenge #100 at Shopping Our Stash - where did all that time go?
This week we are either making a Mother's Day card or using pink (on at least 60% of the card).
My Mother's Day card is mailed so I went the pink way and got out my neglected Sweet Pea stamps.

The image was colored with Prisma pencils and I used random pink papers from my stash.

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - F for Fantasy
Pretty Little Ribbon - Lace
The Crafty Bloggers - Tic Tac Toe  (diagonal - bling,stamp, ribbon)

Flowers, Fairies and Baseball

and here I am again with more cards:
first up is a card for my sister's B-day. Background was created by sprayed 3 different shades of glimmer mist  - I used butterfly die cuts as masks. I also died the lace. Flower is one of the ones I made for last week's ABAC challenge. It's really shimmery, as are the golden leaves.

challenges:
Fab 'n' Funky - things with wings - butterflies
2 sisters - things with wings

second is a Christmas card with Poinsettia Fairy from Sweet Pea Stamps - I haven't play with these beauties for some time - so I was due :)
She's colored with Prismacolor pencils and the background is just simple embossed CS.

challenges:
Charisma cardz - things with wings
Crafting for all seasons - things with wings
Love to Create  - things with wings

 my 3rd card has more embossing and also Baseball Ian from The Greeting Farm - no sport themed papers here, so I just kept the background clean and simple. Added a bit of rugged-ness with inks and sanding.

challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - embossing
Dutch Dare - all things boys

Serenity 3 shutter card

I did not make a 3-shutter card in ages, but when I saw this week's challenge at Joan's Gardens is to make one, I decided to jump in.
At Joan's Garden they want us to:

• Make a Tri-Shutter Card - check
• Used more than one design paper - I used 3 from Bo Bunny Serenity collection
• Use something dimensional - flowers & a feather
• Use ribbon or lace - used lace on the skinny panelsand here is a detail of the image - the stamp is from Sweet Pea Stamps and it's called Bamboo Serenade. Papers are from BoBunny's Serenity collection - think they work wonderfully with the image :)

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - from the sundae bar I picked lace & die cuts
Dutch Dare - fancy fold

PSC67 - Favorite Hair Color - SP Dark Royalty

Good Morning and Happy Sunday -May Day! Finally looks like spring out there.
Today's Paper Sundaes challenge is to color hair with your favorite hair color and of course tell us what colors did you use.
When I was thinking about my favorite hair color I realized I don't have any, but I do like to color hair with non-traditional colors, so that's what I decided to do. And what's better for non-traditional hair color than Sweet Pea fairies and mermaids? Nothing!
I used Dark Royalty and Copics for coloring - for the hair I used G00, BG11, BG13 and BG15.
While I was looking for the perfect papers I came across my fabric stash and though - why not? The teal background is fabric, adhered to CS with Heat Bond. Then just a bit of linnen lace, velvet ribbon and a cute little butterfly and my card is done.
Little word of advise - if you are playing with fabric or other non-paper material - remember to adhere them well -paper adhesive doesn't work so well - I used sticky tape on almost all layers today.

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
If the Shoe Fits - Things with Wings
Stamp Something - Something with Wings
The stamping Boutique - Winged Things

Coloring Black Hair and New Challenge Blog

New challenge blog alert! My online friend Carla is launching a new and very useful challenge blog called SHOPPING OUR STASH (SOS) for all of us who are getting overwhelmed by our stash and for those living in denial too!! She is looking for DT members and offering a blog candy.
More information here!

I made this card for Make it Colorful challenge, where the theme is to color black hair. Well I have to admit that black hair is one of my least favorite things to color, but I gave it a try.
I used Sweet Pea stamp called Midnight Waiting and colored the image with Prismacolor pencils. For the hair, I went over the whole hair with light gray and then just added black and more black to create shadows.
I used Gloria's fabulous sketch from Christian Paper Craft blog - I don't have a large scallop die/punch, so I cut out several small circles from pink CS, cut them in half and adhered them on the light blue panel. I'm also entering it into In a Sweet Pea Dream Challenge where Anything goes.

PSC62 - Sweet Pea - Katie

Good Morning and Happy Sunday!
This week's Paper Sundae challenge is to get inspired by this picture:

For my card I used Sweet Pea Stamp called Katie by Elaine Cox. You can find a collection of Sweet Pea stamps at Michelle's Scrapbooking (our sponsor for this week). I was inspired by the colors of the picture and here is what I created:
The image was stamped on watercolor paper, heat embossed and colored with TH Distress inks, SU inks and aqua painter. DP is made by Prima - Fairy Flora Collection, and the butterfly is a stamp and die from Heartfelt Creations.
The Sketch is from Pink Elephant and I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
Sweet Pea Stampers - Pack a punch
Crafty Creations - Stitches
Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day/ Girlie
The Shabby Tea room - Three in a row - I picked the bottom row - punch/die cut, heat embossing, ribbon

Sweet Pea - Red Hearts in Blue

Just a quick post before work.
Here is a card I made with sketch from Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge. I used image called Red Hearts - just changed the color scheme to blue ;)The image was colored with mix of Prismacolor pencils and Copics. I added lots of white stickled on her wings. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and the flowers are from Wild Orchid.

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:
In a Sweet Pea Dream - Anything Sweet Pea Goes
Charisma Cardz - Mythical/Fantasy