Variations Week with Pumpkin Sprite: Aletha’s View

Aletha here and it’s my day for our Variation’s Week featuring Mitzi Sato-Wiuff’s Pumpkin Sprite rubber stamp. Mitzi’s sprites are some of my favorites among her rubber stamps in the Sweet Pea Stamps shop.

I had a lot of fun doing my first Halloween themed card for this year. Pumpkin Sprite was colored with Copics and some added bling was added with glitter pens. Next step was to trim her with a circle die, add black ink around the circle, and mount her on a circle die cut in orange cardstock. This orange die cut has black ink around the outer edge also.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 04, 11, 21, and R20

Pumpkin body: E08, 29, 31, and YR04

Treat bucket and flower hat: YR20, 21, 23, 24, 27

Leaves and stem: G40, 82, 94, 99

Cat: C1, 5, 7, 9, and black Copic liner

Cats eyes and inside of bucket: YG21m 25

Background: W00, 0, 1, 2, 3

I had a lot of fun with my various dies too. I cut out all the elements and before I detached them from the die I added black ink to the embossed areas. For the bats eyes I decided on some Liquid Pearls. Last embellishment is the pumpkin brad in the upper left corner. After all was done, I decided that Pumpkin Sprite is trying to decide if she wants to go on with her Trick or Treat evening.

My complete recipe for Pumpkin Sprite:

• Stamp: Pumpkin Sprite rubber stamp by Mitzi
• Cardstock: SU in Basic Black and Marigold Morning
• Designer Paper: Gina K’s Spooktacular You!
• Ink: Black Licorice
• Liquid Pearls: Daffodil
• Brad: Teresa Collins Haunted Hallows
• Dies: Celebrations Pierced Circles, Witche’s Brew, Graveyard Scenes and Shapes, Nested Bats (all Spellbinders)

I wanted to remind you all that we have a monthly challenge at One Sweet Challenge. There are fantastic prizes there. Over at our Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook group, we have a bi-weekly art contest. That prize is one digi stamp from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. You must use a Sweet Pea image, the theme is always “Anything Goes,” and you can enter as many times as you want. Each entry MUST be a new project. How easy is that? For all the upcoming events and sales visit our Sweet Pea Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you visit every day for more Sweet Pea inspiration.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer

Heather Valentin’s Petals

Aletha here with a little inspiration piece featuring Heather Valentin’s Petals. Isn’t she a little charmer? A Petals card would be perfect for a little flower girl. I know that she would appreciate the cuteness. Petals can be found as a digital image or as a rubber stamp, whichever you prefer.

I am in love with Heather’s art work. Did you know that the Heather’s images available at Sweet Pea Stamps are designed exclusively for Sweet Peas? I think that is pretty cool!

Petals was first colored with Copics and then trimmed with a die. I then layered her on three layers of purple and light purple cardstock. Before layering I did add some Smooch Illuminate ink to the embossed edges.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 04, 11, 21, and R20

Hair and Basket: E25, 29, 31, 50

Eyes and Leaves: G40, 43, 46, 29

Pinafore and some flowers: V000, 01, 04, 06, 09

Other flowers: RV34, 52, 69

Dress: V000, RV34, 52, and C0, 2, 4

Dress sleeves: C4, 6, 8

Background: W00, 0, 01, 2, 4, and RV52

Other elements for my Petals project:

• Cardstock: Pretty Pansy and Pretty Amethyst
• Designer Paper: Heartfelt Creations
• Dies: Spellbinder’s Matting Basics A, and
• Memory Box Fabulous Phlox
• Paints: Viva Décor 3D Rose Metallic Stamp Paint
• Inks: Dusty Concord Distress Ink and Smooch
• Pearls: Light purple from KC Company
• Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon

I wanted to remind you all that we have a monthly challenge at One Sweet Challenge. There are fantastic prizes there. Over at our Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook group, we have a bi-weekly art contest. That prize is one digi stamp from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. You must use a Sweet Pea image, the theme is always “Anything Goes,” and you can enter as many times as you want. Each entry MUST be a new project. How easy is that? For all the upcoming events and sales visit our Sweet Pea Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you visit every day for more Sweet Pea inspiration.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer

Eva the Witch and Sweet Pea Stamps

Hi all! I hope that you had a great weekend. It’s Tuesday and time for me to show you something that I made with a Sweet Pea image. I am on a Teresa Sherman kick this month. For this project I chose Eva the Witch. Eva can be found in digital format and as a rubber stamp.

Eva has been colored with Copics and a few glitter pens. She was then fussy cut and layered on some brown designer paper. I distressed the edges of this brown designer paper.

The background designer paper was distressed and layered on the same brown paper. All of these edges were distressed also. I attached this paper to the black base card. I die cut a spider web and sprayed some shimmer spray all over it. After the web was dry I attached it to the background.

I then added the main element to the card. You really can’t see them, but I die cut some corners in black and added them around Eva. The final embellishments are the roses which were distressed with black soot distress ink.

Have you checked out our One Sweet Challenge? I hope you join us. If you do, and you used a Sweet Pea image, head over to our Facebook’s Group art contest.  The one going on right now lasts until July 7. That gives you plenty of time to make some Sweet Pea goodness.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you stop by every day and check out what Sweet Pea’s Design Team has in store for you. If you have any questions, you can always contact me.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer

A Gothic Fairy at Sweet Peas Stamps

Aletha here with a project from one of my favorite artists at Sweet Pea Stamps. That artist is Teresa Sherman. All of Teri’s images are available in digital format or as rubber stamps, your choice.

Today, the image I chose, Gothic Fairy, is in the digital format. Gothic Fairy has been coloring with Copics and after trimming I applied some Black Soot Distress ink to the edges. She was then layered her on some tan cardstock with the edges distressed and more distress ink added to those edges. To finish the final bottom layer I die cut some black card stock and aged the edges with white gesso. After the gesso was dried I layered the first two layers. My main element is complete.

My designer paper is from my stash. The edges were distressed and Black Soot Distress ink was added to the edges. This was then layered on tan cardstock that was treated the same way as the designer paper. This final layer was attached to the black base card and the main element was attached to that. My embellishments are roses and metal corners.  These were also aged with white gesso.

Have you checked out our One Sweet Challenge? I hope you join us. If you do, and you used a Sweet Pea image, head over to our Facebook’s Group art contest.  The one going on right now lasts until July 7. That gives you plenty of time to make some Sweet Pea goodness.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you stop by every day and check out what Sweet Pea’s Design Team has in store for you. If you have any questions, you can always contact me.

Aletha Jane

Sweet Pea Designer

The LOVE Challenge

Happy Monday! There’s a new challenge for you at Sweet Pea’s “One Sweet Challenge.” Our February theme is all about LOVE.

For my project I colored a beautiful image by Helena Reiss, “Follow Your Heart.” This beauty is available in digital format or as a rubber stamp, a format for everyone.

My “Follow Your Heart” is a digi. I have colored her with Copics and did some accenting with a red Spica pen. I used several die cuts for this card. After I cut the hearts, I added Stickles and then found some heart brads. I have had these for years and have never used them. I just fell in love with brads again. ;o) Most of the background paper is covered with a doily that I added some Distress Ink and then cut in-half.

Here’s a close up of Follow Your Heart.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you will join us over at One Sweet Challenge. You must use a Sweet Pea image for your chance to win. After you have completed your entry, please join us at our SPS Facebook group.

Aletha Jane