Sweet Pea Stamps Challenge

Have you seen the fabulous new challenge at the Sweet Pea Stamps blog?

 

It's all about using Sweet Pea Stamps images for scrapbooking and all you have to do to enter is create a 12x12 scrapbook page using photos and using a Sweet Pea Stamps image as a focal point. The winning entry will win a whopping $50 to spend in the Sweet Pea Stamps store!

 

Some of the Design Team have been making scrapbook pages with Sweet Pea Stamps to help give you a bit of inspiration and I knew straight away what stamp I wanted to use:

 

 

I got this stamp a while ago and have been dying to use it. It's by Valarie Wade and it's called Mia. Given that that's my DD2's name, I just had to have it, didn't I? :D

 

And when Mia dressed up in a fairy dress last weekend (she just loves dressing up and often spends most of the day wandering round with a tutu on over her clothes, or wearing a hat, or wellie boots! :D) I snapped a quick photo on my phone and knew it would be perfect for a scrapbook page using the Mia stamp. :)

 

 

I coloured the image to match with the colours in the photo and fussy cut around it. I used some scrummy Basic Grey papers from the Pink Lemonade collection and layered lots of blossoms and foilage before adding the cut-out Mia image on top.

 

 

I used a border punch on the photo mat and my Stampin' Up! Simply Scored embossing plate to emboss the edges of the patterned papers. I also added some Kaiserkraft wooden flourishes.

 

 

For the title I used wooden letters and some teeny tiny alphas that I printed myself on the computer using the BabyBlocks font.

 

You've got until May 6th to enter the competition - an InLinkz will be added to the Sweet Pea Stamps blog on April 30th and the winner will be announced on May 15th. So get creating! :)

 

P.S. If you haven't got any Sweet Pea Stamps yet, now's the time to buy - until Friday there's 25% off all rubber stamps and if you spend $30 on digi stamps, you'll get a gift voucher for $6 to spend in store.

 

ATC Fun

I haven't made ATCs for a while. I do love them - making miniature works of art is great fun and a great way to try out new ideas and techniques.

 

I've been inspired to get back to ATCing by the discovery of the Fun With ATCs blog. They're having a celebration blog hop and inviting people to make ATCs with the theme "celebration".

 

So here's my contribution:

 

 

 

I think this is a sweet quote and my ATC is kind of celebrating love/friendship. :)

 

I used Dylusions ink sprays and water spritzed through a stencil for the background and stamped a text stamp through a stencil using pink ink. I then stamped the solid blossom stamp twice in orange ink and once in pink ink and then stamped the outline blossom stamp over the pink image using sepia ink. To finish I stamped the sentiment in black ink and inked the edges with black ink. The script stamp was a Kaisercraft one and all the other stamps were Stampin' Up!