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.

Anything Goes

Time for a new challenge at One Stitch at a Time and this week it's Anything Goes - so go crazy, use your imagination, make anything! :)

 

I've used Crafty Girl's Love Hand Doodle digi stamp to make an eastern inspired card:

 

 

I coloured the image with Prismacolor pencils before cutting it out:

 

 

And teamed it with gold mirri card and papers from the Taj Mahal paper stack from DCWV:

 

 

As ever, entries using a Stitchy Bear product will have a chance of winning our main prize, entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into a draw to win a $3 gift voucher to the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

 

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.

Girly

Time for a new challenge at One Stitch at a Time and this week it's Girly.

 

 

I used Delicious Doodle's Astrology  Scorpio digi stamp which I coloured with my Promarkers:

 

 

I teamed it with patterned papers, some gemstone flourishes and a large layered flower cut with Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals die.

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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.

 

Use a Digi

Time for a new challenge at One Stitch at a Time and this week it's "Use a Digi". To enter the challenge you need to use a digi element somewhere on your creation - that could be a digi stamp, digi papers, even a computer-generated sentiment.

 

For my card I used this fabulously cute and sassy "Anna Mae Party Bunny Girl" digi stamp by Scrapper's Delight.

 

 

Isn't she fab? I love her cute and manga style. I coloured her with my Promarkers and gave her some quirky pink hair. :)

 

 

I seem to be on a bit of a pink and blue craze in my cards lately and this one is no exception. I used some pretty patterned papers and a die-cut frame (cut from sparkly pink card) and embossed a panel of card to fit inside the frame.

 

 

I finished things off with some little dots of Perlen Pen.

 

 

You don't need to use a Stitchy Bear product to enter the OSAAT challenges but if you do you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher for the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

 

 

 

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.

 

With Love

Valentine's Day will soon be upon us and the challenge theme at One Stitch at a Time this week is naturally all about love... :) To enter our challenge, make a project using the theme "With Love" - you can interpret that however you like.

 

For my card this week I used this pretty digi stamp by My Heart Pieces called Beautiful Nature:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and used a white gel pen to add highlights:

 

 

I cut the image out using my favourite decorative oval die and kept my card fairly simple with some patterned papers in toning colours and a length of decorative canvas ribbon.

 

 

You don't need to use a Stitchy Bear product to enter the OSAAT challenges but if you do you'll be in with a chance of winning our main prize. Entries not using a Stitchy Bear product will be entered into the draw to win a $3 gift voucher for the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet.

 

 

 

Nothern Nightfall

For my Sweet Pea Stamps creation this week I am using an image from one of my all-time favourite Sweet Pea artists - Ching Chou Kuik. I just love her beautiful, stylised women and the fabulous detail in her drawings. Her work has a real sense of mystery, and often melancholy, to it.

 

This digi stamp is one I hadn't worked with before, called Northern Nightfall:

 

 

I coloured this image with my Promarkers in soft pastel colours. I just love the little unicorn in this image. :)

 

 

I mixed pale blue cardstock with pastel pink shabby chic-style paper for my card and added decoration with a length of lacy ribbon, some die-cut leafy flourishes and lots of pretty little flowers.

 

 

 

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

 

Amelia

Helena Reis is one of the newer additions to the fabulous range of artists whose stamps you can buy from Sweet Pea Stamps and I love her cute yet quirky style. This week I chose to work with one of her recent releases, this adorable stamp called Amelia:

 

 

I coloured the image with my Promarkers and added a couple of highlights here and there with a white gel pen. The oval frame of the image makes it perfect to cut out ready for use on a card.

 

 

I decorated my card with patterned papers in pretty pastel colours and added some lengths of ribbon and lace and some die-cut leafy flourishes:

 

 

To finish I dotted a border with a pearl white Perlen Pen.

 

 

All of Helena's lovely stamps are available in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store.