Pretty In Pink

This week at Sweet Pea Stamps the Design Team are featuring the artwork of Brigid Ashwood. We are each working with her gorgeous stamp designs and I chose to create with this lovely stamp called Margox:

 

 

I love Brigid's Phunky Fairies range of stamps and I have a few of them. They are great to colour in and the characters have a real attitude to them that I love. I coloured Margox with my Prismacolour pencils.

 

 

I also added some interest to the image by using a Versmarker pen and White Pearl embossing powder to heat emboss the background section of the image. This powder gives a lovely sheen when the light hits it:

 

 

The design for my card was inspired by the circular background section of the image... I had the idea to layer the image over a circular aperture in my card. I decorated the inside of the card with pale pink paper that would show through the aperture... here's how it looks with the card fully opened:

 

 

I used nesting dies to cut the circular aperture in my card front and in a layer of white card which I had trimmed to fit the card front. I decorated the white card layer by flicking paint across it and then heat embossing the edges with Shabby Pink Frantage embossing powder.

 

 

To finish off, I attached my cut-out image over the aperture and added some flowers and a gemstone border around the aperture:

 

 

Brigid's stamps are available in red rubber from the Sweet Pea Stamps store and for this week only are on special offer. :)

An Apple A Day

It's Variations Week again at Sweet Pea Stamps, where the Design Team all work with the same image.

 

This month we've been creating with this adorable Apple A Day stamp by Karen Middleton:

 

 

I loved the cute rather vintage style of this image and I decided to try colouring it in sepia tones, with red apples as little touches of colour:

 

 

 

I also added some Glossy Accents to the apples and edged the image with Antique Gold Frantage embossing powder. 

 

I used some pretty paper that I got recently and added layered lace and pretty blossoms.

 

 

You can buy this adorable image in red rubber or digi format from the Sweet Pea Stamps store. Check out the Sweet Pea Stamps blog for the rest of this week to see the rest of the Design Team's creations using this stamp.

 

Purple Tender

I've been creating this week with another digi stamp from one of my favourite artists, Ching Chou Kuik. This one is called Purple Tender:

 

 

I've coloured her with my Prismacolor pencils and added Frantage embossing powders and mica flakes around the edges:

 

 

I used some pretty patterned papers in colours that matched with my image and distressed the edges before attaching them to my card blank. I layered a pretty heart-shaped doily behind my image and added a cluster of layered flowers:

 

 

To finish, and add just a bit more glitter and shine (cos you can never have too much glitter and shine, right? :D) I added some more mica flakes to the corners of the card and a sparkly die-cut butterfly.

 

 

This gorgeous image is available in red rubber or digi format at the Sweet Pea Stamps store.