Elaine Cox's Sheet #4

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card created by design team member Randi

card created by design team member Jennifer


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Connie-Alice "Drink Me"

The new Alice In Wonderland series by Elaine Cox is so utterly adorable!  I have combined an image from Plate #35 and a sentiment from Plate #37, both by Elaine Cox and both carried exclusively by Sweet Pea Stamps.
I cut a Spellbinders die (Labels One) and stamped the image with Memento ink and colored with Copic markers and added some baubles and pearls (by Queen & Co.).  I layered this over some DP by DCWV (Mariposa).  I ran some ribbon down the center but think I have it mostly covered up now.  I cut more dies by Spellbinders (Doodles and Fancy Tags) sprinkled and edged with black ink and embossed with detail black EP by Judi-Kins.  Added more baubles and pearls and some flowers by Prima with some glittery brads by Oriental Trading for the centers.
If I keep putting this much on a poor A2 size card I will soon need to do cards the size of Mag's....
Connie

Create low profile bling!

 

This technique will help you create a low profile bling embellishment. I picked up a 3 ounce bottle of glitter glue for less than $3 at a major mass merchandiser, this bottle will make many glitter dots! Besides using a hole punch, I had great luck creating shapes with punches, also. I recommend creating your shapes within a day of drying out the glue as it tends to become wavy with age and harder to punch.
   
Supplies:

Other elements
    Glitter Glue (Sulyn Industries)
    Crop-A-Dile (We-R-Memory Keepers)
    Sticker Maker (Xyron)
    Wax Paper (Reynolds)

Directions:
Working on wax paper, squeeze the glitter glue into a 1" strip about 2" long, a paper clip can be used to smooth out and ridges.

Allow to dry about 24 hours.
Remove the dried glitter strip from the paper and run through the sticker maker, smooth side down.

Using the hole punch, cut holes from the strip and catch them as they are created.

Peel the backing and attach to your projects as needed.

I also tried several other ways of creating my bling. The first was Stickles by Ranger - this was not a good idea, it crumbles too easily, which is too bad since there are so many wonderful colors available. The next attempt was using Diamond Glaze by Judikins with glitter, which actually turned out nicer than the glitter glue, for this method follow the instructions above, but immediately after creating the ribbon of glue, immediately cover with a generous coating of glitter before allowing to dry.

I hope you will find these tips to be helpful in your creations and as always enjoy sharing!!

Lisa Victoria's Dragons

Remember the movie "Dragon Heart" with the voice of Sean Connery as the dragon and Dennis Quaid as the knight? I love that movie! So you can imagine my total squeal of delight when Lynette shared with the DT that Lisa Victoria would be the newest artist to join Sweet Pea Stamps and a preview of Plate #39!

I can not tell you how much fun it was to color this little guy up! It was so much fun that I whipped out four different versions of him. Even making the cards came easy for me :-)

What was truly fun for me was using some of the bolder Copic colors on him (or her, lo).

How adorable is he??? This is "Dragon Luck" from Plate #40. Doesn't he just melt your heart? I love red, but must still be on my bold color kick. I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with the weather :-), so I paired him with bold card stock colors. I've said it before, I love 'white' space and to tend to sneak white in especially when I use a lot of bright colors. The flowers are white Prima flowers that I just colored with my Copics and then added some Dew Drops in the center of two of the flowers.

For my second card, I went with another bright color, blue. Actually I used some violet colors too. (I know I should really track the colors I use :-( but I get so wrapped up in the coloring and will try all sorts of colors. Like a gray over red :-) ):

Notice I paired "Dragon Luck" with more pastel colored card stock and again, white card base.

You already saw my third card but in case you missed it, here it is again:

A friend of mine had sent me a little goody package which included the ladybugs. How perfect for this image, huh?

I've got several more versions of him colored up. Just needing to make the cards which I'll be sure to share :-).

If you are still reading this, go - no - RUN to the Sweet Pea Stamps shop because lots of new goodies. All of them are just awesome. Awesome doesn't even describe it correctly. However, I know you know what I mean. We can't wait to see what you create with all of these wonderful rubber stamps!

Purple Woods

Here's another wonderful image from ching chou kiuk's fantasy art collection. Her name is Purple Woods and she comes from Plate #24. I love her innocent face and the adorable fairy cat that she is holding.

I started with a gorgeous shimmery mica cardstock base in purple and then used matching embellishments. The image was stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. I added a beautiful quote from Plate #25.

Holley