Hope

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image 'Hope' by Rebecca Sinz which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

I have not made any of my candles recently and now seem to be on a bing with them.  I did one a couple of weeks ago, this one today and another one in the pipeline which I am trying to do a video tutorial on - that is a challenge in itself lol.  Anyway, here is todays candle :)

So many folks ask how I do these candles hence the trying to make the video but in the meantime I will do my best to explain the basics.  I start by using temporary adhesive spray on a piece of paper about 220gms in weight and then lay the tissue paper over the top doing my best to avoid any wrinkles.  Next I trim the excess tissue paper off so it will run through my printer with no issues.  To prepare my wrappers I use a template I made of the candle sizes I use regularly.  I then browse through my photos to find a suitable background.  For this wrapper I used two images, the sky was a photo I took in the Maldives on my 25th Wedding Anniversay - a fabulous second honeymoon lol, and for the foreground I used a beach scene taken while lying on my belly to get the rocky outcrop.  Next, in Photoshop, I imported the two images and removed the sections I did not want, here it was all the see and sky from the beach photo so I was only left with the rocky outcrop which I thought would be perfect to place the digi on.  Next I removed all the background from the digi so I was left with the equivalent of a .png image which I could then hand colour in line with the Terms of Use of most of the image we use these days.

I use crayons to colour my candle wrapper images as I find they work the best, this one was coloured with Faber Castelly Polychromos

And here is the image fully coloured.

Next I tried something new and tried rubber stamping a gold border, sentiment and a floral design to represent stars.  The sentiment worked fine and the flower stars were not to bad but the border was a disaster.

When working with candles it is imperative to think of fire safety, I would so hate to be the cause of a fire in somebody's home from one of my candles, so I have a couple of produces which are totally safe for decorating.  One is a gold dust and the other is a water based varnish.  To cover up the rubbish gold border I used the gold dust and tried to get a a vibrant distressed look.  This was applied with a soft sponge for the top and then I used a wide paintbrush to sweep around the upper section of the wrapper. To balance the gold out I added some more to the rocky outcrop at the bottom of the candle. Finally a quick layer of the candle water based varnish to add a shine and all done :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - 'Hope' by Rebecca Sinz
• Colouring Medium - Faber Castelly Polychromos
• From my Stash - gold dust, candle varnish and the candle.

I am entering into the following challenges:-

• 2 Creative Chicks (M,P1,JFF)  # 25 Anything Goes (no cards)
• Altered Eclectics (M,P7) Anything Goes (Altered Art/Mix Media only, cards or ATC will be deleted)
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations (2W, P1/15, E3) #23 Add Some Sparkle
• My Craft Creations (M,P1) Anything Goes
• Paradise of Stamps (2W,P1/15,E3) #16 Bling
• Rhedd's Creative Spirit (M,P1,E3) Anything Goes (Mixed Media Altered Art / Mixed Media ONLY)
• SLS Lines Challenge (M, P12, SIO,E2) # 8 Anything Goes 
• The Crafting Cafe (M,P1,E1) Flights of Fancy
• Allsorts W,3E   bring on the bling 
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 143 - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - W, 3E – #276 - Things with Wings
• Digitally Sweet - M, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 133 - April - Anything Goes
• Fairy Tale - 2W, 2E - No. 116 - (W1 of 2) - Now or Never (use a stamp you rarely or never used) (FIRST TIME TO USE ANGEL STAMP (NEW) AND FIRST TIME USING STAMPED SENTIMENT STAMP WHICH I HAVE HAD FOR 5 YEARS LOL)
• Stempelsonnen Challenge - 2W, 3E, stamp as main focus - No.139 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes with a hand-colored stamp
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W, E5 (W1 of 2) #130 Things With Wings + A Sentiment
• Crafting with an Attitude - M, 1stThurs, E3 - Freestyle/Fantasy
• Sassy Studio Designs - W, SIO: #278 Come Fly With Me (include wings)
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes
• All Crafts Challenge - 2M, 1st Monday of the month every other month, NO CARDS - (Apr/May) Anything But a Card
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - 2W - (Week 2) Always Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

SPS Regal

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to attempt an image I got some time ago Regal, by Rebecca Sinz.  I just love this image so much but it has taken a bit of courage to see if I can colour it

I first printed the image on craft card as I wanted a natural look and then I coloured the image with Spectrum Noir blendable crayons.  For the backing paper I used something very special to me, some paper I bought when I visited Kenya last year.  i have been waiting for the perfect card and I think this was the one to cut into the roll for <g>

Lots of mounting going on with this card, the base layer then a black layer which was sprayed with Crafter Companion Gold spray, then another layer of my Kenya paper which I embossed.  The digi was mounted on black card and some peel off corners were added to the four cornets.  I used some gold netting which I placed behind the mounts and also some rather fancy black lace which looks like medallions.  To finish off three black buttons.  I do love how this turned out, suitable for male or female and the subject so close to my heart.  I am going back to Kenya again this year to visit our friends which is so exciting.  Kenya was where I met my husband, got married and had our kids before we returned to the UK in the mid 80's.  Last year was the first time we had been back, a hard decision to make as it is were our hearts live and we knew going back and having to leave again would be such a hard thing to do.

Ingredients

• Image -  Regal, by Rebecca Sinz
• SN blendable pencils
• Dies - Spellbinders Scalloped Squares
• Crafters Companion Kraft Card, Gold Spray
• Ribbon, lace and buttons from my stash

Challenges entered

• Di's Digis Designs 3E 2W SIO - (W2) ALL ABOUT ANIMALS CHALLENGE
• A Creative Need - M,  (freebie provided) - September - textures and / or patterns
• A Creative Romance - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) - Touch of Kraft
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 110 - Use Lace
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - September - Something with Circles On It
• Pattie's Creations - 2W, 2E, SIO, include an image –  No.99 - (W1 of 2) Dog or Cat (Hope you class a lion as a cat, a big cat <g>)
• Animal Friends Challenge - M, P1, E3 Must have an Animal made ​​of paper and an animal motif
• Cards Galore Encore - M, P1, E3 MAKE A CARD!
• Crafting Musketeers - M, P2, 1E #17 - Use Buttons
• Paper Minutes W- #337 Buttons
• Jellypark Friends Challenge M - It's All About Pets and Animals
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #228 Anything Goes 

SPS - Gardenia

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  This week is Featured Artist week.  The whole DT are creating with images by Rebecca Sinz and I have chosen to use the fabulous digi Gardenia.

To begin making this card I first designed and die cut the font panel.

 Next I coloured some lace with my Promarker.

 The lace was attached to the back of the die cut lattice front and also the inside of the card as part of this will be visible in the end design.

Liquid Pearls which I applied on each of the cross sections of the lattice.

 While the Liquid Pearls were drying I colour the digi with Promarkers

I then mounted the digi onto Mulberry paper which I had used the water method to created a frayed edge.

 Now onto the flowers - grrrrrr - what grief.  I wanted white flowers so first tried with copy paper but that looked flat, then tried with hand made paper, that looked great but not white enough.  Time to put the thinking cap on - ah!! white Mulberry paper.  Perfect colour and so delicate in appearance but with this fine paper pretty fiddly to do.  I used Spellbinders Bitty-Blossoms-6.

Next I used Spellbinders Nestabilities-Labels-20 for the inside of the card.  This was edged with Derwent Blendable crayons and Promarker.

 I assembled all sections of the card and added some luscious green leaves to accompany the hand made gardenia.  Here we have a view showing the inside of the card

and here is the front of the card showing how the lattice panel is held in a curved way, locked in place by the gardenia and leaves at the side.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi -  Gardenia by Rebecca Sinz available from  Sweet Pea Stamps
• Die - Spellbinders Bitty-Blossoms-6 
• Promarkers
• Liquid Pearls
• Lace, mulberry paper, leaves and gold peel off line stickers from my stash

Challenges entered

• Addicted to Stamps - 2W, must use stamp- #83 BINGO (week 1) ** - Flowers, Pearls, Die Cut/Punches
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Lots of Layers
• Fairytale Stampers - 3W, E1, must use stamp / digi stamp - #39 Flowers (week 1)
• That Craft Place - 2W, 1E - Ribbon / Lace (week 1)
• Stampin With The Dragon - M, SIO – May - Flowers
• STAMPlorations Challenge Blog - M, 3E  - (changing to monthly challenge in January (1st Friday of the month))  May -  Stamps & Flowers
• A Creative Romance - 2W, 3E - (W1 of 2) - Girly Creations
• Hambo Hoedown -  M, 1st Wednesday, SIO - Flowers
• Whimsy Inspiration -M, 3E, SIO - #71 Two or more diecuts (ends June03)