Thanksgiving - Sweet Pea Stampers challenge

Hallo,
  Well we have warmed back up a bit here in NW Florida - temps in the 50/60's in stead of 20's which is nice :)
   I had a hard time choosing a Thanksgiving image and ended up with this sweet Indian girl - I have had the image printed up for quite awhile and hadn't gotten around to coloring her yet :)
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and then added some fall leaf stickers and accents in blues and browns.
  Join us and you could win some Sweet Pea Stamps images!!!!!
  All for today - was on call for work last night so today is a chance to finish up some errands/chores that I didn't manage to get done the last couple days :) - off I go...
   Take Care
      Tera

Sweet pea Stampers - Thinking of you.

 
Hallo,
  Welcome to another Sweet Pea Stampers challenge - this time we are doing a 'Thinking of you/Sympathy' card.
  I chose an image from Norma J Burnell called "My Deep Love" and colored it with prismacolor pencils.
  This image is available as a rubber stamp as well as a digital image.
  I added a silver die cut in the background and the tag of the same silver paper, framed the image with some pretty seed beads and added some pretty flowers in matchy matchy colors, and lastly 2 small metal charms from my stash.
  All for me today - tons of errands and fun stuff on my plate today!
  Hope your day is busy, happy and healthy!!!!
                                                                                                       Tera

Archway Angel - Breast Cancer Awareness - new Sweet Pea Stampers challenge

 Hallo,
   Just a quick post today - I am on a - sort of - vacation from work this week - am attending a Nursing conference (learning and getting in some education hours needed for a couple of my certifications....)
   The new challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers is for Breast Cancer Awareness month. I used Karen Middleton's 'Archway Angel' and did her up in pinks :)
   My Mom is a Breast Cancer survivor - 7 years now.
  My Dad's Mom also had Breast Cancer - she passed away more than 30 years ago now.
   I colored this little Angel with my copics and added a few pink rhinestones to her wings and on the card too, along with some beaded trim and an old pink flowered ribbon.
   Have a great weekend everyone!!!
        Tera

Tear it up - new Sweet Pea Stampers challenge

 Hallo,
  Welcome to another Sweet Pea Stampers challenge. Our challenge this time is 'tear it to pieces/tear it up'
  I used a Sweet Pea image called 'Purple Gaze' by Helena Reis and colored her with copics. I cut her out with a Spellbinders die and edged it with a silver metallic pen.
  I tore the edges of the base cardstock and then tore pieces of the DP in the background and layered them with some pretty gray lace. I inked the edges of the papers with teal and gray memento inks.
  I went a bit wild then with the viva décor pens, adding to her dress and wings and background too.
  All for today - Take Care and have a great weekend!!!
    Tera
 

Creatures - Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge

 Hallo,
   Welcome to our first challenge for September which is for 'Creatures'
   Sweet Pea Stamps has some really wonderful creatures and this one is one of my favorite - I love dragons, and Unicorns and well.......lotsa stuff :)
   This Sweet Pea stamp is by Teresa Sherman and is called 'Endless Love'.
  I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and then cut it out with a Spellbinders die. Then I started trying to find paper to match and decide what to do with my image....I came across my pile of encaustic wax pieces that I have been saving to do 'something' with and there was this blue and silver one that fit perfect so I decided to do a little wall art piece. I glued them to a black matt board and added silver beads and silver pearl drops with a viva décor pen - I added a bunch of tiny silver dots in her silver hair, along her wings and well lots of other places :)
  Lastly I added a green ribbon that matched her dress to hang the piece with.
   All for today - Have a great weekend!!!!
         Tera

Layered Joy

 Hallo,
   Its time for another challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers and this time the challenge is - 'lots of layers'.
  I used a Sweet Pea stamp by Conie Fong called 'Joy to the world' and colored him with prismacolor pencils.
  I had some sticker ornaments that I used for a layer or 2 and a chipboard snowflake (I just noticed that my snowflake has lost a rhinestone.....sigh)
   Isn't he just the cutest little penguin!!! I am slowly building up my stash of Christmas cards too  :)
                Have a great weekend!!!!
                     Tera

Wild Heart Halloween

 Hallo,
   I know I haven't posted much this summer but the end is near - my kiddos leave for college in just a couple days and I will have more time in the craft room (and more room in my house - boxes everywhere right now :)
My DH is driving up to Nebraska with them this year so aside from work next week I am totally on my own - me and the puppy and the 2 cats that is :).
  Another Sweet Pea Stamps creation for you today for Halloween. I used Charity Dunhauer's "Wild Heart" and colored her with copics. It was a fun little project.
   All for today - ran too many errands and now I think I will need a nap.
   Take Care
         Tera

Summer sweetheart - Thinking of You

Hallo,
  Its another challenge from Sweet Pea Stampers today (I missed the last one - summer caught up to me I guess - that and trying to get my 2 kiddos ready for college... :)
  Our challenge this time is "Thinking of you/Missing you .
  I used a Ching Chou Kuik image called 'Toadstool Fascination' and colored her with prismacolor pencils. I just love the look on her face - you cant help but be drawn to her eyes.
  All for this am - I am pre-posting because I am working these last couple days - the 12 hour night shifts seem to be getting longer and longer!!!
   Have a great weekend!!!!
       Tera
 

Pumpkin Sprite - second version

Hallo,
  Well after the heat and humidity of yesterday, this morning is so nice and cool and dry - took my puppy for about an hour walk (she's so happy now :)
  My DS did well getting his wisdom teeth out yesterday and is still asleep this am so I guess he's not hurting. He's a tough boy!!!
  I have another version of the 'Pumpkin Sprite' by Mitzi from Sweet Pea Stamps to show you this am.
  I did a purple and green thing with her 'hair' this time :) Colored her with my prismacolor pencils.
  Short and sweet again this am - a bunch of errands to run and then hopefully some time in the craft room....
   Take Care
        Tera

A pirate and his lady - For the men/boys challenge

 

Hallo,
  I am preposting for you today as I am working the last couple days and we always seem to be really busy on a holiday ....
   Our new challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers blog is one for the Men or boys and what's better for the male types than pirates and ships :)
  I used 3 different stamps from Sweet Pea Stamps for this hanging plaque.
  First the pirate is called 'Ancient one'  and the ship is of course the 'Black Pearl' both by Joanne Schempp, and the mermaid is a portion of a stamp  by Elaine Cox called 'Mermaid #2.
  I colored the pirate with prismacolor pencils and then coated him with a sepia toned lacquer from Ranger.
  The Mermaid was also colored with prismacolors and then cut to fit this old pendant I had in my stash. Coated her with a clear coat of crystal lacquer.
  The ship is stamped and embossed in black ink onto some DP of an old world map.
  I used my computer to write out the phrase and printed it out onto vellum paper.
  I really like how this one turned out - so my question is - Is the Pirate's lady his ship or the mermaid?  :)
   All for today - have a great weekend!!!
           Tera

Sweet Pea Stampers - shaped card

 Hallo,
  Its another Sweet Pea Stampers challenge Friday - this time the challenge is for a SHAPED card or project.
  I used this sweet mermaid by Elaine Cox called 'Mermaid #2' from Sweet Pea Stamps - www.sweetpeastamps.com
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and then cut her and the other layers out with Spellbinders dies. I added a couple tiny flowers and some light pink pearl drops  (viva décor) that match the flowers and edged all the layers with a gold metallic pen too.
  I hope you join us and play along with our challenge - it would be a great way to win some free images from Sweet Pea Stamps and a fun way to spend some crafty time to boot :)
  All for now - Have  a great weekend!!!
    Tera
 

Woodland Fairy - Sweet Pea Stampers challenge

 Hallo,
    Its a new challenge Friday over at Sweet Pea Stampers - www.thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/ and we are using the above photo for inspiration  - which I found a bit difficult  :)
  I ended up thinking what the woods would be like as I walked down the path in the photo and then into the woods. Along the way were toadstools and birds and fairies :)
  So naturally I used 'Toadstool Fascination " by Ching Chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps  - www.sweetpeastamps.com.
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and used a Spellbinders die to cut her out. Edged the main image with a gold metallic pen and then added a scrap of old lace, some paper flowers that I spritzed with a blue glimmer mist and a plain one and then lastly added some teal blue pearls with a viva décor pen.
   I really like this image - such a sweet face and the mushrooms too - when I was living in Alaska I was amazed at how many different types of mushrooms there were - still have a lot of the photos I took :)

   Well its graduation week here - my son graduated from HS yesterday and we have lots of family in town to celebrate and hang out!!! It has been a lot of fun so far and the weekend yet to come :)
   Take Care and Have a great weekend too!!!
         Tera

Peachy coral

 Hallo,
   Welcome to another challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers - this time the challenge is 'Things with wings'
  Check out the challenge here - www.thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk
  Play along with us and you could win some free images from Sweet Pea Stamps - use a Sweet Pea Stamps image and double your chances :)
  I used this sweet stamp from Elisabeth Bell called "Twinkle Toes Fleur" and colored her with prismacolor pencils.
  I cut her out with Spellbinders dies and edged the panels with memento teal zeal and added some teal drops with a viva décor pen.
  All for me today - Have a great weekend!!!
        Tera

Owl Journal - kraft challenge at Sweet Pea Stampers

Hallo,
  Have you ever tried the kraft colored cardstock from Neenah called 'desert storm' - It is just wonderful to color on. I love how the skin tones look on kraft and the 'desert storm' is nice and sooth and easy to color on!!!
  So for the 'kraft' challenge this week over at Sweet Pea Stampers I started with this beautiful image from Sweet Pea Stamps called 'Silentness'(owl version) by Elaine Cox
and printed her onto the 'desert storm' cardstock. I colored her with prismacolor pencils.
  I layered her to some kraft core - coordinations paper that was embossed with a texture folder and sanded off.
  The base layer on this journal is normal kraft cardstock that I embossed with the same folder as the middle layer and inked the texture with gray ink.
  I edged the main layer and the journal layer with silver metallic ink and added some pearl drops with a silver fabric paint pen from tulip and added some white feathers too.
  You can find this great image as both a rubber stamp and digital image here - www.sweetpeastamps.com  - below is a coupon good through this weekend!!!! :) Sweetness!!!
  Join us and play in our challenge this time and you could win some free images from Sweet Pea Stamps :)
 
  All for me today - Take Care!!!
      Tera

Sweet Pea Stampers - Birthday challenge

Hallo,
  Welcome to another challenge from the Sweet Pea Stampers - this time our theme is Birthday. I kinda stretched the theme a bit here and made a BIRTH day gift :)
  I love to alter cigar boxes (and other boxes that catch my eye...)
  This one is a gift box that holds a matching memory book and I also include a card for giving.
  The main image is from Sweet Pea Stamps by Conie Fong and is called 'Mother and baby girl'.
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and cut her out with Spellbinders dies. I added some ribbons and some dots with a pink fabric paint by tulip, and the edges were done with a gold metallic pen from Krylon.
   I cover the outside of the box, inside lid and the memory book with matching papers and lined the bottom of the box with felt.
   All for today - Have a great weekend!!!
         Tera