Win some sweetpea stamps

One lucky winner will win a $44.44 gift card for Sweet Pea Stamps

How????? All orders placed from Sunday June 19th- July 4th will be entered in the drawing.

When????? Winner will be posted on the sweetpea blog and notified on July 6th

Go shopping

(PS. Have you seen the new look of the sweetpea shop? Click the link above to check it out. There are tons of new stamps in.)

AND

there will be a candy drawing every wednesday. Check out this link for more info.

June 25th- June 26th;

spend up to $25 before shipping, get 10% off your order

spend up to $25- $50 before shipping, get 15% off your order

spend up to $50 - $100 before shipping, get 20% off your order

spend over $100 before shipping, get 25% off your order

past orders excluded

Phone/address book

I hope you are enjoying the summer and playing with your sweetpea stamps. I still have a lot I've never used and this is one of them. It's by the very talented Meredith Dillman and is called blue fairy from plate 76. Isn't she gorgeous?

I've been in desperate need for a new addressbook the last couple of months. I have everything written in a simple notebook with no order and it's been driving me crazy having to flip through the whole thing to find what I need. So during my last flipping I got really annoyed and decided to make this book I've been planning for ages. You can use it for anything you might need to find fast: your kid's friends numbers, people on your Christmaslist or why not a page per month writing down how much you've exercised or your measurements.

I started by cutting out 6 pages in cardstock and 2 in patterned paper for the front and back. I used a qk die so the holes were already there for the brads, but it's easy to make yourself. You will need to score on each page to make it possible for it to open. I also cut out 6 qk tabs in the same cardstock. The pages and tabs are inked on the edges with distress ink to give a neater look. The image is coloured with promarkers and the background with distress inks. The fairy has some sparkle on her wings made by a sakura gelly roll. I also used one of the corners from Holiday (plate 12) to add some interest which I'm very happy with. I inked one corner in a purple distress ink and stamped on all 4 corners of the image. Finally I attached the tabs, image and brads. Finally I'll be able to find what I need quickly!

Challenges:

Stampin for the weekend - lemon and lime

Decorated envelope

We make all these beautiful cards, but I forget or don't have the energy to decorate the envelopes (that's why I mostly use clear envelopes to let the card shine through). A friend of mine is always decorating hers and it's such a treat to see her envelope in the mail. Here is an idea how to decorate your average boring white envys with your favourite sweetpea stamps.

The stamp I have used is one of the stamps from plate 94 by Meredith Dillman from sweetpea stamps. I made the white panel for the address by sticking a rectangular post it, using it as a mask. Then I stamped the image with black ink and dabbed around with some distress ink. I also used a small dabber to add ink to colour the image itself. Finally I used a tan and pink promarker to add shade to the left side of the girl and added some glitter with a clear sakura gelly roll. Isn't this a fabulous way to let the recipient get excited about what's inside?

Challenges:
papertake weekly - anything goes

Def Leppard, Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy concert Dublin, Ireland

Sorry for being abscent my friends. My mojo has been gone lately and in the beginning of the week I went to Dublin for a romantic getaway and to see a concert. It was four hours of pure bliss. First an hour with Thin Lizzy, then an hour with Alice and finally a spectacular two hour show with Def Leppard. This was my third Alice concert and first DF and TL. It was slightly strange that Thin Lizzy and Alice were the warm up bands :D

I got some fab pictures that I'm very proud of. Enjoy!

Thin Lizzy (in case you didn't see their sign)

Alice Cooper:
No more mr nice guy

Cold Ethel:

Def Leppard:

Singing one of my favourite ballads:

Here we didn't sing loud enough and they asked us if this was all we got...After asking if Belfast were better (where they had played the night before) the roof lifted, lol. Nothing like some good old competition.

Not bad for a standard digital camera with a 12x zoom, huh? Although I was standing as fourth person from the stage for the first two sets. I almost got some fake blood on me that they threw from the stage during the Alice gig:)

Happy mother's day!

In Sweden we celebrate mother's day today, may 29:th so here is a card for all the mothers out there. I have used the popular field of poppies by ching chou kuik from sweetpea stamps. I immediately thought of this image when I pulled out the papers. My mom loves red so I wanted to make a bright card for her. I coloured the image with promarkers and used different spellbinders for the circle, borders and sentiment panel. The text is written by hand and says: "flowers have the sun, children have their mothers." I think the sentiment works so well with this image and is perfect for mother's day.

Challenges for this card:

Promarker challenge - all the 2's (2 borders, ribbons, papers, spellbinders, colours)
Sketch saturday - sketch
Stamp challenges - use a sentiment

Happy mother's day!

In Sweden we celebrate mother's day today, may 29:th so here is a card for all the mothers out there. I have used the popular field of poppies by ching chou kuik from sweetpea stamps. I immediately thought of this image when I pulled out the papers. My mom loves red so I wanted to make a bright card for her. I coloured the image with promarkers and used different spellbinders for the circle, borders and sentiment panel. The text is written by hand and says: "flowers have the sun, children have their mothers." I think the sentiment works so well with this image and is perfect for mother's day.

Challenges for this card:

Promarker challenge - all the 2's (2 borders, ribbons, papers, spellbinders, colours)
Sketch saturday - sketch

Guest design team call at sweetpea stamps!

Are you a big fan of sweetpea stamps and would you like to join our talented team as a guest designer? 

We are in need of 2 guest designers, one for June and one for July, to fill in for vacations. What you would need to do:

send in one card to Jennifer the first week, the third week and the fourth week of the month you are picked for. In return you will get a $25 gift voucher to use on the stamps you select to use, also you will pay no shipping (I will send you out a free shipping voucher). If this is something you would like to do, e-mail Lynette at sweetpeastampsDT@gmail.com

with a link to your blog. Deadline to send in is May 20th

We will choose the two guest designers and post them on May 25th on the sweetpea blog.


So what are you waiting for? Go and make something fabulous with your sweetpea stamps!

Lynette also has an offer until sunday may 22:nd:

All rubber sheets on sale for 10% off.

Plus FREE shipping to USA residents

Canada shipping only $2

All other countries $5

(our website will not calculate International shipping,

if paying by paypal we will send you a paypal request at the time of shipping.

If paying by credit card we will adjust it to the correct shipping rate)

Past orders excluded

600 followers candy

Since we are sooooo close to 600 followers, Lynette is going to offer some blog candy. Once the sweetpea blog reaches 600 she's going to give away:

(1) 10 count grab bag

(1) $10 gift voucher

(1) $10 gift voucher

Spread the word!

And this week's artist of the week is ching chou kuik, which is my personal favourite! All her full sheets, regular priced at $19.75 now only $15.80. These will only be on sale until May 15th so don't think about it too long. You can see all her stamps here:

ching chou kuik stamps

New winner of my candy

Kaia - congrats. Contact me and I'll get your sweetpea stamps to you.

Asian beauty

With so many new releases from sweetpea going on right now, it got me looking through my older stamps. This one is called black haired lady from plate 22 and it's one of the first plates from ching chou kuik. I'm not sure I have used it before so it was definitely time for it to see some ink. I love the asian feel of this stamp and since I got some asian inspired papers when my sweetheart came back from the US, I knew they would fit perfectly. The papers are from a die cuts with a view pack called far east.

I often feel that I'm not having enough embellishments and decide when I start that this time I'll fill the card to the brim. But then I use these beautiful images and papers and I don't want to take focus off them. So in the end this is what I get :) Very clean and simple.

I'm quite happy with the little embellishment I did add. I used a Chinese coin with a brad and a flower. I also used white mesh that I inked with a promarker and cut out two leaves. I think this way the embellishment compliments the image instead of stealing focus from it.

Hope you're having a fantastic day and find time to ink up some of your sweetpea stamps, whether they are old or new.

I haven't heard from my sweetpea candywinner, so unless I hear from her before tomorrow I'll draw a new winner.

Challenges:

I love promarkers - songtitle (mine is "China girl" by David Bowie)
Papertake weekly - anything goes with optional extra: something round