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

Winner of my sweetpea celebration candy

The winner of three sweetpea stamps is:

Tiiti

Congrats Tiitti. Contact me and I'll get the stamps out to you as soon as possible. Thank you everyone who commented on my excercise calendar and hope you'll come by here and on the Sweetpea blog now and then.

Here's what Tiitii will get +  a little surprise:

Rising flame:

Black rose fairy:

Egypt mermaid:

Sweetpea 2:nd anniversary bloghop and candy

Hello and welcome to sweetpea's 2:nd anniversary bloghop. Can you believe it's already been two years? I've been on board from the start and I'm so proud to be on this team. You rock Lynette and thanks for having me.
If you have come from Ellen's blog, then you're on the right track, if not, go back to the sweetpea blog and start from there.

Today we have a trio of gorgeous images to share with you! These debut images include our newest artist Rebecca Sinz, ching-chou kuik and Nikki Burnette. Aren't they wonderful?

What better project than a calendar to celebrate sweetpea's anniversary? I have used my bind-it-all to make it, beautiful double sided papers from prima and a bunch of my favourite ching chou kuik images. The image I have used for the front is called exotic october and it's the top left seen above.
I am going to use this calendar to put down the excersise classes I've been taking so I know what and how often I've been doing it. At the back of the caledar I've added some white pages for notes like; which instructors I liked, measurements etc. With a pretty calendar like this who needs motivation!
As this is an excersise calendar I have written "take no prisoners" on the front page. I think it works beautifully with the image and the theme.

For your chance to win some free sweetpea stamps, leave a comment under this post (one per person please)  and I will draw a winner on sunday may 1:st.

Next on the hop is Lisa

Summer booklet

I have finally played with my bind-it-all for the first time. I've had it for about a year, but not played with it until today. I have been feeling like making other things that cards lately and this was the perfect project. As the weather is so beautiful here I jumped for joy when I found these papers in my stash.

The image I have used is radiant butterfly from sweetpea stamps and I have cut around it so you might have not recognized it at first. I coloured her with promarkers to match the papers. I like how I manged to align her to the background paper as it looks like there are flowers coming out of her hair. There is some glitter on the butterfly and flowers, but it doesn't show properly.

The booklet has 12 pages in these wonderful colours. I think the image is perfect as there are butterflies on some of the papers too. I thought the black would clash, but think it only accentuates the bright colours. I was thinking about decorating it more with flowers and such, but I think the front should be flat to be practical and I didn't want to overwhealm the beautiful image. I also left the top blank so whoever gets this album can add their own text.

Don't miss sweetpea's 2:nd anniversary bloghop. It's all happening on the blog and you can win some fabulous stamps. On wednesday I'll be showing you some more new releases so don't forget to stop by!

Modern happy easter

Spring is here to stay and with easter just around the corner it might be a good time to have at least one card done. Today I would like to show you a card with a slightly different layout. I have used a standard square sketch, but folded the card several times adding dimension. You can see the layout of the card better on the last picture. I have used a stamp called jeweled from sweetpea stamps from one of my favourite plates #86.

I really like the colours of this card. They are still the typical easter yellow and purple, but I think the hues gives the card a more contemporary feel. The patterned papers go so well together and it's funny because they are from two completely different lines. I just accidentally put them next to eachother while sortimg my papers and tadaa. With those colours I didn't feel like I needed bunnies or eggs, the card would look "eastery" enough. So I decided to go all in with the butterfly theme, using it on both papers, punches and the image.

The tools I have used are Martha Stewart punches for the corners and the butterfly border. The image is coloured with promarkers and then a sakura clear glitter pen. The image is mounted on a green panel with foam tape to add extra dimension and then taped to the front panel of the card. The little green scrolly nameplate is a spellbinder die. Doesn't it go just perfectly with the background paper? The sentiment is written by hand and on my first try! Practicing makes perfect, that's for sure. A wonderful card that could easily be used for any other occasion.
Here's the sketch I used from sketch saturday #150:

Challenges for this card:

Basic Grey - easter/spring (I used paper from the "green at heart" line on the backpanel)
Paper sundaes - texture
Papertake weekly - dimensional
Pile it on - rubber stamps
Stampin for the weekend - easter

Sleeping mask

I have finished a couple of project earlier that I haven't showed you yet. This one I made for my sweetheart when he was going to the US. I offered him to use my sleepingmask in purple and black silk/lace, but that was "too girly" :D
Although purple too, these fabrics were chosen by him a while back. I had actually started on this mask months ago, being about halfway through, then it disappeared in my big "to finish" pile. So I worked on it halfway through the night before he left and put it in his handluggage. Too bad he didn't find it until I told him about it when he was in the hotelroom. Attention to details, huh? At least he could use it on the flight back...

I'm very proud of how I managed to fold the bias around the mask. Not bad for 2-3 in the morning :D

More deals at sweetpea stamps

Has it already been a week?! Oh my, where has the time gone? I'm preparing a bigger sweetpea project, but want to finish it off nicely before I show you. I also worked on a card yesterday so hopefully I will show it to you soon. I have a couple of sewn things I want to show you too so stay tuned. Maybe even a tutorial if there will be any interest.

Meanwhile I'd like to let you know there are tons of new things happening at sweetpea. I hope you haven't missed our latest stamps and newest artists. Below you can see a few of the new sheets. I'm definately ordering some of these.

New artist Ann Marine:

Katerina Koukioti:

Meredith Dillman:

Place at least a $20 order (before shipping) and you can buy sheet #18 (seen below) for only $1.00 (reg $8.25). This offer is good through Wednesday. Limit one per order

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