Sweet Pea card - Just for fun!

Well .. by the time you read this I will be on the way to Melbourne .. no on second thoughts I should be there by now! Yipee!! :D Looking forward to Paperific... hopefully will sell some stuff and get the Mad for Markers name out there a bit more... and also Spesch Stamps and the Stamp Spot as will be selling stamps from them both, and Trace is coming Thurs to set up and Friday to sell. yay! I'm so excited! Can't wait to meet Trace who I speak to everyday ..well kinda - MSN is speaking right! LOL! and So excited to also meet my DT girls - Annetta and Rosanna on Sat and Emma on Sunday AND the lovely Debbie P and Mandi who will be running Copic Classes...YAY! If you are in Melbourne come and say Hi! :D

Anyway .. enough of my chattering... Here is a card I made to share! This image was stamped up for me by a lovely blogging friend and was such fun to colour.

Anyway.. am pretty tired here so think I will sign off now! Look forward to getting back and catching up on your blogs next week!!

Oh Alice ... CHAPTER 22: Dancing under the Sea...

"Will you walk a little faster?" said the whiting to the snail;

"There's a porpoise right behind us and he's treading on my tail!

See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!

They are waiting on the shingle, will you come and join the dance?

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you-WILL you join the dance?"

Hello everyone! Greetings from here in Wonderland...or maybe today it's UNDERland? As in Under the Sea, perhaps ;)

So, today's challenge involves all things sea-worthy and we at Oh, Alice are challenging YOU to create a card or project using sea life! Turtles, whales, dolphins are fabulous as are other sea creatures as in merfolk and those deep, dark creatures you sometimes hear about but seldom see.... the possibilities are as endless as the ocean itself!

We also have a FUN prize for you this week! One lucky winner will receive a Sweet Pea Rubber Stamp courtesy of Oh, Alice! These stamps are large and BEAUTIFULLY detailed and we just happened to have one 'swimmin' around!' Will YOU be the lucky winner? ;)


The Design Team have totally rocked UNDERland this week... check out all their amazing seaworthy creations HERE!!

Be sure to upload your card or creation using InLinkz below! You have until Friday, July 23rd at 8pm CST to enter the challenge, so have fun and we'll see you back next week! enter your submission to be considered for the prize! If you are uploading to a public gallery, be sure to include keyword OAC22.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you-WILL you join the challenge?!?!?!?!?

Mad for Markers

Our new challenge has gone live today and the theme of the challenge is to create something using shades of one colour. We have the wonderful Debbie P as our guest designer so pop on over the the blog and see her gorgeous creation for this challenge. We have also introduced Annette today who will be joining the Design Team! :D

Also more GREAT NEWS.... I am now going to be shipping stock to New Zealand.. so if you or people you know live in NZ and want Copics then you can now get them through Mad for Markers :) YAY

I made this card for a very lovely friend of ours :D and gave it to her last night ... she is another friend who likes purple (yup I choose friends who like purple. lol .. jk)

Thanks to Trace who stamped up this beautiful Sweet Pea image for me. I coloured it in with R000, R00, E000, R20, V12, V09, V06, V000, V11, V04, R81, R83, B60

Sweet Pea stamps customer challenge

This ATC was created for the Sweet Pea stamps customer challenge... Following these rules:
April Customer Card Challenge:1. Using ONLY Sweet Pea Stamps ... tick
2. Create an ATC (2.5" x 3.5") Card ... tick
3. Use Purple and Pink.... tick
4. Include an 'Odd' Embellishment.... tick - the cupcake is a little out of place!?!?!
Thanks for stopping by!!
Sammi
xx

Flutterby Wednesday :: Blue, Green and White

I coloured this image in almost a week ago now for the Flutterby Wednesday Challenge AND only just got to put it on a card. I do that a lot .. So I have lots of coloured images around the place. Anyways, this one DID make it onto a card. The challenge over at Flutterby Wednesday was to create a card with a butterfly, fairy or angel + blue, green and white!

It was a little hard to photograph 'cos of the blue Spica pen that I used! but you can get the idea!
The colours that I used were: E000, 00, 02, 11, B00, 02, 05, 12, 23, 32, BG09, 49, 34, Gooo, 00, 02, 14, 17, 28.

The stamp is the one that I won from Sweet Pea Stamps earlier this year.. isn't it lovely!!

thanks for stopping by.

COPICS, COPICS, COPICS!!! >>>Mad for Markers

As you might have read on here - I am going to be opening an online store to sell Copic markers and Neenah paper here in Australia.... my store is going to be called MAD FOR MARKERS
and I can't wait :) I have received my first 2 orders and you can see my first stock of Copic Ciaos above... aren't they so colourful and lovely!!

My website is in the process of being developed... in the meantime if you are in Australia and would like to order some Copics please send me an email and I can send you a paypal invoice... I will start off selling the Copic Ciaos for $5AUD and the Copic Sketches for $8AUD.
Anything I don't have in stock will be ordered in for you (and will take ~3-5days)...including all refills, new nibs, stands, multiliners etc etc....

Now I thought I'd show you a card I made yesterday....

I used Copic markers to colour this Sweet Pea image (which Kristy is selling) and I coloured on some NEW Copic card supplied by X-Press Graph-X.... this card was developed specifically for stamping + papercraft with Copics.... I will also be selling this paper!
More details to come very shortly!!! :D
I'm so excited and looking forward to being able to help other people have access to these wonderful markers! :D
I have to run off and get some breakkie and then go to a craft morning at Church, ooh, I have not got anything out yet... I better run, will pop back in later to list the Copic colours on this card!

edited to add... craft morning was fun! Thanks... Here are the colours I used...
skin: R00, R11, R20
Hair: E37, 35, 33, V09
Eyes: E35
background: RV95, RV34
top: R85, RV34
butterfly: V09,06,04
+ diamond stickles

my first Sweet Pea stamp

I was so lucky to be chosen as one of the three people to receive a stamp from Sweet Peas... to start our Fantasy Art Collections! As you can imagine I was pretty thrilled! I love these Ching-Chou Kuik Fantasy stamps :D Here's the card I made....


I'm not exceptionally happy with it... but I did not have anything else to post just now so I decided to post it anyway! I'm getting some more of these gorgeous stamps from Kristy! She'll hopefully have her website up soon where she'll be selling these + more!

Thanks for stopping by,

Final card with Sweet pea stamped images

Saved the best for last... well It was my fav image anyway (I think) hahaha...

this is the final image that Kristy stamped up for me and so I really wanted to send her a card to say thanks!! And I didn't want to post it up here till she received it but I know that she's got it now :D I can't wait till she opens up her store to sell these beauties.. what about you??
Sorry the quality of the pic is not brilliant!! Here is a close up of the image....

These Sweet Pea images by Ching-Chou Kuik are a delight to colour! Used Copics, pink Spica pen and Kinderglitz for this image!! :D Thanks for stopping by!

Flutterby Wednesday + Sweet Pea image #3

This is the third image that Kristy sent me ... from Sweet Pea stamps she will SOON be selling. I just love these images by Ching-Chou Kuik  (in case you could not tell!!) 

This card I am entering in the Flutterby Wednesday challenge which is have a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creations!

Once again I've coloured the image with Copics and then added Kinderglitz for some extra sparkle. The paper is from the Basic Grey Indian Summer pack (which I got from the Stamp Spot).

Thanks for stopping by xxx

Sweet Pea stamped images.... card #2

I know I already posted today... but I have now made cards with all four of the lovely images Kristy sent me to have a play with.... they were just so lovely I  had to make them into cards :D
Very soon Kristy will be opening her shop and will be selling these Sweet Pea stamps... watch THIS SPACE

I have coloured the image with Copics (of course) and added Kinderglitz and Copic Spica pens to make the sparkles... The top flowers are green ones I  got from the Stamp Spot... and coloured pink and blue and the bottom one/ leaves and pearl drops are from Bizzy Becs.  The "imagine" sentiment is a rubon.

I'm not as keen on this as the first one...but still love the image (just not sure about my colouring/ card).



See you tomorrow for my Stamp Spot posting :D

Sweet Pea stamped images.... card #1

So, I mentioned yesterday that Kristy very kindly stamped me up some Sweet Pea images.... well Last night I had to go ahead and colour them all in :D This is the first card I've made with them.... They really are a delight to colour!!

I CAN'T WAIT till Kristy's shop is open as she will be selling these lovelies!!!

Thanks AGAIN Kristy :D
Thanks all for stopping by xxx