new sixlets

Today we are releasing EIGHT new Sixlet stamp sets over on the Lizzie Anne Designs website! Meridith and I love stamp releases. We work very hard on our stamp designs and it's always so much fun to finally reveal them and share them with our fellow stamp-lovers!

I have two projects to share with you today featuring two of our new Sixlets sets... Great Expectations and Little Lizzie.

Here is a card featuring Great Expectations... I just LOVE that little baby pea pod, so cute. And I still have friends popping out babies left and right so I'm planning on making and stocking a bunch of these cards to have on hand... the thing I like about using green is it's gender-neutral. And how perfect is that pea-pod designer paper? It's from Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety line.






My next project features Little Lizzie. Not only would she look adorable on cards, but I thought she would make a great paper-doll for my daughter too (who am I kidding, I made the doll for myself as well :)

Here's how you can turn Lizzie into the doll that she is.

First, stamp Lizzie and her clothes on heavy white cardstock.




Second, use a black pen to draw tabs on the clothes. Add them to the shoulders and also down past where the arms would go.




Color in your images...




And then cut them out. Here she is wearing her favorite yellow polka-dot dress.




It's easy to make a stand for Lizzie. Just fold a strip of heavy cardtock in thirds, make a triangle, and glue it to the back of the doll. I left the area between her legs solid so I could attach the stand there.





Make sure to go and see the rest of the new Sixlets sets today! You can find them all in the New Release area of our website. Have a great weekend...do something creative!

paisley birds

Today is Design Team Challenge day at Lizzie Anne, and I am LOVIN' our challenge this month. The challenge is to use a stamp image in a way that is otherwise intended. So in other words... take an image and turn it into something else. It's been so fun to see what the girls have done with this challenge... so creative!

Here is my card... I used the paisley from the April Monthly Mix set and turned it into a bird! Three birds actually. Aren't they cute? I just took a pen and drew a beak, an eye and two legs. I thought the shape of the paisley and the little swirl on the "tail" would make a perfect bird.



Make sure to head over to the following blogs to see how the other girls answered this challenge!

Bethany Paull
Deb Felts
Jeanne Streiff
Joslyn Nielson
Kendra Wietstock
Maren Benedict
Meridith Ethington
Taylor Usry
Tiffany Ervin
Wendy Price

happy day

This is a card I just has published in the May/June issue of Papercrafts Magazine! I love this card. I made it specifically for this Sunshine call and I knew after I had made it that it was a winner. :) It's a good feeling! If you aren't a Paper Crafts subscriber I highly recommend it...it's by far my favorite stamping and cardmaking and all-things-paper-making magazine. I get so excited to see it in my mailbox, the whole magazine gets read on the spot.

The sun is shining today in fact, and I'm so glad because after a very warm winter we had SNOW over Spring Break last week! Ironic. It didn't stick, but I was really enjoying not having *any* snow all winter, ha ha. I'm looking forward to taking the kiddies to the park the next few days.

I know this may sound silly but I'm also planning my summer vacations (I'm SO ready for summer) and I want to go on a romantic getaway this August with my husband. We're going in August because that's when my parents are available to watch the kids. We're thinking Napa/Sonoma. Any suggestions for Napa/Sonoma? What should we see? Where should we stay? Where should we dine? Where should I get a spa treatment/massage... and where can we sit and do NOTHING? :) Ahhhh. I can't wait.

sunday best

Here are a few picts I took of the kids in their Easter Sunday best outfits. Sammy LOVES her dress. Sammy judges dresses on how high the skirt flies when she twirls around... if it doesn't fly high enough, it's not deemed as a favorite. :) These photos will get scrapbooked, though I'm saving all my scrapbooking projects for a big retreat I'm going on in May!







Hope you had a wonderful Easter!

I'm looking forward to this month. We have a lot of new stamps we are releasing on the 23rd... I can't wait to play with them! This week it's Spring Break and I'll be trying to think of ways to entertain my kiddos. We're off to the Kids Museum today. And I'm really hoping the weather shapes up so we can make it to the Tulip Festival later in the week. We shall see...