you really make the cut

This is a Father's Day card I made using our June Monthly Mix set and Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety patterned paper. It's funny...I made several cards last weekend at my retreat and this is the one that people gravitated toward the most! It was also the easiest card I made. It really is a fun card for Dad. :) I have a lot of memories of my following my Dad around the yard as a kid while he mowed the grass. Then he'd walk through the front room leaving grass-stain colored shoe prints on the carpet and my Mom would get mad. Ha ha! Good ol' Dad.

may challenge

It's Design Team Challenge Day at Lizzie Anne, and this month I challenged the girls to design or decorate packaging with stamping. For my project, I went to my trusty packaging solution... stamping a kraft gift bag and making a matching tag. I know it's not the most complicated project, but honestly, I have made DOZENS of these. The thing is it doesn't take very long --which important for me when I'm in a rush to find cute packaging for a gift. I stock lots of different sizes of kraft gift bags and tissue paper specifically for stamping.




Here is a bag I stamped with the butterfly images that are in the new June Mix Set.. Life is Good. The butterflies are two of my favorite images in this set because I like 2-step stamping... which is the perfect type of stamping for making a pattern on a gift bag. First I stamped the solid/pattern butterfly in glimmery lavender ink all over my bag, and then I used the dotted-line butterfly to go over the top in dark purple ink.



I made this cute matching tag with the butterflies again and also the Enjoy sentiment from Vintage Verses (this is becoming a go-to sentiment set for me.) Tie some cute ribbon through the tag, attach it the bag, and stuff in some matching tissue paper and you're ready to hide a gift in there!

Make sure to go and see the other challenge projects the DT girls are posting today! You can see some sneak-peeks of their projects on the Lizzie Anne blog.

ten cards and ten pages

I missed our Mix it Up Day blog hop yesterday but with good reason... I was at a scrapbooking retreat up in the mountains! And I must say, I had a VERY productive weekend... I made 10 cards, 10 scrapbooking pages, 7 gift tags, and one packaging item. :) Yeah! It was fun having a whole weekend of craft time to myself and gabbing with my good friend Rebecca across the table from me.

So naturally I'm excited to share my projects with you, but some of them use stamps from the July and August Mix sets that we haven't released yet! So I'll have to pick and choose. The card above features the light house in the new June Mix Set - Life is Good. This light house is actually one I photographed while on a trip to the Oregon Coast about two years ago, it's a very famous lighthouse!

Here are three scrapbook pages I'm proud of. The first two feature family photos that we had done last fall, and the third is a page of me and my favorite Aunt Shauna. Enjoy!

mom

Here's the card I made for my Mom. I am so in love with the Pink Paislee Queen Bee collection... gray and yellow are such an unusual color combination and I think it's very sophisticated. This uses the Mom stamp from our It's Good to be Queen stamp set, and the gold-embossed flowers are from our new Hello Friend Sixlets set. Once again, I used an awesome Tim Holtz button...it's gold and gray so it matched my card perfectly!

To all the Mom's out there... Happy Mother's Day and take some time out for yourself, you deserve it!

vintage bookmarks

I had SO much fun making bookmarks this week, oh my word. I was inspired by the bookmark that Meridith made for the Lizzie Anne May newsletter... I thought they would make great Mother's Day gifts and also a gift for Ethan's teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week. They are so easy! I wanted my bookmarks to have a vintage feel. Here they are:















I'm giving the "Queen" bookmark to Ethan's teacher because she calls her classroom "The Beehive" and she is the "Queen Bee."

Mixing Tim Holtz stamps with some of our latest Lizzie Anne vintage stamps really worked well, and the icing on the cake are those vintage buttons! I'm going to make some more of these... I think I need one for myself. So here's how you make these: Choose 2 6x6 pieces of patterned paper and glue them together (I used different patterns for the front and back.) The paper I used is heavier-weight which made it nice and sturdy once I had doubled it up. Cut it down to 2.5" wide...you could get two bookmarks per sheet. Use a corner punch for the edges and a hole punch through the top. Attach ribbon and tie on one of the buttons. Use your stamps and strips of patterned paper to decorate the bookmarks. That's it!


Supplies:

Lizzie Anne "It's Good to be Queen" and "Vintage Verses" stamp sets
Tim Holtz Accouterments buttons (these are SO yummy.)
Tim Holtz Mini Classics stamp set
Pink Paislee Queen Bee and Bayberry Cottage 6x6 paper pads