summer layouts

Here are two layouts I did with my August Hip 2B Square kit.



This first one is a Maui layout and the paper I used is so perfect for this. The arrow is actually pointing at the Hawaiian Islands! It's a little hard to see so I tried to zoom in on it below. This paper is called "Yellow Bikini" by October Afternoon (the backside is the yellow floral paper.)



This layout is of me and one of my closest friends Ulrika doing what we love to do most... shop! Ulrika visited me from Sweden this summer (she lives there with her American husband and two kids) and we had a lovely day shopping and eating at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant... the one we'd always go to during college. I'm wearing the new shirt I just bought at Buckle. :)



I'm headed to Whidbey Island for a scrapbooking retreat with some great friends this weekend... so excited! We rented a little beach house and I'll be doing nothing but scrapbooking, cardmaking, chatting with friends, eating chocolate, and gazing out over the ocean for two days. It's going to be lovely!

a fun surprise

I am going on a scrapbooking retreat with some of my good friends this weekend (yay!) and I'm getting the photos I want to scrapbook ready. My son's first grade teacher made photo cd's for the parents at the end of the school year and I've not looked at it yet... I thought I'd take a peek and see if there were any good shots of my son. Oh my word, there were the BEST photos in there, I can't believe it! I'm so excited, these will be such great first-grade memories to scrapbook for him. Here are a few of my favorites...

This is Ethan reading a book wearing his Dr. Seuss hat. He looks so serious yet he's wearing this huge paper hat, it cracks me up!




This is another one that cracks me up... that look on his face matches the spider he just made, ha ha. I've seen that face many times before. That's his "Whoa!" face.




These two photos were taken on a school field trip... he is studying nature. Aren't they great?! This is going to be a GREAT scrapbook page.






Here's a photo of me and Ethan at the Mother's Day Tea. That's my "bee pot" on the desk he made me.



Thank heaven for great school teachers who do these things for us parents. What a gift!

The September scrapbooking kit I'm getting from Hip 2B Square has a bunch of really great school-themed papers I can use with these photos. I'll be playing with it this weekend! You can see it HERE. I'll of course share my layouts with you later!

new stamps!

It's new stamp release day at Lizzie Anne...whoo hoo! Go to the New Release area of our website to see our two new Little Bits sets, our two new Singles, and two new digital papers!

Today I'm showing you another card from Vintage Birthday. I made this for my son who is about to turn 8 years old soon! This is also another one of my Hip 2B Square August kit cards. I think my favorite part of this card is the little birthday hat on top of the 8... you could easily do this with any cardstock sticker number-- a fun way to dress it up! And the little cake at the bottom is one of my favorite cake images we've released so far.




We also released our October Singles -- Tall Snowman and Merry Christmas -- today instead of on October 1st like we normally do. We know how anxious some of you are to get going on your Holiday cards, and they are both Holiday images so we figured why make you wait?! I made a simple gift card and a gift tag because these are two things I'm always in need of around the Holidays. Sometimes I just want a quick little card or tag to go with a gift for the neighbor or my son's teacher or a friend. (I have my "Christmas Card List" for the more elaborate cards that I spend hours making!)







I used the new Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather patterned paper and buttons on these. Note how cute but simple they are! You could easily mass-produce a bunch of gift cards and tags with just these two stamp Singles.

Make sure to go over to the Lizzie Anne Blog today... I have another In the Powder Room sample featuring the chick in the bubble bath and I LOVE, LOVE that image (okay, I drew ME in the bath, what can I say! :) I am a bath-lover, oh yes. When my husband and I were house-hunting two years ago it was the big bathtub in the master bathroom that won me over (true story.) I have another Vintage Birthday sample too featuring the hot air balloon, another image I LOVE LOVE. Here are two little peeks of my cards that are over there...





ONE MORE THING... our entire store will be on sale 20% off for the next three days only! This *includes the new releases.* Enjoy!

going vintage... sneak peeks

Our fall stamp release is tomorrow (Monday, September 20th) and today is SNEAK PEEK day! It's always fun to get a little peek at what's to come, yes? You'll notice that both my projects have a vintage-feel today, so fun!


Here is a card I made using a gorgeous Happy Birthday sentiment from our new Vintage Birthday stamp set. This card also features paper from my August Hip 2B Square scrapbooking kit. I made this for my Grandma who I believe is about to turn 90 this November! I need to verify this with her (not sure she will tell me, ha ha. But I'm pretty sure it's her 90th Birthday.)





This gift tag was made with our new In the Powder Room stamp set. This is a room we haven't covered yet... and what with us having In the Parlor, In the Kitchen, and In the Nursery, we really felt like we needed a Powder Room! Heck we practically have an entire house now (maybe we need a garage... that may come next. ;)




I made this tag to go with a fancy, yummy-smelling bar of soap... a great gift! In fact, this entire set would be great for bath gifts, something I give a lot, especially at Christmas. I paired the "curler lady" with paper from Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl paper... a good match.




This lady with her head full of curlers makes me laugh. I remember my mother using these... she had one of those trays of hot-steaming rollers. She'd try to use them on my hair and I HATED how they felt--like they were burning my scalp--so we ended up using those pink foam curlers that you'd sleep in all night. In the morning I had bouncy curls! Ah yes, those were the days.

That's all the peekin' I have for ya today, but come back tomorrow (release day!) cause I have more samples to share! Go and check out the other Lizzie Anne Design Team blogs today for more sneak peeks, we are linking to them from the LAD blog. And participate in our weekly sketch challenge too!

sunflower for you

This is a little gift card I made with our new October Mix set -- Sweet & Spooky! I love sunflowers. It's the first flower my husband ever gave to me (a few days after we met. :) This set has a bunch of fun little image/sentiments that fit inside that scallop frame. This is also the stamp set that I used for the "Eat, Drink, and be Scary" sentiment I used this card yesterday. See why we named this set Sweet & Spooky?! It's a little of both! Love it.

I'm also using some adorable new matching digital papers we are releasing today. It's called Autumn Mix and there are some fabulous fall-themed papers in there! My good friend Rebecca designed this digital paper pack based on a lot of the images in our Sweet & Spooky set, and they are just perfect for Autumn-themed cards and scrapbook pages. I printed the "fall foliage" and "gold polka-dot" paper on some recycled cream paper to achieve an earthy-feel. I love earthy!

purple people eater

This month's Lizzie Anne Design Team Challenge was to make a Fall-themed card and base it on the Weekly Sketch Challenge that is posted on the Lizzie Anne Blog today. Go and see what the rest of the team has done, it's inspiring!

I wanted to do a Halloween card. I LOVE Halloween stuff. I thought it would be fun to make one with our Little Monsters Sixlets stamp set... I love those little monsters. Tryin' to be scary when they are really just cute. (Kinda reminds me of my kids!) I also used the new Cosmo Cricket Matilda pattern paper and buttons... mmmmmm.

There is also a SECRET STAMP on this card.... shhhhhhhhhhhh! It's from the October Mix that we are previewing in two days on the 15th. What can I say, I needed a good "scary" sentiment and this one was perfect, I couldn't wait. That's one of the benefits of being a stamp-company owner. I can break my own rules. ;) Make sure to come back and see the rest of that stamp set on the 15th, it's a fun one!

crafting again...

...into the wee hours of the night! I love it!

The following are a few projects I made with the August Hip 2B Square scrapbooking kit. YUMMY papers in this kit. If you are looking for a good scrapbooking club, I highly recommend this one. You don't have to live in Snoqualmie... Kim (the owner) will ship anywhere!

This is a cute card I made with random scraps from the kit. These are scraps I had after I made my first three cards, which all feature a new stamp set Lizzie Anne Designs is releasing on September 20th, so you'll have to wait to see those! :)



I love this layout. I love this photo. It's of my daughter and her cousin Zoe. They were sitting on this bench in my sisters backyard yucking it up over something... cute little girl laughs. Who knows what was so funny...only little girls know these things sometimes. :) I captured the moment perfectly in this photo.



Closeup of a flower I made... I love to make these flowers. I cut different sizes of crumpled up paper circles and the cut around the edges with scissors and layer them.



That was a lovely, lazy summer day. I'm missing summer already.... :)

sketch challenge

I spent Labor Day weekend crafting! Could there be a better way to spend a long weekend? Okay... maybe crafting on a beach in Maui. With my husband watching the kids. ha ha!

I have LOTS of new stamps to play with and a new Hip 2B Square scrapbook kit to boot, so it's keeping me busy and happy! Some of the cards and scrapbook pages I'll be posting very shortly and some will have to wait until our NEW STAMP RELEASE on September 20th. Yippee!

Here is a card I made today for Joslyn's Lizzie Anne Sketch Challenge. I used stamps from the September Mix Set, Treasured Trinkets, and the May & July Hip 2B Square scrapbooking kit. This is a color combination I don't often use... black and brown. I was inspired by the Maya Road fabric flower up there in the corner. I think it turned out elegant. Enjoy!