green, brown, and cream

It's Design Team Challenge Day at Lizzie Anne, and this month the challenge is to choose a card designed by another DT member and use it as inspiration for your own card. My card is above!

The card I chose as inspiration was designed by Taylor. Here is a link to it in the Sketchbook so you can see why it is I chose this card (because it's gorgeous!) I really loved the color combination... green, brown, and cream are not colors I usually pair together. It makes for a really elegant look. The hardest part of Taylor's card to case was the perfect sponging she did around the main image. I have to admit, I ruined my first attempt at this and had to try again. ;)

Visit this post on the LAD Blog today to see more Design Team Challenge Cards. This is a fun one, it's always interesting to see what inspires others!

i heart you valentine

This is what I think of when I think of a traditional Valentine... red, white, and pink colors with hearts, lace trim, and the word Valentine! All it needs now is one of those red heart suckers or some conversation heart candies and I'm a kid again. :) Happy Valentine's Day!




card ingredients:
squiggly heart stamp: Lucky in Love
i heart you stamp: So Much Love
lace border punch: Martha Stewart
valentine rub-ons and paper: Hip 2B Square January Kit

style

This is a card that just appeared in the new March/April edition of Paper Crafts Magazine. They are having a "hot air balloon" feature and our Vintage Birthday set was perfect for that! I love the vintage style.





I love the combination of the body form from our Warmest Wishes Mix set combined with this GORGEOUS Hopscotch patterned paper from Basic Grey. Sewing and stitching-theme cards continue to be in style, and I'm glad because I really can't get enough of this look.

And then I tried something I don't normally do... I dressed up the inside of the card too.


I admit I cheated and drew fake stitches. Something was wrong with my little sewing machine and I was too tired to fix it...this was a "midnight" card. (Why do my midnight cards always turn out as my favs? Do I design better when I'm sleepy?!)

love theme cards

I've been playing with my January Hip 2B Square kit the past two days. There are some really gorgeous papers in this kit, I've been having fun playing with them. My table/kitchen is still a disaster area... covered with stamps and bits of paper and glue dots and ink pads. My kids don't have anywhere to sit to eat breakfast. I told them to just clear a little spot somewhere... but don't spill milk on my paper!! ha ha.

I've posted a few cards and the stamp sets I used with the paper. Naturally most have a Love theme for this time of the year...









Both cards above use stamps from the Lucky in Love Mix Set








Wedding card uses stamps from the Dream Big Mix set (released last May.)







Uses last year's January Mix, From the Heart.

bonjour

It's Release Day at Lizzie Anne! All our new stamps can be found in the New Release area of our website.

This is a vintage Parisian card I made last night with Bonjour, I am loving that set, it's going to get a lot of use!






All this Paris talk reminded me of my college study-abroad Paris trip and the scrapbooking page I made a few years ago... I think I even posted it when we released a different Parisian set (now retired) called Ohh La La. Here it is... I'm the one on the far left kissing the sky on the boat. :) Meridith is on that boat somewhere too...in fact she was probably taking the photo. We were on the Seine floating by all the great sites, including Notre Dame. The smaller photo (and the big one I enlarged for the background) is of our group in front of the Eiffel Tower.





Good memories! I remember thinking "someday I'm coming back here with my husband!" Well that hasn't happened yet. I was also thinking we'd go to Venice for our honeymoon... of course what happened is we were young and broke. We did go to Las Vegas where we walked by the Venetian and Paris casinos. That hardly counts but we still had a good time. ;) Someday...


You're sure to see more Parisian cards from me in the next few months. I have another Parisian Valentine that I'm posting in the Lizzie Anne February Newsletter that is going out soon... if you haven't signed up, you can do it here!