easter egg cards

The April Design Team Challenge is to make an Easter card. I am getting a bunch of my handmade cards ready to sell at the Sassy Mei show on Saturday alongside our stamps, and I thought it would be good to have a few Easter cards to sell. So I came up with this simple, but cute Easter Egg card idea. Just die cut an oval out of some cardstock, and then put patterned paper behind it. Top off the egg with a bow. Simple and elegant!

For my challenge card, I stamped a pattern from our Damask stamp set onto new paper from Pink Paislee-- Butterfly Garden. Pink and orange are one of my favorite color schemes. The Happy Easter sentiment is from our new Spring Mix - Follow Your Dreams.





This card also uses paper from the Butterfly Garden collection. I love the pattern!



This is a brighter version with some polka-dot paper from Cosmo Cricket - Upcycle.

We've been adding a lot of new designer paper into the store at Lizzie Anne-- Meridith and I are paper addicts so it's a way for us to get our hands on some of our favorite lines. :) All our 6x6 paper pads are on sale right now 20% off, including the papers I used on my cards above. You can see them all HERE.

Visit the Lizzie Anne Blog today to see other Easter cards from our Design Team!

spring break

I took my kids to Zion National Park over Spring Break. It was perfect weather... about 80 degrees (yes!) and if you've never been to Zion, you'll see why you should go from the photos below. It's gorgeous. Spring is a great time of year to go because there are a lot of waterfalls that you don't see during the Summer months. Great hiking!











I'm going to be hosting a booth at the Sassy Mei show this Saturday if any of you live in the Seattle area! There will be a selection of Lizzie Anne stamps, as well as some hand-made items (by me. ;)

Here are the deets:

Sassy Mei's 1 DAY ONLY Spring Boutique:

Saturday, April 16, 2011
10: 00 AM - 5:00 PM
7430 Better Loop Way SE, Snoqualmie, WA
(end of the parkway, behind Subway)

Hosted in a beautiful CamWest home, this show will feature: Easter specialties, Mother's Day gifts, home decor, gourmet food, sweets, designer clothes, accessories, baby everything, books, artwork and more.

*First 50 customers through the register will receive a sweet treat!

april singles

We're releasing two new Singles today... Mother Defined and So Very Sorry. The card above features Mother Defined... isn't this perfect for a Mother's Day card?! I love it!

I have a crazy busy but exciting month ahead of me. I just love April. April is exciting. You can feel Springtime in the air and I start looking forward to warmer weather (it doesn't always show up until about May or June-- but it's still close. :) I'm taking my kids to visit their grandparents in St. George, Utah over Spring Break this week, where it's sure to be in the 70's and if we're lucky the 80's. Then I come home and get ready to do a little craft show where I'll be selling some Lizzie Anne Stamps, handmade cards, and some hair accessories I make from zippers, should be fun! Later in the month, we are FINALLY going on the family vacation that I have been planning for a year now, our Disney Cruise / Orlando trip! We're taking the kids on the four-day Disney Dream cruise, I'm so excited. My kids are just the perfect age, my daughter is over the moon at the thought of spending four days in the company of princesses! We'll spend a few days at Disney World before the cruise as well.

I might not be posting much this month though I do plan on participating in our Design Team Challenge on the 15th, see you then!