Lizzie Anne Designs

Happy Umbrella Day!

I was browsing the Paper Crafts Connection blog today and happened to notice that they are celebrating Umbrella Day! And I thought to myself... "How cool is that?!"  Because umbrellas have been a favorite theme of ours as of late. And I'm not just saying this because I live in Seattle! The rain makes everything green and beautiful...it makes the flowers grow! I think that umbrellas are even a little trendy right now.

Look at some of these latest umbrella cards from the Design Team...

Our February Monthly Mix set is called Singing in the Rain and it has two umbrellas! One made of tiny flowers...as used by Maren in the card below...

...and also this pink and white flower umbrella from Kendra...

 

...and the other umbrella in the Singing in the Rain set is a cute birdie holding a polkadot umbrella...he's like me...happy to dance in the rain once in awhile!

We just came out with another cool umbrella set called Spring Rain...it's one of our new Sixlets sets. This umbrella is made up of words. I think that Tiffany loves this umbrella so much that she felt inspired to stamp it three times on her card! (And a lovely card it is....)

 
  
 
It's easy to love the rain when you have a cute umbrella.

For all you stampers out there battling snowstorms...snuggle up with a warm blanket, drink some hot cocoa, and know that the Spring Rain will be here soon enough!

Lovin' Those Rockstars!

Our Design Team Rockstars have been creating a lot of Valentine's Day / Love- themed projects the past week and have been using a lot of our new stamps too. It's time to show some of them off! Here's a sampling...

 

Oh pretty princess...perfect for a little girls class valentine's.  Both Kendra and Taylor used A Little Love stamp set and digital paper pack for these two cards.

Speaking of A Little Love...here are a few more projects featuring that stamp set from Wendy and Tiffany...

...the perfect BOY Valentine.

 

A Valentine's Day sucker for a friend!
 
 

 

A cute treat bag! Visit this blog post to see how Tiffany made this. My daughter is looking over my shoulder as I type this and she's really excited about the Lion and M&M's. It's a hit with the kiddos!

And now some Vintage Valentine samples...my favorite LAD Valentine's Day set so far...

 

A shabby-chic cards from Taylor. And this one from Maren...

 

Maren also did a lovely card with our new Box of Chocolates stamp single.

 

Last but not least a few Valentine's using the From the Heart Monthly Mix stamps set from Kendra and Jeanne! 
  

Are you feeling the LOVE?  Make sure to visit our Sketchbook and hit the NEW button to see all the latest samples the girls have been uploading!

More Valentine's news...we've chosen a new Guest Rockstar Stamper who is currently playing with our A Little Love stamp set. We can't reveal who she is yet. We'll be revealing who she is and her samples right here on February 2nd! 

XOXOXO

 

Gift-Giving Ideas Anyone?

Today I am going to feature some of Debbie's recent projects...this girl is in the holiday spirit!  She has been making all kinds of holiday homemade gifts lately...go check out her blog and you'll see what I mean. She's an inspiration for me for sure...a reminder that I need to start on my gifts NOW as I will get busier and busier as the holidays approach!

I pulled these two gift ideas to show...

This notebook features our Gingerbread single. So cute! I can see filling this notebook up with holiday recipes or maybe use it as an address book for my holiday christmas card list. I think this would be a great teacher gift with a cute matching pen.

 

Love this card gift box...what a great gift idea for anyone! I could do this quite easily because I hoard the cards I make and forget to give them sometimes (can anyone relate? :)  So all I'd have to do is make my card-box and choose some of my favorites to give as a gift. My friends who are non-stampers (the horror!) really appreciate gifts like this.
 

Our Sketchbook has a lot more Holiday Gift ideas so browse around and get inspired.

Turkey Day is only a week away, can you believe it? We will be driving to Sacramento to spend Thanksgiving with my aunt/uncle/cousins. I plan on having a Christmas card-making session with my aunt, we always have so much fun making cards together. And we'll have a pie-making session too...my husband is looking forward to that! I'll take pictures!

 

Talkin' Turkey

It's Rockstar Wednesday today and it's time to Talk Turkey. Why? Because Turkey Day is two weeks away!

A few Thanksgiving samples from the Design Team Rockstars...

It's Tom Turkey himself featured in this lovely card designed by Joslyn....using stamps from the November Monthly Mix set, A Harvest of Memories.

 

 
 

No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without pie!  More stamps from the November Mix on this card designed by Tiffany, including my favorite Fall/Thanksgiving sentiment, A harvest of memories, a day of thanks. 

 

 

A card designed by Jeanne remembering the first Thanksgiving with our newest Little People...Pilgrim Boy...

...and Pilgrim Girl is shown here as a napkin ring holder designed by Maren!

 

 

Speaking of table and place settings, Kendra did an entire Lizzie Anne Thanksgiving table setting last year featuring Happy Harvest. It's beautiful!

 

 

Yummy projects for a yummy holiday!

 ...are you hungry yet?!

 

Guest Rockstar Stamper!

A few weeks ago we announced that we were looking for our very first Guest Rockstar Stamper and we posted our 100th Sketch Challenge. We were so excited by how many of you wanted to be a Guest Rockstar! It was hard to choose...we have such talented customers! 

We are excited to announce our first Guest Rockstar Stamper....

Christi Milliken!

Here is the adorable card that Christi designed based on our 100th Sketch Challenge and featuring stamps from our Something to Crow about stamp set...

I love the color palette on this card and how the apples match the patterned paper. So cute! 

Make sure to visit Christi's blog here...

Now for the really fun part. Christi has chosen a favorite stamp set and is going to be playing with it the next month. She'll be sending us her samples and we'll feature them here on Rockstar Wednesday, December 2nd! Her samples will also take a permanent place in our Sketchbook.

We'll definitely be choosing more Guest Rockstars in the future...so keep doing our sketch challenges and posting your samples to our gallery or Lizzie Anne Land!

Rockstar Wednesday...scarecrows are not scary! (mostly.)

Yesterday I took my daughter Sammy to the pumpkin patch. It was a perfect Fall day. Right now the trees are in that perfect state where they are so colorful and still have all their leaves....I'm sure that in a week there will be a lot less leaves so I'm snapping as many photos as I can!

We went to Fall City Farms and looked at all the rows of pumpkins and squashes...my daughter picked out a baby pumpkin (the big pumpkins were too heavy for her to carry.) And I took photos of the scarecrows, because I LOVE scarecrows. Check out this cutie pie...not scary at all!

 

My daughter did think this scarecrow was scary....I think because she couldn't see his face. It did feel like he was going to jump down from those mailboxes at any moment!

 

All these things reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Lizzie Anne sets...Happy Harvest. I especially love the scarecrow in this set. So I chose some cards that some of the girls did featuring scarecrows and pumpkins and fall images from Happy Harvest.

 
Here's a card that Jeanne designed featuring our scarecrow.  I'm sure Sammy would agree that he's not in the least bit scary.

  

 

Another scarecrow card from Joslyn...

 
 

Here's a cute pumpkin card by Kendra....

 
 

A card with apples and fall leaves from Meridith. I've had Honey Crisp Apples sitting on my table the past week and my kids can't get enough of them. I even tried to make caramel apples the other day-- tip...don't let your caramel cook in the microwave too long or your caramel will be hard as a rock! They were still good! :)
 
 

Enjoy those Fall days while they last!

Rockstar Wednesday

Happy Wednesday...it's time to show off some of our Design Team Rockstars. Here's a sampling of a few cards featuring stamps from our latest release in case you missed them...

Love this Christmas stockings card that Debbie made with the Deck the Halls set.  Love the stitching around the hanging stockings...stockings and stitching go together! 

 

I love this little penguin card that Maren did with the Way Up North set...our little penguin looks so happy walking amidst the snow flurries! He's having snow much fun...

This beautiful card that Kendra created features stamps from our new Fanciful Flourishes set, paired with a bloom and sentiment from Garden Iinspirations.  I love how she stamped the flourishes on the patterned word paper...I'm going to have to borrow this idea!

These are the snow bears from Way Up North...love the faux snow Jeanne added to this card!

This creative card that Taylor designed uses the sentiment from the new Christmas Magic set and our Fairy stamp single...aren't those two images perfect together?!

I had to show of this candle that Wendy designed using the leaves from the latest Monthly Mix, A Harvest of Memories. It's the perfect Autumn decoration. I can see a bunch of these on my fireplace mantel or at a Thanksgiving table.

More samples are being uploaded every day to the Sketchbook!  Click the NEW button to see the latest uploads! And if you are uploading to our Customer Gallery, your samples will show up too!

Tomorrow is the 15th of the Month, which means we'll be revealing the November Monthly Mix set. AND we are adding another incentive for our Mix Members that we'll be announcing tomorrow. We love to spoil our Mix Members!

Rockstar Wednesday

It's Rockstar Wednesday time, and today I am featuring some of the fabulous creations from Bethany Paull.  Bethany has a way with a layout that I have always admired...the way she positions elements on her cards is very creative, and as a graphic designer this is something I can appreciate (it's not easy!) Here's a sample she recently made featuring The Great Outdoors, which is also our featured product this week!

Another thing Bethany does really well is combine patterned paper with our stamp images. Take a look at this card for example....are those not perfect?!  The snail/sentiment is from our Cute as a Bug set.

 

This adorable card features patterned paper from our very own Bloomin' Doodles and Cute as a Bug digital paper pack! The polka-dots and the buttons compliment the caterpillar perfectly!

Finally, a very lovely Get Well card featuring the Get Well Sentiment. Our sentiments have been some of our most popular stamp singles! The flowers are from Bloomin' Doodles.

Love what you see? You can see more of Bethany's fabulous creations in our Sketchbook!

Rock Star Wednesday

It's Rockstar Wednesday time and today I wanted to highlight some of the awesome and creative things that Joslyn does for Lizzie Anne!

Joslyn is not only one of our Design Team Rockstars, but she also helps us design our Monthly Mix sets, and she is our company photographer! Have you noticed our beautiful index page and product page photos? Joslyn does these for us, and she makes ALL the samples in those shots as well. A lot of the time she is getting the stamps a day or two before we need the shot!  So-- you can see she is truly a Rockstar!

Here are a few close-up shots of the cards she just put in our October Monthly Mix shot (see the post below for the full shot.)

All these images are from the October Mix set...A Harvest of Memories, due to ship the first week in October!

Here is another beautiful card featuring the flower (one of the images Joslyn drew!) from our September Mix set, and the happy day sentiment is from Circle Sentiments, another set she designed. We love Joslyn's clean and simple style. I especially love her use of ribbons and buttons!

The September Mix set -- Something to Crow About -- will continue to ship out until the end of September. So you still have time go get it at the club price! Visit this page to learn more about the Monthly Mix Club.

Happy Wednesday!

In other news...check out THIS post by Maren, who is kicking off World Cardmaking Day with some AWESOME cards featuring Lizzie Anne images...I just fell over my seat when I saw these! So simple, colorful and fun. What are your World Cardmaking Day plans?!

Here is the World Cardmaking Day website...they have a fun new look this year!

Rockstar Wednesday :: Autumn Inspirations

I'm so ready for Halloween. Yesterday while I was in the grocery store I picked up a copy of the new Martha Stewart Living Halloween magazine, and it's been so much fun looking at all the decor...this always inspires my stamping. Then I headed to my local scrapbooking store to look at all the fun new Halloween papers and products. I just love pumpkins and fall leaves and everything Halloween! So I thought for Rockstar Wednesday, I'd inspire your creativity with a few of my favorites from the Design Team...

Did you see this Witch Hat that Tiffany made? What I love about this project is it uses stamps from the Monthly Mix "Something to Crow About" stamp set that I wouldn't have necessarily pegged as Halloween...the vine, flowers, and leaf. Very creative! And it's a placecard for a Halloween party too!

I love this Boo to You card that Meridith made with our Spooked! Set. The ghosts are my favorite!

This "dark" card by Maren is so spooky. I love how she created the dark sky with the bright yellow moon. This uses the tree from Hallow's Eve.

A "Spooktacular" card with the kitty from Joslyn...also with images from Hallow's Eve....

I love this cute Halloween card that Katie did with the Happy Halloween stamp single. The colors are so bright and fun!

This is a card that I (Lizzie) made last year with our little Witch and Witch Saying singles....I thought my "buckle" hardware at the top of the card complimented her hat and shoes!

How cute is this Mummy treat can that Kendra made?  The Mummy is stamped on the lid.

Are you inspired? Go create!