Lizzie Anne Designs is turning two this month and wants to celebrate with you! There are activities planned throughout the month from a Birthday Sketch Challenge Contest to Sneak Peeks of the Summer Releases. You can see a list of all the activities and scheduled dates on the Anniversary Celebration.

To kickoff the celebration, today is the Design Team Stroll. Each Design Team member will be posting a Lizzie Anne card and here’s mine today.

The image was colored with Copic Markers and then die cut using Nestabilities. There is just a bit of glitter for the swirl on the top of the chocolate. A fairly simple card for me, but hey — I’M ON THE ROAD STILL!

• Stamps: Petite Phrases from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: Georgia Pacific White; SU Chocolate Chip; BasicGrey Infuse
• Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black and Vintage Photo Distress
• Accessories: Copic Markers; Spellbinder Nestabilities; Ribbon

Hope everyone has a great day and I should be somewhat back to normal in just a few days. Well lets put it another way — I’ll be home in a few days!

Good afternoon! Jeanne got here last night around 8:30, and by the time we stopped for drive through, got back to the house and got her settled, we only had a few hours to chat before we both just crashed. We have errands to run today, but I had a brainstorm (and yes it did hurt) for the Sketch Challenge on SCS today. I couldn’t wait to make that second , walk the pups while waiting and then head to the stamp room. Jeanne is still down there working away! She claims to be working in slow motion today.

Anyhoo, what I decided to do was incorporate both the Sketch and Technique Challenges today. Once I got the image stamped, I realized that I was going to need to go to a bigger card. Cut the panel wrong in the beginning. Oh well, we now have a 5-1/2″ square card.

All the panels started out as Neenah Classic Crest Solar White. I stamped the flowers and the swirls, and then misted the paper with Shimmer Mist made with Scattered Straw and Gold Perfect Pearls. The sentiment panel is just a scrap of white, misted with the Shimmer Mist and the sentiment stamped in black. The flower panel was distressed, and then all the edges of the white (now shimmery) were sponged with Adirondack Latte.

• Stamps: In the Meadow and So Swirly from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Basic Black and Kraft
• Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Adirondack Cranberry and Latte, Tim Holtz Scattered Straw Distress Ink
• Accessories: Ranger Mini Mister, Gold Perfect Pearls; Tonic Tim Holtz Distress Tool; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber; Ribbon; Mounting Tape

I hope you have a great day today! We are off to run some errands and I’m gonna get a quick haircut.

Good Monday afternoon! I can’t believe it is already this late. I started the morning off running errands, bank, store, blah blah blah. Now here’s the best part of my day! I emailed Jeanne to see if she was getting close to being ready to fly in on Thursday. I went on downstairs to work on today’s Try a New Technique Challenge, and Jeanne called. Jeanne isn’t coming in on Thursday. She gets here TOMORROW! You know I vaguely telling me her plans had been changed but it was probably one of those moments when I really wasn’t paying attention. It also goes to tell you how often she ACTUALLY reads my blog, because I’ve only been talking about her getting here on Thursday for a week! On the downside, the house may not be as spotless as I would want it to be. However, on the upside, I’m gonna have some help getting the shirts made for the Epilepsy Walk this coming Saturday! WOO HOO! One of my errands this morning was to go buy mine, Jeanne’s and Mallory’s shirts as well as the transfer paper. Now I just have to rework the design in a program that allows me to print iron-on transfers, and I’m golden!

Speaking of the Epilepsy Walk, I’m going to give a shameless plug. If you haven’t read Kate’s Story, we are doing the Walk Around Kentuckiana this coming Saturday for the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana. Even though through your great generosity, we have far exceeded Kate’s goal, we are still taking donations through the week. Before I start to get weepy again, I’m going to move onto today’s stamping.

When I checked on Beth’s Splitcoast Try a New Technique Challenge today, I laughed myself silly. Beth and I had been working on this technique during the demos at the Collinsville Stamp Show a few weeks ago, and I was teasing her that it would make a great challenge. By golly she did it – and better yet, she made her own samples! WOO HOO Beth!

Today’s Technique Challenge is to use Shimmer and/or Glimmer Mist to add some shimmer and shine to your project. To make my own Shimmer Mist, I use a Ranger Mini Mister, add one dropper full of Tim Holtz Distress Reinker and then a bit of Ranger Perfect Pearls. I actually use my scissors and pick up the Perfect Pearls on the end of it and drop them into the Mini Mister. Fill the bottle with water, just a bit down from the top, and give it a good shake. It lasts forever and I make a number of bottles at one time depending on the color I’m using. (i.e., I will make 4 Mini Misters at one time all with the same color of ink, but each with different colors of Perfect Pearls). I write on the side of the Mini Mister the combination - Scattered Straw Gold, etc., and then keep them stored in an old coffee mug on my desk.

Instead of making a card today, I decided on a tag using a number of sets from Lizzie Anne Designs.

I took a manilla shipping tag and stamped a few swirls from So Swirly in Milled Lavender. Once that had dried, I misted the tag with Broken China Gold, Dusty Concord Pearl and Scattered Straw Gold Shimmer Mists. The swirls that I had stamped earlier absorbed some of the color of the Shimmer Mist and popped out from the background. Flowers from In the Meadow were randomly stamped in Dusty Concord. The sentiment, from Say It in Script, was stamped on a separate tag, trimmed, and then misted with Scattered Straw Gold and Broken China Gold Shimmer Mist. The edges were distressed with my distress tool and then sponged with Dusty Concord. The sentiment panel is raised on mounting tape. For some added dimension to the tag, I inked a Grunge Board flourish with Milled Lavender and then misted it with more Shimmer Mist. The Grunge Board is attached to the tag using Ranger Glossy Accents.

Here’s a close up of the sentiment panel and Grunge Board hoping to show some of the shimmer on the tag.

• Stamps: In the Meadow, So Swirly and Say it in Script from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: Manilla Shipping Tag
• Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Broken China, Milled Lavender and Dusty Concord Distress Inks
• Accessories: Ranger Mini Misters, Pearl and Gold Perfect Pearls, and Glossy Accents; Tim Holtz idea-ology Grunge Board Elements; Tonic Tim Holtz Distress Tool; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber; Paula Best Fibers

I hope you enjoy your day, and I’m gonna try and get started on some laundry (Jeanne will need clean sheets)!

Sherry

Well good afternoon! Hope everyone is having a good day so far. I’ve been quite busy myself, catching up on emails, phone calls, puppy watch, etc., and I still have tons more to do. It has felt good to get back in the stamp room after having five days off. Sometimes I think I need that refresher period. The only problem right now, is that I have so many projects that have time frames, and I’m just a tad behind at the moment. I need to catch up on what I can before the 19th. That’s when Jeanne flies in, we do the Epilepsy Walk (which, I am still taking donations for), and then we head out on our little road trip.

Last night I was able to get to the Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge, using Real Red, So Saffron and Regal Rose.

I decided that I wanted to do a little color wash for this card, and applied a very light wash to a piece of watercolor paper. For the image, I colored the stamp with Real Red and Old Olive markers, misted with water and stamped on the still damp watercolor paper. I then colored in the open areas of the flower with Regal Rose marker. The edges of the image were sponged with So Saffron. For the background, I applied So Saffron reinker to a piece of Cut-n-Dry Felt and stamped over the So Saffron cardstock. For more dimension, the swirls were then stamped in Adirondack Snow Cap.

• Stamps: In the Meadow and In the Background from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: SU Real Red and So Saffron; Canson Watercolor Paper; BasicGrey Cupcake
• Ink: SU Real Red, So Saffron, Regal Rose and Old Olive; Ranger Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink, Archival Jet Black and Adirondack Snow Cap Pigment
• Accessories: Ranger Cut-n-Dry Felt Stamp Pad; Tsukineko Sponge Dabber; Ribbon; Mounting Tape

While I had these stamps out, I went ahead and did today’s Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge with them today.

I used the same swirls for this card, and stamped them in Snow Cap on the pink background panel, and then sponged the edges of all the background papers with Antique Linen Distress Ink. The only other stamping on this card, is that on the fragment.

I glued the fragment to a piece of the background paper, but it out, and then stamped the flowers in brown and the sentiment in black. The fragment is then raised on mounting tape.

• Stamps: In the Meadow and In the Background from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: Prism Iced Pink; BasicGrey Sultry; SU Chocolate Chip
• Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink, Archival Jet Black and Adirondack Snow Cap Pigment; Tsukineko Stazon Timber Brown;
• Accessories: Tim Holtz idea-ology Fragment; Ranger Glossy Accents; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber; Mounting Tape; Ribbon

Well, I guess that’s about all for today. However, I do have a surprise up my sleeve for you tomorrow - one I can hardly believe myself! You won’t want to miss this one. So until then, here’s hoping you have a great day!

Sherry

Happy Wednesday! It seems I got to stamp a little earlier today than I have the rest of the week. Of course, I am waiting for it to warm up a bit before I head outside. We’ve been trying to get our backyard into shape, and there is so much that needs to be done. Since we had a good rain last night, I’m going to try and dig up a portion of a snowball bush and plant it in the backyard. I’m also on a carpenter bee killing spree, and I tore the steps away from the spa yesterday. I need to coat the bottom of those with waterproof and get them back into place. Elliot is absolutely fascinated with these bees and I’m trying to get them before they get her.

Let’s get on with today’s stamping. It’s a simple card for today’s Splitcoast Sketch Challenge.

The background was stamped with Big Paisley, as well as the pink panel under the sentiment. I used a strip of BasicGrey Sugared for the middle and matched the rest of the paper to that. When the card was finished, the top needed a little something, so I added the ribbon.

• Stamps: Little Bits Say it in Script and Simply Singles Big Paisley from Lizzie Anne Designs
• Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Bravo Burgundy and Pretty in Pink; BasicGrey Sugared
• Ink: VersaMagic Pixie Pink; Ranger Clear Emboss Pad and Archival Jet Black
• Accessories: Spellbinders Oval and Square Nestabilities; Ribbon; Mounting Tape

I would like to take a minute before I go today, to thank each and every one of you who have read Kate’s Story and made a donation to our 2008 Epilepsy Walk Team, Bug Bug Walkers. Your comments, generosity and thoughtfulness have completely overwhelmed me. I continue to get a little choked up each time I think about it! Actually, it leaves me a loss for words – and here I go again, so it’s time for me to go outside today.