Category Archives: Lizzie Anne Designs

It’s been a LONG time since Lindsey, Trudee, Julia and I have done one of our Take Two challenges.  (I actually can’t even remember what or when the last one was!)  This time we each have chosen any Lizzie Anne Designs stamp set and any Basic Grey patterned paper. 

The patterned paper and all embellishments I used here can be found at Jacksonbelle Embellishments.

Make a Splash

I chose LAD’s By the Sea and Basic Grey’s Boxer 6″ x 6″ paper pad.   (Dee made me buy it.  It’s her fault. I was really trying to resist.)

The little crabs and sentiment are all embossed.  I discovered that the Adirondack Pitch Black ink (which is fantastic for coloring with Copics) dries pretty quickly, but if you dump clear ep on as soon as you stamp, it embosses very nicely.  (Maybe all inks do that? I don’t know…I just tried it here.)

For added interest, I applied Waterfall, Fruit Punch and Lime Green Stickles to the mermaid, “Mens” Dew Drops in the corner, and I cut out and popped up the stars (using a rolled glue dot under each).

I used my “wave” blade in my Fiskar’s Rotary Trimmer to simulate the water and sponged the edges using Denim ink.

I’m off to check out the other cards!  (We don’t give sneak peeks.)  Have a great day!

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Boxer 6” x 6” paper pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “By the Sea”   Ink:  Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black, Espresso, Denim   Accessories:  Copic markers, Stickles, Dew Drops, clear embossing powder/heat tool, “Wave” blade/Fiskars Rotary Trimmer, glue dots, sewing machine, sponge.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Welcome the weekend, right?  I have a lot going on today, but tomorrow…sweet nothing.  I love days like that.

Ahoy Matey!

I came across this paper a while back, probably thinking I’d use it to scrap a page from when my son was into pirates.  But that never happened.  I haven’t had the best success with scrapbooking although I have every intention of trying again…someday.  But as a card/paper crafting designer, I never know what’s ahead as far as stamps or pub calls, so I do tend to pick up odd sheets here and there, not really knowing if I’ll ever use it.  But look what I have…a Lizzie Anne pirate!!   And I had that one sheet of perfect paper!  I love when that happens! 🙂 

I used Copic markers to color my little pirate and although it doesn’t show well in the photo, I outlined him in gray.  The anchor charm is tied onto the card using black hemp that I’ve had forEVER.   Why I ever bought a pack of colored hemp is beyond me.  The only hemp I’ve ever used is natural.  It’s funny, the things you find when moving from one spot to another.  I had so much “stuff” crammed into one small space.  It’s so nice to have a spot for everything now…well, almost everything.  My room isn’t quite finished but it’s close!  (I’m still waiting for my project table….arrrrrgh!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a great weekend!! 

Cardstock:  SU Basic Gray, Black, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Karen Foster Pirate Tapestry   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “Pirate” and “Ahoy Matey”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, Karen Foster Pirate Charm, black hemp, pewter brads.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

I thought I’d play a bit more with Once Upon a Time by Lizzie Anne Designs.  I cannot have too many princess cards lying around as my kids go to a LOT of birthday parties!

Happy Birthday Princess!

This one was quite a bit of work, so I’ll be carefully choosing the recipient. 

I colored and cut out the dragon, adhering him to the bubble patterned paper using pop dots.  He looks like he’s really floating!

I colored and cut out the princess as well, then put her in a window made with a dog tag punch.  (I placed a punched piece of white paper inside the window just a little misaligned to give a bit more dimension.)  The square patterned paper piece is raised on pop dots (to help create the window). The flowers under the window were made using the “photo corner” stamp from the set. 

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  SEI Chick-a-Dee Tiny Bubbles, Chicky Check and Coochie-Coo   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “Once Upon a Time”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Dog tag punch, ticket corner punch, ribbon, Copic markers, brads, pop dots.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday

I tried for an entirely different look with this same set.  I wanted to see if I could create a boy card.  I definately think this card is appropriate for a boy, it’s just not what was in my head before I started. 

I omitted the crown from the frog’s head and used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to align the words. 

Cardstock:  Prism Herbal Garden Dark, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Polar Bear Press Cupcake Sprinkle and Birthday Candle Stripes   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “Once Upon a Time”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, slot punch, 1 ¼” and 1 3/8” square punches, brads (SU Rich Regals), sewing machine .  Card size 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great Saturday!

Hi!  Time for Julia’s WT challenge at Splitcoast!  Today’s challenge is to use your scissors.  I know this will come as a shock to some of you 😉 but the first thing I thought of was paper-piecing. I used the Once Upon a Time set by Lizzie Anne Designs.

Happy Birthday, Princess!

Lots of cutting here!  First I stamped the castle onto the white paper, then I stamped it again onto the shimmery pink paper.  I cut it from the pink paper and adhered it to the white paper using pop dots.  I cut out the tiny flags and attached them. 

Next I stamped the girl twice onto white paper  (not the big white piece you see here) and once more onto the pink.  One of the white images I cut out and colored (raised on pop dots) and the other white image was just for her arms (which I cut out as one piece).  The ‘arms’ piece had to be cut separately because the hands are over the dress but I wanted the top of her arms tucked under the sleeve poofs.  Clear as mud?

When I adhered the dress to the girl, I rolled a pop dot to place under each sleeve.  The rolled dot gave those parts the perfect amount of lift.

I cut out the hat from the pink paper (even the strings…I know–insane) and raised it on a pop dot as well.

Thanks for looking at my crazy scissor/paper-pieced card, and I hope you have a great day!

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  SEI Jolie Chocolat “Papillon” and “Éclair”   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “Once Upon a Time”   Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black   Accessories:  Copic markers, black SU marker, Hero Arts Gemstones (2mm), pop dots, glue dots.  Card size 5” x 5”.

Hi!  Back to Monday!  (That’s good and bad, I suppose.)  I hope you all had a great weekend.  I’ve been busy moving all of my stamping “stuff” into my new room.  Wow…I have a LOT of “stuff.”  I need to work on it some more today (and get rid of some of it).  I really wish my table were here as it has shelves on each side and that would help.  And…I know that once the table IS here, I’ll have to rearrange some things again.  I’m trying really hard to be patient, but it’s tough!  I’ve waited years for my own room and now that it’s “mostly” done, it’s almost torturous waiting for the rest. lol.  But I do love my shelves!!! 🙂 🙂  I’m happy!

Where There is Love

We’ve had some very nice spring-like weather this last week so I wanted  to make a bright, cheery spring-like card.  I used two sets here by Lizzie Anne Designs, “Blissful Blossoms” and “Say it in Script.”  I paired them with one of my favorite new collections, Cosmo Cricket’s Honey Pie paper pad. 

I covered the card front with a block of the apricot paper from the paper pad.  The flowers and bee were colored with Copic markers and the ribbon (white taffeta) was dyed to match with a Copic as well.  I split the sentiment a bit in order to accomodate the ribbon.  The bee is raised on a pop dot with the little wings slightly folded up, and I zig-zag stitched along the bottom edge of the striped pattern.  (It’s hard to see in the photo.)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a great day!  🙂

How’s that for a title? lol.  When I started making this card, I intended to use Basic Grey’s Mellow paper.  But then I got my order from Jacksonbelle Embellishments and I just *had* to use my new Sultry paper pad by Basic Grey.  And the green still matched!  I love when that happens! 

A Smile Sets it Straight

I used three sets for this card, all by Lizzie Anne Designs.  The tree, ‘stitches’ and swirls on the green background are from In the Treetop, the sentiment is from Say it in Script and the frog is from LAD’s cute little princess set called Once Upon a Time.  Before stamping the frog, I masked off his crown.  (I didn’t need a smiley, princely frog…  just a smiley one.)

I used a Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the treetop and then to properly place the frog.  I also used the SAMJ for the stitches.

This was my first time using Adirondack inks and I must say I love how they watercolor.  The next time I’ll have to try coloring something bigger than a dime.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  I hope you have a great Tuesday! 🙂

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Papertrey Ink (white)   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Sultry 6 x 6 paper pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop,” “Say it in Script” and “Once Upon a Time”  Ink:  Adirondack Espresso and Meadow   Accessories:  Hero Arts Gemstones (2 mm), Cool Gray #1 Copic marker, Chocolate Chip SU marker, water brush, pop dots, Stamp-a-ma-jig.  Card size 5” x 5”.

I made this card for a good friend whose birthday is next week.  (Of course, it will be late as I haven’t had a chance to mail it yet!!  Ack!  But I know she’ll understand.) 

I used In the Meadow and Say it in Script by Lizzie Anne Designs.  The paper is from a new line by Terri Conrad for Webster’s Pages called “Raspberry Truffle.”   I stamped the flowers onto the back of the Pokee Dot paper, masking as I went along.  I colored with SU reinkers then outlined and added some shadow with Copic markers.

Since my friend loves to stitch on her cards and since I am so inspired by that stitching, I thought I’d do a bit of my own.  I like how she mixes the stitch types, so I did that too.

I used a Copic to dye the ribbon to match the paper and attached it with a paperclip.  (Yes, she  uses those too.)

It seems like my friend already has just about everything related to paper crafting, so I thought I’d make a little something to send along with the card.  I’m sure everyone has seen those wonderful little notebooks from Target.  I was browsing in there the other day and I noticed they have a new type (at least I’d never seen them) with a magnetic closure.  I like these better than the snaps, first of all because the paper edges are covered and secondly, there’s no pesky snap to be affected by covering the front with layers of paper.  So I picked up a couple.  I wanted the notebook to match the card so I used the same paper and my favorite quote from the Say it in Script set.   I hope this little book will come in handy.  I keep one in my purse as I never know when I’ll get an idea…and if I don’t jot it down as soon as I think of it, it’s gone just as quickly.

Happy birthday, my friend!  I *promise* to get these in the mail on Monday! 

Have a great day!! Thanks so much for stopping by! (Oh, and Lindsey has all the new Basic Grey!  Hurry on over and get some before it’s gone! It’s HOT!)

Today’s challenge at Splitcoast is Ways to Spray it On.  And since I like to stamp and muddle the colors with water, that’s just what I decided to do.

Cherish Yesterday

This winter Lizzie Anne Designs had the best bunch of new releases ever.  When I saw these two sets, I knew I had to have them, In the Meadow and Say it in Script.  I love the wildflowers and the loopy font of the script, not to mention that the sentiment set has some very nice phrases!  This one is my favorite.

If you visit here often, you know I love my Ranger Walnut Distress ink.  I thought I’d see what would happen if I used it to stamp my images onto watercolor paper and then spray with water.  Wow, the ink really ran!  So if you spray lightly, you get this great bleed of the ink onto the paper.  Once the water dried a bit, I added some touches of Sage ink.  I used the distress ink to stamp the sentiment as I wanted the same shade of brown.  Once everything was stamped, I realized the image was a bit large.  I wanted some of the patterned paper to show, so I decided to cut around the tops of a couple of the flowers.

Don’t forget…you have until the end of March to get 15% off your entire order at Jacksonbelle Embellishments!  Use code Opening02 at checkout!  (And in case you haven’t heard, she has her own store now…no more Ebay…so shopping is MUCH easier!)  🙂

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, watercolor paper   Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Magnolia Serene “Our Family” Floral/Aqua   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Meadow” and “Say it in Script”   Ink:  Ranger Walnut Distress, SU Sage Shadow   Accessories:  Edge distresser, water spritzer, sponge, hemp.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Happy Hump Day! 

I thought I’d challenge myself to get a few very different looks from In the Treetop by Lizzie Anne Designs.  To help a bit, I used LAD’s Celebrations Sayings instead of the two sentiments in the stamp set.

A Warm Hello

For this first card, I pretty much stuck with the obvious…a nice little tree, the little bird.  If you look closely, you can see a thin red line around the treetop, matching one of the trees on the patterned paper.  To do this, I inked the treetop stamp then lightly dragged the brush end of a Ruby Red marker around the edges.  It worked great!

Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Mellow Paper Pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop” and “Celebrations Sayings”   Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke   Accessories:  SU Ruby Red marker, American Crafts Chestnut mini-brads, pop dots.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

Celebrate

This one is *really* different (hopefully in a good way).  I used one of the treetops for the balloons.  I stamped onto the back side of the paper, cut out the shape, then carefully traced around the edges with a black marker.  The balloons are adhered to the background using pop dots.

The “package” is from the “Celebration Frames” set (also raised on pop dots) and the paisley background is from “Jolies Fleurs.”

I used a Copic marker to color the white string.

Once everything was assembled, I carried over the lined dots from the background paper, adding dotted borders with a Chocolate marker.

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla   Patterned Paper:  Doodlebug “Cherry Blossoms,” “Chocolate Paisley,” “Very Cherry Paisley” and “Neopolitan Stripe”   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop,” “Celebrations Sayings,” “Celebration Frames,” “Jolies Fleurs”   Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa   Accessories:  Chocolate Chip marker, Lt. Walnut Copic marker, white string, pop dots.  Card size: 3 ¼” x 6 ½”.

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Merry Christmas

And lastly, I made a very simple, little Christmas card.  (Pretty self-explanatory.)

Cardstock:  SU Chocolate Chip, Bordering Blue   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Figgy Paper Pad   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop”    Ink:  SU Chocolate Chip, Bordering Blue   Accessories:  Slit punch, grosgrain.  Card size: 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”.

It’s a fun set with LOTS of possibilities!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a great springy day!!