Happy Anniversary Release from Sassy Studio Designs

Happy Anniversary to Lindsay, our awesome and fearless illustrator, and to one of my favorite shops of all time, Sassy Studio Designs!  Both are celebrating their fourth year together and I couldn't be happier for them!  If you've been to my blog before, you know how much I love doing Sassy Studio Design new releases!  This month's release is going to be such a blast, kind of a blast from the past, and  we have such a fun release planned and I'm so excited to have you stop by! 

If you came to me from the Sassy Studio Design blog, then you're on the right track!  If not, head on over to the blog and find out all the details and all the fun twists in this release!  We each have an image and picked an anniversary and designed our projects around what is suggested as a gift for that particular year. I was so excited to get Tinkersassy and if you know my blog and of my love for Tinkerbell, you can see why I was so thrilled!  Isn't she fabulous?  See if you can figure out what year of anniversary I chose to celebrate.

When I got assigned my image for this release, I was over the moon!  The only thing was, I wasn't exactly sure how to get to the moon.  I love to fly and if I could have a super power, it would be to be able to fly.  Well,I can't fly but Tinkerbell sure can!  She can pick her own way of getting around and all it takes is a bit of pixie dust.  We have to have cars with gas, or a bike or skates.  Think of all the different ways we can get around.  After so many years, don't you think a girl deserves to travel  in style?  Well, for her anniversary, I'd like to think that Peter Pan tried to make her travelling a little bit more comfortable for her.  He got her a kite!

Wasn't that thoughtful of him?  It's got all the modern conveniences and gadgets.  She's colored with copics and her wings are covered with Stickles or pixie dust as I like to call it.  her kite is made up of scraps from BasicGrey and Graphic 45.  She's all decked out with a clock so she'll be able to arrive on time and the kite is sprayed with Goose Bumps to give it some texture and protection from the night air.

If you look closely behind her, she's got some stars embossed on her background that act as her GPS!  The flowers and pearls are just because a girl needs something classy when she travels!

Here's a close up of this beauty. I love her in red, white, and blue!  I think it's appropriate for this time of the year.

Here's a closer look at the flowers.  I combined some patriotic colors and like how they came out.

Here's a view of the tail.  I used some baker's twine from The Twinery, and added some handmade flowers there as well.

And now you get a full view of her new wheels:

I would like to enter her in the following challenges:

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - 4th of July
Clearly iStamp Challenge - Red, White, and Blue
Digi Haven - Flowers
Inspire Me Friday - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Use your flag's colors
Sister Act Card Challenge - Always anything goes
Aud Sentiment Challenge - Summer
Cute Card Thursday - Fly Like A Bird
Delightful Challenge - Red, White, and Blue
MilkCoffee Challenge - Summer fun
Shelly's Images - Stars, Stripes, and Sparkle
Ruby's Rainbow - Things With Wings

I know there's been a lot of pictures but I wanted you to see it all.  Now make sure to sprinkle a little pixie dust and fly on over and visit my totally awesome and totally cool designing sister, Sara, and see what great things she has in store for you.  And remember to try and guess what anniversary each of of us are celebrating and leave a comment.  I'm just dying to give this beauty away and let someone have as much fun as I've had!

When I was a Little Girl I used to Catch Fire Flies for The Digi Bells!

Remember the feeling of having your wet hair in a braid or pony tail just after taking a bath and it being just about bed time?  Do you recall the cool fresh night air on your skin?  My sister, brother and I used to sit on the small front porch and just wait to see the air light up with that neon yellow glow as the lightening bugs lit up.  When we saw them, we'd race to see who could get to them first.  It always seemed that once you saw that first fire fly, they were everywhere!  We'd catch them and put them in one of Mommy's canning jars and see who could collect the most bugs. What a great way to spend a summer evening!

Today we're adding another sweet, adorable digi to the Elisabeth Bell Digital Collection and it's a beauty!

Please welcome ** Fire Flies ** to our little family of Elisabeth Bell Digi's....

We're celebrating this precious image with a blog hop that starts today and ends on Friday, June 28, 2013 at 9:00 am (Arizona time).  If you've come to my blog from my oh so talented designing sister, Linda's blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, please go back and start at Rose's blog, (everyone on this team is so talented that I pinch myself every blog hop because I feel so darn lucky and honored to present with them!) at the very beginning because I'd hate for you to miss out on one single design or the chance to win this cutie pie!  You can find all the details of how to win at The Digi Bell Design Team at the end of the hop.  So on with the show!

This cutie pie pair is colored with copics and I addedsomestickles to the bugs and her flower in her hair and some Diamond Glaze on the jars and lanterns.  The papers are from BasicGrey, the flowers from Recollections, the branches from my Martha Stewart punch, and the fence is from a Tim Holtz die.  The seam binding and cheese cloth are from my stash and the pearls from Studio G.

Each time I see on of Elisabeth Bell's images, I always say it's one of my favorites!  This one just brings back such fun memories that it really is one of my favorites!

And no, my copic didn't go crazy or  I didn't color out of the lines when I was doing my lightening bugs!  I love that glow that these sweet bugs put off, almost like an aura around them, and I tried to convey the brightness and light they put off.

I painted the sky using a combination of blues from my distressed inks and then used it to dye the seam binding and the cheese cloth.  I plan on entering this adorable thing in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - In the summertime
DRS Designs - The great outdoors
Little Miss Muffet's Challenge- Happy families
MilkCoffee Challenge - Summer fun
My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp Challenge - Use a digi
Crafting by Design - Favorite season
House that Stamps Built - Summer

Now hop-scotch over to my designing sister, Wendy's, fabulous blog and see her wonderful project using this cutie pop!  And even though we're all so busy with the coming and goings of life, please take a minute to stop and remember the simple joy of something like catching lightening bugs.  It might just bring some peace and joy to you if only for a moment.  

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Sponsored by The Paper Shelter

Long time, no hear, hum?  Some times life slows you down and you have absolutely no say so in it.  I've not been feeling well lately and my body told me it's just had enough.  I sucked it up and went to the clinic and come to find out, I had a double ear infection and strep throat.  It brought me right down to my knees.  Just now am I starting to feel just a little bit like a human but no where near what I need to feel like.  Believe me, I'll live, but I've just got to take better care of myself.

Today, I'm so excited to be back with Tuesday Throwdown because we're being sponsored by one of my favorite shops, The Paper Shelter!  Love, simply adore all their stuff and their images are just too stinkin cute!  Our theme this week is Fantasy and I knew exactly what image I wanted to use.  My daughter, Nichole, has got me interested in the series "Game of Thrones" and one of my favorite characters is Daenerys Targaryen, who is known as the Mother of Dragons.  When I saw The Dragon Whisperer, I thought about her!

Isn't she fabulously fearless?!  She's colored with copics and I used stickles on her blouse and the dragon.  I used my clear gel pen on her outfit, hair and the dragon.  The papers are from the Once Upon A Time paper stack from DCWV and she's cut out with Nestabilities.  I sprayed some iridescent glitter spray on the background and added some Scattered Straw Distressed Ink around her edges.  The ribbon is from Offray, the glass gem spray and gems are from my stash.

I love all the detail in this cutie pie and I adore her ears!  I'm entering her in the following challenges:

365 Cards - Romantic Aspects of Fairy Tales
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Wings
Created With Love - Your favorite things (fairy tales!) and paper
Paper Playtime - Anything goes
Tammy's Scrapping Corner - Wings
There She Goes - Anything goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
One Stitch at a Time - Use a digi
Opus Gluei - Wings

Make sure to stop over and join in the challenge and add some fantasy to your life!  Plus, you've got to see the great projects my designing sisters have in store for you.  I've peeked and know that they're out of this world!

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Sponsored by Robyn's Fetish

Sorry I've not been posting this past week.  My baby girl, Nichole, and her husband and my baby granddaughter Lainie Loo were here for Memorial Day weekend and we had such a great time!  I love spending time with my family.  Nothing in the world is as soothing for my soul and relaxing for me.  Here's a couple of pictures of the babies swimming:

This is Allie and you can't keep her out of the water!

Here's Lainie Loo and she's a water baby for sure!  I know I'm biased but I think they're just so precious and beautiful!

The other reason I've been absent is I've had a horrible tooth ache and haven't been able to think straight!  I finally had to have it pulled late last week and I've been trying to catch up on some rest that I totally missed out on.  But back to the issue at hand!  It's Tuesday and that means it's time for a new challenge over at Tuesday Throwdown!  This week we're being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish and our theme is "Embossed".  They've graciously offered the design team some free images to have some fun with and I chose Loretta Angel.  I think she's just precious!

She's colored with copics and I used stickles on her wings, heart, legs and bows.  The papers are from a gorgeous Kathy Davis pad called Journey and I embossed the papers with a foliage cuttlebug folder.  The gems are from Studio G and the flowers are hand made.  I used my Martha Stewart punch for the branches and my SU ticket punch for the corners.  The lace is from my stash.

 Here's a closer look so you can see the embossing,  Aren't these papers just gorgeous?  She's a little bit old school with the ticket punch corners but I kind of miss that simple technique at times.

I think she's just so sweet and look at that face!

I'm entering her in the following challenges:

Create Challenge - color challenge
Cards Galore - Sketch

Make sure to stop over at Tuesday Throwdown and see the other fabulous creations my designing sisters have in store for you!  They're all so talented and I'm so lucky to be designibng with them!  So come on and get your embossing on!

New Beginnings for Children with Bubbles for Elisabeth Bell's World

I love this theme for this month's challenge over at Elisabeth Bell's World!  Who doesn't like new beginnings?  I have had a bazillion new beginnings in my life and can only imagine how many some of you have had.  It's renewing and the possibilities are endless.  For me, that's the magic of starting over.  Sometimes it ends up good, sometimes not so much.

Children have new beginnings just about every day.  I'm learning more and more since I've been spending so much time with Allie.  Sometimes children aren't quite sure as to what to do with new starts and new friends.  One thing I've found out is that for kids, a bottle of bubbles is just the thing to break the ice.  Who doesn't love bubbles?  Come on, admit it.  We all blow the first bubbles when we open up a bottle for the kids!  It connects us all together.  I love it when kids take their bubbles to a guy to open.  Even men can't resist releasing the first opaque circles in the air from a new bottle of bubbles!

This is Bubbles from Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and I think she's everything good and sweet in children!  She's colored with copics and the papers are some of my favorite from BasicGrey and Imaginisce.  The border was made using a scallop edger from Stampin Up, the ribbon is from Hero Arts, the gems are from Studio G and the flowers are a mix of Recollections and home made.  The die cuts I used are from Nestbilities.  Of course, I used some Stickles on the bubbles and her sweet shirt!

Here's a closer look at this sweet thing!  I absolutely love her and can see her slowly letting down her guard and making new friends.

Make sure to stop over at our blog and see the fabulous projects that my designing sisters have for you.  All of their projects just make my jaw drop and I can't believe that I get to design with such great talents!  Come on and show us your new beginnings!  Someone is going o be lucky enough to win a couple of really sweet stamps from on of the ever talented Ms. Elisabeth Bell!  Hope it's you!