Dare to Be Sassy Thursday for Sassy Studio Designs

Happy 4th of July everyone!  You know I love me some hot, sunny weather, some Sassy Studio Designs beauties, and a holiday!  These are just a couple of reasons why I love this holiday.  All you have to do is have a barbeque, spend time with friends and family, and watch some fireworks.  Love it and it just doesn't get to be much better!

Over at Sassy Studio Designs we shook some things up and changed teams and so every Thursday for the next few months, you'll be seeing something fabulously sassy from me!  This week our challenge is Patriotic (red, white, and blue) and I decided to use one of our new images, Bubble Bath Sassy!

What a sassy thing she is!  Ever since I can remember, summer is filled with bubbles.  It's one of the best ways to entertain kids and adults alike!  But with sassy lady also likes her bubbles but a little bit different type than you would find on a picnic!

She's all colored up with Copics and covered with Stickles all of ther bubbles and tub.  I sprayed the entire tag with Goosebumps to give it some texture and a look of being hot and steamy.  The papers are from my favorite piece of paper ever from Graphic 45 and she's cut out and framed with Nestabilities.  The pearls are from Studio G and bakers twine holds the tag on the bottle.

You can see a glimmer of the Goose Bumps texture here.

The sentiment is computer generated and I love that font!  I plan on entering her in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Red, white and blue
Crafty Cardmakers - Holidays
Digi Darla's Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Get Inky! Challenge - Red, White and blue
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - Flag Day or colors
MeMa's Craft Monday Challenge - Patriotism or Red, White and Blue
Paper Playtime - Red, White and Blue
The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge - photo inspiration
Gingerloft Challenge - Red, White and Blue

So come on over to the Sassy Studio Design Team Blog and show us your patriotic spirit!  Head on over to find out all the details on entering our challenge and share your red, white, and blue with us!

I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th!  Have a burger for me.  I think I'm going to be using these bubbles in the bottle with Allie, my granddaughter!

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!

Underwater Scene, Syrena, and Happy Birthday to my baby girl!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday.  I know I did!  I missed my girls but got to spend the day with my Mom, sister and nephews and their families.  I simply adore being around them and know how very blessed I am.  Today is not only Fabulous Freebie Friday over at the Sassy Studio Designs Paper Craft Planet Group, but it's my baby girl, Nichole's birthday!  Happy Birthday, honey!  

When Nichole was little, she fell in love with The Little Mermaid.  Ariel was and is still her favorite princess.  When I was asked to create an underwater scene for this Friday's Freebie, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, especially when I saw that it fell on Nichole's birthday!  This one's for you honey!

I love this underwater scene and think you can use it for so many things!  I added Syrena from Sassy Studio Designs  and colored her like I could see my Nichole as a mermaid.  I colored everything with colored pencils and added some Stickles to the starfish and sand dollars.  I added some Glossy Accents to the bubbles and then sprayed Goosebumps on the background scene and Syrena.  Then I attached her with some pop ups and added some gems from my stash.  The flowers are from Recollections and the branches are from my Martha Stewart punch.  I ran the border through my cuttlebug Devine Swirls folder and sanded it with a nail file.

Isn't she just gorgeous?  I love Lindsay's designs!

Here's a view of one side.

Here's the other side.

I added a few gems on the inside. Make sure to head over to the group to pick up this gorgeous scene and to leave my Fabette sisters some love.  Remember this freebie will only be available for 24 hours.  Don't miss it!

Sassy Angel, Autumn Style by Sassy Studio Designs

Oh, what gorgeous projects my Fabette sisters have to share with you today!  Since it's Friday, it's time for Fabulous Freebie Friday over at our Paper Craft Planet group!  Don't you just love this Sassy Angel?  She has a counter part and she's not so angelic!  Remember that you only have 24 hours to get over to the group and pick them up.  What a great treat to get two for the price of one!  I think she's fabulous and our challenge in presenting her this week was to use texture.  I thought, what's autumn without some crunchy, dried leaves?

The colors of autumn are just stunning.  I remember when I was young and growing up in West Virginia, I would go over to my grandmother's house (she just lived next door!) and we would sit out on her porch in her rocker.  During the fall, we would sit in silence and just rock back and forth and look at the mountains that surrounded us.  Looking at those hills with every color of red, yellow, orange, brown, and green was like looking at a master's painting.  It took me years to realize that I was looking at THE Master's painting.  My grandmother would say that it was one of the few times that I was ever quiet!  That tells me two things - she knew me very well, and that the time we spent together in that metal swing was important to her.  Yes, fall is more than just stunning colors for me, it's a beautiful, precious memory that was as important to someone else as it was to me.

I colored this beauty with my copics and used some stickles on her wings and cloud, Glossy Accents on her boots and sponged the edges of my circle with Wild Honey Distressed inks.  I used a floral cuttlebug folder on my patterned papers by TPC Studios and Mambi.  I used my spellbinders to cut her out and the ribbon and glass floral spray are from my stash.  I sprayed a silk leaf with Goosebumps and the texture on it is fabulous, but I can't get it photographed to show up.  I love that Goosebumps!

Here's a side view.  Can you believe that this was taken outside on the back porch?  Here in Ohio, at the end of October, we still have this much green!

Here's a closer view of her.  Isn't she just so angelic looking?

Here's another side view.  I absolutely love these fall sunflowers!

And my good stamping sister, Judy, is back from vacation and Judy, this one's for you!

Make sure you stop by the Paper Craft Planet group and pick up this gorgeous freebie and it's counterpart and to see what my stamping sisters have in store for you.  My gosh, I get inspired just talking to them!  And if you're not a member, join up!  We're so close to hitting 800 members and once we do, Lindsay has a fabulous freebie for us all!  And from what I understand, she's a mix between an angel and little devil!  Can't wait to see her!

Enjoy the weekend and I hope you find some time to craft!

The Grimm Reaper - Sassy Studio Design Mini Release Halloween Blog Hop!

Welcome to day 2 of Sassy Studio Designs's Mini Release Halloween Blog Hop!  If you didn't blog hop yesterday, boy, did you miss out!  Makes sure that you take the time to go back and see all my uber talented design team sisters fabulous work!  If you came to my blog from Regan's spectacular blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, head over to the Sassy Studio Design's blog and start things off right!  I don't want you to miss a thing!

The oh so inspiring Kim came up with a fun game of Bingo for us to do!  Here's the card and doesn't it look like a blast to do?  

I loved working on this challenge and ended up using the top horizonal line with bat, bird, spooky sign, fence, and spider web.  I am so luck to have been able to work with The Grimm Reaper and I think she's so spooktacular!  For my project I did a tri-fold card and made it into the shape of a

I colored her with copics and Spectrum Noir markers and added some stickles (yep, even Grimm's have to sparkle too!), to her dress and eyes.  They don't show up very well in the photo but they're pretty scary!  The papers are from K&Company's Halloween paper and the flowers are from Recollections.

I love this fence from Tim Holtz.  It's so scary and rickety looking!  I just thought the black and grey flowers were perfect!

Here's a close up of her.  I used some Goosebumps (appropriate don't you thing?!) all over her and that's what gives her hood such a shine.  The texture that stuff gives your image is out of this world!  It's the first time I've used it and I love it!  Isn't she just beautiful?  I think she looks very haunting.

 This is the first panel and you can get a better view of the fence here.

This is the left side inside panel with the bat and the moon.  Love it!

 Here is a better picture of this gorgeous creature going off to help someone meet their maker - or her!

I absolutely love this bird!  The paper pack had this great, dark paper with this gorgeous purple bling all over the branches.  You know I've got to love that paper with bling!

I hope you've enjoyed it.  I know there's a lot to see, but I hope you've enjoyed it!  Now make sure you hop on over to my buddy Lori's blog where I know you won't be disappointed!  If you get lost along the way, here's the order for the hop:

Regan
Susan  (You're here now!)
Lori 
Karal 
Alaine 
Rina 
Rebecca 
Jackie 
Erin 
Jovan 
Carrie 
Sara
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