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I cannot believe the excitement that has surrounded Sassy Studio Designs' Sassy Steampunk Progressive Relay! As a way to celebrate achieving 500 plus members in our Paper Craft Planet group we decided to throw another party. Yes, I know we just recognized 400 with a big masquerade ball, but we grew quickly and were so thrilled to see so many new faces that we wanted to do it all over again. Only different. So Lindsay, the illustrious artist/owner behind SSD, created a brand new collection of Sassy Steampunk gals JUST for the occasion! These ladies have never been seen before and those of you who collected all 4 images for free deserve a big round of applause! We started with 40 participants and 34 earned all 4 images! There have been freebies on Paper Craft Planet as well, and there will be more today so be sure to check it out! All week has been a flurry of freebies, games, and prizes, and now it all culminates today!
This brings us to our 4th and final image and challenge. This is Steampunk Vivian! Isn't she something?! The challenge for the 34 crafters who made it through the first 3 rounds of challenges is Anything Goes, using Steampunk Vivian as their image. They have until Sunday to complete their project and link it on the SSD blog for a chance to win 4 images from the November release a week before they hit the store and a chance to be our guest designer for the day! Pretty cool, huh?
My card uses this week's Deconstructed Sketch (#24) and features Tim Holtz hardware, bling, and flowers. Vivian is colored with Copics and Prismacolor Art Markers. True to form, I procrastinated until the 11th hour with this and was rushed to finish it and get both blog posts up in time. I didn't make it with mine, but I'm close so I hope you'll forgive me.
I want to thank everyone who joined us this week! It has been beyond fantastic chatting with you and seeing your creations! Thank you for supporting Sassy Studio Designs and for making our 500th member celebration such a smashing success!
Head over to the SSD blog to see what the design team dreamed up with these four Sassy ladies, and while your there take a look at the participants creations too! They are all amazing! Stop by PCP today as well for the Sassy Steampunk party! There will be freebies, games, and prizes continuing! What a week long whirlwind this has been! And I couldn't be more pleased! Or tired! lol Okay, off to bed for me now. Hope to chat with many of you on Paper Craft Planet later today!
{hugs}
Regan
My true love gave to me 3 black cats! Cool! lol Welcome to a very special blog post! I was asked to be a guest designer for the day at Simply Betty Stamps for their 12 Days of Halloween event! Here I am on Day 3 to show you my creation! Yes, I missed days 1 and 2, but the fabulous thing is I can go back and complete them at any time before October 30th! Each day has a place to link your project when you complete the challenge. And there are some amazing prizes up for grabs! There is a daily prize, all to be announced on November 5th, along with several winners of the overall challenge. And get this, one person, the best of the best, who enters all 12 challenges will be chosen to be part of the Simply Betty Stamps design team for 2012!!! I don't know about you, but that sounds like an AWESOME prize to me!!! So in case you're like me and need to do some catching up....
For my card today, I selected Lydia the Living Dead Girl from the fabulous Steampunk Halloween collection at Simply Betty Stamps! I LOVE these images, and she was so much fun to work with! My image is colored with Copics and Prismacolor Art Markers and then the edges and around the image were sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and Vintage Photo. I also tried what I like to refer to as some "deconstructed doodling" since the fabulous Jen Shultz of Decontrusting Jen (and The Deconstructed Sketch) is so fond of it. I have to say I was a little nervous taking a pen to my already colored image panel, but I really like the way it turned out! Since I needed "3 black cats" I added two brads with black cats and the word "hiss" on them to keep Miss Lydia's feline company. I also used a black glittered chipboard number 3 and the word "BOO" on the card. My papers are the from the gorgeous Authentique - Glowing pad. and I used my Martha Stewart spider web border punch and some Recollections flowers from Michaels to dress up this week's fantastic sketch from the afore-mentioned Deconstructed Sketch (#23). Ms Jen also happened to be the special guest designer for Day 2 so check out her gorgeous card here.
I hope you'll pop over to the Simply Betty Stamps blog to see all the creep-tastic Halloween projects the design team has created for this sppok-tacular event! Just like Betty, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I was beyond thrilled to be invited to participate! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
{hugs}
Regan
It is time for another Corrosive Challenge! I am thrilled to tell you about our newest theme! But bear with me as I have not yet been to bed. From Saturday. Between caring for my sick small man and my design team commitments it has been a weekend of little sleep. I'll try to keep this brief as my pillow is calling to me!
The challenge for this fortnight is "Flying Things"! As long as it takes to the sky it qualifies for this challenge - bat, bird, witch, plane, fairy, butterfly, balloon, kite.... The choice is up to you! We have two fabulous sponsors this month - Doodle Pantry and Karen's Doodles! I have the pleasure of using a fun image from Karen's Doodles today! She is called Birthday Fairy and I thought she was perfect for a card for a girlfriend. I paired her with some designer paper and flowers all from Michaels' Recollections line and added a touch of tulle and a few adhesive pearls. My image is colored with my usual combo of Copics and Prismas, cut out with a Nesties Label die and the edges sponged. The layout is courtesy of Sketches by Carly (#42). If you remember from last time, she is the amazing 12 year old girl who runs her own fabulous challenge blog with the help of her crafty mom, Kristine! I did rotate the sketch as it worked better this way with my image.
I hope you have enjoyed my creation! Be sure to stop by The Corrosive Challenge blog to see what the rest of the wonderful design team has created for this fun theme! Have a fantastic day!
{hugs}
Regan
I love my mummy! I mean, who wouldn't? Look at how cute this Sassy Honey is! Welcome to the blog hop for Sassy Studio Designs' Halloween II release! Yes, I know... it sounds like a horror movie sequel, but really it's just a frightfully fun and fabulous collection of cute and creepy Little Honeys! Owner/artist Lindsay has outdone herself again, and we want to celebrate! We have a blog hop, a challenge, prizes, and a party blog chat with the newly expanded design team all lined up for you! So if you arrived here from Julie's blog, you're on the right track for the hop. If not, you may want to go back to the beginning at the Sassy Studio Designs blog and start there. Here is the complete hop order, just in case you get lost:
Be sure to leave some comments as you go. Two random comments will be chosen to receive one of the new images! But you won't know from which blog so you'll just have to leave love for all of us! lol
We also have a spook-tacular challenge for you this time! I have even played along with my card above. My image is called Mummy Honey, and she is now available in the Sassy Studio Designs online store! Rebecca, our phenomenal party planner, has asked us to make a Halloween themed creation, choosing 5 of the creep-tastic items from the list below:
1.Bats
2.Pumpkins
3.Ghosts
4.Ribbon
5.Glitter
6.Brads
7.Gems
8.Skeleton
9.Gravestone
10.Candy
11.Skull
12.Blood
13.Spider
14.Cauldron
15.Cobwebs
You will have 5 days to play along. When you have your project ready, simply head over to the Sassy Studio Designs blog and link your creation using the InLinks thingamajiggy. The winner will receive 3 images from the new Halloween II release! Can you guess which 5 items I used? Do you see them? (Cobwebs, glitter, gems, brads, and blood, the latter courtesy of my Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch!)
Don't forget to stop by the Sassy Studio Designs Party Blog tonight! The design team will be chatting online starting at 7pm PDT (that's 10pm for those of us on the East coast).
As many of you know, Halloween is my favorite holiday! So it might surprise you that neither myself nor my son have costumes yet with Halloween only 2 weeks away. Well, I think today is the day they need to be bought/ordered! We have a party to go to next weekend and then of course trick or treating on Halloween. I am thinking of doing a mommy/son costume. He's only two, and next year he may actually have an opinion about what he wears! lol So this year I was thinking classic horror Halloween with me as the Bride of Frankenstein and my small man as Frankie himself! What do you think?
Okay, I've kept you long enough! Off you go to see the next treat over on Kate's blog! Thanks for stopping by! Happy Halloween!
{hugs}
Regan
Hello! This is going to be a super short post. It has been a crazy week here! My poor small has been sick! First with croup on Friday then with hand, foot, and mouth disease. Both caused him to run high temps! Two nights in a row now he's had the chills! My poor baby! He went to the doctor's for each so I feel reassured, but it's so hard when he's sick! I was able to stay home with him two days this week, but now I have to work today so he'll be going with his father. Hopefully today will see him feeling better, and either way I'll be ready to cuddle with him when we both get home!
So needless to say, there hasn't been a lot of crafting going on, but I did manage to get one done late last night. Here is my card for the new Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge! This week's theme is "White on White". The only part that can have color is your image. And remember, it MUST be a Tickled Pink Stamps image (found here) in order to play along. I have used one of the new Breast Cancer Awareness images that fabulous, generous own Kellie released this month! There are 3 images and a sentiment set (digis only) all for only $1 each! All proceeds from their sales will be going to charity. So print off or ink up a Lil Lolita, a Lil Lad, a Lil Pinkette, a Pink Pet, or a Cherrie and play along for a chance to win 1 digital image of your choice! I embossed two of my panels and used my Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch on another to give my card some texture. I also added adhesive pearls, flowers (oops, maybe the hint of green from the leaves is cheating a bit! lol), and some pearl-topped pins, all from my stash. Lilith is colored using Copics, and the layout is courtesy of Sketch n Stash (#72).
Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Tickled Pink Stamps Challenges blog to see what the rest of the fabuolously talented {PINK} ladies have created for this challenge! I hope it inspires you to join in the fun!
Have a wonderful day!
{hugs}
Regan
The ability to turn men to stone... Oooo, don't I sometimes WISH I had that power! Well, this stone cold fox (er, snake?) does! Medusa may be a serpentine menace to men, but as a Sassy Studio Designs Little Honey she is nothing short of enchanting! This mythical creature is a sneak peek from this Saturday's upcoming new release. It is the 2nd Halloween release for us this year, but in my opinion there can never be too many Halloween images! Stay tuned all week as the newly expanded design team showcases Lindsay's amazing artwork!
Sassy Studio Designs will also have some fabulous sponsorships to tell you about in October. Today we are sponsoring Sunday Sketch & Stamp. So if you want a chance to win some SSD images, come play along!
I followed the fun sketch and opted to stay with a monochromatic color scheme. The various shades of olive I selected seemed right to me for a divine diva with writhing tresses! Card stock is from Stampin' Up and I once again used my DCWV Blossom Song pad. This collection is filled with gorgeous, glittery patterns! Medusa is colored with my usual mix of Copics and Prismacolor Art Markers. A flourish from a Sizzix die and some Michaels Recollections flowers are my main embellishments plus a few adhesive pearls and pearl-topped pins.
Be sure to stop by the Sassy Studio Designs blog every day this week to see what the design team has conjured up for you! We also hope you'll join us for all the release day festivities on Saturday! We'll have a blog hop, a challenge, prizes, and a party blog chat with the design team! More details coming soon... Thanks for visiting, and have a wonderful day!
{hugs}
Regan
Meet Lil Party Pinkette Pippa! She is the third image in the collection from Tickled Pink Stamps to help celebrate their 2nd birthday! Artist Stephanie Corfee has done an amazing job on these sweet, adorable Lil ladies! They are all dressed up and ready to party!
For my card I selected this month's sketch from Crafting Life's Pieces. Sketch 41 has lots of layers and it took me a bit to get it just so, but I think the results were worth the effort. I had a crafty play date last night with my friend Jasmine, and she helped select the lace and metal corner embellishments. *Thanks, Jas!* The card stock is Stampin' Up and the glitter papers are from the Deena's Penny Lane pad from My Mind's Eye. And no card is complete without a sprinkling of flowers and a spattering of pearls!
Please head over to the Tickled Pink Stamps blog to see what my lovely, charming, and talented team mates have whipped up for your viewing pleasure! And if you leave a comment there, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a digi version of Pippa for your own self! ;) So what are you waiting for...? Let's get this party started!
{hugs}
Regan
