It's a Sassy Thursday & A Happy New Year's Eve!

Happy New Year's Eve to you all!

This week we want you to use something on your creations to represent your New Year's. If you stay at home watching movies with family, if you like to go out and party or watch the ball drop at midnight and kiss your sweetie...what is New Year's to you and represent it in your creation. We all here at Sassy Studio's can't wait to see what you all come up with! Here are 3 cards from 3 of the Sassy DT's to help inspire you with YOUR creation...have fun!!!

PIALI

VALERIE

CASSIE

If you would like to play along post the card with this challenge...You will have until next Wednesday 1/6, at midnight PST, to get your entry in! Make sure to use a SASSY STUDIO image and link your creation HERE, in the comments section of this post!! A winner will be announced on Friday 1/8 The winner will receive their choice of 2 SSD images!!

Have a Safe New Year & may this be the best Year yet!!! Hugs!
Valerie/Pixie Dream Designs

New DT announced!

Ok this was the hardest thing I had to do! I thought the 1st round was hard but this one was near impossible! there were so many wonderful entries! Last time I took th etime to email every person even if they didnt make it, and this time there is just so many I honestly cant do that I do appologize. If you put in an application thank you sooooooo much! you all really did make my job sooooo hard! and if you didnt make it its only a 3 month term so I hope you'll be ready to try again in 2 months!

So I know I said I was going to pick 7...well honestly it was really really hard because when it came doen to it i really couldn't do it! so I decided this term I was not going to do guest designers...with such a short term it is just to omuch of a hassle to do guest designers, and well last round we lost a few people prematurely which was kind of hard because we were left short and i had to bring in replacements (Cassie and Sara) which was not a problem at all I love having them as part of my team but I know it had to be hard to step in right in the middle, so this round I will have more than enough so if anyone has to take a leave early it wont leave us short soooooo without further adue...

We have 9 new Sassy Sisters joinging the SSD Design Team!!!

SO...I know your excited but before I go into that I wanna do a quick announcement of who is sticking around as part of the leadership team!

Jacquie - Party Planner and Sassy Saturdays

Valerie - Challenge Coordinator

Piali - Sponsorships

Lelia - Studio Sundays

Cassie - PCP and SCS liason

these ladies will be returning and helping to share in the responsability of making SSD run smoothly for all of you

unfortunately Margie will not be returning next term but I am sure we will still see her around I want to thank Margie for being a part of the 1st ever SSD DT she is extremely talented and was a pleasure to have. We will all miss her so much! SO Margie thank you so much for being a part of this journey with me and helping to make it such a wonderful begining!

ok ok I know you wanna see who made the team!

without further adue....

SARA MORENO

JEN SHULTS

CATHRYN EDGAR

LAUREL SEABROOK

LARISA HOHMAN

ANITA KOCOUREK

GINI WILLIAMS

SUSAN KILLAM

LISA FUTCH

So congrats to these lovely ladies, and to those whos names are not included I appologize I couldnt get individual email out this round but I really do appreciate every single entry and it sincerely was a very very very tight race so to speak so keep an eye out in february for details on the next call out.

So I know we dont have a release on the 1st we are taking a lil vacation, but on the 1st we will be introducing all the new DT members with a lil bio some samples of what they have created using SSD images etc so we hope you will stop in and join us in welcoming the new team.... and who knows there might be something in it for you guys too ;)

have a happy new years!

Lindsay

Princess and the frog CHallenge Winner

So as a quick recap, We did a special Challenge in honor of the Princess and the Frog movie, We had some wonderful entries!!! the requirement was to do something that inspired by the movie so it could be princessy...frogish (lol ok i made it up lol) or mardi gras-ish etc

One winner would get a special prize package including

Princess Penelope, Masquerade, Princess and the Frog, The Frog Prince, True Loves Kiss, Fairytale Sentiments and 3 other SSD images of their choice!!! What a prize that is!!!

so....after the delay of not being around and still trying to catch up i finally selected a winner today!

Gini (Beadz)

This was simply fabulous!!! I love how she used the frogs on the front but when you open it up you are surprised with this wonderful scene featuring true loves kiss and the ball room scene. the sentiment on the left says " sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince charming" and the sentiment on teh right says "Happily ever after" both from the SSD fairytale sentiment set

So Gini email me at sassystudiodesigns@yahoo.com to claim your prize!

Happy Monday the 28th!

Hello Everyone It's Lindsay again!

I wanted to get one and say a belated MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone from me!

I appologize I havent been around much at all in the last 2 weeks or so. I have fallen behind on Birthdays so if you had sent in your birhdays and you hadnt recieved your free image from me yet you will I am catching up on all that stuff today! And I had a custom image I was doing I didnt get out and well lots of emails I hadnt answered, and of course I have not yet announced a new DT yet....SO I am trying to get all those thing sout today!!!

My Christmas was Wonderful however the time leading up to it was filled with a little bit of heartache and stress. My dog had a little accident and broke off one of her nails...the entire thing! so we had to have a minor surgical proceedure done which was unexpected on the budget so close to christmas. notonly that she has to keep it dry and clean so she has had to stay inside for the last 2 weeks! so i had to take my cat to my parents to visist and the dog stays here everynight...everyday i try to bring her to my parents house for a few hours at least so she can have a yard to be in (my parents havent been watering there lawn so its been great!) and she can play with their Chow a lil bit...but she barks at night so my dad doesnt want her waking up the neighborhood so I bring her back to my place ...she doesnt bark when she is inside.

So that was our 1st lil problem...the 2nd....we had a loss in the family

Chris's Favorite Grandfather passed away. The one he was the closest with he spent a lot of time with growing up etc so it was especially hard because it was unexpected.

of course Christmas was great and eventful though and we kept Chris's Grandpa in our thoughts and prayers. my sister hoseted Christmas eve dinner at her home! it was 1 year that they had been in their house! so that was exciting! we then went to church for the chior concert at 11 and midnight mass following that. Christmas morning Chris and I opened a few small gifts (the real gift this year is we are buying a house!!!!) we had some breakfast and had to finish my dads Christmas gift lol (Chris and I designed a custom coat of arms for my dads library in his house! my dad built his library a few years ago and we have bought him leather bound nice books before and we have bought wood boxed board games that look like books and i thought what about a nice decanter but he already has one, and well my dad doesnt smoke so a humidor was out so what else goes in a formal library ya know? so I bought a nice 8x8 frame, and chris did some hand drawing i did some computer rendering and then I colored it by hand with my copics and prismacolors...it turned out great! ) we went to my parents and opened gifts with my sister and her husband and then we ate dinner and then my 2 cousins came over so they could open their gifts, then we went to the movies and saw sherlock holmes as a family. Saturday my parents had their company chritmas party at their house so after chris and I did some morning shopping he hee (gotta catch some of those after christmas sales ya know he hee) we helped set up and then enjoyed the party including pool, kereoke, christmas movies and lots and lots of food!

on Sunday we went to church a bit later than normal so we could be there at the mass the priest did a special blessing for some family friend celebrating their 25th anniversary that day! how great is that! Then we went to the other side of town for some more shopping lol we needed new jeans....and I bought my 1st ever pair of skinny jeans! lol ok so they still are a bigger size than I would like I am going to keep up with my weightwatchers, but at least they fit well and looked good so that was a bit exciting. and then we had a family dinner at the neighbors house....it's our anual tradition every year we have a christmas dinner with them and its always the same...lasagna!!! and it is some of the best ever!!!

So I just wanted to share with you a lil of what I have been up to, and today I am getting all caught up! so if you are expecting a birthday image or a custom image they are going out today, and i will also be sending out invites to those who were selected for our new dt , and as soon as i hear from them if they accept I will be announcing it here so keep and eye out.

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!!!

Lindsay

Studio sunday #12

Happy Sunday Everyone!!

Hope you are all enjoying the festivities! Today I have a quick tutorial for wine glass charms...perfect for the New Year's Eve party..

:::::::::::::::::Supplies::::::::::::::

Sassy Cocktail image,

1" circle punch, 1 1/4" scalloped circle punch,1 3/8" circle punch,

eyelets,

Crop-a-dile/ eyelet setter,

scrap cardstock,

adhesive,

earring hoops, few beads(optional)

Step 1:

Color the images with your favorite coloring medium...I used copic markers and printed the image 1"x1" in size .

then punch out the image using 1" circle punch and punch out scallop circles from scraps...

Step 2:

Adhere the image and the punched circles....

Step 3:

Punch hole on the top and set the eyelets like this...

Step 4:

Add some beads to the earring hoops and then add the layered image to form wine glass charms ...

Super quick and easy...

Step 5:

You can also make it with premade tags( you find in walmart)...

for it follow the step 1& 2 nd then adhere the layered image to the premade tags...

Punch hole and attach it to the earring hoops ...

here is the quick  wine glass charm with shinny metal rim...

Hope you all like this tutorial .

If you try out my tutorial this week and send pictures and a link to..

sassystudiodesigns@yahoo.com

... you will receive a gift, any dollar image of your choice!!!

You have until Saturday, January 2nd ,2010 to submit your creations!

Happy New Year !!

Hugs

Piali

Hey there SASSY Sistahs!! How are you? I hope you all are well! How was your Holiday? Did you have LOTS of fun!! I hope you all had a WONDERFUL day with your families and friends!! Isn't that the BEST? I am here with a QUICK SASSY SATURDAY for you!! LOTS going on in my household! You know how it is! ANOTHER family gathering today! Haha!! I LOVE it!

Today I bring you some great SASSINESS from AMY, over at CHEEKY MONKEYS!!! She is SUPER talented, no doubt!! You should head over, for a visit!! You are going to LOVE her creations? AND.....her blog!! Such a cute background!! Haha!! Ok....on to her SASSY creations!! Check these out!!

**Amy's COCOA CAROL!!




***Amy's A GLASS OF WINE!
Now, how COOL are they? Or...should I say...how SASSY are they?!! LOVE them!! Amy, please send me an email, to sassy.saturdays@yahoo.com, so I can get you your SASSY badges!! YAY!! I LOVE seeing all of your SASSY creations!! You Sistahs ROCK!!

OK....it's your turn!! Who will be NEXT?!!! You?? Here is all you have to do!! Create something, using SASSY STUDIOS images and upload it to PCP and/or SCS. SO......what are they, you might ask? Well, they are Paper Craft Planet and Splitcoaststampers!!! You do know, that we have our own album now, over at Splitcoast??!! Don't you? Well of course you do!! When you upload your creations? You will want to label them sassystudio, so we can find them!! Got it? Remember,......... Not ONLY will you be featured here? BUT? You will also be able to grab that SASSY SATURDAY badge I was talking about, for you to display on YOUR blog!! How SWEET is that? If you are NOT able to upload your pic? NO worries!! Just submit your creations to me, at sassy.saturdays@yahoo.com. Now, you know I LOVE to share, so....what are you waiting for!!! Better go get started!! Join us tomorrow for another AWESOME, STUDIO SUNDAY!!! Have FABULOUS rest of your weekend!!


ENJOY LIFE!!!
Jacquie/Javablustamper!

Hey there SASSY ones!! I am here fillin' in for our AWESOME girl Val!! She is doin' the Christmas thang!! How are you all? READY for the BIG day? WOOHOO!!! I know I speak for ALL of us here, when I say......

MAY YOU AND YOURS HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!!

Alrighty!! On to the CHALLENGE!! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to use Christmas colors in your creation!! Now, that is ONLY fitting, don't you think? SO make sure you create with RED and GREEN colors, on a SASSY image!! You just CANNOT go wrong with that!! Hope you will have a TAD bit of time to play along!! We would LOVE to see what you come up with!! Here are some of our SWEET DT members' creations for you to check out!!


***MY GIRL MARGIE!


***MY girl Sara!

Our Sistah Lelia!


Now, if you would like to play along post the card with this challenge...You will have until next Wednesday 12/30, at midnight PST, to get your entry in! Make sure to use a SASSY STUDIO image and link your creation HERE, in the comments section of this post!! A winner will be announced on Friday 1/1!! The winner will receive their choice of 2 SSD images!! WOOHOO!! See ya all later! Take care gals!!




ENJOY LIFE!!
Jacquie/Javablustamper

Studio Sunday #11

Happy Sunday All! I hope everyone is getting ready for Christmas! I know I am! Its great to take a lil break from having to design and not worry about a release on Jan 1st I finished the last of my Christmas Shopping today!! yay!!! and monday I will do all my baking for my cookie exchange!

Today held a few surprises though...Last night Hubby and I decided to spend the night at my dads trailor at the property we keep our dog at along with my dads 3 dogs....well this morning we wake up its bright and sunny and great and we notice our dog is missing one of her claws!!! one nail is completely gone!!! so we had to take her to the vet and $150 proceedure to cut it back and carterize it and bandage it and antibiotics etc etc etc lol she is fine and it should grow back fine she has to stay inside for 5 days though...her bandage can not get wet at all!!! soooooo I had to take my cat to my parents house (she is not happy with me this is the 3rd time this month because when hubby and I did the 2 youth retreats the1st 2 weekends this month she had to go stay with my parents while we were away) and the dog now gets to stay inside our house (I wouldnt have asked that of my parents they have too nice of furniture lol and well I dont he hee) so she has been good so far she just slept a lot today but i swear I love my dog but we have had her less than a year and it sems like we are always having to go to the vet there is always something wrong lol poor baby

So anyway.... enough about me, on to the tutorial!!!

Ok I know some of you may have done this before but this is a lil different take...

Peppermint Patties!!

Materials needed are:

Glue dots

adhesive

1 1/2" scalloped circle punch

and 1 1/4" circle and 1" circle cutters or punches

and of course ppermint patties!!

close up on 1" cameos ( Icolored mine on thecomputer and printed them out at the size I wanted)

So I decided to start with 9 patties so I did 2 1 1/2" scalloped circles for each patty in green cardstock

and I did 2 1 1/4" circle cuts out of a lightgreen polkadot cardstock for 6 of the patties

and 6 1" SSD Cameos colored and punched out

for the other 3 I did 1 1/4" circle SSD cameos colored and cut out

so here is style 1 front on the top and back on the bottom this style I did the 1" cameos and layers with 1 1/4" circles


I put glue dots on all the bottoms an dplaced my peppermint patties centered on them

I then placed glue dots on the tops and tried to line up the scallops with the bottom the best I could and glue the tops to the patties

the 2nd style I did I cut out the middle layer and just cutout my cameos at 1 1/4" I did the same thing and glued them to the tops of the patties

here are all of them lined up (both styles)
I know these are simple but they are a great lil goodie to glue onto a envie for cards you hand out personally or to glue to the top of a bow on a christmas present, just to use one your table setting or in a dish of candy, or use them in a fun way...create a bunch using 2 different colorings and set them up on your checkers board or chess board you could designate characters for each piece or maybe adorn your own advent tree and hang it on the wall the posibilities are endless

so if you wanan try out something using this technique I hope you do and share it with us
Lindsay

(PS I know we are littl ebehind on teh last fe 25 days of christmas ill get those caught up real quick here I promise)

A snowy hello SASSY Sistahs!! How are you today? Got snow? We are actually getting what the weather man said we would, imagine that!! Haha!! Where ever you are, I hope you are enjoying the holiday season!!
I have a BEAUTIFUL creation to share with you!! Thanks SO much for stopping by! The one and only SASSY Cassie, from our SASSY 7 found this for us!! It is created by the TALENTED Cathy of Ink It Up Stamp It Out!! You REALLY need to visit her, she has some FABULOUS creations!! Thanks for finding this Cassie and thanks for creating it, Cathy!! I have some SASSY badges for you Cathy, send me an email to sassy.saturdays@yahoo.com and I will get them out to you!!

**CHECK IT OUT, SHE USED SASSY CASSIE!!! WOOHOO!

OK....so you all want these right? Aren't they GREAT!! I LOVE them!! SO....you want to know HOW you can get these? Check it out!




All you have to do is, create something, using SASSY STUDIOS images and upload it to PCP and/or SCS. SO......what are they, you might ask? Well, they are Paper Craft Planet and Splitcoaststampers!!! You do know, that we have our own album now, over at Splitcoast??!! Don't you? Well of course you do!! When you upload your creations? You will want to label them sassystudio, so we can find them!! Got it? Remember,......... Not ONLY will you be featured here? BUT? You will also be able to grab that SASSY SATURDAY badge I was talking about, for you to display on YOUR blog!! How SWEET is that? If you are NOT able to upload your pic? NO worries!! Just submit your creations to me, at sassy.saturdays@yahoo.com. Now, you know I LOVE to share, so....what are you waiting for!!! Better go get started!! WOOHOO!!

OK.....off to feed some kids!! Have an AWESOME weekend and don't forget to stop back tomorrow for STUDIO SUNDAYS!!! That and be on the look out for out NEW YEAR'S celebration!! WOOHOO!! Thanks again for stopping by and ..........

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

ENJOY LIFE!
Jacquie/Javablustamper!

FAMILY TRADITIONS WINNER!!

I just wanted to THANK all of you for sharing your family traditions!! SO many cool things you all do!! Also wanted to THANK YOU for hanging out with us, during our Sassy Stocking Stuffers release party!! I know I had fun, hope you did too!! Ok.....onto what we are here for, right?! RIGHT!!!

OUR FAMILY TRADITIONS WINNER IS:

SUSAN
of KILLAM CREATIVE!

Woohoo!! Congrats Susan!! Please email Lindsay with your 3 NEW release image choices and your 2 exisiting image choices!! You can do so to......sassystudiodesigns@yahoo.com!

Have an AWESOME day Sistahs!! Thanks for playing along! See you later!!



ENJOY LIFE!!
Jacquie/Javablustamper!

Happy Sassy Thursday!

Happy Thursday! I'm here with another challenge for you this week! This weeks cards were made and inspired by a sketch from our design team member Lelia!

Here is the sketch and along with that 4 cards to inspire you with for this weeks challenge! Hope you can join us this week we would all LOVE to see your cards and what you can do with this fun sketch.

Lelia

Valerie

Jacquie

Cassie

If you would like to play along post the card with this challenge...You will have until next Wednesday 12/23, at midnight PST, to get your entry in! Make sure to use a SASSY STUDIO image and link your creation HERE, in the comments section of this post!! A winner will be announced on Friday 12/25!! The winner will receive their choice of 2 SSD images!!

ok yay!!! all 18 of the new images are in the store now!!!

thank you for your patience!

and one last announcement....today is THE last day to apply for our DT call out!!! if you need more info click here so be sure to get in those applications by midnight tonight!

HOW ABOUT SOME FAMILY TRADITIONS??

Hey there SASSY Sistahs!! Thanks for joining us, for our STOCKING STUFFERS release HOP!!! Now, what do you think of, when you hear.....Stocking Stuffers??? Come on now.......tell me!!....... Well, OK then.....I will tell you!!! How about....Family Traditions? Family...HOLIDAY....Traditions!! ....RIGHT? Yepper!! THAT, is your THING this release!! YAY!! I just LOVE sharing!!
Ok.......here is the deal:

1. Follow the Blog map, listed BELOW, and leave a comment at EVERY stop!
2. If at any time you should get lost? Not to worry.....EACH blog will have a link to the next stop, on the list!
3. Your LAST stop will be our Party Blog!! WOOHOO!!!
4. Once you are at the PARTY BLOG? Your mission will be, if you choose to play along, to leave a comment. Your comment should contain a Family Tradition, that your family observes during the Holidays.
5. THE PRIZE!!-ONE random winner will receive THREE NEWLY released images, and TWO others of their choosing!! YAY!!
6. You will have until MIDNIGHT to complete your task!
7. If you should have any questions, please let us know!!


BEST WISHES to you all and thanks, again, for joining us!!


HERE IS THE LIST!! Get visiting!!
Lelia Pierce
Margie Cortina
Cassie Knox
Piali Biswas
Sara-Guest DT!!
Jacquie Peifer
SSD Party Blog

ENJOY LIFE! Jacquie/Javablustamper!

PS this weeks Freebie and the limited edition blinkie will be found on the Party blog at the end of the hop! We will also have some chit chat happening on the party blog from 4pm-6 pm PST so we hope you will join you never know what will happen when we chat...sometimes we joke and laugh sometimes we give hints of what is to come and sometimes we have surprises just for those that are there like extra freebies or goodies etc so please join it at 4pm PST (we will post a reminder and a link again later today!)

I am deeply sorry for another delay but I am having problems with my hosting site and have to wait til the AM to call and get some help with it. As soon as it is working I can create buttons for the new imeages and get them in the store for you all ASAP. I am sorry for the delay but I promise I am working to get the issue resolved quickly for now please enjoy the hop and release party and see some of the new images to be released today and be sure to stop at the party blog at the end of the hop to get todays freebie and blinkie!!!
Lindsay

Sassy Studio Tutorial #10

Welcome to another fun Sassy Studio. This is my first time creating a tutorial and I really hope I am doing this right :) I got so many comments about the notecards I posted on my blog awhile back that I asked Lindsey if I could do a tutorial here on them. I got this great from another blog and really liked how she created these great simple notecards for quick gifts. (Now I just need to come up with a great way to package them)



Supplies:
c/s stock (Gina K. is great for not bleeding through I've been told, but I used PTI and got a little bleed through on it)
copics for coloring in the images
you images (I am using three of the images being released on 12/15)
your computer and printer for the images :)
and a black pen - I used Copic's .1 multiliner (or another color of choice)



The first thing I did was open up the computer program I use for my Sassy images (I use PSE 6), open a blank 8.5x11 page as well as the images I wanted to use. Once they were all opened I pulled the images over to my blank sheet and shrank them to a size I liked and put them in their final place. Since these notecards are 4.25 x 5.5 in size the images were place in the lower left and righter corner leaving about a 1/4 of an inch on the sides of them from the edge.


Once I got them placed where I wanted them I printed out my page and cut them apart.





I colored my images after I cute them and them with a pencil I lightly marked all sides at the 1/4" mark and then connected them.








After the borders were all traced out I then went back with my black pen and drew the border box leaving some space around each image. Then I went back to a couple of the images and added either some glitter or glossy accent for a little extra touch of pow.

These were make great stocking stuffers or even teacher gifts. I can't wait to see what ya'll come up with.

~Sassy Cassie