Some Sassy Winners

Hi ladies, I have the winners of the past two challenges to announce today.  By random draw, the winner of DTBST #52 (clean and simple) was Annie.

 And the winner of DTBST #53 (thank you card) was Doreen.

Congrats ladies, please contact Lindsay with your choice of two images!  Thanks to everyone who played along with us.  You still have plenty of time to get in on this week's challenge (use something new).  Hope you'll come and join us.

Cupcake Craft…

… is who we are sponsoring today.  Their challenge to you is “NEW”.  I have used the NEW image that is being released on Saturday.

This is the new Go Go Girl, isn’t she just too cute!?  Dig out your “NEW” things and link up your creation at Cupcake Craft Challenge.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Another Sponsorship

Good Sunday to you, hope all is well with you!  Today we are sponsoring Scrapperiket.  This is again a new blog for us to sponsor.  The challenge is easy-just use “BLUE”.  And then you have a chance to win 4 digi images.  Here is my sample.

Don’t forget our weekly challenge which is “NEW”.    Also, don’t forget about our special challenge to DESIGN YOUR OWN SASSY!  You have until Jan. 16th at midnight PST.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Sassy Saturday

Good Saturday afternoon, hope all is well with you.  It’s time to feature another SASSY SATURDAY SISTAH.  This card is from one of the challenge blogs we sponsored-Creative Inspirations. 

Aunty Sue made this amazing card for a color challenge on Creative Inspirations.   I love every element of this, especially that bow.  Aunty Sue you are most definitely one SASSY SATURDAY SISTAH.  Aunty Sue please email me at sassysaturdays@att.net, and I’ll get your badge right out to you. 

If you would like to be featured please email me at the above addy also.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

It’s Time …

… for another Digi Day at Stamp Something.  And we are one of the sponsors.  If you’ve never participated in one of the Digi Days, you should.  They always have multiple sponsors with lots of prizes.  Here is some inspiration from the DT:

                                                    AMANDA

                                                  KATHY                                                       

     Aren’t they just adorable!  So go have some fun and head over to Stamp Something for your chance to win.  Please don’t forget about our weekly challenge which is “NEW”, and we are up and running with our monthly guest designer contest on our PCP page.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Do You Stack Up?

There is a new challenge blog that is having it’s grand opening as we speak.  Do You Stack Up has LOTS of sponsors for this challenge and we happen to be one of them.  The challenge is “Cute as a button”.  Here is some inspiration from our DT:

                                                 KATHY

                                                ME

Kathy and I both used buttons in the middle of our bows.  Please go check out Do You Stack Up, and enter for your chance to win several prizes including 4 digi images from our store.  There is also a new weekly challenge that went up today-“NEW”, use anything “new” you have.  We are also still running the “Design Your Own Sassy” contest and that ends at midnight PST on Jan. 16th.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Dare to Be Sassy Thursday #54

Happy New Year to all!  Our first DTBST challenge to kick off the new year is "new" challenge.  Make a card or project using something new.  Can be the image, paper, embellies (anything new you have).  Good chance to use some of those new holiday goodies that I hope you received!

You have until next Wednesday night to play along.  You do not need to use a SSD image, but we love to see them if you have them.  The random winner will get two free SSD images of their choice.  Hope you'll join us this week!

For a little inspiration, here is Sara's beautiful sample, she used new copics!

And this cool sample from Amanda using several images!  She used several new items (pearls and flowers), and a new technique, a stair step card.

New Years Challenge and Freebies!

ow night turned into morning so quickly!

So we have been discussing and planning on this challenge for a LONG time but have not had the opportunity to do it just yet.

We are going to do a Design your own Sassy contest!!!

We have our wonderful release parties each month where I get so many wonderful ideas from all of you and I try to do them when I can but now I want to give you the chance to Design a Sassy this will be a 2 week long challenge you can enter as many ideas as you have the key though is you have to draw them out. Now I know not everyone can draw and that is fine you can trace parts of other sassies maybe just change their outfit for a certain theme etc or even if it doesn't look like a sassy but we have an idea what she looks like would be fine too.

the deadline will be midnight PST Sunday Jan 16 all you have to do is draw out your own idea for a sassy and link an image below prior to the deadline this is open to everyone even design team members

I will guarantee 3 prizes

1st place will get 5 SSD images of their choice

2nd Place will get 3 images of their choice

and 3rd place will get 2 images of their choice

however if any other ideas are used I will of course reward you with images too!

Now what will probably happen depending on how many really stand out I will select finalists and we will have votes on them to see what you all want lined up as your next sassy.

I will of course re-stylize them to to look like sassies which is why its ok if you don't draw well I will re work them and they will be released in Feb or march.... If your image is one of the ones selected you will also of course receive your winning design free as well on top of your regular prize....SO I cant wait to see all those ideas I know are out there so get to designing!!!

Now onto the Freebies!

So as my Christmas and New Years gift to all of you I have 3 images for you.

Be sure to double click to get full resolution copy prior to saving to your computer.

These images will stay up only for one week so get them while you can!

Happy New Years!

A PERSONAL NOTE FROM ME

This is me Lindsay it's been so long since I have been on to really write you all. I do apologize for that it's been quite a few months. The house is still a work in progress but starting to feel like a home and not just a construction site still a lot to do to finish this place up but it will come with more time. We also over volunteered again this year with our church which wasn't too bad last year with me not having a day job but this year was almost impossible so we have to find some balance I think going into 2011. I also had been really sick twice in the past 2 and a half months which never helps either when your stuck in bed for days unable to function. and lastly but most excitingly I am now an Auntie! My sister had her baby! so it seemed like no sooner was i getting over the flu that she was starting having contractions (Christmas eve) ...well in short she went into the hospital 2 times each time to be sent back home saying to wait longer the contractions weren't close enough on her 3rd one was admitted into labor and delivery only to find out after the fact that her water had broken and she didn't even know and so there was almost no fluid left she was now having a fever and getting sick and then they induced her labor and when dilated and ready to go there was well.... (if you have sensitive stomach maybe skip a line ahead) ...basically the baby's poo fluid was coming out which means that she was exposed to not so good things they then still proceeded to have her try to push for at least 2 hours! and after the baby's heart rate had been elevated too high for too long they took her in for emergency c section, turns out the baby had gotten stuck...so my sister is now recovering from both a normal birth and a c section all at once.... and the baby well so far it has been a bumpy road the first night she had a collapsed lung so they had tubes in her had her on a respirator and on oxygen and in one of those incubators in the NICU so it was very scary ...she is strong though and full size she came out 7 lb and 13 oz and has since reached 8 lb 4 oz she was born on 12/27/2010

the 1st night was the worst but a friend of our family is a deacon and he came to do a blessing and prayer over my sister and the baby as they were praying with my sister the doctor came in and said she was off the respirator and breathing on her own (still on oxygen though) my sister didn't even get to see her baby until the next morning and only the daddy and my parents and the deacon even got any glimpse at her. and so with the baby in the NICU she had limited visitors you had to be on a list of only 6 people which includes mommy and daddy as 2 of the persons on the list (the deacon did count though special circumstances) anyways I was blessed to be able to have one of the slots and be able to go in there and visit her and hold her so I of course spent all my free time this week there so I worked or was at the hospital. My sister was released from the hospital yesterday but Annika still has to stay in NICU for at least another 5 days because she is antibiotics

So long story short it was a very busy month or 2 as was then this week totally tipped the scale. But I am blessed to be an Auntie now and thought it was a bumpy road this week she is doing fine just making sure she doesn't get infections etc So I am and have been behind in a lot of things and I am sorry I am trying get caught up as quickly as I can to start this year off strong so I will be getting Design Team invitations out this weekend and getting caught up on emails etc

THE NEW STORE?

also I HAD big plans for you all today... I was supposed to be launching our new web store today but I guess I didn't stay on top of my Web guy because even though he knew today was the day to launch and he kept telling me everything was fine etc it wasn't when he sent it over it was all wrong! the background and style was all wrong the shopping cart didn't do automatic downloads just reg purchases and NONE of my products were loaded he thought I was going to do them...what was the point of me paying him if I was going to do it and if I was going to launch it on Jan 1 how was I going to be able to get all that loaded and set up if he only got it "done" yesterday SO needless to say I am a bit perturbed about that whole situation and I am rapidly working on getting things finished I am trying to fix it I spent all last night on it (well I took 1 hour away to watch the ball drop and toast some champagne with my family at my parents house and then I have spent all day today as well trying to work on it truth is if I knew how to do most of this I would have just done it one my own and thats why I hired the guy because I tried to do it on my own and had no idea what I was doing so I am doing what I can and he wont have time to do any more until Tuesday so whatever I cannot get on my own may have to wait for him on Tuesday so we will see but I plan to launch that thing as soon as it as least functional even if the look still needs some tweaking so I will keep you all updated on that.

for now until things are going smoothly the shopping blog will remain open... one bit of info is the prices will be going up on our images just a little so I wanted to prepare you they will be starting at 3.50 each instead of starting at 3.00 so while the old shopping blog is still up take advantage of the lower pricing while you can.

WHATS NEW FOR SSD/WHEN IS THE NEXT RELEASE?

Next up we will have a NEW release on the 15th of January with our new Design Team in place I have decided moving into the new year I wanted to make a few changes and the 1st was our release dated everyone does theirs on the 1st and it makes it hard to get people to our release parties etc so we decided to host our releases not on the 15th of the month but on the 3rd Saturday of each month We chose Saturdays because if we do something Friday nights or Saturday itself its a more convenient day for people to make it rather than week nights I was planning to do the 2nd Saturday of each month but with everything having fallen behind for January I figured the 15th would be a good date to start fresh and strong with a Great new release so keep an eye out also I will be posting a freebie up here shortly as well as a HUGE HUGE challenge its going to be so much fun so watch out for another post tonight

Much Love and Sassyness,

Lindsay

Sassy Saturday for The New Year!!!

Happy New Year’s everyone, I hope everyone had lots of fun, and stayed safe!  It’s time to feature another SASSY SATURDAY SISTAH.  I would like you to meet Valerie.  Valerie won our sponsorship with Sassy Lil’ Sketches, and chose a few of the Little Honey Princess images.  Here are a couple of her projects:

She used LH Cinderella

 

and here she used  LH Rapunzel.

Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous creations with us Valerie, you are one SASSY SATURDAY SISTAH!  If you would like to be featured then please email me at sassysaturdays@att.net. 

On a different note, stay tuned for some exciting changes coming soon to SSD!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!