New Releases, Blog hop and Challenge

Hello everyone! Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends! Hope you're enjoying Canada's birthday! We're heading out later on to the fairgrounds to see what's going on!!

But till then, it's PARTY TIME and RELEASE DAY at Sassy Studio Designs! This is my first official release since being chosen for the design team! I'm so excited about this one! It's SO pretty! Lindsay has designed some amazing wedding images! All the design team members are posting their wedding photos too! :D Check out mine below! That was almost six years ago!! (In September!)

We're having another blog hop to celebrate today's release. If you want to get your hands on the new images, head over to the store. Or you can play along with the challenges today to win free images! (You can click on the logo above too and it will take you to the store!)

We're doing a scavenger hunt again...you need to hop to all the DT's blogs and see their amazing projects and find the hidden words! You should see what the new team has come up with!
At each of the blogs you will get a keyword. You will need to go around your house a gather all of these items and take a picture of them and email them to Lindsay. 1 random winner will be selected of all the entries with all the images that winner will get any 3 SSD images of their choosing. (Your secret word from me is CAKE or CAKE TOPPER!)


(Image from Say It With Cake in Guelph)

Here are the links for the design team's blogs for the hop!
Sara
Larisa
Lindsay @ the Sassy Studio Blog
Kathy
Lisa
Marilyn
You are here--> Amanda

Here is our guest designer for July...she's created some amazing samples with the new images too! :D LOVE your card Regan! Thanks for joining us this month as our guest designer!
Regan

And now it's time to PARTY!

The Party Blog will be open so you can join us for the party from 5 - 8 PM PST! [Check the SSD blog for the link]. You will want to pop in to chat...there's freebies, prizes, chatting with some lovely ladies!! Hope to see everyone there!

Here's a card I made with two of the new images!

(It's a thank-you card for a bridesmaid from the bride.)

And lastly, we've got a challenge going at SSD...Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue!

Here's what I created for the challenge...

My Elements are:

OLD: Old K&Company papers

NEW: Ribbon and Pearls

BORROWED: I used a sketch from Pagemaps.com

BLUE: The pattern papers are blue

So your challenge is to create a project with those four elements AND include at least one Sassy Studio Designs image...Link your projects to the Sassy Studio post before 6pm PST (that's 9pm EST) July 2nd for your chance to win 3 free images! (Have you SEEN the new releases???)

Duff Goldman is in the building!!

Okay, so I'm a Foodnetwork Junkie and of course, "Ace of Cakes" is top on my list of must-watch programs...I WISH I could make cakes like the staff at Charm City Cakes does...My cakes don't even shine a light at them...my cakes look like Duff's cakes probably did when he was 10 years old! I haven't made cakes for awhile! I really need to take another course...it's just finding the time and money to do that!! :D

Anyways, getting off topic here...so, today we're watching the Food Network and "Ace of Cakes" comes on...and my beloved son says he wants to be "the cake guy"...I asked him if he wanted a little beard and everything and he said YES! So I grabbed some cardstock from my stash and cut him a little "beard" and grabbed him a hat and sunglasses!

You tell me if he looks like Duff the cake guy {as Dear Son calls him!}

{Pictures of Duff taken from the internet}

Dear Son as "Mr. Duff Goldman AKA The Cake Guy"!

THIS one is my favorite!!!!

Should I tell Mr. Goldman we're big Boston Bruins fans too! I should have put DS in his Boston Jersey for the pictures!!!!!!! {Thanks for reading this Mary Alice if you get my email!!!!}

Tasty Tuesday

Here is today's "Tasty Tuesday"!

Isn't this GORGEOUS!? I LOVE looking at these cakes!

I wish I could do them!!! I think I need to start taking classes again!!!!!

{picture from www.weddingelegante.com}

Tasty Tuesdays

Okay, so I'm doing a "tasty" feature each Tuesday...I'll be sharing something yummy I find each week!! Whether it's a super-duper AWESOME cake...or a recipe I've created...something tasty to share with you all!!

So here is this week's "Tasty Tuesday" find...


Okay, so in my quest to find some cupcakes for my DD's birthday, I came across this CAKE!!! YES, THAT IS A CAKE!!! Isn't it GORGEOUS!?!?! I've seen this girl in action on the Food Network's Ultimate Cake-off Challenge {they won actually}...Anne Heap is the founder of Pink Cake Box...they are in New Jersey...I WISH I had half the talent this girl has for cakes...Here's another one that I LOVE...it's from their blog...

Makes me wanna do "Fifi and the Flowertots" for DD's birthday!!! Maybe she could just make me the "Violet" on the top and ship it to me! {That's probably all I could afford on that cake!!}.

Enjoy this "Tasty Tuesday" tidbit!! Check out the Pink Cake Box blog for more ideas...