Unity Hip Hop and {ippity}'s SPRING RELEASE Party!!

So excited that the day is here!!!  It's Unity Hip Hop Day, time for{ippity}'s Spring Release reveal and it's time to party!!  

I recently picked up these gorgeous designer papers by We R Memory Keepsers called "Vintage Blue", and immediately fell in love with the whole line!   I thought what a wonderful color palette, and beautiful designs for these NEW {ippity} sets...and they are so vintagey, which I just adore!!

I've embossed the background with my Cuttlebug "Birds & Swirls" folder to add some texture to the background, layered my purple flower, and added a little bling and pearls here and there to the flower and butterfly.  The main quote image has tiny flowers on it that I colored in with my Copics, and I used my decorative scissors to add a little extra detail!

Details - "anything is possible..." Card
Supplies - Stamps: {ippity} Delightful Little Things (quote) and Now & Always (flower & butterfly); Designer Paper: We R Memory Keepers (Vintage Blue); Cardstock: ARC (Kraft) & Recollections (Black); Adhesive Pearls: e Line by Prima; Self Adhesive Black Bling Flourish: Want2Scrap; Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug by ProvoCraft (Birds & Swirls); Die Cuts: Spellbinders; Markers: Copics; Ink: Memento; 3D Zap Dots: Helmar; Adhesive Runner: Helmar; Acid Free Glue: Helmar

Now, it's time for you to hop on over to see the gorgeous creation that Kelly has to share with you today!   

Have an awesome day!
Hugs,

{ippity} Spring Release - Day 3 Sneak Peeks!

Now, I know you've been enjoying the past 2 days of sneaks...but guess what? We have more of {ippity}'s Spring Release - Day 3 sneak peeks!  I know..I know..I keep saying this, but I really mean it when I say, this next set is just as TERRIFIC as the other NEW {ippity} Sring Release stamps!!

I just love inspirational quotes and heartwarming quotes, and this set has it all!!  Can I tell you I am in love with this set, but then again... every one of these new {ippity} sets are blowing me away!!   When I saw this NEW {ippity} quote with the little roses, I just knew it was time to pull out my  The Girls Paperie by Margie printed papers!  I love the colors and thought it was perfect in pink with the gorgeous color palette of green, yellow, and pink!!  So what do you think of this shabby chic card?  Wouldn't it be lovely for a nice gentle man to give it to his special lady?  Hmm...I'm just saying??  I colored the little yellow rosettes and tiny hearts on the image with my copics, and sprayed the rose on the ribbon with my Glimmer Mists!!   Yes, after all, it is the "Delightful Little Things", that bring a smile to my face, and it will to you too!!  Wait til you see the rest of this set on Thursday!!

My next card features this fresh and beautiful Spring color palette from the Fresh Print Clothesline designer paper collection by My Little Yellow Bicycle!  I wanted to capture a soft, pretty, light, and cheerful card to let that special someone know how "Grateful" I am for their friendship!  I used my Silhouette for the label, and the white little lace border that lies beneath the blue ribbon!!  Isn't this, a sweet NEW {ippity) sentiment?  The tiny little flower is part of another NEW {ippity) stamp that I cut apart to use for the center of my pink flower!!  You will love the rest of that stamp, but I just used a portion of it, to show you how versatile this set can be!!   This will be a set that I keep coming back to for sure!!

Just a reminder for you... We will be GIVING AWAY one set of "Delightful Little Things" and one set of "A Moment in Time" to random commenters on two secret DT members blogs!!! We will announce all winners from ALL days of the comments in the SCS forum on Thursday's, May 13th release party!!
Now, keeping on hopping on over to see what totally gorgeous samples Kelly has to share today!
 

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs,

SNR - Lost Coast Designs Event

Awhile ago, we spotlighted this manufacturer, Lost Coast Designs, for Scrapbook News & Review Magazine. Today, I wanted to share with you what I had created for this event. If you missed this event, or you would like to see what the rest of the SNR Staff created, just follow this link right here!

My sweet friend Eva and I were lucky enough to meet one of the owners for Lost Coast Designs at a local stamp convention, earlier this month! It was a pleasure to meet her and thank her for sponsoring this event for the magazine. It was great fun to create with their fabulous stamps!!

For these cards below, I used the daisy flourish, corner flourish , butterfly, & dictionary stamps, along with using my Cuttlebug to emboss, distress inking, glimmer misting, and heat embossing (on the "gracias" & "peace" tag).

Details - "Dream" Card
Supplies - Cardstock: Bazzill; Diecuts: Spellbinders; Embossing Folders: Provocraft; Stamps: Lost Coast Designs; Distress Inks: Ranger; Rhinestones: Me and My Big Ideas;

Details - "Gracias(Thank you)" Card
Supply List - Cardstock: Bazzill & Bo Bunny; Embossing Folders: Provocraft; Stamps: Lost Coast Designs; Distress Inks: Ranger; Rhinestones: K&Company; Other: Wire; Embossing Powder: American Crafts

Details - "Hope" Card
Supply List - Patterned Paper: Graphic 45; Distress Inks: Ranger; Border Punch: EK Success; Ribbon: Michael's Arts & Craft Store; Stamps: Lost Coast Designs; Flowers: Prima; Pearls: Basic Grey;

Details - "Peace" Tag
Supplies - Stamps: Lost Coast Designs; Ribbon: May Arts; Flowers: Prima; Tag: Office Depot; Button: Joanne's Fabric; Vintage Lace: Joanne's Fabric; Rhinestones: Michael's Arts & Craft Store; Distress Inks: Ranger; Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels; Embossing Powder: American Crafts

Enjoy your weekend!

Giving Thanks!!

Today is a day to be thankful, so I thought a little short message to you today was of importance! I sincerely give thanks to all of you who spend time visiting my blog, and also for the lovely comments and kind thoughts you share with me each week! For those in the US, may you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family!

Here is a little card I made (using my new Silhouette) just for you! A few of you may giggle as you read this because I have had this machine waiting to be opened since this past April! Say what? I know..what was I thinking!!! Don't you love this shaped card? I tell you.. I am so thrilled to have finally opened this box to play & create! I've also pulled out my Unity stamps for this card, as well as watercoloring the image, and adding a little stickles to add a touch of sparkle! Have not done this glittery technique in awhile, so thought I would try it again!

Details - "Enjoy your Day!" Card
Supplies - Card Shape: Silhouette; Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug for Provocraft; Stamps: Unity Stamp; Watercolor Pencils: Derwent; Distress Inks: Ranger; Ribbon: Fabric Barn; Buttons: More Buttons; Tiny Flower Embellishment: K&Company; Die Cut: Spellbinders; Decorative Scissors: Fiskars; Stickles: Tim Holtz;

Happy Thanksgiving & Enjoy your Day!!

Urban Anthology - Sept Reveal (Part 2)

Hope you are having a relaxing Sunday! Wanted to share with you a couple of cards that I made with the Urban Anthology Kit! Just love the cheery, bright, and fun colors of this kit! Since the white Sassafras Lass Paper had a little red stitching on it, I decided to add some black stitching to the blue bird!

And, for this card, everything is from the kit, except for the red apple which is from the September Unity of the Month kit! I thought it went well with the papers from October Afternoon! The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts!

Have a fun day!

Treasured Scrapbooking...Some More Aug Reveals

Hope you've had a very relaxing Sunday! Just wanted to share with you my 2nd layout and a couple of cards that I made with the August Kit #2 named "Sixth Avenue for Treasured Scrapbooking!

Had fun making this layout, and using some older and some of the NEWER Cuttlebug embossing folders (Herringbone, Victoria, & Diamond Plate)! If you have not placed your pre-order on any these Cuttlebug folders, you just might want to buy them, because they are so versatile!! The chipboard letters that come in this kit had no color to them, so I decided to paint, ink, and emboss! I handrew the tree, chickie, and the hearts, and added some crinkling to the papers! Lots of inking, and embossing, and some distressing too! I split the brown ribbon with the white stiching in 1/2 and used on both left and right sides of the layout! Hope you enjoy!

Here are a couple of cards that I also made from the kit! One is bright and cheerful, and the other is distressed and vintage looking! Hope you like them!

Details: "I'll Grow on You" Layout
Treasured Scrapbooking August Kit
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug "Herringbone", "Victoria", "Diamond Plate", "Swiss Distress Ink: Tim Holtz,
"Tea Dye" "Peeled Paint," "Frayed Burlap"& "Fired Brick"
Punches: Marvy Uchida Circle 1/5", 3/4"
Pen: Uniball Signo White, American Craft Black Precision Pen
Embroidery Floss: DMC

Details: "Love Ya!" Card
Embossing Folders: "Swiss Dots" & "Floral Screen"
Spellbinders: Circle & Scallops
Sticker Letters: Making Memories
Paper Edgers: Fiskars Mini Scallop
Punch: 2.5" Circle

Details: "IOU" Card
Embossing Folder: Morroccan
Pearls: K&Company
Scoring: Scor-it
Punch: 3/4" Circle
Diecut: Quickutz Flower, Sizzix Flower Layers #3
Ink: Ancient Page Black

Have a great week!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge #44

Welcome back for another Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot Be Inspired Challenge! I sure hope your having a wonderful week! This week's challenge is to create a "scene card"! How fun!

Since I wanted my card to be cheerful, I decided to work with the My Little Shoebox "My Neighborhood" printed papers! You know their papers have little detailed designs that I just love to cut apart!! I cut apart the little houses, the Welcome Home! bubble, and pink car to make this cute litte scene of a loved one returning home..perhaps back home from a Summer trip, or bringing home a new little baby!

The little scene lays right on top of my Spellbinder Curved Rectangle die! I used another smaller rectangle using my Cellar Door Core'dinations White Wash cardstock, and ran the NEW Harlequin Cuttlebug folder through it. Lightly sanding the raised embossed gives such a cool effect..don't cha think? You can see the lighter shade of blue POPPING out from behind I used for the sky! Later, I handrew and cut out a little road from the MLS paper, and a patch of green grass (which was run through the Cuttlebug using the NEW Herringbone folder), and adhered to the rectangle die. If you take a close look, you can see that I backed up several parts of the card with pop dots!!

Using my pink Sakura Gelly Roll pen, I outlined the little pink car to give a little sparkle. And, so the sky would not fade into the ivory layer of the card, I outlined the sky area of the card with my Sakura Blue #-D Souffle Pen! Creating this scene card brought me back to using my "oh so cool" pens by Sakura, which are so fun to use for making fine details just pop right out of your projects!!

You are gonna love all the fun "scene projects" that the Design Team created this week, and I sure would love to see your take on this challenge!! I will be checking them out!!

Details - Welcome Home! Card
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug by Provocraft (Herringbone and Harlequin)
Printed Papers: My Little Shoebox (My Neighborhood) & Dream Street (Heartsong-Lullaby)
Cardstock: Core'dinations (Door Cellar White Wash)& Bazzill (Ivory & Black)
Brads: Reflections
Embroiderfy Floss: DMC
Paper Edger Scissors: Fiskars (mini-scallop)
Pens: Sakura (Souffle - blue & Gelly Roll - Pink)

My sincerest gratitude to Sakura, Provocraft, and Core'dinations for donating such awesome products to create and design with through our challenges at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot!!

PS - Don't forget to come visit me this Saturday, where I will be showing you pages from my mini album for "Your Story Captured this Summer in 30 days"!

Have a fabulous day!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge #33

Hoping you are having a terrific week! Time for another Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog! This week the challenge is to create cards, altered projects, and/or a layout with a Monogram! Our lovely sponsor Elle's Studio (an etsy store) generously donated products for the Cuttlebug Design Team to work with and I was lucky to receive these cute little "bird note tags"! Aren't they the sweetest?

Here is my Monogram card, and I hope you enjoy it! Right when I saw this rich blue color on my note tag, I knew that the new tube of Prima flowers would match perfectly. I wanted those rich colors to be the dominant colors, so I went with both black and white cardstock for my foreground colors...what do you think (smile)?? The letter "k" was made by using Word Art. I selected the Tahoma font and printed it in reverse on white paper, and then I cut it out. Then, I ran the letter "k" through the Cuttlebug and adhered the white letter to black cardstock, and recut the letter. My letter "k" has some pop-dots underneath to make it pop out!

Card Details - Monogram "k" Card
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug Spots & Dots
Cardstock: Black & White
Note Tags: Elle's Studio Etsy Store
Punch: Martha Stewart
Border Punch: Fiskars Threading Water
Flowers: Prima Petal Palette Mix #7
Baubles & Charmers: K&Company "Greenhouse" by Carolyn Gavin
Pom-Pom Lace: May Arts
Brad: Basic Grey - Urban Prairie

Don't forget to check out the rest of what the Design Team has to show you for this week's challenge! I'd love to see what you create!

Have a fabulous day!

Unity Celebration - Challenge Cards

I have two more cards to share with you, that I made during National Scrapbooking Day! This first one is for the "rediscover your stamps" Unity challenge over at Split Coast Stampers. The challenge was to pull out one of our oldest Unity Stamps and make a card, layout, or project with it!

This "love" stamp has two hearts that are side-by-side, but I decided to cut them apart and give them more of a stacked look. The Prima flowers that I used were from a little set of beautiful, bright, and bold flowers that I won as a little prize during our NSD crop...so thank you Kari! They matched perfectly with the K & Company papers I used for my card!

For the next challenge, we were to use our Unity stamp(s), as well as...

F - flowers
I - insect
R - ribbon
S - scallops
T - teal or turquoise

So, what do you think? I fell in love with these new My Minds Eye Printed papers, and new right away that the little birdie and "celebrate" sentiment from the Unity April Kit of the Month would go so well with my little scalloped flower card!

I'll be posting my last two cards for the Unity Celebration week, once I have completed them, so check back later this week!

Card Details - "Love" Card
Stamp: Unity Stamp Company
Printed Papers: K&Company - Cut 'N Paste Collection "Dots & Roses", "Today Glitter", & "Roses"
Cardstock: Bazzill Pink & Orange
Punch: Fiskars Effervescence Border
Crystal Swirls: Prima
Ink: Ancient Page - Chocolate
Flowers: Prima

Card Details - "Celebrate" Card
Stamps: Unity April Kit of the Month (birdie on branch and "celebrate" sentiment)
Printed Papers: Dream Street - Secret Garden "Botanical"
Cardstock: Kraft
Ribbons: Prima Pink flowers, Michaels Craft Store Ivory
Pearl Swirls: Prima
Ink: Ancient Page - Chocolate
Punch: Martha Stewart Butterfly
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Scallop & Circle
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug "Birds & Swirls" and "Swiss Dots"
Pearls: K&Company
Flowers: Prima - Nursery Collection

Have a GREAT day!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!

Just a quick "hello" to all you happy scrappers! Hope you will be enjoying National Scrapbooking Day today scrapping, cardmaking, or just creating crafty projects! I am off to crop with some of my friends today, and it sure will be fun! Let's hope that I get alot accomplished today! Made this little card from my Unity April Kit of the Month stamps! Can I tell you that I can not get enough of these stamps! If you have not had a chance, go and check the Unity Stamp Company store for this kit and all the other fantastic products!

Here is my submission to the May KOTM Guest Designer Challenge! We had to use this sketch, and it's pretty cool! I think I may need to used this again for a layout!!

My card above is dedicated to all my "crafty" friends just to say "Hello"! Have a fun day, whatever you are doing today!

Hope that you are also enjoying the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot Spa Event this weekend! You still have time, so come on by, and play along on the Blog Hop or come along and join me at Urban Anthology, where we have some awesome challenges and prizes going on to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day!

Card Details - "Hello" Card
Stamps: Unity April Kit of the Month (2 paper doll girls & "hello" sentiment)
Cardstock: Kraft & Black
Printed Papers: Graphic 45 - "Dream a Little Dream" (Baby 2 Bride Collection); Graphic 45 - "Shutter Speed" & "Society Page" (Commuique Collection); & Graphic 45 - "En Vogue" (Fashionista Collection)
Flowers: Prima
Glimmer Mist: Suede
Buttons: Ivory (from my stash)
Pearls: Kaiser Black
Ribbon: Velvet Brown (from my stash)
Krylon Pen: Gold
Ink: Versafine - Black Onyx
Embossed Folder: Cuttlebug Love Language

Have a fun day creating!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge #25 & Urban Anthology Design Star Challenge!!

So how has your week been thus far? My week tends to be going by fast this week, and I hope that yours has been a good one! It's Wednesday, and time for another Cuttlebug Challenge! Today's challenge will be a SheetLoad Intersite Challenge. SheetLoad provided the sketch below to the Cuttlebug Design Team as well as their very own Design Team. How cool is this?
My "hello" card features the beautiful printed papers from Making Memories - Sabrina Collection. I love how the clear acetate along with the black, pink, and white work so well together. The first thing I did was to cut out the center of my black card and leave about 1/4" border to each side. I wanted the background to really showcase the clear acetate. So, underneath that big window that I cut out, you can see the clear acetate and the beautiful Love Language Cuttlebug folder shining through. I added the white cardstock to the back of the clear acetate, for a different effect! Let me know what you think?

Below is a close-up view of the two flowers I assembled for my own unique embellishment. I took that same concept of using the clear acetate on top of white cardstock, and came up with this look. If you look really close, you can see the hearts from a little section of the Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug folder imprinted on the clear acetate! I get so excited when I can just take a little snippet from a folder and use it in another manner!! I've added some pop-dots to "POP" out those flowers!
Remember the Inkadinkado cards that I shared with you on yesterday's post? Well, here is another one of their stamps that I used to lay on top of that gorgeous Textile Texture Cuttlebug folder in white! I added some pop-dots to the back of the Quickutz label for some additional "POP"!

You will see a variety of clear acetate cards from SheetLoads as well as frosted cards over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot, so don't forget to check out what the rest of the Design Team has to share with you today! Hope you will take the challenge, so you will have a chance at winning a fabulous prize!

Card Details - "Hello" Card

Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug Textile Texture, Floral Fantasy, & Emboss & Die Set: Love Language

Cardstock: Black & White

Printed Paper: Making Memories "Sabrina" Paper Pack

Flower Embellishments: Making Memories "Sabrina" Printed Blossoms

Die Cuts: QuicKutz Label & Spellbinders Small Pinking Circles

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Clear Acetate: SheetLoads

Stamps: Inkadinkado #97625 Birds Galore, & Amy Butler(for K&Co) Lotus Greeting

By the way, if you have not heard, Urban Anthology is having an awesome Design Star Challenge going on right now! Come and check it out and be one of our next Design Stars!

Have a great day!

Inkadinkado FREE Stamps - Have you heard?

Feel like making some cards to get some FREE stamps? Well here is your chance! I just completed my last of three cards last night that I created for some FREE Inkadinkadoo stamps! You can check out the details here at the Inkadinkado site!! I tried to make three different types of cards for a little variety, and because I have quite a few different types of Inkadinkado stamp sets. Boy, I did not realize it until I started putting them all together to see which ones I wanted to use to submit, that I had already purchased so many cute little Inkadinkado stamps! Guess it is because I love using my Michaels Craft coupon, to purchase them at 40-50% off, or catching them when they are on sale! Needless to say, I would purchase them at regular price, and have done so that way too! They have such a variety of stamps and I am looking forward to the new ones coming out of Winter CHA!

So, here is my share with you before sending them through the mail. Parting is such sweet sorrow, but it is all worth it to get some FREE stamps right??

For my first card, I decided to use alot of white background to make that beautiful rose pop out! Had fun combining different shapes on this card, and even handstitched around the outer edge of the card, and used my Cuttlebug Swiss Dot folder to add some more texture, as well as using pop-dots underneath to give some dimension.

Card Details - "I'm Yours" Doodle Flower Card
Stamp: Inkadinkado #97622 Doodle Flowers
Cardstock: White & Pink
Printed Cardstock: K&Company (Brenda Walton) "Sweet Talk" Specialty Paper Pad
Craft Thread: Light Pink (from my stash)
Sticker Letters: Making Memories
Ribbon: From my stash
Scissors: Fiskars Pinking Paper Edges
Spellbinder Nestabilities: Classic Scalloped Rectangles Small
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
Prismacolor Pencils: Crimson Red, Vert Franc, & Spring Green
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

My second card is a little more of a distressed type of card. I used a couple of punches and handcut circles to make my own little flower embellishment. All the papers used on the card, minus the black and white, are from the Basic Grey -Urban Prairie collection, which I just adore. Everything on the card is a at bigger scale, as I really wanted those awesome flourishes from my Inkadinkado stamp set to be the focus around that handmade flower embellie.

Card Details - Flourish "Thanks" Card
Stamp: Inkadinkado #97618 Flourishes by Brenda Walton
Printed Paper: Basic Grey - Urban Prarie: Bluebird, Straw, Haylof, Petticoat, Corn Husk,
Cardstock: Black & White
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Emboss - Spots & Dots
Die Cut: Cuttlebug Die - Gratitude
Punches: Fiskars Large and Extra Large Scallops
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Brads: Recollections Gemstone Brads

Lastly, my third card features more of a simplistic look and all the colors were pretty easy to put together, as I just recently bought the paper pack from Target. Look for an upcoming layout from me on using that paper pack real soon! I used one of my new Spellbinders template - inverted scalloped circles (how cool is that template), and a 2 1/2" circle punch to have my little owl be the center of attention! I added a little stitching around the white circle to add just a touch of texture, and topped it off with a little ribbon tie at the top of the card!

Card Details - Owl "Hello" Card
Stamp: Inkadinkado #97625 Birds Galore
Printed Paper: Marcella by K paper pad
Cardstock: Blue Bazzill, White
Spellbinders Nestabilities: Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Circles
Ribbon: Michaels (from my stash)
Craft Thread: Green (from my stash)
Sticker Letters: Making Memories
Prismacolor Pencils: Blue Paon, Ccre Brulee, & Orange Espagnol
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Well that's about it for today! This was fun playing with these stamps, and creating these cards for Inkadinkado. Look for another Inkadinkado stamp in one of my cards that will be used in an upcoming Wednesday Cuttlebug Challenges!!

Have a beautiful day!