Hip Hop and a Farewell!

Hip Hop!!

Thank for stopping by my blog today! If you started at the beginning of today's Unity and Ippity DT Hip Hop blog hop then you have made it through all the Unity DT girls' blogs and should have just left Karen's Ippity blog on your way to getting through the Ippity DT girls' blogs.  I hope you are finding lots of inspiration!

CLICK HERE!

To start at the beginning!!

And follow the icons to each of the next blogs!

Many of you know Michelle Ogdahl as the previous Manager of Ippity.  She was kind of like the team mom for the DT too!  But most importantly from the minute I started working with her and especially upon meeting her in person for the first time at CHA Winter in Anaheim, she has been my friend!

She has decided, with the blessings of all of her Unity and Ippity friends to move on in a new direction in her life and the card that I have made for today will be sent to her to show her my love and support in all that she does and has done for us!  I love her to death and hope for continued success and happiness in her new life's travels!!  We will miss her for sure, but you never want to hold someone back from knowing when it is their time to make a change!!

Thanks for all you have done Michelle 

and I wish you the best in your New Beginning!!  ♥

The card I made is based on this week's Hip Hop Sketch Challenge which is pictured below!

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I used DP from Pebbles May Bouquet Collection, Nesties Label 10 and the following Ippity Stamp sets...

  

 To purchase either of these or any Ippity stamp sets, please click HERE!!

To create the flower image in the centerpiece, I stamped it four times total.  First in green, then in golden yellow and cut out the whole flower, then again in orange and cut out the top layer of the flower and a fourth time onto scratch paper and cut it out for a mask.  Next, I placed the mask over the my flower and used my Copics' air brush system to spray the blue around the flower for the sky background. I purposely left a little of the green flower showing underneath at the bottom to create a shadow!  I also added some stickles to the flower center and below the sentiment!  

As we bid farewell to Michelle, we are also welcoming Amy as her replacement, (see the blog post about it here!) so all will be wonderful as always in the Unity and Ippity worlds!!  Hope you guys have a great day and enjoy the rest of the Hop.

Your next stop is Lisa A's blog!!  Enjoy!!

Hip Hop Birthday Wishes!

Hello and Happy Thursday!!

It's Hip Hop time!!

Today is the day that the Unity and Ippity DT members share some inspiration with fellow Unity/Ippity fans!  It is one of my favorite days of the week to post and it is definitely one of my favorite  days to visit the rest of the blogs presenting with me!  These girls give me so much inspiration week after week and I am so honored to be in the same hop with them!!

Hopefully you have started out at the beginning of the Hop from the Unity blog.  And if you have been following along, you should be arriving to me from the wonderful Karen Maldonado's blog.

Our talented Maria has given us another sketch to work with this week!  It is a great one that could be used over and over again.  So I hope that you will give it a try and join us in this week's HH Sketch Challenge (HHSC11!)

Here is the card that I came up with.  I let the papers from Kaiser Craft do a lot of the work for me and had fun pairing the style of the Ippity stamp I used with the style of the art work on the DP.

The flower stamp I used is from the new Faith Blooms set that was just released this Spring.  It also uses the birthday sentiment from the Just Wanted to Say set.  To purchase either of these sets, just click on THIS LINK to be taken to the Ippity Chick Locator page on the Ippity blog!  At the end of this Hop you will end up at the Ippity Blog with a new tutorial from Eva!

I colored in the flower with Copic markers and added some cute green pom pom trim to accent the bottom scallop.  The top scallop was created with a Martha Stewart border punch!

So without further delay... head on over to the next blog on today's Hip Hop and go and visit the talented Lisa  Arana's blog!

Happy Hip Hop and have a wonderful Thursday!!

Ippity Spring 2010 Release- Sneak Peek Day 4

Oh my goodness!!  We are almost there!!!

Tomorrow is finally the day we have been waiting for!!

The New Ippity Spring Release stamp sets 

will go on sale at Midnight tonight!!

But we still have some more to show you before that!!

And did you read Michelle O's post about what is special with this release?

This release has 10 sets instead of 8!!

Instead of the 8th full set of stamps, they have designed two smaller sets and one single.  

This is perfect for the shopper with a limited budget or for someone who wants to give Ippity a try without spending too much money to buy large sets!  I think this is genius!!

Start at the Ippity Blog to begin the Hop at the beginning.

If you are coming to me from Karen's blog then you are on the right track!

Click HERE to go to the Ippity Blog!

I am so short on time today as I have been super busy dealing with New Release Party Plans and other things that have come up, so I have just one sample to share with you today.  But, it does combine two of our new sets...Faith Blooms and A Bit of Burlap.

I used some adorable October Afternoon paper and the Labels 12 die from Nestabilities to create the shape of my card and panels.  I had to use my stamp-a-majig to set up the sentiment that way.  In the original stamp, the word Faith is actually placed about the words "is when you close your eyes," and then on a separate stamp is the "and open your heart" sentiment.  I love this phrase!!  Not sure who made that ruching ribbon because I got it from my LSS and it was precut into a strip with no labels!  Sorry!

I used SCS Sketch SC36 for the layout of my card!!  I added the little panel under the flower because I thought it needed to be grounded a little better!!  

I used the A Bit of Burlap (our new single stamp) to create the background that I stamped the flower onto.  I paper pieced the flower and added the little pearls that I colored to match.  All coloring was done with my copics or ink from SU and Memento.

Are you ready for a PARTAY???

Be sure to join us in the SCS Forums tomorrow for all the New Release Celebrations!

It is going to be one heck of a time!!

More details will be posted on the Ippity Forum today!!  

Then anytime after midnight tonight you can contact your Ippity Chick to order the sets you desire!!

Now, hop on over to Lisa Arana's blog for some more crafty goodies!

Just an FYI, I have decided against selling Ippity Stamps for now.  You know I adore them, but my first passion is in playing with them so I would rather focus more on promoting these stamps to others as part of the DT!  Because I have a full time job (plus some) I just can't devote enough time to sell them, so I would rather let others have the opportunity to do that!  I will be contacting my customers personally and will be updating my sales blog with some clearance sales as soon as time allows.  

Until tomorrow....may your bucket overflow with the positivity you get by being good to others and by displaying a sweet spirit.  Not much else is needed beyond being sweet and kind to others!  Have a wonderful day and Happy Stamping!!