Ippity Sneak Peek #3- Winter 2010

Well Hello and Welcome to Day3 

of the Ippity Winter Release Sneak Peeks!!

We are having so much fun providing our projects to you and we appreciate you coming back to check out all the new sets.

Head to the {ippity} blog to see the snippets for today's two sets and then be sure to visit all the DT girls' blogs to see how they used the stamps from that set!  It will surely be a treat!!

For my first project I am going to show you the inside of the CD Case that I showed you yesterday.  Remember?  It looked like this...

The inside is where I could give it a very personal touch so that my husband would know how much I love him.  I used the new set called Love in Return and even a little more Music of My Heart also to complete the job.

 On the inside left of the CD case from the Love in Return set I stamped the bottom with the distressed dots border stamp and used the 10 Things I {luv} about You stamp.  I listed some of my husband's attributes that are my favorites!  I embellished the corners by masking the ornate frame and also added the swirly heart again from the Music of My Heart set.

On the inside left of the case I continued the Distressed Dots border stamp across the bottom for continuity and added the Life is a Song sentiment from Music of My Heart.  Below you can see the tags that go in the pocket shown here.

 There are three tags that fit in the pocket of the CD case that can be taken out and held for easier reading.

 Using the musical score backgrounder from the Music of My Heart and the notepage from Unity's Le Chic Vintage Scrapper's kit, I listed the songs that are contained on his CD.  I picked some special ones that send him the message I want him to hear which is that I LOVE HIM very much!

This is a picture of us dancing at our wedding.  The Life is not Measured... sentiment was perfect for this tag!  This sentiment can be found in the Love in Return set. This is one moment in my life that  I will never forget... the whole wedding day and honeymoon too were breathtaking!

 I wrote Tom a little "story" that kind of ties the theme of the CD Case and CD together for him.  I used the stamps The Story, the flourish and The End all from the Love in Return set.  

Here is what I wrote...

Songs have been an important representation in our relationship 

since the day we chose the Broken Road as our song!

It was fun picking songs for our wedding day too.

Sometimes I may not know all the words to our songs,

or even feel like singing along.

But know that your love for me makes me 

want to sing out loud!  I love you, Kelly.

Using a CD label maker program, I was able to put the picture of the front of the CD Case onto the CD so he will always be able to remember when he got it!

I hope he likes it and doesn't think all the love songs are too sappy!!  LOL!

Are you ready to see something a little lighter??

 The next project comes from the new set called   Where You Should Be...

I created this card to give to a very special person in my life.  Someone I think is fabulous!!  I used BG papers from the Sugar Rush collection and stamped the card using the open style leaves and the You are Fabulous sentiment from Where You Should Be.

I followed another sketch for this card that I got from the Master Sketches list at SCS.  This card follows SC09 as shown below...

I am having so much fun working my way through all the sketches.  I would have to say that sketch challenges are my favorites!

Here is the closeup of the embellishment grouping I created with the leaves stamp that I paper pieced using coordinating DP from the BG Sugar Rush set.  I also stamped off  before stamping the same leaves onto the sentiment panel to give it a shadowy effect.  The buttons were in my collection and I stitched them on using cream colored embroidery floss!

 

 Here is a closeup of the darling sentiment!  I can see that being used over and over again!  Love that!  The purple photo corner is made of metal and comes from American Crafts.

And here is one last look at the whole thing!  I love how the lace trim came out after I cross-stitched some orange x's into the holes that were there!!  Super cute!! I really loved that!

Thank you so much for bearing with me through these long posts and descriptions.  Unfortunately I am very detail oriented so I hate to leave out anything that I can share with you!!  I totally understand if you just zip through and look at all the pictures!!

But please make the time to go and see what the rest of the DT members have to share with you today!  We are blessed again by having two more of the Unity DT girls joining us with their awesome creations so be sure to send them all your love when you stop by!!

Here is a list of more blogs to visit...

Eryn Hagen

Eva Dobilas

Heather Rolin (Guest)

Lisa Henke

Maria Gurnsey

Michelle Woerner

Unity Girls...

AJ Otto

Jen Erickson

Thanks so much for helping us out AJ and Jen!! We really appreciate it!  :-)

Have a great day and may your bucket overflow with people in your life who are truly fabulous!

Ippity Sneak Peek #2- Winter 2010

Wow!!  Wow! Wow!!

Yesterday was amazing and I want to thank ALL of you who left a comment on my blog and all the other blogs for Day One of our Sneak Peeks!!  I know Angela is giving an amazing prize package away to a lucky commenter (read her blog post here!)  But I got the feeling that you guys were really liking what you saw anyway and for that I am thankful!!

Welcome to Day Two of our Ippity Sneak Peeks 
and Friends with Flair Friday!!
(Scroll down to see the Whimsie Doodles Blog Hop)

Today we will not disappoint as we have two more amazing stamp sets to share with you !! To see the actual snippets of the stamps sets please visit the {ippity} blog HERE. These stamps sets will be available for purchase from an {ippity} Chick beginning Monday February 15th at 12:01 CST. 

What is an {ippity} chick you ask??  Well they are women or men (in which case we call them {ippity} dudes) who have signed up to sell {ippity}.  You see these stamps are not for sale at your stamp stores, online stores or even Ebay or Etsy.  The only way you can buy them is by contacting an {ippity} chick who sells them. I happen to be an {ippity} chick and will gladly sell you some stamps!   To see my sales blog click HERE.  If you are interested in becoming an {ippity} chick and want the opportUNITY to make some extra cash doing something that you love then click HERE and tell them Kelly sent you!!

Now on to the goods...
The first project I want to share with you is from the new stamp set called Regal Greetings

If you like flourishes and fleur de lis patterns then you are going to LOVE this set!!  It will make any of your projects take on a look of royalty!!  These stamps are AWESOME and I have no doubt you are going to reach for these over and over again!!

This set comes with a total of five sentiments for many occasions.  I figured that this one would be perfect for a wedding couple or even an anniversary card!  I stamped this with Memento black ink and added some Rhinestones from Studio 18 in a few spots to add some bling and help frame the sentiment.  Speaking of the frame, that too is one of the stamps in this set that will hold any of the five sentiments that come within the collection.

The border you see here was actually created by stamping four times in a row one of the ornate designs and then cutting around the edges very closely. More bling was added here too! LOL!  The DP is from MM Black Tie collection and I can't remember where I found the velvet ribbon you see here!  But I just love how stately and regal this card turned out!!  This set leads to so many possibilities!!

The next stamp set to share with you is called Music of My Heart 

The project that I made for this sample is going to be given to my hubby for Valentine's Day.  It is a decorated CD holder that contains some of our favorite romantic music that we like to listen to together.  Today I am going to show you the outside that uses  the Music of My Heart stamp set and tomorrow I will show you the inside that features a stamp set we will be showing you then!

Both the sentiment and the swirly heart come in this set, but I though it went perfectly with this Creative Imagination DP designed by Marah Johnson with that gorgeous guitar on it.  It has the perfect amount of grunge and really helps make this very masculine!  I started by covering the CD case  with the DP.  Then I stamped the sentiment directly onto paper and then colored the little heart in with a red Copic marker.  The swirly heart I stamped onto Kraft CS and colored with the same red marker and then carefully cut around the edges and adhered it  over the guitar.  I really love the way it looks and with this DP being so ornate already, my work was done rather quickly!!  :-)

For the back I stamped the huge musical score stamp that comes in this set as well!!  I mean tell me that you won't be using this as a background stamp ALL THE TIME!!  It is fantastic!!  

Here is the covered case opened up so you can see both the front and the back together.  I think it is really neat!  If you are interested in knowing where I got the CD case from just click HERE.  The River City Rubber Works has a great price on a pack of three which can be altered individually or put together to make a fabulous mini album! 

So be sure and stop back tomorrow to see how I stamped the inside of this case using some more new {ippity} releases!

Are you ready for more {ippity} inspiration??

Then be sure to check out what these fabulous ladies have done with these amazing stamps...

Eryn Hagen

Eva Dobilas

Heather Rolin (Guest)

Lisa Henke

Maria Gurnsey

Michelle Woerner

Unity Girls...

Christi Snow

Jessica Diedrich

Natalie Dever

I can't thank the Unity girls enough for helping us show off these fabulous stamps!! Thanks ladies you really ROCK!!  :-)

Well have a wonderful day and fun time hopping on the {ippity} new release hop and the Friends with Flair Hop too!!  May your bucket be overflowing with fabulous Unity/ippity inspiration!

Lovin From the Oven

Good Morning everyone! I hope you had a great holiday weekend!  I know that I did.  My scrap room was pretty close to perfection yesterday when I started working on my project, so now it is a little messy again!  Oh well!!  I will keep working on it!!  :-)

Today is the last day of November which means that it was my last time to post on the Unity blog as their Guest Designer!  You can see my post HERE (after 10 am CST) Sniff sniff!!  But thankfully I will still get to remain involved with that wonderful group of Unity people through {Ippity}!!  Yeah!!

For my last GD project, I decided to make a Recipe Book cover to hold all of our families' favorite recipes.  I am going to make three of them (maybe four!) One for each of my daughters and possibly my future daughter in law too!   The perfect Unity set for this project is called Kitchen Logic. You can't buy it right now, but it was available for a brief pre-release period, and will be available again in the spring after the Winter CHA in January!

I used the adorable stove image and the sentiment that says "Nothing says LOVIN' like something from the OVEN!"  Isn't that the cutest??  I paper pieced the kitchen towel and colored the rest of the image in with Copics.  The heart I drew free hand and then matted with a some more of the red DP.

I am so happy about how I made my cover too! I was being very green!  After I buy Unity stamps that come in those cute little brown recycled packages, I put them into CD cases that I keep on a CD rack near me.  I have been saving those packages since the beginning and I am getting quite a collection of them in my stash!  So I decided to use some of them to create my covers.  I cut them down to be a little larger than the 4 x 6 recipe cards that will go inside the books and I glued two of them together.  Then I used Modge Podge to coat the exteriors to keep them more waterproof since they will end up in the kitchen where it might be wet!  The title was stamped believe it or not with cheap stamps I picked up from the Dollar spot at Target.  Of all nights, my printer ran out of ink and I wasn't able to print the title out as I had originally intended!

I will make a picture tutorial for you and show you exactly how I made my covers in an upcoming post! :-)

The DP I used for this project came from the BG Nook and Pantry  line and also from Flair Designs "What's Cooking" line.  They both give a very warm homey feel and had great muted colors that went perfectly with the Kraft colored covers.  I added the three buttons for accents on top of the ribbon and lace trims that I chose.  I was going for the vintage cook book look with this project!  I hope that you like this and might be inspired to create a cook book or album of your own using some recycled packaging!

I will be back again with more inserts for this book as I create them.  I am thinking that this may end up being a Christmas gift for the girls if I can get them done in time.  I found some self-adhesive clear pockets that will fit 4 x 6 cards that can be adhered to the interior pages and allow the card to be removed for use and then replaced afterward for storage. I am really excited about sharing our favorite recipes with my girls and also giving them this book that I think they will cherish into their adult years!

I hope you have a wonderful Monday and may your bucket overflow with many ways to create lasting memories for your family!