It's Hip Hop Hangover Friday!!

What does this mean?? It means that it's the day after Unity's Hip Hop blog hop and now their customers get to share a creation they have made with Unity stamps!!

I actually have two cards to share with you today. The first one is the graduation card that I made for my daugther. As I mentioned the other day, my youngest daughter Tiffany graduated from High School. She is planning on going into law enforcement. I chose the sentiment on this card because I know that she is going to be in a position to influence others and to promote change! We are so proud of her and her life's goals!

The colors for this challenge were from this week's Color Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers, to use Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Riding Hood Red.

Here is a quick peak at the inside. No Unity here... I just had fun with a couple of graduation stamps I had from Michael's dollar bin and the Rubber Stampede (Class of stamp). I added the 2009 numbers with rub-ons and stuck on stickers that came with the paper from We R Memory Keepers (Nonsense collection).

The second card I made was for the second Hip Hop challenge in Unity's Forum yesterday. This challenge was to use Unity word stamps to create a background. I loved this challenge, because it really opened up my mind to new ways to use my stamps. I like the background that I came up with. I used the border/strip stamp in Unity's "This is the Time" set that is like a collage of many different words. I used my stampamajig and kept stamping it over and over until I had a large piece to use as a backdrop for my Sentiment. The sentiment stamp is from Unity's Birdie Inspiration set.

This card also fits into a color challenge over at Stamp TV in the Florida Stampers group which was to use blue, greens and oranges. The paper from MM Chloe's Closet collection had the perfect shades to match the multicolored inks I used to stamp the background. The embellisments are also from MM Chloe's Closet.

If you would like to follow along in the Hip Hop Hangover blog hop then start HERE in the Unity HH forum and follow all the links listed in the individual threads. You will enjoy the hop very much as Unity has some very talented fans out there!

Have a great day and may your bucket always overflow with the change needed to make your dreams come true!

It's Graduation Time!

As May nears June it seems that school's are letting out and kids everywhere are graduating! You may remember that earlier this month my daughter Leah graduated from the University of FL. Well, in early June my youngest daughter Tiffany will be graduating from High School.

I have had the task of completing Tiffany's graduation announcements hanging over my head for a while now and I am happy to say that with a lot of help from Tiffany, we finally got them finished! Her school colors are Maroon and White, and her mascot is a Sponger! I know that is a little unusual, but the little town we live in is considered the Sponge Diving capital of the US and has close ties to Greece!

Unity Stamps came to my rescue again and offered the perfect stamp collection to help personalize and feminize the otherwise masculine school colors and logo!

Here is a picture of Tiffany's Graduation announcement...

The front picture shows the flourish stamp from Unity's January KOM called Love Etc. that I stamped in Amuse Black and also in Ranger Aged Mahogany. The flecked cardstock is from SU and the black cardstock comes from Recollections and the Maroon cardstock is from The Paper Co.

Here is a picture that shows the inside and the outside together...

On the top half of the inside I used the "2009" stamp from Unity's January KOM. The verbiage was typed on the computer using a font called Biondi.

We are very proud of Tiffany! She has plans to become a police officer some day and has been very active with Crime Watch at her school. She has been hired by a local Police Department in the Americorps Department where she will work along with officers as a community resource. In the fall she will begin her studies in pursuit of a degree in Law Enforcement.

Here is a recent picture of Tiffany at her Senior Prom! She is pictured here with two of the local Police Officers that she has worked with at school and in our community. They were on patrol the night of the Prom to keep the kids in check!

I have one more Graduation Card to share with you for now!

Our best friends Chad and Tiffani have a son Trevor who is graduating from Pre-K tomorrow. I didn't want to forget his great accomplishment, so I decided to make him a special card. He has waited a long time to be able to ride the big yellow bus to school like his big brother Tyler!

The card I made uses the Clean and Simple challenge CAS15 from Monday at SCS which was to use Black and White and one of the Bold Brights! I chose to use Real Red as my bold bright since Trevor's school color is red!

Here is the card that I made for Trevor...

The Fine Print: CS: SU (Real Red), GP (White), Recollections (Black); Stamps: SU (Shooting Stars, 2000), Congratulations Graduate (Not stated); Ink: SU (Real Red), Amuse (Black).

Have a wonderful evening and may our bucket be overflowing with endings and beginnings as is fitting for this time of year!