The Last Hip Hop Hangover

If you are a Unity stamp fan like I am then you know that yesterday was the last Hip Hop blog hop for Unity. But don't worry! They aren't going anywhere, they are just changing things up a bit! So if there aren't any more HH's then there can't be any more Hangovers after today's. So enjoy my last contribution towards the last Hip Hop Hangover!

Even though I am curious to see what is in store for us with Unity, I know that it will be good! So I am celebrating the upcoming changes and calling today a Happy Day!!

Here is my happy card in celebration of things to come...

I am so excited to be using this dragonfly stamp from Unity's August KOM because I am on the Whimsie Doodles Design Team with the very talented artist who drew this. Her name is Kelli Caslow and she makes some really awesome cards too! Please check out her blog and send her some love if you like her dragonfly! I hope to see more stamps of hers in our Unity kits in the future!

The colors for this card come from a color challenge at the Florida Group at Stamp TV. I just got it done in time!

I have a couple of other Unity cards to share with you today too! I was able to complete both of the Hip Hop challenges on the forum yesterday. In fact the one you see below won the da da da Doodle contest where we had to use some doodling on our card. I was awarded the Hullabaloo stamp as my prize! Woohoo!!

This card uses the adorable old fashioned phone from the Everyday Adorable set. I paperpieced the four handsets and placed them in each of the corners and framed my card with doodles phone cords. The DP is from We R Memory Keepers. The phone was colored using my Copic markers.

The last card I want to show you combines FOUR challenges in one!! I have been behind making my challenge cards this week at SCS so I decided to get all caught up today!!

The first challenge for the next card is CC233 to use Red, Kraft and Chocolate Chip.

The second challenge was SC243 which was this week's sketch challenge.

The third challenge was WT233 which was to use Vintage ephemera on our card.

And the last challenge was the Hip Hop challenge Ta ta ta Texture. We were supposed to add some type of texture to our card.

See what you think!! I like what I ended up with!

The stamps I used were from the 100% Happiness in-store kit. The red dotted DP is from K & Co. and the Vintage label is from Flair Designs. The texture was added with my Swiss Dots embossing folder and my Cuttlebug!

If you are interested in getting the next in-store kit I hope you will go to the Paper Maniac to get yours! My good friend Stephanie Muzzulin is on their DT!

Hope you are enjoying the last HHH and are getting inspired by the talented fans of Unity Stamp Co. May your bucket overflow with good changes for you in the future!

Happy Day with New Unity!

Happy Friday! Hope you are enjoying hopping around the blogs for the Unity Hip Hop Hangover! If you didn't start at the beginning, please go to the SCS forum HERE or to Unity's Blog HERE and follow down the list of the very talented Unity Stampers who like to share their creations with us!

My August KOM arrived a couple of days ago and I finally got to inking some up! I use the sketch from day 4 of Mojo's 100 sketch anniversary celebration that was made by Sarah. I will warn you now that I used the same papers from K & Co. that I used for another sketch challenge that I will post later and it is kind of BUSY!!! Beware!!

Have a Happy Day and enjoy the rest of the Hangover!! May your bucket overflow with things that make you happy!

It's another Hip Hop Hangover!

Welcome Unity Stamp friends! If you aren't joining me from the blog list on the Unity blog, please visit HERE to start at the beginning! Enjoy the card that I have for you for one of the last Hip Hop Hangover Days! If you came to see the Whimsie Doodles Sneak Peeks then please continue to scroll down, otherwise enjoy a card I made with the Hodge Podge of Happiness set!

This is one of those cards that I could visualize as I picked out this adorable DP from October Afternoon. I knew it would be the perfect pairing with the adorable apple and coordinating sentiment that both come in the Hodge Podge of Happiness kit from Unity. The tree is a die cut that is also from October Afternoon. The images were colored with my Prismacolors and then were blended with Gamsol.

I hope that you are enjoying the HHH. The fans of Unity are so talented, is is always such fun visiting their blogs and seeing what they do with some of my favorite stamps!

Thanks so much for looking!! Enjoy the rest of your day, but first don't forget to take a peek at the last sneaks before tomorrow's release of more Whimsie Doodles stamps!

Happy Hip Hop Hangover!!

I am a little later in posting today than planned, so sorry about that!

So let's get on with the HHH cards!! I have three cards to share with you today that all use Unity Stamps. If you have been to some of the forums this week then you may have seen these, but it's all I have for you today!!

This first card was made for the Hip Hop Challenge yesterday called "the Great Outdoors" where we had to use a stamped image of anything you would find outside the house. I chose to do a beach scene and used my Sun and sentiment image from Unity's July KOM and the bucket and shovel from the Beach Days and Sun Rays set. The DP is from October Afternoon.

Sunshine and Sand

I had the opportunity to use a new product that I picked up at CHA which is sand that already comes with the glue in it. It is made by Muddpuddles.net and comes in many colors. The color I used here is called Malibu Beach and is their most popular color. It was so easy to use and it really makes a great affect on projects!

Look at how realistic the sand is. It is also very durable and stays glued down very well with no evidence of the glue left on the sand!

This card also was made for the Clean and Simple card challenge CAS26 on SCS on Monday to use stitching on our project. I used yellow thread and added machine stitching to make more sun rays coming out of the sun. The waves were made using another tool I bought at CHA which is called the Ultimate Crafter's Companion. The box comes with embossing/debossing plates in various patterns. I thought this looked like waves and so I used it and then inked it to add dimension!

I am pleased as punch to say that this card won a free stamp set for me and was the challenge winner chosen by Jeanne last night!! Woohoo!!

My next Unity card is for the second Hip Hop Challenge which was called "Break Out the Buttons!" For this challenge we had to use three buttons on our project. I chose to use these adorable little flowers from the 100% Happiness in-store kit. (You can see lots more from this set if you do the Hip Hop yesterday starting on the Unity Stamp Co. blog!) I paperpieced some of this adorable Scenic Route paper and tilted my mats to make this sweet, whimsical card!!

Three Times the Sweetness

And finally I will share with you my first submission for the Guest Designer challenge at Unity. I don't think this is a winning entry and I will definitely be submitting some more samples because of that. I don't know where my mojo was for this one! LOL!!

The challenge was called a 1-2-3 challenge. We had to use 1 stamp (that could be stamped multiple times), 2 DP's and 3 embellishments. I think the cool thing about this card is that I did mask off the ice cream cone and left only the cherry on top which I proceeded to stamp many times to make my own background paper. It was tedious, but I like how it came out! The rest of the card is just OK for me!

So there you have them! Three Unity cards for your HHH viewing pleasure. I hope that you are on the blog hop to see all the rest of the customer's creations today. If you haven't started from the Unity Blog, then please click HERE to start at the beginning!!

Have a great day and happy hangover day!! May your bucket be overflowing with tons of Unity style inspiration!! I can't wait to see what Unity has in store for us come September when Hip Hop changes to some new form of blog hopping!! The suspense is killing me!!

It's Hip Hop Hangover Day!!

Thanks for hopping over for the Hip Hop Hangover Blog Hop. Did you start at the Unity Blog? If not, click HERE to start at the beginning and not miss any of the special creations made by Unity Stamp Co. fans!!

Wasn't yesterday's Unity Hip Hop fun? That new Hauntingly Sweet Halloween set by Lisa Hetrick is so adorable and I am going to have to break down and buy it because I can't pass up a sale! LOL! I am also stoked about all the past kits of the month being on sale for $35. When you add the 10% discount on the total order, you can get a past kit of the month for only $31.50!!! I think I am only missing 3 of the past kits!! Unity's kits are awesome and they are the best bargain if you are a kit club member, so I strongly recommend that you become a member if you haven't already!!

Also, since a lot of Unity fans are going to be hopping by today, I wanted to share with you the link to where I purchased my In-Store only Unity Kit called 100% Happiness.

I loved this kit and knew I had to have it when I saw it, but no LSS's carry Unity close to me. So I found Paper Maniac, an on-line store, through a thread on the Unity Forum and purchased my kit there. Patricia Olson who runs the store is fantastic and professional. She had my stamps in the mail the same day I ordered them. She also has a monthly AutoShip program for all the new Unity In-Store releases that are coming out!

She has only ONE KIT LEFT so hurry over if you are interested!!

So, without further delay, here are a couple of cards I made yesterday to share with you today!

This card uses the Pocket, Posies and sentiment stamps from Unity's July KOM. I LOVE this kit! I can see me using it over and over again!! The card was made for this week's Clean and Simple challenge CAS24 which was to use turquoise, orange and yellow colors! I tried to keep it clean and simple, but two mats and many rhinestones later I hope it still fits the CAS category!! LOL!!

My second card was made for the "stamp and go" challenge that Jeanne gave us for one of the Hip Hop challenges yesterday! We were to stamp a line image stamp (no solids) and then leave it alone without coloring or paper piecing it! Now that was definitely a challenge for me! I like how this turned out, but I did add a few tiny rhinestones to the pears for just a touch of extra. The pear stamp is from the July KOM and the sentiments from the June KOM.

Thanks so much for looking and I hope your bucket is filled with fun blogs to hop to!!

HHH with Hodge Podge of Happiness!!

Yeah for Friday's and Hip Hop Hangovers!! Yesterday's Hip Hop was so inspiring (well of course it always is!) But I am in love with the new set that WE the customers of Unity hand picked! Didn't we do an awesome job?? If you don't know what I am talking about, a while back, Angela gave us a choice of three stamps all designed by the same designer and the Unity Forum voted on which of the stamps to include in the collection. She kept giving us more choices until we had filled a complete collection. It was so cool to see the set come together!

The Hodge Podge of Happiness was available for purchase (if you didn't preorder it) yesterday. Those of us who preordered it received them this week in our mail boxes!! Woot Woot!!

Take a look at this awesome kit!!!

Once mine arrived, I couldn't put it down and put together three cards, all using the Hodge Podge of Happiness!

And here are the cards that I made...

Wedding Wishes

This card follows the color challenge from SCS CC227. The DP is from MM Black Tie collection, the lavender CS is from SU. Using my Copics, I just subtly added some color to the cake to make it look like the frosting was lightly airbrushed. I added a silver pen to the cake rack to make it look metallic.

Sending Happy Thoughts

Recognize these colors and patterns? You might have seen the bed set that is the latest inspiration for Unity's Addict Challenge USC42. All the little dots of flowers in the flower pot were hand cut and paper pieced. The DP's are from MM and DCWV.

And for my last one...

Little Cup of Happy

This little card is whimsical and light because of that cute stamped image being paired with the adorable Cosmo Cricket papers. The cup was colored onto plain white CS and then paper pieced onto the plaid background paper. I had to color the felt button with my Copic marker to make it match the card!! :-) The sketch for this card is the SCS Sketch Challenge, SC237.

Well, that does it for now! I hope you have a wonderful day of Hip Hopping the Hangover! To see all the blogs that are posting Unity today, please visit the Unity Blog or you can jump to the blogs from THIS forum Post too!

Don't Forget.... Only 2 More days for your chance to win BLOG CANDY!!!

Have a great day and here's hoping that your bucket overflows with a Hodge Podge of Happiness!!

Hip Hop Hangover!!!

Hey Hey Hip Hoppers!! It's Friday and we are hungover!!! LOL!!

Yesterday's hop was so awesome... I just love that new KOM coming out this month!! Unity's stamp illustrators are incredibly talented and these kits keep getting better and better each month!!

I pre-ordered that Hodge Podge of Happiness kit that we Unity customers picked ! We did a great job didn't we??? That kit might become my all-time Unity favorite. I can't wait to get my hands on that!!

Here is my card for HHH....

This card uses one of the newest sets that I received from Unity. The cuckoo clock is from the Folk Inspired kit and the sentiment is from the This is the Time kit. Of course, all Unity!!!

The sketch for this card is Julee's MojoMonday blog sketch # 93. The colors are from SCS Color Challenge CC225 to use Kraft, So Saffron, and Night of Navy. Coincidentally this card could have been entered into both of the Unity HH challenges on the forum yesterday, one to use our newest stamp set and the other to make a card with yellow in it, but I didn't enter it into either of them so I could have something new to share with you today!! :-)

I hope to get a lot of things accomplished today! My best friend Tiffani is coming over to spend the day with me stamping and scrapping, so it should be a wonderful time!!

Have a great time and to start the HHH from the beginning, please go the Unity Blog HERE. I am not sure all the links are posted there, so you could also go to the SCS Forum thread HERE to see all the blog lists!

Hip Hop Hangover!!

OK I am finally off and survived this week (barely!) I was able to throw together a challenge card for the first time this week. So to make it count I combined three challenges into one!! LOL!

This card was made for one of the Hip Hop Challenges on the Unity Forum yesterday called Bits and Pieces where we were to use scraps of paper that we had laying around. Since I had pieces of Baja Breeze and Ruby Red Stampin Up papers I decided to also make the card for this week's Color challenge at SCS CC223. And to top it off I also combined the Way To Use it challenge WT223 at SCS yesterday which was to use "texting" on our card.

This is what I came up with!!

Translation: What's Up??

The Hot Air Balloon stamp is from Unity's Love in the Air set. The sentiment was computer generated and printed out onto my Baja Breeze cardstock. I added copics around the clouds for depth and did some sponging with my SU Soft Sky ink and also added the machine stitching!

I am afraid that this is all I have for you today! I have sooooo much to try and get done today before we go out of town in the morning to visit Tom's dad for Father's Day!

Go to the Unity Blog and you can follow along with the all the other Hangover posts today! Enjoy the rest of your Friday and may your bucket overflow with plenty of time in each day to what is on your to-do list!!

Hip Hop Hangover!!

Happy Friday!! It is Hip Hop Hangover day. It's the day after Unity's Hip Hop where they were honoring Dad's. If you didn't get a chance to hop through the blogs, you should start at Unity's blog post HERE and give it a try.




I have had a good bit of time this week to play at my craft table making cards. Many of them are Unity, and I haven't even shared them all with you here yet! Well today I am going to share two of them and soon I will share some of the other ones with you.




Here is the first card that I made using Unity stamps...



The Fine Print: DP: We R Memory Keepers (Grandmas Kitchen); Stamps: Unity (Camper, Aug 08 KOM, Sentiment, Nov 08 KOM); Ink: Amuse (Black) VersaMagic (Jumbo Java); Markers: Copics; Twill tape: Unknown; Buttons: SEI; Border Punch: Martha Stewart. Machine Stitching. Nestabilities.

I made the flower accent following Thursday's Way To Use it challenge WT222, which was to use crinkled cardstockout. Using my Nesties, I cut three different sized circles and then crumpled them, distressed the edges and inked them up. I layered them on top of each other and topped it off with a coordinating button.

Here is the second Unity card I made this week...

This card was made using the leftovers of my "You're one in a Melon" card that I posted earlier this week. It also was made following a sketch from Kisa's gallery for this week's Featured Stamper challenge FS122.

The Fine Print: DP: DCWV (Green), Pink Polka Dots, unknown; Stamps: Unity: Flower (May 09 KOM), Sentiment: SU (Crazy For Cupcakes); Brads: Unknown; Ink: Amuse (Black); Pencils: Prismacolors with Gamsol; Pens: Sakura (Black Glaze), Signo (White opaque uniball); Buttons: varied, Ribbon: Michael's. Nestabilities.

Puppy Update...


I feel like a mother in waiting while we are trying to be patient to find out whether or not we can adopt "Tasha." The shelter is having a meeting tonight to determine who is approved for adoption. The lady in charge says she is giving her vote to us!


With any luck we will get to meet Tasha by Saturday and hopefully take her home with us! We are so excited about it! I hope it all works out just fine!



Have a great day and may our bucket overflow with fun times for the weekend ahead!

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!

Hip Hop Hangover Day!!

Happy Thursday!! It's Hip Hop Hangover (HHH) Day!!

You might be asking yourself "What is Hip Hop Hangover?" That's easy...it is the day after Unity's Hip Hop Blog Hop where their customers instead of their DT get to share creations they made!

I love to participate, but don't always get a chance to! I was able to make three new Unity cards over the last couple of days, but the best news is that I was combining challenges again and also made them so that they qualify to be entered into the challenges over at Stampin Out Alzheimer's too!

Here is the card that I made for the HHH today. It came from the Unity Addicts Challenge this week which was to make a collage card! This was really tough for me!! Collage falls into that artsy kind of category and I don't think I do. LOL!! The color combo is from the Color Throwdown blog.

Here are the deets:


Stamps: All Unity of Course: Butterflies and Friends for Life (Aug KOM), Flowers and Leaves (Gratitude = Joy), Corner Embellishment (May KOM), The Road to a Friends House...(Sept KOM)
DP: Botanical Collage Flat Paper (K&Co)
CS: Bordering Blue, Elegant Eggplant and Barely Banana (Stampin Up!).
Ink: Stampin Up! (Chocolate Chip)
Embossing: Ink: Top Boss, Powder: Custer's Last Stamp (Detailed Gold)
Embellishments: Ribbon: Joann's, Buttons: unknown, Gold Gems (Joann's)

Ready for a little more Unity?? Here are the two other cards I made for the Hip Hop Challenges.

This first one was for the "Always New at Unity" challenge where we were to use our newest stamp set from Unity. I used the Rain & Flowers set that I just got. This card also uses Julee's MojoMonday sketch #88 and the SCS color challenge (CC220) to use Bashful Blue, So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie.


The rubber boots DP is from American Crafts and the flowers are Prima. The ribbon comes from Basic Grey.



This last one was for the "Unity's Knot Any Old Stamp Company" challenge. In this one we had to use knots on our card! I decided to stamp the flower from the Everyday Adorable set (which is on sale right now through the weekend at Unity) onto some fabric with Stazon and then I tied many french knots using embroidery thread. (I will share some details about how I did this in a later post!)

The DP is Basic Grey, the ribbon is unknown and the Flowers are from Prima. I used my oval and scalloped nesties to make the frame and the base for the sentiment which is a Stampin Up! stamp from the set called "It's Your Birthday." The brads are Basic Grey.


I have also entered these last two cards into challenges that are occurring over at the Stampin Out Alzheimer's site. Have you signed up yet? For just a minimum donation of $5 you can gain access to the site to participate in all the contest going on. There are tons of prizes being given away! Remember it is for a wonderful cause!! Please join!!