Hip Hop for Breast Cancer Awareness!

It's a FLIP FLOP HIP HOP!!!

(But I must confess that I used Ippity stamps instead of Unity!  

The project I made for today's theme worked perfectly with a certain Ippity stamp!)  Sorry!!!

I hope that you started at the Unity Blog to begin today's Hop and if you follow along all the links, you should be getting to me by way of Karen Maldonado's blog.

Today's HIP HOP theme is

ENCOURGEMENT!

Specifically we are honoring those afflicted with Breast Cancer in honor of 

Breast Cancer Awareness being thing month!!

Here is the project that I made for today!

I  decoupaged a glass plate with tissue paper and added the sentiment 

you see from the  Ippity Stamp Set called 

Delightful Little Things!

To learn how I decoupaged the glass plate, please check out my Tutorial 

on Ippity Blog at the end of this HOP!!

But before you get there, you have a few more blogs to visit.  

For starters, your next stop will be at the talented Lisa Arana's blog!!

Be sure to stop by the SCS Unity Forum for some wonderful chatting and bonding time with the DT members and all the Unity/Ippity fans!!!

ALSO... Unity is announcing their new co-branding with Jillibean!!  The new stamps are amazing!! Many of the Ippity DT members are showing them off today!! Don't miss any of the DT members' blogs!!!  AND... be sure not to miss the HUGE SALE going on today!!!

Have a great day!!!

Looking for some Ippity Stamps? Click below!!

Anything is Possible

Happy Hip Hop!!

I love this quote!!  It is so true!!

Have you missed me?  I have been a little absent this week!!  I am in the middle of trying to get my scrap area back in order again.  I have been making one mess after another and having a hard time getting things put away from one project to another and I had a lot of new stamps that needed labeling and organizing too!  It feels good to get some order in my room again!!  I love to be organized and have some control in my life!

So it is Thursday which means that we are Hip Hopping through all the Unity and Ippity DT girls' blogs.  And today was extra special because one of our Ippity Chicks, JenMarie Taylor won the opportunity to hop along with us! Aren't her creations fabulous?  I love her and her sweet spirit and her love for Ippity too!! Thanks JenMarie for joining us today and thanks for always being so inspiring!

Our very own Maria is so talented in the sketch department and has made another sketch for us to use for this week's Hip Hop.  If you choose to use it with us, just enter the keyword HHSC08 when you upload your creation to SCS.

I have a friend who is getting ready to make some big changes in her life and she sometimes lacks the confidence to know and truly believe that she will succeed.  This card is for her to remind her that she just needs to believe in herself and everything will work out just fine! And if you must know, this is something I need to keep reminding myself too!

The sentiment is from the Delightful Little Things set by Ippity.  I masked and stamped the sentiment in two different colors to coordinate with the October Afternoon papers I used.  I also used some of the stickers and die cuts from coordinating sets of OA to add some extra elements to the card.

Do you believe that everything is possible for those that believe?  It is a promise... and we can claim it!!  I find that so encouraging and comforting!!

Have a fun time hopping around the rest of the DT blogs.  If you didn't start at the beginning of the Hop at the Unity Blog then you can head there now by clicking HERE.  If you came to me by way of Karen's blog then you are right on track!  And if so... you will now be heading to the wonderfully talented blog of Lisa Arana!

I will see you tomorrow with some Unity for my Friends with Flair Hop tomorrow!!  Have a fabulous day and may your bucket overflow with the faith to believe the promises made to us!

Ippity Spring 2010 Release- Sneak Peek Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of 

Ippity's Spring Release Sneak Peeks!!

I am super excited about the projects that I have to share with you today!!  But first I was wondering if you are loving all the new stamps that are coming out as much as I do!  Aren't they awesome!!  Be sure to contact your Ippity Chick about getting your favorites sent to you as soon as they are released!! I know you are going to want to ink them up as fast as you can!!  EVERY SINGLE KIT is AMAZING!!!

Same drill as the two previous days!!

Start the Hop HERE on the Ippity Blog!

If you got here by way of Karen's Blog then you are heading down the right blog hop path!

Leave comments on all the DT Members blogs each day of the hop and you will have a chance to win one of the sets that are given away each day.  The blogs that the commenters will be drawn from are a secret even to us!  We will announce the winners during Thursdays New Release Party!!

Speaking of the New Release Party...

It is going to be so fun so be sure to join us on Thursday May 13th on the SCS Forums for Challenges, Chatting, Games and Prizes!!  It is going to be A LOT of fun!!

Two new kits were partially revealed on the Ippity blog today!

One of them is called A Moment in Time.  It is the most amazing scrapbook kit and I just love it!!  So I decided I just had to put together a layout to showcase many of the stamps that are in that kit!

I scrapped a layout from Mother's Day this past Sunday.  I used one of the Unity Scrapbook Sketches (USCSSC04) that I hadn't had a chance to work with yet!  It was the perfect sketch for what I needed!

In total I have used FIVE of the stamps from the Moment in Time set.  I will point them out in some of the closeups I have for you below!  I know this is not your typical Mother's Day themed paper, but it was all I had to match all the bright blues that many of us were wearing.  So a few flowers later, I think I feminized it well enough!! LOL!

Here you can see three of the stamps from this set. One is the frame with the hearts, and then one is the "Love you yesterday" sentiment.  I used my Copics to coordinate it with my DP.  Then if you look to the right of the paper panel you will see to bracket shapes.  Well that is a portion of a "top note" style square that is filled with script writing!  It will be so versatile to use for many projects!

This is a gorgeous journaling block that was perfect for my family's  Mother's Day get together!

To create the scalloped border I used one half of one of the stamps from this set.  It is a cute little date stamp in a circle.  It is so cute with the tiny polka dots in negative space!  I used SU's inks to ink them in coordinating colors.  Shown here are Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron.

And here is the other half of that stamp!  It is the perfect sentiment to record the date of an event you are scrapping!  It says..."some moments you don't want to forget."

Here is one last peek at the whole layout!  I am so happy to be scrapping again!!  And what makes it even better is having awesome stamps to use on my layouts!!

Next I have my project using the Delightful Little Things set...

I was channeling Eva and Karen while I was working on this project!  It reminds me of some of their amazing projects which inspired me to try this!  I used Webster's Pages for all the beautiful decorations on the DP.  But the stamp that I used on this project is the sentiment.  It is such a wonderful phrase that I plan to keep right next to me to remind me of the darkness we sometimes have to endure to have true beauty!  I love that!

Here is s closeup for you of the sentiment.  I highlighted some of the words with a Copic marker.  Can you see how I also cut out some of the images on the DP with an exacto to allow them to be layered onto the frame that holds the sentiment?

To emphasize the words I created an additional frame using two nested Labels 11 Nestabilities.  The Kraft pearls are from Zva!

Well that is all I have for you today!!  Enjoy the rest of the hop! You are headed now to the amazingly creative Lisa Arana's blog!  Have a great day and be sure to come back tomorrow for the last day of our Sneak Peeks!!

May your bucket overflow with the right balance of light and darkness 

to enjoy the beauty that can come from both!