Hippity Hop and Homework!!

Hello there!!  

I hope you had a great weekend!!  I had one that kept me busy, but busy is good!!  

It's Monday which means that it is time for another Hippity Hop! 

Be sure to stop by the Ippity blog 

to hear more about today's Ippity Hippity Hop Challenge IHHC39 

and to get the list of today's blog participants for our Hop!

For some of you, it may still be summertime and your kids are not Back to School yet, but for the kids in my area, summer is over and school is back in session!  (And did I mention how happy I am about that?  LOL!)

For today's Hippity  Hop Theme, 

I am challenging all you Ippity fans to create a project using Ippity stamps

in a Back to School Theme!! 

(Check it out!  There is a prize awarded each week to the winner!!) 

Have you heard of a Rebus before?  I made a Rebus for my project today.  According to Wikipedia, a rebus is a kind of word puzzle that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.

Can you make out the rebus that I used below?

(My kid's couldn't guess it without some guidance!!) So, I hope you can!!

It's HOMEWORK!!!

In my rebus, I used a picture of a HOME, and paired it with the word WORK, 

to create the word HOMEWORK when you put it all together!!

And here is my finished project!  I decorated a notebook to be used to keep track of daily homework assignments.  I used one of the houses in the House a Home Ippity stamp set and the cross-stitch faux stitching from Quotes a la Happy to make this little notepad!

The dotted paper is from Jenni Bowlin and all the words you see were taken directly from the school themed DP I had from Bo Bunny.  The black gingham was originally black and white, but I colored the white portion with my Copics marker E43 to make it match the Kraft coloring of the notebook base.  The house was also colored using my Copics.

Believe it or not, but this is how the notebook started out before I transformed it into my project for today. I purchased this from the Dollar Bin at Michael's.  I love how it has a little holder to carry the pen!!  

The best news of all is that when I borrowed my 16 year old son's Algebra book to take the picture of this project, and he saw what I created, he actually asked me if he could have the Homework Notebook.  I was so happy!  Not only because he was actually willing to take something that I made for him to school, but also because he actually wants to keep track of his homework!!  LOL!!  I am one proud momma right now!!  :-)  

If you are in the market for some new Ippity, please visit the Ippity blog to find an Ippity Chick near you that you can purchase your stamp sets from !!

B e sure to head over to the Ippity blog and follow the list of all the blogs participating in today's Hop.  There is sure to be a lot of wonderful Ippity inspiration when you do!!

Have a wonderful Monday and a great week as well!!

Thanks for stopping by!

So This is Love

It's Thursday again which means it is time for another Hip Hop including the DT members from both the Unity and Ippity Design Teams.

But today is extra special because we have a very special Guest participating with us today.

We would like to welcome 

Lynn Miller 

as our Guest to the Hip Hop today!

Lynn was the lucky winner of our New Release Challenge to be 

Guest Designer for the Day 

when her card (HERE) was chosen as the winner. 

To see all the great creations from all of today's participants, please start at the Unity blog and then make your way through the hop by clicking on the next blog icons.  You will end up at the Ippity blog!!

The card I created for today incorporates this week's Ippity Hip Hop Challenge ( IHHC37) that Lisa gave us this week which was to incorporate "string" on our projects.  And it also uses this week's Hip Hop Sketch Challenge sketch (HHSC21).

And here is my card using this sketch with some slight alterations...

Ippity Stamp sets used:

Dots for Sure (Background)

House a Home (Hearts banner, made by stamping two of them side by side)

So This is Love (sentiment)

Are you looking for an Ippity Chick to purchase your Ippity stamps from?

Click Here!!

Here's a little closer view of the main section.  I love these colors on this October Afternoon striped paper that I used.  The string is Martha Stewart's bakers string.

Now if anyone can tell me exactly just "what" love is, I would be very happy to find out!!!  LOL!!  No, actually I have a life full of love for my family and friends.  And I know that the special love I get to share with someone else will come to me again one day.  I just have to be patient!!  :-)

Next up on the Hop is the talented Lisa Arana!!  Enjoy seeing the rest of the Hop!! And have a great day!!