Happy World Card Making Day!!

How exciting that we card maker's have our own day to shine!!

Today is World Card Making Day and do we have some fun planned for you!!

Many of the Unity and Ippity DT members have created challenges for you so you can participate in this fun event.  Just head over to the Unity Challenge Forum to look for all the WCMD challenges that have been created for you.  You will have two weeks to participate and one lucky participant in my challenge (USCWCMD21) will win the Faith Blooms stamp set for participating!  Have fun!!

My challenge for you is to create a ONE LAYER CARD!

SCS Keyword: USCWCMD21

you have two weeks to complete this challenge and upload it

 to the SCS Gallery using the key word above.

It's OK if you add an embellishment to your layer, but ONLY have ONE layer of paper!!

Here is the card that I created for this challenge!!

To make my card I used the Ippity Stamp set called Quotes A La Happy which is one of my favorites from the Summer Release!  Do you want and Ippity stamp set???  Just click HERE to find an Ippity Chick selling Ippity stamps near you!!  

To enhance a ONE LAYER CARD, you might consider doing things like I did above.  I used my Scor-Pal to make an embossed frame around the sun and I also added some paper piercing.  Then below my sentiment I added an organza ribbon!

I colored in my sun image with Copic markers and love how the bright and sunny colors just pop off the page and give more dimension despite the fact that the image is only one dimensional!

And isn't this sentiment just the bomb???  What a wonderful statement to live by.  This world is negative enough, so I hope that this can inspire all of us to bring a little sunshine into it!!

So, to celebrate WCMD, please go to both the PaperCrafts blog 

HERE 

to see many more blogs on today's HOP that have some special creations to share with you, 

AND

Don't forget to stop by the Unity Forum's Challenge blog to participate in all the

 WCMD challenges for many chances to win!!

There are lots of prizes up for grabs if you participate in all the Unity/Ippity Challenges!!

Have a great day and enjoy making cards for this special occasion!!

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!

Painting the Town Blue???

Welcome to today's Ippity Hippity Hop!!

Did you guys have a great weekend?  I had a pretty quiet one, and am starting to think it might be time to see what all is out there in the rest of the world!!  Maybe it's time to think about joining the dating world again!  We will have to see about that!  It scares me and excites me at the same time!!  I will keep you posted.  So far, no one is banging down the doors to ask me out though!  LOL!!

On a really positive note, this morning was the first training session to get back into doing Triathlons.  Some of you may know that two years ago I started training for my first one and then on my 45th birthday I completed my second one.  

I fell off the training wagon after that and have decided it is past time to get back into it!  So... wish me luck as I pursue this goal of mine again.  One of the things on my Bucket List is to compete in an Olympic Distance Triathlon.  For those that don't know what that is, it is combining swimming, biking and running into one race.  It starts with a 1.5 km swim (.93 mile), then has a 40 km ride (24.8 miles), and finishes with a 10 km (6.2 mile) run.  My first part of reaching this goal will be to compete in a much smaller race in October.  Then we will see how I progress from there!!

OK... enough about me!!  I guess I am a bit chatty today!! LOL!!

But now it's Hippity Hop Time!!

So you know the drill right??  The Ippity DT and many Ippity chicks and fans have prepared some fun and creative stuff for you to enjoy today. To see it all, it is best if you head to the Ippity Blog to find a list of all the participants' blogs!!  Then one by one visit their blogs and please leave some love if you have some time to do so!!

Our new Ippity Hippity Hop Challenge (IHHC38) for today is given to us by Karen Maldonado.  She has asked us to use paint on our projects!!

I was in the mood for some bright and funky colors so I found this fun paper from We R Memory Keepers that I paired with the cute felt flower from American Crafts and my Ippity stamps.  The sentiment is from the Spring Release set called Quotes a la Happy.  And I also used the Dots for Sure stamp to create the background for my flower.

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It might be hard to tell, but I used paint to stamp the dots background. There are a couple of options on how to do this.  One way is to use a paint brush and dab paint onto your stamp then stamp it like you normally would.  But what I did was spread a thick-ish layer of paint on a piece of scrap cardstock and then used that paper as my "stamp pad."  I pressed my stamp onto the wet paint very firmly and moved quickly since the acrylic paint dries super fast.  Then I just stamped the dots onto the piece of paper I was using.  You can see that sometimes the coverage is not as clean as when you use ink, but I think it makes for a fun and funky effect when you want it to be that way.  Your stamped images might also appear distressed when you stamp with paint.  

We hope you will give it a try.  And if you do, be sure to upload your projects into the SCS Gallery using the keywords Ippity, Unity and IHHC38 so we can find them!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I will see you out in blog land!!  TTFN!!

A New Release Hip Hop Makes Me Totally Happy!!

We made it!!  Are you as Totally Happy as I am today!! 

 I just want to shout with excitement!  

I love this time every three months when we get to have some new Ippity!!  

It's New Release Day for Ippity!!

Woohoo!!

The day has finally come to get to show off all the wonderful new stamps that 

are being released in the Ippity Stamps Summer 2010 Collection!

There are nine new sets and three new singles, a new paper pack and new Hybrid ink color.  

If you follow along on the Hop that starts at the Unity blog, and go through all the Ippity and then Unity DT girls' blogs, you will be taken to the Ippity Blog at the end where you will get to see all the sets and hear all the details about today's releases.  And starting NOW, you can purchase them and get them on their way to you!

We are celebrating the New Release Hip Hop by chatting it up on the Unity forum from 

10am - 1pm and from 5pm - 8pm CST.  

So please join us there for lots of fun and prize give aways!!

There are three New Release Challenges to play along with that need to be completed by tonight.  

For full details, please visit the Ippity forum at SCS!

INRC1SUM10- Rainbow color challenge

INRC2SUM10- Shaped card challenge

INRC3SUM10- Photo Inspiration challenge

And as always, we have our weekly Hippity Hop Challenge IHHC36 called Dog Days of Summer!
But for this week there is a special prize.  One lucky participant in this challenge will win the chance to be our Guest Designer for a week for next week's Hip Hop on August 19th and will also receive an engraved Ippity Handle.  You have until Sunday to complete this challenge.

Also check the Ippity Forum at SCS for the list of winners from each blogs comments this week!  We are giving away one of each of the newly released stamps!!

So, on to my card that makes me so Totally Happy!!

I am using stamps from the Quotes A La Happy and Totally Happy sets and I also made this for Maria's Rainbow challenge INRC1SUM10, and Lisa's Dog Days of Summer Challenge!

The stamps used to create this card are the cross-stitch border that I stamped in the red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple colors to match the rainbow.  I used SU inks.  And I also stamped the sun (to make it summery for Lisa's challenge) and then added the sentiment from Totally Happy

The chipboard dots came from a chipboard sticker set from Bo Bunny's Sun Kissed line.  I am not sure what they are supposed to represent, but I liked the funkiness they brought to the card!! And I finished it off with a perfect black and white gingham ribbon.  (Yesterday I was channeling Eryn and today with the gingham I am channeling Maria!!  ;-)

Have you got an Ippity Chick to buy your new stamps from?

To see more creations from the Ippity DT using the new releases, your next stop on the Hop is Lisa A.

Have a great Hop and we will see you on the forums a little later today!!  Have fun and thanks for visiting and leaving such sweet comments on my blog this week!!  I wish you all luck in winning the free stamp sets or challenge contests!! :-)