We are Hippity Hopping Today!!

Happy Hippity Hop!!  

Isn't it nice that now that ippity has come along and that we have these awesome H{ippity} Hops planned, that we don't have to dread Mondays anymore?  Hippity Hops have turned Monday's from drudgery into a day full of inspiration.  Many ladies will be posting creations they have made with {ippity} onto their blogs today and you can find who is participating by visiting the {ippity} Blog HERE.

You are invited too!!

We invite you to sign up and join us next week for our H{ippity} Hop by visiting the Ippity Forum sign up thread at SCS which is usually up by the Friday before. Simply add your name and blog address to the list and we will make sure you show up on the master blog list!  

Eryn is hosting our H{ippity} Hop today which means that she gets to pick the challenge for this week!!  She picked a fantastic one... it is one of my FAVORITE challenges to do!!  Can you guess it?

It's a sketch challenge!!  Yeah!! I LOVE Sketch Challenges!!!  As you all know I am working my way through ALL the sketches on the Master Sketch list at SCS.  Not counting all the ones that I have randomly done over the past couple of years, I have finished the first 12 on the list and am working my way through the next 12.  I copy and paste the pictures of each sketch onto a letter-sized paper so that 12 sketches fit onto each sheet.  Then I print it out and leave the sheet in front of me as I create cards so I can use them whenever it strikes my fancy. 

The sketch that I used for my card today is SC08...

And here is the card I made using it...

At first glance you may think that I did not follow the sketch very closely, but keep in mind that they are just guides and that you can tweak them to make them work for you.  I did not use the two equal squares in the center as shown in the sketch, but you can see that I put them together to make one long rectangle in place of the two squares, or you can also see that the spring panel and the basket actually "represent" the two smaller squares.  Let your imagination be your guide and the let the sketches work for you! They are only inspirational... not set in stone!

 My card for today uses stamps that you will find in the Thoughts of Spring stamp set that is one of {ippity'}'s New Releases.  It is the perfect set to use for all your spring and Easter cards and layouts.

As of today you can still preorder this set from me for a discounted price!  Once my stamps arrive, which will probably be tomorrow, the price will go back to my regular sale price.


 

For today's card I used Basic Grey's Sugar Rush paper.  I loved how the plaid worked well on the basket to make it actually look woven!

The lace is a recent purchase from JoAnn's and the flowers are from Prima.  The cute pink half pearl is from Darice and was in a pack of several colors and only cost a buck!!

We sure hope that you will play along with us in this week's challenge.  Eryn will have all the details for you about it on the SCS {ippity} forum.  So be sure to stop by there and find our the deets and what you have a chance at winning!!

So head right on over to the {ippity} blog and start at the beginning

to be wonderfully inpsired by some more {ippity} creations!!

CLICK HERE!

Have a wonderful Monday and may your "basket" be full of fun new {ippity} stamps to play with!!

A couple Challenge Cards to Share!

Whew!! I am pooped after yesterday but had a fabulous time partying with all you {ippity} peeps on the forums celebrating the release of 8 new sets!!!! It was so fun chatting it up and trying to participate in the challenges all at the same time!!

Did you see all the prizes that were given out yesterday?  Unity/{ippity} is so generous!

And speaking of prizes!!  I had a winner from my blog comments yesterday... it is posted on the Ippity forum too,  but in case she doesn't get over there I wanted her to know she won!!

Debbi (blog: From My Front Porch)

was the comment author chosen by random.org!!

Congratulations Debbi... email Eryn at eryn@unitystampco.com 

and choose one {ippity} stamp set of your choice!  

Woohoo!!

You can see all the sets on my sales blog HERE! 

I hope you guys participated in some of the challenges yesterday. But if you didn't, you can still do it!  The prize giveaways are done, but we would still LOVE to see what you come up with!

Maria gave us the first challenge and she offered up this fantastic photo as our inspiration...

And this is what I made for my challenge card...

The stamps shown here are from the What Matters Most stamp set and are part of the newly released collections that can be purchased from ME!!  If you are interested in buying any of the new stamps, you can still get them at a discounted price because I don't have them in stock quite yet!  My sales blog contains all the info HERE.

Here is a closeup...

I used the adorable Fifth Ave paper from MM that has die cuts cut out of it and allows the CS to show through.  I paper pieced a few of the butterflies that I masked and placed around the sentiment.  I think it is a great encouragement card for someone!

The second Challenge was given by Heather which was to use tulle, fabric or canvas on your project and to have at least two layers and NO Designer paper.

That girl sure knows how to make a challenge challenging doesn't she??

So here is what I came up with...

I don't think it would be possible to make a card I didn't like if I were using this stamp. I just LOVE what it says and what it means!!  I will be sending this to my sweet second daughter Leah who is waiting to hear if she will be getting accepted into Vet school, and if so where she will be going.  It is killing her not knowing ,so this sentiment is perfect for her!

This stamp is in the Where You Should Be set.  It is amazing!!   The stamp stamped perfectly onto this canvas/burlap type fabric using my Memento ink and then I colored in some of the parts with my Copics.  I was very pleased that the marker did not bleed at all!!  I love how it came out!

To make this border I just stamped one of the borders from Thoughts of Spring onto both the rusty orange and blue papers that I had in my scraps collection and then layered three of them together to create this colorful scalloped border. 

The flowers are from Prima and the ribbon that was the inspiration for my colors is from American Crafts!  

I didn't get to Eva's amazing background challenge yet... but I will so keep looking for it! It is coming!! LOL!

Thanks to all of you who came out yesterday and hung out on the forums with us and thanks to everyone who left a comment too! I really appreciate your uplifting words from day to day... it is one of my favorite parts of the day... reading your sweet comments on my projects!!  I love you guys and appreciate you following along with me!!

One last thing.. 

in all the hullaballoo of yesterday's New Release, 

I forgot to tell you to check out the 

New Dirty Dozen Gallery!!

We had a theme of Bold, Masculine and Dirty!  Talk about challenging.. but it was a lot of fun to create projects for.  I think the DD Team did a fabulous job! We welcomed Ryann Salamon and Cindy Beach this month!   I hope you will go and leave some love there! I will share some snippets of my DD projects soon!

I hope you are a Fan Club member and will check it out! And if you are not, please become one.. it is a great cause to support the Splitcoaststamper's community, plus you get a lot of perks too!!

Have a great day and may your bucket overflow with the feeling that you are Right Where You Should Be!