It was my turn to post on the Ippity blog today for the Fresh Idea Friday,
so I decided to share my idea with you here too!!
My Fresh Idea for you is to use parts of Store Bought cards that you have been given in the past to enhance your Hand Made cards!
Here is the card that I made using the laser cut out of the dragonfly from a store bought card...
Please visit theIppity blog to see the Store Bought card and some additional views of the finished card.
The Ippity stamp sets used to make this card are the Where You Should Be set and the Just Wanted to Say set (Two more are still available onmy sales blog at clearance prices!! Check it out!!). The DP is from My Mind's Eye!
So today is also the Friends with Flair Blog Hop so please be sure to
Has reality sunk in for you yet? I know that I am still so excited about the fact that Hip Hop is back, and that {ippity} DT girls get to play along on the Hip Hop too!!
My color scheme and the idea for the big bow with the button came from this amazing card designed by Heidi Van Laar which was chosen to be the Moxie Fab Trigger this week!
I also was inspired by this week's Hip Hop Sketch challenge HHSC02
Jimmi gave us this awesome sketch to work with and I really loved getting to play with it! Now it is your turn to give it a try and share with us on the {ippity} forum what you create with it!
The {ippity} stamp set I used is Where You Should Be(Which I have on sale this week!)
I just love this sentiment. It is such a true statement and one that all young people need to learn and appreciate. I am going to send this to my daughter who just found out she was accepted to Vet School at the University of FL! She is going to need a lot of strength and courage to make it through the next four years of college!! But I am so proud of her and know that she will do very well!!
To make the bow and flower embellishment, I started by layering two felt flowers and one button on top of each other. I stitched them together with embroidery floss that I stained with a Copic marker. I then glued that to the bow that I made from Dollar store satin ribbon!! I think it is so pretty!!
I plan on sharing a tutorial with you on the {ippity} blog in the near future on how I created the ruffle at the bottom of the card. Nothing special, but something that might help you make ruffles if you don't already know how to!
The DP I used is from the Bo Bunny Kitchen Spice line which is from the same collection as Heidi's card above! I threw in a little paper piercing and some light highlighting with a Spica Atyou pen by Copic. Unfortunately the glimmer didn't photograph well in this picture!
One last thing!!
{ippity} stamps has a Fan Page on Face Book!!
We are over half way to reaching our goal of getting 300 Fans and then there will be a prize given out!
Will you join us too??
Click HERE to go to the {ippity} Fan Page on Face Book!
I hope you all had a very Happy Easter! My family had a wonderful gathering and I got a chance to spend time with all my siblings including the step brother and sisters that I grew up with but are no longer related to us through marriage!! But we all are still close including my mom and her ex-husband! It was a fabulous day eating, laughing and boating on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida!
Today is Monday which means it is time to Hippity Hop!
Hippity Hopping is where {ippity} peeps sign up to have their blogs showcase creations made with {ippity} stamps. Eryn is our hostess today and she has also chosen our challenge for this week.
For this week's {ippity} Hippity Hop Challenge 18 (IHHC18)
she has asked us to make a
trifold card.
We hope you will play along with us! The Resource section on SCS has some tutorials that can teach you how to make one!
I used the {ippity} sentiment from the set called Where You Should Be. If you read my interview on the {ippity} blog from Saturday then you might remember that this is my favorite {ippity} set. It means so much when you think about it. And it reminds me to find peace with where I find myself in life sometimes because there is a reason I am there! That's a comfort to me!!
The dimensions of the trifold card are as follows...
The finished size is 4 x 5.5 inches
The left flap with the flower DP from October Afternoon and the flower measure 4 x 3 3/8in.
The right flap (not including the sentiment panel) is 4 x 2 1/8in.
The sentiment panel is 2 6/8 x 2 6/8in. and extends over the edge of the right flap by 7/8 of an inch.
So to create this card just start with a base piece of card stock that is 4 x 11 and score the piece at 3 3/8 from the left and 2 1/8 from the right and decorate away! I hope you will give this one or another trifold card a try and share it with us in the SCS Gallery. Put IHHC18 and ippity as your keywords!!
The card was designed to follow Sketch 13 (SC13) from SCS Master sketch list. I am still working my way gradually through all of them!
I only included a stamped sentiment on this card because that is what today's CAS (CAS61) challenge on SCS is. You can see what the rest of my fellow DT members made for this challenge by visiting the forum HERE. It was great challenge to make the card look pretty from the front without using any pretty image stamps. But this sentiment was perfect!! :-) I hope you will play along with us too!!
To help keep the card closed I created a little cut in the left side panel to tuck the right flap under. I later covered that up with the flower that you can see above!
Here you can see a picture of the trifold card partially opened.
And here it is opened completely showing the inside of the card ready for the greeting to be written!
Are you looking to purchase the Where You Should Be set at a sale price today?
I am looking forward to the hop today as I always find such wonderful inspiration from viewing your blogs! Have a fabulous Monday and may your bucket on the first day of this week be filled with achievable goals and the motivation to get them done!!
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!!
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,
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!
We are having so much fun providing our projects to you and we appreciate you coming back to check out all the new sets.
Head to the {ippity} blog to see the snippets for today's two sets and then be sure to visit all the DT girls' blogs to see how they used the stamps from that set! It will surely be a treat!!
For my first project I am going to show you the inside of the CD Case that I showed you yesterday. Remember? It looked like this...
The inside is where I could give it a very personal touch so that my husband would know how much I love him. I used the new set called Love in Return and even a little more Music of My Heart also to complete the job.
On the inside left of the CD case from the Love in Return set I stamped the bottom with the distressed dots border stamp and used the 10 Things I {luv} about You stamp. I listed some of my husband's attributes that are my favorites! I embellished the corners by masking the ornate frame and also added the swirly heart again from the Music of My Heart set.
On the inside left of the case I continued the Distressed Dots border stamp across the bottom for continuity and added the Life is a Song sentiment from Music of My Heart. Below you can see the tags that go in the pocket shown here.
There are three tags that fit in the pocket of the CD case that can be taken out and held for easier reading.
Using the musical score backgrounder from the Music of My Heart and the notepage from Unity's Le Chic Vintage Scrapper's kit, I listed the songs that are contained on his CD. I picked some special ones that send him the message I want him to hear which is that I LOVE HIM very much!
This is a picture of us dancing at our wedding. The Life is not Measured... sentiment was perfect for this tag! This sentiment can be found in the Love in Return set. This is one moment in my life that I will never forget... the whole wedding day and honeymoon too were breathtaking!
I wrote Tom a little "story" that kind of ties the theme of the CD Case and CD together for him. I used the stamps The Story, the flourish and The End all from the Love in Return set.
Here is what I wrote...
Songs have been an important representation in our relationship
since the day we chose the Broken Road as our song!
It was fun picking songs for our wedding day too.
Sometimes I may not know all the words to our songs,
or even feel like singing along.
But know that your love for me makes me
want to sing out loud! I love you, Kelly.
Using a CD label maker program, I was able to put the picture of the front of the CD Case onto the CD so he will always be able to remember when he got it!
I hope he likes it and doesn't think all the love songs are too sappy!! LOL!
Are you ready to see something a little lighter??
The next project comes from the new set called Where You Should Be...
I created this card to give to a very special person in my life. Someone I think is fabulous!! I used BG papers from the Sugar Rush collection and stamped the card using the open style leaves and the You are Fabulous sentiment from Where You Should Be.
I followed another sketch for this card that I got from the Master Sketches list at SCS. This card follows SC09 as shown below...
I am having so much fun working my way through all the sketches. I would have to say that sketch challenges are my favorites!
Here is the closeup of the embellishment grouping I created with the leaves stamp that I paper pieced using coordinating DP from the BG Sugar Rush set. I also stamped off before stamping the same leaves onto the sentiment panel to give it a shadowy effect. The buttons were in my collection and I stitched them on using cream colored embroidery floss!
Here is a closeup of the darling sentiment! I can see that being used over and over again! Love that! The purple photo corner is made of metal and comes from American Crafts.
And here is one last look at the whole thing! I love how the lace trim came out after I cross-stitched some orange x's into the holes that were there!! Super cute!! I really loved that!
Thank you so much for bearing with me through these long posts and descriptions. Unfortunately I am very detail oriented so I hate to leave out anything that I can share with you!! I totally understand if you just zip through and look at all the pictures!!
But please make the time to go and see what the rest of the DT members have to share with you today! We are blessed again by having two more of the Unity DT girls joining us with their awesome creations so be sure to send them all your love when you stop by!!
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