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!

One With Nature

I am so happy to be scrapbooking again and I can't thank Unity enough for giving us weekly sketches to work with. It is a perfect match for the wonderful scrapbook stamps that they sell to now offer great sketches to use them with.  If you want to try using some of their sketches, just check out the Unity Forum at SCS for the latest sketch!

Here is the sketch for this week.  It is USCSSC02.

I had some pictures to use from about year ago when my husband and I took a weekend away for his birthday and went camping on the Homosassa River.  It was a very special time and some of our fondest memories as a couple.

The DP I used is from Bo Bunny's U Bug Me and Roughin' It lines.  The stamps I used are all Unity and include the Distressed Dots background stamp that I stamped twice to make a mat for the photo.  I also used the Relax it's your Day stamp from March's Stampin' Store Kit, called Adventures in Life.  And then the last Unity stamp I used was the bracket stamp from the latest Scrapbooking Kit called Favorite Things. I used four of them to create the border on the bottom of the layout.  I stamped them in SU's Pumpkin Pie ink onto cream CS and then trimmed close to the edge of the stamp.

The letter stickers are from the BB Roughin' It Combo Stickers sheet.  The Fishing sign and arrow were cut from some of the coordinating papers.  

The journaling lines are actually part of the journaling block from {ippity's} Life's Little Moments set.  (Which can be purchased from my {ippity} sales blog HERE!) I masked off the parts that I didn't want to use and just used the lines so my journaling would be straight.

The journaling says  "March 2009- We celebrated Tom's birthday camping on the Homosassa River.  We spent the day exploring by kayaks.  Tom got to do some fishing."

I am not sure who makes the fly fishing lure that I used because it was no longer in its original packaging!  Sorry!

I stamped the Relax stamp onto orange coordinating paper and placed it and the fishing sign onto a piece of slightly larger chipboard that I also stamped with the Distressed Dots.

Overall I am pretty happy with this, but find it just as hard to make a masculine layout as I do to make a masculine card! LOL!

Seeing Tom on his kayak makes me happy to know that we will be doing some kayaking on Easter Sunday with our family!! It should be fun... it's been a long time since we have had them in the water!

Have a wonderful Saturday and may your bucket overflow with time spent doing your favorite outdoor activities!  I probably won't be posting tomorrow, so please have a Blessed Easter too!!

Happy Birthday Michelle!

Technically yesterday was my oldest daughter Michelle's birthday but today is the day I am going to celebrate it on my blog!! LOL!   Twenty five  years ago I became a mother for the first time and I will never forget that wonderful feeling and the overwhelming amount of love you can feel for a human being.  It is such a special feeling and one that hasn't diminished over time.  Michelle is such a wonderful daughter and is turning into a beautiful woman.  I am so proud of where she is in her life right now and hope and pray for her continued happiness and growth in life!!  I love you Michelle and hope you had a wonderful birthday!!

She and her boyfriend Matt left yesterday on a cruise to Mexico so we celebrated her birthday on Friday of last week.  We went out to lunch at Ruby Tuesdays and had the salad bar and sliders. Here is a picture of Matt and Michelle while we were at lunch!

I made a birthday card for her using some October Afternoon paper and the adorable Unity stamp kit called It's Your Day.  You can purchase this stamp from retailers near you and to find out who is selling it, just click HERE to get the list.

I love the cute and whimsical look that this set gives.  It is so versatile and comes with numbers too!! I used SCS card sketch SC15 for this card.  It was fun to do a shape other than an A2 card for a change! :-)

I stamped the cake once on plain white cardstock and colored it in with Copic Markers.  Then I stamped it again onto the text background paper.  I cute the cake and candles out excluding the flames and glued it to the stamped image on the background.  Then I just colored in the flames and it looks like it is all together again!!

For the word CAKE, I stamped it on plain cardstock and colored it in with Copics too.  Then I paper pieced it onto the stamped image on the card base.  I think the ribbon is from an older MM set I had!  I love the way it came out.  It is fun and festive and girl enough for my feminine daughter!!

I finally decided to give scrapbooking a try again.  It has been way too long and I really do have a lot of photos to scrap!

Unity Stamp Co. has started issuing weekly scrap sketch challenges

 that they call Simple Scrapbook Sketches.  

They are given out on Sundays.  You can see the thread on their forum HERE!

Here is the first sketch that Latisha Yoast designed...

And here is my take on that sketch...

This is also of my daughter Michelle.  She made me promise that I would make a layout of her because she swears that she doesn't have as many as the other kids do!  LOL!! So I had the perfect number of photos to go with this sketch and I just love the candid shots of her.  I chose the DP from the colors that you can see in her bathing suit.  It is from Black Market Paper Society.  You just have to ignore the bright yellow and black life jacket she was wearing while playing water sports!!  LOL!

It might look to someone who doesn't know her that she is angry or upset, but I actually caught her just looking out over the lake with a bit of a squint in her eyes because of the sun.  I think she is just beautiful!!  The title stamp "Fun in the Sun" is from Unity Stamp Co's Beach Days and Sun Rays set.  The text strip below the larger picture of her says "Good Times-Unforgettable Moments-Special Memories-Priceless-Cherish" and it is from Scrapbooking kit called SBC-104 called Unforgettable Moments (also only available from retailers).

The journaling block is made to look like strips of paper which is so fun... and it is from Unity's very first Scrapbooking kit SBC-100 called Le Chic Vintage.  I used the embossing lines on my Crafter's Companion to make the waves.  I embossed and then cut close to the embossed line three times.  Twice with the light blue CoreDinations paper and once from the coordinating dark blue side and then I layered them to make them look like rough water!

Finally I stamped Summertime across the bottom of the page to finish off the border strip.  It is also in the Beach Days and Sun Rays set from Unity.  The flowers were cut from the DP and then placed on top of the matching twill tape from Joann's.

I had so much fun scrapping again.  I will be trying to do these scrapbook sketches each week!! And what I love about Unity and {ippity}  is that they make stamps that are perfect for scrapbooking!!

To see the scrapbooking kits from Ippity, please visit my sales blog HERE.

If you made it through my very long post today then THANK YOU!!  Please have a wonderful day and may  your bucket overflow with the warmth of a summer day on the lake!