Happy Thursday, Peeps!

Good morning, peeps! My little marshmallow friends! How are you today? I hope you are ready to Hip HOP!!! Go to the SCS Unity forum and par-tay with us!!! Party starts at 11am EST, and lasts into the night, so check in any time you can!

A few days ago, I did Julee's Mojo contest sketch. She always has such great sketches, and I need to remember to try them more often!


Yesterday, I stamped two cards for the SCS sketch challenge. I used lots more patterned paper than I usually do. One with SU! stamps and one with Unity stamps.


I am off to try some baby announcements for an old friend that is due with a sweet little girl very soon. I'll share what I come up with. Have a great day!!

Hip HOP!!!

For those of you who don't know Hip HOP!, you should check out Unity's Hip HOP! Thursday celebration in the Unity forum at Splitcoast. It is EVERY THURSDAY!! Start HERE, at the Unity Blog for a blog hop, and join the party! Angela and Chris and the gang give away $300+ in stamping goodness EVERY week!!! Warning, though, it is addictive!!!

I couldn't get enough of the SCS color challenge this week: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, and Kiwi Kiss. YUM-O!!! Here is another card I did with this combo.


I inked the flowers in Kiwi, then removed the ink from the flowers with a tiny piece of sponge (I'm sure you could use a paper towel instead) and then sponged Tangerine onto the flowers. I dabbed some Chocolate in the centers of the flowers with a marker. Voila!! It sounds more complicated than it is.

Maybe I'll see you at the Unity forum!!! Until then, Hip HOP! and--

Hip Hop Thursday!

HIP HOP!!!

Yup, it is Thursday again! Head on over to the Unity forum on Splitcoast if you feel like getting your Par-tay on!!! (from 11am-??? EST) Most Thursdays the party lasts late into the night, with LOTS of fun and giveaways! Make sure you wear your Party Pants, as Heather B would say!!!

Here is a Unity card that I haven't shared with you yet!

The ribbon on this card was a total accident! I tied it too loose, and was too lazy to do it over, so I attached the knot to the card with a glue dot, and then pulled the sides up and the back up on the inside, so it was wrapped tight. I love the effect of the angled ribbon! What do you think?

Here is a Stampin' Up! card I whipped up yesterday:


I've been seeing lots of cards lately with embossing done on top of patterned paper, so I decided to try it. I LOVE this effect! How fun!!! Thanks to my secret sister for the inspiration. Here is the card she sent me last week, which I had to CASE!!!


I love how she did the ribbon at the bottom of the image panel, and the placement of the sentiment. So I "borrowed" the layout for my own card. Thanks!


Card #1
Stamps: Best Friends and Floral Fantastical (Unity)
Ink: Bashful Blue, So Saffron (SU!)
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White, unknown stripe
Accessories: Taffeta ribbon, Nesties, glue dot

Card #2
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Versamark
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Bella Rose DSP
Accessories: ribbon, detail white embossing powder, embossing gun

Wednesday Pre-Hip-Hop Challenge #2

Happy Wednesday, friends!

I love, love, LOVE this week's Wednesday challenge from the Unity forum at SCS. It was to use the colors from Unity's logo, along with one other color. Well, the colors of the Unity logo are PERFECT, brown and turquoise. I didn't want to muddy that up much, so the extra color I chose fits in--Taken with Teal. I never, and I mean NEVER use that color! But as a tiny accent for the turquoise, I think it works. I also LOVE this single stamp from Unity, so creating this card was easy. The hardest part was getting all the different colors on the stamp. I inked it in Creamy Caramel and then went back over the words I wanted different colors with markers.

If you love these colors, go on over to the Unity forum at SCS and try the challenge! Don't forget to participate in Hip Hop Thursday tomorrow from 11am EST until??? This will be the third Hip Hop Thursday, and we've had so much fun during the past two! Lots of fun and prizes!

Keep coming back! I love sharing with you!

Yay, Sleep!

I got some last night! (sleep, that is. :-) Read the title of the post, silly!) We put baby to bed without rocking him last night. He cried for an hour and a half, but then slept until 2. He has been waking up twice each night wanting a bottle. At 2, we let him cry for a while to see if he would get himself back to sleep. He didn't, and at 3, I went in and gave him his pacifier, and held him, with no rocking or singing or talking, OR bottle. He went back down to sleep in a few minutes, and slept until 6:00am. It was SO difficult to listen to him cry, but I know it will get easier, and eventually he will be going to sleep on his own and sleeping all night! I am just so thrilled that I wasn't up at 4:30 with a baby who won't go back to sleep! 6am felt like sleeping in to me!

On the stamping front--Today is Hip Hop Thursday over at Unity stamps. Check out the SCS forum HERE. If you missed it last week, we had tons of fun and Angela and Chris gave away lots of free stamps. It is basically a day long party! You can also see a newly released, very cool single stamp, and some other good deals here.

Some of us were getting anxious for Hip Hop Thursday last night, so Brooke, one of Unity's awesome design team members, offered up a challenge to keep us busy: stamp something with green. I didn't do the challenge until this morning, but here it is:


Once again, I used Unity's August kit of the month--there are so many great images! Can you tell that the butterflies are 3D? I cut them out and attached them just by the body with glue, and curled the wings out with my fingers. Then I drew their deely-boppers (what are those things really called? Oh yeah, antennae) in with markers. Hope you like!

Happy Stamping, and HIP HOP!