Share your {ippity} Blog Hop Here!

Hi everyone!  I'm participating in 'Bonnie's Share your {ippity} Blog Hop' today!  Make sure you start at her blog so you could see the list of participants...and you don't want to miss out on a prize that she's giving away! 

Do you play with many sketches?  What is it that you like the most?  I love the inspiration that comes from a sketch.  But, even better is when you see Design Teams and their interpretation of the sketch, and you think to yourself 'I should have done that!'.  *smile*

Bonnie partnered with 2 Sketches 4 You  for this hop today.  What a fabulous site with sketches!  I had to join in on the fun, so I am going to play with Kazan's Sketch 50:

Here is my take on the sketch using {ippity} Regal Greetings stamp set:

From Unity and {ippity} Projects

Thanks for hopping by and enjoy {ippity}!

thank you...ms bright side award

Wow, what a nice surprise to get this blog award from Monica over at Gardner's Basket!  THANK YOU so much for thinking of me Monica!  You've got to take a look at her blog...she's got some talent and recently made a diaper clutch (awesome)!, and re-purposed a cereal box into a note pad holder (fantastic)!

From Blogger Pictures

As a recipient of this award, I have to share with you 10 things that make me happy, 5 pieces of trivia (about myself), and pass this on to 5 bloggers.

I had to wait a few days with my post till my allergies were better, so that I could answer these questions with a clear head, well sort of =).

10 things that make me happy: my son, my sisters, my two chocolate labs, baseball, baking, chocolate, creating, volunteering, my friends, and hoarding craft supplies (yup, I said it!).  

5 pieces of trivia: (hmmmm...trivia, means unimportant things, hmmmm...) my first car was a brand new gold VW; I met Garth Brooks, shook his hand and he *winked* at me (loooong time ago)!; I marched in lots of parades at Disneyland; I love Lifetime movies; I love the way the Arizona desert smells after it rains.

I'm passing this award onto:
Shemaine @ Scraptastic!
Robyn @ Combat Cropper Robyn
Paula @ Tvorilka
Angie @ My Scraptastic World
Catherine @ Paper Addict Catherine

If you can, please take a few minutes to visit these amazing gals!
Hope your day is 'bright'!

Oh my gosh...I made it!!!

My {ippity} post is just below this one, please scroll down, or now that you're here, take a look at my good news:



I am sooooo excited! I made my first Design Team! Where, you ask...at Whimsy Haven!  You know Lindsay Spencer, right? She started a new shop with digital images that are FABulous!  You may also know her as a Unity Stamp Co artist and at E.A.D. Designs.  I am sooooo loving the new variety of digital images that she is creating...you've got to check them out at Whimsy Haven!

Check out the new Design Team announcement HERE!  These are some spectacular girls!

I am sharing two cards that I made with one of her digital images called 'Dress in the Making'...don't you just love this image?!!! I used a sentiment from {ippity} Just wanted to Say..., and I also added a little birdie from Hero Arts to tie a bow on the dress...isn't it cute?

From Whimsy Haven

Here's another card that I made with the 'Dress in the Making' image, added a sentiment from my Unity March KOM, and take a look at the bottom edge of the dress:

From Whimsy Haven

Let me know what you think!  I think you can tell that I am so excited, and I hope I do Lindsay proud with her designs!  We are having our first Design Team blog hop this Wednesday, April 14th...please come by to see some more goodies I made with Whimsy Haven's digital designs!  I appreciate you coming by!

10 things...

Happy H{ippity} Hop Monday to you and welcome to the world of {ippity}!  I took Eryn's IHHC18 challenge and made a tri-fold card for the first time.  I knew I wanted to use Kiwi Kiss as my base c/s and as I was browsing through my {ippity} sets, I spied my 'Love in Return' set.  I love that you could use this set for any kind of project, and all of a sudden I thought "it's about time to give my son some kind words"!  At school today, his AIMS testing starts and I'm putting this card in his backpack as a little surprise and (hopefully) a boost of confidence to put a smile on his face.

I used two {ippity} stamp sets and matched them up with papers from My Minds Eye (these owls are toooo cute) and SU (I so love Kiwi Kiss!).  I also have Kiwi Kiss Corduroy buttons, so I had to use them with a little circle flower that I made to cup the button.     

From Unity and {ippity} Projects

I inserted a photo of him and also one of him with his favorite little cousin blowing bubbles (his cousin just adores him).  I know that photo will bring a smile to his face.
Card opened:

From Unity and {ippity} Projects

You can purchase any of the products highlighted in 'white' from me HERE and they are ready to be shipped today!

Stamps: {ippity} Love in Return and Life's Little Moments 
C/S: MME Quite Contrary, SU Kiwi Kiss textured c/s, Bermuda Bay, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White
Ink: Palette-Burnt Umber, SU Bermuda Bay and Kiwi Kiss 
Accessories: SU Kiwi Kiss Corduroy buttons, Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon, green hemp twine, circle punches

Thank you so much for H{ippity} Hopping by today!  Enjoy the inspiration from the rest of {ippity}!

P.S. My friend Bonnie is hosting a 'share your {ippity} blog hop, and partnered with 2 sketches 4 you...come on by on Wednesday!

Sports Theme Layout

I used to enter into a lot of 'swaps' with my Stampin' Up friends for SUO (Stampin' Up Only).  This means you can only use SU items, and rarely do you use another branded item (unless SU doesn't make it). 

One hostess with the mostest is my friend Cindy...she ALWAYS has such fabulous swaps and they have a great participation rate too.  So, when I saw that she was hosting a swap for 6x6 pages, I decided to join in!  You see, I have many 6x6 books of pages that I've created mainly for my son's pictures.  I signed up for four 6x6 double layouts, each with a different theme.  We had to make 5 exact copies (without the pictures of course), and they had to have four layers. 

One of the double layouts I signed up for was to use a 'Sports theme'.  Of course, for me, 'life is baseball'..heehee.  As you can tell, I like to have some things 'lined up':

From Digital and Paper Scrapbook Pages

Close-ups:

From Digital and Paper Scrapbook Pages

From Digital and Paper Scrapbook Pages

Stamps: SU Sporting
C/S: Brilliant Blue, Only Orange (textured and regular), Whisper White
Ink: Brilliant Blue, Only Orange
Accessories: White Grosgrain Ribbon, Square Punches, Star Punch, SU Backgrounds I-Sizzix Textures Plates

P.S.  Stampin' Up! announced LOTS of the colors that they are retiring, and my two favorites for baseball are Brilliant Blue and Only Orange...gotta order more before it goes!
I will share the other layouts in the next few days...thank you for taking a look!

FEELING FANTASTIC, right?

I am sneezing and have a box of tissues with me as I'm writing this post...  It's Friday and it's now been two weeks that I have been absent from my blog.  Spring Break week was pretty busy, and then the allergy season hit me hard...dealing with it still, and I have one word for allergies....UGH!  Itchy eyes too...sure makes it fun when wearing mascara...ha!

I have missed all of you wonderful Unity Friends!  I even missed the first and second Hip Hop, and I feel like I don't know what's going on!  *smile*  So I'm back on FwFF, and will get back on schedule with Unity...yay, for Unity!

Here's a quick and simple paper pieced card using the Unity KOM for March--Rockin' it Unity Style and the Unity HHSC02 sketch:

From Unity Projects

Have a marvelous allergy-free Unity day! *smile*