Growing in Unity - Sunday

Today marks the start of my Growing In Unity Gal Week. Starting tomorrow there will be projects each day featuring Unity Stamps and {ippity} stamps. Start commenting away at this week's posts because one lucky, random commenter will win one of the following stamp sets:

Sending My Love
Bitty Backgrounds
Little Me
Bella Fiori
Homegrown
Hugs & Kittens
Handmade Holiday
Bella Trees
Imagine It

How awesome is that?

As an added bonus, for anyone that places any {ippity} order this week, out of all the orders placed, one order will be randomly selected to earn another {ippity} stamp set free! Also, every order gets free shipping, a free grab bag stamp, and a handmade card!


Have fun commenting this week and enjoy the projects!

July Releases Available to Order

July Releases are available to order as of today. They are fabulous. Getting ready for vacation has cut into my crafting time. So here is what the set look like. You can find them to order under New Releases on the left side of my blog . Enjoy!

Sneak Peak - {...shine, shine, shine.}

I was so excited to see the shipping envelope in my mailbox the other day when I got home from work. The little envelope contained the July release for {ippity}. Here is the sneak peak project of the {...shine, shine, shine.} set.

Enjoy!

With Love & Caring...

Some mornings you get phone calls, you just don't want to take. Tuesday morning was that morning for me. Our dear friends in Florida, had to say good bye to their aunt who went to be with the Lord on Monday. Sympathy cards are one of those cards that I have always had a hard time with. They tear at my heart because I know the reason why I am making them. So usually as a rule; I do not make them. That is because I tear up like a baby while I am making them. Patty and Ray are very special and need a little love sent there way.

Here is there card that I created to send them some loving and caring thoughts...

 The detail shot...

Supplies:

{ippity} stamps: Now & Always

Versa Magic Chalk Ink: Gingerbread

Copic Marker: BG72 Ice Ocean

Memento Ink: Rich Cocoa

Stampin' Up: Thanks for Caring

Enjoy!

Graduation time

Usually at this time of the year, my husband, Doug, and I have invitations for graduation parties coming from every where. This year is a quiet year. We had only two. One for our nephew, Evan, and one for our friends' son, Geran. Unfortunately, we will not be able to attend either party this year; Evan lives in North Carolina, and Geran's party is on a day we will be visiting our nation's capital. Nonetheless, we could not be any prouder of these two guys. And to show it, here is what the card looks like that I made for them. Evan's is on its way to North Carolina as we speak and Geran's is on standby awaiting his party.

The detail shot shows that I layer up the tag from The BEST set along with using another stamp from the set, and using the graduation cap die cut from QuicKutz. I added an eyelet at the top for ribbon and at the bottom of the tag I added a grad cap brad. The tag itself is pop dotted up from the card for added dimension.

Enjoy!

My Story...

I decided today that I would create an 8x8 album called "My Story...". It would be a simple album to tell my story of where I have been, where I am at, and where I am going. And I will share this journey with you, too. As the weeks and months go by, I will be adding to this album to simply tell a story - my story. I hope that it inspires you to do the same in some form or another. 

The page itself is made up of five shades of cardstock. I wanted to keep each layout simple to focus more on the stories. The most unique thing about this layout; however, is that I printed my photo onto cardstock as well. I used French Vanilla Bazzill cardstock for this technique. Then I distressed the edges of the photo with my edge distresser. For all of the cardstock I used the direct to paper technique to ink the edge with chalk ink to add a softness to the page. I used small scrabble letters from my stash and stained them with distress stain to match the layout for the title area. 

The story for this page: "Our lives are always being written and we have no ending."

The supplies that I used are shown below:

{ippity} stamp - Books a' Flutter

Memento Ink - Rich Cocoa

Distress Stain - Wild Honey

Chalk Ink -Gingerbread

Tim Holtz Edge Distresser

Copic Markers Used: 

BG72 - Ice Ocean

BG75 - Abyss Green

C1 - Cool Gray No. 1

YG91 - Putty

YG93 - Grayish Yellow

YR18 - Sanguine

YR21 - Cream

YR23 - Yellow Ochre

Zig Writer - Chocolate

Enjoy!

Anything but a Card Challenge

This is my entry for the Anything but a Card Challenge on {ippity} blog. Go over to the blog to see all the details and you could win a $20 gift certificate for {ippity} stamps. How cool is that!

I have created a small 5x5 canvas featuring one of my dachshunds, Lady. I used the New Season, New Wonder stamp set...I just love this set. I used Copic markers, Memento ink, and chalk inks for my mediums.

Enjoy and good luck in the challenge!