Hip Hop keeps getting better!

Every week I look forward to Hip Hop and the excitement that Angela has hiding up her sleeves! Well this week she really knocked it out of the ball park with "My Unity Place"! Have you been there yet? You just HAVE to come join, we are planning some FUN things over there! Unity is not leaving Splitcoast, My Unity Place is just another fun hangout for all of us Unity Fans!

I have a few fun KOM projects to share with you today:) Guess what? I SCRAPPED! I KNOW! See, I am always so proud of myself when I do, I don't know why I don't scrap more often! I guess I'm lazy, it takes so much longer than a card, lol! Well, I sure plan on trying to scrap at least 3 layouts a month. We'll see how that goes!

Here's my layout:

That's a picture of my friend, her hubs, and their little guy Rojo when he was born a couple years ago. I'm making her an album, but this one is going to be framed:) The title was made with my Heidi Swapp Masks, those things are SO fun and some Ranger Paint Dabber paint in black! The dp is by K&Co. You can see some of my beloved April KOM stamps on here can't you? I used the frame, the scalloped sentiment, the floral block and some leaves stamped on the dp. I love this layout and can't wait to find a nice sophisticated black frame for it!

Next up is a card I made using this weeks sketch on SCS!

That little bird stamp is just so dang cute! The "Different Dreams" background stamp and the sentiment from the March KOM fit perfectly, wouldn't you say?;)

Last up is my card for the first My Unity Place sketch challenge! Come on over and see it HERE...

I used that floral butterfly block from the April KOM again. I made that dp using Alcohol Inks by Ranger! I have really been practicing lately, I'm loving all the fun distress techniques I've been reading about so I went and bought a bunch of Tim Holtz goodies from Eclectic Paperie (AMAZING customer service here folks, I cannot say enough about these sweet girls!) Expect to see more Distressing here at the ole' blog;)

Well, I'm going to send you on your way to finish up the Hop! Go see my fabulous friend....

***ROBYN!***

A Monday Challenge

Yes, there is no hiding from it, it's MONDAY! Well, my Monday is pretty much over *whew!*

Today, the other Monday chicks and myself are making cards with Cut Out Flowers! That means we could stamp flowers and cut them out, make hand made flowers, whateva! I chose to take the easy way out and let Unity do the word for me:D I love this little flower in the "you + me = happy" kit! It was super fun to cut these babies out:) In case you're wondering why this doesn't have my usual 19 layers, it's because I also used the CAS #08 challenge from Splitcoast. It was a card sketch to follow so I couldn't go too crazy;) This card is still CAS for me as it only took about 15 minutes to make frm the time I flipped the light switch on in my room to the time I took the picture:) I do love quickie cards!
Shoot it's bright though, huh? I'm not 100% sold on Tangerine Tango, but it's going bye bye here in a few months and I have a bunch to use up, lol! I added Crystal Ice Stickles on the flower centers and they're super sparkly! And of course my beloved butterfly punch, made by the great Martha Stewart *snicker* I don't really think she's great but she makes fab punches!

For more yummy cut out flower creations, check out my girls!

AJ

Maren

Buckie

Jimmi

Brookie

Jeanne

Okay, next card is for the Unity Sketch Challenge I posted today in the forums! Click --->HERE<--- to see the sketch and play along in the challenge!

Here's my card--

AWWW! Don't you love those sheep? I bet you can tell by now that I do, lol! The "Love Ewe" kit is so fun and adorable! I think I may send this to my mom just for fun:)

Hopefully your Monday's go smoothly, quickly, and it's not too cold for you! Have a fantastic week friends, see you tomorrow!

Unity fun!

Hello! If you're joining me from Angela's blog, welcome to my lil corner of the internet:) If you're joining me just cause you like me, awww! I like you too!;) In any case, thanks for visiting today! Go see the Unity Blog to see a project I made for today's DT Tuesday feature, along with a favorite quote of mine. I have another project to share today as well! I made this card for this weeks Unity Sketch Challenge!

That awesome flower stamp is from one of the newest release kits called "Rain and Flowers" and has some of the cutest images EVAH! I love all the fun details to color on that tulip:) I stamped by Just Polka Dots background in Versamark on all four strips of cardstock (Color inspiration from KWereners CC #43 this week!).

If you want to see the sketch and play along, click {HERE}!

Have you seen the Unity March KOM yet? Angela just put it up yesterday so maybe you missed it! It's so fun, called "Simple Life"! I don't know about you, but I like ALL things simple:) The kit is a collaboration of the talents of many of the Unity addicts and Unity artists alike, great job girls, I can't wait to get this kit! It might not be up on the Unity site yet, so make sure to check it out on Angela's blog, it's located on the right hand side of her blog.

Also, a huge welcome to Lynn Warner, the March Guest Designer for Unity! Welcome Lynn, can't wait to see your special touch on all that Unity!

**BLOG CANDY UPDATE**

Here are your random numbers:34
Timestamp: 2009-03-03 11:34:06 UTC

Congratulations Lesly!

Lesley said...
Today I'm thankful that the boss isn't in (yet) and I'm able to Hip Hop, but mostly I'm happy for my family - they see me at my best and my worst and they still stick around, LOL!

You won the Unity Grab Bag from Thursday's HIP HOP! Email me at redfox123@hotmail.com with your full name and shipping address and I'll get it right in the mail!

Hope you ladies (and gents) have a fantastic Tuesday, mine is coming to a close and I have to get up bright and early to hit the gym!

Sayanora!!!

Moxie Monday!

Good Monday morning! I have a couple Unity projects to share with you today! First off, it's Moxie Monday! Do you know what that is? Well it's a blog that was started by Cath of Papercrafts! She shares trendy products and inspiration from the scrapbook industry and her blog and has chosen to showcase Unity today! Head on over to her blog, Moxie Fab World, to see what it's all about. She's also giving away a couple pretty large blog candies! Go for it!

In honor of "Moxie Monday" I made this card:

It uses the kit called "Shine On"! I love this kit, the lamps are so fun and has a few really cute sentiments!

The rest of the Monday Challenge Chics are showcasing Unity today as well in honor of Moxie Monday:) Check them out!

AJ

Brooke

Jeanne

Buckie

Maren

Also, welcome to Jimmi Mayo! She's joining our crazy lil Monday Challenge club, go see what she's got for ya today:)

Okay, today being Monday is also Unity Sketch Day! w00t! Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I used the big cupcake from Ginormous Cupcakes and the sentiment from the old Hey Cupcake kit (which has now been switched and moved into another kit called Mix Up of Cuteness and I notice that the sentiment is no longer available! Sorry:(

See THIS thread on SCS to play along with us!
Okay, a couple last cards I made for this week CAS challenge! The challenge this week is a sketch and we all know I love those:) I made two cards for the challenge because I wasn't sure if this first one was CAS enough, lol!
And here's my second one:

Okay ya'll, I have had quite an exhausting day and am ready to go to bed! I hope ya'll have a fantastic UNIFIED day and get some time to create:)

Sayanora!

Unity Sketch Challenge and a Color Challenge!

Top o' the mornin to ya! *Oh my, did I really just say that?*

So I have Unity's sketch challenge for the week (a day late) and my sample (also a day late)! Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

The stamp set I used is called "Beach Days and Sun Rays", isn't that fun? The kit is awesome, lots of fun stamps in there! Perfect for a beachy scrapbook page too, of which I have several that need to be made! The paper I used is from Good Morning Sunshine by SU! If you want to play along with this weeks sketch check out {THIS} thread for the deets!

Have you heard that *THE* DONNA DOWNEY is going to be Hip Hopping with us this Thursday? I KNOW! So amazing, I really admire her, every project she makes is *wow!* I can't wait to Hip Hop with her! Make sure you stop in on Thursday for what I'm sure will be a Hip Hop for the record books! Also, if you love to blog hop, check out the World Record Inspirational Blog Hop that Angela is putting together! We're trying to get 200+ people to participate, wouldn't that be a fun blog hop?

Okay, my next card is for today's Color Challenge 206. These colors sound really odd together, but I actually like how they look! More Mustard, Rose Red, and Kiwi Kiss!

I used a new {to me} MFT set called "Who's that e-Girl?" LOVE the sentiments in this set! I'm actually sending this card out too, yeah me! LOL!

The image was colored with my Copics and the rhinestones are by Heidi Swapp. Everything else is SU!

Okie dokie peeps, I'm off to do some blurfing:) Have a great day...

Unity Sketch Challenge

I have a new sketch for you today! It's the 13th Unity sketch Challenge *spooOOOoooOOooky* Heehee, I crack myself up!

But it really is the 13th sketch challenge over in the Unity Forums! This weeks sketch is really fun so I hope you can play along, no Unity is required, just STAMPS:) Check out THIS thread for details.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my sample:

I used the sentiment from Birds of a Feather and Cupcakes a la' Yummy!

This card doubles as my card for the Monday Challenge Chicks! Our challenge today is BIRTHDAY CARDS! Not such a challenge, I LOVE to make Bday cards! Check out what the other chicks came up with for the challenge!

***AJ, Brooke, Maren, Bucky, Jeanne***

We have a new guest designer at Unity this month! Welcome to Joslyn Nielson!! I can't wait to see her work her magic:)

I got my box of new SU! goodies so come back tomorrow and I'll have a "new goody" card ready for ya:) Everyone have a great day!

Monday Challenge {Operation FLOCKING!}!

Hey there blog land, long time to post! No excuse, just lazy:) BUT I had to come out of my laziness for today and post for the Monday challenge! Today we decided to do some FLOCKING! I didn't do a ton, because my card just didn't beg for alot, but who doesn't love a fuzzy owl belly? I really wanna know! I used the journal and owl stamps from the July KOM {if you are wondering why these sets are so expensive, it's because they're PAST KOM's and are only released after their month because Angela is SUCH a sweetie! If you want to pay 24 bucks for them, you gotta join the club and get the INSIDE deal!;)} and the sentiment from the January KOM (<---click that link to find out how to join the club)! I really think I get the most mileage out of my KOM's than any other kit! They are SO fun and versatile! This is also my sample for the Unity Sketch Challenge this week! You wanna play? Go {HERE} to see the sketch! You don't have to have Unity to play along, we just want you to play along {We're really sweet girls, I promise!} :)
Wanna see some more awesome flocking (I love that word, feels like I'm saying a bad word, but I'm not...LOL!)? Go check out my girls and see what they flocked!
AJ, Maren, Buckie, Brookie, and Jeanne!
Have a fabulous week girls! See you around!

I need a vacation!!!

Oh man! Do I evah! A vacation with just me and my man, and of course the dogs, no vacation w/out them:) Oh well, I'll have to settle for imagining that's us in this cutie patootie card heading off to go camping or something:)

Todays Monday challenge is to make a vacation card! I thought these stamps from the November KOM by Unity were PERFECT!

I used the sketch for this weeks Unity Sketch #10! Check it out {HERE}!

The players this week:

AJ

Maren

Brooke

Jeanne

Buckie

Feel free to play along with us! Link your creation up to one of our blogs so we can be sure to see it:)

Have a fantastic Monday ya'll!

Monday Challenge!

Hey ya'll! QUICK post from me tonite, I got a few things I have to take care of tonite so I'm sorry for the quick post:)

The Monday Challenge for today was to do an Inside/Outside card! I hardly EVER decorate the inside of cards so this was actually quite a challenge for me! AND the lighting is awful in my pictures, so I apologize for that too, lol! Ever had one of those days?:)

Here's my card using this weeks Unity Sketch #9. Check out the sketch {HERE}.


I used my Basic Gray "Sugared" paper for this card. The sentiment stamp is from the June KOM and the heart is from the September KOM! The ribbon is Pink Taffetta by SU:)

Check out what AJ, Maren, Buckie, Brookie, and Jeanne have for you today!

Okay ya'll, 3 days left!

Have a great day:)

Unity Sketch #8

Oh man! Here we are, Monday morning! My Monday is over now, yeah! One more Monday till my honey is home!!!

My card today is a double whammy! It serves as the Unity Sketch Challenge #8 Sample and my card for the Monday Challenge Chicks, a card with CANDY!

Here's the sketch for this week:

And here's my sample!

I used the lollipop and sentiment are from Delectible Delights by Unity Stamp Co! The paper is from a DCWV paper pack and it's really blingy, me likey! I had to add some buttons on as well, I thought about brads, but buttons are so much funner (is that a word?)!

As you can see, I did stray from the sketch a little, and as the wise Ali Edwards once (or a million and a half times) said, "That's OKAY!" :) The sketches are provided as a jumping point for you! Just try to keep it sorta close, so we can tell where the inspiration came from;) See the Challenge thread in the Unity Member Forum at SCS for linking and love! When you upload to any public galleries, use the keywords Unity, and USCSC8!

Check out what AJ, Maren, Jennifer Buck, Brooke, and Jeanne did for this candy-licious monday!

ALSO, I wanted to give a big ole WELCOME to Unity's NEWEST DESIGNERS! Angela has a new Scrapbooking team (YEAH!) and has added the fabulous talent of these 4 ladies, to the already fabulous Jenn Buck and Jen Erickson!

Chelsea Cook

Anne Marie Teo

Renee Dezember-Morris

Lynn Ghahary

Go give their blogs a peek and congratulate them!

Oh, and didja see???

Coming in January...:)

HO HO HO!!!!!!!!

Hey there blogland! Time to wake up!:) It's Monday and we have another challenge from AJ, Jennifer Buck (henceforth called "Buckie"), Maren, Brooke, and Jeanne! The challenge this week is SANTA!!!!!!!!! That's right, bust out the Santa stamps, I know they're sitting on your desks waiting for the 26th so they can be put away for a year, lol! I know mine are! I chose to work with the cute little santa from Bitty Christmas Tags! I'm really getting some mileage out of this set I'll tell you what! I love sets that can be used for tons of different projects, money well spent:)

I *adore* old, country Christmas themed decorations and such and it's what all my stuff is *although it's still in boxes somewhere, lol!* so I wanted to make this card with a country feel, makes me feel right at home! The dp is from MME, loooove the distressed, winteriness of this paper! I masked the santa and stamped a tree from the same set behind him!

Head on over to the girls' blogs to see some more of our jolly fat man!

Monday is also Unity Sketch Day over in the Forums! This weeks sketch was alot of fun, we hope you'll play along! You don't *have* to use Unity for the sketch, we'd still love to see your cards!

If you play along and add this card to SCS, use keywords UNITY and USCSC7!

Here's my card for the sketch:

The stamps are all from the December KOM, it's got PERFECT stamps to go for the next big holiday, VALENTINE'S DAY! Every girls FAVORITE:)

Maren and Brooke made samples for the sketch also! Here's {Brooke's} card, isn't it cute? Love that santa!!!!!!!! She even used her gel pen to make his beard whiter, love it:)

Maren is such an over-achiever, she already posted her card on her blog! Check it out {HERE}, it's SO Maren, and SO adorable:) Thanks for the samples ladies!

Okay, I'm off to get ready for bed (it's Monday night here, YEAH!) Did I forget to brag? I only have to work tomorrow and wednesday, and then I'm OFF FOR 11 DAYS STRAIGHT! That's right, I love my job:)

Have a fantastic Monday!

It's a HIP HOP Christmas PaRTaY!!!!!!!!

Heya crazy Unity PEEPS! You know I mean "crazy" with utmost love and respect, right? Cause I do love ya'll:)

Today we're celebrating Christmas with Unity for HIP HOP! Just so you remember, we're NOT Hip Hopping next week or New Year's week, but willl be back with more fun on January 8th, 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you're new to HIP HOP and just happened upon my blog (thank you!) please start at the Unity Blog and work your way through all the DT blogs for some blog candy!!!

The card I'm sharing with you today uses the Unity Sketch for this weeks challenge! See THIS thread for details and the sketch!
I used the Christmas List single which I ADORE! It's got the cutest little lines! I stamped the background with Tea Time Pattern in Versamark and then heat embossed. I love how that really jazzed the card up! The sparkly snowflakes were punched with my Martha Stewart punch and then I covered them with Silver Ice Stickles!

Okay peeps, what kind of Christmas party would this be with NO PRESENTS? Well, I think most of us DT gals are going to be giving out some BLOG CANDY! I'll choose a random winner who posts to this entry by 5:00 pm CST and the winner will receive a $5 gift card to the Unity Store! I know that with all the deals Angela has this week, you can find SOMETHING to spend $5 on!

I hope you all have an AWESOME Christmas! Now go check out what the fabulous Brooke has in store for you!

Monday FUN!

Those two words SOOOO do not look right together!! At least it's Monday night for me, that's kinda fun:D Know what else is fun? ONLY 3 MORE WEEKS TILL DH GETS HOME!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, but really, I'll get back to the point of this post;)
It's Monday so the girls (AJ, Maren, Jennifer B, Jeanne, and Brooke) got our heads together and decided to go with WINTERY Thank You cards! I know I've already gotten a few Christmas gifts that I'll be sending Thank You's out for so this challenge was perfect! I used the Sketch for this weeks Unity Sketch Challenge {{{DETAILS HERE}}} for the two cards I'm sharing today! The first one is my wintery thank you card!

The cute little snowman is from Bitty Christmas Tags and the sentiment is from Fall Festival. The paper is by Remininsce and is really sparkly and pretty IRL. I also used Spring Moss (PTI) and Bashful Blue (SU!) cardstock.

Don't forget to check out what the other challenge chicks came up with this week!

AJ
Maren
Jennifer B
Jeanne
Brooke

My next card is another sample for the Unity Sketch this week:
I used Giggle Grove and the July KOM for this card. I just loe the combination of the Berry Sorbet (PTI), Vintage Cream, and Black! Totally fun:)
So, come on over to the Unity forums to join in the sketchy fun!
Have a GRRRREAT week:)

Back in the saddle!

...or should I say Stamp Room! It feels SO good to be back home! Don't get me wrong, I had a blast and mom and dad's and miss them dreadfully already, but there is something about your own stuff, and my dogs! I'll get to them after the cards, just in case you don't really care about my dogs (but how couldn't you? They're so cute!)

This first card is for the Monday Challenge I play in along with AJ, Maren, Jennifer, Brooke, and Jeanne! Check out their awesome cards too. Our challenge was to create a card with Red, Cream, and SNOWMEN! Well, I just happened to get a few new Verve sets and this Snowman stamp came in the "Snow Wonderful" set, SO CUTE. So here's my card:

I painted Angel Wings Shimmerz on the snowman so he sparkles, it's really pretty IRL:) That dp is by MME, Wild Asparagus line that I got while I was in Seattle with AJ, Linsey, and Maren! They took me to a RIGHTEOUS craft store called Ben Franklin, WOW they had SO MUCH STUFF!

Verve is having a sale on select stamp sets for the whole month of December! You can get anywhere from 10-20% off, so go check it out HERE!

My next card is my sample for this weeks Unity Scetch Challenge. You can click HERE to go to the forum thread for all submissions.

This is the sketch I created for this challenge:

It's a pretty simple sketch this week because I've got a killer cold and couldn't come up with anything else, lol! But the good thing with SIMPLE is that you can make it fit your needs:) Here's my card for this sketch:

I used the Unity December KOM, "Little Reminders" for this card. The "us" sentiment is from Sentiments O' Simple. I like how the mittens kinda form a heart so I'm gonna send it to my honey:) The paper is the same that I used for my first card, by MME. I'm all about using scraps now, I want to try to use as much of each piece of paper as I can! Please feel free to play along in the challenge with us! Upload to SCS and use the keyword USCSC5 so we can see them all in one place! Also, don't forget to post a link to your card in the Sketch Challenge Thread in the Unity Forum for some much deserved praise of your creations!

Okay, now that I got that out of the way, I just wanted to talk about my dogs cause they're my babies and they're not doing very well! I had a guy from work doggie sit them while I was gone. Well he got a stray cat and the cat turned out to have ringworm and mange, which he successfully passed on to my two beautiful labs. Yeah, I was furious to say the least! But really, I can't blame him because I love that he tried to take care of the kitten. Anyways, I was worried sick because the vet wouldn't give them medicine since I wasn't there so they've been really suffering for the past 3 weeks, VERY itchy. Breaks my heart. And they're losing hair too, it's not too bad yet, but I guess if we wait too much longer they'll lose more. I was quite upset when I found out I wouldn't get an appt for them until the 23rd, that's just too long to watch my babies suffer. But the nice tech found out that someone cancelled an appt for this wednesday so I'll be able to get them checked out and get the medicine started so they stop itching! My poor guys! Luke lost quite a bit of weight while I was gone (which wasn't a horrible thing, he could stand it, just as long as it wasn't because he was sick:( Here are my babies, looking cute and angelic:)

Awwww...ain't they cute? Love them!

Okay, I'm off to finish watching Harry Potter and drink something HOT so it'll break this congestion up! Blog ya later!

Monday, back so soon!

I don't know about you, but my weekend went by WAY TOO FAST! Amazing how that happens! I only wish the rest of the week would go by so fast, lol! THere is ONE {or two} good things about Mondays...challenge time with the girls! YEAH! This week we decided to use Jessica Rose stamps! She created a bunch of SUPER AWESOME stamps for Unity and they're all SO fun and unique! I chose to work with the little trailer and sentiment from the August KOM: Remember Happiness! Lucky for you, Angela started releasing past KOM's for sale! Before, if you didn't get it that month, you were HOSED but Angela is so sweet and wonderful and listens to her customers saying "I WANT TO BUY PAST KOM'S!" What a sweet gal:D Okay, so here's my Jessica Rose card:

Isn't that paper PERFECT for this card? I bought it this weekend at the Arts and Crafts store on base! They NEVER have cute paper, so when I saw this, and realized how PERFECT it would be with this stamp, I had to get it:) It's by Around the Block {I think!} The stamps are in the August KOM! Fun stuff:)

Check out what AJ, Maren, Jennifer, and Brooke did with Jessica Rose stamps!

I've been dabbling in PS the past couple weeks, drawing up card sketches (it's SO FUN! I am totally addicted, lol!) This week is the first week I'm posting a card sketch challenge in the Unity forums! I'll pick a random winner {using Unity stamps} to win a little surprise from me! All you have to do to enter the contest is upload your card to SCS (or your blog, make sure to link back here or to the Sketch Challenge thread in the Unity Forum) by noon on Sunday, the 26th, and use the keyword "USCSC1" EASY PEASY! I don't know if you've noticed, but I LOVE details on my cards! Tons of details! My card sketches really showcase that, lol! If the sketch looks too involved or complicated, PLEASE alter it to make it easy for you! Sketches are all about inspiration and creativity so just let the sketch take on a mind of its own and have FUN!:)

This is the card sketch:

Please note, the big floral image is OPTIONAL but SO FUN to add! Think outside the box, it doesn't have to be a flower, check out my sample to see what I mean!

I used the big, beautiful butterfly from Butterfly Beauty! I stamped it in Versamark on Spring Moss {PTI} and then clear embossed it and cut it out! Gives the card TONS of dimension! The sentiment is from the fabulous sentiment set cdesigned by AJ Otto! It's called "Simply Said". LOVE this set and all the fab sentiments in it:) The dp is by SU! and it's from the pack called Muirfield! Love the blues and greens together:) The ribbon is also PTI and I added some glittery brads by Imaginisce to the top corner! I sure hope you play along with our sketch challenge!!!!!

Have a fantastic Monday:)