Friendship Gift

I am working on creations that are for women to give to other women for The Finally Home Crafts store at The Stamping Boutique and Facebook Page. They will be about strength, friendship, courage and whatever else strikes my fancy!! I am working to create various products!

One of my first creations is this framed hand stamped and hand colored image. The stamps are from Unity Stamp Company. 

I am entering this in several challenges as well -

  Not Just Cards Challenge - Anything Goes

  All Crafts Challenge - Always anything but a card

  Crafting From The Heart - Always Anything Goes

  Make My Monday - Anything but a card

  

As always thanks for stopping by!! 

Blessings and Hugs!!

Get Hippity with Ippity Challenge #17 - Things with Wings

Welcome to the newest Get Hippity with Ippity Challenge #17.  The theme this time is "Things with Wings." You can use any image that has wings to make your creation!! It can be any type of project - ATC, card, scrapbook LO. The Challenge runs until March 31st.  Also remember you get two entries for using an {ippity} stamp. The prize will be any set from Aletha's blog.

If you find yourself without some {ippity}goodness be sure to stop by Aletha's sales blog and pick yourself up some!! I also wanted to remind you that you can now buy {ippity} through Aletha at the Unity Website. All you have to do is pick Aletha as your Ippity check.  Then you order your {ippity} and add your Unity and you're good to go!! 

For this challenge I used the All Things are Beautiful set from {ippity}. The swirl came from the Faith Goals Die Cut set by Faithfully Yours. The inside butterflies are from Unity's October 2011 Faith, Hope, Love..live by it Kit. The sentiment is from Sweet n Sassy Stamps.

I'd also like to invite you to stop by our Get Hippity with Ippity Group at The Crafter's Cafe and join our March card game. You'll have a chance to win a grab bag of 6 stamps!! We've also started a Facebook group as well!!

Hope to see lots of entries for the challenge and all your other {ippity} creations in the TCC group or on Facebook!!

Blessings and Hugs,

Sharing some homemade gifts

Happy Day After Christmas!! I hope everyone had the most fabulous day ever!!

This was a wonderful Christmas in our house. Last week my 10 yr. old announced that kids at school were telling her there was no Santa but she didn't believe them. She just knows there has to be a Santa. Her reasoning went like this - "Mom, there is NO WAY you could stay up that late or get up that early to put out presents and not be crabby on Christmas day. And you are NEVER crabby on Christmas!!" I will treasure that thinking forever!!

Ours was great even if it did start at 2:15am!! Yes my 10 year old couldn't sleep any longer since Santa had come and she was dying to open presents. She would come into my room every 15 minutes and announce she couldn't sleep.  My 7 yr old woke at 4:15am and we opened presents. Needless to say we were all in bed at 8PM!! I have to say even though I was exhausted, I really enjoyed the excitement my 10 yr old showed for Santa!! It made this a very special Christmas!!

I figured I would share a few of my Christmas gifts I made for my girls teachers. Since Natalie had a list of 7 people to make gifts for, I'll just share a few at a time!! 

These gifts all used the same template from My Time Made Easy - Keep It. There's whole other story about my creating these gifts that I'll share later this week. On with the gifts -

I made this one for the secretary at Natalie's school. She is a card maker so I set it up as a card organizer and address card organizer. I also threw in a notepad!!

This is the one I made for Kendra's homeroom teacher.  I filled it with a notepads, note cards, and other general teacher supplies.

 Cards and notepads included above.

This is the organizer I made for Kendra's second teacher. She has a team of 2 teacher this year.

The cards and note pads I included in her box.

Supplies:

   Template - My Time Made Easy - Keep It

    Stamps from the following companies - Unity, Just Rite, Papertrey, {ippity}

Thanks so much for coming by!! 

Blessings and Hugs,

Don't miss the Get Hippity with Ippity Challenge #11

Yep it's time for another sketch challenge at Get Hippity With Ippity!! I don't know about y'all but I just love Aletha's sketches and the {ippity} images are just perfect for them!! This will be our last challenge for 2011 so be sure to play along!! Remember the winner gets to pick a free set from Aletha's sales blog and let me tell you there are some awesome sets!!! :-)

Here's the sketch:

Here's my card:

I used the butterfly from the Devoted set and the sentiments are from Unity's Kit of the Month.

But I have to tell you I wish I owned (and will be buying this week) the Cuppy Cakes set which would have been just perfect!!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges as well:

Cooking It Up With Katie - Anything Goes

Divas by Designs - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter - It's a Celebration

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

I am so grateful for each of you that stops by to see my cards and projects!! I really enjoy sharing them!!

Blessings and Hugs!!

Good Friday Morning!!!

I have spent the past few days cleaning and organizing my classroom for the upcoming school year and am finally done!! I still have to decorate and plan but at least phase one is done. I am really looking forward to this school year. One of my favorite parts of teaching is that each year is a fresh start and is always different!!!

I have to get Kendra ready for Girls Scout camp today and Nat wants a play date as well!! I'm hoping I can still find some time to bet a bit crafty!!!

Well, on with the crafty!!!

For the first card,  I used Ippity - The Simple Things set

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday Challenge! I love this sketch and am sure I'll use it again and again!!

Here's a picture of the whole set --

 I used the Unity Kit of the Month March 2011 set --

One thing I love the most about Ippity/Unity stamps are that for some reason they make me try new color palettes - softer ones. I tend to create in bright colors so much but for some reason these images always bring me back to pastels and such!!

Don't forget to work on your Get Hippity with Ippity color combo Challenge entry for your chance to win an Ippity set of your choice.  Here's the inspiration piece --

And here's the challenge details -- Please note that TLL (The Latte Lounge) is going through some incredibly awesome changes and has been renamed The Crafter's Cafe!!!
The rules…
•You DO NOT have to use an {ippity} or Unity stamp, but if you do, you are entered in the drawing twice. (We use the “random generator thingy.”) DO let us know what stamp set you used in your project.
•You need to stay with the current theme. You can create any project you like, card, ATC, tags, layouts, mixed–media, altered art, etc.
•You can enter just once.
•You need to post here in the discussion area at GHWI and in your TLL gallery.
•When posting to your gallery on TLL use the keyword/tag IPPITY#4. If you post other places on the web, please use GHWI#4.
•You will also need to HAVE FUN! That’s what we are here for.

If you follow all these guidelines, your prize is an {ippity} stamp set of your choice! 

And just in case you don't win, Aletha will be more than happy to get you any Ippity Set you'd like to order from her sales blog!!

Hope you've enjoyed my sharing this week!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Blessings and Hugs,

Ippity and Unity Inspiration

Just stopping by to share some more Ippity/Unity goodies I've made lately. Don't forget Aletha has an awesome Christmas in July challenge going on at the Get Hippity with Ippity group on The Latte Lounge. You have a chance to win a stamp set of your choice from her site!!

The first few pics are a few pages in my December Daily album.

Unity Set - Life Is Good

Ippity Set - A Moment in Time

I also wanted to share some cards I made using Ippity and Unity sets  --

Unity May 2011 Kit of the Month - ..think Happy thoughts

Ippity - Now and Always

Unity - April 2011 Kit of the Month

As always, I am grateful you stopped by!!! Blessings and Hugs!!!