Maria's Sunday Faves

Hey everyone!! I'm so excited to bring you today's post. Sunday faves is so much fun. I love digging through the {ippity} gallery...you all are SO CREATIVE.

I must admit, while I love ALL of the {ippity} stamps, they don't all love me :) I have a hard time trying to come up with something I love with some of the stamps, and dare I say (some still haven't seen ink because I'm so unsure what to do with them)

Well this first card is a PERFECT example. I haven't inked the cow image from {Simply Home} because I didn't know what colors to pair with it. The wonderful {Tenia Nelson} made this fabulous card by sticking with the basic colors. It was seriously love at first sight. Casing it for sure :) The next card comes from {Kim Dellow} and happens to be another stamp that stumps me. The image is also from {Simply Home}. I LOVE the simple layout and the sentiment is PERFECT for all those last minute valentines.

{Jen Marie} never ceases to amaze me and this card using {Alphabettically Adorable} is just that, ADORABLE!! The bright colors just pop against the kraft background!

One of my favorite things about {ippity} stamps is that they are so versatile. This card from {Lynn Miller} uses a stamp from {Kissmas and Mistletoe} and she made this cheery birthday card. I love the blue that she chose, it reminds me of a hand picked group of wildflowers!

{Savannah O'Gwynn} is a girl after my own heart :) This happens to be my favorite color combo of ALL TIME!!! I love how every color is bold enough to stand on it's own, yet compliments the other so well! I just LOVE IT!! The stamps she used are from {Life's Little Moment's}.

The design team decided we also wanted to feature one of our fellow team members on Sunday's too. I work with the most AMAZING group of women and they have some seriously awesome cards in the gallery too!

This week I picked this stunner from {Eva}. I LOVE all the bold colors and the black stitching is such a wonderful compliment. This girls just oozes creativity!

Well, that's it for me. I'm gonna hang out today and eat too much and watch the super bowl!! See you all tomorrow for another edition of the H{ippity} Hop.

H{ippity} Hop!!!

Are you ready for another H{ippity} Hop?!? It's Maria today and I'm super excited to get to host this weeks hop. Last week was so much fun and there were so many great {ippity} projects :)

This weeks challenge is to use your {ippity} stamps to

MAKE YOUR OWN PATTERNED PAPER

Once you've made your creation make sure to upload it to the {SCS gallery} for a chance to win. This weeks prize is an {ippity} logo stamp set.

{use the keyword IHHC2 when uploading your card}

You can find this weeks challenge thread on SCS {HERE}

Here is my card for this weeks challenge. I used the month stamp from Life's Little Moments to create the background.

Make sure you check out the design teams cards:
http://evafromca.blogspot.com/
http://www.mybucketoverfloweth.blogspot.com/

http://scrapsbym.blogspot.com/

Now you can head on over to check out some more wonderful {ippity} creations! Make sure you leave a little love while you're there :)

http://scraprona.blogspot.com/

http://taylormadebyjenmarie.blogspot.com/

http://robynccgirl.blogspot.com/

http://www.mylittlecreativeescape.blogspot.com/

http://bunnynest.blogspot.com/

http://www.stopandstamptheroses.blogspot.com/

http://alteredambitions.blogspot.com/

http://www.handmade75.blogspot.com/

http://www.stephaniezito.blogspot.com/

http://jenmitten.blogspot.com/

http://ippitystamps.com/

http://emmielouwho.blogspot.com/

http://creativepad.typepad.com/

http://thepaperfreak.blogspot.com/

http://ippityinspiration.blogspot.com/

http://www.hlr976.blogspot.com/

http://mysanitydependsonstamping.blogspot.com/

savannahland

cravencreations.com

http://www.freckledcutie.blogspot.com/

Thanks to all of you for participating!!

Butterfly Birthday!

Hello to all of you and hope you are having a wonderful Friday!!

So did Eryn's post yesterday knock your socks off?  I am amazed at how she was able to make such a fun and fresh album and incorporate so many {Ippity} stamps into it!! I hope that she got the ideas in your head turning as much as she did mine!!

Kelly here today with another card share for you!  By now many of you have started to receive your {Ippity} stamps (Woohoo!!) and your fabulous creations are making their way into the SCS Gallery.  I LOVE what I am seeing!!  You guys are awesome!!  (But actually I already knew that!)  :-)

I created a bright and cheery birthday card for you today and used several of the {Ippity} sets in the process!  Stamps from this card come from {Ippity} sets...

• Devoted (butterfly)
• Just Wanted to Say (frame for sentiment)
• Life's Little Moments (number collage, happy birthday block)

And the DP is also from the papers released with the November collection.  All are from My Mind's Eye.

Here is a closeup of the butterfly from the Devoted stamp set (love this Tanis.. thanks!) I colored it lightly with my Copics and then added an opaque white pen to the hollow dots.  I also matted the butterfly in black cardstock and popped it up with some pop dots to really make it stand out.

I created the strip of numbers simply by stamping the numbers collage stamp from the Life's Little Moments collection three times in a row using my Stamp-a-ma-jig.  It is a stamp I see myself using plenty of times!!

To create the Happy Birthday sentiment,  I first stamped my frame from the Just Wanted to Say stamp set and then by masking off parts of the Happy Birthday stamp from the same set, and stamping in red and blue inks, I could make this a two colored title to better coordinate with my card.  I added the little bit of extra bling in the way of rhinestones to both the title and the butterfly!

Can't wait to see more of what you guys create with these fabulous sets, so I hope I have inspired you to get busy stamping! Please share with us a link to your creations over on the {Ippity} forum at SCS.  We want to see what you are creating!  Also, I hope you are also playing along with the SCS challenges each day using your {Ippity} stamps.  These awesome stamps are one secret we don't want to keep to ourselves!!

Be sure to use the key word Ippity when uploading your works of art so we can all find them!

Thanks for looking, and please enjoy the rest of your day!! Eva will be back tomorrow with some more {Ippity} eye candy!!