Ippity Hippity

It is Monday... I am hoping I am on the hop list, but if not... I still have Ippity to show off!

You can check out everyone participating in the Ippity Customer hop HERE. Make sure to go check it out to see some Ippity SNEAKS!

Unfortunately, I have a repeat of last week! I had to make another stupid Sympathy card. Not just one, but three! I so hate having to make these. I love the way they turned out, but still am not excited I HAD to make them.

I had to make 3 of these, and all of them had a different Tim Holtz texture. I used the Now and Always set for the front sentiment and Regal Greetings for the sentiment.

These also qualify for the Basic Grey Challenge to use a Basic Grey product and Pearls!

I DID make all the insides the same using a Devoted stamp....

Now head back to the Ippity Hop List.

Verve June Release Challenge

Verve Stamps is having a release party this week over at SplitCoastStampers, and along with the release, they are having a sketch challenge. Not just ANY sketch challenge, but a challenge that requires 5 sketches! Anyone can enter the challenge, using Any brand of stamps. Each sketch has a prize of its own, but if you do complete ALL 5 sketches, you have another chance to win ~ and you could win the WHOLE JUNE release! WHOOHOO!
Anyhoo, here are my 5 entries (click on the title to see the actual sketch provided by Verve):

VSJun01

STUFF I USED FOR 1:
INK: SU Basic Black, SU Chocolate Chip
PAPER: Kraft, scraps
STAMPS: {Verve} Beautiful You, Beautiful Kindness
ACCESSORIES: Button, Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Basic Grey Brad, Cricut (scalloped squares)

VSJun02

STUFF I USED FOR 2:
INK: Versamark
PAPER: glitter pack, best occasions vellum
STAMPS: {Verve} Beautiful Kindness
ACCESSORIES: Dollar Tree flower, White Gel Pen, 3/4" circle punch, White Embossing Powder

VSJun03

STUFF I USED FOR 3:
INK: SU Glorious Green, SU Basic Black
PAPER: Paper Company
STAMPS: {Verve} Beautiful You, Sweet on You, Dad's Day
ACCESSORIES: Cuttlebug, Sizzix texture plate flowers #3, SU Large Oval Punch

VSJun04

STUFF I USED FOR 4:
INK: SU Orchid Opulence, SU Chocolate Chip
PAPER: Paper Company
STAMPS: digistamp, {Verve} Sweet on You
ACCESSORIES: Cuttlebug Divine Swirls, ribbon, mini gems, Nestabilities

VSJun05

STUFF I USED FOR 5:

INK: SU Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Versamark
PAPER: digi paper, scraps
STAMPS: {Verve} Up, Up, & Away
ACCESSORIES: Holographic Embossing Powder

Stamps, Paper, Glitter #15

Kerin is at it again with a great sketch to follow on Stamps, Paper, Glitter:This is my card:A close up of the sentiment:

STUFF I USED FOR THIS CARD:
STAMPS: Unity KOM September 2008
PAPER: Digi Paper by Summer Driggs, Red Texture Paper
INK: Brown Pigment Ink
ACCESSORIES: Gems, SU Top Note Die, dimensionals, Sizzix Texture, Cuttlebug

Now, I have been downloading a lot of digi paper lately, so I thought I would try to use them in a card without just printing the paper, but make the whole card digi! I decided to use Kerin's #15 sketch in this digi attempt. I made the whole card on the computer, printed it out, and then printed the center embellishment only, cut it out, and then layered it on the digi card printout...I also used some foam stickies to make the "brads" on the sketch, the distressed ink around the edges is brown pigment ink...

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED:The center embellishment:The 'brads' close up:

The digi paper is from Summer Driggs. She has a lot of free digi kits on her website HERE. The digi kit used for this card was the Easy Breezy kit. Check out her site and learn about a poor little girl who is fighting with cancer.

May Viva La Verve

I've gone a little crazy now that I am home! Here are my entries for the Viva La Verve Challenges for May (if you would like to see the sketch for each card, click on the title before the card and it will take you to the SplitCoastStampers VivaLaVerve forum):

VLVMAY01 {TWIST} Inspiration... which I got from my camo bedroom set. I posted about this card before so you may feel a bit of a repeat happening, but this is the only card previously posted, so please continue on!VLVMAY02 {TWIST} Blue & Green: I didn't like the first card, so I made a second one which I liked MUCH better ~ VLVMAY03 {TWIST} Favorites: I was in Colorado when I made this so I used what I had... my favorites are Brown, Gems, Distressing with ink. I did have all of these available, so this is how it turned out:VLVMAY04 {TWIST} Masculine: I used browns, a bold blue, and bold red. Used sentiment: "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I chose the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Robert Frost. I used this as a masculine sentiment because {sorry guys :)} it seems that a guy will take the road less traveled, get lost, not ask for directions... and that makes all the difference!

STUFF I USED FOR THESE CARDS:
ONE: mailing labels, SU a to z, SU painted posies, Verve Beautiful You, ALL my green inks, Brown Pigment Ink
TWO: Nestabilities Labels 4, Sarah Kay 'First Kiss', gems
TWO2: Cricut, Verve Beautiful You, buttons, SU tempting turquoise, Sizzix Embossing Texture
THREE: Gems, KMickus Digi Paper Just Breathe, Verve Beautiful You, Embossing Powder, VersaMark
FOUR: Best Occasions Scrap Pack Paper, Piercing tool, white gelly roll pen, brown zig marker, Brown Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, MS Cornice Edger.

Corrosive Challenge #10 and High Hopes Stamps #29

Corrosive Challenges By Janet and High Hopes Stamps both are having some great challenges this week. CCJ challenge #10 was to make a birthday card since it is Janet's birthday this week! HHS challenge #29 was to use some sort of embossing {~ You can use it to emboss your lined image, you can add a design to your patterned paper using embossing powder and your heat gun }.

This is my first time doing the CCJ challenge so hopefully they will like what I decided to make!

Here is my card:

I saw this technique over at one of the blogs I follow. They used the scalloped border punch {my punch isn't just the scallop, so mine is a little different from those I have already seen ;) } down the side of a sheet of paper, then used the scalloped circle punch to punch into that paper... The bright pink area is what is taken out of the sheet of paper. I then took the "cake" portion of the die cut and used VersaMark ink on it and then Holographic Embossing Powder, followed with my heat gun! I then used SU's round tab punch to make the cup. I scored the cup to make it seem to have the ridges like real cups! I also used my cuttlebug, along with the Sizzix Texturz Starter Kit to make the flowered embossing on the background, then used SU Pink Passion to make the texture Pop!
For those who care: YES YOU CAN USE THE SIZZIX TEXTURES WITH THE CUTTLEBUG! The sandwich is
A plate
texture plate
cardstock
tan mat (spellbinders)
C plate
And this sandwich is a little tighter to get through the machine, but it worked on my machine as well as a reporters machine from the Craft Critique. The article can be found HERE.

STUFF I USED FOR THIS CARD:
INK: Pink Passion SU
STAMPS: "Happy Birthday" I think G Studio, but not sure... found at Joann's for $1, came on small sheet with like 4 other acrylic stamps
ACCESSORIES: Holographic Embossing Powder by Ranger, Heat gun, fiscars border punch, scallop punch, round tab SU, ribbon, dimentionals, Sizzix texture plate, cuttlebug

So much for such a little card, the card was only 3x3!