Ippity Photo Inspiration

This week's challenge is our photo inspiration. Check the Ippity blog here! I used my favorite Ippity stamp set, Now and Always for the background. I stamped with 4 colors of Stampin Up! ink. The sentiment is from the set Music of My Heart. I made a paper flower that I saw in the current Scrapbooks Etc. magazine. It's a punched border strip that you fold and glue to a punched circle. I used Helmar glue. My first try at one, the paper is a bit crumpled, spritzing with water may have helped! But it looks fine. There are lots more to see at the Ippity Splitcoast Stampers forum! Thanks for looking in!

Hobby Lobby Card Class

I'm filling in for my Aunt Laura's card class next Wed. and here are the cards you'll be making. Of course all the sentiments are optional, I'll bring different one's to choose from. The bird card was requested by Mary Jo, and it's stamped on sticky back canvas. I did another canvas card, which is the red flower one. It is inked with a TH flower die mask. The sympathy card is inked with DI, then I sprayed a rubber stamp with water, and stamped it into the ink. When you dry with a heat tool, you get this effect. Gotta love the DI inks! A manly birthday card, that I stapled to give it an industrial look. And the music note card is an any occasion. I'll be sending an email out to the girls from the classes. See you then!

Compendium of Curiosities #35

Here we are. At the end of a fabulous journey Linda has led us on! Design Details is the last technique  in Tim's book, and the last challenge for us.(for now!) I encorporated different techniques in my final piece, and of course the 'details'! I will attach this to a canvas, and hang it up in my craft room to always be a reminder of the wonderful and talented blog friends I have made through Linda's blog, StudioL3. Thank you Linda so much! And thanks to everyone who has followed my blog through this fabulous journey! I can't wait for the next one to begin!

Ippity Color Challenge!

Here is a color challenge card I made for Ippity, at splitcoast stampers. The colors to use are pink, blue, green, and yellow. Perfect spring colors, although it's raining, cold, and dreary here in Ohio today. I used pink cardstock for the card, which started as an A10 size, but thought it was too long. So I cut it down to 7". The patterned papers are from Echo Park-Springtime collection. The Ippity stamp set I used is Now and Always. I love the flowers in this set. I stamped them twice, and cut them apart for layering. The glitter butterflies are Design Adhesives from Clearsnap. I have much neglected them lately, but they are really great to use. The glitter won't rub off from them at all. They are like a shaped glue dot. Anyway, that's my card for today, I still need to finish my CCC project! It's almost done! Thanks for stopping by!

Card-Lift!

The talented and creative Eva, who is on the design team for Ippity, and Creative Imaginations, made a beautiful card that I just had to card-lift! Click here to see her card and tutorial!! Mine is a little different, but I used her same layout, and Ippity stamps. You can see the full set of these stamps at her blog post, or click my link on the sidebar. Her card is done with black CS, while mine is blue, and I just inked the edges with Black Soot DI. The green part of the flower is a doily that she shows how to make. I think it's just gorgeous, and I thank Eva for sharing her work!!

Bring on the Bling!

This card I made for the Ippity Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. Anyone can join in, if your interested, click here to go to their forum! I just got a Martha Stewart around the page punch, and had to use it. I like the design on this one! The Ippity stamps I used are from Now and Always, and How you Doin sets. I love the flower stamps, like I did here, you stamp them twice, then cut and layer. The paper is from Echo Park-Springtime collection, that I won on their facebook page! I went a little crazy with the glitter! I bought a large pack of small bottles of glitter in like 20 colors, so I had to use them! The flowers looked plain once I glittered the oval, so they had to have some bling to!! I think it's pretty and girly, and I'm sure it will make someone smile! Thanks for looking in on my glittery card!

CCC #34-One More Left!!

Yes, there is one week left at Linda's Studio L3 blog, for the Compendium of Curiosity Challenge. We are all in anticipation of the next Journey of crafting that she'll take us through! I was lucky to come across her blog last year shortly after I started blogging, and it's been a real treat for me! Click here to get in on the fun! This week we are doing Dimensional Collage Fragments, and I love it! My favorite thing to do with fragments!! And I had just recently bought an old book at the Goodwill store perfect for this! I used Sizzix and Qickutz dies for some of the elements. The sentiments are tiny Stampin Up! stamps. I made it into a keychain to give to a friend who is moving away. So if she reads this post, she'll have a heads up!! Thanks for stopping in, and visit StudioL3 for lots of fun, and great blogging friends!