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Happy Friday!  I made this card with stamps from ippity's new release-A Little Buggy.  This is such an adorable set!  I used the color challenge in celebration of the new ippity releases-lavender, turquoise, and green.  This is also for the Cas-tastic Wednesday challenge (thanks Bonnierose for letting me know!).  nThe circle border is from K&Co poppy seed collection.  The colors were perfect for the challenge and I like how it went with the modern, circular flowers in this set.

If you are interested in adding some ippity goodness to your stamp collection, check out my ippity page HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

SPRING IPPITY RELEASE IS HERE!

Hello!  I am so excited to show you the new spring {ippity} releases!  So many wonderful stamps, and this release offers some smaller kits like the one I used for my altered book above-Books a Flutter.  I am offering this kit for only $5.00 along with a couple of others!  I have been dying to alter an old book, and the minute I saw the set, Books A Flutter, I knew what I wanted to do!

Click HERE to go to my {ippity} sales page.  If there is an older set that you would like that I do not have listed, let me know and I will gladly order it for you.  What you see on my sale page is what I actually have in stock.  You can buy the entire Spring 2010 release bundle for only $125.00 with FREE shipping!

Hope you enjoy the new releases and the inspiring projects my fellow ippity chicks have created for your viewing pleasure!  You can find the list of Ippity chicks for the hop HERE.

Emily

Paper Maniac is all about altered items this week!

Stamps:  Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Old Paper Distress Ink

Paper:  Brown paper bag, scrap of off white CS

Accessories:  paper towel roll or toilet paper roll, May Arts black burlap string, glue

Hello!  Paper Maniac is focusing on altered items this week.  Today I have an easy project you can do with items you probably have in your home right now!  These little party favor crackers are perfect for gift giving.  You can fill them with candy, money, or any small items.  I plan on putting money in the butterfly cracker to give as a graduation gift.

The paper bag I used is one that my Unity KOTM arrives in every month.  I like that it is a bit thinner and lighter weight than a regular grocery bag.  After stamping your desired image onto the bag, flip it over and apply glue to your paper roll.  Wrap the bag around and add a little extra glue at the overlapping seam.  Make sure to fill your cracker with goodies before tying the ends with burlap string or ribbon of your liking.

I hope you are inspired to give these a try!  Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

H{ippity} Hop-You're Fintastic!

Sooooo...this poor little ippity set has been neglected by me!  It was one of my favorites when they first showed us the last new release, but I just now got it inky!  The sentiment in the inside will read, "You're Fintastic!"  I colored my fishy with Copics and added some detail on the scales with a Sakura star dust pen.  I used my spritzer and a chocolate marker to spray the kraft paper to look like sand.

Here is a close up of the details.  Sooooooo much fun to color this fish!

New {ippity} release this Thursday!  Please email me if you would like to pre-order the entire new release bundle. emmielouwhostamps@yahoo.com.   All of the new releases for only $125.00 plus FREE SHIPPING.  That is 10 stamp sets, and a sampler pack of 6x6 paper all for $125.00 plus FREE SHIPPING!  You can't beat that!

Happy Mother's Day BLOG CANDY!

 The WINNER of my blog candy is.............


EMILY KEATON!  Congrats to Emily!  Send me your email and I will get your blog candy in the mail to you! :)



Happy Mother's Day!  Here is a card I made for the Unity Hip Hop sketch this week.  I flipped the sketch.  I also made this card for this week's inspiration challenge on SCS.  The stamps are from Unity's April KOTM.
I hope all of you have a FABULOUS day with your loved ones!  We are going to my sister's house for a combo dinner/birthday party to celebrate Mother's Day and my nieces birthday this evening.  This afternoon I am hanging with my boys at home!
My oldest son made me a book of poetry.  On one of the pages he had to write how old I was, how tall, how much I weigh, etc.  He wrote that I was 6 feet tall and 120 pounds!!! Don't I wish!  For the question, "What does your mom cook?"  He wrote, "everything".  I try to cook dinner most nights of the week and sit down as a family, so this one made me happy!  Hubby got me a gift certificate to Mitchell's-a spa that I love to go to locally.  What did you gals get for Mother's Day or how are you going to spend your day?  Let me know in this post and you can win some blog candy!  If you are a follower of my blog, just let me know and you can get a second chance to win!  A random winner will be chosen on Friday!

Here is what will be included:

ippity set Moonbeams & Heartstrings
MFT set Congrats all Around
Dog Gone Stamps vampire boy
Unity wood slide flower
Heidi Swapp lemonade gel blossoms
Artful INKables set Love Ya Lots
2 stampology sets- Thankful 4 and Playing in the leaves
3 Studio G clear sets

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

FWF-You Give Me Happy Butterflies...

Hello!  Happy Friday!  I was excited to ink up these butterflies and sentiment from my April KOTM.  I used some newly purchased DP from MME's Home collection.  I added some faux stitching and burlap string to finish it off.  I sprayed some Marshmallow Glimmer Mist on it too, but dang...I just can not photograph glitter well.  It's there, though!  Below is a close up:

I popped my butterflies with dimensionals, and heck...you still can't see that glimmer mist!!!!  Oh, well.

I have some more Unity goodness for you, though!

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Mother's Day Gift for the "crafty chicks" in your life...

 Stamps:  Unity April retail mini kit-Sew Cute

Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa

Paper:  Cosmo Cricket-Material Girl

Accessories:  Buttons, May Arts Burlap string, satin ribbon, kaiser pearls, stick pins, vintage lace

Hello!  This week Paper Maniac is focusing on Mother's Day cards and gifts. Today I have a great mother's day gift idea for you!  This would be a great idea for any crafty ladies in your life.  I bought a chipboard album from the dollar bin at Michael's and took three of the boards and covered them in DP from Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl collection.  I used stamps from the April Unity retail kit.  LOVE those sewing images.  I added buttons, pins, burlap string, vintage lace and satin ribbon to decorate the panels.  Below you will find some close ups of the panels.  I ran the satin ribbon through the holes on the chipboard to connect the panels.  This is a quick, easy and inexpensive project for all of those crafty ladies in your life!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out all of the great product at Paper Maniac!

Emily

Wistful...

Hello! For yesterday's CAS challenge on SCS, we were to do a flower themed card. I have been dying to ink up this water lily from Brenda Landtroop's Serenity collection. This  is the Whispering Wing's set from Mark's Finest Paper's.  This set will be released this month!  Stay tuned for more sneak peaks from me this month!
I colored the image with copics and added some lemon Offray ribbon at the top.

I am also very proud of my non techie self, for getting Faith's watermark onto my card! (Thanks for your help, Faith). Definitely need to play around with that program some more, but I am pretty happy that I got it to work!  I am running on two hours of sleep, so off to bed for me! 


Thanks so much for stopping in!


Emily

H{ippity} Hop: New Release BUNDLE PACKAGE!

Hello {ippity} chicks and fans!  Today I made a card with stamps from the Where You Should Be set.  I love this quote and think it is perfect for a graduation card or an encouragement card for a young adult.
All of the paper products and embellishments used are from Caffinated Cropper's March Beez Kneez kit.  LOVE this stuff!  That is a piece of rusty screen behind my sentiment.  How cool is that and it came in this kit!  Amy's kits are  fabulous and they are a great value for your dollar.  She has monthly contests and fun hops and guess what...I won May's upcoming kit for free!  Thanks, Amy!
Stay tuned because she will be releasing Bird's of A Feather-May's kit on May 7th!  She has some sneek peaks so check her blog out HERE.

Hope you enjoy the H{ippity} Hop!  TONS of inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for the new {ippity} releases!

If you would like to pre-order the entire bundle of new ippity stamps and paper for $125.00 plus FREE shipping, email me at emmielouwhostamps@yahoo.com.  I will send you a pay pal invoice and ship your new release collection as soon as it is released!

Emily

EIC86-Isabell's Umbrella

edit:  ooops!  Sorry I didn't list the products I used!  The base is Morning Sun CS from  Mark's Finest Papers and the cow die cut is from Jo Ann fabrics!

Happy Saturday!  Time for another Etsy Inspired Challenge.  This week our shop is Isabell's umbrella.  You will find lots of different paper crafty goodness in this shop.  I was drawn to the whimsical, CAS style in this shop.

Our sponsor this week is Lawn Fawn.  You will find TONS of adorable stamps in this shop!
We hope you play along with us this week.  Please remember to use keyword EIC86 when uploading to online galleries.  Make sure to link your creation to the EIC blog HERE.  Next Friday, Ashley will pick two random winners.  One winner will receive a stationary set from Isabell's umbrella and another winner will receive THIS stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Emily