It's a Hip-Hop, We-Just-Can't-Stop, Thursday!!!

Hello Hip-Hopper's!!!

Welcome to my blog!

I hope that you have come a hopping from Jen's gorgeous blog. If you haven't, you need to get this hip-hop started and head on over to Angela's blog first for all the fun announcements and then hip-hop on around on the DT hop.

I have several totally different styled projects to show you today, but first I have to show off my favorite.

When Unity Stamp Co. came out with EcoChic, I totally fell in love with it, but didn't really have too much of a use for it {which totally didn't stop me from buying it...LOL!} We have all seen the canvas bags for shopping bags in the stores and I have known that I really needed to invest in a set of them instead of always getting those awful plastic store bags which I usually just end up throwing away (see why I really didn't have a use for the EcoChic kit, I am not as environmental as I really should be!!) But give me a cute, stylish canvas bag and I think I can go a bit more green. Look at these....

I know, anything looks good with my gorgeous little model! :o)

Aren't they cute?!?! I just stamped my EcoChic stamps onto muslin using StazOn inkpads. I colored them with my normal Zig markers and then just ironed it all onto my canvas bags using heavy-duty wonder-under. NO SEWING INVOLVED...LOVE THAT! I covered the raw edges with those gorgeous fun ribbons that I bought at Hobby Lobby earlier in the week. And, get this...ALL the canvas bags are 50% off this week at Hobby Lobby!!! That smaller one came in a set of 3 that was regularily $4, but I got them 1/2 price so they were less than $1 each. The pink bag that is a bit more decorative came from WalMart (it was $6), but HL did have some fancier ones similar to that too...just not in pink.

I am not sure how they will hold up esp. with washing. I honestly will probably throw my sewing machine around the edges before I wash them, but I think overall they make a really cute, easy project!

I have also been having a play with the SCS challenges this week. This card is using this week's sketch, SC193. I used the new single from a few week's ago, So & So Loves. I just love that fun stamp. The other stamp, the I luv u, is out of the August KOM...unfortunately, that one is no longer available, but there is an equally cute one available for September so you want to be sure not to miss out on it.

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. So & So Loves

*Unity Stamp Co. August kom

*Martha Stewart paper (blue)

*Scenic Route paper (red)

*watercolor pencils

*buttons

*brown inkpad

*Fiskars threading water border punch

Now you need to head on over to Robyn's blog to see what gorgeous eye-candy she has been creating this week. I can guarantee you that it will be gorgeous! Then come join us for the all-day fun, games and prizes in the Splitcoaststamper's Unity forum.