Hip-Hopping Happenings...

ETA: Congratulations Beate, You WIN the Alphabet!!!

{email eryn@unitystampco.com and let her know your mailing info and that you won Worn PolkaDot Alpha from the blog candy)

Happy Hip-Hop Everyone!!!!

How has the blog hop gone so far? I am sure that it is full of the normal eye-candy...I love seeing what everyone creates every week...it's so fun!!!




I have three projects to share with you today. My first two feature the December kit of the month...Little Reminders. I know that we all say it every month (but that is only because Angela and her artists continue to get better and better), but I LOVE this kit...it's so darn cute!!!



For my layout, I used this kit, the swirl stamped across the bottom, behind the title; the basket and Bliss in the scalloped ovals; and the Love quote at the top of the layout. I also added one of the journaling blocks from Our Life, Our Stories. Everything that is stamped in red has been clear embossed and I used watercolor pencils on the basket to color it. The layout is based upon the Inspired Blueprints Sketch #5.

Btw, this is my mom with the kids when she was here to visit last month...JacqueB for those of you on the Splitcoast forums!


Supplies used:
*Unity Stamp Co. Little Reminders
*Unity Stamp Co. Our Life, Our Stories
*Making Memories Ledger Paper
*Crate Paper Die-Cut paper
*Scenic Route Sonoma paper
*Bo Bunny floral paper
*Bazzill cardstock
*American Crafts alphabet stickers
*rickrack
*watercolor pencils
*Marvy Uchida oval punches

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I also created a very simple card using this kit and the SCS sketch for this week... Looking at this today, I think that it needs a bit of glitter on the snowflakes on those cute mittens...wouldn't that be fun?

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Little Reminders

*K&Company Christmas paper

*watercolor pencils

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And guess what, you are at the end of today's blog hop!!! That means that I have the blog candy. We are giving away this wonderfully cute alphabet, Worn Polka Dot Alpha!! I love this alphabet and think that it probably gets overlooked in favor of all the really cute images, but you can do some amazing stuff with it. These letters are 1 1/2" each so you can really make a statement with them. I used them on this purse that I made for my neice Emily for Christmas.

The purse came from Hobby Lobby ($6!) I stamped the journaling block from Our Life, Our Stories onto muslin using StazOn. The E is actually stamped using Pigment Ink (no, you wouldn't want to wash this). I then pinked the edges of my muslin, ironed it on using wonderUnder, and then used embroidery floss to finish it off on the purse.

To create another fun little embellishment, I stamped the owl from Mix Up of Cuteness onto Shrinky dinks, colored it with colored pencils and punched it with my mega scallop oval punch to create an extra little tag/fun for the purse strap.

Here is another fun example of how you can use this alphabet to create monogram cards (great gift idea...esp. for teachers and friends!) BTW, this is a card that I created almost a year ago when I got my first kits of Unity stamps. Who knew then what a huge part of my life you all (and these stamps) would become. :o)

Now leave a comment here to be eligible for the drawing for this fun alphabet at the end of the day today. And come on over and join us in the chat and fun over at the Splitcoast forum!!!