Hip Hop...

Good morning Unity Peeps!

It's time for one more Hip Hop....

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co Echo Writer

*Webster's Pages paper collection

*Nestabilities die cut

*doily

*distress ink

*StazOn jet black ink pad

*twine

*MM glitter chipboard

*toothpick

Now you need to hop on over to ***Jen B's blog***

BIG Announcement!

Hi, everyone!!

I'm on the Unity Stamp Co. blog today, and I copied my post to here. Please read all the way to the bottom because I have some really exciting news to share!!!

I'm excited to be here today because today is a HUGE day for me, but I'll tell you more about that at the end of this post. ;o)

My Creations:

For today's art, I played a bit with my May KOM. 

I just love the variety of stamps in these kits!!

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. May 2012 KOM

*The paper studio kraft patterned paper

*MME paper (yellow)

*StazOn jet black inkpad

*watercolor pencils

*Nestabilities dies

*Martha Stewart border punch

* ribbon

*corner rounder

*MM dangle

*pins

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. May 2012 KOM

*The paper studio kraft patterned paper

*MME paper (yellow)

*StazOn jet black inkpad

*watercolor pencils

*Nestabilities dies

*Martha Stewart border punch

* ribbon

*toothpick

*brad

*********

Inspirational Quote

One of the things that we are supposed to do as part of our Tuesday DT posts is to share a quote we love. I have this one stored on my Pinterest boards and just love it....

Pinterest link

My Announcement:

...and that brings me to my announcement.

You'll notice that I'm not going to be around quite so much over the next little while. I'll still be here, but probably working more in the background and less on the art side, because....

I am doing what I love. 

Writing.

Today, my author website and 

my author Facebook page went live.

I'm writing romantic suspense and my first book, 

Operation: Endgame, will be available Sept, 2012.

Come like me on my new sites!

Full Reveal....

Here's the full view of the card that I just showed you a snippet of yesterday...

It's part of the new kit, Courage is My Strength from {ippity}.

You can see some of the other new releases from last night HERE and HERE.

So gorgeous!

Don't forget, there are also some AMAZING sales happening through the weekend...

Hip Hopping with New Releases

Unity Stamp Co. has new releases today, but you only get to see a little bit....

....until our release party tonight!!!

Be sure to come back and play for the Release party on the

  SCS forum at 7:00 PM CST!!!

Now you need to hop on over to ***Jen B's blog***

National Scrapbooking Day....

....and I made a CARD to celebrate. 

;o)

Seriously, I scrapbooked for over 15 years and have 25 HUGE, FULL albums. 

I have no more room for scrapbook layouts. 

It just means Kat will have no memories of her childhood while Jacob has EVERYTHING documented. The curse of being the second child.

So for today's celebration I made a card.

Supplies used:

*Unity stamp co. Jillibean Dutch Mustard Soup

*K&Co shaped paper

*Pink Paislee paper

*CTMH Crystal blue ink pad

*Martha Stewart flat back gems

*Marvy Uchida scallop circle punch

*Colorbox Navy blue ink pad

*Martha Stewart border punch

*7 gypsies dangle charm

*lace trim

Don't forget to play along with the Unity Sketch challenge. There is an amazing prize....

Hello Friday!!

It's May.

OMG, how the heck did that happen already?!?

I haven't shared my sketch challenge card with you for this month yet...

Next month is my 20th anniversary and I have been making a series of cards to give to dh.

This is another one....

Supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Feb 2012 kom

*MME papers and sticker

*Nestablities scallop oval die

*glue pen

*red glitter

*brad

*buttons

*Martha Stewart border punch

Here's the sketch from the challenge. Another way to win some gorgeous stamps!

And did you see? 

Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day.

If you play along with Unity, you could win a HUGE PRIZE!!! 

Writing on Wednesday: Time to switch the binders

I organize my writing in loose-leaf binders.

It can get fairly crazy because at any given time, my writing table pretty much looks like this...

Not so pretty, but all those binders mark a LOT of work in my life

and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling just to look at them.

Another thing that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling is when it's time to switch the binders. 

Yesterday was that day.

All of my books start out in a little 1/2" binder like that one on top. 

Then as the book gets bigger, they slowly creep up in page count until they need the 1 1/2" binder.

Yesterday Operation: Endeavor moved to the 1 1/2" binder (30,000 words so far.)

AND Unity Found made it's way into a 1/2" binder (3000 words so far.)

Hehe...I haven't told you about Unity Found yet have I??

It's a new novella which I hope to finish pretty quickly.

It was inspired by this photo of the hero, Tod, and our discussion of him on the Unity DT private page.

Tod is an outdoor outfitter on the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota.

Lila, the heroine, is a wildlife photographer needing an outdoor guide for her BoundaryWaters photo shoot.

Serendipity definitely comes into play when these two hook up. It's a fun little book and I am having just a blast writing it. It's fun to write something short and flirty for a change in pace.

Stamp of the Week #17

Have you seen this week's newest Stamp of the Week from Unity??

I love it!!

supplies used:

*Unity Stamp Co. Stamp of the week #17

*Authentique paper collection

*Nestabilities lacey frames dies

*buttons

*Fiskars border punch

*Distress ink

*StazOn jet black ink