what's shakin...

i love my hobby. it's such a good stress reliever when one is needed! i go hide in my craft room and start getting lost in all the crafty goodness. this week has been a hard one at my work. too many crazies in this world. so i've had a lot of reason to escape. i am loving paper tape lately. i played with it a little and made a frame from it.

what's shakin'?
stamps: unity
cardstock: cherry cobbler
ink: onyx black
embellishments: paper tape

kind of a big deal...

want to win a $20 gift certificate to your favorite {ippity} chick (ahem...possibly me!)?  have you checked out the {ippity} blog?   it's time for a challenge!  play along with the challenge and you could get some fab new stamps!  so go get crafty and post your creation over on the {ippity} blog and see if you win!!  

here's the 'anything but a card' creation i made.  a tag for my pop.  i know he won't see it before father's day (since i doubt he checks my bloggie!) but if he does, then happy father's day, early!!  i used stamps from 'the best' set and 'the man' set.  both are great sets!  and can you believe that 'the man' set is only $6??  six bucks!! 

kind of a big deal
stamps: ippity
cardstock: walnut cream
ink: versamark, cherry cobbler, crumb cake, early espresso, weathered wood distress, peeled paint distress, broken china distress, old paper distress
embellishmnets:   7 gypsies paper tape, smash* paper tape (k&co), clear embossing powder, twine



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mini-smash...

if you haven't heard, there is a cute new book/journal type thing coming any day, hopefully!   it's called a smash* book.  click here...for a cool video demo. what i especially love about it is the title...smash* for the moments and musings that stick.  cool, huh, because my blog is for the musings of my creativity!  see that...kindred spriits.  and i am so in love with the red book...known as the doodle book.

anyway, there were some delays with the release of this awesome creation so the fine folks over at k  & company decided to give away a mini-smash* to the followers of their blog.  i was lucky enough to get one.  so i took it with me on my stamping trip so i could show it off to the girls i've been gushing to about the smash*.  and i made a mini-smash* of our trip.  top 10 list and all!!  i'll take more pictures of it and post those, too.  but i wanted to give a shout out to smash* blog for giving my mini smash* a mention (lookie here)!!  how cool is that???  love!

plus you might as well check out there blog often cause you never know when you might win one!

and here's the original post that k & company linked to...

summer vacation...

earlier this year, i hosted a circle journal swap that was a summer themed cj.  i recently found my last entry and never posted it.  it was such a fun swap and i really need to take pictures of my completed cj.  i love it!

summer time

stamps: unity, imaginisce, k & company

cardstock: bermuda bay, daffodil delight, cosmo cricket pp

ink: early espresso, white craft, versamark

embellishments: white pen
font:  pea carolyn

sweet...

i finally finished this set of atcs.  i've been struggling with them for a while, not knowing what to make.  it's for a swap that joanne is hosting.  the theme was "i got the munchies"  seems easy enough.  i sure love food, so why did i have a problem?  who knows!  i finally decided to use this cute stamp and the rest just sort of swirled out!  (ok, bad joke...)  i used the styled labels die again and cut it in half.  kinda makes me feel good, like i'm totally getting my money's worth plus some by using them different.  random side note:  i watched the movie leap year as i made these.  cute movie.  really makes want to go back to ireland and tour the countryside.

sweet

stamps: k & co, unity

cardstock: melon mambo

ink: early espresso, melon mambo

embellishements:  glossy accents, prismacolor markers
tools: styled labels die