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Happy Hip Hop!

Happy Hip Hop everyone! Today is my favorite day of the week because I just love taking this blog hop! I'm always so inspired by these amazingly talented ladies on the Unity team!

So today I made this card using the amazing July Kit of the Month! I love this kit because it has so much diversity and beautiful images in it! If you haven't ordered yours yet, you need to do it right now before they're all gone!

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.'s July Kit of the Month
Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Cardstock: Bazzill
Ink: Close To My Heart
Flowers: Making Memories and Prima
Buttons: Foo Fa La

*Since it's the Hip Hop before my birthday I'm gonna give away a Birthday RAK to some lucky poster!

Alright, now I'm sending you on to the sweet, spicy, and talented Jen!

Hugs and blessing to you all!

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Take the Challenge Tuesday and My PageMaps Birthday RAK!

Take the Challenge Tuesday!

Lots of delicious things going on today! The first thing I want you to know is it's Take the Challenge Tuesday at Clear and Simple Stamps! The challenge for today is
called Sizzle and Pop! This challenge is to make something using bold fun colors like bright orange, yellow and red and to add something "pops" to your card, LO or project.

Here's what I did:

Stamps: Clear and Simple Stamps Summer Sand

Cardstock: Bazzill

I hope you will play along can't wait to see what you come up with. If you do please go to PaperCraft Planet and use Tags; TTC07; clearandsimplestamps.

PageMaps Birthday RAK!

I don't know if there's anyone who loves PageMaps as much as I do! Really, whenever I'm at a lose for a great design, this is one of the few places I go for inspiration. I'm telling you it works every time! So, I was especially excited when the My Little Shoebox design team had a chance to be the guest contributors for July! Here's the sketch I was given:

And here's the layout I did featuring my cutie pie little cousin Tatum:

Now, anyone who knows me knows that I always tend to create 1 photo layouts, so for me to be given this 2-page multi-photo layout was a challenge indeed! I must say that I truly enjoyed the change!

Now, I'm issuing a challenge to you. Go to the July PageMaps and choose a sketch that inspires you to create a layout. Complete your layout and post a link to it in this post and I'll enter you in a drawing to win my Scrapilicious Birthday RAK! You have until Sunday to post your layout. I'll announce a winner here on my birthday next Monday July 13th! I can't wait to see whay you all do!

Hugs and Blessings!

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More BoBunny!

Happy 4th of July Eve! I know everyone's got barbecue, pools, and popcicles on their mind's right now (or maybe that's just me! LOL!) but I've got some more stuff I made using that yummilicious Mango Luau collection from BoBunny! Let me tell you that I love this line! Hey being a guest designer for them totally rocks!

All products used on both the layout and the card are from BoBunny! Go check out their blog for another chance to win some goodies from this beautiful line!

***The winner from my BoBunny Guest Designer RAK is Jan Farnworth! Congratulations Jan!

Alright, the grill is calling me, so hugs and blessings to you all!

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Happy Hip Hop!

Happy Hip Hop to ya! Today's hop has been incredible, right? I'll just tell you that the Unity DT is one of the most talented group of ladies around and I'm so happy to be a part of them!

So today we're focusing on the amazing July Kit of the Month. Can you say "fabulous"? These kits of the month get better every month! I don't know how Angela does it, but I'm glad she's doing it! If you haven't become a Kit of the Month subscriber, you need to because these kits are really amazing!

Stamps: Unity's July Kit of the Month
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Markers: Copic
Ribbon: Offray

Alright, leave me a comment and I'll see what kind of candy I have in the cabinet to give ya! I'll see you in Unity's Splitcoast forum around 5:30 CST!

Your next stop is to one of the coolest persons on this planet, Amber!

Take care and Be Blessed!

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BoBunny's in the House!

You have made it! I am the guest designer for BoBunny this month!! How excited am I to be the guest designer for BoBunny? Let me tell you that I am thrilled to be working with one of my all time favorite manufacturers!

I'm supposed to tell you a few things about me, so here it goes! I'm the mother of some really cute kids that look good in layouts (that's the only reason I keep them around!LOL!), I love to stamp cards and to do scrapbook pages, I'm very close with my family, I'm a 5th grade teacher, I love to cook, oh- and I've been told that I'm a bit goofy on occasion! That's pretty much me!

Okay, so they let me work with the yummilicious (yes, I made up that word!LOL!) Mango Luau Collection. Here are a few of the things I've done:

So, now that the cat's out of the bag, go on back to the BoBunny Blog and tell 'em that you know the guest designer is me so you can win some delicious stuff!

*If you leave a comment here and there, I'll put your name in a hat for a random drawing for some goodies!

Hugs and Blessings!

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A Wonderful Wednesday!

Today is July 1st which means Clear and Simple Stamps is debuting it's Stamp of the Month which is called Summer. For the month of July, you can enjoy a $1 off this set by using discount code: DTBlog709. In addition to that there's also a Stamp Of The Month Copic Bundle for $26. This means you can get the Copic Trio Yellow-1 and the Summer set for only $26 during the month of July. Now that's some kinda sweet deal!

In addition to that delicious deal, CSS is also offering a new Stamp Of The Month template every month for FREE that will coordinate with the SOTM kit perfectly! Here's what I created with the template:

If you're interested in winning a $15 gift certificate to the CSS store, just download the template, make your own Summer Treat Pack creations and leave a comment with a link to your picture on the CSS blog!. They'll pick a winner on July 15th, so hurry up and enter as many times as you wish! Good luck!

Go check out all of the DT's summer treat packs!

Beth Matson
Erin Bigler
Jen Tapler
Kim Howard
Maria Levine
Nancy Beauchamp
Neva McMullen
Robyn Weatherspoon
Sue Berker

Hugs and Blessings!

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Hip Hop!

Merry Christmas everybody! Today Unity is having a Christmas in June celebration spreading the love to everyone! Christmas always has been my favorite time of the year, how about you? I'm loving seeing the amazing design team creations today because it's been very inspirational! If you haven't checked out the wonderful goings on over at Angela's blog then I suggest you get over there ASAP!

Stamps: Unity's All Santa's Reindeer and Bitty Christmas Tags
Paper: Cosmo Cricket
Large Scalloped Circle: Spellbinder's Nestabilities
Scalloped Edge Punch: Martha Stewart
Ribbon: Ofray
Buttons: Foof Fa La
Markers: Copic

I hope you've been leaving comments as you've been hopping today because I'm gonna be giving some blog candy to one of my posters!

Now it's time for you to head on over to the fabulously talented Jimmi to see what amazing treat she's cooked up for today!

Enjoy your day and stay cool! Hugs and Blessings!

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My Happy Home

Have you ever had the feeling that something big is about to happen in your life? Well, that's how I've been feeling this past month, but unfortunately I don't think it's something I will view as a positive...at least not at first. I'm not sure I even know what I'm talking about right now. I think I'm babbling on.(LOL!) All I know is that God is doing big things in my life and I feel like I need to get still, strap myself in, and get ready for the ride!

This layout I'm showing here today features my home! I love my little home so I thought I would do a layout about it! Everything here is from My Little Shoebox except the Making Memories chipboard scalloped circle and the Bazzill cardstock.

Have a happy and blessed day!

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Happy Friday!

I hope your day is going well. I had originally planned to do some yard work today, but it is way too HOT for that! So, on to plan #2 which was to scrap!

I'm taking the Got Sketch 104 class so I decided to do my first assignment. Here it is:

Please excuse the bad photo, but you know how it is! Okay, I really love these classes because the sketches usually focus on multi-photo layouts. Since I rarely do them this class is a challenge for me! This is my cutie pie Michael being his goofy self along with papers from Basic Grey and stamps from Unity Stamp Co. I had lots of fun doing those hearts too!

Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs and Blessings you!

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Hip Hop!

It's Hip Hop Rewind today and what fun it's been! I love the rewind days because you get to see your favorite stamp sets that you've forgotten about used again! I know I had a great time trying to figure out which of my old favorites I was gonna use today.