Hambo Hoedown!

Good Morning Everyone!
Welcome to this week's Hambo Hoedown! If you haven't been by the Hoedown blog, what are you waiting for?!?! Hop on over there and check out all the fun!
For my card today, I used the Hoedown sketch, along with Uncle Ham #3419 and Pork of July #3416! Love this set!
The paper is Pink Paislee and the flag background is a K&Co die cut.
Join in the fun this week and you will receive a FREE digital image next week for participating! Can't beat that :)

Ippity Release Party Day #3!

I don't know about you, but I am having a BLAST seeing all the samples with the new Ippity releases!

Today on the Ippity blog, we are showcasing several stamp sets. The ones I used for the first card are The Man and The Best (of course! can't get enough of this set!)  I also made the first card with two challenges in mind. The Mojo Monday #194 sketch, and the Kraft Outlet's "It's A Guy Thing" challenge.
(Like my twine?! Get your's HERE!)

For my second card I used New Season, New Wonder and I paired it up with the Sweet cherry border from one of my past Unity Kit's of the Month. All of these stamps work SO WELL together! That's the beauty! I'll be submitting this card to the All Things Unity challenge, ATU32, From the Hearth~use your food inspired stamps, along with the Unity Tooty Fruity Challenge!

So, you don't have to deprive yourself of these awesome stamps one minute longer! Just click HERE and it will take you to Stamp HEAVEN! aka, my Ippity Blog! :)

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The Best Is Seriously THE BEST!

I am having SO much fun with this stamp set! There are really so many different ways to use it! Click HERE to order yours today and enjoy FREE SHIPPING! And every order receives a pack of 12 - 6x6 patterned papers and coordinating ribbon!  

I've been on a hand-stitching kick lately! I can't seem to make a card without stitching on it! I used my Sew Easy (available at Paper Wings), the original head to go around the card border and for the ribbon I just poked holes all around and stitched with WRMK embroidery floss. I used a circle punch, a scalloped circle punch and a circle nestability to create the ribbon, the "tails" are different stamps from THE BEST. The papers are all from Crate Paper. I used Glossy Accents to highlight the #1, it's still wet here so it looks a little cloudy! I'll have to take a new photo now that it is dry :)

Hop on over to the Ippity blog for more release party fun today!

And click HERE to see my feature on the Unity blog!

Ippity Release Party

Have you been to the Ippity blog yet?! Make sure to check it out for some fun games and prizes! And when you are ready to shop, just click HERE to enjoy FREE SHIPPING!!!!!!!!!

Kit Used - Flowers + Friends = Priceless

Friends With Flair and the Shabby Tea Room

I submitted a card earlier this week to the Shabby Tea Room. I had so much fun with it that I made another one!  I guess I've been on a shabby chic kick lately. And tonight I decided to do some embossing on my card. I used the "My Heart Sings" stamp from the Unity May 2011 KOM with some Girls Paperie. The gingham paper for the card base is Amuse and I finished it off with some hand dyed seam binding, embroidery floss and a trinket pin that I made. (I hope it's not too far of a stretch to call the letter pebbles "buttons" to qualify for this challenge!)

Before you go~only a few more days until the June release from Ippity! All 5 kits have been revealed and you can pre-order now HERE! Shipping is included in all kit prices and you will also receive 12 6x6 papers with coordinating ribbon.

What's On Tap Tuesday?!?!

Better late than never, I always say! This week sorta flew by me. It took until Wednesday to recover from the weekend. With the beautitful sunny weather, we were barely at home, so laundry piled up, etc. and there was not much crafting going on. I tried this week to do a bit of this and a bit of that. All I seemed to accomplish was creating a mess and starting 5 different projects! I did finish one though, a card for tomorrow's Friends With Flair. I'll be posting that later, but in the meantime, here is my desk at the current moment. I need to clean it up before getting crafty this weekend!

And be sure to check out Cindy's blog for the rest of the What's On Tap Tuesday participants!

Oink Oink!

I couldn't resist that! So I mentioned last week, I had a secret. Today is the day I am able to reveal it :)

For the next 4 months I will be a proud member of the Hambo Stamps Design Team "aka" a Bacon Bit! Isn't that the cutest name for the Design Team members?!?! If you are familiar with Hambo Stamps you already know they have a lot of cute "piggie" images as well as an array of punny, humorous stamps. They are so much fun to work with and I was lucky to be pigged picked to be on their Rubber Team, so I will be designing with stamps from their rubber collection through September 2011. Be sure to check out the Hambo blog, Talk to the Ham, today for the rest of the new Bacon Bits, rubber and digi team!!!!
I am so excited and would love to share my first card with you using 2 new digi images, Orange and Yam Kids - digi. Aren't they cute?! and they are available now in the digi shop!

Be sure to stop back often to check out my Hambo projects!

Supplies:
Digi Images by Hambo Stamps ~ Orange and Yam kids - digi
Pop-Up A2 Insert Card Base by Creative Cuts & More
Copics
Scallop Scissors
Martha Stewart Punch; Fiskars Scalloped Oval Punch, SU Oval Punch
Cricut Cartridge ~ From My Kitchen
Fork Brad by Eyelet Outlet
AMuse Twinkles
Embroidery Floss WRMK
Creative Cafe Felt Heart Button