Unity Thursday! Hip Hop!

Good Thursday! I hope you all have been having a great time getting ready for Christmas and have and/or are spending a lot to time with your friends and family. We've been a mad house of cookie making, snow playing and Christmas movie watching fools here.

I managed to sneak a few moments in to create a quick card using the December Kit of the Month. SUPER cute kit but my favorite stamp is the snowman I used on this card.  Is he not the cutest?!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Jillibean Soup, Core'dinations

Pattern Paper: Crate Paper

Die Cuts: Crate Paper

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company-December 2010 Kit of the Month

Markers: Copic

Ink: Memento

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Merry Christmas!

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity WEDNESDAY Hip Hop! Yep, a day early!

Since Thanksgiving is tomorrow we are having our Unity Stamp Co. Blog Hop today instead.

Today's fun release is another wonderful Co-Branding release. This time it's Bella Blvd! Make sure you head over to the Unity blog or website to see all the fab designs!

I used the last one (Bella Trees) for this gift bag.

Supplies:

Kraft Bag: Craft Store

Patterned Papers: BoBunny Press

Die: Spellbinders

Twine: JIllibean Soup

Punch: Stampin' Up!

Ink: Ranger

And There's More! ..............

***Special Note ***
We are donating $.50 cents of every sale to the LOCAL FOODSHELF!

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity Co-Branded Stamps now available at UNITY!

Have you had your eye on some of the great new Co-Branded stamps and couldn't find them at your favorite store? Now you can pick them up straight from Unity. The best part of this... THEY ARE ON SALE right now! ;)

Today many of the design team members have loaded up samples using some of the Co-Branded stamps that Unity makes. Head over to the blog to see a list of who has some great samples up on their blogs.

Here are a few I have done in the past:

Cosmo Cricket

Cosmo Cricket

Samantha Walker

 Donna Downey

Donna Downey

Donna Downey

Donna Downey

Donna Downey

Jillibean Soup

Jillibean Soup

Jillibean Soup

Jillibean Soup

Thanks for popping by today!

Have a great weekend!

-kimber

Unity Thursday! Hip Hop!

Before I get started... Did you see all the incredible stuff going down at Unity lately? Tons of co-branding with the hottest companies out there plus (what I think) is the best part... YOU CAN BUY ANY AND ALL UNITY STAMPS DIRECT FROM UNITY NOW!!!! Plus you can always count on them for SOME sort of deal so make sure you hit the Unity blog to see what's on sale and get shopping!

Ok, so today's themes were either making ornaments or a kids craft. I went with the kids craft route.
I made a little coloring book to toss in my purse that will be my secret weapon when the kids get antsy while we run errands during the holiday season.

All I did was grab a handful of my past kits and white cardstock. Then I stamped away on 4x5" of white cardstock with black ink. Finally, I made a simple cover and back from chipboard and bound it with a small binder ring. SO simple. I always have a small bag of crayons in my purse anyways to keep the kids occupied at restaurants so this will be a perfect addition.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned paper, button, twine: Jillibean Soup

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company

Ink: Memento

Punch: Stampin' Up!

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity Thursday! Hip Hop! -- December Daily style

Happy Thursday Blog Hoppers!

Today's hop theme is 'Journal Your Christmas' ie. December Daily albums. I love the idea of the December Daily album. Create the bones of an album and then in the month of December when life gets crazy all you have to do is snap a photo a day and jot down a note about what you did that day.

It took me all of an hour to create the bones of my December Daily album. I used the Unity Stamp Company December Kit of the Month and a $4 mini album from Target.

The cover was stamped with the sentiment stamp from the Nov '10 KOTM using white pigment ink. Then I added some Imaginisce gems with the I-Rock and tied a ribbon around the rubber band that keeps the book closed. 

For the cover page I used 2 different older Unity Stamp Sets (but good basics to have!)

Just My Type and Let's Get Scrappy

The inside pages are all the same. On the right I cut 4x6 pieces of white cardstock and stamped 'Picture Perfect' with the Nov '10 KOTM.

On the left side I cut 4x6 pieces of white cardstock and stamped Just a note and the poinsettia image. 

The plan is to make a note on the left and then I can add the photos on the right.

How simple is this?! Seriously!

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity Thursday! Hip Hop!

We've got a bit of a Thanksgiving theme going on today if you haven't noticed. Thanksgiving table decor to be specific. This year we are going to our very good friends' home for dinner and I will of course be bringing a bottle of wine. ;) So I went ahead and decked out a bottle of white wine and a little note card for our kind hostess.  This was BEYOND easy to create. I used the Simple Blessings set and a few fall colored inks.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Kraft (Jillibean Soup), White (Core'dinations)

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co-Simple Blessings

Ink: Stampin' Up! and Colorbox

Gems: Zva Creative

Twine: Jillibean Soup

Punch: EK Success

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Flip Flop Hip Hop with Unity and Ippity PLUS new Unity stamps w/ Jillibean Soup!!!

How's that for a title? What fun day today!!!

1st up is my card to go along with the Hip Hop theme this week... encouragement. Since it's Flip Flop week the Unity girls are using Ippity stamps and the Ippity girls are using Unity.

I created both of these mini cards using 2 different Ippity sets (Season of Joy and Just wanted to say)

You Are Amazing and Thinking of You cards

Supplies:

Cardstock: Core'dinations and Jillibean Soup

Stamps: Ippity Stamps

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper

Ink: Versa Color

Ribbon: Creative Impressions

Buttons: Stampin' Up!

Punch: Stampin' Up!

Now on to the coolest thing EVER!!! Jillibean Soup is the newest company that Unity is co-branding with for fabulous stamps! I am so excited to have stamps created using the new Jillibean Soup Christmas Chestnut Soup. Check out the Jillibean blog today (7am EST)  for more samples. Here are 2 that I created.

Supplies: 

Cardstock: Jillibean Soup and Core'dinations

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company

Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup

Gems: Zva Creative

Stickers: Jillibean Soup

Bakers Twine: Jillibean Soup

Markers: Copic

Pen: Uniball Signo

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity Stamps Thankful and Grateful Hip Hop

If you haven't noticed yet that today's Hip Hop theme is Thankful and/or Grateful. I decided that I needed to make my 'project' a set of 12 very simple Thank You cards for Angela, a woman that I have never met. I do know her sister, Stephanie Hunt. Stephanie owns Bella Blvd and she has always been one of those very kind and generous women that you love the moment you meet her. Stephanie's sister, Angela lost her husband in a tragic card accident just about 2 weeks ago. He was so incredibly young and leaves behind his wife and 3 beautiful children. I was forward this information along with a request for handmade thank you cards so that Angela may use them for all those that are reaching out to her in this time of need. That's the LEAST I could do. It just breaks my heart. I couldn't even imagine what she is going through.

Thanks So Much cards

Supplies: 

Cardstock: Jillibean Soup and Core'dination

Pattern Paper: Bella Blvd

Stamps: Ippity by Unity Stamp Company

Ink: Stampin' Up! and Colorbox

Twine: Jillibean Soup

Before you move along, I wanted to share the winner from my World Card Making Day challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers for Unity....

Congrats go to farmers_wife!!! She created this wonderful pop up card!
Congrats and Thank you to everyone that participated! 

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity on Thursday! Hip-Hop!

Hi-De-Ho! :)

Yup it's Thursday and that means Unity Stamp Company Hip-Hop! The Thursday blog hop is always full of so much inspiration. You might notice that things are a bit different this week. We're mixing up Hip Hop a bit. This week most of the team did a project instead of a card to show you some different ways to use the Unity Stamps. Don't worry. There will still be many more great cards to come. Like I said, we're just mixing it up a bit. ;)

I used one of the Ippity Stamp sets for my Halloween gift bag topper. Isn't that spider darling? Such a quick and simple way to dress up a plane cellophane bag.

Supplies:

Stamps: Ippity Stamps

Ink: Memento

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny Press

Punches: EK Success and We R Memory Keepers

Twine: Jillibean Soup

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber

Unity on Thursday! Hip-Hop!

Good Thursday! Happy Hip-Hop!

I've got another card to share with you today that I created using the Unity Itty Bitty's.
Gosh I LOVE these stamps. The price point alone is just insanely wonderful. Only about $4 per stamp set.

Supplies:

Card stock: Kraft Jillibean Soup, White Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company Itty Bitty's

Ink: Stampin' Up!

Twine: Jillibean Soup

Punch: We R Memory Keepers

Now back to the Unity blog if you didn't start there so you can Hop through all the design team blogs. 

If you're ready to move along then on to Christi's blog for more inspiration. 

Have a good one!

-kimber