New Collection By Imaginisce: Hippity Hop!

Welcome to the release party of Hippity Hop! This may be my most favorite collection YET! Over at Imaginisce, we are having a splendid time playing with it, inspiring you and... yes... giving some away! Check out how you can win something over HERE!

When we got the sneak peeks of this collection, the girls sweetly teased "I see Courtney making a shaped bunny card with this collection". Ugh! They know me so well! I LOVE those girls!!! So here it is in all it's bunny glory! :) 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Create a Critter™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folders:
• Swiss Dots™
• Forest Branches™
• Tiny Bubble™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Honey Bunny"™ (carrots)
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Happy Spring"™ (pink)
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Fly a Kite"™ (kite tails)
• Solid card stock: Core'dinations™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Buggy Punnies™
• Foam Tape: Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape in White™
• Face stamp: Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces in Large™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Butter (Please let her know that I sent you if you buy from her! Thanks!)
• White Gel Pen

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I know I know, it's shocking, but I actually did a card 

a: without the Cricut

b: clean and simple

c: PAPER PIECED! 

I saw this stamp and IMMEDIATELY knew I wanted to do this with it. I am so glad it turned out about the same way as it did in my head. :)

I was super inspired to paper piece by my DTmate and sweet friend (and now DT leader for Imaginisce) Cari Locken. She paper-pieced our sweet penguin stamp in this post HERE. It's a gorgeous layout! So I was excited to try something simpler like my little umbrella friend here. :)

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Spring"™ (pink)
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Dance in the Rain"™ (blue)
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Fly a Kite"™ (kite tails and polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Hippity Hop "Spring Showers"™ (stripes)
• Stamp: Imaginisce: Hippity Hop Umbrella Snag 'em™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: More Fabulous Phrases™
• Twine from the Twinery in Pink Sorbet™
• Stickles in Turquoise™

Easel/Gate Fold Card!

It's the My Pink Designer showcase today over at My Pink Stamper's blog! Head on over there to see what we created! The challenge was a "different fold" card. So I combined a gate card and an easel card to do both. I wanted it to look like windows so I used my Gypsy (I LOVE MY GYPSY) to put window into the card. Here is the picture tutorial on how I did it: 

FYI if you don't have a Gypsy, you can use Cricut Craft Room! Check it out and it's FREE!!! 

My card base was 8.5x8.5" before I cut it, so I did calculations on where I would need the window to go. Then I hid the outside of the window that I took from Kate's ABC's so that only the boxes cut out and not the whole window which would have defeated the purpose.

I taped the yellow polka dots to the white card stock base where I wanted them. Then I put the blade on 6, speed on high, and multi-cut on 2 to ensure that it got through both pieces of card stock. 

This is the windows so that there are frames around the windows. I cut them out of white and embossed them with the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Emboss Folder. 

This is what it looked like when I finished cutting it. I actually used the scraps of the 8.5x11" paper to create these. I love using my scraps! 

I cut of the bottom 2 1/8" x 4/25" from each side.

Next I embossed the window frames with the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Emboss Folder. I cut velum to the appropriate size and used a liquid glue to put it behind the window frames, but in front of the yellow polka dotted paper. Here you can also see the three patterned papers I had picked out for my inspiration for the project. :) 

I scored the lines appropriately (I can give you these measurements later if anyone wants them). 

I took one of the window pane cut outs (which was a double layer of card stock and therefore pretty sturdy) and put it on the back being careful to only put adhesive on the top half. 

I put a piece of card stock to fit the inside and stamped the sentiment so I could use it for a birthday card. 

Side view of the easel and the gate portion when open.

Front portion after it has been decorated! 

Recipe:

• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: More Fabulous Phrases™
• Cartridges: 
• Kate's ABC's™
• Everyday Pop-up Cards™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folders:
• Script Texture™
• Distress Stripes™
• Patterned paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Ordinary" Dream Paper™ (pink stripes)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Love" Blossoms Paper™ (yellow polka dot)
• Buttons: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Love" Buttons™
• Twine: PTI
• Solid Cardstock: 
• Bazzill in Java™
• Cricut (green)
• Paper Trey Ink (vellum)
• Glue Arts Adhesive Squares Mini in Perma-tac™
• Foam dimensional tape
• Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa™

Don't forget to hop on over to My Pink Stamper's blog to see what the other ladies have done with this challenge! :) 

Hope Your Day Is Fabulous!

My Pink Stamper just released a WHOLE new slew of stamp sets that are ALL awesome!!! CHECK them out HERE!!! 

I saw this phrase and thought it would be great for a wedding card! When someone asks me how my day is going I usually reply, "fabulous". So I have a feeling this phrase will get used a lot! 

*Designer's note: This whole card was made with one of the Christmas lines from Echo Park Paper! Don't forget to use patterns "out of the box"! You'll be pleasantly surprised at what you have in your stash! This just happened to be the closest collection to my craft table (as I can't get enough of it!) so I decided to be "lazy" and use it! LOVE it! :)*

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Tie the Knot™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: More Fabulous Phrases™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Borders"™ (blue)
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings "Green/Dark Red"™ (deep red)
• Solid Cardstock:
• Bazzill Basics in Java
• Paper Trey Ink in White and Vellum
• Brown Sharpie
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa

AND something even more special is that the font that "fabulous" is written in -as well as other phrases on the set- was the font that reused for our wedding invitations, menus, programs, etc! SO I naturally LOVE this set!!!