Flying bye - Flying High - Hippity Hop

Summer is just FLYING BYE way too fast - way too fast but we've had fun enjoying some soccer, some sunshine and some great Okanagan beach fun.....saw the class of 09 graduate - Congrats!!! and now we're ready for another Savanna Fair weekend full of neat entries, food and fun.

And today I am happy to say that i won the guest design team contest over at UNITY so i will be guest designer for September using some more of their AWESOME STAMPS. If you aren't a kit club member what are you waiting for..they are jam packed with great images and quotes.

Here are a couple cards I did for the contest as well as for the Hip Hop thursday's challenges....

Hip Hop Unity at last.....

it seems ages ago since i was able to participate in the Unity stamp Co's Hip Hop thursday but today i was able to spend the day at home playing..........love Unity stamps.....

At last....

i think summer is here.......well there is no school or work for me and the weather has cooperated on a few occasions but the pool sits there begging to be used and the heat just hasn't been in our favor but we really do need the rain that has been falling so i won't complain YET....just hope we get warm weather sometime over the next 6 weeks. Anyhoo, a few creative things i've done between coats and coats of paint and nailing up beadboard etc. some Unity stamps and fun feathers i bought.....happy day!!

how is it possible that 2 months have gone by and i haven't posted to my poor neglected blog!! ugh......well lets see, we did our ensuite reno project, had company for a week, drove million miles to soccer games, tournament in edmonton and practices for both kids, 4-h achievement day, yard cleanup and pool set up.......oh and i think i worked and slept and cooked and cleaned in there somewhere so i was just happy to keep up with my emails, visit the 3 message boards on occasion and get near my scraproom once a week. BUT that should change as things wind down like work and school, 4-H etc......we'll still have soccer but so glad that school will be out for summer. YIPEEE.

Want to say congrats to my 2 cousins on the birth of their babies, Katriel is such a sweety and i sure hope to meet Remington before too long. Enjoy parenthood you guys!!!!

And yeah for mb challenges and finding some mojo this weekend to get creative!!!!

So generous.....

scrappers/stampers are really the most generous bunch!!!!! I am amazed at how much is given away on blogs....its really quite nice to see some goodness in this world gone mad...thanks Tonya for your giveaway. http://oldecountrycreations.blogspot.com/

More Unity love.....

what could be better than combining awesome stamp designs like this little plaid flower with beautiful patterned paper like this Dill blossom SEI!!!! The first one is for the 2S4Y Sketch challenge, the other was for the give Unity a Bow challenge again...with pretty new ribbon i got at M's the other day. Love me some Plaid!!!!

THanks to Unity Stamp Co for their generosity with their Hip Hop giveaways....i can hardly wait for my stamps to arrive. Yipeeeeee. Super customer service there.

i ♥ UNITY

got my first Unity KOM yesterday and I just love the combination of designs and quotes....highlight to my week for sure. Here are the cards i made last nite for challenges over at SplitCoastStampers and for the Hip Hop Thursday Unity blog challenges.

Square card without any sentiment - "flutter"
Give Unity a BOW - bow on a card - "Aren't you Sweet" and "Happy Thoughts"
Hole-Y Unity - "May you Live.." use holes on a card, i punched around the paper with my piercer
and a color challenge one from lil Scrappers......all using Unity stamps.

Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Weekend. He is Risen!!! was a nice weekend, we are on spring break which is going by toooooo fast of course but i'm making some cards, went to the spa for some pampering yesterday with dd and that was great!!!! and haven't too much planned for the rest of the week so....

Carla always inspires with her creations and has a some blog candy to give away, yummy jems and jewels from KatyCards what a super collection she's offering up.

I'll have to share some cards later this week....dead camera batteries of course LOL. Sold my first card on Etsy today, nice surprise. Got my first KOM from Unity and what a beauty it is....

Spring is here!!

the snow is melting, the birds are back chirping at my feeders, the air is warmer, there are baby calves romping in the sunshine..........its been a long winter so i hope that is the last of snow we see till next year... so thankful for my hobbies to keep me sane during the cold winter months.

Some colorful cards, two for Mojo Monday based on their sketch, and two others for Laura's sketch 23 at 2 Sketches 4 You.

More creative fun!!!

Well i remember what i loved about quilting years ago.......taking gorgeous fabrics, cutting them and sewing them back up to create a design.........yep, love it still and i can say that i have been very productive this past few months creating 9 quilted projects from full size to runners i'm pleased with what i've accomplished (using up my stash in the process feels great) and i'll share pics when i get the bindings all handsewn up.

Did get some stamps in the mail this week and they are adorable and fun to color......and perhaps i'll win this blog candy Whiff of Joy and add these to my collection of fun images to color and create with.

Mojo?

yep, its a good thing to have and i'm finding more mojo for card creations these days than layout but perhaps its my newfound love of crayons/blending and the amazing adorable stamps Like this magnolia one that have me inspired to make card after card.

Another one here based on a sketch from this cool new blog Mojo Monday that uses the newest BG line in my stash. awesome colors and i think i was looking at the Tilda in her skirt and sham and thinking Happy St Pat's day.........so i'll have to save this card till next march!!

Generous

I must say that over the past 10 years I've been scrapping and part of online boards i've seen so much generosity amongst scrappers.......they are always willing to share not only their time and ideas, help and guidance and inspiration but actual GOODIES......lots of giveaways on blogs (like Sarah's here, giving away supplies to celebrate HER birthday, cool hey?) and store owners are always generous with their prizes for crops.....its a pretty neat community that i'm proud to be part of......I'm thinking its time I did a little blog giveaway so watch over the next bit for some spring candy from me.

Why Not?

I decided today to open an Etsy store and see if I could sell some of my handmade cards that way......i seem to make so many over the course of a year, more than i will use so why not? so if you're interested i'm Here (unfortunately when I registered to buy a year or more ago i didn't realize my username would have to be the same if i were to open a shop so even though I have titled it Corry's Creations its under Corrysv2, my account name.......:( no changing it unless i want to start from scratch and lose my rating.)

I hope its worth it..........time will tell.

added a few of my latest creations for ya too.

Irish eyes.....

are blue not green around our house.......i'm so glad Greg doesn't mind posing for a photo every now and again (happy vday babe), its fun to have them to look back at as the years go by.......here are a couple pages i did with the pictures as well as a few other goodies...........

TOOT check out the Spring issue of Canadian scrapbooker just out on shelves, i have a layout on page 109 featuring my Grandma and her twin on their birthday last year......so fun........and Canadian Scrapbooker requested two layouts featuring my good looking teens for their summer issue and idea book #4 so i'm thrilled!!!! Happy March!!

Ah poor neglected blog

my oh my how sad it is that i can't seem to post on here more than once a month (or less) but the weeks since Christmas have seemed rediculously busy, i guess i've been doing lots around the house with our bedro redo and sorting and purging to prep for the finishing of our ensuite, and then there's the quilting i've done, so i've accomplished lots when i'm not working or running for soccer but i am sad i can't get to this blog more often.

Anyhow, here are a few goodies to share with you for now.

a new Year

and i'm making it my resolution to do better with posting to my blog.............will it work? not sure but i can try. I don't know why it seems the last thing i do on the computer, perhaps its that i don't know if it worth it, who follows it? anyhoo I'm going to try to do better. here are a few goodies i've done over the past while, had so much fun making the mini quiltlet inspired by Donna Downey. Fun fun.

Finished my dt gig at Life Preservers and want to thank the crew there, was great fun. I got a guest dt spot at Lil Scrappers so that will be fun working with one of Bev's awesome card kits. can't wait.

Sketches

love the 2Sketches For you sketches that they share every week, great inpsiration!!!! and here is mine for this week based on Kazan's sketch #12.