A New Year and a new H{ippity} Hop!

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Happy 2011!!! I hope your Monday is off to a great start. It was suuuuure hard to get up and out the door this morning after a whole week of sleeping in and not have a schedule to stick to. I got used to sleeping till 8am. The boys are all back in school and I even got a workout in this morning.

Thanks for joining us for our new and improved H{ippity} Hop! We are no longer joining in on the Thursday, Unity Hip Hops, so we wanted to make our day REAL Special! We will now use our Blog Hop Buttons here, so just click on it and follow along to see all the wonderful {ippity} inspiration from the DT.

We hope you like what we've got for you and we really hope you'll PLAY along. We made it that much easier for you, too. It's a month long challenge with a different theme each week, that all tie together. You can continue to change up your project with each week's theme, combine the themes, or just be inspired by the theme and create something totally unique! 

This week, use the sketch and then next week you'll see the inspiration photo.  Play along each week, upload your creations to SCS, and we'll be drawing a winner for a Monthly Grand Prize Package (stamps, paper, & more)!  The more weeks you play, the bettter your chances are to WIN!!

Here's my card with this week's sketch. Maria is our Hostess this month and I totally love the sketch-it's full of scallops...what's NOT to love. I used Sing a New Song and the sentiment from Music of My Heart!

I'm sending this one off to a stamping friend, and VERY talented paper crafter, Katie Renz. If you haven't read her story, you can do that here!  I worked with her on the Limelight Papercraft DT a while back and my heart just breaks for her. Life is so precious but boy is she a fighter! {{{Hugs}}} dear friend.

Now off  you go. Maria is up next. Click the button and continue on. If you get lost, make sure you check back at the {ippity} Blog for all the details.