YNS New Release Blog Hop!

Hi all!  Welcome to my stop on the December Your Next Stamp New Release Blog Hop!  If you’ve been following the links, you should have come from Suzanne’s Blog.  If you just happened upon my post, you’ll want to go back to the beginning so you don’t miss anything!  {links are at the bottom of the post}

I’m so excited about this release!  I live in Hawaii and it can get really HOT most of the year, but Winter has such nice cool temperatures that it’s my favorite season!  We have a bunch of new stamps and dies for you this month, and I am loving the Little Darlings, January and Aspen, and also all the stand alone dies to make fabulous scenes!  Of course I’m always a sucker for stamps with matching dies and there are some of those in this release, too!

Enough jibber jabber, let’s get on with the show!

For my first project, I’ve used Little Darling Aspen:

She was stamped with Versafine ink onto watercolor paper and watercolored with Inktense Pencils.  I stamped one of the included sentiments in Versafine and mounted it on my card.

For my next project, I knew I wanted to do a box card.  Here’s a straight on view:

And here’s a view from slightly above so you can see the little rabbit:

I got this great kit from SVG Cuts called Christmas Box Cards and decided to use the plain snow globe file.  I cut the base out of brown cardstock, then cut a couple pieces out of kraft.  For the back kraft panel, I stamped it with the birch trees from Forest Friends and also the little bunny.  Over that, I stamped the Snowfall pattern.

Next I cut some snowy hills, animals and trees with the Forest Scene die set and assembled them into 2 layers which were added into the base.  Finally, I took the little kraft bookplate and stamped it with snowflakes from Snowfall and a sentiment from Santa Express Train Carts.

As always, there is a prize to be won:  one person will win the Grand Prize of a $20 YNS gift certificate.  One commenter will be chosen at random from all the blogs on the hop, so the more blogs you comment on, the better your chances to win!

And now you’re off to Wendy’s Blog (link below), but don’t forget to leave me a comment before you go!  Happy hopping!