Saturday, December 6, 2014

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}

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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:

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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:

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

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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!

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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!

31 comments:

  1. super cute, I especially love that snowglobe!

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  2. OMG. Seriously love that box card. I am in love with the dies!!!

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  3. Love the colors you used on Aspen. And that box card is out of this world wonderful!!

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  4. Your cards are such great inspiration! Thank you so much for sharing them!

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  5. OMG what an awesome box card...it looks fabulous...great idea!

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  6. Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous!! So simple-looking, yet so amazingly different. Love this Box card1
    And the first one is pretty cool too!

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  7. Okay if the cute little pink girl wasn't enough the explosion box is da bomb!

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  8. The girls in pink! To cute! I love changing the colors from normal red! Great Job!!!

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  9. Oh WOW your snow globe creation is FABulous! I love the soft colors and the pink (my favorite color) on the Aspen card.

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  10. The box card is lovely. But I LOVE the coloring on the little girl. It's so soft -- just gorgeous!

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  11. Wow! Your box card is stunning! Love the pink on the first card too!

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  12. Little Aspen is so pretty in pink. Absolutely love your Xmas card

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  13. I looove the snow globe.... and your canoeing girl is adorable :)

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  14. Wow, both so gorgeous! Love those die cuts!

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  15. Very pretty in pink and love the snow globe box card.

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  16. Gorgeous cards, Maureen :-D Pretty colors and lovely design of first card. And the second is just WOW! :-D

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  17. Wow the second card is totally awesome!

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  18. Love that sweet first card and totally adore that explosion box! What a fab scene!

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  19. So cute! That box card is fabulous! I haven't tried on of those yet, but this is definitely inspiring.

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  20. Oh love the pink on your first card. Your box card is fabulous!

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  21. OMG Maureen. These cards are fabulous. LOVE that second one! Brilliantly made.

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  22. Love the snowglobe card!! SO cute!
    Great job!

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  23. The box card is beautiful. Very different.
    thanks for sharing some great cards.

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  24. Your box card is very special great colours. Hugz

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  25. Love the watercolouring and the great dimensional card.

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  26. Wow. Both of these are fantastic. Love the first for you CAS approach and the second for the fun fold.

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  27. loving the pink...the second card is just stunning!

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  28. OH! I LOVE how you colored Aspen and that sweet little fox riding with her! And that snowglobe is spectacular! (I LOVE winter woodland scenes!)

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  29. OMG, that box card is fabulous!

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