Happy New Year 2024! Growing in Unity Day 1

Happy New Year 2024 everyone! Hope everyone had a great Christmas! In PR, it's still Christmas. We just celebrated "The 3 Kings day/Epiphany day" and we still have an additional Christmas week. But today's card is not a Christmas one although I may present one later in the week ;) I'm super excited to get a chance to participate in GIU this year again and be able to share my creations. Remember to leave a comment below for a chance to win a $20 gift credit from Unity Stamp Co. For today's card I used some supplies I got on the Brown Thrusday sale. For this card I used the die "Fall-Out Hearts". I'm not sure if it's still available though. I think it was on clearance on the site. What I did was to cut with the die with different papers and then popped up with 3D tape a "frame" to the card base and then placed cut out hearts and glued these to the card base. This way I got some dimension on the background. Not easy to photograph but in person the result is super cool. The image and sentiment is from the set "Just Know Bunny" which I think I got as a freeby on my order. I colored the image using Distress inks and watercolor brush.

Well see you tomorrow for day #2!

Winners!!!!!

 Hi everyone!

Thanks all for your comments during my GIU week. 

Here are the winners of the 2 $20 credit available for Unity Stamp Co site:

Debbie Farrell & Sandy Whitcomb

Please  email kelli@unitystampco.com to claim your gift credit within 2 weeks.Please write "winner from Anya's GIU week" in the subject line.

Again, thanks!

Final GIU Day! Happy hour O'clock

Hi!

First, thank you all for joining me this week for Growing in Unity. I've had a blast. Thank you all for all your comments here and on FB posts. Remember to leave a comment for a chance to win a gift certificate from Unity Stamp Co. I'll be choosing 2 winners randomly. 

Now for today's card. It's Friday, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. It's Wine o'clock. This is another stamp that had yet to see ink. I had the idea for the card for a while and was finally able to pull it off. I used my Cricut machine to cut the wine glass out of an acetate sheet. The wine portion is purple cardstock with some Distress Ink. I chose to heat emboss the clock image as well as the sentiment. I was able to use tiny drop of Glossy Accents as glue to glue the "wine glass" to the cardstock. The panel behind was done with white cardstock, some Distress Inks and water droplets. I tore up one of the sides of the panel so I could achieve a not so perfect squared look here. I'm really happy with the finished product. Now comes the hard part... letting go of the card and giving it up to someone LOL. I know I'm not the only one...

Anyways, thank you again for your love all this week and I hope to see you guys next year with GIU again (fingers crossed). Meanwhile, check out my FB fan page, Maia Ink.

Day 4: It's tiiiime!

 Hi:

Well, we all know that Mariah is already defrosting! It's almost tiiiiiime. Christmas time. Today's card features 3 different stamp sets. The main image is from Crafty Little Elf. Background is from a Kit of the Month: October 2018 and the sentiment is from the Say It Big (Holiday). For this card, I heat embossed the background. I think gold embossed on red cardstock is just perfect and screams Christmas. I Copic colored the cute elf. The sentiment is also heat embossed. I used Glossy Accents and a gold sequin for the jingle bell. I already know who's going to received this cutie. 

Remember to comment for a chance to win!

See you tomorrow on my last GIU day this year.