GIU day 2 - Happy!

 Hi! 

Welcome back for day 2 of GIU. Today I bring you another cutie card. From this and yesterday's card you would never guess that Valentine's day is my least favorite holiday. Don't know why but I just don't "feel" it. Still, I always buy Valentine's stuff and make cute gifts for my son and do enjoy crafting the season, but no, I still don't like Valentine's Day. Have you seen the movie "Valentine's Day"? I love it! But I would have been the girl planning the "I hate Valentine's Day party" with all the cute goodies LOL.

Ok, now back to today's card. After making yesterday's card, I just couldn't throw away one of the cut outs after making the background. Somebody else would have seen a scrap piece of paper to throw out, my eyes would only see a stencil! So I used it as a stencil to create the background of today's card with Distress Inks (colors used: Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Dusty Concord & Worn Lipstick). For the sentiment and die cut, I used the set Blessed & Happy Everything. This set is so versatile. I finished it with sticky pearls. I didn't have any in a purple hue so I used a Copic marker to color it. 

Here's the stencil:

Today's card: 

Well, remember to leave a comment below for a chance to win $20 gift credit from Unity Stamp Company

I'll be adding this card to the Cut it Up Challenge #294 ~ Anything Goes.

Until tomorrow!

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.