Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog: 12 days of holiday giving! Day Six!

It's Day Six and all is well! In fact, it's pretty amazing here. It's a HUGE prize day today! Wait until you see what our sponsors imagined you would love an opportunity to win. If you are just joining us today, be sure to visit Day One HERE and every day in between. We love our sponsors and with all these prizes, you will sure see why! Before we announce today's prizes, design team member Emily Pitts joins us to share a sweet holiday card!

"This card was a joy to put together! I knew I wanted to create a little mountain scene with these cute acrylic houses from Cocoa Daisy's December kit, Monterey Bay. The idea versus the execution was not as easy as I'd hoped, but I eventually made it work. I started by adding some modeling paste to the roof of each house. That was trickier than I thought, but trial and error got me to this point.

Next, I hand cut some hills from white dotted swiss paper, then added sewing lines to the top edge each one. I then attached them to my background and popped the top two layers with dimensional adhesive so as to give my scene some depth. With the other end of my paint brush, I dotted snow through out the sky, mimicking the white paper. Using the paint brush this way gives you more control if you'd like small little circles.

I placed my houses and marked where the light garlands between them would go, and removed the houses so I could stitch on my sewing machine. I attached the houses and again with the other end of my paint brush, I added the red and green "lights" to my stitched lines.

For the sentiment, I mixed a machine cut title with chipboard letters, highlighting the dimension in the hills by tucking the "let" slightly behind the closest hill. I matted the scene on a red polka dot paper and attached it to my card base. To add just a little bit of sparkle, I sprinkled some sequins over the whole scene and decided I need to use sequins more often, they were the perfect finishing touch!" ~ Emily Pitts

DAY SIX GIVEAWAY!!!

We are quite giddy as we get ready to share today's prizes. OUTSTANDING is the best word to describe them! Are you ready? First...drumroll please...we have a Big Shot Starter Kit from Sizzix!

With a swirl of powder blue-and-teal colors and the Sizzix logo bursting out brightly, this version of the Big Shot Machine offers plenty of stylish appeal with the same versatility of working with the entire Sizzix product library (with the exception of Bigz Pro dies) – and that includes the smallest dies to the big 6" wide plastic-backed treasures and embossing tools. If that wasn’t big enough, this portable roller machine cuts and embosses many different materials. Create your own one-of-a-kind cards, invitations, scrapbook pages, home décor, fashion, altered art, quilting and much more!

Outstanding right? But wait, there's more...

From our friends at Cocoa Daisy, the Cocoa Daisy Day in the Life: Christmas kit! This kit is PACKED with everything you'll need to document your holiday moments. Multiple alphabets, a whole bunch of cards, sheets of stickers, tags, trims, and tapes mix with holiday themed papers for you to create with as well. Featuring manufacturers such as Pebbles, American Crafts, Evalicious, Simple Stories, Jillibean Soup, and Pink Paislee, we are pretty sure you're going to love using our kit when recording your Christmas, Project Life style!

And while you're busy crafting you will LOVE one of these incredible tools...

The Scrap'n Easel & Scrap'n Easel 40 Pocket Mega Tote! No more backaches! Scrap'n Easel's ergonomic design eliminates body fatigue and increases visibility 100%. Light weight and portable at only 3.5 lbs you can use this in your scrap space or carry it with you to any event! (pssst....maybe a Crop & Create event!!!) Merry XMas from ContainYa Crafts!

We know you're thinking that we have the BEST sponsors and we could not agree more. For an opportunity to win these outstanding prizes, please leave a comment below by 6:00 pm EST on Sunday, December 21st. All prizes will be announced right here and on Facebook at noon on December 23rd! Good luck everyone!

We have been hearing how much our sponsors are LOVING the SCT readers for sharing love on their Facebook pages for these prizes! Thank you for taking the time to do that. For today's sponsors, please visit them on Facebook here:

Sizzix

Cocoa Daisy

Scrap N' Easel

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~ Catherine