Season's Givings Blog Hop

Hey everyone!

Happy New Year!! I am SO excited to be kicking off the new year by participating in the second annual Season's Givings Blog Hop! You should have arrive here from Stephanie Muzzulin's blog!

If you're hopping along and you're just stopping by for the first time, let me say WELCOME! I'm so glad you're here :) :) If you're a regular follower who's just stopping by then be sure to check out the hop list and visit ALL of the amazing blogs along the hop!

This awesome hop was started as a way to say THANK YOU to our amazing followers for all your love and support throughout the past year. And what better way to say thank you than with giveaways?! That's right my friends, there's a giveaway at EVERY stop along the hop! Holy moly that's a lot of crafty goodness!

As you all know, the holidays are a crazy busy time for all of us, so I apologize but I didn't whip up a big shiny new project for you guys :( BUT I thought it would be fun to do a little year in review! 

First, if you're just meeting me, I'd love if you'd stop by my very first blog post this year and read a little about me.

And, new follower or not, I'd like to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you for sharing in these big moments from the past year:

Winning the Unity creative contest

Joining the Sweet Stamp Shop design team

Joining the Unity design Team

The launch of Alyssa Lea Designs

NONE of these things would have been possible without YOUR support!

AND here are a few of my favorites cards from the last year:

Ok sweet friends, I HOPE that makes up for my lack of a new card!!

Now who's ready for the giveaway?! 

I have a big bundle of UNITY goodies for you!!

Simply leave me a comment and I will choose a winner on Monday January 6th!

I'd also LOVE it if you would check out:

my Facebook page

my design blog

and my design Facebook page!

Alright sweet friends, it's time to hop on over to Christiana Reuling's blog!

Big bloggy hugs <3

Alyssa

PS. Here is the full hop line up in case you get lost!

Lawn Fawn

Reverse Confetti

My Favorite Things Stamps

CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Julee Tillman: Verve Stamps

Avocado Arts Stamps

A Jillian Vance Design

Latisha Yoast

Amber Hight

Amber Kemp-Gerstel

Alice Wertz

Debbie Corbari

Vera Wirianta Yates

Lori McAree

Carolyn King

Sharon Harnist

Amy Tsuruta

Beth Pingry

Becky Oehlers

Angie Blom

Julia Stainton

Sharon Johnson

Michelle Woerner

Cindy Lawrence

Lori Tecler

Daniela Dobson

Savitri Wilder

Theresa Momber 

Giovana Smith

Kimberly Crawford

Maria Levine

Colleen Schaan

Lydia Fiedler

Kelly Klapstein

Kim Kesti

Laura Williams

Shanna Vineyard

Jennifer Gallacher

Heather Pulvirenti

Stacey Schafer

Leigh Penner

AJ Otto

Teri Anderson

Julie Overby

Margie Higuchi

Jimmi Mayo

Tenia Nelson

Lee Ann Barrett

Iwona Palamountain

Kim Jackson

Linda Lucas

Sarah Gough

Dina Kowal

Elena Roussakis

Lisa Henke

Jodi Collins

Joanne Basile

Melanie Muenchinger

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Darsie Bruno

Libby Hickson

Dana Joy

Jody Morrow

Heather Campbell

Savannah O'Gwynn

Lee Murphy

Lisa Arana

Jocelyn Olson

Isha Gupta

Piali Biswas

Ashley Harris

Bunny Vance

Anabelle O'Malley

Andrea Murdock

Stephanie Muzzulin

Alyssa Bennett

Christiana Reuling

Laurel Seabrook

Melody Rupple

Emily Branch

Megan Hoeppner

Unity Hop - A Year in Review

Hey everyone!

Happy Thursday!! It's Unity HOP time again! You should have arrived here from Angie's blog, if not be sure to hop back to the Unity Blog and start from the beginning. Here is the entire line up in case you get lost:

Angie

You are here --> Alyssa <-- You are here

Erin

Jolande

Joslyn

Lisa A.

Renee

Shilo

Stephanie

This week's hop theme is A Year in Review! We're celebrating an AMAZING year at Unity, and that includes a fun SALE on all of the new releases this year!

In the spirit of looking back and celebrating the past year, I thought it would be FUN to take a look back at all of my BIG Unity moments this past year!! Ready?!

July

July 8th - My FIRST Unity card EVER!

Click HERE for the original post.

July 9th - I post THIS card that is a Unity Friends With Flair winner!

Click HERE for the original post.

July 10th - I post THIS card featuring Unity which earns me my first Runway Inspired Challenge win!

Click HERE for the original post.

July 24th - I post THIS card which wins me a GUEST DESIGNER position at Unity!

Click HERE for the original post.

August

In August I got to GUEST DESIGN for Unity!! Here are a few of the highlights :)

Click HERE for the original post.

Click HERE for the original post.

September

In September I got to continue my guest design position! Here's a couple more highlights :D

Click HERE for the original post.

Click HERE for the original post.

October

My first month as an OFFICIAL Unity Design Team Member! MORE HIGHLIGHTS!!

Click HERE for the original post.

Click HERE for the original post.

November

In November I joined the ranks of Unity ARTISTA and Unity released their first stamps designed by ME!!

Click HERE for the original post.

December

And now here we are in December!! This month I am SO proud to say that I have had MORE stamps released with Unity, AND I even played a part in creating this month's Kit of the Month!!

Can you guess which images were created by me?? Here's a clue:

Yep! The adorable little love potion/chemistry beakers!! I also designed the 1 Corinthians heart :)

Alright my sweet friends, I hope I didn't overload you with pictures! It's just been SUCH an AMAZING year for me here at Unity, and I can NOT say how beyond grateful I am to have joined such an amazing little family!!

Of course before you go We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to giveaway. Leave a comment on EACH blog in the hop (including the Unity blog) for your chance to win. The winners will be announced Saturday night on the Unity blog! Check out this amazing prize:

Now it's time for you to hop on over to Erin's blog!

BIG bloggy hugs <3

SMAK Saturday - Love You Big Time

Hey there Unity friends!!

It's Alyssa here today showing off this month's SMAK kit! In case you don't know what the SMAK kit is, it's a monthly kit that is geared towards our Scrapbooking, Mixed media, and Art making friends. BUT this kit is always so gorgeous, even simple card makers like me LOVE it! Check out this month's beautiful kit:

Click HERE to sign up for the SMAK kit club and get beauties like this shipped right to your door each month!

(Plus lots of other fun bonuses!!)

OR click HERE to buy this kit WITHOUT signing up for the monthly club!

(Supply is EXTREMELY limited for purchases of single kits so hurry hurry!)

As I said, I'm a simple card maker, SO here's a simple and sweet card I whipped up using this kit:

See? Who says these kits are JUST for scrapbooking and mixed media?

Big bloggy hugs <3

Hip Hoppin' - Feelin' the Love with Unity

Hey everyone!

Happy Thursday sweet friends!! It's time for another HOP with Unity! You should have arrived here from Angie's blog. If not, be sure to hop on over to the Unity blog and start from the beginning. Here's the entire line up in case you get lost:

Angie

Alyssa

Erin

Jolande

Joslyn

Lisa A.

Renee

Shilo

Stephanie

Andrea

Thienly

Robyn

Lisa H.

Jen E.

This week we are all feeling the LOVE and featuring some sweet new Valentine's stamps! I got to play with the NEW Handmade Valentine's kit. This kit is FULL of love! Check it out:

And here are the cards I whipped up:

Isn't it CUTE? You can grab this awesome kit HERE!

AND I also wanted to show of this month's Kit of the Month!! Guess who has some art that showed up in it?? YEP! This girl!!

Can you guess which designs are mine? I'll give you a hint, I have 4 images and 3 sentiments in this kit!

AND AND if you missed the Cyber Monday sale I just wanted to share the new SET and ITTY BITTY that I designed!!

{jar full of} SWEETNESS

Our BOND is IONIC

Do you LOVE them?! Eee! It's SO exciting to see my designs in RED RUBBER!!

Alright sweet friends, before you go, check out the HAPPENINGS at Unity this weekend!

AND don't forget to leave a comment on EVERY blog along the hop because you could win some wonderful Unity goodness:

Alright, time to hop on over to Erin's blog!

Big bloggy hugs <3

Unity Hop - Big News!!

Hey everyone!

Happy Thursday sweet friends! It's that time again -  Unity HOP time!! You should have arrived here from Angie's blog, if not just hop back to the Unity blog to start from the beginning. This week there's a BIG sale at Unity so we're having a BIG hop to match! Here's the line up in case you get lost:

Angie Blom

You're here!->Alyssa Bennett <-You're here!

Erin Schreiner

Jeanie Dickinson

Joslyn Nielson

Lisa Arana

Tracey Malnofski

Tifany DeGough

Jolande van Oosterhout

Renee Aslette

Shilo Miles

Stephanie Muzzulin

Laurel Seabrook

Lisa Henke

Karen Maldonado

Jimmi Mayo

Shemaine Smith

This week I have some SUPER exciting news! Can you guess it? Can you guess it?! I'll give you a little hint.. Among the new releases this week you will see these adorable little sets:

Bee Happy Hexagons

Candy Hearts

Hello Little One

Can you guess what's so amazing about them? Yep! They're designed by ME!!

I am SO excited to be joining the Unity family as an Artista!

Here are a couple cards I created to show of my first Unity sets:

For my first card I whipped out the Hello Little One set. Aren't these cuties just perfect for a baby card?!

Next, I pulled out Candy Hearts. And if you know me at all, you know I couldn't resist creating a shaker card with that candy heart box!

Eeee I just love them! AND each set is on SALE for only $4.95! So you can grab all 3 for less than $15!!

And as always, there's a killer SALE happening at Unity this week! Check out all of the fun:

AND this week's hop prize is AMAZING!! Seriously, you don't want to miss this one:

Leave a comment on EVERY blog along the way to be entered!!

Alright sweet friends, it's time to hop on over to Erin's blog!

Big bloggy hugs <3