Jingle Belles 2023 - What Did Santa Bring You

Our first Jingle Belle Challenge of the year - the 13th year to be exact - is to use something that you may have received for Christmas, whether it was from Santa or something you gifted yourself.  I was forced to clean up my craft table go through the container of Christmas stamps that I have on it and am embarrassed to say that there were quite a few of them that had never been used - you know those pre-Christmas and post-Christmas sales just kept showing up in my e-mails and I should know enough to just delete and move on, but e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. was a temptation and I gave in, way too many times.

So, this might be breaking the rules a bit, but I first chose a stamp set that I actually bought for myself last Christmas but hadn't used yet.  There was a recent tutorial on Splitcoaststampers on Kraft Pencil Coloring that I wanted to try.  I perused my unused stamps and decided to use this one by Unity - Blessed Baby (which still is available, but wait and get it on sale).

I stamped it a few times and did some experimenting with my Prismacolor pencil colors and came up with a color choice that I liked.

I decided to trim down the panel and add it to a base that closely matched the baby's swaddle (it does really match IRL).  The sentiment is also from the same set and I embossed it in Gold which doesn't show up well in pictures.  That also goes for the gold gel pen I used on the stars.  

You might be able to see it better here.  

I have something else in the works and I'm going to try to post it before the cutoff tomorrow.  But I encourage you to visit our lovely Jingle Belles to see all the other new goodies that everyone got for Christmas by clicking here.  I'm going to look, but I'm going to try very hard to not be enticed to add to my bucket until I use some more of the goodies I already have.