Paper Smooches: January DT Blog Hop ****giveaway

Hello friends:)

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches JANUARY 2016 release with you!  TWO new stamps and TEN new dies are NOW available to purchase at 8pm PST on Wednesday, December 30th.  You will find our new products HERE.  

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! 

The prize - a $25 gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store.

Here are the details:

• FOUR winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog to win the $25 prize.

• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed below or the PS Blog for your chance to win!  (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it increases your changes) 

• Deadline: You have until midnight PST on Sunday, December 27th to leave a comment. 

• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, December 28th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners. 

Alice Wertz

Ashley Marcu

Emily Leiphart

Kalyn Kepner

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Pamela Ho

Savannah O' Gwynn [You are here]

Teri Anderson

To increase your chances of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop

• Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop

• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop

(which means that you have up to three extra chances to win on each blog)
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Today I'm sharing a project using the NEW Hibiscus die. I've created two projects... but am sharing only one today {check the PS blog on Sunday for the other one!}.

I also used another NEW January stamp set {Silver & Gold} as well as the PS Friend Word die. This card was super easy to make and is PERFECT for the PS December flower challenge {click HERE to join in the fun}.   

Be sure to stop by the PS blog for details about this blog hop and giveaway! And don't forget to leave some love on the DT's blogs:) 

That's it for me today- THANK YOU so much for stopping by! Be blessed! 

Virtual Smooches: Die Cutting Tip {dryer sheets}

Hello, friends:}

Today is my day to share a video over on the  Paper Smooches video blog- Virtual Smooches! **Note: Thursdays and/or Fridays are my NEW days to post on the VS blog:) 

First I need to apologize for a couple of things: 

1. I'm so sorry for the canyon sized gap between my videos! I was traveling and then sick during the month of November. I really didn't get much done at all! 
2. I wanted to get this video completed last night but my iMovie program gave me the "black screen of death"... so I had to learn how to use a NEW version of this program. TOTALLY different than what I'm used to! I'm pretty happy with what I've completed, but I have LOTS to learn before I share another video! 

So today I'm sharing a super cool tip that I learned a couple of weeks ago. You can use a dryer sheet when die cutting!!! This will help when working with intricate or simple images. SO CLEVER--- I wish I would have thought of this:) 

Here's a sneak peek of my video:

THANKS so much for stopping by--- be sure to go HERE for my video! Be blessed:}

Paper Smooches challenge- December 2015 [project2]

Hello, friends:} 

I'm back with another Paper Smooches monthly challenge. project The challenge for December is...... FLOWERS! Picture: Credit

I said I had lots of ideas for this challenge...here's another:)

I created a simple layered card using some papers from the On Trend 6x6 Crate Paper pad along with the Paper Smooches Dainty Flowers dies and the Birthday Bash stamps. 

Flowered patterned paper + some flower dies = PERFECT card for this challenge! Love it!  

That's it for me today! I hope you will join in the fun--- you could win a $50 gift certificate to the PS store!!! Be sure to stop by HERE to link up and to play along! ***NOTE: there's a SMALL gallery!! You should really think about entering! You could win:) 

THANKS so much for stopping by! Be blessed:} 

Paper Smooches challenge- December 2015

Hello, friends:}

Today we start a NEW Paper Smooches monthly challenge. The challenge for December is...... FLOWERS! 

Picture: Credit

I've got several ideas for this challenge--- I wish I had time to share them all! Funny thing: I don't even like flowers... LOL!  

The challenge is to incorporate FLOWERS somewhere on your project (flower paper, washi tape, flower stamps/dies, etc).  

I created two very CAS cards for this challenge. I used some older My Mind's Eye papers along with the Paper Smooches Religious Words and Adorable Array dies. You don't even have to use the entire die for your creation! I cut the two little flower buds off and added them to the sentiment die cut---- I love it!  

I liked this design so much that I created more of a masculine faith card (I think this card could be given to either a male or a female). I stamped the sentiment using the PS Spiritual Sampler and used the same dies for the sentiment. I LOOOOOOOOOVE how simple it is! 

That's it for me today! I hope you will join in the fun--- you could win a $50 gift certificate to the PS store!!! Be sure to stop by HERE to link up and to play along! 

THANKS so much for stopping by! Be blessed:}