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Paper Smooches December DT Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches JANUARY 2017 release with you!  TWO new stamp sets and FIVE new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on December 30th.  You will find our new products HERE once they go live.  

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 chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, January 1st to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, January 2nd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice Wertz

Kalyn Kepner

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Pamela Ho

Savannah O' Gwynn

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)

 

Today, I am featuring the new Courteous Cuties 2 stamp set.  It is such a sweet sentiment set that goes along perfectly with the Courteous Cuties set!  I chose the thank you beary much sentiment to go along with the bear from the Courteous Cuties set (another new set that will release in a couple of days)!  Isn't it the cutest bear that you ever did see?  I mounted him on top of the a die cut tag (from the For You Tag die set that will release a new couple of days).  For a little more pop of color, I tucked in a few sprigs of greenery that I die cut from the Foliage 3 Die set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hugs,
Laurie

 

Floral Birthday Greetings

Hi friends!  Can you believe that it's the last week of 2016?  That thought only truly sunk in for me today.  I'm actually excited about a brand new, fresh year!  Before I get all introspective though, I thought I would share a little peek of a card I have up over at the Birch Press Design blog today!

I am sharing a fun, yet quick to make birthday card over at the Birch Press Design blog today and I would love it if you stopped by and let me know what you think! :-)

 

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,
Laurie

 

Thanks Snow Much

 

Hi friends!  I'm playing along with December's  Sketch For You to Try!  You can find all the details on the sketch challenge (along with the fabulous prize you can win) over at the Reverse Confetti Blog!  There is still time to enter and the prize really is fantastic, not to mention a crazy fun sketch!  :-)

Here's this month's sketch...

 


And this is what I came up with using the sketch...

 

First off, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!  Our family enjoyed a low key, stay at home kind of day.  Except my poor husband who still had to feed all of the cows and calves.  :-) 

After Christmas, I am always in need of a lot of thank you cards.  We are blessed enough to have many thoughtful and generous people in our lives!  :-)  I thought the sketch was perfect to create some quick and easy thank you cards...so that is exactly what I did.  I modified the sketch just a little bit to accommodate the twine.  I just used the twine in place of the skinny rectangle at the base of the circle. 

The sentiment is from the Seasonal Sentiments set and die cut using one of the dies from the Circles 'n Scallops Confetti Cuts die set.  I added some snowflakes from the Snowflake Trio Confetti Cuts die set.  I used Brick cardstock for this card, but it would be fun using different colors as well.  In fact, I plan on making several different ones using the Mist and Grape Soda colors.

 

Thanks for joining me here today!

Hugs,
Laurie

 

 

Papertrey December Release In Review

It's Papertrey Ink release day!  All of the new items will be available  tonight at 10 PM EST!

It has been such an honor to share projects along side the design team this month!  :-)  I have a few more to share with you this morning as well!

My first card features the new Inspired: Love stamp set (designed by Betsy Veldman) and coordinating Inspired: Love die.  The flowers are from the Splits: With Love (designed by Maile Belles) stamp set.  I embossed them on watercolor paper with detail white embossing powder.  I added a wash of color using my Zig Clean Color Brush markers.  I fussy cute them and then sprinkled them on my card.  Honestly, saying fussy cut doesn't sound right because it hardly took any time at all.  :-)

I added just a bit of glitter to the parts of each flower.  I didn't want the sparkle to overpower the color so I added it sparingly.

Stamps: Inspired: Love, Splits: With Love
Dies: Inspired: With Love
Paper: White Linen, Watercolor Paper, True Black
Ink: Versamark, Zig markers
Other: Glitter, White embossing powder

 

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My next card features the She Moves stamp set (designed by Lizzie Jones) and coordinating She Moves die set.  This is such a unique set!  I especially love all of the background images...so fun!  The sentiment is from the Making Strides  set.  I love that many of these sentiments are perfect for many different occasions!  I plan on using these in my planner to encourage myself this year! 

Stamps: She Moves, Making Strides
Dies: She Moves
Paper: Kraft, Tropical Teal, Ripe Avocado, Smokey Shadow
Ink: Smokey Shadow, Tropical Teal, Simply Chartreuse, True Black
Other: Circle punch, Wood star

 

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Up next is the card I created using the Swan'sational stamp set, designed by Maile Belles.  I embossed the swans using gold detail embossing powder and then die cut them  using the Swan'sational die set.

  I embossed three of the Splits: With Love images, cut them apart, and then tucked them under the white layer.  I cut around the edge of the flowers to give a bit of a scalloped look.

 

Stamps: Swan'sational, Splits: With Love
Dies: Swan'sational
Paper: Smokey Shadow, White Linen
Ink: Versamark
Other: Gold detail embossing powder, Gold Cord

 

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My last card features the new Stroke Speak stamp set.  Not only are the paint strokes a fun way to add a sentiment, but the sentiments themselves are very inspirational!  I think this one will become a favorite of mine!

For the background, I die cut the Hearts Cover Plate and then filled in some of the hears with some yummy pinks.  The heart focal image was cut using the Limitless Layers: 2 1/4" Hearts, cardstock, and felt.  I couldn't resist adding a flower to this already girly card.  :-)

 

Here you can really see the shine from the silver embossing powder.  I seem to have a habit of embossing my sentiments, but I just love how it looks!

 

Stamps: Stroke Speak
Dies: Hearts Cover Plate, Limitless Layers: 2 1/4" Hearts
Paper: White Linen, White, Sweet Blush
Ink: Versamark
Other: Silver detail embossing powder, flower, silver cord, felt

 

Fore more inspiration, please visit the Papertrey Ink design team:

 Nichole Heady
Amy Sheffier
Ashley Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Kay Miller
Laurie Schmidlin
Laurie Willison
Lizzie Jones
Melissa Phillips

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Laurie

 

Mom & Me Valentine Inspiration

Welcome to the third day of  Papertrey's December release group posts!  I'm so excited to be sharing projects along with the Papertrey design team this month!

Valentine's Day has always been a favorite holiday of mine.  I just love that there is a whole day dedicated to letting others know that they are special and cared about!  Creating heartfelt gifts and cards for my kids and their classmates is something that I look forward to every year!  The new products being showcased today are not only perfect for creating cute and clever Valentine's Day gifts but are versatile enough to be used year round!

All of the new products will be at 10 pm EST on December 15 in the Papertrey Ink store.

 

My first project features the new Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love by Betsy Veldman.  One of my favorite things to give out as gifts for Valentine's Day is sugarless gum.  I wrapped up a couple of gum packs with some Vellum Patterned Paper.  I like that the vellum gives a subtle pattern while still allowing the recipient to see what the product is.

 

I decorated the front with the adorable little puppy from the Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love set (die cut with the coordinating Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love die set).  This cute little guy was the perfect size for the gum packs!  I stamped the sentiment onto a die cut tag (from the Tremendous Tags die set) and added a miniature heart button.

 

To create the arrow shaft, I started by cutting apart a wooden skewer.  Using the Heart Prints die set, I die cut two large cardstock heart and then glued them on to the end of the skewer.  Using the medium sized die I die cut a felt heart and adhered it to the larger one.  The "fletching" is just punched out cardstock chevrons.

I secured each wooden skewer pieces at each end of the gum pack by puncturing the gum pack a little bit.  I didn't need any adhesive as the skewers felt very secure.

 

Stamps: Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love
Dies: Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love, Tremendous Tags, Heart Prints
Paper: Pure Poppy, Kraft, Raspberry Fizz, Sweet Blush, Stamper's Select White, Vellum Patterned Paper
Ink: True Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Other: Twine, Chevron punch, Wooden skewers, Mini heart buttons

 

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For my next project I created a soft and feminine card.  Using both the Dress Up Dolls: Basics stamp set (and coordinating Dress Up Dolls: Basics die set) and Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love set (and coordinating Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love die set) I created the focal images for my card.

I tucked in some hearts from the Limitless Layers: 2 1/4" Hearts die set and a couple of stitched flags die cut from the Frames - Keep It Simple die set.  I had a lot of fun putting this card together!  I dug into my patterned paper scraps and chose several different patterns. 

The sentiment is stamped on a stitched oval die cut from the Noted: Scalloped A1 die set.  The background layers is die cut from the Monthly Moments: Spiral Notebook die.

 

That little puppy is just too cute!  And how fun is it that the leash has a loop that you can hook around the Dress Up Doll's hand?  So Clever!  The cute little puppy even has his very own collar!  I die cut it out of Luxe Silver Adhesive Paper.

 

Stamps: Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love, Dress Up Dolls: Basics
Dies: Dress Up Dolls: Puppy Love, Dress Up Dolls: Basics, Noted: Scalloped A1, Frames: Keep It Simple, Limitless Layers: 2 1/4" Hearts, Monthly Moments: Spiral Notebook
Paper: Stamper's Select White, Luxe Silver Adhesive Paper
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Other: Twine, Sequins

 

 

Fore more inspiration, please visit the Papertrey Ink design team:

 Nichole Heady
Amy Sheffier
Ashley Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Kay Miller
Laurie Schmidlin
Laurie Willison
Lizzie Jones
Melissa Phillips

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Laurie

 

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