Paper Smooches Farewell and Hugs for Kim

 

Hi all! Today is a very special post. The Company Paper Smooches, owned by Kim Hughes is going out of business. If you've been a card maker for very long, I'm sure you're aware of Paper Smooches and their adorable stamps and dies. It was one of the first companies I fell in love with years ago, and it's special to me because it was also my very first design team position. Kim was so sweet to me and I was beyond thrilled when she invited me to be on the design team! I can still remember the day! 

So to honor Kim and Paper Smooches, some of us have gotten together to post a little farewell and best wishes to Kim!

I've made a card to share with you using some of my Paper Smooches stash. I have not linked it up in the supply links because I couldn't find it in stock anywhere, but if you are so inclined you might find it on Ebay or in one of the stamp selling groups.

So here we go, one of my favorite Paper Smooches sets and this one's for Kim :)

For the background, I used the Lawn Fawn Clouds stencil and distress inks to create the fluffy clouds. I also stenciled in the water with just a straight piece of paper. For the sand I blended some antique linen distress ink and then splattered with Rusty Hinge.

All of the cute images are from the Summer Loving and Surf and Turf stamp sets. I colored them all with Copic markers, cut them out with the coordinating dies and adhered them to my card with foam tape.

So big thanks and hugs to Kim who brought a lot to the card making community with her fun and whimsical designs! You will be missed! Best wishes for a happy future!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Winter Birthday Wishes

Hi there! I have a fun new card to share with you today that I created with the Flowing Vine Collage Die  from Simon Says Stamp, along with stamps from some of my favorite companies!

These are my colors people! I just don't think you can beat pink and purple, then throw in a little grey and you've got a lovely color combination! Anyway, The background I did with Blueprint Sketch Distress ink on Bristol Board then speckled with water. 

I cut the Flowing Vine Collage out of white card stock and layered that over the background with foam tape. I stamped the leaves from the Botanical 2 stamp set from Paper Smooches, with the MISTI so I could get the ombre effect and adhered them with liquid glue. The little fox is from Joy To The Woods from Lawn Fawn, and was colored with Copic markers, cut out with the matching dies, and adhered with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment along the bottom with Momento Tuxedo black ink.

All supplies are listed and linked below!

I am submitting this to Darnell's NBUS Challenge HERE! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a happy week!

Kay :)

Flowing Vine Collage Wplus9 WINTER PALS Clear Stamps CL-WP9WP Lawn Fawn SET LF214JTTW JOY TO THE WOODS Clear Stamps And Dies Lawn Fawn JOY TO THE WOODS Clear Stamps Paper Smooches BOTANICALS 3 Clear Stamps J2S243 https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=341866 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM MARSHMALLOW Cupped Sequins Pretty Pink Posh MARSHMALLOW Flat 6mm Sequins *Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425 RESERVE Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad BLUEPRINT SKETCH Ranger TDP47346 Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full Size me-900

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Celebrating 5 years with Paper Smooches

Paper Smooches in celebrating their 5th Anniversary this month!

I am so excited to be a part of this special blog hop! I love Paper Smooches products, and Kim is one of my favorite people :)  Today I am using one of the NEW products released this month. 

Here are the details:

· Just leave a comment on any of the blogs listed below for your chance to win a prize! 

· Each blog has a different prize to win! If you are chosen here on my blog you will win your choice of three Paper Smooches Stamp sets!

· Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Wednesday, February 24th to leave a comment. 

· Winners will be announced on each blog on Thursday, February 25th.

For my card, I used the beautiful new Botanicals 2 stamp set and dies along with a fun sentiment set called Fun & Flirty. I stamped all the leaves in different shades of pinks and purples. Now my Mom would look at this and ask "why are all the leaves pink and purple?" She thinks leaves are green, but in my awesomely colorful world, leaves are any color I want them to be :)

I added some details to the leaves with my Copic markers and my white gel pen. I splattered the white panel with some purple ink for a little background interest.

I adhered all of the leaves to a white panel then trimmed about an inch off of the bottom making the leaves all flush with the edge. I then mounted this to my card base over some patterned paper and a thin strip of dark purple card stock. The sentiment was stamped at the top with dark purple ink.

Paper Smooches Supplies:

Botanicals 2 Stamp set

Botanicals 2 Icon Dies

Fun & Flirty Sentiment stamps

Don't forget to leave comments on all of the blogs for your chance to win some awesome prizes! Each blog has a different prize! If you are chosen here on my blog you'll win your choice of three Paper Smooches stamp sets!!

Details: 

· Just leave a comment on any of the blogs listed below for your chance to win a prize! 

· Each blog has a different prize to win!

· Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Wednesday, February 24th to leave a comment. 

·Winners will be announced on each blog on Thursday, February 25th.

Please hop on over to these fabulous designers blogs to see their Paper Smooches creations…and see what you could win!

Betsy Veldman

Jennifer McGuire

Jocelyn Olson

Kay Miller- You are here

Kristina Werner

Laura Bassen

Thank you for joining us! Enjoy the hop!

Kay :)

Paper Smooches Design Team Blog Hop

Hello! First off I want to thank you all for the nice comments yesterday, and for lamenting with me over my lost photos. Some of you had me laughing out loud! I'm planning on adding a few back each day, and hopefully it won't take forever! :) 

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches NOVEMBER release with you!  TWO new stamps and TEN new dies will be available to purchase on October 31st at 8:00pm pacific time. Once our release goes live, 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 PT on Sunday, November 1st to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, November 2nd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice Wertz

Ashley Marcu

Emily Leiphart

JJ Bolton

Kalyn Kepner

Kay Miller

Laura Bassen

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Pamela Ho

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)

I used the totally adorable new stamp set and dies called Natural Beauties for my project! I am smitten with this cute stamp set!!

This set is not necessarily a Christmas set, but because I am in the Christmas card mood, I created a Christmas card with it. There are many cute things in it that can be used in non holiday projects. The stamps were colored with Copic markers and cut out with the matching Natural Beauties Icon dies. The background was watercolored with Peerless watercolors, then splattered with a bit of brown watercolor. Once this was very dry, I adhered all of the cute elements with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment from the Holiday Cheer stamp set and added a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

I did add a few little white dots and highlights with my white gel pen. 

Paper Smooches Supplies:

Natural Beauties Stamp set

Natural Beauties Icon Dies

Holiday Cheer Stamp set

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy the hop!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Paper Smooches Design Team Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches OCTOBER release with you!  THREE new stamps and NINE new dies will be available to purchase on September 30th at 8:00pm pacific time. Once our release goes live, 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 PT on Sunday, September 27 to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, September 28 to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice Wertz

Ashley Marcu

Emily Leiphart

JJ Bolton

Kalyn Kepner

Kay Miller

Laura Bassen

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Pamela Ho

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'm featuring the new Holly die set! A great little die to dress up all of your Christmas cards! For this card, I used watercolor paper and Distress inks. I sponged the background with Salty Ocean, the stocking and berries with Worn Lipstick, the leaves with Mowed Lawn and Pine Needles, and the top of the stocking with Mustard Seed. After they were dry I cut all of the pieces out with the dies and mounted them onto my card with foam tape.

I stamped the sentiment from the Holiday Cheer stamp set in black and added a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins!

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My next card features the Holly dies along with the new Mason Jar Dies and the Poinsettia Die. I did the same as the card above, with the same colors of Distress inks, except that the mason jar was watercolored with Peerless watercolors instead of blending with distress inks. I wanted it to look like it had water in it and some green stems. The mason jar was glued flat to the card and the leaves, holly and poinsettia were all adhered with foam tape. The sentiment is from the Holiday Cheer stamp set.

I added some 6mm pink sequins to the center of the flowers and few pale yellow Pretty Pink Post sequins to finish the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! The products I used are listed below, and your next stop on the hop is the always inspiring Laura Bassen!

Paper Smooches Products:

Holly Dies

Stocking Dies

Snowflake Dies

Mason Jar Dies

Poinsettia Dies

Holiday Cheer stamp set

Enjoy the hop!!

Kay :)

A Special Paper Smooches Blog Hop!

We are excited to participate a fun blog hop with the amazing CardMaker magazine girls today!  Please check out their blog for a TON of inspiration!  Their magazine is beautiful!

Please hop along to see some wonderful Paper Smooches projects!

If you are following along on the hop, you should have come from Stacy Morgan's blog.

I thought I would share a couple of my favorite cards from the September Paper Smooches Release!

Paper Smooches Product used:

Flower Two Dies

Foliage 2 Dies

Sorry Word Dies

Apologies

Heartfelt Thanks Die

To add some fun to our hop...we are choosing TWO lucky winners to receive a $25. gift code to shop at the PS store.  Winners will be chosen randomly from the participating blogs.  You will have until Sept. 18th at midnight est to comment.  Winners will be announced on our blog on Sept 19th.

Your next stop on the hop is  Chitra Nair

Here is the complete line up of all the hoppers!

CardMaker: http://www.cardmakermagazine.com/blog/

Alice Wertz: http://aliceslittlewonderland.blogspot.com/

Gini Williams Cagle: http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/

Emily Leiphart: http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com/

Stacy Morgan: http://twinshappy.blogspot.com/

Kay Miller: http://myjoyfulmoments-kaym.blogspot.com/  <-- You are here!

Chitra Nair: http://www.craftingchitra.blogspot.com/

Michele Boyer: http://papercuts.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Mendi Yoshikawa: http://www.snippets-of-mendi.blogspot.com/

Teri Anderson: http://terisplace.wordpress.com

Jennie Harper: http://stampawaytheday.blogspot.com/

Paper Smooches: http://papersmooches.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy the hop!

Kay :)

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Guest!

Hello Friends! I am thrilled to be guesting on the Simon Says Blog today to help celebrate STAMPtember! This is my favorite time of year, and I do so love to make fall cards! So to help them celebrate, I created a super cute fall card with some fun Paper Smooches products!

Sorry, I can only let you see a peek of it! But you must go see the whole thing on the Simon Says Stamp Blog because this is one of my all time favorite cards ever!! Click HERE to see it now!!

And see the banner up above my card? There is a coupon code on there to receive 20% off of all of your Paper Smooches products! That is so great! 

Okay that is all I have today! Hope you have a fabulous week!

Hugs,

Kay :)