Paper Smooches September Blog Hop ***Giveaway***

**this is my 2nd post of the day! to see my card that's up on the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog today, scroll down or click here!**

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches SEPTEMBER 2017 release with you!  FOUR new stamp sets and FOUR new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on August 31st.  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 will increase your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, August 27th to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, August 28th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice extended her vacation a bit, so we have a wonderful replacement for her for the blog hop but you will see her creations later this month.  Samantha Mann is stepping in for her and I am super excited about that - woohoo! (yay! that's me!!!)

Jill Hawkins

Karin Akesdotter

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Samantha Mann

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)

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Yay!!!
Surprise! Today I'm part of the Paper Smooches Crew! And I couldn't be happier or more excited!! Thank you Kim, for the invite and kind words!!!! *heart eyes*

Ok, so today I have 2 cards and 1 planner spread to share with you! Let's get to it! :)

My first card uses Dinky Doodles 1 and Daily Diary stamp sets! 

LOVE it!!!

So adorable right?! I turned that little monster into a crab, and then created a tiny beach scene with Distress Oxide Inks, within the AWESOME new Postage Stamp Dies!!!
I die cut out the largest size frame 4 times and adhered them together! LOVE the stacked height!

I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto a strip of black cardstock! And I finished off the card with some gold thread around the frame, and some gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine splatters! 

My 2nd card uses the BEYOND ADORABLE Monster Dies!!!! I die cut out the outline of the monster (and his arm!) 4 times and stacked it all together!

Then added color by blending some Distress Oxide Inks in Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio!

I added some glossy accents to the eyes (they look like googly eyes now!! ha!) and added some glitter to his horns!! LOVE THIS LITTLE GUY!
The watercolor background was created with Distress Oxide Inks in Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Spiced Marmalade!

Then I added the sentiment from Halloween Sampler onto a banner of black cardstock!! So cute, right?! Those little white gel pen details I added with to the monster make me giggle, too!

My last project is a planner spread!

If you aren't aware (I mostly post my planner spread on my Instagram only), I use a planner EVERY DAY. But I don't decorate the weekly pages. I need those to be function only! LOL! But I go crazy with the monthly spreads! I call it "art planning" a mix of art journaling, and using a planner!!
So here's my spread before the pen!

What do you think?!

I started by using some white gesso on my pages, then added the watercolor rainbow look with Distress Paints! August is a busy month with both of my boys' celebrating birthdays and back to school! And this year, we even got to see the Solar Eclipse in 100% totality!! Pretty cool!

I hope you're inspired and love what you see!
Don't forget to enter for your chance(s!!) to win!! 

Enjoy!

Sweet Stamp Shop July 2017 Release!

hello and happy release day to everyone out there in the Sweet world!
today Sweet Stamp Shop is releasing new stamps and NEW washi! yahoooo!!

i have a BUNCH of new projects to share, so let's get right down to it!

what's not to love, am I right?! 

I LOVE that new Bubble Alpha, Bubble Alpha Fill and Bubble Number sets!! The shapes of the letters/numbers are SO FUN!

it's perfect to pair with any other Sweet Stamp Shop to create a custom card! I used the super adorable Peekaboo Cats set to create this fun and funny card!

i'm TOTALLY a cat person, so it's OK that i made it! ha! most of my friends are dog people, so they'll get a kick out of this one!! ha!

also, people, there's a new WIZARD set!!!! EEEEEEEEE! i made have done an actual happy dance when I saw this one!!

it's SO perfect to combine with the previous wizard stamp sets, and I can see a LOT of these kinds of cards in my future!! LOVE! :) The new Magical Friends stamp set works seemlessly with the original Wizards set! EEEEE! love them!

my last card featuring the new stamps is RAINBOW!!! 
so of course i LOVE it! ha ha! i took two traditionally planner stamp sets and made this fun card! I am in LOVE with it!!! hope it made you smile, too!

next up, let's look at a sample of the new washi!!! but believe me, there's SO much more being released!!

i know there are going to be LOTS of you out there who are excited for this new zombie washi!!!! i even used a piece of one of the rolls as my title!!! a little stamping with the Hand Out stamp set as a bunch of zombie hands!! ha! so FUN and unexpected!

and I love lining the edges of my journals with washi!! SO easy, and super fun to do! and just look at how FUN that looks!! i can't wait to do a rainbow theme in my next album!!

lastly, I made a planner spread with some DRAGON washi!! MY FAVORITE!! ha ha!! not only are the designs just ADORABLE, but check out the colors!! i was super inspired!!

so be sure to get your favorites before they're gone! i want to hear what you're most excited about!! the washi? or the stamps? 
enjoy!

Some Sweet Planner Accessorizing

**this is my 2nd post of the day! to see day 1 of the July Newton's Nook release scroll down, or click here!**

heeeeey! today i have another post up on the Sweet Stamp Shop blog! yahoooo!
and this one is all about accessorizing your planner!
i used four different Sweet stamp sets: Unicorn, Girl Power, Mush Day and Perfect Panda.

personaly, i only decorate the month spreads of my planner...i don't have time for the weekly pages. and i think, that's ok! i really only do the monthly pages as a form of art journalling, and testing techniques anyway! but i still want color and FUN on my devoid of fun, weekly pages.
enter DIY paper clips!

you know i had to use that unicorn! ha! CUTEST IMAGE EVER! lol!

so head on over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog to read all about how i made these, and more!
enjoy!