It’s Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches December release with you! FOUR new stamps and EIGHT new dies will be available to purchase on November 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, November 30th to leave a comment.
- Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, December 1st to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.
Ashley Marcu
Emily Leiphart
Erin Lincoln
JJ Bolton
Jocelyn Olson
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 pretty new Roses dies on my card as well as a sentiment from the Lovely Thoughts stamp set. I used my Peerless watercolors to add a loose wash of color behind the die cuts.
Thanks so much for hopping by!
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Doublestick Heaven 
I love this idea, so nice, Laura!!!
SO GORGEOUS what a great idea..love the card!
This is so pretty, love the colors and your blending!
Just finished the OWH hop & this popped up in my inbox. You sure have been busy. Another great card!
So pretty! What a perfect way to accent the rose die cut. Great inspiration!
I’ve been thinking about trying watercolors. This die is making it happen!
Delicate and feminine. Beautiful.
I love that you used the watercolor background technique with the Roses die on top. Stunning!
love how you did your watercolor background – very elegant card!
Love how you watercolored behind the dies. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Gorgeous card! I love the watercoloring!
Love that flower:)
WOW – this is gorgeous!!!! love it!
I love this technique, your card is gorgeous!
I blogged about the hop!
OMG, Laura – I am LOVING that flower die that I’m seeing all over the blogs today. Gorgeous!! Beautiful card with the watercolorinf behind that awesome new die!
I shared on my blog’s FB page! https://www.facebook.com/ValByDesign
I Tweeted! https://twitter.com/ValByDesign/status/538356911339765760
Loving the new goodies!
This is absolutely beautiful, I need this die is so awesome!!!
Very pretty die and I love the watercolor touches!
What a cool way to use watercolors! Love how this turned out, Laura! So pretty! ♥
Wow, I love the watercolors behind that die cut. Gorgeous!
Love how you accented that die cut.
Love this rose die!
Simple design with absolutely lovely results. This is an effective technique for so many other die cuts.
Gorgeous CAS design!!!
So simple but oh so stunning!! Such beautiful way to use that die!!
Oooh! I adore what you did with this card! Thanks for the inspiration.
Pretty card! Like the way you blended your watercolors as a bkgrd for your nice rose die cut. Nicely placed sequins, too. 🙂
Love the watercolor look behind the rose die, so pretty and soft!
Love the wash. Such a pretty card.
You always make the prettiest cards and I like that they are simple but so special. Fantastic job!
VERY, very pretty card!!
This is a great way to use the Lovely Thoughts roses die. I love how you employed the water color in such a clever yet simple way.
What a great card – love what you did. Thanks for sharing this simple yet beautiful idea.
Beautiful card, Laura! Your water coloring looks so pretty behind the rose…so elegant and lovely!
Like the artsy look & silhouette look.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
The watercolor effect is so pretty!
What a stunning card…both the diecut and the sentiment are exquisite!
Oooo…I really like that effect! So pretty.
I love the watercolor behind the die cut. So elegant
Gorgeous Laura! TFS
Dolly
Gorgeous! Love the water coloring with the die! Favorite so far!
I see you are loving your watercolors as much as I am!
This is such a delicate, pretty looking card. Lovely!
Really pretty! And if changed the sentiment it would be a great mother’s day card idea too 🙂
Great card, as always!!!!!!!!!1 Thanks for the inspiration!
As always, I love your card!! A lot of fun with a touch of elegance with that beautiful rose die! TFS
love it…. thank you for it
Oh
My
Gosh!
This is INCREDIBLE! I LOOOOOVE the loose watercolor behind the white dies! Absolutely stunning! And so so so bright and happy! Wow! Bravo!
This is amazing! Such a beautiful card, Laura. You have great talent!
So beautiful and another awesome, creative idea!
Wow! I love this card! The watercolor behind the diecut is beautiful!
Beautiful with the watercolor behind the die cut flower.
Beautiful! Love the water colors! Great design.
Love how they designed this set… So many different ways to use the different components!
Gorgeous CAS card! I can totally see this rose and leaves image in stained glass!
very nice, i like the colors
I shared on fb:
I tweeted:
https://twitter.com/Morentin1326/status/538494926481137664
I put it on my blog:
http://adventureofthecreativemind.blogspot.com/
Watercolor wash under gorgeous die cut flower? Love!!
Really pretty!
Stunning!
Another perfect example of using the die, and watercolors. Simple and classic.
I love the watercolor behind the white die cut. Beautiful
Oh, the possibilities with this die. . . lovely card.
How delicate! Like the colors!
So pretty! Love how you did the watercoloring underneath!
I shared on FB about the hop
I tweeted about the hop: https://twitter.com/MiriamPrantner/status/538523851224018944
I love how you made this card! Just beautiful!
very nice card !
That’s a great way to colour the rose! So pretty!
Lovely card and rose.
Stunning card! I love the simplicity plus the gorgeous coloring. The die is wonderful.
The flower die is beautiful & so is your card!
What a great idea to watercolor behind the die! Lovely card!
I shared the blog on facebook, too!
Love Blog Hops! Hope to win and get to play with some of your new stuff!
beautiful card!
You always have the best ideas, beautiful card.
This is beautiful card – like the die
SO beautiful !Loved the color wash against white die-cut rose !
Beautiful way to showcase that lovely die!
How beautiful and delicate! Thank you for the inspiration!
GORGEOUS card Laura!!!
LOVE the die cut rose and your watercoloring – together they are STUNNING!!!
I told my crafty friends about the Blog Hop and shared a link to your blog & GORGEOUS card on Facebook too 🙂
I told my crafty friends about the Blog Hop and shared a link to your blog & GORGEOUS card on Facebook too 🙂
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https:// http://www.facebook.com/tracy.moloney.71/posts/ 970446842983693
I don’t have a blog, so I pinned your GORGEOUS card with a link to your blog & to you Flickr photo 🙂
I don’t have a blog, so I pinned your GORGEOUS card with a link to your blog & to your Flickr photo too http://www.pinterest.com/pin/247275835766424007/
absolutely perfect!
This is beautiful! So clever with the watercolouring behind the die cut. Very artsy!
Gorgeous card, Laura! Love the new rose die.
Always gorgeous and always an inspiration to create something fun! Thank you, Laura!
Wow Laura…just love how you put down water colour first and then layered the die cut!
I posted on FB about the hop.
I posted on my blog/flickr account … https://www.flickr.com/photos/74238397@N06/15719028307/in/photostream/
Love the watercolor wash!!
love it!
What a cute idea!
Beautiful! The die is wonderful and the color wash takes it to a whole new level. TFS
Beautiful, yet simple. Your cards always blow my mind Laura.
Beautiful Card!! Love your bog and inspiration:)
Oh wow, I love your fresh gorgeous card!
Super cute card…. Thanks for the inspiration!
Stunning 🙂
Beautiful watercoloring and die cut, love it
Gorgeous card Laura! Love the artsy watercoloring!
Can’t wait to get my hands on that die. Your card is gorgeous.
Beautiful card Laura. The sentiment set looks like a great one too!
Beautiful card. I love the water coloring.
Beautiful card!!!
Love this idea and your card!
Very clever, and very effective.
Beautiful! I love how you added the colour behind the pretty die cut 🙂
The water coloring under the die is a neat idea. Beautiful job!
I tweeted (@acools)
I shared on FB (Amy Maddux Cooley)
Love your watercolor background. Very pretty. TFS
So pretty – love the rose die cut
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I Facebooked about your blog hop.
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Oh this is gorgeous!
Shared on Facebook!
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/DeborahOwens8/status/538880735965634560
Beautiful card! Love the watercolour. 🙂
A beautiful idea, watercolor and a die cute. Brilliant!
Wow…this is just STUNNING! Absolutely LOVE the watercolor background, and with the simple white die cut it is perfection!!!
Gorgeous watercolor background below those lovely diecut roses! I love it!
Oh WOW! This is AMAZING CAS card! Love it! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing idea 😀
What a beautiful, elegant CAS card. TFS
Love the watercoloring with the dies
Just love this beautiful artsy design, stunning as always!
Gorgeous card! Love the watercolor and the pretty dies!
That rainbow of color behind the flower is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I love it!
I LOVE this!! Such a SWEET Design!! LOVE the Layers and the Colors!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Awesome! Trust you to incorporate a rainbow effect…What a great idea to let the die define the image, over your lovely puddle of watercolouring. Now I need that die!
Love the way you “colored” the rose. Great idea and so pretty.
thanks for sharing.
beautiful! love the white die cut on the watercolor.
tweeted https://twitter.com/charktweets/status/539192486049378305
Love the watercolor with the rose die.
my fb: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.carroll.142/posts/864564110261959?pnref=story
my tweet: https://twitter.com/TaraSeamus/status/539192716484022272
What a beautiful design and a great idea to use watercolor to highlight the die! Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous! I love the watercolors and clean look. Thanks for sharing.