Paper Smooches May Release #2 Grad Cap

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's  latest release! It is awesome for all spring's and summer's big occasions :   

I started out by diecutting two triangle backgrounds and then made a cardbase to which I adhered my triangle Squares to create some Beautiful texture.
I diecut the grad cap from watercolor paper and colored it with watercolor. I use Winsor and Newton.
I diecut a notebook basic page to which I stamped the sentiment and adhered the cap.

Paper Smooches supplies :

Notebook Basic die

Grad Cap Die

Triangle dies

New Beginnings 2

 

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

 

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Perfect Popcicles - Sunny Studio

Hi Everyone!

I'm here to share a new card that I've created with Sunny Studio Stamp's summer release! It is a wonderful release - you can combine many/all of the sets to create cute and fun summercards! You can shop them HERE and if you want some amazing inspirations from the awesome Sunny Team you should pop over to their blog HERE

The Perfect popcicles are really perfect - I could stamp a hundred and still be amazed at how they come together and build a 3D image  when I stamp my last layer. They are fast and easy to create and will be awesome for so many different kinds of Projects. I can see them be perfect for BD cards and for invitations to summer parties but also for simple "pop by to say hi" cards. And the heratfelt wishes set is a must have - so great together with the wishes die - to create lots of different and very usedful sentiments - love it!

Sunny Studio Supplies I used:

A good egg stamp set
A good Egg die set
Perfect Popsicles + dies
Heartfelt wishes
Stitches scallop border
Wishes die





I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolors: Rabbits

It is Sunday and time for me to share a new watercolor. This time I have two rabbits - one that I spent a bit more time on and one quick sketch . I use Winsor Newtons Professional watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.

I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram

If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday - Isn't she lovely

It is Saturday and time for my Published Card Saturday feature. This time I'm sharing a card that was published in the issue 106 of Paper Crafter. I got the chence to play with some new stamps from Kaiser Craft.  that come free as digis with the magazine. It is a GREAT Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

The flower is made from Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

My Friday Inspiration for Lawn Fawnatics - Zebras on the savanna!

Hi Everyone!
It's my turn to share inspiration for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time our theme for the challenge is Black and White + Bright and I have made another thake on that:

For this card, that would be great for a kid, I started out by stamping and coloring three zebras from the fun set Critters on the Savanna. This time I used watercolor pencils.
I fuzzu cut them before I created a bright and colorful bg by inking it with distress ink: Spiced marmalade.
The sentiment I used for my flag/banner is from the cute set: Love Letters



Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!


Lawn Fawn Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Critters on the Savanna
Love Letters

Dies:
Large Stitched Journaling card

Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape

You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE
I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches May Release #1 Mr and Mrs die

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's  latest release! I just love everything about it! For this post I have played with the super fun  :  

For this card I used the beautiful rose and flower stamp from the new New Beginnings stamp set. I stamped my pattern on white cardstock with silver ink. When that had dried completely I inked the edges with Hickory smoke distress ink and added Nuovo glitter drops to the center of the small flowers. I then diecut the n 

Mr & Mrs Words Dies several times from black glitter cardstock (DCWV), layered them and adhered to center of panel.

My panel is adhered to cardbase with foam adhesive.

Paper Smooches supplies :

New Beginnings

Mr & Mrs Words Dies

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

I'm so excitied...

... I had to share this with you here too !

I am featured on Arches' (the best watercolor paper in the world!) homepage and it is such an honor!!

You can view them in full size either here on my blog: HERE 

or on Arches' homepage: HERE

A Bird's Life - Sunny Studio

Hi Everyone!

I'm here to share a new card that I've created with Sunny Studio Stamp's summer release! You can shop them HERE and if you want some amazing inspirations from the awesome Sunny Team you should pop over to their blog HERE

I started out by stamping the adorable images from A Bird’s Life and colored them with copic markers. I then made a window card to frame my Little bird scene. This is for a couple who just moved in together but this set is useful for so many different occasions - this would for example make an adorable baby card, don't you Think? The dies and paper I used are from MFT stamps!

Sunny Studio Supplies I used:

A Bird’s Life





I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #4 Black/White and Bright

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a card for the new Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time our theme is Black/white and Bright and this is my take:

I used some b/w patterned paper to create my bg and placed a cute border cut with the stitched scalloped border die.
I then stamped the beautiful butterflies from the Flutter by stamp set and colored them with copic markers.
I cut the thank You border and then adhered that and the butterfies to the card with Tombow adhesive tape.


Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Flutter By

Dies:
Thank You border
Stitched scalloped borders
Stitched rectangles


Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape

You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE
I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolors: Hollyhocks

It is Sunday and time for me to share a new watercolor. This time I have some pretty Hollyhooks. I used a photo I took at Brännö last summer as reference.  I use Winsor Newtons Professional watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.

I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram

If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a greatday, hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday

It is Saturday and time for my Published Card Saturday feature. This time I'm sharing a card that was published in the issue 106 of Paper Crafter. I got the chence to play with some new stamps from Kaiser Craft.  They come free as digis with the Paper Crafter Magazine! It is a GREAT Magazine in many ways and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

PS DT May Release Blog Hop Rose Frame dies

Hi Everyone! 

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches MAY 2017 release with you!  TWO new stamp sets and SIX new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on May 2nd.  You will find our new products HERE once they go live.  The release date was postponed one day because Kim will be on her honeymoon until May 2nd !!!!.

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 Tuesday, May 2nd to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Wednesday, May 3rd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

Alice Wertz

Jill Hawkins

Karin Akesdotter

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

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)

Once again, I am in LOVE with Kim's new designs/products - the rose frame die is soooo beautiful and can be used in so many different ways - here I die cut the rose, separated the parts and inked them before assembling them again. When that was done I coveren the whole rose in glossy accent and sprinkled on some glitter. This rose is even more beautiful in real life than what I managed to capture in this photo.
The wonderful triangle die cut background is also a new die, available on april 2nd and you will se more use of it for the rest of my May release projects for PS because it is GREAT - adds texture to any project in a very fast, simple and beautiful way!
Now pop over to see what my super talented teamies have created with the new May products - know you will be amazed!

Paper Smooches supplies :

Rose Frame Die 

Triangle die

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Paper Smooches April Release #4 Pineapple Thanks so much!

Hi and welcome to a new post with Paper Smooches  latest release! This time I played with the super fun  Thanks so much die  and Pineapple 2 die.   

I created my background by simly layering some cardstock in beach sea and sky colors and then diecut a rectangle. The pineapple is first die-cut and taken apart - then inked with distress ink before assembled again. As a finishing touche I added some brown lines with a watercolor pencil to add shape to the pineapple.

Paper Smooches supplies :

Thanks so much die

Pineapple 2 die

Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

If You were Ice cream ... Sunny Studio

Hi Everyone!

Today I (Karin Åkesdotter of PeppermintPatty's Papercraft) am  here to share a new, very summery card that I've created with Sunny Studio Stamp's summer release! This is an awesome layering stap set called Two Scoops. You can shop them HERE and if you want some amazing inspirations from the awesome Sunny Team you should pop over to their blog HERE

I started out by making a cardbase from White cardstock and matting it with pink striped patterned paper. I then stamped my icream from Three different shades of pink and then the cone from two different light Browns and then fuzzy cut them. It is so fun to see them develop into their 3d look as you stamp each layer!!!The ink and paper I used are from MFT stamps.

I then inked a panel of White cardstoch with peacock feathers distress ink and stamped the sentiment in the top right hand corner. I adhered the icecream cone to the panel with foam adhesive and did the same with the panel to the cardbase.

Sunny Studio Supplies I used:


Two Scoops






I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin