PS - Pep Rally Week

PS DT Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches OCTOBER 2017 release with you!  ONE new stamp sets and SIX new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on September 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 will increase your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, October 1st to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, October 2nd 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)

AND, we have something special to share...we partnered up with XYRON this week.

Our designers received Xyron adhesives to use on their October projects and Xyron's design team were given Paper Smooches stamps to create with.  They are sharing their Paper Smooches cards on the their blogs this week. You can find them all HERE

For my card I used XYRON's AWESOME mega tape runner !

Paper Smooches supplies :

Comforting hugs

Season's Greetings 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 

Sunday Watercolors : Magnolia 1

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams 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 great day, hugs, Karin

ps. yes, I do paint pet portraits on comission - e-mail me for mor info.

POP -up POP-corn card

Hi!

Here's a card I'msharing for the new challenge at Simon says Stamp Wednesday challenge: 

Have a fun Friday!

Karin

I'm also sharing my card here:

Sir stamp-a-lot

Lawn Fawnatics challenge: Fall Moodboard

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

I started by making a cardbase from White cardstock
I diecut a grass border and adhered that to a piece of birch tree paper and then diecut a stitched rectangle that I cut from the other side too to make it more square. I stamped my sentiment and then matted my square to another, slightly larger piece of white cardstock and adhered that to cardbase with foam adhesive.

I then stamped and colored some cute summer images and adhered them to my card with tape and foam adhesive.

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration from my talented teamies and of course to play along for your chance to win 25 $ to the Lawn Fawn Store!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Jump for Joy

Dies:
Grassy border
Stitched rectangles

Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape

I'm also sharing my card here:

Seven Hills Crafts Challenge

Copic Marker Sweden
Copic Marker Norway: 

TheHeartDesiresblog


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 Watercolor: Hållö Lighthouse

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams 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 great day, hugs, Karin

ps. yes, I do paint pet portraits on comission - e-mail me for more info.

Paper Smooches release #2

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's  latest release! It was such a cool release for all of us who like to journal  For this post I have played with the super fun  Dinky Doodles 1 and 2 and the useful and fabulous Inchies dies.   

By using double sided transfer sheets and the awesome Inchies dies I created lots of Little stickers to use in my planner/calendar. I'm often at work when I add things and I don't Always want to wait to illustrate my notes till I come home.
I also made some Calling cards that I decorated with my stickers. I keep them in transparent self adhesive pockets that I fasten to the inside of the cover of my planner.


 

Paper Smooches supplies :
Inchies dies

Daily Diary

Dinky Doodles 1

Dinky Doodles 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 

Sunday Watercolor : Blue Bird

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams 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 great day, hugs, Karin

ps. yes, I do paint pet portraits on comission - e-mail me for more info.

Published Card Saturday : Hawaii

It is Saturday so I'm here to share a published card again. This card was published in the August   issue of PaperCrafter . I was asked to make a series of 5 cards for a travel theme section with cards from different destinations - so for the next Saturdays I will share these. Here is the last one: HAWAII
Paper Crafter. It is an Amazing Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

Have a great Day!

Karin

LawnFawnatics Challenge: Create a scene

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

I started by making a cardbase from White cardstock and then diecut a stitched rectangle.

I then stamped and colored some cute summer images and adhered them to my card with tape and foam adhesive.

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration from my talented teamies and of course to play along for your chance to win 25 $ to the Lawn Fawn Store!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:

Bicycle built for You
Fairy Friends

Dies:
Grassy border

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 Watercolor - Meet Dudley

It is Monday and time for me to share a new watercolor. This time I have a portrait of a sweet panda.  I use Winsor Newtons Professional watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb Arches rough or fine.

For this painting I used the following colors:Raw sienna, burnt umber, french ultramarine, neutral tint, cereulian blue and a Little sepia for the Eyes.

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

PCS- Halloween Treat bag

Hi Everyone!

It is Saturday so I'm here to share a published card again. This card was published in the  FALL    issue of CardMaker 2016.

CardMaker is a fantastic Magazine and they share lots of  wonderful inspiration on their blog.

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

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

Published Card Saturday : New York

It is Saturday so I'm here to share a published card again. This card was published in the August   issue of PaperCrafter . I was asked to make a series of 5 cards for a travel theme section with cards from different destinations - so for the next Saturdays I will share these. Here is the fourth one: NEW YORK
Paper Crafter. It is an Amazing Magazine and their blog is awsome too - make sure to check it out HERE!

Have a great Day!

Karin

Lawn Fawnatics : Friday Inspiration - Cards for Kids

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share another card for the latest Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time our theme is Cards For Kids and this is my take:

I started by inking a piece of White  cardstock with distress ink and spattered it with water and then diecut a stitched rectangle from black licorice cardstock . I diecut Another rectangle through that to create a stitched frame.

I then stamped and colored some cute images from Critters ever after and adhered them to my inked cardstock with tape and foam adhesive.

I stamed the sentiment from Fairy Friends Before assembling my card using foam adhesive to get dimension to the frame.

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration from my talented teamies and of course to play along for your chance to win 25 $ to the Lawn Fawn Store!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Critters Ever After
Fairy Friends

Dies:
Stitched rectangles

Other:
Black Licorice Cardstock
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