Paper Smooches Pep Rally!!

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches August stamp release with you!  FOUR new stamps and SEVEN new die sets will be available to purchase at 12:01 AM (EDT) on August 1st.  You will find them all HERE.
To add extra fun to our blog hop, we are offering up a prize!  Just leave a comment on any of the eight design team blogs listed below for your chance to win one of our new stamp sets!  (You do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify!)  You have until midnight MDT on Friday, July 26th to leave a comment.  Please check all design team blogs on Saturday, July 27th to see if you are one of the EIGHT lucky winners.

Emily Leiphart
Heidi Van Laar
Kalyn Kepner
Karolyn Loncon
Kim Kesti
Laura Bassen
Laurie Schmidlin
Teri Anderson

To increase your chances of winning:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post;
2. Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop;
3. Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop; and/or
4. Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop.

(Which means that you have up to four chances to win on each blog!)

My project features two of the newest stamp sets that are being released on August 1st.  Kim has designed a mini background block stamp set called Artisan Blocks – six different mini patterns that are so freakin’ fun to play with and have amazing possibilities!  I masked the sentiment strip with some washi tape and then I stamped the lined Artisan Block in three different colors, overlapping them a bit, and flipping the direction on each end.  The sentiment is from the new sentiment set called Many Thanks – lots of great sentiments is super fun fonts (including some with Kim’s handwriting, of course!)  That stamp set will most definitely be used on a frequent basis at my house!  Love it!  You totally need to visit my teamies (listed above) to see what they’ve created for you – no doubt it’s beyond phenomenal!

Well, that’s it for me today, my friends.  It’s going to be uber busy around the Loncon household the next couple of days.  My youngest daughter is coming home after being gone since the first part of June.  And my adorable grandsons will be visiting today and tomorrow – can’t wait!!


PRODUCTS USED:
STAMPS:  Artisan Blocks and Many Thanks (Paper Smooches Stamps)
INK:  Grapefruit, Buttercup and Bermuda (A Muse Studio), Navy (Fresh Ink)
PAPER:  Regal Rose CS (Stampin’ Up!), Solar White CS (Neenah Classic Crest)
OTHER:  Lemon Baker’s Twine (Divine Twine), Midnight Blue and Ocean Baker’s Twine (The Twinery), Enchanted Evening and Hibiscus Burst Buttons (PTI)