Celebrate!

Hello my stamping lovelies!

How are you today?!! I’m finally back from Seattle and am so happy to be back in the Valley of the Sun . . . although it seems to be just as cold here in AZ as it was in WA.  Oh well.  I’m happy to report that our daughter, Amy, is engaged to an awesome young man named Joe.  We love Joe, and are so happy for them both!  So it seems there will be a wedding in our future – YAY!

Thought I’d pop in and share another one of my Paper Smooches February release projects.  Today’s sample features a couple of new products.  The first new product is the sentiment – it comes from the brand spankin’ new stamp set called Birthday Sampler.  This set is LOADED with brilliant sentiments for birthdays and other celebrations in your life, and of course they all feature Kim’s fun and cute handwritten lettering.  The second new product used is the Hot Spots Small Base and Hot Spots Small Set 1 dies.  The cityscape was created using Metropolis.  I used one of the snowflakes from Chilly Chums for the fireworks.  Isn’t it so fun?

 

Well I’m headed out the door for an amazing day of crafty goodness!  It’s been way too long, and I’m missin’ my girl!  I hope you have some great plans for the day!  Thanks for stopping in today – I am so grateful for the time you spend here!

Paper Smooches Sneak Peek–Someone Pinch Me!

Hola Stamping Friends!

Someone pinch me, please, because I think I’m living in a dream!  I’m thrilled to announce that Kim Hughes has invited me to join the Paper Smooches Stamps Design Team.  What?!!  I know, right?!  My official term begins at the end of January, but I get the privilege of sharing a sneak peek of some of the new product that will be available for sale on February 1, 2013 at www.papersmoochesstamps.com along with many retail stores around the globe.

Paper Smooches is showing off their CHA release during the entire month of January. 37 designers are participating along with the PS DT, so there will be a ton of projects to inspire you this month. Paper Smooches is known for their fun and whimsical hand-drawn stamps. They decided that it was time to broaden their product line to include DIES and wood mount stamps!

You will find a new blog link (or two) to follow every day in January at the PS Blog.  Paper Smooches is giving away $500 worth of product! Hidden on FIVE of the participating blogs is a prize package worth $100 each. The prizes include a variety of stamp sets, wood mounts and dies. Comment on as many blogs as you can to increase your chances to be one of the five winners.

The deadline for commenting is January 30^th – winners will be announced on the PS Blog on January 31^st.

Here’s my project featuring one of the new dies – OH MY GOODNESS!!  The image panel is a new die set called Hot Spots Large Base and Hot Spots LG Set 2 (the polka dot panel).  These dies are an amazing system to help ground those adorable PS images.  The smaller rectangle can be swapped out for one of five different graphic patterns – I’m featuring the polka dot pattern in this project.  I seriously can’t wait for you all to see more of these dies and try them out for yourself – they’ll quickly become your collection basics for sure!

 

That’s it for my GINORMOUS news today, kids!  I hope you’ll pop into the Paper Smooches Blog EVERY SINGLE DAY IN JANUARY for the chance to win and to be amazed by the incredible list of designers that Kim has gathered to share her new products with you.  I promise you’ll be blown away!  Thanks for stopping in!