Category Archives: Paper Smooches

Rockin’ Birthday

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I created this card for my niece. I wanted something colorful and fun.

I used the harlequin stamp from Potpourri to create the floor – which turned out so much better than I thought it would – so happy!

The jukebox is stamped, colored, cut-out, and popped-up.

I love the added texture the striped impression plates – makes it look like paneling (which is what I was going for). The serendipitous part is that I was trying to get the stripes all the way down to the floor, but I gauged wrong and ended up with baseboard – and I love that extra touch! Now I just hope I can do it again the next time, lol!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Let the Good Times Roll
Stamps: Perpetual Bliss, Potpourri (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Raspberry Fizz, White (PTI); Black (Memento ink);
Other: Simple Stripes impression plate (PTI); Markers (Copic);

Summer Vine

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The Paper Smooches Sparks challenge blog has a great inspiration photo for the latest challenge.

I started with a kraft card base and then sponged some blue craft ink onto the base (mimicking the inspiration piece). After that, I just used the colors from the piece.

happy birthday
Stamps: Reflections, Party Posse (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Kraft (PTI); Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue (SU);
Other: tag punch (Marvy); twine (Paper Smooches);

Boldly Back 2 School

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I was away from my stamps for two weeks (eek!). Now that I’m back, I’m trying to get back into the groove of playing the challenges – and also trying to catch up with some that I missed.

This card is for this week’s Retro Sketch (rs21).

While I was searching through my index to pick a stamp set to use, I came up with the idea to do a back to school card using Smarty Pants (by Paper Smooches). I love this set – this little dude is so fun!

Since I was using some PS stamps – I checked on the challenges I missed while I was gone and found a Cool Shades color challenge which fit perfectly!

In the color challenge graphic – I wasn’t too sure if that was a yellow or a yellow/green swatch – so I picked Stampin’Up’s new Starfruit color because I have the same problem with that!

I was looking for some “school” pattern paper when I remembered I could use Papertrey’s Guidelines paper for my card base – love the subtle grid as a background for this card!

The sentiment is a combination of sentiment and alphabet sets.

The final touch was to add the string to the tag. I had nothing that was that yellow/green color. So I took white baker’s twine and colored it with the marker – very easy!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Go Boldly
Stamps: Smarty Pants, Space Cadet, He Said She Said, Alphadot (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Spring Rain (PTI); Starfruit (SU);
Other: Prestwick DSP for shirt paper piecing (retired SU); markers (Copic & SU); Tag die, Guidelines paper (PTI);

To My Core

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I love playing the Paper Smooches Sparks challenges! This week’s trend watch challenge was “Food Fresh” (see it here).

I chose to use the apple image from Falling for You. My hubby will be on a business trip soon, so this will get tucked into his suitcase.

When creating this card, I loved the lines of the shopping cart (on the image that was used to introduce the challenge) – they reminded me of the little heart image in the same set. The lines also made me think to use the Picnic Plaid impression plate on the background.

I paper pieced the apple – and chose a cream colored natural-fiber paper for the core. I carried over that same paper for the sentiment die cut (because why can’t I use white and cream together??). I love that the naturals paper has fibers that remind me of a real apple (no apple core is a stark flat color).

I love this card so much, I’m going to enter it into the Paper Smooches guest designer search!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Love You to My Core
Stamps: Falling for You (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Rustic Cream, Poppy (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: Chartreuse Pattern Paper (PTI); Polka Dot Greetings die (MFT); Picnic Plaid impression plate (PTI); brown marker (Copic);

Tiered Patterns

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I’m squeezing in a card just before the deadline for the Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect challenge.

When I saw the picture, I was drawn to the tiered platter and all the different patterns. I used those as my inspiration for my card.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Party Posse, Friendly Flowers, Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches); Background: Houndstooth (PTI);
Colors: Hibiscus, Hawaiian Shores, White (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: Markers (Copic); red stickles;

Celebrate with Sugar

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I haven’t had a lot of time to stamp lately, but there are some challenges that I really enjoy playing so when it was time to do some stamping, I made sure I pulled up those challenges first.

I used the Paper Smooches Cool Shades challenge (PBJ) for my colors, and a Retro Sketch (#16) for the layout.

I recently purchased the Paper Smooches Sugar Rush stamp set and thought it would be perfect for these colors. The layout really lended itself to making a cascade of sugary treats with which to celebrate. You can’t tell in the photo, but all the bits have glitter on them.

This is my first time using the Gina K paper for coloring with Copics. My verdict is still out. There seems to be more streaky marks left (like the paper soaks it up before I can do my next stroke). I do like the weight and the brightness of the paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate
Stamps: Sugar Rush (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Lavender Moon (PTI); White (Gina K);
Other: markers (Copic); glitter pen (Spica);

Woohooo

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May is always hectic for me – between Teacher Apprecation & Mother’s Day at the beginning of the month and end of school stuff at the end…I just don’t have a whole lot of time for fun stamping.

I needed to make a RAK card today and decided to pull up a challenge – the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. They’ve changed their format and now they have different challenges every week. This week’s challenge is a color challenge (May21 Cool Shades). I interpreted the colors as light blue, medium blue, yellow-green, and orange.

I thought the “woohoo” sentiment was perfect for what I needed so I created the scene around the owl image. Things just kept jumping into the scene – definitely not my typical CAS style, lol. I love how even though the owl isn’t all that big, because he’s the only orange thing, he pops and draws your eye.

When coloring the owl I chose to do straight color instead of shading and did his feathers in a gradient of oranges.

Woohooo
Stamps: Cubby Chums (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Marina, Bashful, Crumb, Celery (StampinUp); Brown (Memento);
Other: YR12, YR15, YR18, YR23, E44 Markers (Copic); Branch & Wonky Border dies (My Favorite Things); Grass die (Memory Box); Cloud impression plate (my own creation);

Whimsical Wishes

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A month or so ago I posted about a random-file picker that I was using to help me chose stamp sets. Well, apparently I have a lot of stamps that I don’t like because lately I have been uninspired by the program’s choices! So instead, I’ve sorted my image files by date and I am choosing to work with sets I’ve recently added to my collection.

I got lucky and won this Forest Whimsy stamp for playing along in the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge! I love this gnome and was so happy when he arrived here!

This card is very simple – because I didn’t use ANY challenge (can you believe it??). Not bad for doing it “all by myself” 🙂

I definitely had fun coloring! My kiddo is learning shading in art this month and so has shown much interest in my coloring projects. I’ve promised them Copic lessons (mostly because that means I’ll learn a bit too – I’ve been winging it).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Whimsical Wishes
Stamps: Forest Whimsy (PaperSmooches);
Colors: Spring Rain, White, Chartreuse (PTI); Going Grey (SU); Black (Memento);
Other: Markers (Copic); Grass die (MFT); Twine;

Toucan Rainbow

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My colorful toucan is brought to you by this wonderful fruit cornucopia from the latest Paper Smooches Sparks challenge.

I loved all the color – and fruity goodness. And in a long, convoluted train of thought, I got to Toucan Sam!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: My Peeps, Gently Seasoned, Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Kraft (PTI); Old Olive, Turquoise (SU); Black (Memento);
Other: Tropical DSP (SU); Markers (Copic);

Birthday Sparks

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Last week a new Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge was posted.

I loved the colors and the idea of highlighting a word or two with different colors.

When I read the inspiration photo, I thought the kitty image really had the air of a millionaire, so I had to use her. I colored her in with Copics. Then added a touch of bling to bring out the millionaire feel 😉

Thanks for taking a peek!

happy birthday
Stamps: Party Posse, Sentiment Sampler, Word Salad (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Aqua Mist, Orange Zest, White, Ocean Tides, True Black (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: Copics (T1, T4, T6, R01, BG11); Rhinestones (Kaiser); Pennant die (PTI);