Monster dies

Paper Smooches October Blog Hop!

Happy Paper Smooches blog hop day! There is a NEW RELEASE from Paper Smooches available tomorrow, October 7th at 10am ♥️!! 🙂 This release is full of cuteness and some super fun stencils! 🙂

Hello!  It’s time to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches OCTOBER 2019 release with you!  THREE new stamp sets, FOUR new dies and TWO new stencils will be available to purchase at 10:00 AM Central time zone on October 7th.  Once they go live, you will find the new products here: www.papersmoochesstamps.com

To add extra fun to our blog hop…there is a prize!  The prize – a $50. gift code to use at the PS online store.

Here are the details:

  • TWO winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the blog below
  • Leave a comment on any of the blogs listed below (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it will increase your chances of winning)
  • Deadline: You have until midnight Central time on October 8th to leave a comment.
  • Please check the Paper Smooches blog on October 9th to see if you are one of the TWO lucky winners.

Paper Smooches blog

Guests:

Amy Rohl

Lisa Henke

 

Design Team:

Alice Huang

Jill Hawkins

Karin Akesdotter

Michele Boyer

Savannah O’ Gwynn

Teri Anderson

Ways to increase your chances of winning:

Did you know that Paper Smooches offers up a fun challenge each month?  Keep an eye on the PS blog for details.  http://papersmooches.blogspot.com/

Today, I’m sharing a card showing off the new Stackers Stencil! You can make a rainbow!!! As you can see here, because I essentially make four little ones!! 🙂 This stencil is FULL of things to stencil on your projects–so so fun! 🙂
I used the previously release Monster Dies and Flaunters Dies to complete this card with the fun background!  🙂
For making this project, I just masked off the parts of the stencil I didn’t want to ink and blended on inks with my favorite blender brushes. I use post-it notes generally to just mask things off, quick and easy!
I feel like I have barely scratched the surface with this stencil!! 🙂 I hope to be back again soon to show more projects with it! 🙂

Paper Smooches: Stackers Stencil. (This will be available tomorrow.)

Previously released links: Monster Dies and Flaunters Dies.

I’m looking forward to sharing all the October goodness in the coming weeks!!

Next up, be sure to visit Karin–Karin never fails to delight! 🙂

Thanks for joining us today!!

Take care–Jill 🙂

Instagram: jilldhawkins

I Only Have Eye for You

Happy weekend! I am behind on sharing my Paper Smooches card this week! I’ve been so busy and preoccupied, I didn’t even realize my post didn’t post. You know things are out of sorts when…

How adorable is this Monster!!? I cannot handle him and his one adorable googley eye!! ❤

This is going in my son’s lunchbox next week. We are celebrating his birthday all weekend long, and I know he’s going to be a in post birthday funk later this week. 🙂 Oh to be a kid! ❤

Paper Smooches: Monster Dies, Postage Stamp Dies, Halloween Sampler

If you haven’t been over to the Paper Smooches Blog lately, be sure to check it out!!

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great rest of the weekend! 🙂

Jill

Instagram: jilldhawkins

Hoping to Make You Smile!

Happy Friday! WE made it! Hooooooray!! 🙂 This Paper Smooches card is perfectly fitting for a day like today.  😉

I completely adore these Monster Dies from Paper Smooches and cannot ever use them enough. I mean, this little guy is sure to make someone smile. The teeth and then the added googley eyes!? Too funny. There are silly eye combos you can make with the dies in the set too, so the possibilities are endless there.

The dotted background was fun to make. I die cut the Deco Edge dies multiple times with multiple colors. Then I laid down the strips and glued in the dots to each little area, careful to try to not glue the strip itself down. It worked great to keep everything evenly spaced.

Paper Smooches goodness: Monster Dies, Deco Edge Dies, Kindness Sampler

Be sure to follow the Paper Smooches Blog for a continuous stream of awesome designs! The PS DT is one talented group! 🙂

Thank you for stopping by!

Jill

Instagram: jilldhawkins

Paper Smooches Monsters!

Hello all! I’m popping in with some super fun Monster cards from Paper Smooches September release! You can find all the new products HERE. 

I try not to pick favorites, but obviously these little guys have made their way to the top of my list! 🙂 These are the new Monster Dies! This first photo is a stack of Thank You notes I made for my son’s birthday! Eeeeeep! He filled out the insides (so diligently too! wow!) and I made the outsides. 🙂 Teamwork! He usually colors his own, but I like to try to get them out in a timely fashion, and we were behind this year. 🙂 These were pretty quick and easy, and I think they turned out SO fun! 🙂

This next little number, I made to put in his lunchbox today. ❤

Such a little cutie monster! 🙂

For both the cards above, I used Paper Smooches Huge Hugs 2 for the sentiments. Such a great set!

Oh, and also one of my favorite PS Tags, For You Tag die. 🙂

And last but not least, I thought I’d share this card again, in case you missed the DT Hop. Gah! Such fun!

These new dies are called Monster Dies and the sentiment is from the new Halloween Sampler.

Have a great weekend!!

Take care- Jill 🙂

Instagram: jilldhawkins

Paper Smooches September Pep Rally!

Hip hip HOORAY! It’s Paper Smooches Pep Rally week!! Get ready because this fantastic release covers a lot of bases! It will be available next Thursday! Check out all the details and my project below!  🙂

It’s Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches SEPTEMBER 2017 release with you!  FOUR new stamp sets and FOUR new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on August 31st.  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, August 27th to leave a comment.
  • Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, August 28th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.

Alice extended her vacation a bit, so we have a wonderful replacement for her for the blog hop but you will see her creations later this month.  Samantha Mann is stepping in for her and I am super excited about that – woohoo!

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)

Are you ready? I literally yelped when I saw this cuuuuutie!!! Oh my word! 🙂 They make me so happy!
I cut them out of fun foam, and I wasn’t sure about the “textured” look that occurred. However my son, who ❤ ❤ ❤ these guys, liked it because “she is furry”! So, hey, I ran with it! 🙂
And of course, added a GIANT googley eye to each! 🙂 I laugh all over again! I mean, “I only have eye for you”. I can’t EVEN! ❤ ❤ ❤

 

These new dies are called Monster Dies and the sentiment is from the new Halloween Sampler. The hill die cut is Paper Smooches Snow Drifts die.

 

Next hop stop:  Karin Akesdotter! 🙂 Karin is so stinkin’ talented! Goodness!

 

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to hop and leave comments for your chance to WIN!! Have a great weekend! I feel like summer is waning already. Gah!

Take care- Jill 🙂

 

Instagram: jilldhawkins