Paper Smooches November Blog Hop

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches December release with you!  FIVE new stamps and EIGHT new dies will be available to purchase at 12:01am, Eastern time...on December 1st.  You will find them HERE.  To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up prizes! 

• FOUR winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog
• The prize - a $25 gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store
• 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 increases your changes) 
• You have until midnight MT on Sunday, December 1st to leave a comment
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, December 2nd to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners

Ashley Marcu

Betsy Veldman

Emily Leiphart

Erin Lincoln

Heidi Van Laar

JJ Bolton (you are here)

Kalyn Kepner

Karolyn Loncon

Kim Kesti

Laura Bassen

Laurie Schmidlin

Mou Saha 

Pamela Ho 

Summer Fullerton

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)

I have two projects to share for the hop today, a card and a magnet.  For both of projects, I used the new Polaroid dies.   My card uses the polaroid frame die.  First I inked the clouds directly onto the card front.  Then I die cut the sunburst (Power Rays Die) from vellum.  I inked the vellum a bit with yellow into look like sun rays.  I love how the inked vellum looks over the cloud background!  


The sentiment is a die cut from Quote Tags.  That font is so pretty:)  I resisted the urge to add dots or sequins, and I'm happy I did:)  CAS just makes me happy!

My second project is a magnet using the camera die from the Polaroid set.  This die is so intricate!  I couldn't resist putting together a full-color version of the die cut.  It was just a matter of cutting different colors and assembling.  Just like the real thing, this die cut has a slit at the bottom where the picture is supposed to pop out of the camera.  So instead of using my die cuts on a card, I decided to make a magnet picture frame.  The slit of the die is just the right size to fit a standard wallet size school photo.  I'm sure my son will be thrilled his mom put up his school picture, heehee!  The best thing is that the picture is totally removable and you can change it up every year.  

Thanks for stopping in today for my first blog hop with Paper Smooches!  A big Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in states:)  

Mahalo and Aloha,
jj