Holiday Cards & More Blog Hop WINNER

Happy Wednesday!  I'm stopping in to announce the giveaway winner for the Holiday Cards & More Blog Hop! The lucky winner will receive a free copy of Holiday Cards & More! How awesome is that!?!?

I used Random. org to generate a winning comment:

Which was...

Congrats to Maria F! I'm off to email you to get your mailing address. 

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the hop and left such sweet comments on not just my blog, but all of the blogs. Lastly, thank you to Paper Crafts for hosting this hop and all of the amazing prizes! If you didn't win along the hop, pick up a copy of Holiday Cards & More at your local bookstore or here at the Paper Crafts online store.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More 12 Blogs of Christmas

Welcome to my blog and the Paper Crafts Magazine Holiday Cards & More 12 Blogs of Christmas blog hop!  

Here are your 12 Blogs of Christmas!

1.       Chan Vuong

2.       Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

3.       Heather Campbell   <--- That's me!!!

4.       Kalyn Kepner

5.       Lorena Cantó Lavería

6.       Cristina Kowalczyk

7.       Amy Wanford

8.       Vanessa Menhorn

9.       Latisha Yoast

10.     Jocelyn Olson

11.     Meredith MacRitchie

12.     Clare Prezzia

Seriously, Oh my goodness!  I could not be more excited to participate! 

I absolutely love Christmas.  Without a doubt, Christmas is my favorite time of year. 

Therefore, it's no surprise that it's also one of my favorite seasons to craft for.  

We each created a card featuring one of the digital sentiments, which are always available on the Paper Crafts Magazine website, right here.  

I paired some adorable paper by My Mind's Eye from the Winter Wonderland 6x6 pad and some white glitter cardstock with my favorite Paper Smooches holiday set, Swanky Snowdudes.  Topped it off with some twine and the perfect sentiment!  It just makes me happy and definitely inspires me to go bake some gingerbread men.  How about you?

I imagine some seriously yummy hot cocoa in that adorable little cottage, don't you?  

To celebrate the release, thank you to the wonderful team at Paper Crafts Magazine, I have one copy of Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More Vol 7 to give away!  To be eligible to win, simply comment of this post!   You have until Tuesday, September 25th to comment to win, as I'll announce a winner on Wednesday, September 26th! 

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. 

Now it's onto  Kalyn Kepner's blog!

Be sure to make it back to the Paper Crafts Connection blog too, as they are giving away more fun prizes there!

Supplies: 

Cardstock: Avery Elle Ultra Smooth Pure White, Kraft.

Stamps: Digital Sentiment, Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes.

Paper: My Mind's Eye Winter Wonderland 6x6 pad. 

Twine: Cherry Divine Twine. 

Dies: MFT Die-namics Wonky Scallop Border Die, Stax Fishtail Flags

Paper Smooches Sparks September Cool Shades

It's time for this week's Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. 

The third week of the month is the Cool Shades color challenge!

Here are this week's colors:

and here's my card:

I have been having fun layering my die cuts so I totally went with that and paper-pieced my alligator from Zoo Crew!  The sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler.  Then I just went to town layering fun shapes. 

Be sure to stop by the rest of the Paper Smooches Sparks DT members blogs to see what they've created and leave them some love. 

Savannah

Kasia

Glenda

Lori

Go get stamping and I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Paper Smooches Sparks September Trend Watch

It's time for this week's Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. 

The first week of the month is the trend watch challenge!

 Here is this week's trend watch photo: 

I had SO much fun creating this weeks card.  Hello Retro! 

I totally had to grab my Squeaky Clean set for this week.  I'm not a huge ironing fan.  I love wrinkle free.  We own an iron and use it maybe once a year only for heat transfer projects. :)  Therefore, I made this iron retro fab!

Here's my card: 

Lots of my favorite patterned papers (there are SO many great 6x6 pads out right now, I'm in heaven!), some adorable washi tapes, a handmade button, bakers twine and a white gel pen again.  Sigh, this card makes me happy!

I used the following Paper Smooches stamps: 

Squeaky Clean: Iron & Sentiment

Be sure to stop by the rest of the Paper Smooches Sparks DT members blogs to see what they've created and leave them some love. 

Savannah

Kasia

Glenda

Lori

This weeks Sparks challenge ends September 9th so get stamping!  

Can't wait to see what you create! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!