Paper Smooches July DT Blog Hop

Hi everyone!

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches July/August release with you!  FIVE new stamps and EIGHT new dies are releasing soon.  Our new stamps and dies will release at midnight (eastern time) on June 30 (12:01am on July 1st EST). You will find our new releases HERE.

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. [Details are below.]

Here's the order of the hop:

Ashley Marcu
Betsy Veldman
Emily Leiphart
Erin Lincoln
JJ Bolton
Jocelyn Olson <--You are here
Kalyn Kepner
Kim Kesti
Laura Bassen
Laurie Schmidlin
Michele Boyer
Mou Saha
Pamela Ho
Summer Fullerton
Teri Anderson
Wendy Sue Anderson

Here's my card using the Kudos stamps:

I was inspired by Taheerah's awesome card for the background. I stamped the "beautiful" from the Kudos set repeatedly...it's not perfect, which I like. I actually made one that was a little neater and opted to not use it. ;)  I added the "you are" from the Kudos set. I love the bold look of these stamps! They are slightly smaller than Bold Buzzwords, but they would work together. 

I added the super sweet flowers from the new Blossoming Buds set on vellum. I layered the panel over some American Crafts paper, vellum, and tissue. Here's a close-up:

Want a chance to win a prize? 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 increases your changes) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight MT on Sunday, June 29th to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, June 30th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

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

That means that you can comment up to THREE times on each blog! 

Thanks for stopping by! Next up is my sweet and very talented friend Kalyn!

Supplies

Stamps: (beautiful and you are from Kudos; flowers from Blossoming Buds) Paper Smooches (available 7/1)

Cardstock: (white, Linen Vellum) PTI

Patterned paper: (#Summer) American Crafts

Ink: (Versafine Black Onyx; Rose Bud Luxe) Tsukineko; (Taxi and Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico