Paper Smooches Anniversary Hop Winner and Spring Cards

Hi everyone! Thank you for all of the really sweet and funny comments on the Paper Smooches 5th Anniversary Blog Hop card (HERE)!! You all are awesome!

Before I get to the winner of the hop, I thought I would share a few Paper Smooches spring cards I made last year (but never posted).

First up, an Easter tag:

I attached these tags to my kids' baskets. To make the tags, I used Paper Smooches' Easter Egg Dies (for the egg and bow), Sassy Letters Dies, and Toppers Dies.

Next, a spring greeting:

I used Paper Smooches' Luminous Spring stamps and Butterfly Duet Dies. The papers are (old) American Crafts' Dear Lizzy....it was a great way to use scraps and older papers!

Lastly, a welcome card:

I used Paper Smooches' We Adore You stamps, the We Adore You Icon dies, The Welcome Wagon stamps, and Welcome Die. The window was made using the negative space of the Duo Die 2. I used a welcome sentiment, but a Mother's Day sentiment would work well with these stamps, too.

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Now for the winner of the choice of two Paper Smooches stamp sets and three dies is:

Dasa

Congrats!! Please send me your e-mail address (see Contact Me above), and I'll pass it on to Kim at Paper Smooches. She'll ship the prize from PS HQ. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Spring Kites Home Decor

Hi everyone! Happy Monday!

I'm up on the Maya Road blog today with a home decor project.

I used a lot of altered Maya Road embellishments and American Crafts Serendipity papers to make kites. Now how springy is that? :) I hope you'll swing by the Maya Road blog and check it out!

I also wanted to announce the winner of the $30 gift certificate to Altenew for the Altenew Die Release Blog Hop. Congratulations to:

Jamie Vanskiver

Jamie, I don't see an e-mail for you, so please e-mail me at redballooncards at yahoo dot com and I'll pass your information on to Altenew. Thank you so much for all of the really sweet comments!

Have a great day!

Chocolate Easter Bunnies

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great week. I was in Mobile last week for work, and I still feel like I'm catching up. ;) I did want to share my Glitz project that was on their blog last week.

I'm in Easter mode now, and I made three treat hybrid treat boxes:

The Glitz Color Me Happy collection has mostly rainbows, but there are some pastels in the collection, too. I used the CMH Element Pack 2 for the yellow paper base and die-cut it with a Sizzix Milk Carton die. I was inspired to tie the cord like THIS pin.

For the tags, I made all three all three almost the same. I layered some die-cut papers and cut the bunnies out on my Cameo. The woodgrain paper is from the Color Me Happy Paper Pack. I love how it looks like chocolate. :)

Here's the blue one:

I used the Color Me Happy Paper Pack for the blue paper and lightened it just a pinch. [Don't you love the technical terms? Ha!]

Here's the pink one:

For the pink carton, I created my own patterned paper by stamping the paper with the woodgrain digital brush in the Element Pack 2. I had to stamp the brush about 5 times to make it large enough, but the woodgrain is pretty forgiving for lining it up.

You can check out how the rest of the Digital Team used this collection on the Glitz blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by!


Supplies
Digital elements: (papers and elements from the Color Me Happy Element Pack 2 and Paper Pack) Glitz Design
Dies: (scalloped circle from Button Stacks) PTI; (tag from Timeless Tags 2 Dies) WPlus9; (bow from Dainty Bows) Mama Elephant; (bunny from Silhouette) Silhouette America
Fibers: (green neon twine) Hemptique

Spring Love

Hi everyone! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! I'm getting over some type of flu and a bad case of pink eye--ugh. Fortunately, my eye is starting to clear up, and hopefully it won't move to my other eye. :)

A couple of weeks ago, I had some tags posted on the Glitz Design blog, but I never shared them here. The tags were for Valentine's Day for my kids' teacher treats. They're so springy, I think they could work after Valentine's Day, too.

Here's one:

I used digital papers from the Finnley (green), Wild and Free (yellow), and Hello Friend (pink) digital collections from Glitz on the tags. I increased the saturation of the papers to make them brighter. I die-cut the postage stamps on my Cameo, the hearts with Paper Smooches dies, and the mini Polaroid with a My Favorite Things die.

I made six tags--one for each teacher:

For each tag, I layered some Glitz Design washi tape, tissue paper (there it is again--I'm addicted!), part of a doily, and my papers. I topped off each one with the "xoxo" from the brand new Glitz Black & White collection. I added a little white splatter on top....I was holding my breath that I wouldn't have a huge glob of ink in the center. ha ha

Each tag is a little different:

They were so much fun to create!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day.


Supplies
Cardstock: (White Linen) Ellen Hutson
Digital elements: (green papers from the Finnley element pack 2; yellow papers fro Wild and Free paper pack; pink papers from the Hello Friend paper pack; sentiment from the Black and White element pack 2) Glitz Design at Jessica Sprague
Washi: (Hello Friend) Glitz Design
Dies: (tag, postage stamps) Silhouette America; (Hearts Dies) Paper Smooches; (Precious Polaroids) My Favorite Things