24 | September | 2015

It’s Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches OCTOBER release with you! THREE new stamps and NINE new dies will be available to purchase on September 30th at 8:00 p.m. pacific time. Once our release goes live, you will find our new products HERE.

To add extra fun to our blog hop, we are offering a $25.00 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 increases your chances.)
Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, September 27th to leave a comment.
Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, September 28th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.

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(which means that you have up to three extra chances to win on each blog)

Today I’ve created a White Elephant party invitation using new Tis the Season stamp set and dies as well as new Garland dies.

Tis the Season is a great holiday set which includes a variety of cute images and sentiments for different holiday party themes, i.e. white elephant, ugly sweater, cookie exchange and more. *adorable*

The Garland dies are designed to fold in half, creating an easy dimensional effect. The set contains a circle, which I’ve used here, as well as a more traditional triangle. I used my new favorite tape runner by Xyron to hold the banner pieces firmly in place.

The White Elephant sentiment actually contains the word “Party” at the end, but I chose to use brackets (which I drew in myself) instead.

The elephant was stamped onto X-Press It Blending Card and colored with Copic markers. Just a bit of coloring on this one, super easy. 🙂 Once colored and die-cut, I popped the elephant up on X-Press It 1/2″ foam tape. I used a 0.3 black Copic multi-liner to draw the ornament strings and a Kirarina Wink White Pearl pen to add the dots and stripes.