Paper Smooches Co-Hop

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Hi everyone!  I’m so excited today to be helping my friend, Kim Hughes, kick off her new business!  If you know me (at all), you know that I adored Kim’s images when she designed for Cornish Heritage Farms.   In case you haven’t heard, she is back to illustrating and has started her very own stamp company, Paper Smooches.  (When she told me, I literally squealed with delight.) 

On the first day of each month, Kim will release three new whimsical and fun clear stamp sets hand drawn by Kim herself.    She asked me to create a card using one of her February sets.  I chose Falling for You.

Love Monster

Oh, how I’ve missed Kim’s style, her sweet fonts.  **happy sigh**

After assembling my card, I decided to add a little extra pizzazz by stamping the monster a second time and popping him up on foam boosters.  Before adhering, I gave him a little heart brad so he’s just full of love.

Kim offers high quality photopolymer clear stamps, shaped card templates, a design center and so much more.  There will be a monthly challenge on the The Paper Smooches Blog  (where free digi-stamps will be involved).  Participants will be eligible to be a guest designer for the following month.

Here is a list of some of Kim’s friends who are also playing with some Paper Smooches stamps today:

Alli Miles
Lori Craig
Julie Campbell
Carole Burrage
Karolyn Loncon
Kim Kesti
Betsy Veldman
Maren Benedict
Debbie Olson
Melissa Phillips
Carly Robertson
Julia Stainton 
Becky Olsen
Teri Anderson
Kryssi Ng
Heidi Van Laar
Heather Pulvirenti
Laurie Schmidlin
Lisa Johnson 
Lori Barnett
Jessica Witty
Asela Hopkins
Rae Barthel

Please help us welcome Paper Smooches Stamps!   I’m so excited, I could do cartwheels… but then we’d have to call the paramedics and this day would end on bad note instead of a super-excited mega-happy one.  So I’ll just smile (really big).