It’s Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches January stamp release with you! The four NEW clear stamp sets will be available to purchase at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on February 1st. Our CHA (trade show) release will also be available, including clear stamps, wood mount stamps and DIES! You will find them HERE. Follow the Paper Smooches blog for more sneak peeks.
To add extra fun to our blog hop…we are offering up a prize! Just leave a comment on any of the eight design team blogs listed below for your chance to win one of the four new February stamp sets! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify) You have until midnight Mountain time on Friday, February 1st to leave a comment. Please check all design team blogs on Saturday, February 2nd to see if you are one of the lucky winners.
- Emily Leiphart [You are here.]
- Heidi Van Laar
- Kalyn Kepner
- Karolyn Loncon
- Kim Kesti
- Laura Bassen
- Laurie Schmidlin
- Teri Anderson
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Today, I’m featuring the Leafy Greens stamp set along with one of its coordinating dies, the Hickory Leaf Die. It’s been a while since I made my own background so I decided to approach this in a way I hadn’t done before. I die cut a bunch of the leaves and embossed them with a woodgrain folder. Then I embossed the background and adhered all the leaves in place. After finishing the background and adhering it to the card base, I die cut the banner from Flag Tag Dies and adhered two glittery chevrons from Hot Spots Small Set 1. I stamped the hickory leaf flat, adhered it to the banner and attached both to the textured base with foam tape. The sweet little sentiment is from Birthday Sampler, another one of the new releases this month.
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Thinking back on the process, I realized that I probably could’ve created my background flat and put the entire piece in the embossing folder to save time. Ha! What a dodo moment. Next time I’ll know better. I don’t know if the impression would be the same but it would be good to try. I could save myself two hours or so. LOL!
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wow gorgeous card…love this die and how you embossed with the background…looks amazing…
Love your card! That leaf die is perfect!
Love the full embossing. This wood embossing folder is fabulous.
This is BEAUTIFUL Emily!!! LOVE the elegant colors! Just gorgeous!
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Such a fun idea to emboss those die cuts! Cool card!
love your card! such great texture and dimension! 🙂
the background looks so interesting, I must try this! TFS!
oh great idea with the woodgrain background.
lovely card and the die thanks
wow… that is so awesome
thanks for the hop, the chance to win, and the wonderful creations that you share….
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Wonderful double embossing on the background… it gives such a nice effect.
What a beautiful card! I love the embossing.
such an adorable card!! LOVE the die and of course the colors – the punch of green is so cool!
Wonderful card. I'm crazy about leaves anyway, so this card stands out to me.
Such a beautiful card.. Love the embossed background..
A different kind of card for you! LOVE all that horticultural texture, and regarding the multi-step embossing, isn't every card a learning experience? lol!
Very pretty card! What a great idea on the embossing. Love your color combo. TFS. 🙂
what a great way to make a background. Thanks for the inspiration.
So pretty…love your background and the embossing!! Lee-Ann 🙂
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Striking background!
I'm glad that stamps and matching dies are coming out. I like to fussy cut but it goes much faster when you can cut it with a die. Love your card. So pretty.
Love leaves and your card using them is fabulous.
Loving the combination of die-cutting and embossing Emily, great card!
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There is so much I love about this card!! The embossed leaves and background=awesome and I love the little glittery chevrons on the banner…too cute!
Adorable card. Love how you did the green leaf.
Your background is beautiful maybe taking the extra time was worth it in the end.
very pretty – love how you embossed the die cuts on the background!
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I honestly thought that you had embossed it all together! But way cool techniques on a stunning card!
The background looks gorgeous Emily 🙂
Ooh I love the embossing! And the Birthday Sampler is a great set to get!
Beautiful card! I love the embossing!
Fab card, Emily. Will have to try – both ways!
yup, i love this set!!! great design Emily. I adore your creations.
Your card is very pretty, Emily! I hate it when I realize too late that I did a do-do thing, and it happens a lot!!
Cool technique!
very nice and simple I like it
Great card! Can't wait 'till tomorrow to see all the great stuff!
loved your techniques. The one step embossing would work well but I think your leaves would lose some of their dimension & get squished in the embossing.
Im loving this Leafy Greens stamp. Considering this on my next purchase. Thanks for the inspiration
I'm so impressed with your card. What an excellent idea and so well executed. Wow.
Super pretty card!
Oh Leafy Greens is at teh TOP of my wishlist!! How fabulous of you to emboss the entire bas after the dies were stuck on…NEAT touch!
Gorgeous card, Emily! Love the leafy stamp and it will be on my list!
Love the texture and pop of color on your leafy card, Emily. Such a great release!
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Beautiful card, I love how you used your new goodies, the BG is fab!
Beautiful! Your embossing is fantastic…even if it did take a long time to accomplish it! 🙂
I love anything to do with nature and these leaves are just beautiful Emily!
Thanks for sharing the hint about creating the background and then embossing but I appreciate that you went to the trouble to do it the looong way for us.The spot of color is very effective.
What an awesome way to build a background! I'm a sucker for all things leafy so this set/die is certainly on my wish list!
Love the pop of green against other white foliage!
I am liking you dimension and layers.
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Very clever way to do the background. I love the look of this technique. 🙂
This card is fabulous, I just love it!
This is such a pretty card. ❤ the hop.
Love all the texture on your card!
Great card, and I SO appreciate your comment about realizing when you were done how you could have saved about 2 hours!! You're not the only one who has "Ah HA" moments AFTER you are done with something!! 😛 thanks for sharing!!
This is sooo BEAUTIFUL Emeliy! Love the design, the soft colors and the embossing is soo perfect!
TFS!
I love this card! It's simple, but still lovely! And all that texture…!
I love that gorgeous leafy card. So beautiful!
Whichever way you did it, the card is gorgeous! I love the color combo against the gray background, and I can't wait for the matching dies!
Wow! This is really creative and gorgeous! I love it!
Oh, I love seeing new creations that I want to try! Thank you for sharing your talent!
Oh so beautiful Emily…love the added texture.
No matter how you got your embossing leaves on your embossed background. It looks great!
I love the card, especially the texture you used on it. Thanks for some great ideas, love, love, love your stamps.
Oh that is one cool card Emily. Love the texture.
Hey, how can you figure out a faster way before you know what you're trying anyhow? I think it looks awesome 🙂
Stunning card Emily, I love the white just with the green leaf, great texture too!!
I love your card! I think the extra time spent embossing was worth the effort!
Another fantastic card, Em The embossing is pure genius!
I love this card! It is so fresh looking and the texture is great.
And you matched all the embossing too, didn't you? Funny, but not quite dodo level, I'd say. 😛 Such a pretty card.
Super cute card!
LOVE how this diecut look with the stamps! Gorgeous springtime card!
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Great card–I like the background you created.
The die cut leaves make a lovely background!!
Can't wait for the new releases!
Gorgeous card – love that embossing technique!!
Beautiful card! I love the texture!
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Love the colors and the way you used the leaf die on your card
What a beautiful card! Love the different layers!
wow what work & processes you put into this….it came out beautiful! like the die a lot…sooo psyched about the dies!!!
Love the contrast between the white leaves background and the grren die cut leaf, beautiful!!!
Great card, I love all the texture.
I am TOTALLY digging your texture!
Great background lots of interest and texture thanks for sharing I've got a new technique to try now 🙂
Love your card. So pretty.
Beautiful card. Love the
white on white.
love the texture!
Love the sweet card…very nice
Love the sweet card…very nice
Beautiful embossing on your lovely card!
So pretty, Emily! Love all of the those die-cut leaves in the background!
Love the neutrals with the pop of color. Great card!
Love this card. How the green pops out from the white is brilliant!
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Emily, I love coming for a visit! You have the craftiest mind! Love your card and miss you!
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wow gorgeous card!! love this die and how you embossed with the background looks amazing!! Can't wait 'till tomorrow to see all the great stuff!! Have a Fabulous Weekend!! =)
Nice and simple card!
fab card as usual Emily!! 🙂
Such a beautiful card! TFS =)
I love this clean and adorable card.
absolutely stunning!!! Love the stunning bg you've created!
i love this set! Beautiful card, Emily!
Love this card and all of the texture and dimension that you used. 🙂
The embossed background is a cool idea! Love the way you card looks!
Beautiful card!!! Wow!!
I like how you used the die and the stamp in a positive/negative way. Very catchy!
Fabulous card! Great to know some new techniques! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful cards
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Great card and I love this leafy die!
Love what you did with the texture process and the final card is great!
I love the way the leaves stand out.
I love that you had that "a-ha" moment on the embossing part. So cool that you share that with us. Love your card. 🙂
I love this card! The leafy die is awesome!!!
Beautiful, love the pop of the colors!
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Hehe, when I first saw the card I assumed you had run the background and leavers together through you embossing machine, but I think the end result would have been a litte more flat. So thanks for the inspiration LOL. Love your card!
Stuning card! Love the textures and dimension!
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I just love the colors against white & grey background. I love this stamp, it's unique and would be easy to come up with a lot of card designs.
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What a pretty card Emily! May have taken forever but so worth it!
gorgeous card! I love love love your layering! 🙂
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Beautiful card!
gorgeous card! love the pop of color! ;D
This card is so amazing Emily! I love everything about it – colours, textures. Perfect.
Like you need another comment GF!! But I had to tell you this is awesome, love the base and that you embossed it all! Great card!