12.31

Happy New Year!
I am reallly looking forward to 2019  :)

Brand new year...fresh start!
Make the most of it

(Fresh Snow)

There’s a bar in Denver, CO where you flip a coin after you order your drink. If you guess correctly, you get your drink for free. If you get it wrong you pay double.

xx Kim

Sunday Recap + December RIBBON Challenge Winners

Hello friends:)

It's Savannah O'Gwynn sharing a late Sunday Recap and celebrating our December RIBBON Challenge winners winners!

Thank you to all of you who have shared your talent and creations with us this past month! This month was probably the hardest to pick just 3 winners- there were so so so so so so many great ideas and projects shared!!!

Congratulations to our winners... *drumroll* 🥁

Kelly S. (PURE genius! LOVE everything about this card!)

Cindy (Oh soooooooo cute! Great ribbon and design!)

Maria G. (Goooooodness me! LOVE the cross-stitching and the little PAPER ribbon/bow!)

Please email {savannahland2 at comcast dot net} to receive your badge and $15 gift certificate to the Paper Smooches store!

THANKS to all who joined in the fun! We appreciate you sharing your talent and creations with us ❤️

Tuesday, January 1st, we start our next challenge!! We are starting the year off with an eeeeeeeeeeeassssssy challenge- ANYTHING GOES! These are my favorite challenges because I get to see what inspires you and techniques that you are trying out.

Thanks so much for stopping by! MORE to come soon! Be blessed:) 

Tons of love, Sav

12.29

(Snowflakes Dies, Seasons Greetings Die)

Virtually every brand of hard liquor—bourbon, whiskey, vodka, gin, and rum—is vegan. Nearly all distilled spirits are vegan except for cream-based liqueurs and products that mention honey on the label.

hugs!
Kim

12.28

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(Bird House Dies, Wavy Pattern Dies, All Year Cheer, Snow Drift Dies)

A lemon is actually a hybrid between a bitter orange and a citron, meaning life never gave us lemons, we invented it ourselves.

xx Kim

12.27

(Chubby Chums Pals stamps and dies, Layered Hello Dies)

Electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them.

smooches,
Kim

12.26

(Hot Concoctions stamps; Feathered Friends stamps; Feathered Friends Icons dies)

After Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met…” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients.

x Kim

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a magical holiday <3

 (O Holy Night: A Blessed Christmas, Stitched Circle die, Embroidery Hoop dies)

(Christmas Wishes: All Yule Need, Spring Groves, Reindeer dies)

A set of twins was reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.

loves,
Kim

12.24

(Snowflakes Dies, Swanky Snowdudes stamps and dies)

The “seeds” on strawberries aren’t actually seeds. They are actually a type of dry fruit called achenes.

xx Kim

12.23 Sunday Recap

Helllllllllllllllllo, friends!

Savannah O'Gwynn here today sharing ANNNNNNNNNOTHER card AND a VIDEO that I created for the December RIBBON challenge. *EXTREME SHOCK* I know!!! I feel really good about how my wrist is healing--- after making the video my wrist did hurt, but I'm letting it rest now:)

The first card is a whimsical Christmas card that I created after being inspired by a t-shirt at Walmart.  Paper Smooches supplies I used: A Holy Holiday, Magical Sampler, Unicorn die

The next two cards I created were inspired by some gift designs I found on Pinterest. Check out my boards HERE. I mean it when I say--- there is inspiration EVERYWHERE (see inspiration from previous card 🤣)!

I needed some clean and simple Christmas cards to send out quickly. PLUS the good news is that I get to enter both cards in the December RIBBON challenge because I used ribbon. LOVE it!

Check out the video HERE, HERE on the Virtual Smooches blog, or watch it below!

Paper Smooches supplies I used: Holly Wreath Builder dies, Decorate a Tree dies

Paper Smooches supplies I used: Holiday Cheer, Frame 4 die, Holly Wreath Builder dies 

Now get out your ribbon! Use it on your PS projects and enter them in our December RIBBON challenge. We'd love for you to play along!

Photo Credit

Click HERE for more details about our December challenge or link up below😊






That's it for me today. I hope you have a wonderful holiday celebrating Christ's birth and the life He gave for us. I also hope you received LOTS of Paper Smooches goodies in your stocking or under the tree 😉

Be blessed Merry CHRISTmas! Happy birthday, Jesus! ❤️ Sav

12.22

(Stamps: Warm Hearts, Joyful Greetings)

In 1915, during a historic drought, San Diego hired a “Rain Maker.” He took the job and soon thereafter there was so much rain that there were floods and a dam even broke. They didn’t pay him though. Too much rain.

x Kim

12.21

(Reindeer Die, Snowman Card Dies, Winter Sampler)

Most stars exist in binary or triple star systems. It is hypothesized that up to 85% of stars are gravitationally bound to another star in a multiple star system. Therefore, solitary stars (such as the Sun) are actually not the norm in the universe, but in fact are a rarity.

xx Kim

12.20

(Chilly Chums stamps and dies)

In 1975 Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo in the film Star Wars, but he refused the role because “The script was too confusing”.

hugs,
Kim

12.19

(Fruitastic stamps; Fruit Icons dies; Hot Concoctions stamps; Sentiment Sampler stamps; 

Kindness Sampler stamps)

Quaker Oatmeal packages in 1902 contained a coupon redeemable for an actual deed to a small plot of land in Milford, CT.

xo Kim

12.18

(Enchanted Elves, Elf Icons, Let It Snow die)

There is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.

xx Kim

12.17

(Chilly Chums stamps and dies, Lovely Snowflake)

When a millionaire Harris Rosen gave everyone in his Orlando neighborhood – Tangelo Park, free college education and free daycare, the crime rate was cut in half and high school graduation rate increased from 25% to 100%.

xx Kim

12.16 Sunday Recap

Helllllllllllllllllo, friends!

Savannah O'Gwynn here today sharing another card that I created for the December RIBBON challenge. *DOUBLE SHOCK* I know!!! I've had two sessions of physical therapy, as well as another MRI. I'm feeling pretty good about how my wrist is healing. FINALLY!

Do you see the ribbon? It's a paper ribbon bow! I used the PS Baby Bow dies to create that ribbon bow from Crate Paper patterned paper. You can read more about this card HERE on my blog. I share a fun little story about how this special friend thinks the company that makes patterned paper (all patterned paper) is called PAPER PAD!  Paper Smooches supplies I used: Happy Birthday, Numbers dies, Digits dies, Baby Bow dies, Love & Cherish dies, and Gift Tags dies.

Now get out your ribbon! Use it on your PS projects and enter them in our December RIBBON challenge. We'd love for you to play along!

Photo Credit

Click HERE for more details about our December challenge or link up below😊






That's it for me today. I had a goal last week to upload my video that I created sharing a CAS Christmas card... but that didn't happen because I was on the couch with a bad migraine for several days. It's always something 😟 I need to hurry up and get my cards created so I can send them out ON TIME! LOL! Be on the lookout for that video on the Virtual Smooches blog, and don't forget to stop back on the PS blog for more inspiration daily!

Be blessed ❤️ Sav

12.15

(Stamp: Joyful Greetings; Dies: Decorate A Tree Die)

Pluto has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it snows

 (but the snow is red).

x Kim

12.14

(Freezy Fellas, Wine Sampler)

Bees don't buzz during an eclipse – Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.

hugs,
Kim

12.13

(Layered Hello Dies, Chubby Chums)

Car makers employ sound engineers to give car doors that satisfying ‘thunk’ when closed.

xx Kim

12.12

(Cool Dudes stamps; Cool Dudes Icons dies; Freezy Fella stamps; Fellas dies; Winter Sampler stamps; Sentiment Sampler stamps)

The Who Paid 99¢? website reveals a list of people who paid 99 cents to see who else did.

x Kim

12.11

(Winter Sampler, Snow Drifts die, Stitched Flourishes dies, Snowman dies, Melted Snowman dies, Snowman 2 dies)

While directing his movie “City Lights”, Charlie Chaplin made actress Virginia Cherrill re-do a scene where she says “Flower Sir”? 342 times. The movie was a silent film.

smooches,
Kim

12.10

(Mitten dies, Winter Sampler)

Crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique  to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light.

xx Kim