{Video Hop + Giveaways} Celebrating 100 Videos + 2500 Subscribers!!!

Hi, it's Emily here! Thank you for joining me to celebrate reaching 100 Videos and 2500 Subscribers on my YouTube Channel! I'm so grateful for all of you and I'm humbled to have such a wonderful audience for my art. The sentiment for my card says it all. Your support means the world to me.

My card features several Paper Smooches stamp sets and dies, including the brand new Religious Words dies. I placed the cat and dog from Chubby Chums (Chums Icons) on Spiffy Scooters (Scooter Icons) and the stamped sentiment is from Spiritual Sampler.



I masked off the front paws from the cat and dog when I stamped them on the coordinating die cuts and fussy cut them separately so I could place them on the front of the scooters. My son thought they were silly and wondered why they weren't holding on to the handlebars. ;)

I layered blessed from the Religious Words dies and completed the sentiment using stamps from Spiritual Sampler. Since the dog's ear and tail took up more space than the cat, I added two Copic-coloured enamel hearts to balance out the space on that side of the card.

I invited nine amazing video artists and friends to celebrate with me and I know you'll enjoy watching their videos as much as I do! I encourage you to subscribe to their channels so you don't miss a minute of crafty inspiration. Happy hopping! 

Video Hop List

* Emily Leiphart *

Julie Ebersole

Jocelyn Olson

Heather Campbell

Nina Yang

Laurel Beard

Laura Sterckx

Taheerah Atchia

Danielle Walls

Laura Bassen

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You have until 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, February 9, 2015 to subscribe and leave a comment on YouTube (while welcome, blog comments will not count) for each of the 10 videos.  

You could win one of eight gift certificates, including one from Paper Smooches!

The winners will be selected randomly and announced on my blog on Wednesday, February 11th so be sure to check back then.

Thanks so much for hopping with us!!!

Paper Smooches Sponsored Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Welcome to Amy Tsuruta's Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! If you know Amy, you know that her first love is coffee. Haha! Whenever I see coffee stamps, dies, paper or embellishments, I think of Amy! I met Amy in blogland a few years ago and discovered that she is originally from Toronto. Woot! She's a big star in this industry and I'm thrilled to call her my friend. This one's for you, Amy!

I started by creating a background on the card base using two sizes of stitched squares from the Stitched Frames die collection. Then I die cut, stamped and coloured the elf from Enchanted Elves (Elf Icons) and the takeout coffee cup from Warm Hearts (Warm Hearts Icons).



The sentiment is also from Enchanted Elves but any number of sentiments would've worked with these images. To create the steam rising from the coffee cup, I used the ends of a finely scripted die from the Hello Words die collection.

To play along, head over to Amy's blog to link up your project and leave comments on all the participants' blogs to be eligible for a bunch of incredible prizes, including one from Paper Smooches!

Thanks so much for hopping with us!