savannahland 2: Paper Smooches

24 April 2026

2026: Simple Stripes with TapeRunner Adhesive

Hello again, sweet friends!

Today I am sharing a quick way to add colorful stripes to a negative image or panel.

This card was created for my sweet friend and Finn's best friend's mom- she lost Tiberius a few weeks ago. The colorful stripes remind me of Tiberius' winter coat- he had a winter jacket that was dark blue with a hint of orange and white. He was sooooooooooooo cute!

Here's a photo of Finn and Tiberius (without his coat) walking together. I love that Tiberius was so small and friends with Finn!

Making this striped background is super EASY! The key to keeping the strips of cardstock in place is using a great adhesive like TapeRunner! I use this for ALL of my striped cardstock backgrounds!

Here are some quick steps to make your own striped background:

Gather your supplies- I'm using TapeRunner adhesive with Pink & Main Pet Angels stamps and Paw Print dies, as well as a retired die set from Paper Smooches to create the vellum dog image.

You can see I already have my colored cardstock cut into strips and used washi tape to hold the strips together in the order I would like them on my cardbase.

Next I drew a rough image of where the negative image panel would be placed on my cardbase. Then I added some TapeRunner adhesive to this exact location. After applying adhesive to the rough location of this image, I added one more layer of adhesive about an inch around this spot- just so I knew that I had enough adhesive for the image and strips of cardstock. **It's never bad to use too much adhesive :)

I also added adhesive to the negative image panel back- this will help the strips and cardbase stick together.

To finish the card, I just sandwiched the cardbase with the strips of cardstock to the negative image panel. EASY!

I love how easy it is to use the TapeRunner adhesive! I also love how strong this adhesive is- I think I might have to use this striped background for MORE negative image paneled cards :)

🤑Don't forget to use code SAVANNAH10 for 10% off your purchase at TapeRunner!

That's it for me today.

THANKS so much for stopping by! MORE to come 💌

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

Supplies Tiberius Sympathy Card:

TapeRunner adhesive

Pink & Main Pet Angels stamps and Paw Print dies

Paper Smooches Paws for a Cause dies

Card #099

07 February 2026

2026: National Marriage Week cards for Trav

Hello again, sweet friends!

I'm sharing ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the cards I created for Trav during the 2026 National Marriage Week! I used so many different supplies- be sure to read all about each card on my IG feed!!!

Day 1- RedBird

Day 2: Favorite Handyman

Day 3: Favorite Music

Day 4: Favorite Detective

Day 5: Glasses

Day 6: Bananas for you

Day 7: Clinically Proven (Favorite Doctor)

Day 8: Eco-Friendly (one of my FAVORITE cards!)

Day 8 part 2: Favorite LOVE

Day 8 part 3: A Love Note (I gave him a second book full of notes that he wrote me- I wrote next to each note or photo as well!)

That's it for me today.

THANKS so much for stopping by! MORE to come 💌

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

23 July 2024

2024: Coffee Date with Shelly & Coffee Loving Papercrafters [cards #146-147]

Hellooooooooooo, sweet friends!

It's been a loooooong time- I know! Let me catch you up:

I continue to injure myself- no surprise there! I recently stepped on a hammer (soft tissue damage), fell down 4 or 5 stairs (because of Finn), and now the back of my right knee hurts (I think I tore something, but I'm hoping not!).
I celebrated the one year anniversary of my wrist surgery- Praise the Lord🙌🏻 I'm so thankful that I have 95% usage of my wrist movement!!! I won't lie - my wrist STILL hurts, but it's so much better today than it was over a year ago!
Oh-- and we moved📦 I found out that we were officially moving 2 weeks before it happened- long story about going back and forth on the house with the previous owners. It was approved; it happened quickly; and I've been currently living out of boxes in my studio! I'm surprised I was able to make something for today's posts since I can't find any of my tools, inks, papers, etc! LOL!

Ok- now that we are caught up... let's get to the good stuff!

I'm joining in the fun as a Guest Designer with the Coffee Loving Papercrafts blog. My sweet friend, Shelly, asked me on a coffee date, and I couldn't refuse:)

#SAVfact: I have 11 food sensitivities including tea and coffee. I don't drink tea or coffee at all. However, I do love the coffee trend images (mugs, cups, fun sayings, etc) and couldn't pass up on this fun opportunity!

Here's a sneak peek of what I've created--- be sure to stop by HERE for more details and the full reveal! **NOTE: Shelly and I decided to do a Throwback for this Coffee Date and use some of the retired Paper Smooches images for our creations. Again--- I couldn't pass up this fun opportunity to use my favorite PS goodies!

That's it for me today. Be sure to stop by the Coffee Loving Papercrafts blog and my IG page for more details!!!

THANKS so much for stopping by! MORE to come 💌

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

ps... I couldn't help myself and made ANOTHER card using a NEW Paper Smooches image!!! This little panda in a mug is just too adorable. I did a bit of shading/coloring, fussy cutting, paper piecing, and stamping/embossing. I love the colors and the way this card turned out!!!! SO fun!

19 January 2024

2024: Paper Smooches January Release [card #8-12]

Hello again, sweet friends!

I'm back with the NEWEST Paper Smooches release- you can find all the stamps and dies HERE on the Queen & Co. website!!

I absolutely love love love Kim's designs- she blows me away each month with her new images and creative mind!! This month we have a super cute set, Forest Family, with several different critters and fun sentiments. I tried to make something different using each critter, and I even made a PINK scene using the new tree dies as STENCILS!! Fun:)

That's it for me today. I hope you are inspired!!

THANKS so much for stopping by!

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

Facebook: Savannah O'Gwynn

Purchase cards HERE: https://bit.ly/Savannahland2forsale

14 December 2023

2023: Paper Smooches NEW Release Joy Snowman [card #170]

Hello again, sweet friends!

This is my LAST Paper Smooches new release creation.... for now:) I just love this little snowman!

I extended my stamps by masking his body to make it longer so I could fit the sentiment. I also layered lots of stamps and added inking, gems, and splatter. This card has sooooooo much going on- I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

That's it for me today.

THANKS so much for stopping by!

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

Facebook: Savannah O'Gwynn

Purchase cards HERE: https://bit.ly/Savannahland2forsale

07 December 2023

2023: Released from the hand surgeon and a thank you card [card #198]

Hello again, sweet friends!

UPDATE: it’s been 304 days since I broke my wrist and 284 days since surgery. And a little over a year (390 days) since my first injury on this same hand, which was a crushed hand.

Drumroll please 🥁 It’s official- I’ve hit the LAST marker and have been released from my surgeon’s care🙌🏻🎉🙌🏻🎉

I was hoping for a really fun X-ray like my crushed hand (I was giving an A-Okay sign)… but this one is actually PERFECT because I made my surgeon a thank you card with my hand holding a shaker heart with my scar. That matches the X-ray flipped!!!

This retired hand die from Paper Smooches is my ABSOLUTE favorite!!!

Thank you for your prayers, love, and support❤️ This has been a hard road- I am not 100% but pretty close!! The doctor said I need to work on gaining strength back, which means I can start weight training again! I’m thankful to be this far in recovery🙌🏻

THANK YOU, TROG, for all of your help! I would not have come this far without YOU
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That's it for me today.

THANKS so much for stopping by!

Be blessed ❤️

Sav

Facebook: Savannah O'Gwynn

Purchase cards HERE: https://bit.ly/Savannahland2forsale

2023: MORE Paper Smooches NEW Release [cards #166-168]

Hello again, sweet friends!

I'm back with more Paper Smooches goodies- I just loooooooooooooove PS images!! These are some of my favorite cards! The detail and layers that I created using new-to-me techniques make these cards hard to give away-- but I will:)

The first two cards came about after a mistake! I wanted to do a green themed Christmas card but it didn't look right... so I scrapped the idea and started over using some of the green candies on the blue background. Perfect! Then I had an idea to do green and pink and to add a different sentiment... PERFECT again:) I love how these turned out.

The new-to-me technique is ink blending a background. I hate getting ink on my fingers and all over my workspace... but I think I'm liking it more than I thought!

This next card is my FAVVVVVVVVVVORITE! I used my favorite technique of fussy cutting for these snowmen-- too cute:)

That's it for me today. I've got one more Paper Smooches card to share and a WHOLE BUNCH of my Christmas cards that I've made in the last few weeks!!! I've been busy since I was released from the surgeon's care on Nov. 30th!!! MORE to come:)

THANKS so much for stopping by!

Be blessed ❤️

Sav