PMS Sneak Peek Day 4 - Color It Summer

This is going to be a quick post. It's 1:30 am when I'm writing this and I'm tired! I forgot to schedule this earlier! Ugghh!!

Today is the last day of peeks for the Paper Makeup Stamps August release. We have a new fab set called Color It Summer to share with you. It's a set that has various flowers, leaves, flower parts, and butterflies to create some great cards and/or scrap pages.

I was at Target today and saw a boxed set of cards that gave me the inspiration to create my card. Here is my inspiration.So I tried to create something that looked like this. How did I do?
I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to place the stems and leaves, then stamped the flowers on a scrap piece of paper and colored them with copics. I cut them out and placed them on the card. I did not use dimensionals...I just curled the edges of the petals a bit for dimension. I added star dust stickles to the centers. The sentiment is a freebie you get with your PMS order this month! The card is a 4" square. You can see more sneaks on the PMS blog.

Tomorrow is our blog hop and release party. The hop is all day and the party starts at 8:00 pm CST in the PMS forum. Remember our contest...if you put the PMS button (on my sidebar on the upper left) on your blog and comment on the PMS blog, you'll be entered to win the ENTIRE RELEASE!

Hope to see you tomorrow and thanks for stopping by today!

Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek Day 3 - Home Matters

Wow! It's already Day 3 of sneak peeks of the August release of Paper Makeup Stamps! Have you been enjoying the sneaks so far? Today we have a set that was previously only in digi form. Remember Home Matters? Well, Katie had it rubberized and I, for one, am pretty psyched about that! I like digis, but I LOVE my rubber! Here's my card.
I'm just using the sentiment from the set, but as you can see it's large enough to be the focal point of your card. I also love the font on this! Isn't it pretty? I stamped it in Baja Breeze ink on vintage cream paper from PTI. The dp is from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop collection. I just love the vintage look and colors in this paper! I swirled some More Mustard ink around the sentiment and added the crystals. I punched a circle from the floral dp and added a page pebble on top to make an embellishment that matches. I used the SU scallop border punch on the middle piece. This sketch is this week's Sketch for You to Try from Jen del Muro (I just noticed that I didn't follow the sketch properly...how did I miss that little pink strip on the right?). Her sketches are always so great! My friend just bought a new house and I'm going to give this to her with a housewarming gift when I visit soon.

So do you want to see more? Then hop over to the PMS blog to see what the PMS DT have for you. Don't forget to grab the button on top of my sidebar on the left side to display on your blog. Then leave a comment on the PMS blog that you've done that and you'll be entered to win the entire August release! The Release Party is on Saturday, August 7 at 8:00 pm CST in the PMS forum and is always lots of fun! We'd love to see some new faces there! Everyone is very friendly, so don't be shy! There are always lots of laughs and contests going on! Hope to see you there!

A New Look and a Birthday Gift!

Hi everyone! So do you notice anything new? I splurged and had a blog redesign! I've been wanting to do this for a very LOONNNGGG time and finally bit the bullet! I've been admiring Heather Rolin's Individual Blog Banners and contacted her with my wish list and look what she did for me! I love flowers and the sunflower reminds me of all the colors I adore! Fall is my fav time of the year, so I asked her to incorporate those colors into her design! And I LOVE my siggy! So clever! She did all of this in literally under two days! And to top it off, she's a sweetie! So if you are thinking about a blog redesign or a new siggy or watermark, contact her! I totally recommend her!

So, today I have something to share. My friend, Cheryl Rowley, and I got together yesterday for a class at our LSS, Buffalo Stamps & Stuff. Another good friend, Tracy Harp, joined us too! Such fun to get together with these two! I'll tell you about the class in another post. Cheryl's birthday is coming up (don't know if she wants that blogged or not), so I made a card for her to match a My Time Made Easy box called Pucker Up I made a little while ago. Do you remember this box?I made this for a JUGs challenge without a purpose for use, so it was sitting waiting for the perfect gift! I bought a star border punch from EK Success for Cheryl and it fit perfectly in this box! So I had to make a card to go along with it!
I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for my design and all the same items I used on the box. I added the sentiment (from PTI) and put a bubble thing (don't remember what they are called!) over it. The flowers were accented with some chunky glitter for some sparkle! Here they are paired together. I think Cheryl was pleased with it and that made me happy.

I'll be back tomorrow with another Paper Makeup Stamps sneak. But we have more sneaks today...stop by the PMS blog to see the girls sneaking new Wordart and Moodys. Great stuff! Thanks for stopping in today! Let me know what you think of my new blog look and take a look at that new siggy! I'm super giddy over that one! :-) Thanks Heather!

Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek - Fairies

Hello there! Can you believe it's already August and time for another release from Paper Makeup Stamps? Where is the summer going?

Today the PMS DT are sneaking the new fairies being released this month. I love the PMS fairies, and the one I'm showing you today is SUPER CUTE! This is Seth fairy, named after the son of our PMS DT member, Lisa McKinney. Didn't I tell ya he was SUPER CUTE? I took my colors from this new dp from Basic Grey called Oliver...super boy-ish. The sketch is from the Critter Sketch challenge blog. They provided this sketch and added a twist...use two ribbons. So I used a green and a blue rick rack ribbon. The sentiment is from PMS also and can be found here.

You can see more sneaks on the PMS blog. We'll have sneaks all week and our blog hop on Release day, Saturday, August 7 followed by our Release Party in the PMS forum at 8:00 pm CST. I'll have another sneak to share on Thursday, so make sure you stop by again!

Thanks for stopping in today! Have a great week!

Baby Shower Blog Hop

Please scroll down after this post to see my JUGS post!

Today we are having a virtual baby shower for our fellow Paper Makeup Stamps DT member Lisa McKinney. She is due with her second baby, another boy, any day now. So because we couldn't all get together to have an actual baby shower, this hop will have to do! If you've come from the marvelous Maria's blog, you are on the right track. If not, head on over to the PMS blog and start there.

For Lisa's card, I used one of the Paper Makeup Stamps baby Monster images that I just love. This is Baby Horatio. Isn't he so cute? I colored him with copic markers and swirled some apricot appeal ink around the background while it was still in the die. The dp is Animal Crackers by Making Memories. I added some blue ric-rac ribbon, buttons, star dust stickles, and a PTI sentiment.

I hope Lisa has a speedy delivery and a very happy, healthy baby! Congratulations, Lisa!

Now hop on over to Katie's blog to see what a great surprise she has for Lisa! Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping in!

Wild Wedding - JUGS #44

Today is a wild card challenge at Just Us Girls, and the challenge I chose was to make a wedding card. Deanna, the daughter of our fellow DT member, Pam, is getting married today so we decided to make this a wedding card challenge.

Pam told me her daughter's colors were black and white with a splash of yellow, so I used those colors in my card. I used a new Cuttlebug embossing plus folder that cuts and embosses. It's called Lacy Door. I got it at my LSS, but you can see it here. The middle piece is cut out with the folder, but I put another piece of white behind it so I could stamp my sentiment (an old one from Hampton Art Stamps). That was mounted on black, then on the white base. I added the flower, silver jewelry piece, a pearl, and some leaves and was done! I like simple but elegant wedding cards.

The JUGS DT girls have some really pretty wedding cards on the JUGS blog, so have a look. Please stop by their personal blogs and leave them some love as well. They love the company! You can find their addresses on my sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!

Angie the Angelfish - CAS77

I like the CAS challenges on SCS because I can get a card done quickly! The challenge today was: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. So I used Angie the Angelfish from Paper Makeup Stamps and an old CAS sketch to make this.
I colored the image with various red and blue copic markers and added some star dust stickles to it. The dp is PTI's Bitty Dot Basics paired with brilliant blue. I think the ribbon is American Crafts. That's it! Cute and simple, but I'm not happy with the way my pictures have been coming out. The colors have been off and I'm no photographer!

Thanks again for stopping by!