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It's Paper Makeup Peek time!

Happy Sunday!  If you've been following Paper Makeup's peeks then you know that today is day 3, and it's Critters and Monsters day!  If you haven't been following, then you're going to want to head over to the PMS Blog and check them out!  You can see more of the Critters and Monsters that Paper Makeup is releasing tomorrow night!  Meet Skater Cat... tell me he is not just the coolest cat in town?!?  This sentiment is just perfect!  I used Jen's March sketch here for this card.  Thanks for popping by, now go and check out the PMS Blog for more inspiration and awesome images!

It's a party... a PMS Birthday Party!

It's Paper Makeup Stamps' 2nd birthday and we're kickin' it off with a VIP Hop! All of the PMS DT got to invite someone to join our hop and help us celebrate!  The theme... Things we LOVE!  And I LOVE this Sing, Love, Dance quote, so much so that it is on the cover of my planner, above my desk at home and on my board at work!  I get so caught up in tasks that alot of times that I forget to take the time to SING OUT LOUD, which is one of my favorite things to do to de-stress!  Thanks Katie for turning this in to rubber for me!! and Happy Birthday PMS!!  If you haven't already visited the PMS Blog, head over there for all of the deets and how you can win ya a prize, once you've done that hop along (see list below) and see for yourself some amazing eye-candy!!

Sealed with a KISS...

This is a quick and simple card I made for my stamp group the other night.  Our theme was Valentines day.  I love the pink mailbox, though there is NO WAY hubby would let me have a pink mailbox in front of our house, lol!  Sorry for the quick post, but my eyelids are getting VERY heavy.  Hope you have a fabulous weekend and come back soon!

Stamps: Sending you love (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Challenges: SFYTTJanuary2011

Ahhhh, Mon Cheri, it's PMS release day!

Happy Release Day hoppers!  If you came here from the Paper Makeup Stamps blog, WELCOME!  If you happened here some other way, WELCOME! now head over to the start of this LOVEly blog hop where you can get all of the deets on tonights Release Party and a chance to save some $$$! :)  Well I guess I am your first "official" stop... and I'd like to share with you this months FABULOUS kit, Mon Cheri!  Everything on my card is from the kit except for the Liquid Pearls.  Here's what you get in this uber fun and very full kit:

Included in the kit:

22 sheets of 6x6 double sided patterned paper

8 sheets of 8.5 x 11 coordinating cardstock

1 Fairy Stamp named Cheri

4 French sentiment stamps

5 Pre Printed tags (will vary with each card kit)

4 yards of coordinating ribbon

Set of Headpins and Beads (not all shown in photo)

Glitter Flowers with rhinestone centers (not all shown in photo)

Don't miss out... order yours now, as supplies are limited.  Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Christi T (and you know she will have something ah-mazing to share!).  Check out her eye-candy, leave her some love and make sure you jot down her "hint" for ya.  Here's mine to get you started (the letter 'S')...

Happy Release Day!!!

Welcome to the PMS November Release Blog Hop!  I used the Oo La La for Santa Corset, now you've seen it in red so I decided to do it up in black... LOVE it!  I went over the whole corset with some clear glitter pen (which is hard to see, sorry).  There is alot of texture in this card, White Sparkly Fluff on the bottom of the corset,

black velvet ribbon and LOTS of rhinestones (of course!).  I used my sentiment and stamped it randomly on the red cardstock with VersaMark ink,

then used the same sentiment on the bottom left in black.  I also used Jen's SFYTT sketch for my layout.

Now make sure you've started at the PMS Blog and follow along the hop and you will get lots of Christmas inspiration!  You should have come here from Shaela's blog. Katie has all the deets on the PMS Blog on how you can save some $$$$ on this month's release and how to win some free stuff!  Tonight, grab yourself a drink & a snack and we'll meet you in the PMS forum for the Release Party! There we will play games, chat a bit, and we will let you in on some the new lineup details in store for PMS. We'll also take your suggestions for new stamps, who knows, you may even get a stamp named after you!

Now that you've got the scoop, hop on over and visit the totally terrific Tina (tell her I said "hi"), don't forget to take my little giftie with you...

Paper Makeup Stamps October release Day #2

Welcome to Day 2 of the October Release peeks!  Today we are peeking the So Sweet set (illustrated by our own Shaela).  I paper pieced the cupcake "wrappers", used red Spica Glitter pen on the cherry and Pink Liquid Pearls for the middle cakes frosting... yummmmmmmmm.  I took my .3 Multiliner to redo the detail on the Pink "frosting".  The sketch is from Jen DelMuro (SFYTT), I just LOVE the sketch!  Head over to the PMS Blog for some more sneaks and deets on how to win some free rubber!  Thanks for popping in, hope to see you again soon :)

Stamps: So Sweet (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: Life is Good (Echo Park), Chocolate (Gina K), Barely Banana (SU!), Very Vanilla (SU!)  Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Onyx Black (VersaFine)  Accessories: Brown Glitter Dots, Pink Liquid Pearls, Red Glitter pen (Spica), So Saffron ribbon (SU!)  Copics: 0.5 Black Multiliner, E25, 27, 33, 35  Challenges: SFYTT (10/2)