Next up...a Color Challenge

For this Paper Makeup Stamps Release Challenge (PMSRP05)...Christi chose baja/bashful blue, black and white (with the option of adding grey). Hinged cards are really fun to make and they always seem a little more elegant too. Maybe it's the eyelets and ribbon. Maybe it's b/c I don't make them too often.

This is a great sentiment that you can buy from Paper Makeup Stamps starting today!!

PMS Release Party Challenge #1

On your mark, get set....STAMP!!

It's 8:30pm (CST)...time for the Sketch Challenge for tonight. I just LOVE sketch challenges!!



And this is my favorite fairy released this month!!! I'll be looking forward to seeing the rest of the submissions!

PMS's May Blog Hop and Release!!

Today's the day...when you can hop through all the Design Team Blogs to see more nifty examples from this month's release by Paper Makeup Stamps. This fairy is darling and reminded me of the lazy days of summer which are just around the corner (if I can get through this busy spring).



Here is another example of the same digi stamp.


Did you know that Paper Makeup Stamps sells their products in both digital and rubber formats? Whatever you prefer...be sure to collect all the letters along the blog hop.

My letter...is TA DA....


Yep...Same as the initial of my last name...a B! Now it's time to hop, flutter, stomp or storm on over to Jamie's blog! But be sure you have started from the very beginning on the PMS blog so you can earn a sweet reward for all this hopping! Remember to join us tonight in the PMS forum for some challenges and fun!

Clean and Simple Birthday

CAS...aka Clean and Simple...cards are great for when you don't have much time to stamp...or if you need a card in a hurry. I used this week's CAS layout for my Corrosive Blog Challenge Birthday Themed Challenge card!

Mark your spot with something inky...

That's right! Today's Paper Makeup Stamps challenge was to:

MAKE A BOOKMARK

A few years ago, I had made some book thongs. (My mom loves that term!) Those are great to hold your place in a book; useful and pretty. I had a small piece of shrinky dink. Well, actually (and luckily), I had 2 small pieces. My first attempted bubbled up but I should have left it in the oven longer to flatten out. I tried to heat it up and smash it down. In the end, it just broke in two pieces. So, I pulled out my 2nd sheet and it worked marvelously well.

The fairy hangs down one end, while the bead hangs down the other end. The string going in between, of course. You can upload your creations using PMSMC10 as the keyword.

DRSC20

Today's DRS Designs' challenge is to use your favorite technique. Since watercoloring would probably be my favorite one and I use it all the time, I thought I'd switch it up with something else.



After embossing the praying boy stamp against the large rectangle mosaic, I used daubers to sponge on the colorings. Then, I pressed the entire layer into my versamark pad. Sprinkle clear embossing powder and fire up your heat tool.

Result: A glossy, elegant focal point for your card!

I'm not sure if this technique as an official name. But I'd call it fabulous!

Feel free to join the challenge. Use DRSC20 as your keyword and link it up to the company blog!

A hat I'd like to own...

Go BAND, Go!

I heard about this on the radio and then came across it online. Just had to put it on my blog!

Go BAND, Go!


Girl beats off muggers with marching band baton

Thu Apr 30, 2:03 pm ET
QUARTZ HILL, Calif. – Don't mess with the marching band. That's what California authorities are saying after a 17-year-old girl used her marching band baton to beat back two would-be muggers.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Michael Rust says the Quartz Hill girl was walking to school April 24 when two men approached her from behind, tried to grab her coat and demanded money.
Instead, one got a punch in the nose and the other a kick to the groin. Rust says there's a clear message to take from the encounter:
"The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls, or you just might get what you deserve. Final score: marching band 2, thugs 0."

National Scrapbooking Day!!

In honor of National Scrapbooking Day, Paper Makeup Stamps has a code for 10% off their products! Use code NSD09 to stock up on some great sayings, adorable fairies and cuddly monsters for your scrapping pages!

Fairy Sneaky Peeky

You've got fairies...and you need sentiments now...right?

Well, Paper Makeup Stamps is delivering this some funtastic Fairy Sentiments in this month's new release! This Princess Fairy is probably the DT's over all favorite. (Does that mean all of us have kissed a frog or two in our time? haha) If you click around on the other DT member's blogs, you'll bound to see some of Dustin Pike's rubberized characters!

A Fairy for Kayleigh

I forgot to mention...

If you purchase the Kayleigh fairy digi stamp, create a card with it and the link it to THIS post on Paper Makeup Stamps' blog, you will be in the running for a $25 gift certificate.

Mother's Love...

So...

Paper Makeup Stamps is having a charitable fundraiser via this adorable digi fairy stamp. When you buy her, all procedes go to Kayleigh. You can read her story here.

I really struggled with this card yesterday. I mean REALLY struggled. So I finished it up this morning...just in time to find out that the LSC challenge on SCS wasn't up yet. So this card quickly became the example for the LSC218...use stamps to make a border. And since it is May Day, bonus is given to those who use flowers as borders. (haha...sooo easy. Typically, a LSC hostess would have said something like "no flowers on May Day!)



(Those slighly slanted rhinestones were fixed...now to snap another pix for the blog. Though E is dying for pancakes so my motherly duties come first.)

I also designed this card with my mom in mind...for the Corrosive Chalenge Blog (#9). Not sure that I'll give it to my mom b/c I don't think it's her style. But I know she'll love it anyways. B/c she's MY MOM!!