July Blog Hop Starts HERE!

Hello! Welcome to the July release BLOP HOP!

This is our first blog hop with the new team so there is LOTS of fun and excitement and a good sized hop for you! So grab your bev-ie of choice, sit back and enjoy!

First, here are some details you should know!

The July release of stamps (which you've seen peeks of all week) go live TONIGHT at 8pm CST.

This is also when our release party begins in our FORUM!

We will have games and prizes and just a whole lot of fun, so we hope you'll join us!

Also going on today is another hop you've very likely heard about because it's just plain MASSIVE! It's the Color Throwdown hop and we have happily been asked if we'd like to sponsor. Our giveaway will be given via Lisa Kind's blog and we're giving away the entire July release!

But wait... dont go before you do our hop today, silly! We're going to give away $25 worth of stamps or digis (your choice). Sorry, products and kits not included. This give away will go to one lucky commenter. Where the prize is hidden, no one knows! So be sure to check out each DT member's blog and leave a comment for your chance to win! You will have til this Friday to leave your comments!

Also, by doing the hop today, you can collect letters to be given a code. This code nabs you 15% off the new release stamps on the site.

The stamps you get to get peeks of during the hop are from a few different sets being released tonight. All of these sets were illustrated by Shaela Odd.

The Sets include...

Kiss & Makeup - a set of makeup, lips and some fun wordart and sentiments

A Cut Above - all about hair and perfect to make cards for your stylist!

Scentsational Perfume - A sweet parfume image with a wordart and sentiment

Beauty Profile - a stunning single image that works to color OR fill in as a silhouette!

Beautifully Fabulous - a mini sentiment set with perfect additional sentiments that compliment any of the above sets!

So if you think thats fun, pair the above sets with the already previewed Retail Therapy set and you have everything a girl needs, right? Well, for the first time ever, we are having a special bundle! You can get all of these sets (the ones listed and the retail therapy) on 1 sheet of uncut rubber for the remarkable price of $30. Let me tell you, this sheet of 8.5x11 rubber is just PACKED with wonderful ness that truly is everything a girl should ever need! And it gives you a savings of 32% off the retail price (and uh oh, you can even use the blog hop code for a limited time to get an even BIGGER discount!)

Ok, now off to the hop! You will start your hop by going to company owner, Katie Cotton's blog!

July Sneaks Day 4 - Dandy Wishes

Today is day 4 of our sneak peeks for the upcoming release!

Dont forget...our release is THIS WEDNESDAY! The stamps will go live on the site at 8pm CST and we'll be partying the night away in our Forum. We would just LOVE it if you joined us!

Today we are sneaking a new set designed by Lindsay Spencer.

I could not be happier with this set! When I asked Lindsay if she would design a set based around dandelions, and said i'd love to see some different styles of images as well... i had no idea i'd be so in love. Ok, so i had a hunch, but still! She really outdid herself with this set!

This set comes with 9 stamps in total. 2 are sentiments, and 2 are separate little fluffs. One is a more medium size ish stamp, 2 are large and then one is HUUUUUGE. Ok, not too big for a card front, but still a nice full card size. These are great for scrapbooking or cardmaking!

You may notice too that some of the Paper Makeup Artists cards have other wonderful "wish" sentiments on them. If you dont remember them, these sentiments were release when the Kirsten fairy (blowing on a dandelion!) was released! These all coordinate perfectly with this set!

And now... here are some samples from the Paper Makeup Artists. Dont forget to click on the image to be taken to their blogs and see the full picture!
Card by Tangii Crain

Scrapbook Layout by Maria Gurnsey

Card by Lisa McKinney

Card by Katie Cotton

Card by Danni Bindel

Card by Tina Hale

Card by Michelle Van Patten

So you are drooling, right? You want this set? Just leave a comment here and you're entered to win! Winner will be announced at the release party!

Have a wonderful day!

July Sneaks Day 3 - Another Day of Diem!

Today marks day 3 of our sneak peeks for the upcoming July release!

Our resident illustrator, Diem Pascarella has been hard at work this past month! Not only did she create 2 new animals for the Retro Cutie Critters but she also drew up 2 new fun fairies and a separate fun matching image!

First, we've been asked for a fairy that would be easier to color with a little more ethnicity.

After chatting with Diem about what i'd like this fairy to be, I couldnt have asked for anything more! As you will see from the samples from the Paper Makeup Artists, she is a very versatile gal! Her name is Maya after the daughter of one of the biggest PMS fans there is (and she didnt know about her until she's reading this post, no doubt bright and early and will be one of the first commenters as she always is! Love ya Tracey!!!)

As always during our sneakie peekies, we give you a sampling of what these gorgeous cards look like, but to make it a little more fun (and teasing) we live it to you to check out the whole image of the card on the Paper Makeup Artist's blog! Just click on the picture to be taken right to it!)

Card by Andrea Vernagus

Card by Guest Paper Makeup Artist, Jane Wetsel

I also wanted to give a big shout out to our Guest Designer for the month, Jane Wetsel!

I had fully intended to do a special blog post to announce Jane for the month, but with the computer craziness and then my quick jot out of town to be with my grandmother, well, i kinda forgot about that post! Jane is our very first guest designer and she exudes with talent!

You will get to see more from Jane this month including our blog hop on the 7th which leads into the release and also later throughout the month. Please welcome Jane to our team today by checking out her blog!

And next we have the Lisa Fairy! Lisa was named after our very own senior Paper Makeup Artist, Lisa Kind. Lisa is a traveler and is always off to her cabin or some fun thing with her hubby, though she is always taking her PMS with her! God love her for it! We have been so fortunate to have Lisa on our team and I'm so happy to have this fairy to honor her!

Card by Lisa Kind

Card by our other wonderful Lisa, Lisa McKinney

Now to go along with this fun cutie, is a separate image called Lisa's Luggage. It will be sold seperately but does come with an additional sentiment, Bon Voyage!

Card by Sherry Campbell

Card by Katie Cotton

One last thing... you may have noticed the "Have Fun" popping up on a lot of the Paper Makeup Artists creations! That is the freebie sentiment for the month that will come with every order while supplied last!

Thats all of our peeks for today! Leave a comment here for your chance to win both fairies and the Lisa's Luggage set!

July Sneaks Day 2

Edited: Well, we THINK we have my computer back on the mend! I guess only time will tell, but i'm on it now! I'm editting this post with our more norm post with peek pictures! For those who have already been to these gals blogs today, I thank you for your patience!!!

Today we are sneak peeking the fabulous new set called Retail Therapy designed by Shaela Odd! This set is full of fun whimsical shopping images as well as perfect coordinating wordart and quotes that will just make you giggle! Makes perfect cards for your shop-a-holic friends and fun scrapbook pages!

Check out the following Paper Makeup Artists and their samples!

Anita Hovey

Bonnie Sharp

Christi Thorsen

Katie Cotton

Shaela Odd

Stephanie Zito

Tangii Crain

Tina Hale

This fun and fabulous set will be released with the rest of our July release on July 7th at 8pm CST. We'll be partying away in our forum starting at 8pm! We'd love for you to come and join us! We play games, give away stamps, and just have fun!

Leave a comment on this post with what your favorite part of the set is for a chance to win it!

July Sneak Peeks - Day 1 - Cutie Critters and some SAYINGS!

Hello Everyone! We are starting our peeks a day earlier than we often do because we have SO much to show you this month! This release is so big and fun and fabulous, we just know you'll love it too!

In the release, we have 2 new Cuties to add to the Retro Cutie Critter collection by Diem Pascarella, and not only that, but we have a Cutie Critter Sayings sentiment set that gives you the perfect sentiment for each of the Cuties plus other animal stamps you might have lying around!

The newest cuties to the collection are Francesca the Cat and Felicity the Fawn.

Check out what the Paper Makeup Artists have done with the new sentiment set. We've even paired them with the already released cuties so you can see all the sentiments available!

Dont forget to click on the snippet to go directly to the PMA's blog and view the whole card!

Here are 2 Francesca Cards!

Lisa McKinney

Ginger Schwerin

And a Felicity by Dawn Mercedes

And now to show off some of the previous Cutie Critters and their matching sentiments!

Christi Snow

Christi Thorsen

Randee Elsing

Lisa Kind

Katie Cotton

Want to win the new cuties and all these sentiments? Leave a comment here saying what you fav cutie is and you just might!

Have a wonderful day! Check back in every day this week for more sneak peeks and more chances to win!

Our release party is on July 7th at 8pm CST. We'll be partying away in our FORUM with games, prizes, chatter and all around good times! We hope to see you there!

How about some Mountain Makeup?

First off, let me say that this is Tangii and I'm filling in for Christi this week who is having some well deserved family time.  No I have not completely lost it (ok, well kinda), but it is 10:30 at night as I write up this post and we just got to the gorgeous local mountains (remember I am from Southern California) and I had to drive "in to town" to the local "wi-fi spot".  It is pitch black up here (no city lights) and there are gajillions of stars and the air is just 'crisp'...sheer bliss!!!  Ok, so back to business... I do not have a sample card for you, YET!  I will have it posted later Friday though.  This week's Make Up 4 the Weekend Challenge (#33) is to make a Window card, now technically Melyssa is no longer on the DT (though she'll always be part of our PMS Family), but this challenge was her idea and I do have a stunning eye candy/sample of hers to show you.  I just love how Melyssa cut her insert around those stars, and the stitching is just wonderful!

Here is the inside of her card... love that sponged circle!  Here is my sample, you can get more deets on my blog here.

Here are a few more samples from the DT:

Anita

Andrea

Lisa M

Sherry

So now it's your turn to get inky!  Show us what you've got!!!  Link up your Window card before midnight next Wednesday to be included in the Thursday Showoff.  You don't have to use Paper Makeup Stamps, but if you've got them we'd LOVE to see them!  Don't forget to mention the challenge in your blog post and if you post to SCS or PCP be sure to use M4TW33, so we drool over your artwork!


From all of us at Paper Makeup Stamps, we'd like to wish you all a safe and Happy 4th of July!!

Time for another Thursday Showoff...

Wow, can you believe June is over already?  Holy snicker doodles, where is the year going?  Well last week's challenge was to make a party favor or treat, and Miss Maria was our challenge hostess.  Thank so much to those that played along.  Don't forget to pop back in here tomorrow for another Makeup 4 the Weekend Challenge.  And now, without further ado, here is your  Thursday Showoff...