Makeup Artist Spotlight

This week we are Spotlighting Senior Makeup Artist Lisa Kind (Kind Creations).   If you've not surfed Lisa's blog recently, I highly recommend a visit!  It's a fabulous place for inspiration!  I just love her "shading/sponging". 

Lisa has 2 favorite PMS creations, the first is this beautiful Rose card.  Here's what Lisa has to say about her 2 fav's...  "My fav PMS card: I'm giving two!  The first one is Rose fairy.  I love this card because of the pretty color combo.  It always just jumps out at me when I look back at it...

The other is the Lisa fairy because she was named for me!  How's that for narcissism?  LOL!!"

Katie and Diem did an amazing job when creating the Lisa Fairy!   I went over to Lisa's blog to pick my favorite, as soon as I got there the very latest card... "oh that's my favorite!" then I scrolled down a little, "oh, no wait I like this one too".  I did this on page after page after page of her blog until I came across this... you can go here to read her post.  This is a fabulous piece, and I love everything about it.  The embellies are perfect, the colors are right on and the layout is just right!!  But my favorite part is that she show cased her Dad!

Lisa & I have been on the PMS DT from the beginning together, and while I just love her fiestiness and the  one liners she comes up with to the group; it's only been the last several months that I've chatted with her one on one a little.  I have to say she is certainly one of those "the more you chat with her the more you like her" types!   I truly adore Lisa, and if you don't already you will when you get to know her ;)  Enough of my gushing, read on for yourself...

1.  When did you get started stamping?  I think it was in 2003.  My girlfriend had a SU party and I enjoyed it.  But I was just into scrapbooking then and stamping was something I did occasionally.  But in 2006 I found SCS and it's be stamping ever since!

2.  Tell me 5 songs or artists on your iPod right now.  Rolling Stones, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Various Classic Rock bands, Rolling Stones.  Can you tell I'm a Rolling Stones fan?  I LOVE them!  :-)

3.  All Stylists have a go to accessory or tool... what's yours?  I love Star Dust Stickles!  They add a lot of sparkle, are clear, and very easy to use.

4.  What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?  I can only choose one?  I guess chocolate, but I love black raspberry and hot fudge sundaes!

5.  Where do you find inspiration?  I love sketches and can work well from them.  I love Mojo Monday, SCS, Sweet Sunday, Taylored Expressions, and Sketch for You to Try sketches.  I also get inspiration from decorative paper. 

6.  Do you have a favorite technique or style?  I always look back at my work and try to figure out what my style is!  I don't think I have one.  I do, however, use Spellbinders dies on almost all of my cards and love to swirl ink around the image while it's still in the die, so I guess that's my style.

7.  What is your favorite color palette?  Anything with brown!  I love brown and all autumnal colors! But having said that, I like a lot of soft combos as well as vibrant combos.  I find I don't like much with purple.

8.  When your 'mojo' takes a spa day without you, what gets your creative juices flowing again?  I go to the spa with my mojo!

9.  When you aren't stamping, what do you like to do?  I love to read.  I just bought a Nook and have done lots of reading this summer.  My reading takes a back seat somewhat when I'm back in teaching mode, but I always have a book on my nightstand.

10.  Tell us something, not stamping related, about you...  I love dogs, traveling, my cabin, clothes/shoes/jewelry, and Mick Jagger!  Yes I said Mick Jagger!  I get a lot of flack for that, but he's been my idol since I was around 5 years old (thanks to my brother's and cousin's love for the Rolling Stones)!  I also love the girls on my design teams.  I know that's sort of stamping related, but these girls are the best in town!

That's all I have for you today about Lisa.  You can leave a comment for her here or better yet head over to her blog, check out some eye candy and leave her a comment there (make sure you tell her I said "hey").

October Release in Review Day 3

It's our final day of the Release in Review.

Don't worry, we'll still bring you more samples, but this is the end of the OFFICIAL release in review. ;)

Remember our new release is LIVE on the website.

You can view all of our newest released by clicking here.

And now... onto some fabulous creations by the Paper Makeup Artists!

These creations are LIVE on their blogs today, so feel free to check them out, get some details and leave the PMS ladies some love!

Here is my card...

Anita Hovey

Danni Bindel

Tina Hale

Randee Elsing

Stephanie Zito

Ginger Schwerin

Lisa McKinney

Christi Thorsen

October Release in Review Day 2

It's day 2 of our Release in Review!

All of the stamps you see below are now available on our site!

You can shop our new products HERE.

The Paper Makeup Artists have brought you some wonderful creations today!

All of these cards today are on their blogs! So if you want to read some details, click on their names and them leave them some love!!!

Andrea Vernagus

Michelle Van Patten

Simonne Clay

Shaela Odd

Bonnie Sharp

Maria Gurnsey

Dawn Mercedes

Lisa Kind

Have a super wonderful day!!

October Release in Review - Day 1

Hello! Welcome to the PMS Release in Review!

For the next 3 days we will be reviewing our recent release. All of the stamps you will see are now available on our site. You can see the entire release HERE.

Today we are reviewing the October Halloween Kit!

In the kit you will get eight full 8.5x11 sheets of colored cardstock that coordinates beautifull with eight 6x6 sheets of double sided patterned paper from Echo Park's halloween collection.

You will also get 16 sugar coated brads from doodle bug and 4 yards of awesome ribbon from May Arts and Offray. You will also get 18 inches of self adhesive felt bads by Queen & Company.

You will get 1 die cut spider web and 1 bottle of emerald green liquid pearls by ranger.

Last but not least, included in this kit is 1 awesome witchy fairy and a happy halloween sentiment.

Now, as you may remember... we had a slight delay with the stamps for the kit. Very frustrating for everyone! Our replacement stamps will be arriving next week and those will ship out to everyone who has already purchased the kit immediately. Still, if you order the kit, until we recieve the stamps, your kit will be mailed to you with a digi version of the stamps so you can get started right away and then the rubber stamp will be mailed to you as soon as it is in at no additional cost to you of course.

Because some expressed interest in just purchasing the kit with digi versions of stamps at a discount, we thought, well why not! So there are 2 versions of the kit available, if you'd like a discount and a kit with digi stamps only, purchase that one HERE. If you want the version with rubber, click HERE.

And last but not least, if you are wanting the withy fairy as a digi without the kit... well for a limited time we're going to offer that too! I know, we're a little crazy! Here is a link for that.

And now... on to some stellar examples from the Senior Paper Makeup Artists using the kit!

Card by Tangii Crain

Card by Christi Thorsen

Card by Lisa Kind

Have a wonderfully witchy day!

Makeup 4 the Weekend #45

Hiya peeps!! Are you guys still reeling from the amazing release we had yesterday? I know I am!! This was another fantastic Paper Makeup release and today I have another fantastic Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge for you coming to you from the incredible Michelle Van Patten!! This weeks challenge is to use vellum on your creation!!

My sample is going to have to wait due to a family emergency but Michelle's card is so gorgeous it deserves to have a post all its own...
Can we say W-O-W?!! There is nothing about this card that I don't absolutely LOVE and that embossed vellum is genius!! Fabulous job Michelle!!

Now get more inspiration from more of the Makeup Artists:

Tangii

Shaela

Now how would you like to win a single stamp of your choice? Here's all you have to do:

1. Participate in the challenge
2. Use PMS images (stamped or digi)

Easy right?!! Link up your creation by midnight on Wednesday to be included in the Thursday Showoff and to be in the drawing for some free rubbah. While you don't have to use Paper Makeup Stamps to play in the challenge, you do need to use them to be entered in the drawing. Don't forget to mention the challenge in your post, and when you upload to SCS/PCP use the keyword M4TW45 so we can see your creations there as well. Also, be sure your link is directly to your challenge card to make it easier on those of us who love to comment. :)

Thanks for playing along! Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Stamps are Live!!!

The stamps are live on the site! You can see all our new products HERE!

Also, we are partying and chatting it up in our forum.

Here is a direct link! We would LOOOOVE to see you all there!

We play games, we give away free stamps! It's SO MUCH FUN!

We will also announce the winners from the comments through the sneak peek week. As they are drawn we will add them to this post. so staaaaaaay tuned!

But really... you know you wanna join in the chatter with us!

COME PLAY WITH US HERE!

ok ladies... sorry this is late, but here are your winners from the sneak peek posts using random.org!

So Sweet Set sneak peek winner is Lindsy
School fairies winner is Mom 2 Many (how appropriate! hahaha!)
Moody for Computers, matching sentiments, Leif and Flubu winner is Maya
and the winner of the Just Weighing in Set, hershey and jenny fairy is Tami

Congrats everyone!!!

Let's Hop!

It's that time of the month again! PMS time! No not THAT kind of PMS, the only kind of PMS you can look forward to! Paper Makeup Stamps!

It's the 7th, which means we have a new release that will be live on the website at 9pm EST. Awww man! Does that mean you have to wait allllll day! Well yes, sorry it does. BUT until then you can enjoy a FANTABULOUS blog hop put on by all the Paper Makeup Artists! And remember, as you hop you need to collect all those letters each artist gives you. Those letters when put together give you a voucher code and that voucher code is good for 15% off the new release! You dont want to miss out!

Plus, to make the day even sweeter... we're going to give away a gift certificate for $25 worth of rubber to 1 lucky blog hopper! You just have to do the hop and leave comments along the way as the comment winner will be drawn from ALL the blog hop comments. And we'll give you thru this Sunday to leave those comments, just in case you don't read this post on the 7th!

And then tonight... at 9pm EST, not only do the stamps go live on the website, but we CELEBRATE! Join us in our Forum for some fun, chatter, games, prizes and put your word in for what kind of stamps you'd like to see next!

ANd now... without further ado...

Let's start the SHOW by hopping to Katie's Blog!