Makeup 4 the Weekend #48

Happy Friday and welcome to another Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge!!! Thank you to everyone who played along in last week's challenge!! You can see all the amazing creations here.

This week Lisa McKinney has us tricking AND treating!! Here's the challenge details:

The Treat: make a project using colors of Chocolate (you can use other colors too, just make sure chocolate is in the color palette)- the TRICK is, it needs to be a Treat Holder or Box of some kind.

I know a lot of people will use this challenge for Halloween treats but I have a lot of friends and family that are sick right now so I took a different route...
I made a cute little Kleenex holder for all my peeps with the sniffles! LOL You can find all the details on my blog.

Now for Lisa's yummy chocolate creation...
Hershey is looking super yummy paired with that yummy yellow isn't he?! What an awesome set!! Fabulous job Lisa!!

Now get more inspiration from more of the Makeup Artists:

Tina

Andrea

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 EST 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. There are a few freebie digis in the PMS store that qualify! Don't forget to mention the challenge in your post, and when you upload to SCS/PCP use the keyword M4TW48 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!!!

A Quick Showoff!

Happy Friday-eve!  Last week Shaela challenged us to make a card that was NOT square.  These cards are just gorgeous!!!  Sorry for the quick post, but let's get to some eye-candy!

And of course we now need a winner, winner chicken dinner!  This weeks winner is dr. Nina!  Nina, please email katie@papermakeup.com and let her know which image you'd like.  Here is Nina's entry for the challenge, 

and if you've never seen her work, you should head over to her blog... she is amazing with PMS images! ;)  Thanks to everyone who played.  See you all back here tomorrow for another Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge!

Halloween is almost here!

Halloween is almost here! Can you feel it?! We have just 1 left of our Halloween Kit. Now i know you may be thinking, well what good would that do me?! hahahaha! Just think of the scrapbooking pages you could do after this halloween! You want this kit? You better get it now while you can!

here are some more examples from the Paper Makeup Artists using this fabulously spooky kit!

We have a winner!

HELLO! I'm so sorry the winner to our blog hop comment challenge was never picked! We always leave the blog hop comment challenge open to maek sure more peeps get a chance to do the hop, and then i needed to find a day that nothing was being posted on the blog and suddeny it's the 25th of the month!

Without further ado... the winner of the $25 gift certificate is.....

PinkBlingCrafter chosen via random.org from Tina's blog!

COngrats! Please contact katie @ papermakeup.com to get your voucher code!

Makeup Artist Spotlight

This week we are spotlighting Makeup Artist Christi Snow (Altered Ambitions).  Did you know Christi and her hubby recently moved in to their dream home?  She has had quite the eventful year!

Christi has such a fun and exciting style, that is all her own!  She comes up with the greatest ideas... I can just lose myself in her blog.  This is Christi's favorite card and while she didn't tell me why, it's not hard to guess why... I love her colors and details!

My favorite thing about Christi's creations are her details.  She certainly has her own style, but then there is not "one thing" that is a "trademark" of sorts.  She just does amazing things with the details!  I can't possibly pick a favorite from Christi's blog, but this card perfectly demonstrates what I mean about the details...

This is one of my favorite parts... getting to know the Artist!  Christi cracks me up, I just love her spunky spirit!

1.  When did you get started stamping?  15 years ago. I saw a demonstration of heat embossing at a little gift shop and have been addicted ever since.
2.  Tell me 5 songs or artists on your iPod right now.  hmmm, there is music on my iPod, but I am not a huge music girl. The main things used on my iPod are my favorite podcast, Paperclipping Roundtable, and there are some Nickelodeon shows on there (Dora and Little Bear) that Kat watches at football games and when we are flying. ;o)
3.  All Stylists have a go to accessory or tool... what's yours?  watercolor pencils....LOVE them and what I can do with them. I am afraid to even try Copics because I know that I will become addicted...LOL!
4.  What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?  Chocolate & Peanut butter from Baskin Robbins...there is NO better flavor out there anywhere!!!
5.  Where do you find inspiration?  Everywhere!!! I adore blogs...probably have about 200 of them on my reader. I esp. love the wedding blogs for inspiration. I also love looking at magazines and stores like Target or Anthropologie!
6.  Do you have a favorite technique or style?  I am a huge lover of the shabby chic look with lots of embellishments. I usually can't pull it off because I tend to have a cleaner style, but when I can...it's LOVE!
7.  What is your favorite color palette?  Red is my favorite color so I love to pair colors with it.... esp. black or robin's egg blue.
8.  When your 'mojo' takes a spa day without you, what gets your creative juices flowing again?  For me, the best way to get my creative muse going again is to start creating something different. The majority of my work is done with cards or scrapbooking so if I change my papercraft to altered arts, atc's, canvases, or even sewing projects, it gives a huge boost to my creative muse.
9.  When you aren't stamping, what do you like to do?  READING!!! I am a huge reader (average probably 3-4 books a week), but it isn't fine literature. I read for entertainment and that comes in the form of romances or chick lit...just fun stuff!
10.  Tell us something, not stamping related, about you...  My guilty shopping pleasure besides craft supplies and books is shoes. I love what a fun new cute pair of shoes can do as an ego boost. Just something fun about a sassy pair of shoes (I very rarely spend more than $30 on a pair) and there is something powerful about heels which I wear with everything (even my tennis shoes are heels...Sketchers from Victoria's Secret...love them!) ooh, and I guess that is another guilty pleasure that I spend money on...Victoria's Secret. Pretty panties and bras do the same thing for my ego as fun, sassy heels. Is that TMI??? ;o)


Soooo... don't you just love her!  Leave her some love here, or even better head on over to her blog, Altered Ambitions and while you are being swept away by her creativity you can leave her some love there!

Makeup Artist Spotlight

This week we are spotlighting Makeup Artist Lisa McKinney (This & That).  Lisa always makes such beautiful cards, but her CAS cards are frequently on the SCS CAS Fav's of the week list!  She rocks!

When I do these "interviews" I ask each person to send me a picture of themselves.  It's is so "Lisa" that she chose this picture to send (one of her and her hubby)... Lisa is so very dedicated to her family.  She just adores them all and it's so evident when you interact with her.  Does her smile not just consume her whole face?  This girl is ALWAYS so bubbly and cheerful and positive!  These are two of my very favorite traits in people and though there are more reasons, these two are the biggest two reasons I just adore Lisa!

This is Lisa's favorite card, which is interesting because there is nothing CAS about this one!  Look at all the detail, right up my alley!  The colors are so stricking.  Here's what Lisa had to say about this card... "This card is probably my favorite because of not only the colors (autumn!), but how it incorporated a bunch of textures and layers. Moody in the Pumpkin Patch is STILL my favorite Moody and though she's not colored wonderfully (pre-copics) I still like the way she graces the front of this card. I was having a LOT of fun with my Cuttlebug when I made this card."

Well I had my favorite card picked out until I saw this one.  I love the colors Lisa chose, it shows her 'signature' embossing folder piece and Thanksgiving is just my favorite time of the year!  As gorgeous as the card is, I really LOVE her story she shared on the post!!

Lisa always cracks me up with her posts within the DT group, her comments just crack me up!  She's so positive and happy, but even when she pouty or something bugs her she so stinkin' silly about it!  It's a good thing she's not venting in front of me because how do show empathy when you are cracking up at the way she puts things?!?  I can't wait to visit Kentucky one of these days and sit with Lisa on her porch sippin' Souther Sweet Tea and looking over her Farm!  As you know, we ask each Artist a few questions... here's Lisa's answers to those questions...

1. When did you get started stamping? Around the fall of 2007. I found a card making group online and was like "wow, I think I can do that!" And though some of my first attempts are shameful, through the course of joining various groups, starting a blog, competing in challenges and trying new techniques I've really grown in what I'm capable of producing.
2. Tell me 5 songs or artists on your iPod right now. Well, I'm behind the times and don't ahve an IPod...but my playlist on my blog currently has a TON of songs from GLEE...but then also Lady Antebellum, Faith Hill, Cold Play and Lionel Richie...yeah, I'm a music eclectic!
   
3. All Stylists have a go to accessory or tool... what's yours? Definitely my Cuttlebug. Now that I have it, I couldn't live without it...I use it on nearly ALL of my cards--whether for embossing or for using my Nestabilities.
   
4. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Mmmm, Ice Cream. I love fruity ice cream like peach. But my FAVORITE ice cream is homemade. My parents bought an ice cream maker when I was visiting them this summer and...WOW! Best ice cream I've ever eaten! They had made strawberry ice cream with real freshly picked strawberries and other organic ingredients. It makes all the other ice creams seem blah! Now we are going to try to buy one for our family because we are HUGE ice cream fans. 
5. Where do you find inspiration? Most of my inspiration comes through various challenges. My favorite ones are the sketch challenges because deciding on layouts seems to be the most challenging part for me! So already having a layout takes away those moments of staring at a blank card front wondering what on earth I'm going to do! I also really like embellishment and technique challenges. I'm always looking for new ways to use the supplies I have.  
6. Do you have a favorite technique or style? I love doing folded cards...but also CAS cards. I am notorious for trying to use up every inch of space, so the CAS style has pushed me out of that box. I also love dry embossing--because I can use my Cuttlebug of course! LOL!
   
7. What is your favorite color palette? Earth tones! I totally love using chocolate and olive and rust...probably why my favorite season is Autumn. I just love the richness that those colors have.
   
8. When your 'mojo' takes a spa day without you, what gets your creative juices flowing again? I just go to a gallery of some sort...usually Splitcoast and look through it or cards I tagged as a favorite and I usually can get inspired that way. If that isn't working than I pull out past copies of my crafting magazines and check out pages that I've marked.But then there are days when I just have to walk away for awhile. I go read books, play the piano or just play with my kiddos. My mojo usually comes back shortly thereafter!
   
9. When you aren't stamping, what do you like to do? Spend time with my boys, Cook, Read, Play Piano and just chill out! We love doing things as a family--typically going for rides on a John Deere Gator or our 4wheelers all over our Kentucky farm. Or sometimes we just sit on the porch and watch the butterflies.    
10. Tell us something, not stamping related, about you...Um...I admit that I'm a nail polish addict. I have a TON of colors, but can't seem to resist a new sparkly shade. I love painting my toenails! I also am a pianist. I've played piano for 25 years and have won a few competitions. It's my release when I'm moody or frustrated because I can always find a song to match my mood. And one more thing is that I'm almost JUST as addicted to cooking magazines as my crafting magazines. I adore cooking and have more cookbooks than one person really needs...and I'm an avid FoodNetwork watcher.

Well that wraps up this Artist Spotlight.  You can leave a comment for Lisa on this post, or better yet head on over to her blog and leave her a hug there!

Makeup 4 the Weekend #47

Hi peeps and welcome to another Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge!! Thank you to everyone who played along in last week's song-inspired challenge!! See the post below to see all the gorgeous creations!!

This week Shaela's challenge is Don't Be Square! Make a card that is not a square or rectangle shape. Easy peasy right?!
I busted out my oval Nestabilities and came up with this spooky creation inspired by our October card kit! You can get all the details on my blog.

Now check out Shaela's *gorgeous* eye candy...
I *heart* this color combo and she had me at gingham...LOL!! Amazing creation Shaela!!!

Now get more inspiration from more of the Makeup Artists:

Dawn B

Tina

Anita

Andrea

Katie

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 EST 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. There are a few freebie digis in the PMS store that qualify! Don't forget to mention the challenge in your post, and when you upload to SCS/PCP use the keyword M4TW47 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!!!