Meet n Greet Tuesday with Kim Stewart

Hiya Everyone! It's time for another Meet n Greet Tuesday!!! Today we are "meeting" design team member, Kim Stewart!





And here's the same question we always ask! :)

When did you start stamping?
At my first SU workshop in January 07. My neighbor invited me, and then introduced me to Splitcoaststampers and I was hooked immediately.

What first drew you to PMS?
Katie of course! We met on the Bellaholics yahoo group and had a fun sister swap round where we got to know each other better. I was so excited to hear her dream was coming true of starting her own stamp line. When I saw her first stamps, I immediately fell in love and have had so much fun making cards and especially altering items with them.

What's your favorite color combo?
I don’t have a fave – I love all of SU colors especially Perfect Plum and Old Olive.

What else do you like to do?
Scrapbooking – I’m trying to learn digital as my paper scrappin’ is way behind and I love being on the computer. I also enjoy spending time with my incredible husband and two sweet boys. We love anything outdoors – right now the swimming pool and lake is where we are on the weekends.

Where do you get inspiration from?
Splitcoaststampers is the best, and all the blogs I have on my Google Reader (after seeing them post creations on SCS).

What's on your ipod?
My favorite songs from the 80’s, and my fave country singers: Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, and Darius Rucker to name just a few

And some of Kim's amazing creations that you might not have seen (unless you follow her blog, which you should! ;) )

And we're back with some Challenge Winners!

Hey everyone! Sorry the blog posts just sort of went on a hiatus! In the rush of getting all of the release orders out, and dealing with other things around the home, I decided to take a bit of a break the past couple of days. I suppose i really should have let everyone know. I've gotten a few emails asking if i was alright. haha. My personal blog had some posts, it was more of a PMS break really. Just needed to breath. But back to our normal scheduled posting!!!!!

Yesterday Christi announced the winners of the Release Party Challenges...

Challenge #1 winner was Anita Hovey with this creation...



You can browse this thread in the PMS forum to see the other creations made for the challenge


Challenge #2 winner was Silvia with this creation...


You can check out this thread to see the other projects.


Challenge #3 winner was Alex Lundgren with this creation...


You can see the other great mama's day creations at this thread

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at Katie@papermakeup.com so i can give you your voucher code!

Wednesday Meet n Greet with Tangii Crain

I know we usually have our Meet N Greet on Tuesday, but if you read the blog yesterday, there was some much more important to post. If you were unable to check in yesterday, the post is really something you might want to read. Just grab your kleenex first.

Before we get to the meet n greet... There is a Memorial Service for Kayleigh next Sunday May 17th. Kayleigh's blog says that everyone is invited to come and share in the joy of her short life. I will be going if anyone would like to send something for me to take personally. I also have their address if you'd like to mail something.

Ok, now on to the Meet N Greet! This week we are meeting Design Team member, Tangii Crain!



When did you start stamping? I started about a year and a half ago, all I could do was copy stuff. I remember when I created my first card that was all my own design, I was so excited I showed everyone that woud look! It was for my very first Swap. A couple of months later one of the gals in the swap emailed me asking if she could CASE it for her Convention Swaps... I was almost in tears I was so thrilled, hehehe.

What first drew you to PMS? The rockin' Miss Katie!!! Katie asked a group I was in for their preferences in stamping (rubber, etc.), I emailed her back with my answer and then bugged her as to why she was asking. When she told me what she was up to I was so excited for her because I just adore her and I love to see the "little guy" thrive. I planned on supporting her in anyway I could, thinking I'd get a couple of stamps, etc. UNTIL I saw what she was up to... then I was hooked!! I was never really a "fairy" person, but these little one's are just too cute!! More like little kids than mystical fairies.

What's your favorite color combo? I don't know that I really have a favorite color combo, I think it depends on what I am making and what my mood is.

What else do you like to do? I love quilting, it's funny how much I've grown as a quilter because of stamping! I also love cooking & baking, gardening and playing with the kids.

Where do you get inspiration from? Once upon a time I would have said that I got my inspiration from whatever challenge on SCS I was working on. Lately I get inspiration from all kinds of places. In today's mail I got the new Pottery Barn Teen catalog, it's on my craft desk cause I love one of the comforter designs in it...thought it'd make a great card design!

What's on your ipod? I like lots of different music. Right now I have some Airborn Toxic Event, The Killers, Taylor Swift, I {heart} Smashmouth.

And now here are some of Tangii's wonderful creations...

A tribute to Kayleigh Anne Freeman

As promised... I am displaying a tribute to little Kayleigh Anne Freeman. This is a collection of card pictures i've gathered from those that have used used the sweet digital stamp (sales from which all go towards the Freeman family).

I'm sure more cards have been made but these were the ones i was able to find. Dont forget, if you made a card using this stamp, please link it to this post. We want to see what you create!

Rest in Peace, Kayleigh

Today is a sad day. Sweet baby girl, Kayleigh Freeman, left our world yesterday to be rid of her broken body and to at peace in Heaven. For those who do not know Kayleigh's story. You can read about her life, here.

You may remember a post I made a bit back showing a digital stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps called "A Fairy for Kayleigh". This stamp was created in order to raise funds for the Freeman family. The digital stamp is still available here and all proceeds from it will continue to go to the Freeman family. (likewise, cards made with the image and linked back to this post will still be entered.

Shortly I will post some cards that were made with this image.

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Hey all you PMS fans!!!! I just want to thank everyone who came to our release party! It was so much fun! Orders have begun shipping out and prizes have been mailed. Now i just cant wait til the next one! :)

I did want to share with you some more of the design teams creations for this past release.... have I mentioned how much i love my design team!


I had to share this again... This is dawn wheeler's blog hop entry!



An adorable Arianna card from Dawn Barrett


Duuuuuude.... this one is totally rad! It's by Lisa Kind.


Cutie Patootie Bronto from Jamie Morris...


And a friendly card with Terry from Kim Stewart


A beautimus card with Arianna from Mindy Baxter


A sweet relaxin' Ashlie from Shaela Odd


And sucha fun card box from Tangii Crain



Another Sun Lovin' Dude from Tina Hale


A gorgeous card using our charity digi stamp, A Fairy for Kayleigh from Dawn Knight

Another tricky fold card from Christi Thorsen using Bronto


And a cute card using Ashlie from Lisa McKinney


And wedding portrait style card using Mary by myself...


And i leave you with one more A Fairy for Kayleigh card by Meli Mitchell




phew, i know that was a very long blog post for the day but my design team has been workin their tail ends off so i wanted to give them all a little love today. :)

Sunday Showoff

Hey everyone! I know we normally have the sunday showoff today but the program i use to do the slideshow isnt working!!!! And we had a lot of participants so i'm going to keep trying to get it to work, but until then, you can go to THIS POST and check them out on Mr. Linky

and until then, i have some other fun news for you! Paper Makeup Stamps now has it's own forum! This is where we will have our release party on May 7th! You can get your account all set up at www.papermakeup.com/forum
Please don't wait to get your account set up until the release party if you know you're gonna pop in to play some games, win some stamps and chat away with us! We dont want the server to freeze from everyone signing up at one time. :)

And now for some more sneak peeks of the new releases from the über fabulous design team!!!

May Release Sneak Peeks

Happy National Scrapbook Day everyone!!!! I know that most wesbites and stores have sales today... ok, PMS is no different! Use NSD09 as your coupon code to get 10% off all orders!

But it's not just national scrapbook day! It's 5 days before the release which means... time for some sneakie peekies!!!! Let me just say I am SO excited about this release! We are welcoming 2 new illustrators to our team!!! Please welcome...

Dustin Pike and Linsday Spencer!!!!

Both of these new illustrators have everything I enjoy about artists! First of all... PASSION! You have to have PASSION! They both thoroughly enjoy what they do and it shows!!! 2nd of all they have the fun, free style that is cute, but not toooooo cute. Know what i mean?

Dustin's first collection at PMS is of some stinkin' cute DInos! Let me tell you, my son is THRILLED!

And Lindsey is designing our Cottage Collection. I want to move right in!!!!


Look at what the design team has been up to using these new releases!!!!

Tina Hale using "Ashlie" and snail sentiment

Dawn Barrett using Arianna Fairy & a sentiment from the new Fairy Sentiments Set

Lisa McKinney using Bronto

Katie Cotton using the Cottage from the Cottage Collection and Large Home Sentiment

And then some of the design team has been using their new Fairy for Kayleigh to help spread awareness of this family.  You can read more about this new digi stamp here, but also look at some of their creations!  You dont have to wait for the May release for this one... you can buy it now!

Dawn Barrett

Tina Hale

Lisa McKinney

Kim Stewart

Shaela Odd