Dustin's Challenge

Hey fans! I'm out of the office today (and IN the craft room!) So no marvelous post today, but i did want to point you in the direction of Dustin's DINOMITE challenge with blog candy. Ok, he didnt call it a dinomite challenge, i did. :) But the cause it SO worthy! Check it out HERE

What do you win??? The grand prize is ALL of Dustin's Dinos for Paper Makeup Stamps! You think there are only 3? You are WRONG. There are more dinos being released on June 7th along with some more dino sentiment sets! The grand prize winner will get all of these!!!!!!

and there is more!

10 (yes TEN) first prize winners get their choice of 2 digi stamps from Dustin's digi stamp line!

And the cards go to such a worthy cause, you really need to check it out!

In honor of this challenge, i'm posting one of Tangii Crain's dino-riffic cards!

Thursday Design Team Showoff

The new blog is still a work in progress... i know some things still arent lining up right. You're actually supposed to see the whole swirlie tree, not just the top of it. *sigh* I'll get it figured out. But let's have some fun eye candy with some of the design teams creations instead! :)


First up we have Lisa McKinney. This weeks challenge is HER color challenge! But she was only getting back in town on Monday! So her card wasnt able to go up in time for the post but you HAVE to see it! It's so cute!



Now look at this cute from Meli Mitchell. Love the added dimension!!!!




Next up is Mindy Baxter. I about died when i saw this cutie on her blog this morning! A pink Dino... with cupcakes stacked on up his back! ACK! And more dimension.. so fun.




Shaela and I both have a penchant for word art! I think that this is one of the main reasons she's just SO good at using the quote stamps!!!


Here's tangii's little cutie using Ashlie. Love her!!!!



And I hope you arent on overload with all these fabby creations! Cause there is still more... Look at this ferious REX card by Tina Hale!


And one more dino for you! This is the dino card that I made for Dustin...


So thats what we have for ya today!!! Fun fun huh?! I love this design team. :)

OMG did you SEEEEE?

We haven't had a true OMG did you SEE day in weeks! Each week something else has come up and i've needed to steal the wednesday post away from OMG. Well today we are back to OMG!!!! :)

Today's OMG post is actually from a design team member. I just love how people are using multiple fairies on their projects! 2 other design members have done this recently as well and i love it, but those projects have been shown on the blog already. :) But you can see them here... Dawn Wheeler.... Dawn Barrett's card was in the color challenge post yesterday.

So here it is... the project that made my jaw drop this week... by Mindy Baxter






Isnt this a fun project!!! I just love all the layers and dimension on the card and 4 fairies plus a sentiment from the fairy sentiments set?! I think she wins the prize for getting the most out of her stamps in one project!

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! ;) )

PMS Monday Summer Hues

Happy Monday and welcome to another Paper Makeup Monday Challenge! This week's challenge comes from the extremely talented Lisa McKinney and her challenge comes with a little message..."When it comes to inspiration sometimes the best place to go is the paint aisle in any Home Improvement store! I'm always snagging paint chips to save for the days when I need to jump start my mojo. My Color Inspiration challenge this week comes from two of my most favorite paint chips currently in my possession: Watermelon Slice and Apple Green!

I took a picture for you of what they look like in natural light.

Your challenge this week is to make a card using these two shades and black and/or white. I had some unexpected company this weekend making stamping impossible so my sample will be coming soon but the design team rocked this challenge! Check it out...

Tina Hale Kim Stewart

Jamie Morris

Dawn Wheeler

Dawn Barrett

Katie Cotton

Aren't they fantastic?! That should definitely get your creative juices flowing! :) Please remember that you do not have to use Paper Makeup stamps for this challenge but if you've got them we'd love to see you showing them off! Please use Mr. Linky to upload your creation to this post and if you upload to SCS/PCP please use keyword PMSMC12 so we can see your creations there as well.

Happy Stamping!!

Christi

a very very late sunday showoff!

Well it isnt midnight yet so it's still sunday! I'm SO very very sorry for this post going up so late! I dont know where my head was today. Ok, well i do know. Today i went to Kayleigh Anne Freeman's memorial service. So to say that my brain is a little out of sorts while my heart aches for this family is putting it mildly! But it was a beautiful service CELEBRATING HER LIFE not mourning her death.

But on to much more happiness (because i fully get happiness from sparkles!) here is your sunday showoff of "puttin on the glitz"!

Saturday Design team show n tell

Happy Happy Weekend everyone!

Before we get to our normally scheduled post... You may notice there is a big ol' donation box in the sidebar! This is for the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's event which will begin on May 25th. It's a week long even full of challenges, tutorials, classes, lots and lots of prizes and so much more.

Paper Makeup Stamps is just one of many many companies donating prizes to the wonderful cause.

You can listen to Susanna Boyd, creator of Paper Craft Planet, talk about this event

We would love to see you there! Get your account set up at http://www.stampinoutalzheimers.ning.com


and now, back to our normal post...

It's Saturday also means it's time for a design team show n tell. I love design team show n tells. They just make me so happy because I love showing off my team. They are all so very talented!

So here's what i got for ya today!

Christi made this very very sweet card for the Freeman Family


Dawn Barrett made this stunner using one of the quotes from the Fairy Sentiments Set (this is actually from the DIGI set available!)



Dawn Knight made this adorable card using dude. Look at that background sky!!!


This is an older one form Dawn Wheeler but it hasnt been posted on here yet. It uses Emma (who is now back in stock over on the site!) I just love the way Dawn layers her cards!


Another one from a bit back (and never made it to this blog) by Jamie Morris! It's Birthday Lauren (also now back in stock over in the shop! I adore Jamie's style!



This is one of Kim Stewart's blog hop creations. So you may have seen it, but it's definitely worth another look-see! Kim has awesome altering skills!


And last for our line up (today) is Lisa Kind also using Ashlie. Lisa did this card for one of the recent challenges from the release party. Isnt she a cutie?



Ok, dont forget the Sunday Showoff is tomorrow! You have until 8 pm tonight to get your challenge cards up on Mr Linky!