Choose Hope & An Announcement

Today's card uses one of the flowers and sentiments from Paper Makeup Stamps Faith Hope Love set. The flowers are all silhouette style and I wanted to highlight one to capture the idea of hope standing out. I decided the best way to do that was to stamp a row of flowers in amethyst with one slightly taller than the others. Then I colored the same stamp with markers, cut out the image and popped it up over its shadow. I like how the yellow gives a pop of color. I also used markers on the saying to make the word HOPE stand out too. I decided to add a simple ribbon on the corner and leave this a CAS card. Anything else I considered doing just took away from that yellow flower as being the focal point.

And now for a fun announcement! Paper Makeup Stamps has added seven new 'Makeup Artists' to their design team and I'm one of them. {squeal!} Anyone who checks out my blog will see that most of my creations use PMS. I've been a huge fan of their stamps AND their design team for a year now. I'm so honored to be chosen and I'm looking forward to working with Katie and her talented team at Paper Makeup Stamps. Here's the July 2010 team with the new members starred.

Senior Makeup Artists

Katie Cotton (owner)

Christi Thorsen (Events Coordinator)

Tangii Crain (DT coordinator)

Lisa Kind

Tina Hale

Paper Makeup Artists

**Andrea Vernagus**

**Anita Hovey**

**Bonnie Sharp**

Christi Snow

Danni Bindel

Dawn Mercedes Barrett

**Ginger Schwerin**

Lisa McKinney

Maria Gurnsey

**Michelle Van Patten (me!)**

Randee Elsing

Shaela Odd

**Sherry Campbell**

**Stephanie Zito**