Little Birdies

Makeup 4 the Weekend - M4TW39 Lime, Turquoise & Kraft
SCS Ways to Use It - WT283 Button Time

I thought these sweet stamps from Tweet Things would be cute for an anniversary card. And to confess what a paper hoarder I am, that is an old, retired color called Luscious Lime from Stampin' Up! on my card. {grin} It looks delicious paired with Cool Caribbean and Kraft, don't you think?

The birdies are watercolored and the sentiment is filled in with my Luscious Lime marker. For the scalloped layers, I ran them through a Xyron to coat them with adhesive, fixed the other pieces on the center and covered the edges with dazzling diamonds glitter for some sparkle. And I found the perfect, sparkly lime-colored button in my Will to Day Dream kit as the finishing touch. {cheer}

Do you want to win a free single-image stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps? Just do the Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge using a PMS image by midnight EDT on Wednesday and link it to the PMS blog. A winner will be drawn on Thursday! And remember there are lots of cute digi stamps in the PMS store that you can use - so no excuses!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the beary best!



Stamps: Tweet Things by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Kraft, Luscious Lime, Cool Caribbean, Watercolor Paper
Ink: Luscious Lime, Cool Caribbean, Soft Suede, Basic Brown
Accessories: Linen Thread, Button, Xyron, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Aquapainter, Oval Nesties, SU! Scallop Border Punch

Color It Red

SCS Clean and Simple - CAS79 Gardens
SCS Color Combo - CC283 Baja Poppy Cakes

The flower used on my card is from the Color It - Summer set released by Paper Makeup Stamps on the 7th. I stamped and colored it directly on the Kraft (Crumb Cake) paper. I dry embossed around it with a Labels Ten Nestie and colored the outline with a copic marker and spica glitter pen for a simple, sparkly outline. The leaves and flower center sparkle IRL too. The border punch and ribbon I used are from Martha Stewart. AND I {love} the font of the 'thinking of you' sentiment from The Will to Day Dream kit.

Be sure to check out the PMS blog for cards from other Makeup Artists reviewing the August Release this week. Remember the 15% discount code from the blog hop is good only through Saturday, August 14th.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the beary best!

Stamps: Color It Summer by Paper Makeup Stamps, sentiment from Will to Day Dream kit by PMS
Paper: Kraft, Riding Hood Red
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Copic Markers BG15, E43, R05, R17, R27, MS Ribbon, MS Border Punch, Spica Glitter Pens, Nestie Labels Ten, Red Rhinestones

Inspired Rainbows

*This is my second post today*

*Scroll down for my PMS review card*

Etsy Inspired Challenge #100

Today's cards come from the Etsy Inpsired Challenge. The featured etsy shop this week is Cathy Walters and she makes some amazing pendants. Below is the pendant that I drew my inspiration from. I like the blue sky background and the curved, colorful stripes on the balloon remind me of a rainbow.

That made think of the sky paper and sweet rainbow sentiment in The Will to Day Dream kit by Paper Makeup Stamps. And I got to wondering how I could create a rainbow for a card. Then it hit me, layer a bunch of smaller and smaller circles on top of each other and cut them in half! All the colored papers I needed were in the kit except for purple, so I grabbed a scrap of lovely lilac and my circle nesties and got started. It worked perfectly and gave me two rainbows, so I made two cards. I decided to set one up vertically and one horizontally - I still can't decide which way I like it better - can you?

I colored the sentiment with markers so I could make the words 'Rainbow' and 'clouds' stand out. I cut it out with a Labels Twelve nestie and edged it with a red spica glitter pen. Each color of the rainbow is edged with a clear spica glitter pen, so the rainbows have a little sparkle to them too. The yellow ribbon and yellow patterned paper are also from the kit.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the beary best!



Stamps: Word Art from The Will to Day Dream kit by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Whisper White, Lovely Lilac, all other papers from The Will to Day Dream kit by PMS
Accessories: SU! Markers, Spica Atyou Glitter Pens, Circle Nesties, Labels Twelve Nesties, ribbon from The Will to Day Dream kit by PMS

Shimmery Wishes

Flutterby Wednesday - FBW115 open challenge

This week's Flutterby Wednesday challenge is an open one - just create a project with a butterfly, fairy or an angel on it. I am still having so much fun inking up this Dandy Wishes set from Paper Makeup Stamps. I used shimmery white paper so the entire card would sparkle. The background was sponged in fading pastel colors and I used a circle as a mask for the sun. That sentiment is from the latest kit by Paper Makeup Stamps called The Will to Day Dream. I love the font used on this stamp! Then the little butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch and they are covered with a clear spica glitter pen to make them sparkly too - just like the paper. I {heart} sparkle! Here's a close up of that shimmer.

Thanks for fluttering by today!



Stamps: Dandy Wishes by Paper Makeup Stamps - sentiment from Makeup Card Kit 'The Will to Day Dream' by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Shimmery White, Basic Black, Pale Plum
Ink: Stazon Black, Pink Pirouette, Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue
Accessories: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Clear Spica Atyou Glitter Pen, Sponge, Circle Mask, Corner Punch

Day Dreaming Will

Paper Makeup Stamps has released a new Makeup Card Kit called The Will to Day Dream and it's just full of fun papers, accessories and stamps. Everything from this card except for the linen thread and white cardstock is from the kit. I colored this dreamy fairy named Will with prismacolor pencils and baby oil. He's cut out and popped up to give a little dimension to the card. And it's hard to tell in the photo, but that's a strip of delicious wide chocolate brown ribbon behind the row of diamonds. {yum!}

Here's a close-up of Will and a better look at my faux stitching. I used a spica glitter pen and piercing took kit to add a zig-zag stitch look around the border.

Thanks for stopping by! Blessings,

Stamps: All from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury White, all other papers from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Linen Thread, Piercing Tools, Spica Glitter Pen, Prismacolor Pencils. All other accessories from "The Will to Day Dream" kit by Paper Makeup Stamps