Today is the 3rd day of sneak peeks from Paper Makeup Stamps.
This is set of stamps is very personal and very meaningful to me.
When taking with Diem (illustrator of the Beautiful Day Fairy line) about having some "on the farm" fairies, she has some fantastic ideas and these 3 fairies came about.
I wanted to name these fairies after the best farmers i know, My Grandpa Wayne, My mom and my Aunt Nell. You can view all of the fairies today over on the
PMS blog.
For my card today I used Carma, the fairy i named after my mom.
My mom is AWESOME! Truly, she is! (sorry mom, you may need to grab the tissues, i know you) My mom is truly my very best friend. She knows me better than anyone else. She's the first person i call when i'm upset. The first person i call with good news. Sure i tell my husband all these things, but I call my mom first. She has never ever not been 110% supportive of something that I want to do. When i wanted to move across the country to Los Angeles, she helped me drive the truck. When I called her and told her I was pregnant (unexpectedly) she assured me everything would be ok. When I told her we would be moving across the country to South Carolina i think she did a happy dance that i'd be closer, and she made the flight with me and my 2 week old baby. This is my mom. There for me thru anything. She is my best friend and i am LUCKY!
Here is my card....
I also used a sentiment (that wasnt peeked yesterday) from the Lucky Me Sentiment Set also being released on the 7th. This sentiment is just perfect for this card for my mama! Because i do just feel so lucky to have her in my life!
Here is a close up shot of the image. I have also been playing quite a bit with the One Sheet Wonder cardstock by Couture Cardstock. Blending with copics on it is much different than on the Neenah paper I usually use. I dont know that I would say it's better or that it's worse, just different. The colors dont blend within the fibers of the paper because something about the paper doesnt soak in the ink. So it's a little more like you are blending on the surface. You get absolutely zero bleed thru, as in you flip it over and there is nothing on the other side, not that it would matter when you have layers on your card. I will say that solid image stamps stamp out like a dream on this cardstock!
I did use the copic airbrush on my image as well (after it was colored for the record). Since the patterned paper had that more rustic appeal, i thought my image looked too white and crisp so i dinged it up a bit with the airbrush and an E40 marker.
Moving on to the sentiment...
I love this sentiment. It's actually the only wordart that i put together myself this month. The rest of it was all arranged by the ever fabulous,
Shaela Odd.
This was a very random shot i took. not even sure why. I think i was trying to show off one of my new nesities (the big scallop rectangle) but the one i used it actually 1 size too small for the image so that just the edges of the scallop peek out. It just just a subtle bump up that you barely notice. I kinda like it. :)
So thats my card! PMS is having 2 giveaways of the release this week. 1 is from comments collected from the
PMS blog and the other is comments collected from the design team members blogs. You can see a list of all the design team members in my sidebar and also get links to them daily off of the
PMS blog.
Dont forget i have 2 giveaways going on right now as well! Check out
THIS POST for the Sure Cuts A Lot giveaway (i mean thats kinda huge, it's a $70 program being donated by Candacraft.com) and then a fun little PMS stamp or gift certificate giveaway on
THIS POST
Thanks everyone... and GOOD LUCK! :)
Stamps: Paper Makeup Stamps March Release, being released march 7th at 8pm
Carma Fairy
Lucky Me Sentiment Set
Coloring with Copics
Hair: E33, E37
Skin: E00, E21, E000
Shirt: Y21, YR23, custom color "Y20"
Shorts: B91, B93, B97, B99
Chicks: R08, R27; BG72, BG75; BG93, BG97
Wings:BG10
Paper:
Patterned Paper by Cosmo Cricket, Earth Love collection
Cardstock: Marcos Paper (Brown Bag Cover Paper); Stampin Up (Kiwi Kiss); Cardstock Couture (One Sheet Wonder, white)
Tools and Accessories:
Spellbinders: Classic Rectangles Small, Big Scallop Rectangles Large
Brads by The Paper Studio
Copic Airbrush and E40 Marker
Distress Ink (all edges) in vintage photo
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