August Release Sneak Peeks Day 3

Welcome to day 3 of our sneak peeks!

Don't forget to snag the button to the right and proudly display it on your blog or sidebar! Then leave a comment letting us know you've done it and you'll be entered to win the entire release!

Today we are showing off a previously released as digi only set! But I have had requests month after month from some of the rubber loving fans to MAKE THIS BABY RUBBER!

So here it is... in all it's red rubber glory!

The Home Matters RUBBER set, illustrated by yours truly with wordart and sentiments by both myself and Shaela Odd.

This set coordinates perfectly The Cottage as well as many other stamps in our line.

Check out these samples by some of the Paper Makeup Artists!

Don't forget to click on the name of the Paper Makeup Artist who created the card to go directly to her blog and see the FULL creation plus get details on how it was made!

We will be taking from comments left from all over during our sneak peek week to choose winners that will be announced at our Release Party in our FORUM August 7th, at 8pm EST.

First we have Lisa Kind's card! This sentiment is nice and LARGE! Making it work great on cards and altered items that you might make as house warming gifts. Endless Possibilties!

Next up we have Tina Hale! Tina has used both the birdhouse and a sentiment from this set for her card!

Next up is myself! I used the doghouse image as well as the coordinating sentiment.

Next up is our new Senior Paper Makeup Artist, Randee! Randee has used the Cottage with the Home Matters set in her creation!

And last but CERTAINLY not least... Is Tangii! Tangii has used the birdhouse with another fun sentiment from the set!

Design Team Show N Tell

Hello everyone! Just a reminder that our new Paper Makeup Artist search is on!

Please scroll down to the previous post for details!

Today we have a Paper Makeup Artist Show n Tell! Just to entice you to want to join us!

Tomorrow we have some BIG NEWS! You HAVE to come back to check it out!

Onto the yummy eye candy in absolutely no particular order (but beware, there is a LOT to see! You just might faint!)

Card by Christi Thorsen

Card by Christi Snow
Card by Danni Bindel

Card by Amber Kroening

Card by Tangii Crain

Card by Gabby Arriaza

Card by Maria Guernsey

Card by Dawn Knight

Card by Shaela Odd

Card by Randee Elsing

Card by Dawn Mercedes

Card by Lisa McKinney

Project by Lisa Kind

Card by Katie Cotton

Card by Tina Hale

Didnt i tell ya there was a lot!

Ok, now be SURE to tune back in tomorrow! We have an announcement and a new product for the store!!!!

Almost forgot to post today!

Woops! I almost forgot to post today! We got in late last night (and I do mean LATE!) so today has been a day of catch up in the cotton/pms mothership. hahaha. Orders from over the holiday are being processed today and tomorrow. I am in hopes of being completely caught up by end of the workday tomorrow! If you placed an order, you will receive a shipping notifcation as it goes out.

Ok, that info is boring. Especially if you didnt order anything over the holiday! haha! So let's see something fun! How aboutsa little Design Team Show N Tell!

Card by Tangii Crain

Card by Randee Elsing

Card by Meli Mitchell

Card by Lisa McKinney

Card by Lisa Kind

Card by Dawn Mercedes

Card by Christi Thorsen

Have a wonderful day everyone!!!

OMG did you SEE?!

Our Paper Makeup Stamps gallery and the Challenge Gallery are filling up over at Splitcoast Stampers! You have just 1 more week to get those cards in there!

Here are some of the cards we pulled for today's OMG did you SEE!
Heather's

Terri's


but the one that was icing on the cake for me this week was this cutie by Randee



Randee, please contact me with your stamp of choice option!

Fun things to make with DIGIS

Ok, so i know i've been promising you a fun post! I hope this is good enough!

Since PMS has recently released a line of Digi stamps... i wanted to go into a little bit of detail of why digis can be a lot of fun (more than just instant gratification, no shipping costs, less cost per image and no storage space needed other than on your computer)

Digital Stamps offer more modification choices than standard rubber stamps do. This biggest one being that you can RESIZE! Image, the skies the limit! You can make a wordart small to accompany a photo...



Or larger to make it the main focus of a card...



Or you can make it much larger for altered projects like below!

Here this quote was printed to about 5x7 to put on this 8.5x11 wooden wall plaque

And here it's bee printed slightly larger than you might for a card to put on the front of this family scrapbook!


And wordart isnt the only thing you might want to enlarge... Check out this coloring book that I made for a friends little girl using the fairies! The book cover is 8.5x12 so the fairy image on the front was still needing to be larger to accomodate the cover size, and then the inside pages are 8.5 x 11... nice and large for a 5 year old to color!




But you also dont always have to resize large! Sometime you might want to take an image and make it smaller to create a background! Like Kim did here!



So now that you've seen some resizing things you can do... how about seeing some of the OTHER fun things you can do! This is perfect for scrapbookers! You can either use these super quick and easy on a digital scrapbook page (sorry i didnt get my sample done on that! WOOPS! I'll show you that later this week!) But you can also do some other neat things.... like......

Use the images directly over your photos! For this particular sample, Shaela printed it on a transparency to lay over her photo, but using the PNG file (recently added to the site, if you only received the jpeg and would also like the PNG file, just shoot me and email and i'll get it to ya lickety split), you can just put the wordart right across your photo before you print!!!! Notice also that shaela enlarged the images from the raindrops and rainbows set to be large enough for her scrapbook layout! I totally {heart} this layout!


But wait... there is more! You can also easily separate the wordart. Now yes, you can do this with rubber stamps by masking, but there is always the fear of goofy ink mistakes... you can be sure that will never happen with digi printed stamps! here again shaela has printed on a transparency... but it just makes for a cute cute effect. You could have the same separation on any cardstock or paper you choose.



Now this that doesnt make you want to give digi's a shot... i dont know what will?! :)

The Trifold!

The trifold card craze is sweeping the crafting world by storm! And the design team all laughed when they realized they were all doing it too with PMS! Now i want to do it too, but havent had the time just yet. Still, i wanted to so off some of te design team's trifold cards! :)

Christi Thorsen

Dawn Knight

Dawn Barrett

Lisa McKinney

Dawn Wheeler

Have a wonderful holiday weekend everyone! Dont forget to peek by tomorrow for the sunday showoff and then we have a very special challenge for ya on monday! :)