Another day to RETHINK

Well February is coming to a close (soon, but not yet!)

We have a few more Paper Makeup Artists very first cards to share with you!

Today we have Maria Gurnsey and honorary Paper Makeup Artist (and one of our illustrators!) Shaela Odd!

First, here's Maria's very first PMS card!

First of all, i have to say that i LOVE Maria's asthetic! Her cards always make my jaw drop to the floor. One of those, man, why cant I make cards like that! In her first card she used Gus, the birthday monster. And she used a sentiment from the monster sentiments set. I love how her card is a combo of pink, brown and black! Simply fab.

For Maria remake, use used the same sketch, but changed up the look of her card. Again, i love her card and my jaw has dropped to the floor. Here she used the raindrops and rainbows set!

Look at all the little detail like the subtle stitching over the ribbon. ACK, love it!

Ok, next up....

Shaela Odd.

Now Shaela has been with us from the get go. I knew i wanted her as an addition to the team before I even made the design team call! What i didnt know at the time was what a fabulous illustrator she would be for the company! She gets me. And i love that from my illustrators!

Oh right, the card... hehe. She has used one of the first PMS fairies, Lauren in Love.

And here is her remake...

This card stuns me as well! Shaela has really developed some mad coloring skills in the last year! Of course her first card was fab, but her rethink... fabULOUS. :)

Thanks so much for dropping by today!!! We always love seeing you! :)

Monday Challenge - It's a blu

Hello everyone! It's time for a new challenge! And we have a double whammy for you! This week it was design team member Meli Mitchell's turn to give us our Monday Challenge. She chose a fun color challenge for you to play with... Blue, Green and Black!
And on top of that, PMS is the sponsor this week at Cupcake Craft Challenges. Their challenge is to do something "sweet" related. Our donation prize is the Sprinkles and Cherries cupcake set and Lily! So head on over there to check it out...

but wait! First check out what some of the design team did for our super challenge monday!

Meli Mitchell

Dawn Wheeler

Lisa McKinney

Shaela Odd

Tangii Crain

Jamie Morris

Mindy Baxter

Tina Hale

As always we'd love it if you played along with us! If you use our color challenge (using any stamps, you dont have to own PMS) please link it up here!


If you participate in the sweet challenge... be sure to link it up on the cupcake craft challenge blog!

This next sunday we will show all entries in a sunday showoff! And who knows... your card might just be pulled out for a little special recognition!

Saturday Design team show n tell

Welcome to a wonderful saturday! There are some wonderful blog hops today from some of our favorite friends (Verve, The Greeting Farm) so if you've stopped by our blog today, we are very honored!

Today we have some fun treats from our design team to show you!

Lisa McKinney

Tina Hale

Meli Mitchell

Lisa Kind

Dawn Barrett

Kim Stewart

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the sunday showoff!  If you participated in our last Monday Challenge, you might win tomorrow!!!  :)

Meet N Greet Tuesday with Lisa McKinney

It's time to "meet" another fabulous design team member.  This gal just might be the biggest cheerleader PMS has ever had!  :)  And we love her for it... meet....

Lisa McKinney!

Here's the same 6 we always ask!

When did you start stamping?
I started officially stamping fall of 2007. I have been a card maker forever, but you don't even want to see the cards I was making before I started stamping...they are embarassing! LOL! I was RAK'd about 75% of the supplies I have which really helped me get started. Now I'm addicted!

What first drew you to PMS?
Why Katie of course! I "met" Katie through a thread on a forum of Splitcoast Stampers and decided to check out her website. It was love at first site! Then she put out a DT call and I took a deep breath and entered never in a zillion years thinking i would be chosen! I am a serious lover of PMS stuff and advertise it wherever I go--and of course have a "must-be-fed-regularly" addiction!

What's your favorite stamping color combo?
Mmm, I love black and white...with a splash of color...or just intensely bright color combos with turquoise, pinks and purples.

What else do you like to do?
I'm a musician. I have played the piano for 24 years and have taught it for 7 years. I also play the flute and do solo performances at church conventions every fall. I am a substitute teacher in the local school district which is sooo much fun! I have been going back to college in order to get my Bachelor's in Education. I am a lover of food and love to cook! I'm not a baker though. Me and pastries don't get along, though I can do basic cakes and cookies. i'm more of a meal kind of girl. My husband swears I can do anything with Chicken! LOL! i am addicted to the 30 minute Meals shows on the Food Network! I am also a serious lover of books. I own sooooo many! I used to win contests at the library for the most books read during a year! I collect books by Betty Neels, Grace Livingston Hill, Louis Lamour, Janette oak, Jane Austen as well as a rapidly growing young adult genre. I am a die hard Jane Austen fan with Pride and Prejudice being my ultimate favorite book AND movie (the Colin Firth Version!) I adore musical theater and opera and collect the old Rogers and hammersteins musicals. But my all time favorite musical is My Fair Lady! i also love old classic movies. You can't beat the old movie stars. They just had class!

Where do you get inspiration from?
Hmmm...I am a serious lover of sketch challenges. I patrol the various blogs out there and try to participate in as many as I can. I also get my inspriation from color combos I see on various projects through my blog hopping.

What's on your Ipod?

if I HAD an Ipod...it would have a very eclectic music collection. I can tell you what's on my playlist on my blog though (or you could go listen to it yourself!)...I have music by Reba McEntire, Kris Allen, Carpenters, Abba, Casting Crowns, natasha Beddingfield, Evanesence, Moulin Rouge, Michael Bouble, Mark Antony, and so much more! I told you! I'm an eclectic music lover!

And here's some fabulouso creations by this talented gal...

Now go over to Lisa's blog! Leave her some love and read a few posts down to read about a fabulous project she's working on to raise money for her friend (and maybe you could help out too!)

Tuesday Design Team Showoff

Do you know what just occured to me at about midnight last night?  I have completely forgotten about the Tuesday meet n greets i once loved sharing with everyone!  Like, forgot!  Completely!  WOOOPS!  hahahaha.  With the hub bub of the June release, i guess i just spaced it and then never got back on track and seeing as i only remember at midnight, it wasnt exactly a good time to call up a design team member and say, hey, could you answer these questions for me?  

What i want to know is WHY DID NO ONE CALL ME OUT!  Sheesh people... i'm scattered brained, you have to remind me of things!

So you'll have to "suffer" thru just looking at some awesome creations until next week when you get to actually "greet" a design team member again.  :)

Or maybe i'll sneak some in there on another day. haha.

Dont forget - today is the VERY LAST DAY of the Summer Clearance event!  At midnight tonight, all the prices will return to our regularly low prices.  hehe.  But right now it's like you're just stealing the stamps.  bwahahahahahaha.

Sneak Peeks Day 3 - Monster MADNESS

Ok everyone, you asked for some more monsters, well you're gonna get em!  There are 5, count em 5 new monsters being released on the 7th along with a monster sentiments set!

Check out what the design team has done...

Baby Horatio



Sunsoaked Caliope



Gus




And some sporty ones for ya, Striker (the soccer bunny), Football Fan and Joe (the baseball squid) - by the way these guys totally crack me up!







wanna win all these new monster plus the sentiment set?? Ya gotta add a blinkie! Go to this blog post and click on whichever blinkie you'd like to add. Then you need to copy the HTML code and paste it whereever ya want it on your blog. Leave a comment here letting us know which one you snagged!