A Technique for Tuesday!

Hello and happy Tuesday to all you PMS fans! I don't know about you, but I sure am sweltering from all the heat we have been hit with lately! It's a good thing I can escape the heat and craft in the air conditioning!

Do you have a tool that you always forget about? I do. It's my heat gun! I know that many of you use it all the time for heat embossing, but until lately mine has been stashed away under my desk. Would you believe I even though about getting rid of it? I'm sure glad that I didn't because I've been really enjoying using it for a fabulous technique lately.

How often do you do use the technique Emboss Resist? Have you ever tried it before? If not, I'm telling you that you need to add this fabulous (and oh so easy!) technique to your crafting! I have been playing around with this technique with various stamps but REALLY love using the fabulous Fairy Silhouettes.

The typical emboss resist is to use watermark ink with clear embossing powder on white paper and then add ink around it to make it pop. That is a beautiful look, but I wanted to accentuate the dark silhouette of a fairy. So I stamped my Kirsten Silhouette with black ink and embossed her with clear embossing powder. Then I used four different ink colors and sponged all around her to create a sunset scene. I wiped off the fairy image and the silhouette really popped out! I added some grass using my multi-liner pen and I think I actually kind of made it look like sand with the sand grass sticking out--I love it!

This is just another way to really have fun with the Fairy Silhouette images--why not try it for yourself?!

Until next time, 

Lisa

May Sneak Peeks day 2

Today is day 2 of the sneak peeks from Paper Makeup Stamps May release and today we have a few NEW and very EXCITING elements that we are adding to the PMS stamp collection!

Introducing...

Fairy silhouettes!!!!

Kirsten

Card by Shaela Odd

Card by Christi Snow

And Sprout

Card by Randee Elsing

Digital Piece by Katie Cotton

And yes as you can see from above, the silhouettes will be sold as digis as well which makes them fantastic additions for digital scrapbookers and artists who like the digital medium!

And another new element we are releasing is a background stamp also illustrated by Diem Pascarella who designs the beautiful day fairies as well as the retro cutie critters!

This will also be sold in both digital and rubber stamp format. Check out Jami's awesome version as a digital stamp where she inserted one of our dino digis!

Card by Jami Bova

Card by Tina Hale

Now don't forget...

On May 7th, PMS will have an all new release of both red rubber and digi stamps!

Our release day will start with a blog hop at 7amEST with the stamp release going live at 9pmEST. At that same time, we will be meeting up in our forum for a chat to include games, prizes and just a lot of fun!

AND

if you'd like a chance to win this set along with the rest of the release, please leave a comment! We will draw the winner at our release party and announce it on the blog the following day!