New PMS Team!

Hi all! I've been enjoying my first three days of vacation, reading books on my new Nook, ordering an iPhone4, gardening, going to parties...but no stamping! Go figure! I'll get around to that soon!

Paper Makeup Stamps has some great news! We had a DT call a little while ago because some of our team is leaving. We say goodbye to Melyssa Connolly, Gabby Arriazza, Dawn Knight, and Amber Kroening. They were a great part of the PMS team! But today we are announcing their replacements plus three! I guess Katie and crew had a difficult time choosing just four, so they added on three more! All great designers! Please welcome to the team:

Andrea Vernagus
Anita Hovey
Bonnie Sharp
Ginger Schwerin
Michelle Van Patten
Sherry Campbell
Stephanie Zito

A few of the girls have been faithful PMS followers and release party goers, and one, Sherry Campbell, was on the Artful Inkables DT with me! So it's now one BIG, VERY BIG PMS family! You can see the announcement and some of the girls' work on the PMS blog!

Just a reminder that sneaks for the July release begin on Saturday, July 3 and it's another goodie! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your week!

Happy Birthday Katie!

My JUGs post is after this, so please scroll down!

Hi everyone! Today is Katie Cotton's (owner of Paper Makeup Stamps) birthday, and the PMS design team is celebrating with a birthday blog hop! So, if you've come here from Christi Thorsen's blog (and saw her fab card), you are on the right track. If not, head on over to the PMS blog and start there!

Before I share my card, I have to say a few things. I have been part of the PMS team since almost the beginning. I joined the design team in April of last year, two months after it was created. We've come a long way since then! We are a great team, and have become good friends in the process. Katie is the glue that holds us together. She's a great young lady who has taken Paper Makeup Stamps to where it is today. She is a great person to work with and very generous. I'm so happy to be part of this team and call her my friend. So Happy Birthday, Katie and enjoy your hop!

I chose this set, called Sprinkles and Cherries from Paper Makeup Stamps because of the sentiment. I used Basic Grey's Cupcake dp and paper pieced the cupcake. A Martha Stewart border punch was used on the red piece and I topped it off with a pretty yellow bow. I also added some Star Dust stickles to the "sprinkles" on the cupcake.
I added the sentiment from the set to the inside with the dp punched with the same border.
Now you have to go to Tangii Crain's blog and see the wonderful birthday present she has for Katie! Thanks for hopping with us today!

Just Us Girls - Template Challenge

The Just Us Girls challenge today is a template challenge, and Maria challenged us to make an apron card. The template can be found here and it's a really fun and easy card to do! Here's what I came up with.I just purchased this dp from Graphic 45. It's called Tea Time from the Domestic Goddess collection. I printed out the template for the base, then reduced it for the dp. For the pocket part, I put a tag that you could write a message on.I cut out the tag with a Nestie, distressed the edges with Antique Linen distress ink, and stamped the apron from Paper Makeup Stamps ,called Tina's Kitchen, in the same ink. The sentiment, also from Tina's Kitchen, was stamped in Riding Hood Red. I added the ribbon and was done!

Did you notice my card holder? Can you guess what it is?Isn't this cool? I saw it on someone's blog a while ago, then a few weekends ago we had our annual Allentown Art Festival here in downtown Buffalo (a FABULOUSLY, HUGE art show) and I saw it in a booth! I had to have it! And it was perfect to use for this challenge card, as it doesn't stand and it's a apron (fork-food-apron...see the connection?). OK, maybe I'm too excited about this, but I love it!

That's all I have for this template challenge. Stop by the JUGs blog to get all the information on the challenge and see the girls' cards! Please stop by their personal blogs as well...you can find them on my sidebar.

Thanks for stopping in today and have a great weekend!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day everyone! I'm at breakfast right now with my in-laws...yum! I'm not sure what the rest of the day will bring, except a spaghetti dinner my MIL is making later. I just hope it's a nice day!

Here is the Father's Day card I made for my FIL.The wordart is a freebie from Paper Makeup Stamps that you can pick up on the PMS blog. Our DT member, Shaela Odd, created it for us. Thanks, Shaela! It really helped me out today! This card went together in about 15 minutes....love that! I swirled some baja breeze and sahara sand inks around the image. The dp is Max & Whiskers from Basic Grey. It reminds me of the flannel shirts my FIL wears to keep him warm! (He doesn't golf....I just like the way it looked in the picture!) I punched the star border along the blue edge and used the corner punch on the two corners. Easy peasy when you don't have to put ribbons, flowers, or crystals on it!

Thanks for stopping in today! Enjoy your day!

Just Us Girls - Yummy Color Challenge

Just Us Girls has a fabulous color challenge today! Alicia