Paper Makeup Stamps March Sneak Peeks BEGIN!

There are many many good reasons not to wait until last minute to work on deadline projects.

Stress of getting them done, finding out you dont have what you need and not enough time to get it, unexpected things coming up (like sick kids, other family issues) that need to be dealt with first. All these things can cause major snafus when you have a deadline and you've waited til last minute. Well... none of these things happened to me. I live in South Carolina where normally this time of year its about 70 degrees. What happened to me today? Random snow and ice blow in and knock out our power. So today I try to get cards done, while kiddos dont have school and i'm working in the dark on very little battery power left on my laptop oh, and no internet so i'm "borrowing" the neighbors. Now THAT makes for some interesting card making! So my planned out card (using the copic airbrush, nope that wotn work, what about the sewing machine, nope that wont work either. Well, we're going old school! All the while my just turned 4 year old keeps telling me everything is broken! "mama, there's sumpin wrong with this tv toooooooo".

Ok, so thats my funny story for the day. I did manage to get my first sneak peek card done for you. Let's pray the power comes back on before tomorrow because i'm not sure there is enough light left outside to do any more for today (remember i'm typing this the day before you are reading.. thank goodness for scheduled posts!)

Today is the first day of sneak peeks from Paper Makeup Stamps for march! Since we didnt have a stamp release in February I was ACHING to get my fingers inky with new PMS rubber!

And this release is so much fun to me for so many reasons!

Today the Paper Makeup Artists are sharing some of the new wordart available this month. Go over to the PMS company blog to read about the new word art and to see what some of the other Paper Makeup Artists have to share with you today!

Here's my card... simple and sweet, mostly showing off some fun and fabby paper i hadnt gotten to use yet that just worked perfectly with this new single sentiment available from Paper Makeup Stamps (available on March 7th at 8pm CST).

Now I wanted to have a bit of sunshiney-ness to my card, and i really wanted to use this cloud and dandelion paper by Cosmo Cricket, but how was i going to add that sunshine idea. Thats when i thought to color in a bit of the cloud with some yellow copic markers! And suddenly, the sun was born into my card!

I then decided to add some shimmerz (in candlelight) to the top of my sun. Why i only think to add the shimmerz when i have suns and moons (think back to the natures song sympathy card i did awhile back) is beyond me. haha. Here's a closeup look...

Not positive that i love that i did that, but this was the best piece of patterned paper for what i wanted so it stayed. :) I also added some shimmerz in angel wings to the dandelion fluffs...

Now here's a close up of that fabby sentiment that PMS illustrator, Shaela Odd put together (she did ALL of the wordarts this month for PMS, ok, so she usually does... haha. She's fab!)

I LOVE that sentiment! It's so very very true!

Now dont forget that our PMS release party is March 7th at 8pm CST in the PMS forum! We'd love to see you there!

Stay tuned this week everyday for more sneak peeks from the March release from Paper Makeup Stamps! And just in case you've missed my posts from the past coupla days, My Time Made Easy has just had a fabulous release as well and Canda from CandaCraft.com is donated a Sure Cuts A Lot program for me to give away! Read all about it HERE.

Stamps:

A Cloudy Day sentiment from Paper Makeup Stamps (to be released March 7th, 8pm CST)

Paper:

Patterned Paper by Cosmo Cricket

Cardstock by Marco Paper (brown paper bag) and Coredinations

Tools and Accessories:

Long Classic Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Long Scallop Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

Brads by American Crafts

Ribbon by Nicole™

Distress Ink in Antique Linen

Shimmerz in Candlelight and Angel Wings

Copic Markers in Y32, Y35, Y38