Makeup Mondays are BACK!

Helloooooo everyone. Ok, so i have had requests to bring back Makeup Monday and i may switch this up a bit and just offer a Makeup Minute now and then. But in any case... i'm doing a makeup blog that i'll update on more regularly but here the video for Easy breezy Beautiful makeup.




You can go to my makeup blog for a list of all colors and such used... http://makeupartistkatie.blogspot.com

Bare with me... this is the first time i tried to use my photoediting software and my webcam did NOT cooperate! but i'll get better! :)

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The Sky's the Limit!

I have a card that i made for no reason at all! Oh sure, i have sneak peeks to work on, cards for friends i should make, samples for my classes, etc. But i really wanted to use this set and my new paper i got the other day! So this card was born!

At first i was hating it... but in the end i really love how it turned out...

Here is try number 1.... i liked it, but i didnt like how i could barely read the sentiment. I know people stamp on patterned paper all the time and i love how it looks on THEIR cards, but never on my own!


So i restamped it on a scrap piece of white and then matted it. Which do you like better?



This paper is the new paper is all from the new collection called Simple Pleasures by 3 Bugs in a Rug (for my locals... Funkie Munkie Scraps has this paper!). If you loved the In Colors from last year... (which i did) you will love this paper collection! The colors matches perfectly! In fact all the cardstock on my card is Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Red Ridinghood. Since i have all the inks and reinkers, and cardstock for eons that i bought because i had all the inks and reinkers... i think i'll be picking up myself some more of this paper!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here some detail shots...

I cut out the balloon with my NEW LABELS 9 nestabilties die (shameless plug, Paper Makeup Stamps has all the new nesties in... if I'm out of stock on anything, shoot me an email because i'm getting ready to reorder soon!) I stamped the balloon image (from Fly Away by The Greeting Farm 3 times. Well, actually 4 times. I stamped once on my neenah and colored it in, then cut it out and set it aside. I stamped it again and just colored my edges because i planned on popping the other cut out on top of it. I stamped it a third time and cut it out so that i could use it as a mask with my Copic Airbrush. The 4th time i stamped it over my cardfront just so that my tail would peek out under the cutout piece. Seems like a lot of work, but balloons are very easy to cut out, so it was no biggie. :)


Last month the Farmerz Club i'm a member of (for fans of the Greeting Farm Stamps) the challenge was to use shrink paper. Well, i knew i wanted to shrink the clouds from this set. I was going to work on it at the club meeting but the heat tool has mysteriously disappeared, and then i never got around to it. But i still wanted to do it at some point! So I shrank my little clouds so they were itsy bitsy and kind of button like. So stinkin' cute!



So thats my card for ya today. :) Now i'm off to Frankie's Fun Park with the fam and then back home to work on all my sneak peek cards for next week! ACK! :)



Stamps:
Fly Away from The Greeting Farm

Coloring:
Balloon: BG10, BG11, BG72, R21, R24, R59, E55, E31, E57
Sky airbrushed with B000

Paper:
Patterned Paper 3 Bugs in a Rug (Simple Pleasures collection)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah), Kiwi Kiss (SU), Tangerine Tango (SU), Red Ridinghood (SU)

Tools and Accessories
Shrinky Dink paper
Spellbinders Labels 9 die
Copic Airbrus
Pop Dots

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Back to School.... Back to school

Ahhh.... i love the Fall. There are just a lot of things about the Fall that i truly truly love. I think it was the one thing i missed in LA. There really isnt a "fall" there. It's just kinda, cooler than summer. haha.

I love apples. I love apple picking. I love pumpkins and pumpkin pie. I love it not being so muggy. I love the leaves on the trees. I love my hubby being home a little bit more! And now that Jack is getting older, i get to rejoice with the other parents at their children going back to school! HAHAHAHAHA. Ok, so i'm not rejoicing per say. This is the first year that Jack is going to school for 5 days! 5 days in a row! ACK! Good thing it's only until noon. But i do like the extra energy he gets out at school. So thats a good thing!

Here is a card i worked on for Jack to take to his teacher this year. This teacher was also his camp teacher for summer, so we already know and love her. :)



Now this card was also made at the request of Rachel for the Copic Munkie blog. It uses the color bundle available to munkie members this month (they get it at a 35% discount! woot woot! So go and check out the Copic Munkie blog to see the details on that.




Stamps
Schoolie Ed (comes with 2 buildable sentiment) from Paper Makeup Stamps

Coloring
Ok, so normally i layout all my colors for you... well... this is the copic munkie bundle which that info stays exclusive to munkie members... so sorry. Next time all those colors will be listed though! :)

Paper:
Tart N Tangy Paper from Stampin Up

Tools and Accessories
Brads from Spare Parts by The Paper Studio

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Another Friday Freebie from PMS

There a new friday freebie over at the PMS blog... check it out!

Here's what I did with this word art....

I decided to go away from a card for this.  To me, this quote is one of those that needs to be a constant reminder in your life!  Just keep plugging on... no matter how tough a time gets, or how long it takes you, just keep going!  So in order to keep this a constant reminder, i make a little wall hanging that was super easy to do.  My patterned paper is glued onto a piece of thick chip board for a little more durability.  A simple cut out (and embossing) with the long rectable nestabilties, a little sponging and then adding the primas and brads made this one thing a snap.  Makes a quick and easy gift as well!

Stamps:
Friday Freebie from Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper:
Graphic 45

Tools and Accessories:
Eyelets from We R Memory Keepers
Satin Ribbon from Walmart
Glitter Flower Brads from Prima Marketing
Inks used for sponging: Ranger Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Tea Dye

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back once again

Sorry for yet another 5 day hiatus from my blog!  Bad bad me!  This time i couldnt find my camera charger!  ARGH!  If it's not one thing, it's another, right?  Well, now i actually do have some fun things planned for you!  So i'm hoping my old mojo returns with it!  I've also decided to start up a new blog for makeup things.  So far it just has one of my older tutorials from makeup monday on it (the 3 minute makeup).

Here's my question to you... would you prefer to have things like tutorials only posted on the makeup blog... or did you like the makeup monday that i used to have on here?  Suggestions and feedback are always welcome!!!!

Here's my card for you today....

I made this card for my sister.  She is the ULTIMATE dog lover!  She has 2 furbabies of her own.  And in fact, this fairy is named after her!  It's the MeMe fairy which is what my kids call her (Aunt MeMe) though her name is actually Michelle.  :)  My sister also loves sunflowers!  She even has a sunflower tattoo so after some somewhat lengthy searching for a good sunflower stamp with my friend, Rachel I picked up a set of flowers and things by Recollections from Michael's.    It has a few different flowers and a lady bug and butterfly in the set and the style of the drawings really go well with the fairy style of PMS so I was very happy to pick it up!

I haphazardly stamped the sunflower on a piece of white cardstock and colored them in with copic markers.

I had a hard time deciding what sentiment to use and then i remembered i had this fun stamp from stampabilities.  So i stamped it and then mounted it on top of a flower.  Then i suddenly panicked that i dont actually speak spanish and wasnt sure if Te Amo was appropriate for a card for my sister.  So i called up my spanish speaking Amigo (rachel again, hehe) and she said it would be ok.  that is meant "SUPER affection" so as long as i reeeeeally love my sister, it would be ok.  haha.  Well, my sister is the bomb (wow, i'm dating myself, huh) so i decided to keep it. :)

Ok... onto the more specific and less to read deets...

Stamps:
MeMe Fairy from Paper Makeup Stamps

Sunflower from Recollections
Sentiment from Stampabilities

Copics:
Yellows (sunflower and fairy shirt) Y32, Y35, Y38
Browns: E55, E57, E59
Hair: Y32, YR23, E55
Skin: E00, E21, R20 (cheeks)

Paper & Cardstock
Solar White Classic Crest from Neenah
Summer Sun from Stampin Up
Brown from Paper Studio

Tools and Accessories
Ribbon is Crushed Curry by Stampin Up
Pearls in Chocolate by Kaisercraft
Flower is a Paper Daisy by Prima Marketing

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!!  Feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you think!

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A freebie digi from PMS

Happy Friday everyone! I have no idea where my week went! You'd think this week would move slowly since a lot of my friends have children that started school this week and my boys are still home with me. I'm still not sure how i'm going to feel come September when Jack starts to go to school everyday! Granted its only for 3 hours a day, but still!!!!! He's not my baby anymore!
But no, this week went by fast! I cant believe it's already the weekend! And for once, this weekend i dont have to work! AHHHHHHH.

There is a freebie wordart again from Paper Makeup Stamps. This one was created by me. In the mode i'm in of trying to find myself, i'm also realizing, that purging things (i.e. getting rid of my pack rat stash of um, everything!) and making life simpler is truly a wonderful thing. So when i stumbled upon this quote by Leonardo da Vinci in my quote book, I thought it was perfect!

Here's the card i made...



Now you can go directly to the PMS blog or you can go to the webshop to download this freebie...

And here's




Stamps
Digi stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper
Neenah Solar White
Sorbet cardstock by Close to my heart

Ink
Tattered Rose Distress Ink by Ranger (sponged edges)

Tools and Accessories
Cuddlebug folder in Victoria
Pearls (blush) by Kaisercraft
Ribbon (not sure of the brand, but i bought it at Funkie Munkie Scraps

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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More on the copic chart

I edited to add this in to my post below, but i made a big booboo when i was typing out my post at about 12:30 in the morning getting it scheduled. I did NOT give appropriate credit! Giving credit where credit is due is a big thing with me... and i failed one of my very best friends on this! SHAME ON ME!

Rachel (who runs the copic munkie blog) made a chart for Funkie Munkie Scraps. She sent it to me. She sent me a blank one incase i ever wanted to make a custom one. Stephanie (owner of funkie munkie) asked if we could do a chart in the club/class setting. Because i wasnt sure about distributing some images, i used the PMS fairy heads.

I did NOT put this chart together, Rachel did. I just colored in the heads. And in fact, some of the other "resident copic certified peeps" at Funkie Munkie have colored some charts using other colors and i do believe they just might be posted on the Copic Munkie Blog in the future, so you might want to check it out. :)

So i was a bad girl and made a big boo boo. I'm sorry. :(

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Copic Coloring

This is a chart that was created for the Copic Club at Funkie Munkie last month. Rachel made a chart using all different company stamps. The layout was fantastic, But i wasnt sure on distributing other companies images, so I used digi images of different PMS fairies. I used the fairy heads mainly because I knew i could give myself permission to distribute the digi image in that way. I mean, who's gonna sue me, Me? hahahaha.

Here is my chart...
In Rachel's original chart, the space at the top is to showcase color collections suggested by the copic certified design team members of the store. Since for the class we were just focusing on hair colors, i filled that portion with the colors i used below in the chart, which is why there is blank boxes as well.



There is also an identical chart that shows specifically which colors i used per fairy head. I kinda forgot to take a picture of it. WOOPS! haha. I'll do that and edit it in later.

For those that are interested... here are the fairy heads square by square...

E25, E27, E49

Y21, YR23, E99

E33, E35, E37

E07, E09, E19

YR31, Y21, YR23

W6, W8, W9

E43, E44, E47

E15, E17, E18

E30, E21, E33

I'm very curious to know - what are YOUR favorite copic colors for hair? :) Leave me a comment! I'll draw a winner next wednesday and you could win a copic color of your choice. Ok, of your choice so long as i can get ahold of it, so give me some options! Between the PMS store and Funkie Munkie where i teach, i can get a lot of colors! Oh, and Hobby Lobby too! :)

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Back to ME

I promise i havent fallen off the face of the earth. I have been taking a bit of time to re-evaluate a few things and mostly, reorganize my life! This all started a few weeks back when i decided i was a wee bit fed up with the rut i felt i had put myself in. I had the permanent "mama-do" hair goin on. Pulled permanently back in a pony tail, whether it was clean or not. I rarely put makeup on, even though it's part of my career and i love makeup. My house never really even got organized from when we moved here 3 years ago. I still have picture frames in stacks waiting to be hung on the walls. Dont even get me started on my wardrobe. I had very little that fit me. It was either too big from clothing i needed to buy after i had kids and couldnt fit into my prebaby clothes, or they were prebaby clothes and didnt fit! All of these things make me not feel like who I am as a person. I like trendy clothes while at the same time, i like to be a little different. I LOOOVE makeup, even when i dont put a lot on. I like to constantly change up my hair style, color and cut. This is me. Where did i go? Where did my apartment that fit my husband and my personality go? Where did my constant state of knowing what was "in and out" whether it was music, fashion, makeup or just world news go? Did i leave it all behind in California?

Now dont get me wrong. I love my family. I love being a mom. I love the crafting world that i dove into after i moved. But there just seemed to be something missing. And i finally figured out what it was... ME!

So i got my hair cut (love it! I have a hairstylist here in South Carolina now! Woot! Her name is Britney and she works at Ulta!)
I went thru the attic and my closet and took 8 bags of clothing to good will! and not little bags. 8 monstorously large garbage bags. It felt oh so good.

I went shopping! A LOT! haha. A different place for a different everyday. I picked up clothing in my budget, but also in my style. All while remembering i'm 28, not 21! :) Or even 17 for that matter! The only thing i'm really lemming yet is a great pair of light tan cowboy boots! Oh i will find you!

I reorganized every closet in my home to make sure things were stored properly. This was a very large undertaking for my linen closet in the master bathroom because it's dedicated entirely to my makeup business. This also meant going thru my entire makeup kit (there is an unmentionable amount of money worth of makeup in there, remember this was my sole profession before the kiddos!) and i threw out what was old. And am ordering some replacements. :) New makeup is fun.

I got some new tunes for my iPod.

I have also been reorganizing what is known as the "rubber room" in my home. It should be the dining room, but it has been dedicated to everything PMS. I got a new storage unit for the stamps that i LOVE. Everything else is still in the process of being redone. But i'm working on it!

So - all these things have taken me away from my blog and from papercrafting (not from the stamp business... my extra craft time has been dedicated to getting the next release schedule and in preparation!). I miss papercrafting! This is a good thing. I needed to miss it. I needed to miss all of you! My loyal readers! If i have any left after my hiatus! hahahaha.

So i do apologize my my lack of posting this past week. Now that things are in a state to actually help me get things done, i can return to trying to do it all. :)

But here's a picture of my new "do"


Now it's back to some organzing and maybe even a little bit of crafting! Woot woooooot! :)

Thanks everyone for bearing with me! Things should start to return to normal around here! :)

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are you sitting down?

Because i made a card! Haha! And this post is going up late after a very rough morning! So sorry about that!

Today's card is for the Freebie Friday giveaway from Paper Makeup Stamps! :)

Here's my card...

Now i must finish cleaning up the pooptrastrophe from the baby this morning (told ya it's been a rough morning!)
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Stamps:
Friday Freebie digi wordart by Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper:
My Mind's Eye Just Dreamy collection

Tools and Accessories
Nestabilies Large Classic Ovals
Copic Airbrush: using BG10 and the colorless blender
Dotted Grosgrain ribbon in crushed curry by Stampin' Up
Yellow Pearls by Kaisercraft

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