Makeup 4 The Weekend with a Sketch

Ok back at it...we had two days of school and already a day off! We got Rosh Hashanah off...it was just very weird to start to get a feel for how this school stuff was going to work and then all of the sudden, we get a day off. But we get back into it today. I am pretty confident I won't have our routine down though for another week or so...but it will come!

So today is double-dose of yumminess from Paper Makeup Stamps. We are reviewing the fabulous September Release and it is time for another Makeup 4 The Weekend Challenge. Plus I used the Release Party Sketch Challenge (don't forget to participate in the challenges, link up to the Release Party Challenge post, and hope you get selected for a $15 voucher towards PMS stamps!). The M4TW Challenge #41 is an inspiration challenge...what does the following poem inspire you to create:

The Autumn Fairy

The Autumn fairy weaves her spell

Spreads out her cloth of gold

Adorns the fields and woodlands both

With the riches of days so old

She makes the plants and flowers bloom

Displaying Nature's glory

For soon cold Winter's dismal gloom

Will tell a different story

-Author Unknown

Isn't that a beautiful poem. Just love it! So from that poem I came upon this card. I chose "fallish" colors and picked up on the gold part of the poem. And of course the fairy part too! So I stamped the Kat the Pinwheel fairy in Brilliance Graphite Black twice on Whisper White cardstock. One I outlined with a gold Gelly Roll pen and the other I colored a portion of the image with a Blender Pen and ink pads. I then spotlighted the fairy's face with the colored version over top of the outlined version. I stamped the "Make a Wish" from the Dandy Wishes set in Versamark and embossed it on gold embossing powder...a little hard to read, but I like the added gold. Finished it off with some Tangerine rhinestones and a Pumpkin Pie and gold combo bow.

So now you have all sorts of stamping to do...so get crackin'! Hope you can join us for the Makeup 4 the Weekend Challenge or one/both of the Release Party Challenges! Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!

The Engineering Details

Stamps - Kat the Pinwheel Fairy, Dandy Wishes (Paper Makeup Stamps); Paper - Pumpkin Pie, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Always Artichoke PP (SU!); Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko), Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Baja Breeze, Always Artichoke (SU!); Accessories - Gold Gelly Roll Pen (Sakura), Blender pen (SU!), Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon (SU!), gold cording, Scallop Edge Border Punch and ticket corner punch (SU!), Tangerine self-adhesive rhinestones (Bazzill Basics), gold embossing powder, dimensionals

Dual Challenge Francesca the Cat

So what did you think of the Paper Makeup Stamps September Release? If you happen to miss is, you can see all of the fabulousness HERE. It truly was a great release full of fairies, critters, and great sentiments!

During the Release Party a couple of challenges were issued. And if you participate in each of the challenges (separately...no combining) you could win a $15 voucher for PMS stamps! How cool is that?! We would love to see PMS stamps used, so if you don't have any (what are you waiting for?), you can grab a free digi on the site and use that! Finally once you have completed the challenge (by the way, there are two of them), link it up to the Challenge POST to be entered to win! Ok so anyway, this card is using the Release Party Color Challenge of Pink, Aqua, and Brown and the current Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #155. I stamped that sassy kitten, Francesca, in Brilliance Graphite Black ink on watercolor paper and watercolored her with an aquabrush and ink pads. She was cut out with Circle Nesties and hand matted (in other words I cut the Teal layer myself there since I wanted a narrow mat). The pattern paper is from the retired Banbury collection of SU! which now has current colors with the Pink Pirouette. The sentiment is from the newly released Little Moments set (love this collection of sentiments).

So now go get inky so that you could be in the running for the $15 voucher...just make sure to link up to the PMS Blog. Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!

The Engineering Details

Stamps - Francesca the Cat, Little Moments (Paper Makeup Stamps); Paper - Banbury DSP, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Taken with Teal (SU!), watercolor paper; Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko), Taken with Teal, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip; Accessories - Pink self-adhesive Pearls (Oriental Trading), Word Window Punch and Tag Corner Punch (SU!), Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon (SU!), aquabrush, dimensionals