I am losing resolution when I resize or rotate a line I have drawn.

Can anyone help me?  I have been using photoshop to turn my drawings into digital stamps for crafting.  I always import my image, then with the pen tool I re-draw it in photoshop.  Usually I can take say my eye I had drawn and resize it or rotate it and it's perfect.  Lately I try any of that ant the lines will get very pixelated or lose resolution making them super fuzzy and ugly.  Does anyone know why this is now happening?
I used to be able to duplicate it and flip it to have two perfect eyes, but again when I do that now same thing happens, it gets horribly pixelated. 
I have attached two examples...
Any helps is very much appreciated.  I am having the worst time trying to figure out why it's doing this all of the sudden. It has never done that before.  I have always been able to duplicate, rotate, and resize without it losing resolution or had the lines so fuzzy or pixelated.
Thank you,
Betty

Hi again,
Did you mean screen shots of my settings?  Maybe that would help?
These are all my settings, and each time I draw a line and flip it or rotate it, it starts to lose resolution.  It is also now doing it when I take the finished file and place it into a "guide" file for making a watermark catalog image. Once I shrink the photo it looses resolution really badly.

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