Beauties on Tags

Hi all! It's Nan with two tags today.  Now why are there two and not three tags as I intended?  Well, much to my shame I had all three tags stuck into a book so that they would dry flat and the book ate one of the tags!  Yes, ate it!  I went through that book 8 times no sign of it...gremlins again?  But I did get my two beauties on tags even with the drama!

The first thing I did was stamp the DT with the stamp Birds in Tree in purple Distress Ink then I  stamped two of the Gibson Girl's Faces from the set in different Distress Inks on kraft paper I bought in Japan which is very thin almost like tissue paper. I inked the tags after gluing some DP torn and inked edges onto the tags.  I used honeycomb stamp from the Lattice ATC Stamp set in purple on different spots and the Cherry Tree stamp from the ATC Misc. 2 Set.

So I hope you enjoyed my Gibson Girl tags today and also hope that you will check out the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all challenges, events, and Designer Reviews!

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Day of the Dead Celebration Festive Skull with Hat

Hello Everyone,
Today's project is a "Festive" Skull wearing a Fabulous hat, darling.  This project was made for the Day of the Dead Celebration on The Portal to Creativity blog.
I used two stamps colored  with Copic Markers to make this card:
Skull with Hat - Carmen's Veranda
Birds in Trees Background - Lost Cost Designs

For more pics and instructions, head over to Dreaming and Creating for the full post.  I am still in the process of unpacking in my new home.  Lots of work to do yet to set up a work area!!   Hope you have a great day!
Karen McAlpine

Center Step Card Tutorial

Have you ever made a step card? It is fun, easy and uses no more suplies then a normal fold in half card and gives you great dimension:

I used the new Birds in Trees and Murder of Crows stamps from Lost Coast Designs. I really wanted to make the background stamp stand out and use all 4 crows from the stamp set so I thought a center step card would allow that and add interesting dimension…almost a shadow-box look, to this card. What’s more it’s easy and uses no more cardstock then a normal card. Want to see how it is done? Watch the video:

And that is all there is to it! Til next time happy crafting!