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Emerald Creek Merry Christmas and Altered Pages Vintage gift tags!  I love the rich colors of the Emerald Creek Embossing Powders Candy Red and Candy Green. Supplies: Emerald Creek Merry Christmas Stamp Acrylic Block Emerald Creek Embossing Powder Candy Red Emerald Creek Embossing Powder Candy Green Altered Pages Vintage Angels collage sheet Manila tags VersaMark Dew Drops Tacky Glue Ribbon Glue stick   Cut images from Altered Pages Vintage Angels collage sheet  adhere to Manila tags  with Glue stick     Apply  VersaMark  around the edge of tags.  Use  Emerald Creek Embossing Powder Candy Red or Emerald Creek Embossing Powder Candy Green around the edges, set with heat tool   Place the Emerald Creek Merry Christmas Stamp on an   Acrylic Block  with VersaMark  stamp on tag.  Use embossing powder and set with heat tool.   Add Dew Drop...

Only recently have I read about Frida Kahlo one of Mexico's most famous artists.  Just in her teens she suffered injuries from a bus accident that would cause health issues her whole life.  She was famous for her self portraits showing the pain she suffered. Her marriage was turbulent at times. Her art was an expression of herself and life.  A beautiful and compassionate woman, she died in 1947 at the young age of 47.  There is so much to learn about the life of Frida, I plan to pick up her biography and read more about Frida the artist soon. Today I am sharing a card made with the Lost Coast Designs Frida 1 stamp!     Supplies Lost Coast Designs Stamps  - Frida1 Gelatos - assorted colors Craft Mat Black ink Embossing Powder Cardstock Watercolor Paper Guilding - Gold Leaf Glue 3D Foam Adhesive Flowers        On craft mat rub several colors of Gelatos and add water ...

Happy Friday everyone.  My project this week allowed me to get messy, happy, painty fingers!  How?  I made several monoprints with my gel plate for the under-the-sea theme of today's card project.  The prints are in a variety of beautiful blues, greens and purples.  Lost Coast Designs has the most awesome background stamp which gave great motion to the "water".  A couple stamps from the Mailbox Muse mermaid kit complete the scene. Let's start at the beginning.  Grab your favorite colors of paint and add them randomly to the gel plate.  Then grab your brayer and lightly blend them across the entire plate.  Use your favorite texture tools or fingers to make random designs, if you wish.  You can get more than one print each time without having to add more paint.  Caution: it is addicting!  I made prints for over an hour for this project. In order to choose which of the prints I wanted to use, I inked up my ...

Thick and Thin a stamp by Lost Coast Designs which has been in my crafting stash for a few years  is perfect for a male themed card or project.  Today I am sharing a stamped and layered paper card design. I started by pulling out a host of products available from Altered Pages which included this stamp. I love working with a more neutral palette when creating with a male in mind.  The Durable and Devotion Paper Pads from Authentique are perfect to go with my kraft card scalloped edge base . The front of this card base design exposes some of the back inside of the card, so I chose to work with this to add some further interest to my layers.  I took a piece of embossed black cardstock and stuck this across the bottom of the back inside.  A white card insert to write my message will be layered over this when I go to use the card. Now turning my attention back to the front of my card I cut my papers to size and inked the edges of them r...