Welcome the New Year with a Steampunk Couture Card!

 Hi Everyone!
Happy new year and welcome to 2014!
When I was creating this card, I felt like the colors and Steampunk style were just perfect for a great creative start in the new year!
Here's how I made it-

Festive Glittery Christmas Tags

 This year, I am giving handmade gifts. I plan on making gifts in a jar, fresh basked cookies, jewelry and hand crafted cards. To top all these gifts, I'm adding handmade tags too!
 I love the simplicity of the silver glitter accenting the tags with the nostalgic color scheme and festive rosette.

 Here's how I made these:
For the tag, I stamped in red ink, Backgrounds stamp by Terri Sproul.
I punched a hole at the top corner before adding a line of glue to the edges and sprinkling with glitter.

The rosette strip was stamped in green ink using a decorative border stamp from Art Journaling with Terri Sproul. I then ran the strip though my Big Shot with a rosette thin die.  
I assembled the rosette and topped it off with a decorative stamped image of Steampunked Peppermint Gears in red.
I accented the rosette and center image with glitter, red/green glues and silver dew drops from The Robins Nest.

I attached a bit of red pom-pom trim to the bottom of each tag and looped some vintage satin ribbon through the top.
I attached the rosette to the tag with 2 layers of foam tape to give it some fun dimension.

With a  personal holiday greeting on the back, I now have the perfect tags to accent my hand made gifts!

Time Flies when You are having Fun!

 Hi Everyone!
Michelle here to show you how to make a fun and easy background for this card using dry wall mesh tape!

Halloween Card and Paperbag Mini Album Continued

Hey there, Sin City Stamps fans, and welcome back to the continuing saga of my Halloween mini album.  We are proud to have The Robin's Nest sponsor us this month.  I cannot think of a better fit for two separate companies, fabulous papers and awesome stamps.