Let Your Heart be Light with November Guest Designer Meghan Peterson

Good morning friends! It is Friday once again and I have the pleasure of being on Neat & Tangled’s blog again this week as November’s Guest Designer. This week I decided to make a more Christmas-y card than my first winter-themed card.

I used one of my favorite holidays stamp sets again Scandinavian Christmas Tree. Last week I just used a sentiment but today I’m using the layering Christmas tree stamps to create that Nordic Christmas look. As they are our background instead of our focal point, I used light gray inks to fill in our background with trees. Using the lightest inks, I stamped two different solid tree images around my panel to fill up as much space as possible. Then a slightly darker ink was used to stamp the details for the trees. Then a third darker ink was used for the open circles to fill in the space and emulate snow falling through the trees.



With our neutral background done, it’s time for our focal point. I absolutely adore the Heart of Gold Nice and Neat Die. I wanted to create a two-toned glitter heart for the top center of our panel. First I dry-embossed the heart on gold glitter card stock. Then using the outside impression of the die, I cut out the heart so I had a solid gold heart with the pattern embossed into it. Then I die cut completely the heart from copper glitter cardstock. Using medium matte glue I glued the copper heart onto the solid heart, to give a two-toned heart with texture and dimension.



I glued this heart on to my panel making sure to leave the top edges of the heart unglued. This allowed me to die cut some leaves from the Medallion Flower Builder Nice and Neat Dies and glue them on top and behind our heart. These green/blue leaves give a pop of color and more interest to our focal point. In these leaves I added our sentiment strip, using our Christmas tree stamp set to the top of our heart. I added a few blue/green gemstones for a bit more pop of color and texture, and this card is complete!



Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a great week ahead and we’ll see you next week!

Xoxo
Meghan

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June Guest Designer Janna Werner with a 'lucky' layout

It's Friday and our June guest designer Janna Werner is her for her third and final post of the month.  It's been a pleasure having her, and I know you are going to love today's project.  Here's Janna with all the details:

Hello everyone, this is Janna. I am here with my third and last post as guest designer for Neat And Tangled. Working with the beautiful stamps, dies and sequins was so much joy and I hope I was able to inspire you with my layouts and cards.

For today, I created another layout, using summerlike and happy colors and floral motives to emphasize the happy theme of the page. It is about one of our dogs, Luzie. She is a lovely and happy dog and very sweet (and she knows!). The title is German and means 'luck is furry'.

I worked with the Medallion Flower Builder stamp set to highlight the title and subtile and to add the dots on the page. The heart on the bottom of the scrapbooking layout was cut out with the Scored Shapes dies, as well as the circle in the back of the heart on which I stamped with the Heart Of Gold stamp set. 

The lovely light blue sequins give the finishing touch.



Thanks to everyone for stopping by today, please make sure to browse the Neat And Tangled blog for more inspiration from the amazing Design Team. Have a crafty day!

Lots of greetings,

Janna

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Heart of Gold with June Guest Designer Janna Werner

Happy Friday friends!  Our June guest designer, Janna Werner, is back with us again.  Today she's highlighting our Heart of Gold stamp set.  Here's Janna with all the details:

Hello everyone, this is Janna again. I hope you had a lovely June so far. Today I would like to share three cards with you, each highlighting the geometric heart from the Heart of Gold stamp set.



For the first card, the pink one, I heat embossed the background and placed a stamped geometric heart on top. I used a dark brown to stamp the image as well as the text, brown is a bit softer and friendlier than black and goes so well with pink! 

I used lots of layers and dimensional dots on that card.



The second card, the blue one, features a heat embossed heart. The card itself is very clean and simple and perfect, if you only have a few minutes of crafting time. The triangles in the background  (using the Tiny Trangles stamp set) were stamped with Versamark ink, it will create a stamped image that is a bit darker than the cardstock you stamp it on.  The sentiment was created using the Medallion Flower Builder set and a bit of masking.

The third and last card is a mini shaker card, again very clean and simple - don´t be tricked, this took the longest time to create! I really like shaker cards, because it makes lovely noises and makes me want to grab and shake it every time I see it!  I again used the Medallion Flower Builder set for the sentiment.



I hope you enjoyed today`s inspiration,

see you soon,

Janna

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Introducing June Guest Designer - Janna Werner

Happy Friday!  Can you believe that it is already June?  Today we are introducing this month's guest designer, Janna Werner.  Janna is scrapbooker, teacher, and mixed media artist.  She has a wonderful, fresh, clean style, we are in for a treat this month!  Here's a little more about Janna:

My name is Janna Werner. I am a 38-year old mixed media creative & online teacher based in Northern Germany. I've been scrapbooking since 2011, have been a member of different design teams, and have taught many online classes and workshops throughout Europe. I published a book called 'Paper Art' in 2014, have co-published a scrapbooking magazine, and designed scrapbooking products.

I have always been a big fan of stationery and paper. Then a friend introduced me to scrapbooking...it took about 3 months until I got hooked. I enjoy scrapbooking a lot, working with paper and embellishments is my kind of meditation. But I also like to create other crafty & artsy projects, such as paperflowers, gift wrappings, drawings, mixed media canvases or Artist Trading Cards. I call myself a mixed media creative as I love to mix materials and techniques.

social media links:
website http://jannawerner.de
blog http://jannawerner.blogpost.de
instagram http://instagram.com/jannawerner
youtube http://youtube.com/user/uchtelmuchtel
big picture classes https://www.bigpictureclasses.com/users/Janna_Werner
bloglovin https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/janna-werner-papiersalat-2226406
facebook https://www.facebook.com/papiersalat/

Now that you know a little more about Janna and where to find her, check out this week's project:

Hello crafty friends, I am excited to be Neat and Tangled's guest designer in June, I hope to inspire you with my creations.

The first project I would like to share is a scrapbooking page. As you can see, it is clean and simple with stamping, die cutting and heat embossed highlights.



I started by stamping the Falling Hearts onto white cardstock, added golden embossing powder and used a heat gun to melt the powder. Afterwards I attached the white onto a rose cardstock. The other stamp sets I used are Medallion Flower Builder and Heart Of Gold. The hearts and circles are cut out with the Scored Shapes Dies, I punched the shapes from patterned paper and from a stamped image, the big heart from the Heart of Gold set.



I cut some of the stamps apart, that is so convenient about polymer stamps... you do not damage them when cutting words and images apart - you get an even bigger variety like that.

Hope you liked today's inspiration!
See you soon,
Janna

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Faceted Ombre Hearts

Hello, it's Emily here with a set of clean and simple cards that feature three different stamp and die sets. I wanted to feature the faceted heart from Heart of Gold with ombre inks so I used the MISTI stamping tool to stamp it in four different colours.

Then I painted black gesso on the edges of all the card bases before attaching the heart panels and embellishing with splattered Hand Stitched flowers, enamel dots, and heat embossed sentiments from Everyday Labels.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sources:

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