July Guest Designer: Shelly Kurth!

Today is the last post from our July guest designer, Shelly Kurth.  It's been such a joy having her and I am sure you have all enjoyed her projects as much as I have!

Today's card from Shelly is so eye catching! I LOVE how she created a pattern using one of the floral images from Hand Stitched!  GOOD NEWS: If you have been patiently waiting for our Hand Stitched stamp set to come back in stock it will be here early next week! If you haven't already sign up HERE to get a notification email when I update the inventory!

Thank you so much Shelly for sharing your creativity with us this month!

Have a great weekend!

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You Are My Sunshine

Hello friends!

Danielle here sharing a card I made using My Sunshine, one of the new sets from our July release. I love how this set lends itself so easily to creating cards with a bold sentiment as the focal point!

For this card I watercolored some yellow and orange in no particular order, just randomly on the paper.  While that dried I stamped the sentiment and peeking sun in Versamark on some vellum, and then used black embossing powder to heat emboss it.  Once my watercolor panel was dry I lightly attached the vellum square with the sentiment to the front, and stitched across the top a few times.  I finished it off with some enamel dots, and then attached it to my card base!

And here is a close up


Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope it is sunny wherever you are :)
Danielle

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Origami Map

Hey Neat & Tangled fans! It is Rachel here today sharing a card using the Origami Map stamp & die. I adore this set and always think it looks so great watercolored. I decided to keep it quick & simple and go with a rainbow theme to match the sentiment 'My world is brighter because of you'.

I did some simple stripes across the entire map. I wanted the map to be the star of the card, so I kept the rest simple. I used a thin strip of grey washi along the bottom and heat embossed the sentiment in white on a grey strip of cardstock. I balanced the top with a grey twine bow. I love bright colors combined with grey. This is such a sweet sentiment and great for sending to a friend who is far away (easy for me as I live in Switzerland and have so many friends across the ocean!).

Hope you are all having a great week so far! Thanks for stopping by today.

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Little Tangles Challenge Team Spotlight - Christy Wilkerson

Hey everyone.  From time to time we like to shine the spotlight on our Little Tangles Challenge Team members.  They do great work for us each month!  This month we're featuring Christy Wilkerson.     Hi there! My name is Christy Wilkerson and I live in Cincinnati, Ohio.  I absolutely love crafting and can remember going to Creative Memories scrapbooking parties with my mom when I was younger! I started as a scrapbooker and slowly moved over to stamping and cards! These days, cards and Project Life are my main projects.   When I’m not crafting, you can find me working on my Etsy shop where I create and sell planner stickers (www.planitoutloud.etsy.com), hanging out with friends and family, or out a sporting event (Go Bearcats!). Head on over and check out my blog at http://christywilkerson.blogspot.com/. MY WORK: Here are a few of my cards using Neat and Tangled stamps!         LITTLE TANGLES CHALLENGES: Our next challenge starts next week on Thursday August 6th! We would love to have you stop on by and share your project to be entered into the challenge!  Here’s a sneak peek for next week!      Thanks to Christy for sharing her work on the blog with us today!  There's still a couple days left to get your entry in for the current challenge, die cutting.  So head on over to the Little Tangles site to get all the details!

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Noticed By Neat and Tangled!

We've been out and about checking out your work and love what we're seeing!

If you've been noticed, please proudly display this badge!

This card using our Dala Horse stamps and dies by Larissa is rich and wonderful! 

 Marcie's card using Tiny Triangles die and the 'celebrate' from Just for You will brighten your day!

On the Edge is one of my favorite sets for building backgrounds, and this card by Virginia really shows it off!

You can't go wrong with the kitties from Meowwwww! This card by Cornelia is just purrrrfect!

Lynnda's combination of stamps, dies and sequins is inspiring! She used our Birthday Tag dies, our Gifts for You stamps, and some fun sequins!

Gardenia Bloom Journaling Card die creates an elegant and eye catching card by Shelly

This trio of cards by Maraiah shows how easy and elegant card making can be with our So Very Blessed and My Favorite stamps!

Thank you so much for using Neat and Tangled for your projects and for sharing your creativity with us!

If you use Neat and Tangled and would like to be noticed make sure to play along with our Little Tangles challenges, add cards to our Flickr group, or share on our Facebook page!

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July Guest Designer: Shelly Kurth

Happy Friday friends!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Today we have guest designer Shelly Kurth with us!

She used our Hello There Die and On the Edge stamp set to create this eye catching card!

Thank you so much Shelly!

And you might want to stop by the blog tomorrow...I hear there might be a sale ;)

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xxx happy birthday xxx

Hello, it's Amy here with a birthday card:

My goal is to design more birthday cards over the next several weeks.  I never seem to have any on hand, my go-to card designs are hello'ish.

This one incorporates the new Hand Stitched stamp and coordinating Nice + Neat Dies!  The speech bubble is from the Out of the Box stamp set.  One of my all time favorite Nice + Neat die has to be the Box one.

stamps:  hand stitched, out of the box  nice  + neat dies:  hand stitched, box and graduated stripes coverplate

Lots of die-cutting so I'm linking up to the Little Tangles Challenge:

hand stitched

hand stitched nice and neat dies

box nice and neat die

graduated stripes coverplate

out of the box

Remember, if you come across a product that is out of stock, make sure you click on the E-mail me icon!

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Video: Clean and Simple Card using Copic Markers by May

Hi, crafty friends! It's May here today sharing a clean and simple card. I wanted to create a fun scene using the dog image from Woof stamp set. Here is what I came up with: 


The silly doggie is having so much fun in the water park. It looks like he finds the best way to cool off himself on a hot summer day. I'm not sure what play he is enjoying, though. Lol! :)



I heat embossed the swim tube with some Clear Ultra Thick Enamel embossing powder from Ranger to create a wet look. It’s a shame my camera failed to catch the glossy look on the tube. They look way better in real life.

I made a processing video on how I created my card. You can watch my video tutorial here or in HD on YouTube. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel, too.

That's all I have today. Hope my dog card brightened your day. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy crafting! 

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Cross-Stitched Wreath

Hello there!

Mayuri here to share a card that uses a couple of stamps from one of the new July Release sets to create a simple, quick and easy card!

I created the wreath by stamping the line of cross-stitches from Hand Stitched around a circle, with a rainbow assortment of Distress Inks onto a panel of white cardstock.

I then used the single cross-stitch to stamp the heart in the middle of the wreath. I think I'm really gonna enjoy creating lots of other images just with this one, tiny stamp!

I stamped a sentiment from the same set and foam mounted the panel to a white card base. I added a twine bow at the top of the wreath and a couple of sequins from various mixes, also available in the Neat & Tangled store.

Quick, simple and effective! Thanks for stopping by ;-)

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Video. Hello Lovely Faux Handstitched Card

Good morning (or is it evening somewhere?) friends! Yana is here with you today sharing a new project and video tutorial featuring some of my favorite Neat & Tangled July 2015 Release goodies. If you haven't seen the new products, be sure to check them out in Neat & Tangled online store and remember, with every $50 order you place you receive My Sunshine stamp set for free, sweet! 

We always have favorite products and I am no different. The minute I saw the Hand stitched stamp set I fell in love with it and felt inspired to create.

I just adore the little stitches on the floral images! And the small individual cross stitch image? Perfect fo stamping your own custom patterns! 

Here's a closer look at my project - I've used grey ink for the background stamping as I didn't want it to be as defined as the stamping on the die cut circle, I didn't want it to distract from the main floral image and the Hello Lovely sentiment:

I'm sharing a video tutorial showing you in details how I created this card. I'm also including a few of my other Neat & Tangled favorites along with the cards I created to give you some more inspiration. You can watch my video below or on Youtube:
Like this video? Please give it a thumbs up and share with friends. Thanks!

Supplies:

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