Introducing our September Guest Designer - Kath Stewart

We're very excited to introduce you to this month's guest designer, Kath Stewart.  You might recognize Kath's work from the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. She specializes in mixed media pieces and we are so excited to see what she does with our products!  Here's a little more about Kath, and her first project:

Hi, I live in the North East of Scotland with my husband and my “always by my side and in the thick of the action” crafting partner, an adorable Golden Retriever called Buddy. I have worked in the crafting industry for many years with great companies who have given me wonderful opportunities and I have made many lasting friendships along the way. I do what I love and love what I do and am just as passionate about papercrafting now as I was all those years ago because when you put stamps and inks together, magic happens.

I’m absolutely thrilled to have been invited by Neat and Tangled to be the September Guest Designer and I’m sharing with you today two cards to celebrate the arrival of new additions, one for a girl and one for a boy using the Balloons Duo Stencil with sentiments from the Hooray and Life’s A Game stamp sets



So let’s get started. I applied Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink through the first stencil in the Balloon Duo set using a Tim Holtz Distress Blending Brush, positioned the second stencil in the set and applied Worn Lipstick. I repositioned Stencils 1 and 2 and added more balloons.



I spritzed the balloons with water using a Distress Sprayer and blotted the excess water with a paper towel



I coloured a White A2 card blank with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink using a Distress Blending Brush, trimmed the panel to be slightly smaller and fixed in place. I used a T square ruler and Sharpie Black Fine Line pen to draw in the strings and added hand drawn loops



I stamped the Hooray sentiment with Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink and added dots to the letters with a Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen.



I stamped the “New Addition” sentiment from the Life’s A Game stamp set.



I made the Boy card in exactly the same way using Salty Ocean and Mustard Seed Distress Oxide inks.



I’ll be back on the 21st to share another project, in the meantime, happy crafting.