Neat & Tangled Throwdown: Tutorial Challenge

Hello friends!

It's time for another Neat and Tangled Throwdown Challenge! As you know, we are doing these about quarterly now. And while the challenges are a little more involved, the prize up for grabs is bigger too!

Our new challenge is all about tutorials! It's always wonderful to be able to see exactly how a card is made, it answers so many questions, and is a great way to learn techniques.

Kelly is here today with some tips,  showing you how to create both a step out photo tutorial, as well as a video tutorial. 

There are two ways to enter the challenge! Either a video or a step out photo tutorial. We have examples of both for you! 

You can see the entire process of the card being made in both the video below 

or the photo step out process. Our example is pretty involved but your doesn't need to be. Just as long as it's easy to follow along with how you made it! 

Start by stamping your image in black on watercolor paper. I used a MISTI to make sure I could stamp down as many times as I needed to have a solid black image. Next you're going to want to tape your project down to a board since we are watercoloring. I used my Ranger craft mat as a palette for my distress oxides. 

Cover the entire background with clean water and begin dropping in various colors. Add color until the entire background is covered. 

I like to spatter on colors as well. It helps add some interest to the background. If you get too much water on your background just soak up the extra with a paper towel. It may take some pigment with it so you may need to add color back in. I love a bit of shimmer so I mixed up a bit of gold Perfect Pearls to splatter onto the background as well. 

You can splatter the Perfect Pearls on wet or dry. If you choose to do wet it will spread out into your background more. I chose to do it wet here. I then dried my paper using my heat tool. To add even more interest I splattered on some clean water after it was dry. Because Distress Inks and Oxides active with water you can create bleach spots with this method. Blot up the splatters with a paper towel. 

I added more Perfect Pearls while it was dry. The creates the actual spatter look as the dots don't run. Once that was dry I used another technique called stamping with water. This only works with Distress Inks or Oxides. Lightly spray your stamp with water an then "stamp" it down on your paper. Let it sit for a minute so the water has time to soak in. The more water you use the more abstract the stamping. Using less water will give you a cleaner image. I used about 2-3 mists of water per stamping. 

You can see the sheen of the water where I stamped it in the first photo. I set it aside to dry and began working on the other elements for my card. I ran the oak leaf die through my Big Shot with some gold glitter paper. Then used my piercing tool to pop out all the inside pieces. 

For the sentiment I treated some black card stock with an anti static bag and stamped my sentiment in Versamark ink. I added some white embossing powder, knocked off the extra and heat set it until smooth. 

At this point I have everything I need to assemble the card. I trimmed down my watercolor piece and adhered some white fun foam behind it. I then adhered my glitter leaf slightly off center of the black stamped leaf already in my background. 

The stamped leaf acts as a shadow for the glitter one and gives a fun look.  The sentiment, which was trimmed into a label was added with foam tape and that finished off the card! 

The winner of this challenge will receive a $100 gift card to the Neat and Tangled shop

Here are the details:

1) Create a project (card, scrapbook layout, etc) that has an accompanying video or photo tutorial in your blog post. Submit it through the Inlinkz tool below. When linking, please link to the specific blog post, not your entire blog.

2) Link back to the challenge blog and display the challenge graphic in your post.

3) Neat & Tangled products must be the focal point of your project.  You can use products from other companies, but Neat & Tangled products should be the star.

4) You may enter as many times as you would like.

5) You have until Monday, October 8th at 11:59 EST to enter

6) Winner will not be chosen at random, but rather will be judged based on creativity and execution. Announced October 13th. 

An InLinkz Link-up

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OAK LEAF - NICE AND NEAT DIES Shop at: Neat & Tangled

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