Design Team Reunion: Amy Tsuruta

Hello everyone!  It's Amy Tsuruta here and thrilled to be celebrating Neat & Tangled's 5th Birthday!  I've been having so much fun following the Design Team Reunion and I'm grateful to be a part of it.  

A little about my Neat & Tangled background....I started on the Little Tangles team in June 2013.  I hopped to the Neat and Tangled Design Team and happily worked there from April of 2014 - December 2016.   I consider myself fortunate to have been able to spend so many years with the Neat and Tangled family.  I'm so happy for Danielle and all that she has been able to achieve and look forward to seeing things continue to grow for her.

I was thrilled to work with some of the new release which I combined with some of my favorites:

The Hooray Word - Nice and Neat die is awesome, isn't it?  I decided to cut it in black and white.  I designed a blue two tone panel in Distress Oxides that have been cut with a Scalloped Nice and Neat Die.  I thought the mermaid from Mermazing was perfect with the Hooray sentiment.  She's been adhered with foam squares.

I'm sad that you can't really see the All The Sprinkles stamped image on my panel.  I heat embossed it with a very glittery embossing powder so in real life, it's pretty specularly sparkly. 

 TIP:  The On Point Glue is perfect for those smaller die cuts that you want to adhere.

That's it for me!  A big shout out to Danielle and her awesome Design Team, past and present!

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Design Team Reunion: Nina Yang

Hello everyone! It’s Nina Yang here! I was lucky to join Neat and Tangled design team for a year about 5 years ago! Danielle is one of the sweetest person I’ve met and she has some of the most creative ideas in the industry! I’m delighted to join the celebration with a card I made from the new Wild Ones stamp set and Wild Ones – Nice and Neat Dies!

It’s the giraffe’s birthday and she's hosting a disco party! The monkey is swinging by with his gifts! The new Like Magic Sequin Mix is perfect for making a disco ball for the party scene! So sparkly and fun! I bended the sentiment strip a little for some dimension and movement on my card. All elements are colored with Copic markers.

Thanks Neat and Tangled again for having me!

Happy Birthday!

Hugs,

Nina

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Design Team Reunion: Linda Trace

Hey there crafty friends!

Linda here, and I’m and so excited to be a part of this special blog hop celebration!! I still remember the Skype conversation where Danielle nervously announced to me and a few close friends, that she was starting a stamp company. Without a moment’s hesitation we all broke into exclamations of excitement and support, and I know we all were and still are SO proud of Danielle for being brave enough to begin this new chapter in her life, and how far she’s come.

For my card I really wanted to let the images be the stars of the show, so I coloured them in with my brand spankin new Polychromos Pencils (hello dreamy!), then cut them all out using the coordinating dies, and compiled them into a little cluster-scene.  I decided to add some white gel pen details to the images for some extra interest—I’m kinda in love with the furry chest on the monkey and giraffe.

For a final touch I added a splash of white spray ink on the base notecard, a little black Enamel Accents for the eyes, and some glossy accents to the balloon.

I hope you like it and are enjoying the amazing cards being made this month!

Happy Anniversary/braveaversary Danielle and thank you so much for having me!

Linda xo

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Design Team Reunion: Heather Hoffman

Good morning! Heather Hoffman here - and I'm super excited to be guesting on the Neat and Tangled blog today to help celebrate Neat and Tangled's 5th Birthday! I spent a brief bit of time on the N & T Design Team a few years back, and also spent a year on the Little Tangles Design Team - so many fond memories, and love watching each new release come out.

I actually have TWO cards to share with you today - and in the past week I've even shared a couple more if you want to check them out!

I just can't get enough of the darling giraffe from the new Wild Ones stamp set - and it pairs so perfectly on this card with the previously released Floral Heart! I colored them both up with Copics and die cut each one with their coordinating dies.

I added a strip of pattern paper on the bottom of my card base, and blended some distress ink across the top - splattering with water and white paint for texture. Mounted the wreath and giraffe with foam adhesive, and stamped a sentiment from Kindness Matters (I'm pretty sure it was my first ever Neat and Tangled set - and I still have it, obviously, because it is still so relevant!)

Next up, I had played a little with the new Open Box Die - but when I saw what Miriam Prantner's - the die designer - created HERE, I knew just what I wanted to make with it! 

I die cut it from kraft paper, layered some pattern paper, and heat embossed a sentiment from Out of the Box on a strip of black cardstock. Then...I tucked something inside and tied it closed!

Untie the string...

...and TADA!!! Isn't this a perfect way to tuck a little cash inside as a gift?

If you are wondering about anything I used on these cards, you can find links to them all below! Thanks so much for stopping by today - and CONGRATULATIONS and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Neat and Tangled!!! 

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Design Team Reunion: Francine Vuilleme

Hi everyone! Francine Vuillème here! I’m so excited to join the birthday celebration and the design team reunion! What a wonderful idea! I was a DT member in 2016 and I still remember how happy and excited I was to join the team! 

Thanks so much Danielle for having me for this celebration and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You are such a kind and beautiful woman (inside and out). I’m proud to be part of the N&T family and I’m honored to guest for you today! Good luck for the next years of this fabulous crafty adventure! 

For this event, I created this card:

I used the pirate set called Yo Ho Ho. I love all characters in this set and I thought the flag would be perfect for a birthday sentiment. I masked the pirate skull on the flag and I then stamped the Happy Birthday text that I found in the Beach Day set. I colored the pirate and cut him out with scissors. I added jeans texture to the pants using a piece of fabric. I sponged the front panel of a top-folded card base with yellow Distress ink using a blending tool. I adhered the image with foam pads to the card base as well as a sandy hill that I die cut from Kraft cardstock. I glued tiny stars and sequins here and there for a festive look. To finish off my card, I added Wink of Stella clear shimmer over the rainbow sweater. 

  

I hope you enjoyed this project! Have wonderful day and happy crafting!

Francine

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Design Team Reunion: Jocelyn Olson

Hi everyone! When Danielle asked me to join the Neat & Tangled DT reunion, I had to come out of blog retirement to join the fun. I loved my time on Neat & Tangled! Danielle is such a talented, sweet, and thoughtful person. Last month, Miriam Prantner and I got together, and Danielle sent stamps and dies with her to give to me. Even though I haven't been sharing projects on social media, Danielle sent them anyway--just because. She is a generous and kind person...the kind of stamp company owner I love to support. :)

In the spirit of fall and thankfulness, I decided to make a fall-themed card:

The patterned paper is graphic, and I wanted to play off of the angles. I die-cut the Maple Thanks die twice out of white woodgrain cardstock. These dies are gorgeous! They cut nicely (no hanging chads), but the die-cuts are delicate. Next, I stamped the sentiment from the Maple Thanks stamp set.

I finished the card with some Like Magic sequins. The sequins look clear, but they also have a cool iridescence. They add just a little shine to a card, as you can see below:

I hope the card puts you in the mood for fall. :) Thanks again to Danielle for having me today! Have a great day!

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Design Team Reunion: Anna Kossakovskaya

Hello friends! Anna Kossakovskaya is here today with you and I am so excited to share with you this post today. I was honored to be invited to Neat & Tangled Reunion month, when all old design team members gather together again! I started to work with Neat & Tangled and Danielle three years ago - the summer of 2014. Three years have been passed! Time flies really fast! It was one of my first design teams of such level - to work with the manufacture! Isn't it a dream? 

It was a great time working with amazing and unique style and stamp designs. And I am so happy to be back again, even only for one post! And I prepared two new cards for you today, that combine my favorite Neat & Tangled products.

For the first card I played with All The Sprinkles stamp set and multi layered resist technique. And for the sentiment I added 'Hooray' layered word I die cut with Hooray Word die. I started with embossing the stamp with the clear powder and then sponged the background with Worn Lipstick distress ink.



When the ink has dried I repeated the first two steps - the embossing with the clear powder and the sponging with the same ink color (but added more color this time). And then repeated it again the third time. And the last step was to add two strips of the vellum, the sentiment and few sequins from Like Magic Sequin Mix. I really adore this mix! The sequins can change the color a little, the real magic!



For the second card I used Hooray Word die again together with my most favorite N&T stamp set ever - Origami Map! I stamped the map on the white front panel and colored some segments with the pink and light blue colors. Then I die cut the 'hooray' word (the bottom layer) and added some foam. And on the top of the foam I adhered the layer with the stamped map and top black layer. So this word really pop!



Also I stamped the additional small sentiment and added again the sequins from Like Magic Sequin Mix. I like how they perfectly fits here.

Have a good day!

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Design Team Reunion: Nina-Marie Trapani

Hello everyone! Nina-Marie here! I am so excited to be guesting today for Neat & Tangled’s 5th Birthday celebration! I cannot believe it’s been five years already since Danielle started one of my favorite stamp companies.

For their birthday, Neat & Tangled released a bunch of awesome new products, which I am using on my cards today. I wanted to use my Distress Inks to make a layered background behind a full-card shaker. Full-card shakers are a really fun card style; have you ever tried it?

The Distress Inks were fun to pair with the Balloons Duo stencil in making my background. I used Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed for the colors. To make the background, I started by ink smooshing a layer of the colors onto watercolor paper. Then I took the same three colors and watercolored in the balloons of the stencil. Because the Distress Inks are translucent, you get a really unique blend of colors.

For my sentiment, I used the new Hooray stamp set. I wanted to make the “hooray” word stand out from the colorful background, so I triple heat embossed the sentiment for a cool, dimensional effect! It’s hard to capture on camera, but in real life the difference is noticeable.

Inside the shaker is filled with the Like Magic mix of of sequins, which are SO awesome. These are a unique sequin because they pick up the colors they are paired with. I love how gorgeous they look!

I hope you will check out the video below to see how this card came together! Thank you SO MUCH to Danielle from Neat & Tangled for letting me come back and guest for your 5th Birthday Celebration!! CONGRATS on this HUGE milestone!!!

And thank YOU for stopping by and visiting with me today! Enjoy your Tuesday!

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5th Birthday Blog Hop Giveaway Winners!

What a wonderful week it was celebrating with you all!

Popping in to announce the giveaway winners from the hop! If you are a winner please email me at danielle@neatandtangled.com to claim your goodies!

$50 Gift Certificate from Day 1, Chari's blog post

$50 Gift Certificate from day 3, Lydia's blog post

$100 Gift Certificate from day 5, Neat and Tangled blog

Be sure to stop by later for our next design team reunion post!

xo
Danielle

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Design Team Reunion: Amy Kolling

Hi friends!

Did you think the party had ended? Now way! Just about everyday for the rest of this month we will have a past design team member stopping by the blog to reminisce and share a card or two with you! I am so excited to kick things off with Amy Kolling! She was one of our original design team members, and I'm so happy to call her a friend! Now more from Amy...

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Hello Neat & Tangled friends!  I am so honored to be back on the Neat & Tangled blog as a guest for their 5th birthday celebration!  I was one of the original design team members and I loved the time I spent with this group!  I have followed along since and I'm so proud of where Danielle has taken Neat & Tangled.......it's so fun to look back and see where it's come!  Here's to many more years!  

I love the new Hooray word dies from this release......so many ways to use them.  I paired them with the All The Sprinkles background and some Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick, Broken China, and Wilted Violet.  I created two cards with these sets......one with pastels and one with masculine colors!

For both cards, I stamped in versamark the All The Sprinkles onto a panel of black cardstock and a panel of white cardstock.  The black was heat set with gold embossing powder and the white with white embossing powder.  Then the magic happens with emboss resist.......blend the Distress Oxide inks over the panels and spritz with water!  

To the pastel card, the Hooray dies were done and layered with foam adhesive for dimension.  For my masculine card, the outline Hooray die was die cut from the panel and then the word Hooray was inset back in done in gold foil.  Both options are awesome!

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Neat and Tangled Birthday Blog Hop Day 5!

You guys, I'm so sad it's the last day of our birthday hop! It went by in a blink! But honestly, that's how the last 5 years have felt too. When something brings you so much joy, it always seems to go by so fast!  Thank you for taking the time to celebrate along with us this week, leaving such kind and happy comments!

You can catch Day 1, Day 2,Day 3, and Day 4 of our hop if you missed them!

Sharna is back again today to keep the party going!  She used our new Wild Ones stamp and die set to create this fun card!  I have to say, that giraffe is becoming a fast favorite of mine!

Next you are off to see Shari Carroll on the Simon Says Stamp blog!

Todays hop order:

Neat and Tangled (you are here)

Shari Carroll for Simon Says Stamp

Amy Rysavy

Kristina Werner

Cathy Zielske

A few things: 
- Giveaway winners will be announced Sunday
- Balloon Duo stencils will be back in stock in about 1-2 weeks!

I hope you all have a great weekend! I'm off to take a nap ;)
Danielle

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Neat and Tangled 5th Birthday Blog Hop Day 4!

Welcome back to day 4 of our birthday blog hop! Do you still have your party hat on?! Let's keep this party going!

You can catch Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 of our hop if you missed them!

Today we have our sweet friend, Sharna Waksmulski joining the party!  She used our new Hooray Word Dies and All the Sprinkles stamp set to create this fun card!

Next you're heading over to the Ellen Hutson blog to see what Carissa Wiley has for you! 

Today's full hop order:

Neat and Tangled (you are here)

Carissa Wiley at Ellen Hutson

Teri Anderson

Lisa Spangler

Don't forget to comment at each stop to enter to win our giveaways:

See you back here for the last day of our blog hop!

Danielle

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Neat and Tangled 5th Birthday Blog Hop Day 3!

Welcome back to day 3 of our birthday blog hop! We are having such a great time celebrating with all our friends! Thank you for sharing in our excitement!

You can catch Day 1 and Day 2 of our hop if you missed them!

Today Elena is sharing this amazingly cute card with you all to help get you in the spirit!  She is the illustrator of the new Wild Ones stamp and die set, which she used to create her party scene! It pairs perfectly with the new Hooray stamp set too!

Next you are off to visit with Yana Smakula! I can't wait to see what she has for us!

Todays full hop order is:

Neat and Tangled (you are here!)

Yana Smakula

Wanda Guess

Lydia Fiedler

Be sure to comment all along the hop so you don't miss your chance to win some big giveaways!

See you back here tomorrow for even more fun!
Danielle
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Neat and Tangled 5th Birthday Blog Hop Day 2!

Hello friends!

Thank you so much for all your excitement yesterday! I am having so much fun reading through all your comments! In case you missed the first day of the hop, you can check it out HERE.

I'm back today with a fun card using the new Wild Ones stamps and dies! I stamped and colored the sweet monkey, and then filled that ballon with some glitter!  I stamped the "go wild" sentiment several times on my card base, then put a piece of vellum on top. I adhered my monkey, and sentiment panel with the same "go wild" on top of the vellum!

And next you are off to see Laura Bassen! I can't wait to see what she has for us!

The full hop order for today is

Neat and Tangled (you are here!)

Laura Bassen

Laurie Willison

Kathy Racoosin

Don't forget to comment all along the hop! We've got some great prizes up for grabs! Winners announced Sunday, August 13th!

See you back here tomorrow!

Danielle

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