Awesome Geometric Circles with Cathy Zielske

It's the last Friday of the month which means, sadly, we have to say goodbye to this month's guest designer Cathy Zielske.  Cathy's projects this month have been such a treat and today's project is no different.  She's featuring our Geometric Circles cover plate and Awesome dies.  Here's Cathy with all the details:

Today I'm sharing my third and final card as the guest designer for Neat & Tangled. And today's card is kind of special. It's the, how does one say, pièce de résistance? But specifically, it is my ode to the one and only Laura Bassen, one of my true card making idols and all around card magician.

You see, a long time ago, (okay, last year…), Laura made an amazing card you see below using a Neat & Tangled cover plate and she posted about it here.

I went nuts for the card. Ordered all the supplies. Tried my best to emulate the master but it ended up being a hot mess so instead, I dialed it down just a bit and created a card you see on this post. (Oh, I was so young and green!)

But I always wanted to tackle the technique that Laura used and for this card, I finally managed to achieve the result I was looking for.

Only one problem: on the video you're about to see, a handful of clips are missing that show me actually DOING the technique. But I thought I'd keep the video anyway because the result was so good! And yes, to really learn the technique, just go watch Laura's video here.

Without further ado, here is my video, missing clips and all!


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Happy to See You Smile with Cathy Zielske

Happy Friday friends!  Our April guest designer, Cathy Zielske, is back with us today sharing he second project of the month.  We're loving this sweet, CAS card!  Here's Cathy with all the details: 

I'm so happy to be back today as a guest designer for Neat & Tangled, and I'm excited to share my second card project of the month with you. I'm using the charming Friendly Florals stamps and coordinating dies, along with some simple stamping and embossing, and some Zig Clean Color Real Brush marker coloring.

I adore the sweet blooms in this set and I knew I wanted to use my Zig markers to create a watercolor look and feel. But because my watercolor skills are developing, I decided to stamp my images and emboss them with clear powder to create a border that would contain my ink. I find it much easier to paint when there are raised outlines, which is what the embossing provides.

I stamped using Versafine ink and embossed with clear powder for that raised shine you can see in the image above.

I did the same process for the sentiment, to create a matching shiny black finish. Here's a video of the entire card process!


Thanks so much to Neat & Tangled for having me and I'll be back next Friday with my final card project for the month!

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Introducing April Guest Designer Cathy Zielske

Happy Friday!  We're excited to be introducing this month's guest designer, Cathy Zielske today.  Cathy has been a force in the industry for quite some time, although more focused on the scrapbooking side of things. We're so happy that in the past year she's come over to the 'card' side. We know you're going to love her clean and fresh style and couldn't be more pleased to have her with us this month! Here's a little more about Cathy:

Cathy Zielske is a graphic designer who loves her family, typography, clean and simple design and french fries. Her motto: own your life, document it well and preserve reality. Her mission: take the ‘crap out of scrapbooking. To that end, she offers digital products, online workshops, and writes about crap-free approaches to memory keeping on her blog and in two published books that are currently available in PDF format. She took up card making in 2017, launched a line of stamps and dies with Simon Says Stamp, and is completely smitten with the world of cards. And, she is also spending way too much money on it.

Hi everyone! Cathy Zielske here and I'm honored to have been invited to be a guest designer for Neat & Tangled. This wonderful company was one of the very first stamp makers with whom I fell in love, all because of this card project from the one and only Laura Bassen. (This was my take on Laura's awesome card!)

Today's card is all about the awesome My Favorite sentiment. I love the big size and decided to use a technique I learned from Jennifer McGuire to create a pretty Distress Ink background. The typography on the sentiment is just so great and I knew this would look fantastic stamped and embossed with white powder.

I used an acrylic block and some Distress Inks to create the background you see here. It's a really fun and easy technique! Here's my video for this card project that shows how I did it.

Such a fun, bright and happy card! I finished off the project by adding a few sequins from the Like Magic mix (that part of the video got lost!)

Thanks so much to Neat & Tangled for having me and I'll be back next Monday with another Neat & Tangled card project!

To see my complete supply list, visit my blog.

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