Video: Distress Ink Watercolor Card by May

Hi, crafty friends! It's May here sharing an easy watercolor card that I made using the Giving Tree stamp set. My inspiration came from my own card that I made last June. Here is what I came up with:  

I started by stamping the images from Giving Tree with a waterproof ink: Hero Arts Hero Hues black ink. Then I watercolored them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Cracked Pistachio, Iced Spruce, and Tea Dye. 

After that, I stamped the little heart from the Jump Start My Heart stamp set with watermark ink. Next, I heat embossed the hearts with gold embossing powder.



I stamped the sentiment from the Heart of Gold stamp set with watermark ink on a piece of black cardstock. Then I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and mounted the sentiment banner to the card front with foam tape. 



I made a quick video tutorial showing you how to watercolor with distress inks. You can watch the tutorial here or in HD on the Neat and Tangled YouTube channel. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and share with your friends. 

I created another card with same design but using different watercolor medium: Nicholson's Peerless Watercolors. Which card do you like?



Hope you loved my watercolor cards and got some inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy crafting!

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September Designer: Ashli Oliver

Wahoo for it being Friday! We made it!

Just wanted to let you know that Neat and Tangled has joined Periscope! You can find us @neatandtangled  I'm going to try to hop on there today around 12pm EST so be sure you're following us so you can say hi!

And I am so excited to have two layouts from our September designer, Ashli Oliver, to share with you today! I love her light mixed media approach to creating!

For her first layout she used our Giving Tree stamp set and Ocean Breeze sequins.  This set is a great match to Ashli's whimsical style! And those little owls are my favorite :)

For her second layout she used our Ink Splash stamp which works perfectly as water splashes to pair with her photos :)

Thank you so much, Ashli, for getting our weekend off to a great start!

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July Guest Designer: Shelly Kurth

Hi friends!  Today we have our guest designer for July, Shelly Kurth!  I seriously always love seeing what Shelly shares in our Flickr group and for our Little Tangles challenges. I HAD to have her join us this month!

She created this perfectly CAS card using our Giving Tree stamp set. I love the  coloring, and how the tree stump is the focus of the card, paired with the perfect sentiment! It's clean, simple and elegant!

Thank you so much Shelly!

And if you missed it, we shared some sneak peeks HERE of our new July release. Release week starts on Monday, July 13th at 8am EST. There will be lots of inspiration and giveaways so be sure to stop by!

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Double Partial Die-Cutting with Birthday Tags

Hey everyone,

Mayuri here to share a card that uses Laura Bassen's wonderful double partial die-cutting technique. I achieved this with the Birthday Tags die-set along with some circle dies - its not as difficult as it may look!

I began by marking out a horizon line on a piece of cardstock to use as a guide for the partial die-cutting technique, and laid down a circle die on top, taking note of where the line was. I then partially die-cut the circle where it met the line by making sure my cutting plate only covered that part of the die and the piece of cardstock. Laura demonstrates this beautifully here.

I removed the circle die and replaced it with the Birthday Tag die, again taking note of where the guideline appeared. This was also partially die-cut in the same way as the circle. All that was left for me to do was cut the connecting lines on either side and I was left with a bespoke die-cut panel!

I stamped a sentiment from the Giving Tree set with black dye ink and set the panel aside. I sponged some Distress inks directly to a white card base starting quite dark at the bottom and fading out towards the top. I then foam mounted the die-cut panel onto the card base.

I stamped the flowers from the Paris set onto some scraps of inky cardstock with black ink, and then fussy cut a few of them out. These was adhered around the aperture and finished with a few Crystal Clear sequins.

I hope you'll try this technique - it was a lot of fun experimenting with the Neat and Tangled dies!

Thanks for stopping by ;-)

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Cards with new release by Anna

Hello! Anna is here to show you my cards I made with stamps from the last release. Things happen and I didn't get my new stamps in time, but I'll sharewith you my view on new sets in any case!

And the first one is card with Crafting is my Jam set (stamp+die). Absolutely amazing set and it's all about cardmaking, isn't it? When I saw this stamps at first time it was this idea - to put all supplies in a box made with this box die. Looks so cute!

The second card is for Paris stamp set. It has so much elements and every of them inspires to so much designs! For this card I chose macaroon stamps and stamped the background with three different colors and then colored them with watercolors. Than just added a sentiment and some sequins.

Next card is with using of Scandinavian Flower and Dala Horse sets. I stamped the background with light spring colors and added "Happy Spring" sentiment and dots.

And the last one is very clean and simple, but I like it! I used Giving Tree set here. Stamped and colored with watercolors branches and leaves. aded a sentiment.

What do you think about new release? I absolutely adore it!

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March 2015 Release Day 5: Introducing Giving Tree

Hello friends! Thank you so much for all of your excitement and energy this week! It is always so much fun to read all your comments, and welcome new friends!  All stamps, dies and sequins are available in the shop now! If when you go to shop something is sold out, use the "email me when available" feature on the product page to be notified when it's back in stock! (It also helps when we reordering!) And now comes the fun part - I cannot wait to see what you create with them!

In case you missed:

Day 1: Introducing Crafting is My Jam + Dies + Lucy's Little Things Sparkly Shaker Selection

Day 2: Introducing Dala Horse + Dala Dies + Scandinavian Flowers

Day 3: Introducing Paris + Graduated Stripes Cover Plate Die

Day 4: Introducing Meowwww

Giveaway Winners

And before you go shopping we have one more stamp set for you today!

Giving Tree is a 4x6 set designed by May Sukyong Park. Her inspiration came from a card that she made last December, inspired by the book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. She drew a stump image to create a birthday card at that time, and thought it would be great to have it as an actual stamp. With a mix of whimsical images and sentiments, you can create year round cards: thank you, birthday, love, just because, friendship. This set contains 17 stamps: 13 images and 4 sentiments.

And let's see what the girls have for you today!

Amazing! The girls have really blown me away this week! I want to thank them all so much for sharing their talent with us!

Don't forget everything is live in the shop now!

Thank you so much for a wonderful week! I hope you had a great time!

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