Triangle Builder with Kath Stewart

It's the last Friday of the month which is always a little sad for us because it means we have to say goodbye to our guest designer for the month, Kath Stewart.  We know you're going to love today's inventive card.  Here's Kath with the details:

Hi Everyone, I’m back with my last project as the September Guest Designer. I would just like to say a huge thank you to Danielle and Miriam from Neat And Tangled for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to play with their fabulous projects. I can’t believe this is my last week but isn’t it the case that time passes quickly when you’re having fun.

I’m sharing a shaker card using the Triangle Pattern Builder stamp set and matching set of Nice And Neat dies along with the Hooray and Life’s A Game stamp sets to create the sentiments.



I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to measure 4” x 8”, coloured with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink using a mini round blending tool, spritzed with water and blotted with a paper towel.



I inked the triangle images with the Shaded Lilac ink pad and stamped randomly on the background. I stamped the sentiment from the Hooray stamp set inked with Black Soot Archival ink.



I positioned the dies over the stamped triangles and die cut the shaker apertures.



I placed the die cut triangles back in the spaces and added splatters using Black Soot Distress Paint.



I stamped the smaller triangle images inked with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink and dried with a heat tool. I then stamped the same triangle image with Versamark and heat embossed with Ranger Superfine White Embossing Powder.



I added a panel of acetate to the back of the card, added sequins and confetti from my stash and 3D foam tape around each aperture.



I fixed additional sequins to the front of the panel and wound black thread around the top and tied in a bow. I stamped the sentiment from Life’s A Game stamp set on to black card, heat embossed with Ranger Superfine White Embossing Powder and trimmed on to a banner. I fixed the panel to a white 4.1/4” x 8.1/4” card blank



Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to leave lovely kind comments on the projects I made using Neat and Tangled products.

Happy Crafting, hugs Kath xxx

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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.

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Hooray Card - Two Ways with Daria [Video]

Hello Dears,

Daria here. So glad you are joining me today. Lately, I am trying to give more love to the products I really like but haven't got much time to play with. This time it is about Hooray Die and Stamp sets and Ballon Duo Stencils. Those are one of my all time favorites.

I've started from the background. I applied Distress Oxide inks through Ballon Duo Stencils to make loots of balloons flying in the air. I like transparent balloons with gold confetti inside, so I wanted to mimic that in my card. To make it, I applied Tonic Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Gold through the stencil, but covering each balloon only partially.

 I stamped the large bold and so beautiful Hooray Stamp in Black and then die-cut it with the coordinating Hooray Die; which also could be used as stand alone (wink).

Here is a video to show you how it was done:

I like how turquoise and gold look together and decided to make not such a busy card, but a more clean one.

 So, i stenciled only a few balloons, added Hooray die, and finished it up with a some banners. I die-cut those using Banner dies from Scalloped die set and different paper (grey, lilac and gold). I also stamped a little Happy Birthday sentiment from So Many Sentiments Stamp set.

There will be a short video on making that card over Neat&Tangled Instagram. Be sure to subscribe and check it out.

I hope you liked that simple ideas and will give them a try. Be sure to tag us in social media. It is always so rewarding to see what you create. 

Hugs, Daria. 

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Neat&Tangled Products used: 

Neat & Tangled Clear Stamps, Hooray

Neat & Tangled Dies, Hooray Word 

Neat & Tangled Stencils, Balloon Duo Stencils 

Neat & Tangled Dies, Scalloped 

Neat & Tangled Clear Stamps, So Many Sentiments

For a full supplies list please visit my blog. 

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Hooray! to a Koality Friend with Keeway

Hi friends! It's Keeway and today I'm here to share a birthday card packed full of cute critters! I absolutely adore the koala from the recently Koalifications stamp set and of course I needed to send him over some friends too. So, I picked up a few other buddies from the Wild Ones stamp set so that we can parrrr-taay!

I stamped all of my images in a dark brown hybrid ink, and then colored them with copic markers. I used my handy white gel pen to add some details on the images. Then, I die cut all of them with their coordinating Nice and Neat dies.

With so many critters on the card, I kept the background pretty simple by blending some Broken China distress oxide ink from the edges in, leaving the majority of the center white. Then, with the Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink, I stamped the large 'hooray' from the Hooray mini stamp set in the top right, which easily fills up all the remaining open space. I used my handy white gel pen again to add little detailing to match what I did for the critters.

Now that everything is all colored up, it's time to adhere everything together. I used some thin foam squares and my regular foam tape to vary the depth of the images. For example, the koala sits behind the turtle, so I used the thin squares on the koala, and my regular foam tape which is just a tad thicker on the turtle. Isn't it sweet that the koala in the scene finishes the sentiment? Love that guy!

Thanks for joining me today, and hope to see you next time!

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Tis the Season Hooray with Keeway

Hooray! Tis the season of holiday crafting, my favorite time of year! It's Keeway on the blog today for a little holiday inspiration. Every time a new holiday releases come out, I love to see how they pair with prior year's releases, and without a doubt, the pairing is just absolutely full of cuteness! Today's card features an array of awesome stuff, including Get Yeti, Santa's Wonderland, and Hooray.

I always enjoy starting my projects by stamping and coloring my images. I was really focused on using a lot of strong reds in all my characters. All my images were colored with copic markers and with a little extra detailing with a white gel pen. I then die cut each of them with coordinating dies.

I used a black vertical striped pattern paper for background which added a nice modern look to the design of my card. The signature Neat & Tangled word dies with the bold outlines really helps the sentiment stand out even with such a strong pattern background. I used the Hooray word die with black cardstock for the outline, and white cardstock for the inside word.

To add a little holiday flavor to the sentiment, I reached for the 'tis the season!' words from the Santa's Wonderland stamp set. I heat embossed it onto red cardstock and cut out a fishtail banner freehand with some precision scissors. I adhered the 'hooray' directly onto the background, and all the other pieces with foam tape. And that finishes my project for today. Until next time!

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Design Team Reunion: Pamela Ho

Good morning everyone! This is Pamela here and I'm so excited to be participating in this huge celebration for Neat & Tangled! Danielle was so generous (and daring!) to bring me onboard for their design team, and I debuted my first stamp design here as well! I have a fun and simple card to share with you today. Afterall, my signature design was "simple" back in the good ol' days!

 
I stamped the adorable little turtle from Wild Ones and paired it with the sentiment from Hooray. Gotta love Danielle's bold sentiments!
And of course, it's not a celebration without sequins! I sprinkled the Like Magic Sequin Mix around the little turtle for a true birthday celebration! Thanks for stopping by!

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Design Team Reunion: Taheerah Atchia

Hey everyone! It's Taheerah here and I'm so excited to be back on the Neat & Tangled blog to help celebrate their 5th birthday! The time I spent on the Design Team were some of my fondest and I am so proud of Danielle and all she has accomplished! Neat & Tangled will always be close to my heart and one of my favourite companies!

I wanted to make a card that captured the party cake vibe, and the sprinkles on the All The Sprinkles stamp were perfect for that!

I repeatedly stamped the sprinkles onto my card front in different colours to create a fun background! I was going for the look of white icing with loads of different coloured sprinkles on top - I'm guessing I hit the mark as I'm getting hungry just looking at it, ha!

The accompanying sentiment from the Hooray stamp set doesn't have to just be a companion! I let it take centre stage and love the finished look!

Thanks so much for getting the band back together to help you celebrate, Danielle! Happy Birthday Neat & Tangled - and here's to many more!

Taheerah

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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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Baby card set

Hi there!

Elena here, to show you a card set I made to slip into my sister's baby gift basket (thank goodness she doesn't check crafty blogs, lol.)

My little sister is having twins in December! She already has 2 girls and this will be girls 3 and 4. We're so excited!

I love creating thank you cards for new moms. I used Itty Bitty Welcoming Committee for these cards. I love that the image is so large it takes the guesswork out of designing the card-front.

When I create multiples of the same set, I usually do it very systematically. First, stamp and color all images, then die-cut them. Next, figure out what to do with them. It's not usually all planned out!

The best decision I did make was to frame out the focal image with the Hooray wreath. I snipped the word hooray out and placed it onto a piece of grey cardstock. 

I splattered some white ink onto the grey circle to give it a dreamy quality and added some pink to the bottom half of each card to make sure that the set looked girly enough for my sister and her soon-to-be-FOUR girls.

Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

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Hooray Card with Daria

Hi Dear friends,

Daria here. Hope you are doing fine.  I am having a very elegant and interesting card to share with you today. I instantly fell in love with our new Hooray die. It is so delicate and elegant... and you can use it both with sentiment and as a wreath.... I choose to use both variants :)

For the front of my card, I die cut the wreath out of glitter cardstock:

But left it whole and white for the inside:

There is a piece of accetate in between to hold my glittery shimmery wreath :)

It turned out to be a window card with layering effect using our new Hooray die :)

Hope you liked it.

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you soon
xoxo,
Daria

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