July Guest Designer: Shelly Kurth!

Today is the last post from our July guest designer, Shelly Kurth.  It's been such a joy having her and I am sure you have all enjoyed her projects as much as I have!

Today's card from Shelly is so eye catching! I LOVE how she created a pattern using one of the floral images from Hand Stitched!  GOOD NEWS: If you have been patiently waiting for our Hand Stitched stamp set to come back in stock it will be here early next week! If you haven't already sign up HERE to get a notification email when I update the inventory!

Thank you so much Shelly for sharing your creativity with us this month!

Have a great weekend!

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July Guest Designer: Shelly Kurth

Happy Friday friends!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Today we have guest designer Shelly Kurth with us!

She used our Hello There Die and On the Edge stamp set to create this eye catching card!

Thank you so much Shelly!

And you might want to stop by the blog tomorrow...I hear there might be a sale ;)

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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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July Guest Designer: Jenn Shurkus!

Happy Friday friends!

I'm here today with our last post from July guest designer, Jenn Shurkus! It has been such a blast having her for the month! Thank you so much, Jenn!

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Hey Everyone, It's Jenn -  This is my last week guest designing for Neat and Tangled- and I have to say I’m sad :( I loved sharing my ideas with you.

Hopefully our paths will cross again and until then be sure to keep up on all my creative posts at shurkus.com

For this card I really couldn’t wait to play with Neat and Tangled’s “Ink Splash” stamp set! To get it to look realistic I used gelatos directly on the stamp, you can even lay down multiple colors as you can see I did here

Once you have the stamp covered very well with the gelatos, I misted it with just a little bit of water, and then stamped it on Distress Watercolor paper. You could spritz it again and stamp a second time for a lighter version, but I wanted all of my ink splashes to be bold and vibrant. So I covered the stamp in gelato again, spritzed and stamped. I did this 3 times and then using the smaller ink splash I filled in the white spaces a bit.

I then stamped the “Dreams” sentiment stamp in versa fine black, once directly on the card, and once on some scrap watercolor paper I had. Using a black glaze pen I gently traced the word “dreams”, let that dry and then went over it again. I like how this really made the word pop off the card.

On the second sentiment that I stamped I just colored in the banner “do come true” with bubblegum gelato, fussy cut it out and popped it up off the card.

I adhered the card front to a red notecard, and then added some sequins with glossy accents from the “Pixie Dust Sequin Mix”

This is such a fun and easy card, and you could recreate it in all different color schemes!

Well, that is it. I can’t believe July is almost over! Thank you so much to Danielle for inviting me to  guest design for Neat and Tangled, it was truly an honor!

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July Guest Designer: Jenn Shurkus!

Hi friends! Thank you for another exciting release! I cannot wait to see what you create with our new products!

Today we have another awesome project from our guest designer, Jenn Shurkus!

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Hey Everyone, It's Jenn again from shurkus.com - This week I am bringing it back to card making and using the oh so fun “Just for You” set.

I started by creating the background with some gelatos and distress watercolor paper. I colored the gelatos directly on the paper and washed a wet paintbrush over it to blend and mix the colors. I heat set it when I was happy with how it looked.

I then took the open balloon stamp from the “Just for Fun” stamp set and stamped it 3 times varying the height. Using a quick lie glue pen and ultra fine crystal glitter I filled in the balloons with some sparkle!

On another piece of card stock I stamped the solid balloon twice and fussy cut it out. 

I added strings to the open balloons with the stamp provided in the set and using versa fine smokey gray ink. 

For the solid balloons I secured some bakers twine behind the balloons with foam tape and adhered them to the card.  Wrapping the excess twine to the back of the watercolor paper and securing it with some wash tape. 

I then stamped the ‘Celebrate’ sentiment in purple ink, cleaned the stamp and stamped it again in versa fine black just down a touch to give some dimension. This is easy to do with clear stamps, but still makes you nervous after all of your hard work- you might mess it up in one swoop!

I then tore towards me to get rid of some of the excess watercolor paper. I adhered the layer to the card and then embellished it with some Neat and Tangled “Birthday Bash Sequin Mix”

I can’t believe I only have one more week of guest designing for Neat and Tangled- it has gone so quickly!

In case you missed my other posts:
Hope Anchors Art Journal Page & Tutorial Video 
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining Card 

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July Guest Designer: Jenn Shurkus!

Hello friends! Happy Friday! Here today with a gorgeous art journal page by our July guest designer, Jenn Shurkus! She also has an amazing video showing the process!

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Hey Everyone, It's Jenn again from shurkus.com - and I am excited to bring to you a video using my most favorite Neat and Tangled stamp, Hope Anchors. 

Funny little story about that stamp is I wanted it so much and  it was so popular every time I went looking in the shop it was out of stock. So I took to social media to help me in getting it, and I just stalked and started a conversation with Neat and Tangled on twitter. Once it was in stock again they tweeted me so I had a jump start in purchasing it! Now that is customer service! I posted a sneak peek on instagram (http://instagram.com/p/qKzAbmEqj7/?modal=true)  before I started this weeks project and I had a bunch of people commenting how much they love this stamp too. Danielle has mentioned that this stamp will be back in stock next week just in time for their July release so be sure to order it!

So, today I have something a bit different for you, I did a tutorial video explaining my process of creating this art journal page. Its a bit of a different style then what you are used to seeing here on Neat and Tangled, but I thought you might enjoy it! Enjoy the video and please let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you so much Jenn for sharing your process with us! :)

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July Guest Designer: Jenn Shurkus!

Hello friends! I am so excited introduce our July guest designer, Jenn Shurkus! I am such a fan of her work and thrilled she will be creating projects for us throughout the month!

Here is a little about Jenn:

Jenn lives in New England, with her kitty Mister Harley and her boyfriend Chris. She's been papercrafting for 15 years, and has played multiple roles in the paper craft industry as an independent store manager, designer and teacher. With a degree in graphic design she is also Copic and Ranger certified.  Jenn loves to show people new and clever ideas to design their cards and projects. She has a flair for the "artsy-fartsy" without going over the top. She designs her projects in the way to inspire, but not intimidate. Jenn is eager to share her creative passions with others and encourage their artistic growth. You can read more about her, and her handsome kitty Mister Harley and wicked cute boyfriend Chris on her blog {creative chick} http://www.shurkus.com/

And now for her card!

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Hello Everyone, It's Jenn here and I am wicked excited to be guest designing here at Neat and Tangled throughout the month of July.  I was so excited when Danielle emailed and asked me. 

I have a lot of favorite stamps from Neat and Tangled, but today I wanted to focus on one of my new faves and that is the  "Clouds" set. I recently dug out my Twinkling H2O's again and have remembered how much I enjoy playing with them. 

For this card I stamped and painted in the cloud with "heavenly" H2O, then cut it out. I lightly traced it onto a sheet of Distress Watercolor paper with a pencil. I then removed the cloud and started to paint in my rainbow. I let the colors blend a bit, but I also used my heat tool to heat set it here and there so the colors wouldn't bleed together too much. Once I had my rainbow the way I liked it, I erased my pencil lines and used some foam tape to pop the cloud up off the card. 

I stamped the sentiment and attached the layer to a kraft notecard. I didn't want any other colors to distract from how pretty my rainbow turned out. Then using a tiny attacher I adhered some ribbon.

Thank you for joining me today. I do hope you will visit me over at shurkus.com and I look forward to sharing some more inspiration with you throughout the month!

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