Happy to See You Smile with Kristina Pokazanieva

Happy Sunday!  Today we're sharing a final project from this month's guest designer, Kristina.  Her cards this month have been such a treat, and we're sad to see her go!  

Hello everyone! It's Kristina here. Today I want to share with you my last card for Neat and Tangled blog as a guest designer this month. 

For today's post, I decided to make a vintage card with pale watercolored flowers. 

First, I stamped the images from the Friendly Florals stamp set on a piece of watercolor paper with Antique Linen distress ink. 

Then I watercolored the flowers with light peachy coral and the leaves with muted blue green and olive watercolors. 

 Once my coloring was done, I added a few paint splatters and then when it dry I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink, sprinkled with metallic embossing powder and heat that. 

I foam mounted my watercolored panel on a kraft card base and added sparkling sequins as a final touch. 

Thank you so much for joining me today and have a great day!

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Into the Woods with Kristina Pokazanieva

Hello everyone! It’s Kristina here. Today is my second post as a Guest Designer for Neat and Tangled! For my today's post, I decided to make a fun autumn card with adorable deer.

I started by blending distress inks on a white piece of paper. I used Salty Ocean, Cracked Pistachio, Dryed Marigold distress inks and splattered my panel with the same inks.

After my background was done, I stamped the cute images from Into The Woods and Floral Heart stamp sets with black ink onto white paper. Then, I colored all the images with Copic markers and die cutting them with coordinating dies.

I adhered floral hearts on the bottom of my panel and fussy cut the edges. Next, I foam mounted the images and two white banners on my panel and my card is complete!

Thank you so much for joining me today and have a great weekend!

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Introducing our August Guest Designer - Kristina Pokazanieva

Happy Friday!  It's the first Friday of the month which is always fun and exciting around here because we get to unveil a new guest designer for the month.  Today we're introducing Kristina Pokazanieva.  Kristina's work is just beautiful!  She is an amazing colorist whose expertise includes markers, colored pencils, watercolors, you name it.  We know you are going to love seeing her work this month!

Here's a little more about Kristina:  I live in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, with my family and two adorable yorkie puppies. My first experience in cardmaking was 2015, when I made a card for my boyfriend. But only in 2016 cardmaking became my major hobby. I love floral cards, soft pastel colors, watercolors, pencils, markers and all about coloring.

And take a look at Kristina's first card:

Hello everyone! It's Kristina here! I'm so happy to be a Guest Designer for Neat and Tangled this month! For my todays card, I used beautiful Bloom stamp set. 

I started by stamping flowers on a piece of kraft cardstock with black ink. Then, I colored the images using my Prismacolor pencils and once my coloring was done, I stamped the images with black ink again on top of my pencil coloring to make the outline more visible. 

Next, I white heat embossed the sentiment in the center of my panel, trimmed the edges and foam mounted it on top of woodgrain patterned paper and adhered my card onto white card base. Thank you so much for joining me today and have a great weekend! 

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