Therese Calvird - Floral Heart Two Ways

Hey everyone!  We're wrapping up the week with our May guest designer Therese Calvird who is sharing her final projects for this month.  She's been providing amazing inspiration all month and today's post is no exception.  Here's Therese:

I am so happy to be back with you this Friday here at Neat & Tangled and today I am playing with one of the most beautiful wreath stamps ever, and it’s called Floral Heart.

I have two cards and a video to share with you, and I wanted the heart to be the focal point so I have kept them both quite clean and simple. My first Floral Heart is watercoloured and I have added a gold die cut Awesome sentiment over the top of the image.



The remainder of my sentiment was from My Favorite Nut and was selectively stamped just above the heart.



For my second card I decided to use some of the beautiful Neat & Tangled sequins to create a shaker. The Floral Heart was stamped directly onto some recycled cardstock and coloured with Copic markers. The sentiments on this design also came from the My Favorite Nut stamp set.



But the best thing is, the Floral Heart stamp has a co-ordinating die which is a very clever design because you can separate it and die cut just the inner or outer portion of the wreath, how wonderful! This was perfect for my clean & simple shaker window



Here is my video showing you how I created both cards.


I can’t believe how quickly this month has flown, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here as Guest Designer at Neat & Tangled and would love to send out a big thank you to both Danielle and Miriam for asking me, I’ve had a blast!

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Squirrels Can Do Anything

Hey everyone!  We're so happy to be welcoming our May guest designer Therese Calvird back to the blog today.  Her cards today will have you smiling for sure, here she is with all the details:

I’m back today with some of the cutest squirrels on the block, these little fellas are from a fun set called My Favorite Nut which is cuteness overload.

I took the clean and simple road today. For my first design I thought it would be fun to stamp the nut image directly onto some wood design paper.



Then I stamped it a second time onto some white cardstock and coloured the leaves and squirrels with some Prismacolor pencils. Then I fussy cut everything out and basically paper pieced the image back together.

Finally, I used the Tiny Cuts die to cut a heart border and added the You Can Do Anything sentiment die cut in smoke grey and layered onto brown fun foam. (and those tiny red hearts are rescued from the border and coloured with a red Copic marker)



I used one of those cute squirrels from My Favorite Nut and the same You Can Do Anything die to create my second design, but this time the sentiment became my focal point with the help from a little bit of colour smooshing.



I also decided to add some bling from the Peacock Feathers Sequin mix and I have a video here showing you how this card came together.

I’ll be back next week with another video and some fun inspiration, I look forward to seeing you then.

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May Guest Designer - Therese Calvird

 

Happy Friday!  We're so excited to be welcoming Therese Calvird as our guest designer this month.  Therese has a sophisticated CAS style that is both whimsical and refined, and she makes a mean one layer card.  We're thrilled to have her with us this month and we think you are going to love what she's created.  Here's Therese:

Hi, it’s Therese Calvird and I am beyond excited to be here at Neat & Tangled as a Guest Designer. I have been creating cards for about 15 years and love to make many different styles of cards as well as try out new techniques, but if I was pushed, I would have to say that I probably love to stamp and colour the best.

Today I decided to create a video to show you a fun way to ‘Stretch those Stamps’ and the Calathea stamp set was the perfect choice to create my own custom background.



I decided to make two cards and thought it would be fun to have a ‘boy’ and a ‘girl’ version using these fabulous pirates from Yo Ho Ho.



I coloured the images with Copic markers and used the Awesome die to build my sentiment for the boy card.



And the Good Vibes stamp set was the perfect choice for the sentiment on the girl’s card. And I just loved adding the gold sequins from the Peacock Feathers sequin mix to look like some coins were falling out of her treasure chest.



Here is my video showing you how I created both cards.


I look forward to seeing you again next week, where I have another video and a couple more cards to share. Thanks for stopping by!

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