Throwback Thursday - Turkey Talk

Hey everyone!  Can you believe we are already in November?  Today we're throwing it back and featuring on of our older sets that might just come in handy this month.

Turkey Talk debuted back in September 2014, but this guy is timeless!  Here are a few of our favorite Turkey Talk projects:

That's all for us today.  Be sure to come back tomorrow to meet this month's guest designer!

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Neat & Tangled / Hemptique Collaboration, Week 1

Hey everyone!  We're excited to be teaming with Hemptique this month!  While you are probably familiar with their very popular twine, they also have a number of other products that we'll be featuring this month including hemp paper and bookmarks.

Each Tuesday this month design team members will showcase projects that combine Neat & Tangled and Hemptique products.  Be sure to leave comments on these posts as we'll pick a lucky commenter to win a Hemptique prize pack at the end of the month.

Today Nina-Marie, Emily, and Miriam are sharing their creations.  First up is Nina-Marie:

Hi everyone! I'm sharing what I call a "watercolor collage", using stamps and dies from Neat and Tangled, as well as products from Hemptique.



Hemptique has some beautiful handmade papers available in their store, which I have used here on this card. I love the rough texture of this paper; much like watercolor paper, but a lot softer in feel.

I stamped images from the My Heart Sings Neat & Tangled set onto the paper with Versafine Black Onyx ink; I also gold stamped my sentiment using the Paris stamp set (also by Neat & Tangled) and Delicata Golden Glitz ink.

For watercoloring, I used Tim Holtz distress inks; Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry. I also watercolored some hearts and added a bit of shimmer using a Wink of Stella glitter brush.



I decorated my panel using a mixture of sequins and beads from Lucy's Little Things and Neat & Tangled; I also tied a length of hemp around the bottom portion of the panel and adhered a gold, wooden heart on top. The wood heart was created by die cutting a piece of wood veneer with a heart die from Neat & Tangled (included in the Hand Stitched die set); I colored it gold by smooshing it into my Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad.

To finish things off, I layered my watercolored panel onto a pink striped card base with some yellow pattern paper.

Next we have Emily:

Hi, everyone!  I've been a long-time fan of their hemp cord and have it in so many colours! I love the vibrant colours and quality of the cord.

For my card, I created a cute little scene using Better Together stamps and coordinating dies. I also used the Turkey Talk dies to create a speech bubble shaker. I created an anchor for the scene by looping black Hemptique cord, twisting it a couple of times and adhering it to the front panel with a tiny attacher.

Both the card base and front panel are scored along all four edges. There are a lot of details in my card but I've kept the layout clean and simple. Please visit my blog for a full supply list. :)

Finally, Miriam has a pair of cards to share:



Hi guys!  I was so excited to receive some hemp paper to try in my package.  It's a beautiful paper with a wonderful texture, and I wanted to see how it would work with my dies.

I used the Gardenia Blooms Journaling Card die, and I was really happy with how well the paper held up since it's a little bit softer than regular cardstock.  I also loved how well the embossed lines show on the paper.

To create some textural contrast, I also cut the card from some insulation pink cardstock.  Leaving the pieces intact (in the insulation pink cut), I colored the inlaid pieces with Copics and then transferred them into my hemp paper die cut.



I stamped the sentiment, from the Gardenia Blooms Journaling Card stamp set, and then adhered it to the card over a cardstock and then vellum mat.  I love how the vellum softens everything.

Then I figured I would put all those negative pieces from my hemp paper die cut to good use.  I inlaid them into a steel gray cut, adding a sentiment from the Maple Leaves Journaling Card stamp set.



I love the dramatic look and again the contrast between the regular cardstock and the hemp paper.  This one is super CAS, just popped up on my base.



Hope you all enjoyed today's projects.  We'll be back next Tuesday with another set of projects featuring Hemptique as well as another chance to win!  If you don't already, be sure to like Hemptique's Facebook page and tell them we sent you.  There just might be a giveaway over there towards the end of the month.  ;)

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Neat & Tangled / My Sweet Petunia Collaboration Week - Day 3

I can't believe we are already half way through our week with My Sweet Petunia, I hope you've been enjoying all the projects so far!

If you're not familiar with My Sweet Petunia they manufacture the MISTI (Most Incredible Stamp Tool Invented), which was one of the Hot Product winners at this year's CHA.  This week the team is showcasing how the MISTI simplifies (and makes foolproof) the stamping process as well as techniques that it enables.

We have some serious prizes up for grabs this week.  Comment all week on our collaboration posts to be in the drawing to receive your own MISTI, and be sure to stop by the My Sweet Petunia blog.  We've divided the team up this week, some will be posting here and some will be posting there.  Comments left on the My Sweet Petunia blog will put you in the running for a $100 Neat & Tangled credit!  

Mayuri is up to bat today:

This is the first time I used the MISTI and I can honestly say that I'm hooked!

For my card, I began by stamping the speech bubble from Turkey Talk backwards, first onto a card base, but also onto a panel of cardstock that was of the same size.

I like how you can use the MISTI in this way, to create the same pattern endlessly on individual panels, knowing that it'll stamp in exactly the same place each time! Its perfect for what I wanted to do for the focal element of my card!

To finish off the pattern, I stamped the solid heart from Jump Start My Heart towards the bottom of the card. I also flipped the speech bubble stamp the right way round and stamped the outline in the same place as the solid impressions.

Out of the stamped panel of cardstock I die-cut the sentiment using the Hello There die - this is where the MISTI saved the day! I knew that when I adhered the die-cut piece to the card front, it would match perfectly! And it did!

To finish, I stamped a sentiment with black die ink and scattered a few Sparkling Clear and Buttercream Satin sequins.

OK, now head over to the My Sweet Petunia blog to check out what Nina-Marie created.  Here's a little sneak peek for you:

See you tomorrow!

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Gobble gobble

Hello, friends!

In a few days the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving day! I'm not an American citizen but love the idea of gratitude and giving itself! Turkey is the one of main (if not the main) symbols of this holiday and Neat & Tangled has a great stamp set, Turkey Talk, that you can use to celebrate Thanksgiving day!

I've never thought about the sounds that turkeys make.....gobble gobble? When I saw this stamp I couldn't stop myself from saying it again and again. My mom laughed at me, what am I doing? :) I love all the sentiments in this stamps set and of course turkey image too.

I colored the image with Akashiya Sai watercolor brushes and put it in a hoop using our Hoop die.

I decided to make a hoop look like more realistic and used some fabric for the background. Frankly, I'm a big lover of tasty food, especially tasty turkey, but for vegetarians this sentiment is perfect!

Have a great holiday!

Yours, Sveta.

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Party Time

Hello everyone! AmandineC here today, how are you doing?

I am delighted to share with you a card in which I had fun altering the TURKEY TALK set.

I stamped the image twice on the same paper, and then I cut the tail to create a crazy hat for my turkey.

The speech bubble is also from the Turkey Talk set, and I used a sentiment from PHOTO BOOTH, as well as some sequins on a background created using distress inks as watercolors.

Have you ever played with your images to create new ones?  I'd love to see!

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Happy Turkey Day!

Hey everybody! Happy Friday! It's Taheerah here with a card to kick off your weekend!

I hope our US friends have been enjoying the Thanksgiving weekend! And hopefully you aren't sick of the sight of turkey as I have a fun turkey card for you today!!

Here's what I came up with:

Fun right?!

I wanted to create a card with a slightly unconventional colour scheme for this holiday, so I stamped the turkey from Turkey Talk and lightly watercoloured him! That journalling card-style panel he's on? That's the A Lot To Say die, die cut once, then rotated and passed through my Big Shot a second time to remove the 'tail' of the speech bubble!

I wanted a fun background for him so I masked him off and stamped the sentiments from My Plate Is Full to reinforce the message of Thanksgiving. Not forgetting the final sentiment from Turkey Talk itself! Some patterned paper, gold cord, and vellum helped giving the card a quirky finished look. :)

Just before I go, I wanted to mention/remind that we are having a special Black Friday/weekend sale! 30% off selected stamps and sequins - hurry over before they're all gone!


I hope this card brought some fun to your Thanksgiving weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

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Release After Party Day 3!

Hey everyone! Happy Wednesday!

Sometimes circumstances are such that we have to change something in our schedule. Three of our designers living outside of the United States received their September release sets too late to join in with the normal Release fun. But fear not! We didn't want you to miss out on what they would have created, so we have decided to arrange a Release After Party!

Today is the last 'After Party', and taking you into the night and partying with you in style is Taheerah! I've five cards to share with you, each created using the *awesome* stamps from the September release!


My first card features the fantastic Be Full set. With that fantastic font and layout I just had to go with a chalkboard look and create a card full of Autumnal colours!

 I stamped the sentiment with white pigment ink first then overstamped with orange dye ink to create an orange chalk effect!

My second card uses the Turkey Talk set. I used a scrap piece of paper that I'd used to mop up ink and spills before as it had the most awesome blend of colours and shimmer!

I stamped my turkey right over the top, and mounted him over a panel of patterned paper stamped repeatedly with the 'Gobble Gobble' sentiment - and of course I had to use the speech bubble, stamped on cork to say that sentiment 'straight from the turkey's beak'!

Moving on, my third card features the wonderful My Plate Is Full set!

I stamped the heart repeatedly to create my own patterned paper, overstamping some of the hearts with various mists to add some shimmer and a secondary colour! I combined several of the sentiments in this set to create a custom greeting!

Next up - a combo of Creepy Cute and Creepy Cute Shadows And Sentiments! I loved stamping those adorable bats onto patterned paper and pairing them up with other patterned papers for the sentiment strips and background!

I love the extra little detail of the washi tape underneath each of the sentiments!

And finally, to wrap things up, my final card features the beyond-awesome Origami Map set.

I swiped inkpads and sprayed with mists for my panel, and loved stretching my stamps by using one of the arrow stamps to create a banner for the aeroplane to fly my sentiment!

Well, that officially wraps up the Release After Party! I hope you've had a great time seeing all the amazing cards the DT girls have come up with, and we'll be back before you know it with another release! *wink* Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Release After Party Day 2

Hello crafty friends,

Christine here!
It's my pleasure to  bring you more inspiration using the October release stamps. Just like Anna told you  yesterday the international girls celebrate a fabulous release-after-party with you.

I have five cards to share with you today:

I instantly fell in love with Origami Map! It screams for watercolor, but I wanted to challenge my self not to use a emboss-resist technique! So this map ist mostly grey and twi countries/sport are colored in aqua. One got a pin-needle, the other one a heart. Mapping can be so much fun!

 Living in Germany we don't really celebrate thanksgiving or Halloween, so I don't have a lot of  pumpkins in my stamp collection. This one is pretty cool with it's super bold lines. It's from the Be Full set.

The next card is VERY graphic. I used the plate from My plate is full to draw attention to the sentiment and used forks, knifes and spoons in light colors to have a nice background.

As I said - thanksgiving isn't popular over here ;) So I used the turkey for a Good luck/Hello card using some washi with sentiments and just let the turkey from Turkey Talk gobble ;) Isn't he cute?

 Next up maybe my favorite card. I used the skull from Creepy Cute (a set beyond cuteness!!!) with some spiders and Creepy Cute Shadows and Sentiments. There is a bow in that set, but I created another bow made of bones. (Maybe that's hard to see). I just puffy heart love the bad to the bone sentiment!

Another card that's more cute than creepy is this one: a CAS one layer card using the bat from Creepy Cute.

Hope you enjoyed this little inspiration-parade. If you haven't ordered your stamps so far - you should - they're adorable!

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to check this post!

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