Neat & Tangled November Release Day Three

It’s Day Three of the Neat & Tangled Release! Today’s featured stamp set “On the Corner,” designed by Miriam Prantner, includes a fun signpost and sentiments for a variety of occasions.

Neat & Tangled November Release Day Three

I stamped four sign posts and added a variety of the sentiments from the set, finishing the card off with a heat-embossed strip at the bottom.

Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The November release stamp sets go on sale Friday, November 22.

Did you catch the first two days of the release? There’s still time left to comment for a chance to win Day One’s “Everyday Labels” and Day Two’s “On the Edge.”

Penny Black Joy to the World

Today I’m sharing a card in which one of the holiday die cuts from Penny Black takes center stage. I really like adding metallic accents to my holiday cards, and in this case, my starting point was the outline of the Xmas Tree die cut in silver.

Penny Black Joy to the World

I die cut the Xmas Tree [51-012] in both white and silver cardstock. I pieced the two together and adhered the completed tree with dimensional adhesive onto a circle cut from cardstock stamped with the Penny Black Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp. I adhered the circle to a dry-embossed card base, and then I added a banner on which I heat-embossed a sentiment from Penny Black’s Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. I finished the card off with some sparkly jewels.

 

 

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson is “stretching your stamps,” as in using them in less obvious or unusual ways. It’s a drizzly, cold November Monday here in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m a bit on auto-pilot. 🙂 I followed one of the cards shown by Shari Carroll almost to a “T.”

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

I loved the colors Shari chose for the tree line – and they make me happy! I heat set the stamped trees before I heat embossed the sentiment in silver across them. I tried stamping the sentiment without heat setting the trees, and the trees picked up quite a bit of the embossing powder, even though I used an “embossing buddy.” I used papers from October Afternoon’s “Midway” collection.

There were more terrific cards shown using the Lawn Fawn “Peace, Love, Joy” stamp set in today’s lesson that I plan to craft in the upcoming weeks.

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Neat & Tangled November Release – Everyday Labels

It’s time for the November Neat & Tangled Release! There will be four stamp sets introduced this week, as well as a digital stamp and a new set of sequins. Today’s featured stamp set “Everyday Labels” is perfect for a variety of occasion cards, including “Hello,” “Happy Birthday,” “Congratulations” or “I Love You.”

Neat & Tangled November Release - Everyday Labels

I stamped various labels from the set which I cut and placed in a die-cut envelope. I stamped the “I Love You” sentiment on a white strip that I adhered to the dry-embossed card base.

Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The November release stamp sets go on sale Friday, November 22.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was Clean and Simple Holiday Cards. For my first card, I followed one shown by Shari Carroll.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

Shari used a repeating sentiment from Lawn Fawn, which was adorable. I looked through my stash and found a sentiment from a Technique Tuesday set that would work, although it wasn’t repeating. Because of the sentiment’s length, I ended up making the card 4 1/2″ wide, to provide white space on the side and bottom. I added some “snowflakes” with embossing paste in the sky.

Holiday Card Camp Day 3

For the second card, I made some modifications to an idea shown by Cristina Kowalczyk. I masked off a triangular area and colored in select parts of the Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil with Copics to form a Christmas Tree. I wasn’t thrilled with the way the tree sides looked, they were raggedy, so I cut it out with the larger tree die cut from the Sizzix “Holiday Cheer” set. I silver heat embossed a sentiment from the Hero Arts “Naughty or Nice” set – really like the fonts in this set!