Monday, August 7, 2017

Neat and Tangled 5th birthday celebration!

Hi there!

I'm so thrilled to be part of the Neat and Tangled team, and especially when they are celebrating this milestone birthday. I was thrilled to be able to meet Danielle for dinner on our way down to Virginia Beach a few days ago. I wish either of us had remembered to snap a photo! But she is the sweetest and kindest person, and I am so lucky to be working for her.  Happy 5th birthday, Neat and Tangled!

For this birthday month, things aren't running in their usual way. The new sets are available for purchase right now instead of at the end of the week! And the regular design team has the month off to make room for special guests in a week-long blog hop. For more details, check out the NT blog this morning - click!

GIVEAWAY: I do have a 15$ gift certificate to give away on my blog! Leave a comment on this post between now and Sunday August 13th 11:59 EST and I will pick a winner.

I illustrated a set that worked with our birthday theme, called Wild Ones.

Neat and Tangled 5th birthday!

I couldn't help but pair the images in Wild Ones with the new hand-lettered Hooray. All of the products released this month work so well together!

I did some simple ink-blending at the top of the folded card, and allowed the color to fade to nothing before grounding the images with a kraft-colored hill.

Neat and Tangled 5th birthday!

When I added the critters and the big HOORAY die-cut, I blended them into the background by coloring the outline around them blue wherever they would be sitting on the blue-inked card-base.

I hope you like it! The giraffe and the monkey make me smile so big!


23 comments:

  1. super cute! I absolutely love the stamp set!

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  2. This is just oh so CUTE!! Your background rocks!!

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  3. What a cute card and I absolutely love the Hooray die/stamp.

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  4. Awww Elena, this is just precious, a beautiful job on it.

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  5. Such an adorable card and the color combo's are spot on! Happy to celebrate Neat and Tangled success!

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  6. So fun! Love the Wild Ones set. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win. :D

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  7. Hi Elena! I love this card! You are such an innovative card maker, stamp creator and all around awesome mom and blogger. I love following what you do even tho I don't have time to craft like I did before. I love watching you grow and do amazing things. Thank you for sharing your art with Me. I love how you colored the edges of the die cuts to make them blend with the backgroud because it's brilliant. You are Brilliant and I hope you know that. I hope you take time to get that about yourself. (((Crafty Hugs))) Paulette Still
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  8. Love these cute little critters and really anything illustrated by you!

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  9. Super sweet card with those fab images and the gorgeous blended bg.

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  10. VERY cute card-love that giraffe! :)

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  11. Such a cute card 😊 💙

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  12. Adorable card! I love how you made it a scene.
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  13. Love giraffe <3 Cute and beautiful card!!! ;)

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  14. I really like your ink blending technique -- to let it go down to nothing and then ground the images with the hill. I love the sweet images you've created!!

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  15. Love it all, (critters stamps, dies, coloring & scene) I need more birthday stuff in my stash. Awesome card, thank for sharing

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  16. So sweet! Love that hooray die.

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  17. Really sweet card...love the huge Hooray die cut and how it blends so nicely with the background.

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  18. This is absolutely adorable! Your illustrations always blow me away :)

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  19. I love all the stamp sets you design! These are super cute animals!

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