Layered landscape (Neat and Tangled release week)

Hi there, and welcome back to our 3rd day of new reveals over at Neat and Tangled. All of the products shown this week will hit the store at 8am EST on Friday.

Today, we're showing off a gorgeous set designed by Miriam - Layered Landscape.

I put down my copic markers and made a card that came together in under 20 minutes - I didn't even know things like this were possible. ha.



I stamped the mountains from the top down - starting with the lightest and working my way down to the darkest. I used shades of blue, and did absolutely no masking since the darker colors covered up the edges of the lighter shades.

I did the tiniest bit of shading with coordinating markers (ok, so I didn't put them down all the way) to add depth to the darker 2 mountain layers.



My lightbulb moment was grabbing the Calathea stamp set and using one of the images to create a forest of black trees at the base of the mountain-scape.

I cut the panel below the trees and stamped the sentiment (from Anne of Green Gables! yay!) onto the base layer.

I hope you like it! This is definitely a different look for me.

Don't forget to leave a comment here before you go! A winner will be chosen from among the design team's blog posts and announced on Friday morning - you could win a $25 gift card to the NT store.

There is a lot more to see on the Neat and Tangled blog this morning - click!

♥.

I think of you so often (Neat and Tangled release week)

Hi there!

We're on to day 3 of this month's Neat and Tangled release week. In case you missed the first few days:

Day 1: My Favorite Nut
Day 2: Loves Notes

Today, we're showing off Miriam new layering set, Calathea. She always comes up with designs that are so original! If you're hopping over from the Neat and Tangled blog, you may be confused to find my squirrels amid a slew of leafy beauties, but I promise I used the new set.



I used the biggest solid leaf, it's matching outline image and the matching die to create the 4 bubbles (bubbles?) for my scene.

I love that the leaf is an irregular oval, so I just eyeballed the quadrant. If they were precise ovals, I would have definitely been more careful.

I stamped inside each opening with a medium grey ink, and then splattered blue and brown inks over that. I really like the black outline around each oval. It makes the card even more playful and matches the black outline of the rest of the images.



The images are from My Favorite Nut, the sentiment from Calathea, and the little bird was stolen from Kitty's Favorite Things.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the NT blog this morning - click!

♥.