you are my whole heart (SSS blog guest post)

Hi there!



I'm on the SSS blog today, showing you how I made personalized valentine's day tags for my kiddos.

To see the other 2 tags and find out which sets I combined to create these tags, visit the SSS blog - click!

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Neat and Tangled with We R Memory Keepers

This is my 2nd post today! If you're looking for my LF teacher card set, scroll down or click HERE!

The Neat and Tangled team is partnering with WRMK this week!

I was lucky enough to find the Fringe and Score Board in the mail - just my thing!  I can't wait to make allll the tassle garlands. For now, I thought I would show off 2 ways to use it for card-making.

My first card features my favorite donut girl with some party fringe:

I stamped, colored and die-cut the girl from Say Yes to Donuts, and stamped a sentiment from the set to frame the donut top. It's so easy to bend and manipulate sentiments to get a whole new look!

To ground the donut girl image, I folded a few sheets of blue tissue paper so that I had 3 tiers. Then, with one quick pass of the blade, I had the entire fringe piece, ready to glue onto the card front.

In order to hide the top part of the fringe (which I had stapled together since I am a lazy crafter!) I cut an extra white panel the same width of the card front and tied some twine around it.

My second card uses the Fringe Board in an even easier way:

I used the girl from Better Together, and created a little square shaker behind her. With a quick pass of the fringe blade, I had strips of pink tissue paper that I cut into little squares with a set of paper snips.

Visit the NT blog this morning for even more WRMK inspiration. Thanks for stopping by!

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Say yes to donuts + giveaway winner!

Hi there!

All of the new stuff is now available in the Neat and Tangled store, and I couldn't help but craft one more card for you today:

I used Say Yes To Donuts, and piled all the kids onto the one donut.



The more, the merrier!

I also have a winner to announce:

Taunya, congrats! Shoot me an email at mom2sofia(at)gmail(dot)com to claim your copy of Say Yes To Donuts!

Danielle has a list of winners on the NT blog as well - check it out!

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Donuts and coffee and a giveaway

This is my 2nd post today! If you're looking for Lawn Fawn flamingos, scroll down or click *here*

I am so excited to share 2 other sets that I designed for Neat and Tangled's May release. The donut images may be familiar, if you've followed my blog for any length of time. Last year, I threw my kids a donut-themed birthday party that looked like this:

Since then, I dreamed of having these images in stamp form. I tweaked the images a bit so that they worked for card-making, and I hope you love Say Yes To Donuts as much as I do:

I made a main donut boy and a main donut girl. I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity stamp designer. haha. I hate having nothing to use for boy cards! And then, there are the extra heads that could peek out from behind the sides of the donut, or drape over the top. I think it would be totally fun to use the birthday hats from Big Top Birthday on these little guys.

I also worked on a separate, 3x4 set (my first mini set!) to bring you what I love best with my donuts: COFFEE. Big Bold Brew features the boy holding his giant mug of coffee, and a mix of fun (and I hope fresh) coffee-themed sentiments.

I thought I would make a simple card showing how the 2 sets could work together:

I really did draw them to work together, aren't they cute? I love his giant mug, and how the coffee is spilling out. 

The hardest thing about designing coffee and donut sets? Coming up with some fresh sentiment ideas! I hope you like some of the ones I picked. 

Before you go, I am doing a giveaway for a copy of the Say Yes To Donuts stamp set. Leave me a comment on this post and tell me what you think of these new sets! I'll announce the winner on Friday morning's post. 

Now hop over to the NT blog to see what the rest of the DT made - click!

go on and be awesome!

Hey there, and welcome back to another day of Neat and Tangled's May release week.  All new products will be for sale as of Friday morning (May 20th!)

Today, I'm showing off the new set, Awesome. It's awesome, and it's called Awesome. yessir.

I mixed Awesome with a little set you'll be seeing very soon... eek! I love this little donut image! So, donut mind if you... and then "go and be" is from the Awesome set. To end off the sentiment, and instead of stamping the large handwritten "awesome" that is included in the set, I opted for the matching die-cut instead. Isn't it... awesome?

Check out the NT blog this morning for more inspiration, and for a chance to win a few new sets - click!