Challenge #21 Winners

Hello there! Wow so many great entries this time. We have been struggling picking our top three. So many amazing entries!

goes to challenge is Nikki Foraker!

Congratulations, Nikki! What a fabulous card. We loved the embossed frame and hte many sequins.

Please email neatandtangledstamps(at)gmail.com and let us know which stamp set you would like. And feel free to display the "top tangle" badge on your blog!

There were a few other projects that caught our eye that we thought deserved some recognition, so here are the honorable mentions, or as we like to call them, the "lovely little tangles"!

by Cornelia (fun stamping)

by Flubidoo

by Maureen W.

Well done, ladies! Please feel free to display the 'lovely little tangle' badge on your blogs!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the challenge! We hope you'll all play along for our next challenge, which starts this Thursday!
In the meantime check back every day to see what we have new in store for the Birthday Bash. See you tomorrow.

Tutorial: Vellum & Alcohol Inks

Hello there - we have Virginia Lu today giving us an awesome tutorial on Vellum & Alcohol Inks. I invited her back to play along with our current Challenge #21.

Remember her stellar Birthday Party Favor here? We all wanted to see a tutorial, and Virginia has obliged. Here is what she had to say:

~ Gather supplies-clear/white vellum paper, Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Blending Solution, Adirondack Alcohol Inks ( Pink Sherbet, Sunshine Yellow)

~ Use Alcohol Applicator with felt. Here I used regular brown felt for the alcohol inks as it works . AND it saves money!

~ You can control the color intensity by adding more/less inks and alcohol solution. Experimenting with the alcohol inks is part of the fun!

~You can either dab or swipe the inks to create textured look that you want.

~ After it dries, you can stamp or emboss

~I cut out the embossed images and tried out the designs

~ Make book marks with the fun sentiment

~ See how I used the die cut for creating edges (see top left)? You can make good use of your existing die cut.

~Color part of the sentiment

~Use Liquid Pearl Accents to add details on the muffin tops

~Add Stickles for the extra sparkle

With the extra cupcake images, I made a card. With  Washi tape, buttons and sequins, this card was quick to put together!

Thanks for having me as the guest designer today! It is such a pleasure to share my work with you at Little Tangles!

Remember we have a few challenges open: CASE the Birthday Bash, and Challenge #21. Hope to see you entering!

Challenge #21 - Color Challenge

Hi friends - Amy has been a trooper holding the fort down here as I was travelling and then had a horrible tumble. So I'm slowly trying to get back into the swing of things but haven't fully recovered my concussed head. So no card for me but we have an exceptional set of cards to get you going and a super star as our guest designer.

By the way, don't forget our CASE the Birthday Bash challenge!

I thought it would be fun do a color challenge, keep it interesting, right? Grey, Yellow & Pink. Yep - it's that strange color the skies have been turning in my parts of the earth and the days are getting shorter. Yikes.

Anyways, I'm going to let our amazing Guest Designer Paulina Nakamura kick things off. You might have seen her amazing Little Tangles shaker cards on the main blog.

by Paulina Nakamura

isn't it just fabulous? Make sure to hop over there and leave Paulina some extra love!

by Charlene Bopp

by June Houck

by Amy Tsuruta

by Barb Murphy

Wow stunning right? I hope you feel inspired to play along too.

We have a wonderful prize for the challenge winner - a Neat & Tangled stamp set of the winner's choice!

Challenge Guidelines:

• Create a NEW project based on the challenge theme. Your project must fit within the challenge theme in order to be eligible to win.
• Submit your entry through the Inlinkz tool below. (If you have a blog, please link to the blog post with your challenge entry, not your entire blog!)
• Link back to our challenge and display our challenge graphic in your blog post.
• The use of Neat & Tangled stamps is not required, but it is strongly encouraged! If you don't own any Neat & Tangled stamps, check out the FREE digi stamps HERE. 
• You may enter as many times as you'd like.
• We'd love for you to be a follower of Little Tangles!
•  You have until Sunday, Sept 29th at 11:59 EST to enter.

We hope you'll join us!! And don't forget the CASE the Birthday Bash challenge. More prizes are at stake.

challenge #20 - back to the blackboard winners!

Hello there! We've been enjoying your link ups for the challenges. Let's get to seeing who won the coveted "Top Tangle" for the Challenge #20 - back to the blackboard.   

It goes to ...

Kelly Latevola!!!!!

Congratulations, Kelly!   Love how Kelly uses multiple neat & tangled sets to create a wonderful blackboard scene!

Please email neatandtangledstamps(at)gmail.com with Challenge #20 Winner as your subject line and include your neat & tangled stamp set of choice along with your snail mail!

There were a few other projects that caught our eye that we thought deserved some recognition, so here are the honorable mentions, or as we like to call them, the "lovely little tangles"!

maria f.

shirley-bee

Jessica Pascarella

Well done, ladies! Please feel free to display the 'lovely little tangle' badge on your blogs! 

Just a reminder about our month long challenge:

Birthday Bash C.A.S.E Challenge (The link is open until Monday,Sept 30, 11:55pm EST)

Birthday Bash: Technique Challenge Winners!!

Hello there! We're having a lovely September, how about you?  We've been enjoying your link ups for the challenges. Let's get to seeing who won the coveted "Top Tangle" for the Birthday Bash, Technique Challenge.   

It goes to ...

Lyndal!!!!!

Congratulations, Lyndal!   Love how Lyndal used gesso and gelatos to make her card SING!

Please email neatandtangledstamps(at)gmail.com to get more info on your Little Tangles Prize, a Guest Design spot with The Little Tangles!!!

There were a few other projects that caught our eye that we thought deserved some recognition, so here are the honorable mentions, or as we like to call them, the "lovely little tangles"!

shirley-bee

Penny Ward

Maureen W

Well done, ladies! Please feel free to display the 'lovely little tangle' badge on your blogs! 

Just a reminder that there are a couple challenges running:

Challenge #20 - back to the blackboard (The link is open until Sunday, Sept 15th at 11:59 EST)
Birthday Bash C.A.S.E Challenge (The link is open until Monday,Sept 30, 11:55pm EST)

Card Drive For Grayson Reopened - Please Send More Cards!

I'm reposting this blog post from Danielle's Neat & Tangled site here. Consider donating your challenge cards, past & present, to this little man...

Hello friends. It is with much sadness that I am writing this post. You may recall back in January I started a card drive for a sweet little boy, Grayson.  He had been diagnosed with brain cancer and I had hoped to bring him some smiles with your cards.  The drive was a success! Grayson and his brother, Aydan, LOVED your cards! They received over 200! His mom, Jackie, wrote a little about the joy it brought them in her own blog post HERE. 

Grayson

Since then Grayson has undergone chemotherapy and had relative success in that his very aggressive tumor has not grown, but it also has not shrunk. This is hopeful news though because the chemo was at least making the tumor "behave".

This weekend Grayson was involved in an accident at home which has left his foot severely injured. They are unsure if it will need to be amputated or not, and the entire situation is further complicated because of his cancer.  His chemo has to be put on hold until they can decide what to do about his foot. Until then he is staying in the hospital. You can read it in Jackie's words HERE.

It seems so unfair that a small child must be put through so much. And I cannot begin to imagine how his family feels. I know that my own heart aches. I think when you become a mom you hurt for all children suffering, not just your own.

I am restarting the card drive for Grayson.  As before you can send cards to Grayson, his big brother Aydan, and/or the entire family.  Please NO "Get Well" cards,  just funny, happy, cute encouraging cards to bring a smile to their faces.

Mail cards to:

Grayson Savery (and/or Aydan Savery, and/or The Savery Family)
c/o Danielle Walls
P.O Box 5808
Wilmington, DE 19808

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and PLEASE share with all your crafting friends!

Challenge #20 Tutorial: little tangles + chalkboard = ♥♥♥

Hello out there!

It's Amy, reminding you about little tangles, challenge 20:

back to the blackboard

I love this chalkboard trend!

It's everywhere:

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It has definitely hit the paper crafting industry by storm and has managed to stay strong.  

There are tons of tuts available on the chalkboard technique which include heat embossing and then going back and re-stamping your images to create a shadow effect.

I was going to show you that technique, which I would call the original version, but when I dug around for my white embossing powder, I couldn't find it.  I'm in the midst of packing up all my crafting supplies from one space to another and let's just say, it's scary.

So, for those of you that follow my blog, you know that I typically fall back on the quick & easy version!  

All you need: your favorite neat & tangled stamps and a good white ink pad:

I stamped the A Lot To Say with the white ink and fussy cut it out.  Then I used Party Dots, the strip border dots along with the solid dots and randomly stamped.  I stamped the banner and sentiment, and fussy cut it out.  

Tip:  use a dry baby wipe to smear white ink on your pieces.

I like the contrast of the solid black panel against the chalkboard pieces to really make them POP.   Lately, the messier the better for me!

Earlier this year, I was a guestie on the Neat & Tangled blog.  Here's a card that I created using the same technique:

It's quite a bit 'neater' than what I've been currently doing.  I even took the time to do the white lines with a colored pencil!

This one posted last week for the current challenge:

So there you go...I can't wait to see how you're inspired by 

back to the blackboard

Challenge #20 - Back to the Blackboard

Hi friends - we're back to our scheduled program. We do have a few challenges still running to wrap up our Birthday Bash. So please come play along.

Since we're back to school we thought we'd bring a very trendy technique to this challenge: Back to the Blackboard. We are having a fabulous designer who also helped us during our Birthday Bash.

It's no other than Piali Biswas. I love how she made a colorful blackboard out of the dream stamp.

by Piali Biswas

Let's check out what our girls have in store for you...

by Barb Murphy

by Charlene Bopp

by June Houck

by Ren-Yi Lo

by Amy Tsuruta

Feeling inspired? Leave our fabulous DT a sweet comment by visiting their blogs. They love that kinda stuff ;) And after that we want to see how you're going to bring back basics with the blackboard. Don't know how to start with this blackboard? Fear not, we will have a tutorial this Sunday coming up, so check back.

We have a wonderful prize for the challenge winner - a Neat & Tangled stamp set of the winner's choice!

Challenge Guidelines:

• Create a NEW project based on the challenge theme. Your project must fit within the challenge theme in order to be eligible to win.
• Submit your entry through the Inlinkz tool below. (If you have a blog, please link to the blog post with your challenge entry, not your entire blog!)
• Link back to our challenge and display our challenge graphic in your blog post.
• The use of Neat & Tangled stamps is not required, but it is strongly encouraged! If you don't own any Neat & Tangled stamps, check out the FREE digi stamps HERE. 
• You may enter as many times as you'd like.
• We'd love for you to be a follower of Little Tangles!
•  You have until Sunday, Sept 15th at 11:59 EST to enter.

We hope you'll join us!!