Neat and Tangled Heart of Gold

I think this geometric heart die is so cool and pretty versatile...it can be for a hugs card, a hello, a valentine, anniversary, wedding, etc. 

For this card, I used some ink sprays on paper and then die cut the word (from Lawn Fawn) and heart and adhered them to black cardstock that I embossed. The white is also embossed with the same folder. I love the effect of the bright sprays on black.

The most surprising thing is that I didn't add any glitter, but it seemed to make a statement all by itself...although now I think some sequins wouldn't be out of place on here.

If you get a product you like, do you use it over and over and then put it away and forget about it? That seems to be what I do...so I may have to get some of my old favorites out and do some work with them over the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow to my U.S. peeps!

Happy Wednesday!

Chark

Faceted Heart Die

When I first saw the geometric hearts, I knew I needed one. They are fun and look like diamonds, which you can also get. Here's what I did with the one I got at Neat & Tangled. 

For this card, I used a heart die as a stencil and used a Hero Arts ink dauber. Then I die cut it in black and adhered it to a pink piece of paper that I made with sprays. 

For this one, I only impressed the heart die into paper, using an embossing mat instead of cutting mat in the Big Shot. Then I used Tombow markers to create the watercolor rainbow. The Congrats is a Lawn Fawn die in silver paper and the background paper is actually a piece of Star Wars scrapbook paper.

I love dies and make tons of them when I pull out the machine. And Neat and Tangled has this new leaf die. I think they're fun for coloring and paper piecing, bring on the geometrics!

Entering the Little Tangles challenge this month, Coloring...hope you'll join in! 

Happy Monday!

Chark

Winner of the Summer Coffee Loving Blog Hop

It's official, I have a winner for the Neat & Tangled Clear Stamp Set from the CLBH and it's

Rebecca Yahrling!!

Congrats, Rebecca! Email me your address so I can send these out soon! 

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments!!

Happy Saturday!
Chark

What Day Is It Again?

The day off on Monday threw me off, I almost forgot to post on Wednesday, thinking it was Tuesday. And we didn't even have a snow day to add to the confusion, just the holiday. Ah well, these things happen.

Today I have a card made with a Neat and Tangled die. Love this geometric heart. I cut it out several times and then used different papers to fill in. In the white spots, I added Diamond Stickles. The heart insides and the outline are from paper that I had spritzed with my Dylusions ink sprays...loving those things!

I used my large and small ink daubers for the circles (with Distress Inks) and then some washi that my crafting friend, Karen, sent me out of the goodness of her heart. She also did a giveaway for those Tim Holtz Crazy Birds and I won those, and immediately inked them up. I'll share that project soon. Thanks for the extra washi tapes, Karen!

Entering the Little Tangles challenge here, hope you'll join in! They have some cute freebies if you don't have any Neat and Tangled stamps...this "hello" is one of them. 

Happy (last few minutes of) Wednesday!
Chark