Hello Friends, It’s finally Friday! Are you as happy about Friday as I am? For some reason this past week seemed like it was in slow motion. I was lucky though to play around with some more of Neat & Tangled Stamps. It’s an honor to be featured three Friday’s this month on the Neat & Tangled Blog.
For my first card I used the stamp set called “Scandinavian Flowers“. I stamped the grass a few times with memento black ink & colored the flowers with some bold copic markers. I added some more grass with some “feathering” strokes. The sentiment was stamped in black dye ink.
The background was screaming for a stencil so I used the “Festive Chevron” stencil from Simon Says. After placing the stencil on top of my card I inked on top of it with “sea glass” ink using a dauber. (I feel like I have better control with a dauber). Do you have a storage solution for your daubers? I like to store them in this storage case.
For my second card I used the same grass but, vertically this time for a fun graphic twist. What do you think?
I stamped the grasses with some pink dye ink from Simon Says Stamp and colored the “grass” with Copic markers.The sentiments were stamped with pink and black ink. To finish my card I had to add some white dots with a gel pen and I layered the front panel on my card with some foam. I hope you have time to visit the Neat & Tangled Blog and say hello. Did you see my last post with the Simon Says Stamp GIVEAWAY? CLICK here to enter. Thanks for your visit today and have a wonderful and sunny weekend. Hugs, Kathy
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HOW COOL KATHY!!!! I LOOOOOVE THE LOOK OF THESE CARDS!!!! QUITE UNIQUE & COLORFUL!!!!! I don’t have a storage solution for daubers! LOL NEED ONE though & need MORE DAUBERS!! 😉
Great cards Kathy, VERY pretty!
I DO have a storage solution for my daubers. I had a pretty decorative box with an attached lid that was the perfect size to hold 48 daubers. I made little dividers for in between each row and made a colour chart for on the inside of the lid. I then labelled each one to coincide with the chart on the cover. They all have their own spot! (What can I say, I LOVE to be organized!)
Kathy, neat cards today. Yes I like the case you have for daubers. (Spoiler Alert) I bought my at Scrapbook.com for $3. cheaper. Sooo when you need another try there.
Such clever cards, Kathy. Love how you’ve made the flowers pop on your first card and your graphic card is so much fun! I bought the dauber storage box some time ago and love it.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Marianne x
I’m always SO impressed with the ways you make simple stamps extraordinary. Thanks for sharing!
Wait I can’t stop looking at these cards. A-MA-ZING Kathy! They are gorgeous and so striking! I NEED this stamp set now. LOL
The first card is pretty but the second one makes me go WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! Absolutely breathtaking!! Great way to use the stamp in a new and exciting way!! I LOVE it!! TFS!
Kathy, Beautiful cards. I LOVE learning from you. Looking forward to color challenge 2 also.
Love these cards, and the bright colors. Thank you so much for sharing.
Beautiful first card, really creative to use the stamps another way! You rock Kathy!
STUNNING CARDS!
These cards are so vibrant! And your use of that grass stamp is so creative. Beautiful cards – thanks for sharing!
Wow,I love both these cards Kathy,but the second one is my fave-it’s stunning!!
No I don’t have a storage system for my daubers-don’t have enough of them to warrant their own ‘spot’ lol.Thanks for sharing your talent with us again,the way you’ve done these cards is so inspiring! xx
Great cards! Love the second way you used the stamp. way to think outside the box.
Two more gorgeous cards, Kathy! I always love your choice of colors – so bold and beautiful!
Wow!! I love how you created such different looks with the same stamp!! The way you used the stencil is so fun on the first card. I LOVE how you flipped the stamp and used it that way for the second. Really great design!
Wow! That is awesome! When I first saw the cards, I didn’t realize that it was the same stamp! Amazing!!
Your first card is super. I love the colors and your coloring is great. The second card is very modern looking. Very nice and I like the colors here too. TFS
I love how you used two the same stamps but in 2 different ways. I would not have thought to do that at all. The colors are so cool too. I love to see how you color because it gives me ideas for what I want to do when I color. Thank you!
I have a question for you or for anybody on this site. I have a box of Crayola Crayons, the 96 color box. Seeing as how I love colors, when I got the box I just sat there and stared at it once I got it opened. It looked so beautiful I almost didn’t want to use any of them. Once you use them, they are not as sharp as they are from the box. My box has a sharpener on the back but they never are as sharp as they are when you first get them. They are harder to color with when they aren’t that sharp. How do I get them as sharp as they are when you first open the box?
These are fantastic, especially what you did with the 2nd one.
so different Kathy. I love the first one and the second one is rather interesting. So neat to see such different ideas with one stamp set.
Love your cards. The first card is beautiful and the second card…oh, wow! this is really neat how you used the grass on the first card a second way on the second card…thanks for showing a different way to use a stamp….again, really neat!
i thought i commented on this and apparently i didn’t (oh the old age is creeping up on me!) The colors in your cards – in particular the first one – are always so vibrant and i love that stencilled bg. You are the stencil queen! and the second card – you’re just so clever! you always have a cool and interesting takes on things- and you always find a way to add your own signature to a card -so it says ‘kathy’.
Hi Kathy!! You have such a unique way of looking at stamps and doing AMAZING things with them! Both are great, but I LOVE the graphic one…
With your first card I thought you had coloured and stamped onto a sheet of acetate and used this over the stencilled background. This was because your colours are so vibrant. Maybe it’s something I’ll try myself sometime. 🙂 Love both of your cards – amazing!
Your cards are absolutely fabulous. That first one is just plain amazing!
How neat! I’m going to hafta look for some of my stamps that I can try that second one with! Thanks for the inspiration!
Neat how you used the grass in the second card!
Fantastic! I just love how you sued the grass in a non traditional way, so cool, and the coloring against the stenciling just glows!
Love how you used the stamp in two ways…beautiful!
Awesome use of the stamps!
These are both gorgeous Kathy, I love going over black stamped images with Copics and the stencilled background is gorgeous. I store my daub ears in tray but I need to find another solution. Thanks for sharing yours.
Hi Kathy, Ilove how you did the background with the stencel and then stamped the flower, love the bright colours,also the pinky one looks good, Cheers Anna.