Neat & Tangled Reveal Day #4

Hi there friends! Welcome back to day four of the Neat & Tangled July release! Today I will be sharing a set of sparkly cards using some of the new stencils that are being released this month.

Stencils are great for a variety of techniques, and I thought it would be fun to use them with gold watercolors to create shimmering accents overtop of watercolored backgrounds.

I started off by ink smooshing distress inks onto watercolor paper to create some quick and easy watercolored backgrounds. Because these backgrounds were going to be covered up by the gold watercolors, I wasn’t worried about having them perfect. For the background colors I used Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick and Tumbled Glass.

I used my Finetec gold watercolors to use as “ink” for ink blending the stencil designs over top the Distress Ink backgrounds. To do this, I lightly spritzed the watercolor pans with water and dabbed my ink blending tool into the watercolors; next I sponged the watercolor “ink” over the stencil-covered background. I applied the watercolor over the stencil until I had the entire background covered.

When I was applying the watercolors using the ink blending tool, I needed to re-wet the watercolors every so often to keep them damp; this allowed them to glide and blend across the stencil easily. Just be careful with how much water you use to keep the watercolors moist; too much water will result in an oversaturated ink blending tool and will cause the watercolor to soak under the stencil. If you don’t have gold watercolors, you could also do this with a gold ink pad, like the Delicata Golden Glitz ink.

To finish off the cards I heat embossed the “hello you” sentiment over each card panel and added little coordinating, die cut hearts. The die cut hearts are watercolored with the same watercolors that were applied onto the cards.

GIVEAWAY!

And before you go… Do you want a chance to win the some of the new goodies from this month’s release??? Leave a comment on this post, as well as the other Neat & Tangled design team blogs (listed on the Neat & Tangled blog) to be entered into the giveaway! All July release products will be available for purchase starting July 8th and all winners from this week’s giveaways will be announced that same day on the Neat & Tangled blog.

MORE INSPIRATION

Looking for more Neat & Tangled inspiration? Check out some of these most recent cards and videos featuring Neat & Tangled stamps, dies and stencils! Click on the photos to be taken to the corresponding blog posts.

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PRODUCTS

If you are interested in any of the products used in this post, I have them all linked below to Simon Says Stamp. Affiliate links used when possible.

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SIMON SAYS STAMP

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS Ranger TIM27188	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad WORN LIPSTICK Ranger TIM21513	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET	Finetec MICA WATERCOLOR Paint 6 Set M600	Ranger Embossing Powder SILVER EPJ37361	Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE BLACK Detail EPJ37392
Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE GOLD EPJ37408	*WOW Embossing Powder CLEAR GLOSS ULTRA HIGH WA01UH	My Favorite Things BASIC STITCH LINES Die-Namics MFT777	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS IBT40965	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad CLEAR	Strathmore WATERCOLOR 9×12 SHEETS 373091
*Neenah SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Kit	EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002

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