Thursday, June 8, 2017

Neat & Tangled June Release & Giveaways - Day 4



Hey everyone!  It's our final day of release reveals and today I get to show off a new stencil and die called Exploding Blocks.  I was inspired by a bird's eye view of a city street, but I love that the graphic nature of the design allows you to use it for other things as well, it almost reminds me a bit of my Time Warp stamp.

Anyway, let's get to the cards.  For this first one, I cut the cover plate twice, once with black cardstock and once with white.  Then I inlaid the pieces.  I used plain white for the surface/street areas, black for the sides of the buildings and then for the tops of the buildings I colored the white pieces with Copics in a rainbow pattern.  Actually, Carina was around when I was making this, so I picked out the markers and she did most of the coloring.



The sentiment is from the Celebrate stamp set.

Next up I wanted to create a vertical card with kind of a space/time warp vibe.



I again cut the cover plate twice, once from white cardstock, and once using a panel that I had ink blended with turquoise/teal colors.  I trimmed out just the center portions of the exploding blocks, inlaid the pieces from the inked die cut panel, and popped them up to frame the sentiment which is from the Art Deco set.



Finally, I wanted to take the stencil out for a spin.



I kept this one really simple.  After spraying some adhesive on the stencil to make it tacky, I placed it on a cardstock panel and then misted it with Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine.  I misted it pretty heavily, so there's actually a bit of texture to it.

I wanted to keep things pretty simple, so I used the Awesome dies.  The frame cut was die cut out of the center of the stenciled piece and then I mounted that on black cardstock.  The sentiment itself was cut from gold mirror board and then adhered in the negative space from that frame cut.  This looks so pretty and shiny up close!



That wraps up the release!  Everything will be available tomorrow morning at 8 AM EST.

Be sure to head over to the N&T blog to see what the rest of the team created as well as take a look at the mini set we are highlighting today.  You can also leave a comment there to be entered to win all today's featured products.

I'm also picking some winners for some of my new release products.  I'll be picking winners from comments both here and on Instagram.  So leave a comment here each day this week, and then head over to IG (@mprantner) for an extra chance.  I'll announce the winners tomorrow!

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27 comments:

  1. Congrats on this fun geometric piece. As soon as you mentioned a bird's eye view of a city, I can't get that out of my head. lol But I love it! And all of your pretty cards.

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  2. I'm glad that you showed so many different ways to use this die. I would have thought it was just ok. It is very, very cool when you change the colors around!!!!!!

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  3. Awesome designing on
    these cards. Very
    cool looking.
    Carla from Utah

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  4. This new release Exploding Blocks Die is AMAZING! Your cards are amazing also!

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  5. Wow Miriam! Congrats on this new amazing set!!! Love it so much!!! Your cards are super cool!!!

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  6. What a cool and crazy die!
    So many possibilities! I love
    all of your cards!

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  7. Miriam this is a mind bender! I love your design process. You could really go crazy with color or neutrals. Just amazing...

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  8. All these cards are so different and so amazing! Love all the ways you've shown how to use this die - thanks so much for sharing your talent with this!

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  9. "Awesome" is right!!! These are so terrific! Love the added dimension and how you used both parts of the die cuts! Really cool looking!

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  10. Great stencil and die! So many possibilities! Love the rainbow colored card!

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  11. This die is definitely versatile. Love how you've used it.

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  12. Fantastic die and cards! This is such a unique die.

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  13. Beautiful cards!Love the inlaid die cutting!Thank you for the inspiration!

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  14. These are amazing! I love your first card, it reminds me of stacked Legos, just so much fun and beautiful at the same time.

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  15. Very clever stencil and die you created. I like the cards you created.

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  16. I like be your new stencil and die!! I love all the cards, this stencil and die=lots of possibilities!!!

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  17. LOVE how you showcased your awesome die! And the cooperative effort from Carina on coloring, too!

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  18. That is such a cool die and stencil! You have a great eye for design!

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  19. Fabulous cards! I love how there is a sense of falling into them with the perspective of the Exploding Blocks

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  20. Fun designs! The rainbow card is my favorite :)

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  21. Wow, lots of beautiful cards that show a great variety with the blocks die!

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  22. Love your cards. Great ideas for the die.

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  23. I love your imagination and the ideas you have for your designs. This one is definitely a must have!!!

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  24. They just blew my mind, each in it's own right!

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  25. WOW Miriam - this is simply AWESOME!!!<3 <3 <3

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