Neat & Tangled July Release Week - Day 1 and Giveaways

Happy Fourth of July!  While I'm on vacation, Neat & Tangled is revealing our July release!

I've got several items in this release including a new Journaling card stamp set and coordinating die featuring succulents.

I'm showing off both the die and the stamp today.  I started out with the stamp set, and I kept it pretty simple and monochromatic, very simple copic coloring/shading here.  I used the Warm Gray family for this one.



Then I pulled out the die.  We added a coordinating die this time, to allow you to have a coordinating mat for your die.



I find coloring succulents can be kind of tricky, especially for the kind of purply gray ones.  What I did here was start with some gray cardstock.  I added some simple green shading on one end of each petal and then a bit of blue/violet at the tip of the petal.  Then I smoothed both colors out with the copic blender.  As a finishing touch I went over each petal with the lightest of the cool grays.



Then I cut the die from white cardstock also, adhered it to a light blue mat and inlaid the succulent portions.

OK please head over to the Neat & Tangled blog and check out what the rest of the team created, plus you can enter to win a prize there each day.  I'm also hosting some giveaways too and will choose winners sometime next week when I get back from vacation.  See you back here tomorrow!

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