Neat & Tangled January Release & Giveaways - Day 1

Hey all!  It's time for the first Neat & Tangled release of the year!  Today we're showing off a new handlettered set/dies from Danielle called Just Because.

I love the size of the main sentiment and that you can use it solo, or with the secondary sentiments.

I started by creating a background using my new stencil set that we'll be featuring on Thursday.  I wanted to try out my Distress Oxides on a dark background, so I cut a panel of dark gray cardstock (Coal Mine from WPlus9), and used three shades of oxides (Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry).

Since Distress Oxides take a while to dry, I heat set the panel, but I also set it aside to dry overnight just to make sure I didn't have any issues with my embossing powder.

I also did mist the panel with water to kind of set and bring out the more opaque nature of the oxides.

Using the MISTI, I stamped and embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.  I did this a couple times in order to get fuller/puffier embossing for the sentiment.

That's all, really pretty simple, but I love how the sentiment pops against the darker background, don't you?

Be sure to head over to the Neat & Tangled blog to check out what the rest of the team created and enter to win today's featured products.  I have a couple of items in this release and I'll be giving some away to a couple lucky commenters this week.  To be entered, just leave a comment here and on any release post this week.  Winners will be announced on Friday.