Et Cetera Papers Winner

Hey folks!  Just popping in to announce the winner of the Et Cetera Papers prize pack from last week's collaboration.

Congratulations go out to Pat Hoban!

Pat, please shoot us an email at danielle@neatandtangled.com and we'll get this right out to you.

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Neat & Tangled / Et Cetera Papers Collaboration - Day 3

Today is the third and final day of our collaboration with Et Cetera Papers.  Et Cetera Papers produces specialty real wood papers and products, and several team members are working with these papers this week.

The Et Cetera Papers team will also be working with our products, so you'll want to stop by their blog as well.  At the end of the week we'll be drawing a winner from comments on our collaboration posts for prizes.  We'll be drawing a winner here on the Neat & Tangled blog for the $25 prize pack you see below (which consists of adhesive backed real wood cherry and birch veneer papers and as well as real wood envelopes), and Et Cetera papers will be drawing a winner for a $25 Neat & Tangled store credit.



OK, let's take a look at today's projects.  First up today is Keeway:

Hello, it's Keeway! For my card today, I am working with the birch wood adhesive sheet as my base layer of the card. It is difficult to see in the picture, but the birch wood sheet has a very cool wood texture that really adds quality to the card.

I wanted to keep the card clean and simple, and with Spring amongst us, I thought would be great to bring out Itty Bitty Welcoming Committee stamp set! I love this adorable sheep and bunny holding a banner that you can fit a sentiment to any occasion.

I blended some turquoise bottom up, and blue and pink from top to center on a smooth white cardstock and die cut a circle out for the background. I then stamped 'It's Your Birthday' from the Celebrate stamp set at the top. I adhered this background directly to my birch base card.

I then adhered my image in front of the background with foam tape to complete the card. A simple and adorable birthday card.

Next we have Sveta:



I'm so happy to present you my projects for our collaboration with ETC Papers! For both cards I used the Cherry Tape Roll as it fits my pine trees perfectly. If you have a bigger die to cut you can go with Cherry Wood Paper Sheet. Both are adhesive and so easy to use!

I made two funny Valentine cards based on my first associations with wooden paper and the tree dies Neat & Tangled has.



I chose the Lumberjack love stamp set and coordinating Lumberjack love Nice and Neat dies to create a scene, that turned out "sarcastic funny". I've colored the lumberjack with brush pens and added wooden trees. The sentiment is from My Favorite Nut stamp set.



The second card is more "cute funny".  I used the Sailmates stamps set to add faces to my wooden trees. The sentiment from the Lumberjack love stamp set is way too cute and soo perfect for the characters I made.

The other thing that I liked about these ETC Papers goodies is that in addition to the fact that the wooden sheets as well as the tape are self-adhesive, they have coordinating envelopes. I'm sure that cards made with them will impress anyone who gets them.

We hope you've enjoyed our Et Cetera Paper projects.  Be sure you leave comments on all our collaboration posts to be entered to win the prize pack, and do the same over on the Et Cetera Papers blog to see what they have to share and to be entered to win a credit to the Neat & Tangled store.

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Neat & Tangled / Et Cetera Papers Collaboration - Day 2

Welcome back for Day 2 of our team up with Et Cetera Papers.  Et Cetera Papers produces specialty real wood papers and products, and several team members are working with these papers this week.

The Et Cetera Papers team will also be working with our products, so you'll want to stop by their blog as well.  At the end of the week we'll be drawing a winner from comments on our collaboration posts for prizes.  We'll be drawing a winner here on the Neat & Tangled blog for the $25 prize pack you see below (which consists of adhesive backed real wood cherry and birch veneer papers and as well as real wood envelopes), and Et Cetera papers will be drawing a winner for a $25 Neat & Tangled store credit.



OK, let's take a look at today's projects.  First up is Cheiron:

Hi there, Cheiron here. So happy to be joining in on this wonderful collaboration with Et Cetera Papers this month.



I love the idea of using wood paper on my projects, and the adhesive birch and cherry wood sheets are perfect for card making. I used a Cherry Wood Adhesive Sheet to create the main panel of my card, then die cut the Birch Wood sheet several times to create my wooden hooray. Once my hooray pieces were die cut, I glued 4 of them together with matte medium to create a dimensional piece for the front of my card.



I did not want to take away from the clean look of the wood, so I applied colors that were similar to wood stain so the wood texture would still show through. I put some aged mahogany and rusty hinge Distress Inks on my non-stick craft sheet and sprayed them with water. I then picked it up the color with a small paint brush and painted it on to the dimensional die cut.

Next up is Elena:



Hi there! Elena here, with my Etc Papers collaboration project. I used the Birch Wood paper as a way of grounding my focal images. It's hard to make out in the card, but it gives such a fun texture and makes the card more special.

I tried my hand at a softer, no-line coloring of the deer from Into the Woods. The Making Waves die provided the perfect backdrop. I love the little cloud edges that are left behind by that die. The sentiment banner is from Mermazing. I did some stamp surgery to remove the original sentiment and now I can use it with whatever greeting will fit the space. I really love how it curves perfectly around the circle.



Just above the Birch Wood paper, I cut a strip of crosses from the Tiny Cuts die set. As a finishing touch, I added a sweet little heart to the bottom corner, using some Cherry Wood paper.

OK now it's time to head over to the  Et Cetera Papers blog to see what they have to share, but first leave a comment to be entered to win our Et Cetera Paper prize pack.  See you right back here tomorrow for our final collaboration post!

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Neat & Tangled / Et Cetera Papers Collaboration - Day 1

Hi Friends!  We're teaming up with Et Cetera Papers today through Thursday.  Et Cetera Papers produces specialty real wood papers and products, and we'll be showing those off for the next several days.

The Et Cetera Papers team will also be working with our products, so you'll want to stop by their blog as well.  At the end of the week we'll be drawing a winner from comments on our collaboration posts for prizes.  We'll be drawing a winner here on the Neat & Tangled blog for the $25 prize pack you see below (which consists of adhesive backed real wood cherry and birch veneer papers and as well as real wood envelopes), and Et Cetera papers will be drawing a winner for a $25 Neat & Tangled store credit.



OK, let's take a look at today's projects.  First up is Daria:

Hi everyone, Daria here! Happy to join this fun collaboration with Et Cetera Papers.

Self-adhesive sheets are very easy to use and ideal for all kind of die-cutting.  Before die-cutting, I glued it to some foam sheets and then to stick it adhesive sheets. It made it very easy and fast to assemble adding a little bit of fun dimension.

I went with simple, yet elegant no-stamping cards. I used some of my favorite dies from Neat & Tangled: Punchinella and Celebrate Dies for one card and intricate Hooray die for the second. All of them cut just perfectly.

For my today's cards I used Rustic Cherry Wood adhesive sheets from Et Cetera Papers.
I think it pairs perfectly with light blue cardstock. Variation in color in wood pattern looks awesome in real life and adds so much to the design.

Next up is Stephanie:

Hey friends! Stephanie Gold here with a little project in collaboration with Etc. Papers! I am working with these incredible Cherry wood veneer envelope and tape sets and oh my are they pretty!! Since they are perfectly coordinated already, I decided to make them even more so by creating a matching card and envelope.

I started by placing the tape on a diagonal and then using the Tiny Cuts dies to cut dashes in between each wood stripe. I whipped out a couple of older stamp sets to create the focal point of my card. Ornate Frames stamps and dies were used to create the hollow frame and my sentiment was created using Painted Hello.

I wrapped a vibrant green hemp cord on the diagonal and tied it into a bow. The wood tape looks so beautiful next to the bright colors of the ink and twine.

For my envelope I used a pink shipping tag and stamped one of the hollow Ornate Frames and adhered it to the center. I wrapped more of the green hemp cord around the envelope, tied it into a bow, but also secured it to the envelope using a Tiny Attacher. This helps keep it in place while in transit. :)

That's all for today, be sure to leave a comment here and stop by the Et Cetera Papers blog as well.  We'll be back tomorrow with some more beautiful collaboration projects to share. See you then!

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