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Hello crafty friends! Today I have an entry for the latest Neat and Tangled Challenge to make a party ensemble. I was inspired to start with Wild Ones because it was a birthday set featuring my favorite thing to color: critters. I decided to make a card, a cake topper, a treat bag, and a name plate. For more information check out my video below:

I kept my cake topper simple because it is essentially disposable after the party, but I wanted the scale of it to match the cake and be noticed.

I pulled the yellow of the animals into the ensemble a bit more with some yellow candies and again kept the decoration simple as the candy is really more the focus.

However I felt like party guests would get a kick out of a personalized name tag and took a bit more care with this piece. I would make the name tags longer or shorter to accommodate the length of the person's name, but I thought this was another great place to include the party animal sentiment as these name tags are literally designating all the party animals who are attending. The Alpha dies from Neat and Tangled are perfect for this because they are tall and narrow and so they can spell names and make sentiments while still working on small pieces.

I spent the most time on my card for the special person. I really wanted to use the Big Hugs die to balance out the large giraffe stamp and thought the Balloon Duo stencil was a perfect background and a way to incorporate the green from my color scheme.The tiny birthday sentiment from Big Top Birthday modified the Big Hugs sentiment and I look forward to using that trick again.

I hope you enjoyed my party ensemble. I have loved seeing all the other talented designers in this challenge and wish the best of luck to everyone!

This gift bag is for the Little Tangles Gift Giving Challenge. There's still some time to play along so be sure to hop over for details.

Today I have a card and video tutorial to share for the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop featuring some products from Neat and Tangled and Kat Scrappiness. For a full tutorial check out my video:

I cut all the rectangle layers with the Kat Scrappiness Cross Stitched Rectangles. I love how the little puppy from Neat and Tangled can hold his coffee cup and many of the other accessories in the set. If you'd like to pick up any of the supplies from Kat Scrappiness please use the code Jess10 for a discount on your order. I hope to be back with more projects but until then enjoy your hop!

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a video where I explore a few of the quality products from Shimmerz Paints. I really enjoyed playing with them and I think their color palette is stunning. Please check out the video for more information on what I played with and how to create these cards. 

While I loved all the products I played with I think the Dazzlerz dimensional shimmer paint was my favorite.