Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
I had a birthday card to make and knew I wanted to use the adorable Paper Smooches Birthday Buddies set. I had seen a card design by Dana on her blog back in December that I really liked that I thought would work well for what I had in mind.
It took me awhile to figure out which combination of papers from the Studio Calico Here & There paper pack would work best together. (It’s a fabulous set of patterned papers!) I created the sentiment on my computer and die cut it.
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Welcome back for Day Two of the Neat & Tangled May release! Today, I’m sharing two cards created with the “Sunburst” stamp set, one of three sets releasing this week.
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For my first card, I stamped the sunburst with a Hero Arts mid-tone shadow ink and added elements from Just Thinking of You and Swirly Twirly Tags. I heat embossed the sentiment from Swirly Twirly Tags.
For my second card, I stamped the sunburst with a pigment ink pad. I added a stamped heart, which I die-cut, and a sentiment from Kindness Matters.
Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The May release stamp sets go on sale tomorrow, May 8. And for your added convenience, you will be able to purchase the sets at Simon Says Stamp and at i {heart} papers, as well as at Neat & Tangled.
Welcome! Today I’m sharing layouts I created with this month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates, as well as this month’s Story Starters. Click on the images for supplies used.
Although I often scrap seasonally, I scrapped the this layout about a vacation we took in 1995 because I found my husband looking at the photo on his computer. I figured that if it meant that much to him, it was probably a memory worth documenting! The photo was taken with a film camera, and we have a scanned version in our photo database.
This past month, the Simple Scrapper Membership took part in a “Stash Bash.” Jennifer Wilson encouraged us to use up our supplies in the process of organizing them. I had chosen these heavily themed papers by My Mind’s Eye a couple of years ago specifically for these photos of my husband during our vacation in 2006 to Belize.
Finally, I used the Story Starter – “Combine photos from different cameras on one layout to tell a more complete event story” – to scrap a different memory from my wedding than I have in the past. The top photo is one that I took of my reflection in a mirror. Both of these photos were originally color, but I felt that they worked better with one another as black and white photos.
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Welcome! It’s time for the May Neat & Tangled release! Today, I’m sharing two cards created with the extremely versatile “Sparkle and Shine” stamp set, one of three sets releasing this week.
Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The May release stamp sets go on sale Wednesday, May 8. And for your added convenience, you will be able to purchase the sets at Simon Says Stamp and at i {heart} papers, as well as at Neat & Tangled.
The focus of today’s Online Card Classes “His & Hers” course was Anniversary and Love cards. I decided to make an anniversary card for my husband as our anniversary is later this month.
My card is based on one shared by Julie Ebersole, which I just loved because of its “on trend” nautical motif.
I made a few changes since I didn’t have all of the supplies she used. Julie had stamped her background with a fabulous Impression Obsession background stamp. I used patterned paper as a substitute, but that background stamp is on my “to buy” list. I created the custom sentiment on the computer.
Supplies: My Mind’s Eye patterned paper; Memory Box anchor die; Spellbinders circle die; Studio Calico wood veneer; Simon Says Stamp mini heart die