Author: Jean Manis

CAS-ual Fridays: Welcome Autumn

This week’s CAS-ual Fridays challenge is to create a CAS project with embossing – either dry, heat, or a combination.

For my card, I paired dry and heat embossing. I dry-embossed brown cardstock with an A Muse Studio embossing woodgrain plate which I heat-embossed with white powder for the tree trunk from the Paper Smooches “Autumn Groves” stamp set. I also heat-embossed the squirrel, acorns and banner sentiment. I first tried this card on an all-white background, and then on an off-white, speckled cardstock, neither of which felt (or looked) quite right.  I have quite a few digital graph and ledger papers, so sized one from Splendid Fiins onto white cardstock, printed it, and stamped the leaves in a variety of Distress Ink colors.

CAS-ual Fridays: Welcome Autumn

 

Supplies: A Muse Studio woodgrain embossing plate; Stampin’ Up embossing powder; Splendid Fiins digital paper for graph paper; Stampin’ Up cardstock

Lawnscaping Challenge #41

The Lawnscaping Challenge this week is to create a card using the sketch below.

For my first card, I moved the cluster to the bottom-right corner of the card. I was in a mood to create something fall-themed, so I paired Simple Stories Harvest Lane papers with the newly-released Lawn Fawn “So Thankful” stamp set and an old favorite, “Critters in the Forest.” All of the images are embossed with Stampin’ Up espresso powder. I cut the sentiment in to two pieces so that I could stack it.

Lawnscaping Challenge #41

 

Supplies: Simple Stories Harvest Lane papers, Stampin’ Up cardstock, Stampin’ Up embossing powder, Fiskars scallop border punch
For my second card, I used the newly-released Lawn Fawn “Hoppy Halloween” with Echo Park’s “Chillingsworth Manor” papers. I wanted a little extra “zing” so I used Stickles on the circle, the moon, and the medallion of the vampire bunny.

Lawnscaping Challenge #41

Supplies: Lawn Fawn “Hats Off to You,” Stampin’ Up cardstock, Versafine ink, Fiskars circle punch

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

This month, I scrapped two different seasons with the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. I had one toe still dipped in summer even though we’re headed into fall!

I’d never scrapped these non-digital, underwater photos from our trip to Maui in 2003. I enjoyed pairing them with the brightly-colored Echo Park Paradise Beach Collection papers. It’s my third layout using the collection.

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park Paradise Beach papers; Fonts: Rockwell (title) + Futura (journaling)

Last fall, our first as “empty nesters,” I made a point of capturing the signs of Halloween in our neighborhood, as well as during our weekend day-trip travels. For me the holiday is a perfect transition point between the fall and winter. I’m looking forward to doing the same this year. This is one of the first layouts in a long time in which I’ve put my journaling directly onto the page background.

Simple Scrapper September Premium Membership Blog Hop

 

Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park Apothecary papers and element; Crystal Wilkerson crumpled paper used as a mask; Katie Pertiet paint splatter; Font: Georgia

Check out the inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team using this month’s templates and be sure to enter this month’s giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper.

Julie Aldridge
Sue Althouse
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Jess Forster
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
Valerie Mangan
Mandy Ross

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Back to School

This week the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is to create a Clean And Simple Back to School project.

Back to School - Paper Smooches

 

Labor Day weekend has always signaled “Back to School” for me, even though there were years I had already started back to school, and my sons had started back, before Labor Day. Just one of those things fixed in my head!

I had my sons in mind while I created this card. I wanted something math and science-oriented, as well as “boy friendly.” This teacher may have caught the paper airplane from one of his students, or maybe he’s made it himself. At any rate, he’s passionate about the subject he teaches and isn’t ruffled by a little paper airplane building. He encourages his students to stretch themselves in the classroom.

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Go Boldly!

This week’s challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays – to create a Clean And Simple project featuring banners or flags – has been a particularly fun one. I created one card right away, but my mind wouldn’t stop thinking of possibilities.

The death of astronaut Neil Armstrong inspired me to create a card related to the landing on the moon. The late sixties and early seventies were such an exciting time in our country. My brother and I were obsessed with the space program. In fact, he went on to major in aerospace engineering. We ate space food sticks, in school we read Weekly Reader articles about the space program, and we were glued to the television any time something related to the space program aired.

My card for the challenge uses a banner for the sentiment and a US flag.

Go Boldly! Paper Smooches

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