Hello! I was recently a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing two cards featuring the Open House Valentines die set, part of the expanding Open House product line. I’d love for you to head over to see how I decorated two doors for Valentine’s Day.




Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Hello! I was recently a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing two cards featuring the Open House Valentines die set, part of the expanding Open House product line. I’d love for you to head over to see how I decorated two doors for Valentine’s Day.




Hello crafty friends and happy 2022! I’m delighted to share a Valentine’s Day project created with the Spellbinders January 2022 Large Die of the Month “A Pocket Full of Love.” Read more about the set here.
This unique die set creates a pocket in which to place a note, a photo, a gift card, and more. The enclosure is revealed by pulling up the heart. I enclosed a photo of my grandparents taken during their honeymoon in 1921.



Hello from the cold and snowy Pacific Northwest. Today I am sharing a CAS Valentine’s Day card created with the recently-released Be Bold Color Block Love You die set at Spellbinders. The Be Bold Color Block collection features die sets with which you can quickly and easily create bold and graphic greetings. I previously shared cards created with a Christmas die from the collection in this post.

With the Be Bold Color Block Love You die set, I cut the “LOVE” letters from colored paper in red and three shades of pink. I adhered the letters to Snowdrift cardstock for stability. I die-cut the “you” from white glitter cardstock which I also adhered to Snowdrift cardstock.
I taped the “LOVE” letters on the back and attached the assembly to blue paper (from the Echo Park Celebrate Winter collection).

Ho ho ho! Today I am sharing a last-minute holiday card featuring several Rubbernecker die sets. I previously used the Santa die here and here. One of the first times we took our sons to see Santa was in Mystic, Connecticut, where Santa arrived by boat.


Thanks for visiting. I do not plan to post any more cards until Christmas Day, so before you go, I want to mention that Scrapbook.com is currently offering 5% off your entire order with the code JINGLE (through Saturday, December 25 at midnight, MST).
Hello! Today I am shifting gears from the winter holidays and sharing a friendship card created with the Eyelet Lace Frame set, part of the just-released Garden Shutters Collection by Becca Feeken for Spellbinders. The layers in the set make it effortless to create a distinctive card! The outside scallop is 7 inches wide x 5 inches tall.

