Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
A final Valentine’s Day card for 2015!
I stamped Penny Black’s 40-190 Bed of Roses with white pigment ink on black cardstock. I heat embossed the sentiment from the 30-207 From the Heart set and cut it with the smaller tag from the 51-007 Tagged die set. I cut the tag reinforcement piece from black cardstock. I attached the tag onto the rose background with dimensional adhesive and used baker’s twine to finish off the card.
Next stop – St Patrick’s Day!
I’m playing along with ColourQ Challenge #279 – red, black, newsprint and a neutral. While my card isn’t specifically Valentine’s Day themed, it works well as a friendship card and could still work as a Valentine.
I wanted to add a border around the newsprint so that the off-white of the newsprint wouldn’t rest directly against the white card base. The black border also ties in the umbrella handle and the boots.
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Today, I’m sharing a CAS Valentine’s Day card created with Penny Black stamps and die cuts.
I used the Penny Black 30-207 From the Heart set for the heat-embossed sentiments, 51-094 Tweets die set for the birds and two of the 50-003 Chat Bubbles dies.
I’m playing along with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #255.
I’m playing along with this week’s Mojo Monday challenge.
I got the idea to use the tree stamp from the Penny Black 40-187 Love Birds set after seeing Sarah Bigelow’s card. With the tree stamped, I begin mixing and matching patterned papers from the We R Memory Keepers Love Notes pad. I tend to cut all of the elements in a variety of papers/colors before making my choices. Needless to say, it can take quite a bit of time! I added a sentiment heat embossed with Penny’s Black 30-160 Friendship set and added a bird cut with the 51-094 Tweets die. I’m obsessed with that particular bird, especially as I often want to have an element pointing into the center of the card and that one fits the bill!
I’m playing along with Retrosketches #151 and Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. I couldn’t resist a vase of bright flowers to chase away a dreary overcast day!
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