Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
I’ve had these My Favorite Things April release items for a few weeks and finally got around to putting them together on a card. I can’t resist umbrella or rain-themed cardmaking supplies!
I used the Raindrops stencil to dry emboss the Robin’s Egg cardstock for a subtle background. The sun and umbrella are attached to the card with dimensional adhesive.
Supplies:
There’s a new challenge at Stamp Nation to create a card with a sketch from Stamp Nation Design Team member Maureen Merritt. The DT provided fabulous inspiration using the sketch. My take closely follows the sketch, although I used stars rather than hearts as shown in the sketch.
I’ve been wanting to combine this fun Lawn Cuts set with the Lucky Stars sentiment set. I heat-embossed the sentiment and covered the heart in the sentiment with a die-cut, for a bit of contrast.
It’s fun seeing the various interpretations to the Stamp Nation challenges from other members. In addition to the inspiration, this friendly and supportive community of cardmakers offers lots of positive feedback, as well as advice on cardmaking products and techniques.
Supplies:
I’ve over in the Ellen Hutson CLASSroom today with a review of specific Sizzix products from the Stephanie Barnard Collection, the Flowers and Butterfly Triplits die sets along with the Elegant Stand-Up die set. I’d love to have you head on over to read my post.
I’m sharing a card created for the Color Throwdown #293 challenge.
The In Detail post I’ve been working on for the CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson’s includes a review of the Stephanie Barnard Butterfly Triplits Die Set (as well as the Flowers set). After seeing the fun colors for this challenge, I created a card featuring one of the die-cut butterflies. I framed the butterfly in an InstaFrame. The inside area of the MFT die was a tad small for the butterfly, so I used a square die to punch out a bigger background. I finished the card off with a sentiment from WPlus9.
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I have been working on an In Detail post for the CLASSroom on the Sizzix Stephanie Barnard Triplit dies. I had bunches of flower die cut pieces on my work table and assembled some for this card.
With all of the flower pieces, it’s easy to get overloaded with choices, so I kept to three colors for the flowers, although I’d originally started out with four. I first tried the flowers on a kraft cardstock base, but they looked much better on the green base. I had a Mead spiral notebook in the early 1970s with a fabric floral pattern that had these same colors. Even though I can more or less remember the pattern, I wish I’d kept it for card inspiration!
I’m entering this card in the Less is More Challenge whose theme is flowers, as well as the CASology challenge whose theme is also flowers.
