Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
I’m playing along this month with Tim Holtz’s 12 Tags of 2014. I’m still taking baby steps when it comes to working with Tim Holtz’s stamps, techniques and overall style. I don’t have many of his stamps, and the ones I have are primarily Christmas themed, so I simply followed the steps on his blog post to create my tag.
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Today, I’m sharing a card created with one of the new stamp sets (and its companion die cut set) from Paper Smooches.
For the background, I applied Ferro acrylic paint through a Simon Says Stamp star stencil. The Ferro paint was demonstrated during the Online Card Classes Stenciled Class. It’s quite thick – as thick as embossing paste. Application was super easy and much easier than coloring embossing paste with a metallic (which I actually haven’t tried, although I have colored the embossing paste with acrylic paint). I also tried heat-embossing white paste (applied through the stencil) with silver powder; another technique demonstrated in the Stenciled class. It worked fine, but I prefer the look that the Ferro provides over the embossing powder technique, which tends to bubble the embossing powder during the heating process.
I colored the owls with Copics, cut them with the Owl Icons die, and attached them to the die cut branch with dimensional adhesive.
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Today, I’m sharing a project combining the adorable elephant from Penny Black’s jumbo love [#30-209] stamp set with classroom Valentine cards I created on my computer.
For my first classroom Valentine, I stamped and fussy cut the elephant on gray cardstock. The cards measure 3″ wide by 4″ tall – I designed the cards to fit into a Project Life page.
I thought it would be fun to try the elephant in pink as well!
If you’re interested, I created a pdf download with the classroom Valentines (four to the page, two in each color). All you have to do is stamp the elephant! (Click on the link and select “download.” For some reason, the preview does not accurately depict the download and it will appear wonky. I don’t know why, but I’ve tested the download and it’s correct. 🙂 )
Happy Monday!
I couldn’t resist entering the Mama Elephant Challenge this month. The photo inspiration is yummy with pinks, silver, white and jewels.
I paired the adorable monkey from “Up and Away” with die cuts from “Party Kit.” I covered the white clouds, cut with “Landscape Trio,” with vellum to soften their look. I stamped the monkey, sentiment, and heart with Versamark and heat-embossed using silver powder.
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I’m still playing with stencils (and color!). The idea for this card comes from one of Julie Ebersole’s shown in the Online Card Classes Stenciled Class.
I dry-embossed the linen cardstock with the Heidi Swapp stencil before coloring it with the Distress Inks (leaving the stencil in place while applying the inks). The stencil includes an additional butterfly, which I cut off for a traditionally-sized card. I didn’t need to move the stencil at all for the design of the butterflies, which I liked, as I struggle to do something “artsy” when positioning items on my cards. 🙂
Supplies: Heidi Swapp Butterfly stencil
Distress Ink Pad, Picked Raspberry
Essentials by Ellen: White Linen #100 Cardstock, 25 Pack
Memory Box Cardstock, Licorice