Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Happy Monday! It may be spring calendar-wise, but here in the Pacific Northwest, our weather isn’t cooperating. The wildflower garden on this card, stamped with distress paints, is something I’m imagining as I have another cup of hot tea!
Supplies: Stampin’ Up cardstock (Old Olive)
|
|
Today I’m sharing another card from the Online Card Class Pattern Play class. This card is inspired by one of Jennifer McGuire’s from the Day 1 lesson.
My favorite aspect of the lesson was Jennifer’s explanation on how to choose coordinating patterns. Jennifer’s card combined a floral with three tone-on-tone patterns. As I recall her papers were from several different companies. Since I’m still taking “baby steps” with patterned paper, I combined papers from the Basic Grey “Paper Cottage” pad choosing just one paper with a multitude of colors (the second heart from the top). This technique makes paper paper combining so much easier! The hearts are popped up with dimensional adhesive to give some depth.
Supplies: Spellbinders banner die
|
|
Today I’m sharing a card I created for the Lawnscaping Challenge in which I made a birthday card with heat embossing.
I really like the way that the white shows up against these vibrant colors. The new “Critters in the Forest” die cut made fast work in cutting out the raccoon!
|
|
I’m going back through the Online Card Class Pattern Play class lessons to make cards which I didn’t make during the week of class. Today I’m sharing a card using the emboss resist technique inspired by one of Jennifer McGuire’s cards from the Day 2 lesson.
The tricky part in crafting this card is choosing the background stamp. The Hero Arts “Leaf and Floral” pattern provides the right amount of negative space so that enough of the patterned paper still shows through. I ironed the embossing off, after I applied the distress ink, per Jennifer’s instructions in the lesson. I’ve never done this before; I really like the results! To ensure that the papers coordinated with one another, I chose all of the papers from the MME “Quilting Bee” pad.
|
|
Time was running out for me to use the “Happy Easter” stamp set from Lawn Fawn! I created a springtime, Easter card to play along with this week’s Retrosketches sketch.
There’s a hint of Copic coloring on the rabbit, although it didn’t photograph well. The bunny is popped up with some dimensional adhesive. I cut the sentiment strip in half so that I could stack the greeting.
Happy Easter and Happy Spring (Happy Fall to those of you in the Southern Hemisphere)!
|
|