Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Hello! Recently, I was a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing fall- and winter-themed cards created with products from their Scenic Snapshots Collection. I hope you’ll head on over to read how I created the cards and about the thinking behind my design choices. The Scenic Snapshots Collection has been showcased on the Spellbinders blog for several days, so be sure to check out how other cardmakers have used these amazing die sets.
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Hello and happy October! Today, I am sharing two projects created with the October Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Home for the Holidays.” I had a lot of fun dressing my hostess for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Let’s start with the Thanksgiving card. I cut the hostess from a variety of solid and patterned papers. It was fun choosing her dress pattern.
I quieted the floral background patterned paper by adhering velum to it. I heat-embossed a My Favorite Things sentiment on pumpkin-colored cardstock to coordinate with the pie.
For the Christmas version, I heat-embossed a sentiment from the Merry Everything set on to a white cardstock circle that I placed behind the hostess to help her stand out on the background paper.
The hostess is holding a small Christmas tree. I added wrapped plaid packages, cut with dies in the set, around her feet as embellishment.
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Hello! Today I am sharing two more projects created with the Spellbinders holiday kit – Merry Everything. If you missed my first post of projects created with the kit click here.
My first project is a holiday card (a nighttime trip to get a Christmas tree) created with the Merry Everything kit’s die set and stamp set.
In addition to the stamp set and die set, I used the kit’s solid cardstock, gold and silver foil cardstock and glitter cardstock to create the card. I heat-embossed the ‘Tis the Season sentiment, which is one of several holiday-themed sentiments included with the kit’s stamp set.
Yesterday, I shared a scrapbook layout created with pieces from the Merry Everything kit. Today, I am sharing two pocket scrapbook pages created with contents in the kit documenting the same Christmas morning as the scrapbook layout. I added stickers and die cut pieces to the printed pocket scrapbook cards for some embellishing.
Not a scrapbooker? The pocket scrapbook cards can easily be incorporated on greeting cards.
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Hello! Today, I am sharing a card in which I’ve combined several Penny Black supplies in a Halloween scene.
I die-cut the #51-571 Vintage Truck and assembled it. (This die set includes an evergreen tree die for a Christmas scene, which I plan to create in a few weeks.)
I stamped, colored with Copic marker, and fussy-cut the costumed hedgehog from the #30-592 Critter Costumes set and placed him (her?) into the assembled truck. The witch is off to a Halloween event.
The background was stamped with the Penny Black #40-254 Decadence background stamp (a stamp I’ve had for several years). I really like the feel the background gives to the scene. The sentiment was cut with a die in the #51-077 Eeek! die set.
What I like about this card: I really like transportation-themed dies and look for ways to use them in imaginative ways; I like the pairing of the elegant, formal background with the truck; I am particularly drawn to fall colors at the moment (more so than in previous falls, it seems) and like the gold, orange, and gray combination.
Hello! I am sharing a card created for the Freshly Made Sketches #403 Challenge.
I mulled this design over and over and considered Christmas- and fall-themed approaches. However, I really wanted to make more Halloween cards and remembered the Candy Shoppe die set from Taylored Expressions.
The sentiment is from the SU Ghoulish Greetings (now retired). I dry-embossed the SU Lemon-Lime Twist (now retired) background for visual interest.
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