Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Hello! Today I’m sharing a Halloween card created with Lawn Fawn stamps and dies.
I Copic-colored the adorable raccoon from Lawn Fawn Holiday Party Animal and placed him in a scene created with the just-released Stitched Tree Borders. I added a sentiment from Happy Howloween which I cut with one of the dies in the Everyday Sentiment Banners set.
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Hello! I’m playing along with Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #50.
I used the sketch to create a back-to-school themed card:
I paired the Whole Wide World globe die cut with a sentiment from Best in the World along with Echo Park patterned papers. I used the Stitched Square Stacklets and Stitched Rectangle Stacklets to cut the notebook papers. This would be a fun card to give to a son or daughter headed back to school or off to college.
Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!
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Hello! Today, I’m sharing a CAS floral card created with Penny Black stamps and dies. I’m trying to squeeze in a few more summer-themed cards before moving into the fall and winter holidays!
I stamped and heat-embossed 40-468 Flowerets and colored the flowers with Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Carved Pumpkin). I then fussy cut the flowers. I die cut 51-242 Shall We Dance twice from green cardstock and attached the fussy-cut flowers to the stems (covering the flower portion of the die cut). I arranged the flowers and stems on a background to which I’d applied Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink.
The sentiment from 30-338 Special Thoughts was stamped onto a window panel. To embellish the card, I added a butterfly cut with one of the dies in the 51-132 Flights of Fancy set.
Hello! I’m playing along with Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #49.
I used the sketch and the colors to create a CAS, beach-themed card (not ready to say “good bye” to summer quite yet!):
I trimmed the Beach Border with the one of the Stitched Square Stacklets dies after stamping the cardstock with a sentiment from Simply Succulents Stamp & Die Combo in Sugar Cube ink.
I had this card all assembled with a white strip (rather than the patterned paper) and it looked a little blah, so I flipped through my stack of patterned paper and pulled out this fun Echo Part print to add just a touch of whimsy! I also dry-embossed the background cardstock with the On the Spot embossing folder to add interest and texture. (I find that if there are multiple layers in a card design, it always helps to add some patterned paper and dry-embossing!)
Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!
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Hello! Late August signals back-to-school, and I’ve been seeing lots of posts about first days of school and sons and daughters headed to college. Our youngest son left for college this time of year five years ago (time really doesn’t fly!). He’s finished with college now, so we don’t have any back-to-schoolers in the house. That doesn’t mean I can’t remember what those transitions felt like, and with that type of transition in mind, I created this card with Lawn Fawn stamps and dies.
The Mom + Me set was released for Mother’s Day; I repurposed the owl with her owlet as a card for a son or daughter (perfect, really, for just about any time!). I kept the colors gender neutral (and sort of outdoorsy).
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