Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Today I’m sharing a holiday card with Penny Black’s 51-070 The Gift die as the focal point.
I die cut the bird from a gold foil paper. The background was created by stamping the musical notes from the 30-238 Footnotes set on vellum.
I heat embossed the “Seasons Greetings” sentiment from the 30-255 Most Wonderful set with gold embossing powder on a card panel, which I cut with a circle die to expose the musical notes behind.
Today, I’m sharing a Halloween card featuring die cuts. Yes, it is still August, but I can feel the weather changing! So I’ve been looking at fall crafts and foods (did someone say pumpkin bread?!) on Pinterest and thinking about autumn! I’m eagerly awaiting new product releases featuring fall and winter items, so while I wait, I’m playing with some of my favorites from previous seasons.
I have several Memory Box patterned paper pads (now discontinued) with fall patterns. The Memory Box weather fence die cut was attached directly to the patterned paper panel, and the cat was adhered with dimensional adhesive. The sentiment is from one of my favorite Hero Arts Halloween sets released last year.
Supplies: Poppystamps Large Walking Cat; Memory Box Weathered Fence; Hero Arts Ghostly Greetings
It’s time for another Cutting Edge Challenge! Our inspiration this week is an amazing card created by Design Team member Kay Miller.
Here’s my take on her card:
I was drawn the colors in Kay’s card, as well as the idea of foliage providing structure to the design. I used small birds in lieu of the flowers. I also substituted a white card panel on a blue base for her blue panel on a white base.
Supplies: Taylored Expressions die, Hero Arts sentiment
Today I’m sharing a winter-themed card crafted using the newly-released Poppystamps Snow Flocked Tree die.
To create the winter scene, I paired the Snow Flocked Tree with a snowy backdrop, which was cut using the Pine Tree Border. For some color, I added Santa’s Magic Sleigh in the foreground.
The Snow Flocked Tree was cut and then dry embossed giving it the flocked detail.
I was away for a week and I’m now catching up with the Online Card Classes Stretch Your Stamps 2 homework. I’m sharing the first card I’ve made from the class, a CASE of one created by Jennifer McGuire.
I made a few changes to Jennifer’s amazing design given my supplies. The Hero Arts damask background stamp is intended to be used for a portrait, rather than landscape, card (the pattern isn’t symmetrical in this orientation), but I don’t own the Tim Holtz stamp she used and I wanted to get going on the card. 🙂 I used silver ink whereas Jennifer used a gorgeous combination of Perfect Pearls.
For this card, I followed Jennifer’s instructions to apply VersaMark to the die cut sentiment and heat emboss it will clear powder. Jennifer did the process three times; I stopped after two. I will definitely use that technique in the future as it gives the die cut extra depth and great shine.
Supplies: Encore silver ink; Stampin’ Up black cardstock; Hero Arts Large Fabric Design; IO Thin Stripes; Paper Smooches Quote Tag; MFT STAX Heart