Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Wow this week has flown by! It’s already Day Four of the Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 class. My card is based on one shared by Marion Vagg.
I guess I like using pastel colors more than I realized! To simplify this card, I used patterned papers from the Studio Calico Sundrifter paper pack. The die cuts are Lorelai Leaf from poppystamps and Moonlight Butterfly from Memory Box. The sentiment is from Mama Elephant Water Blooms.
There were three fabulous sketches and a color scheme provided in today’s lesson for the Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 class.
My card is based on the one shared by Jennifer McGuire. I chose a couple different supplies than the ones that Jennifer used, but otherwise my card is very similar. I put Creative Tape onto the back of white cardstock before I cut layers of the sentiment to give the sentiment some depth on the card. I added Creative Tape to the blue cardstock as well. I’ve found that using Creative Tape makes it easy to adhere those delicate die cuts to one another and to the card base.
Supplies: Mama Elephant Water Blooms; Hero Arts Out of Print background stamp; VersaMagic, Stampin’ Up and Memento Luxe inks; Paper Smooches die; Hero Arts gems; Memory Box cardstock
I had a lot of fun pairing the Mama Elephant “Geotagged” stamp set with some Pebbles “Seen & Noted” patterned paper in this card.
I stamped the polka dots in several different colors before finally getting a color that I though worked best with the “on trend” colors in the patterned paper. While my natural inclination is to save the Pebbles paper, I’m trying to embrace the concept of “spending out” that Gretchen Rubin, author of “Happiness Project” and “Happier at Home”, describes in her post here.
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Maybe it’s the rain, or maybe it’s because I’m ready for more color in my surroundings, whatever the reason, I’m gravitating towards cards with bright colors right now. I really liked the Pinspired Challenge #5 image. So I made another card with that colorful quilt in mind.
In fact, I bought the Mama Elephant “Trifecta” stamp originally for the challenge, but then went a different direction at the last minute. To season the triangle border stamp, I inked it with Versamark each time before inking with the various dye and chalk inks. I don’t know if this gave me better coverage or not, but my experience is that Versamark “gums up” the stamp and helps ink stick to it.
Supplies: Inkadinkado border stamp
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