Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
I couldn’t resist crafting a tie card for Father’s Day using the Penny Black Amazing [#30-243] stamp set and coordinating Dapper [#51-049] die cut.
I die cut the tie (with collar) first and then stamped it with the coordinating tie stamp using VersaFine Onyx Black ink. I machine stitched the gray cardstock panel. The patterned paper card panel is from my stash.
Today, I’m sharing a friendship card that could be sent for a variety of occasions. It’s crafted using a recently released Penny Black stamp set and a die cut.
To begin, I inked the sign post from the …Lost Without You [#30-248] stamp set and stamped it into the woodgrain stamp from the Inspiring [#40-113] set, which I had inked with a darker ink color. I then stamped it onto kraft cardstock. I fussy cut the stamped sign post and added distress ink to the edges. The sentiment is also from the …Lost Without You set. To finish off the card, and to tie in the colors from the patterned paper, I cut a bird with one of the Tweet Things [ #51-050] dies.
Today, I’m sharing a masculine card created with the Penny Black …Lost Without You [#30-248] stamp set from the new Sunny Stamping release. This stamp set lends itself to a variety of masculine cards including birthday, graduation, new job or promotion, and Father’s Day.
I used the compass in the set to stamp a tone-on-tone background. I stamped the suit twice, once in brown and again in rust, and fussy cut the rust one to use for the tie. The sentiment was stamped twice as well. I first stamped “lost” and then masked that word when I stamped the rest of the sentiment.
For a new job or promotion card, it would be fun to choose a different color for the suit and tie like navy or gray.