Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
There’s a feature today on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog highlighting the awesome new Penny Black Pocket Treasures release with inspiration for cards and pocket scrapbooking. For the post, I shared some of my recent pocket scrapbook pages. I’d be delighted if you took a look!
Today, I’m sharing a card suitable for a variety of celebrations, (graduations, birthdays, and first days back-to-school come immediately to mind), created with Penny Black die cuts and stamps.
I die cut the balloons with the Penny Black 51-004 Uplifting die set and used dimensional adhesive to create depth with the balloons. The number frame is cut with a die from the 51-056 Picture This set. I stamped the sentiment, from the Penny Black 30-171 Cupcakes set, onto the card base. I drew the balloon strings with a ruler on a sky blue cardstock panel with a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen.
Hope you’re having a special day!
Today, I’m changing direction a bit – I’m sharing pocket scrapbooking pages created with products from the recent Penny Black Pocket Treasures release.
Before I made cards, I scrapbooked, and before that, I kept photo albums. The pocket scrapbooking pages work well for my current memory keeping style. I like the ability to create my own journaling cards and a few embellishments with the Pocket Treasures dies and stamps, using my card making tools, (die cutting machine and punches), and supplies, (patterned paper, solid cardstock and twine).
My husband and eldest son just spent several days in NYC taking in the sights, and the pages below capture some of their visit (I have several more pages started documenting the rest of their trip).
Let’s take a more detailed look at some of the journaling cards and embellishments.
I used the Tagged #51-007 die to create a large journaling spot. I added a die-cut quote from A Pocket Full #51-053. I often add maps to my scrapbook pages. I stamped the Let’s Chat #30-244 location indicator and cut it with the coordinating die from Tabs & Toggles #51-051.
I stamped a sentiment from Remember This #30-246 with Staz-On ink directly onto the photo. I stamped the camera from Bon Voyage #30-224 and cut it with a 1″ circle punch.
I die cut a tab with Tabs & Toggles #51-051 and stamped it with a sentiment from Life’s Journals #30-247. I attached it to the photo with a Tiny Attacher. I die cut a journaling card with A Pocket Full #51-053 and added the stamped sentiment from Remember This #30-246.
I die cut the frame from Polaroid #51-057 and put it over a photo. I added it to a journaling card stamped with a sentiment and ledger lines from Life’s Journals #30-247. I cut the number frame from Picture This #51-056 and paired it with a journaling card.
Thanks for joining me in this departure from cardmaking!
Today, I’m sharing a card created with the new Penny Black Bon Voyage #30-224 stamp set – perfect for summer travel cards or scrapbook layouts!
I paired the stamped and Copic-colored Vespa with balloons cut using the Uplifting #51-004 die set. I cut each balloon twice and used dimensional adhesive on some to create a variety of depths. The balloon strings were drawn by hand.
Have a fabulous Friday!
The most recent challenge at Stamp Nation is to use Fruits and/or Veggies on a card in celebration of all summer has to offer! This challenge had me stumped for a while, until I noticed that I had more supplies that fit this theme than I realized!
I stamped the Lawn Fawn Make Lemonade set with Memento ink on Gina K cardstock and colored the images with Copics in blues and yellows. I discovered some Little Yellow Bicycle patterned paper in my stash that I’ve had for several years. The sentiment is from the Penny Black Friendship set.