Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Welcome back to the Poppystamps Blog Blitz celebrating the new Spring Release. I’m sharing a card featuring several of the new Poppystamps dies.
We’re previewing all the new Poppystamps dies on the blog from March 14 to March 28. With each post, there will be a prize offered. Head on over to the blog for details on this card and to be entered to win the Samirah Butterfly die.
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Did you hear? The Poppystamps Spring Release Blog Blitz is underway. Today, I’m sharing a card crafted with three new Poppystamps dies.
We’re previewing all the new Poppystamps dies on the blog from March 14 to March 28. With each post, there will be a prize offered. Head on over to the blog for details on this card and to be entered to win the Massa Leaf Frame.
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In today’s Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 lesson, we learned about creating optical illusions. Originally, I started out to CASE Julie Ebersole’s scenic stamping example, which involved simple watercoloring. But after half an hour, my anxiety level was off the charts – I like to watercolor, but I’m not good at it, and I stress when watercoloring under pressure.
So, back to square one – I decided to do another inlaid die cut card using optical illusion! Yes, I’m hooked on this technique. In this case, I played with the size of the sun as compared to the cityscape to create illusion.
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Today I’m sharing a Spring-themed card. I couldn’t resist combining bunnies from the recent Poppystamps Release cut out of a variety of pastel cardstock.
I finished off the card front with hand-drawn stitching. I really like how the colors pop out against the kraft. This card would work equally well with a “Happy Easter” or “Hello Spring” sentiment inside.
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Today, I’m sharing an encouragement card that combines two recently-released Mama Elephant stamp sets – “Honey Bunny” and “True Friend.”
I paper-pieced the bunny pair (blue and pink for boy and girl), and they sat on my work table overnight. I kept wondering how to anchor them to the card base without them getting lost. After resting on the problem, I decided to use the Poppystamps window showing a gray, rainy day as a metaphor for a “tough time” that the bunnies would be handling together. The “True Friend” set is fabulous, and I can see using those sentiments, both paired and alone, on a lot of future projects. For the raindrops, I used the stencil I recently created cutting the Crafter’s Workshop Blank Stencil material with the Memory Box “A Little Rain” die (I also used the stencil on this card).
Supplies: Studio Calico patterned paper
