Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Today, I’m sharing another tag as part of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist series in the CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson’s. This is a “Take 2” of Day Four’s tag by Kittie Caracciolo combined with the deer card by Julie Ebersole in this post.
I really like the red, gray and white together. At first I tried making this same tag with gray, but decided to throw in the red deer to mix it up! I also cut the snowbanks in the woodgrain cardstock, as well as the trees, to provide more texture.
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Today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was all about feminine and masculine cards. I crafted the cards shown by Debby Hughes with a few modifications.
The card size is 3 1/2″ x 5″ with a panel of 3″ x 4 1/2″. I’ve never crafted a card this size before, but I must say I like it a lot. I cut a Crafter’s Workshop blank template with the Savvy branch die, through which I applied the embossing paste. I tried using cardstock, as Debby did, but ended up placing the branch too high on the card. I heat embossed the branch. Key to this idea is using an embossing buddy on the cardstock before applying the paste. I used one of my new favorite Hero Arts sentiment sets heat embossed in white. The Savvy snowflake die was heat embossed with silver several times.
I took a shortcut with the feminine card by dry embossing the background rather than using paste. I also have fewer snowflakes on mine than Debby had on hers. I can only do so much bling! With two sons, I actually have an easier time crafting masculine cards than feminine ones.
Today was a fabulous class loaded with inspiration to which I’ll turn in the coming weeks!
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Today I’m sharing a card based on the one shown by Debby Hughes in the Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop. The focus of today’s lesson is die cuts.
I made a few substitutions using what I had. For the snowy background, I used a Heidi Swapp stencil to apply the embossing paste. I didn’t like the look of my hand-cut snow slopes, and don’t have the die that Debby used, so I used the MFT dies. (These dies are used time and again for my winter projects!) I heat embossed the Hero Arts sentiment with silver embossing powder.
Light is scarce here at this time of year, so I better get started on another card!
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With the door shut on October, I’m making holiday cards! I wanted to create a card in one sitting, so I turned to some of my favorite winter-themed die cuts.
I had this finished with a plain background and sent a photo to my eldest son. He responded with “Shouldn’t there be some snow?” That was valid input, so I dry-embossed the card base with an embossing folder to give some texture and the allusion of snow.
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!
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Today, I’m sharing a quick, fall-themed card created with die cuts and a panel of patterned paper.
I wanted to make a card that felt like Halloween, without being too specific to the holiday. I die cut the tree, stopping just short of the base, so that I could have a section to go behind the “hello” die cut. I first tried the bird, which is really too cute to feel spooky, in black cardstock, but changed it out for the glitter paper for a little something extra!
Happy Halloween! This month has flown by.
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