Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Today, I’m sharing a holiday card using the Penny Black 51-089 Tree of Joy word art die.
I cut the Tree of Joy out of a brushed silver cardstock and inlaid it into a square red cardstock panel. I secured the inlaid pieces on the back with tape. The panel was adhered to a white cardstock panel that I had misted with silver spray using the Penny Black 25-009 Snow Dance stencil. The card base, measuring 5 1/4″ is also brushed silver cardstock.
Today, I’m sharing two cards using the Birds & Leaves stencil from the Hero Arts Handmade for Christmas 2014 Catalog.
For the first card, I used gold Ferro paint (so not technically embossing paste) through the stencil and finished the card with a sentiment from “Very Merry Christmas,” one of my favorite holiday sentiment sets from Hero Arts. I used a double frame to showcase the stenciled image.
For the second card, I applied Ranger’s texture paste through the stencil, which I “water” colored with Distress markers after the paste was dry. This was a much more ambitious card than the first one! My first try was a mess as the watercolor seeped through. I was much more careful the second go round, although there’s still room for improvement.
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There’s something about the warmer weather and sunny skies that makes me dream about spending days on the water. Now, I don’t happen to own any watercraft, but the idea of setting sail is appealing nevertheless!
I crafted this card with Paper Smooches stamps and die cuts, as well as the Memory Box Wave stencil. I dry embossed white cardstock with the stencil, and then, with the stencil held in place, applied a combination of blue inks.
I’m linking my card up with this week’s Paper Smooches Sparks challenge – “Anything Goes.”
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Today, I’m sharing a CASE of a card made by Jill Foster using Penny Black dies and stamps. I’ve been working my way through many of Jill’s tutorials in the past several weeks.
Mine is a little simpler than the card Jill made. I used the Field of Dreams die [ #51-030] to cut the poppies and painted them with Distress Paints. (As an FYI, the die works with the Poppies stamp in the Blooming Garden stamp set [#30-155].) I created the yellow background by making a single-use stencil out of cardstock with the Interlocking die [#51-029], through which I applied a combination of Distress Inks. I finished the card with a sentiment stamped with Versafine ink from the Blooming Tags [#30-228] stamp set.
I had a lot of fun creating this month’s Tim Holtz tag – I like its theme and colors. I view creating his monthly tags like getting a kit from which I learn new techniques, with the safety net of the design and colors already thought out. I’m not sure why I didn’t make one in January – I need to go back and make that one as well!
One of this month’s techniques was smudging. This technique was shown in the Online Card Classes Chemistry 102 class, but I didn’t have much luck with it at the time. I had more success with it this time – smudging produces a subtle effect.
The tag on the left is the first generation and the one on the right is second generation. I smudged the stamped images on both tags. The images, from the Bird Feather set, are stamped with Distress Inks. The top part of the tag was misted with Distress markers using the new Tim Holtz Spritzer tool. This is an easy way to add misting, with or without a stencil to a project.
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