Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Today, I’m playing along with the Share Joy Challenge #20 at Taylored Expressions.
I used the sketch and kept it Clean & Simple, creating a “Hello” card with die cut flowers and sentiment:
After a week of rain here in the Pacific Northwest, these bright flowers make me happy! I did a bit of pruning on the Leafy Branch, before tucking it behind the flowers.
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Today, I’m playing along with the Share Joy Challenge #19 at Taylored Expressions.
I used the sketch to create a Valentine’s Day card created with die cuts:
I used the Little Bits penguin die to create a boy and a girl penguin. I sized down the skating pond so that it would fit on the stitched heart. I cut it once, and then re-positioned the die on one end and cut again. Then I re-positioned the die on the other end and cut again.
I used the stitched rectangle die to create the Sugar Cube stitched piece joining the patterned papers by cutting once with the die and then again, leaving the stitched center.
Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!
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Today, I’m playing along with the Share Joy Challenge #18 at Taylored Expressions.
I used the sketch to create a Valentine’s Day card:
The focus of my card is a tic-tac-toe board created with the dies in the Love Always Wins Stamp & Die Combo. For my card, I used the Taylored Expressions Hello Happiness patterned papers, which helped immensely with my selection of solid cardstock colors and the overall color scheme. I finished off the place where the two patterned papers meet with a scallop edge, cut with the newly-released Stitched Scallop Edger die.
I heat-embossed a sentiment from Love Makes the World Go Round and cut it with one of the tag dies in the Mini Tags set.
Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!
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Today, I’m sharing a CAS card created with Taylored Expressions stamps and dies featuring the negative die-cutting technique.
To begin, I cut a frame with the Pockets & Pages – 3×4 Photo Frame die and stamped it with a sentiment from the Free Spirit set. I cut a panel of Cookie Monster cardstock three times with the Silhouette Stems 4 die, staggering the height for some design interest. I colored a piece of Sugar Cube cardstock with Distress Inks and adhered the die cut panel to the top, revealing the colors through the die cut. There were a few small pieces of that I had to glue on.
I added the frame to the top (which covered up the area where the stem bases were staggered) and adhered the scene to a card base which was dry-embossed (technically debossed) with the Paisley folder.
Tips for the negative die-cutting technique:
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Today, I’m playing along with the Share Joy Challenge #17 at Taylored Expressions.
I used the sketch to create a cheery friendship / hello card featuring one of the chickens from the just-released Happy Hens Stamp & Die Combo released this week.
I stamped, Copic-colored and cut the chicken placing him (her?) on a scalloped rectangle on which I’d heat-embossed the punny sentiment. I used Doodlebug Design patterned paper for the top tag and dry-embossed the tag in the back. I finished the card with red-and-white twine.
Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!
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