Right as Rain - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis

Let’s Go Camping – Elizabeth Craft Designs

Hello! Today I am sharing an adventure-themed card featuring die sets from Elizabeth Craft Designs. Camping is one of my favorite summer themes, right up there with nautical!

I colored soft-finish cardstock with Distress Inks and cut the various pieces for the bear, tent, fire, and s’more stick.
I assembled the pieces.
I created a 5″ x 7″ background on which I heat-embossed the sentiment.
I trimmed the tent on the left-hand side (because I was running out of room!).
I added the assembled pieces to the scene, adhering the fire and the s’more with foam adhesive.
Once I had everything in place, I added the star sequins as the blue sky looked blank. Had I thought of it earlier, I might have added stars through a stencil instead.

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Penny Black Hydrangea

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS “Thank You” featuring a potted hydrangea created with Penny Black supplies. Around here, we’ll begin to see hydrangeas blooming mid-July.

I cut the 51-610 Hydrangea pieces from green cardstock and two shades of blue.
With the same set, I cut the butterflies from yellow cardstock.
I cut the pot for the plant from red cardstock with a die in the 51-635 Buckets of Flowers set.
I cut the back frame with the 51-611 Creative Curves die from white cardstock.
I stamped the 30-281 Flower Sparks sentiment and cut it with a circle die.
I tried a number of different backgrounds, including ones I stamped with backgrounds stamps. In the end, patterned paper from my stash worked best.

Supplies: SU Marina Mist (retired)

Spellbinders Large Die June 2020 – Geometrical Floral Frames

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS friendship card created with the June Large Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Geometrical Floral Frames.” (Edited: This die set is no longer available.)

On my card, I used one of the frames in the set along with the flowers and foliage.

I heat-embossed the sentiment on deep blue cardstock.
I cut the frame from gold foil.
I cut the greenery from SU Cucumber Crush (now retired) and vellum. I cut the flowers from yellow, red, and white, and their centers from gold foil.
I glued the foliage and flowers to the frame. I used flowers to cover the junction points for the foliage.
I glued the frame to the card base.
I added flat sequins in several sizes to the card to fill in the “white space.”

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Find Your Happy Place

Hello! Today I am sharing a card created with Penny Black dies depicting a yoga studio, inspired by the yoga space on Yoga with Adriene. I have been practicing yoga with Adriene’s videos for the past month, and will be doing so for the foreseeable future, as the local studio is currently closed.

I die-cut the greenery with the Penny Black 51-308 Bold Branch, 51-002 Leaves, and 51-119 Flower Frolic dies.
I cut the 51-441 Wood Floors from kraft cardstock.
I created the containers for the plants by cutting circles and a rectangle and then cutting those shapes again with a rectangle die. I dry-embossed the pots with the TE Weathered folder.
I created the sentiment on my computer. As a side note, Adriene’s catchphrase is “Find What Feels Good.” Since Adriene’s studio (on tv) has been my “happy place,” I went with that as the sentiment.
I tried many different backgrounds. Adriene’s yoga space is in her dining room and there are windows covered with white wood blinds in the background. I ultimately dry-embossed white cardstock with a brick background for texture. The other backgrounds I tried took away from the calm space I was trying to depict.

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Spellbinders June 2020 Small Die – Handing You a Smile

Hello and Happy June! Today I am sharing a CAS friendship card created with the June Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Handing You a Smile.”

On my card, I used two of the three flower shapes in the set. I repeated the poppy-like floral in yellow and red and added the other flower in a warm orange, which I envisioned as a poppy from a different perspective (as in looking directly into the center).

I heat-embossed the sentiment on SU Island Indigo cardstock (now retired).
I cut the flowers from TE Lemon Meringue, SU Tangerine Tango (now retired), and SU Poppy Parade. The poppies in yellow and red consist of four die-cut pieces; I really like the detail the dies provide.
I added the flower centers cut from Whip Cream cardstock. The set includes several options for the centers. Since I was depicting the same flower, I used the same center.
I cut the stems and leaf from SU Cucumber Crush (now retired).
I cut the hand and the hand base and adhered them together.
I added the flowers to the card base positioning the flowers in the hand.

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