Right as Rain - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis

Paper Smooches Freshly Made Sketches 434

Hello! Today I am sharing a friendship card created for the Freshly Made Sketches 434 Challenge with a combination of Paper Smooches supplies.

I used Paper Smooches die sets and a favorite stamp set which I’ve owned for a long time!

I took my color cues from the colors on the floral patterned paper. The frame was cut from SU Island Indigo (now retired) and the sentiment stamped with matching ink.

Thanks for dropping by!

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Penny Black – A Carefree Day

Hello! Wishing you a carefree day – doesn’t that sound blissful? Today I am sharing a CAS, die-cut, garden-themed card created with Penny Black supplies.

I stamped the 30-700 Carefree Wishes sentiment on to a white cardstock panel.
I added Summer Sky ink to the background.
I cut the flowers, foliage, shelf, watering can, tools, pots, and butterfly with the 51-635 Buckets of Flowers, 51-510 A Garden, and the 51-610 Hydrangea die sets.
I placed the scene on to an orange cardstock base. I tried yellow, blue, and red before deciding that the orange was “just right”!

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Paper Smooches Birthday Wishes

Hello! Today I am sharing a birthday card, created with Paper Smooches supplies, which is on its way to a friend who is an avid gardener. I am entering this card into the latest Paper Smooches Challenge, whose theme is Anything Goes.

I die-cut the daisies with the Sunflower die.
I glued the daisies on to light blue paper and trimmed the panel. The panel was sized to fit behind the Polaroid die-cut.
I added the Polaroid frame on which I stamped the sentiment.
For whimsy and additional detail, I added a bee!
I added the Polaroid panel to a dry-embossed background (SU Island Indigo cardstock, now retired, embossed with the Taylored Expressions Burlap folder).

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Spellbinders Botanical Greenhouse

Hello! Today I am sharing two cards featuring the Spellbinders Botanical House die set. This is a fun set that can be used for a variety of occasions and/or messages, specifically uplifting ones! I think of greenhouses as a place where positive things are made possible, and right now, I’m all about focusing on the positive.

I used the same design recipe for both cards: patterned paper background, sentiment stamped on a rectangle, with the greenhouse as the focal point.

On the first card, I cut the greenhouse from gold cardstock.
I used the negative shape to cut out a piece of Whip Cream cardstock.
I cut the foliage pieces from two cardstock colors to coordinate with the patterned paper background.
I heat-embossed the sentiment on to a rectangular piece of cardstock.
I partially glued the greenhouse to the white background, placed the foliage inside the greenhouse, adhered the foliage, and adhered the rest of the greenhouse.
I added the assembled greenhouse and sentiment to the card base.

On the second card, I followed the same formula changing the colors and sentiment. Additionally, I added flowers cut with a flower die in the Hitched set to add punch and to coordinate with the background paper.

Hope you have an uplifting day!

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Spellbinders May 2020 Small Die of the Month – Stacked Decorative Edges

Hello and Happy May! Today I am sharing two CAS “Thank You” cards created with the May Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Stacked Decorative Edges.”

For the first card, I cut Whip Cream cardstock with one of the detailed dies which I refer to as latticework. The detail die does not cut an edge.
I used the Thank You die to cut four frame pieces, twice per panel for extra depth. I trimmed the latticework strip and framed it with the border piece. I repeated this four times.
I used the Thank You die to cut the sentiment, which I framed in the same manner as the latticework strips. The five strips formed a 4 1/4″ square which I added to a 4 1/2″ card base.

On the second card I used one of the set’s edge borders to cut cardstock from six different shades of blue-green. This just happens to be the cardstock color of which I have this many shades.

After cutting the six cardstock colors with the edge border die, I trimmed the panels and adhered them together on a base in the darkest shade.
I cut the Thank You from Whip Cream cardstock and backed it with cardstock in the next-to-darkest shade and adhered it to the card front.

There are dozens of ways to use the dies in the set to create elegant CAS cards.

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