Right as Rain - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis

Paper Smooches – Sunflowers

Hello! I created another card for the current Paper Smooches challenge whose theme is HAPPY. Shades of yellow and orange paired with teal, as well as sunflowers, make me happy!

I cut the sunflowers from cardstock in shades of yellow and orange. I cut their centers from a brown linen-textured cardstock, which I backed with white cardstock.
I glued the assembled flowers on to a teal cardstock background.
I trimmed the flowers that overlapped the background and adhered a white cardstock frame.
I stamped the sentiment on to white cardstock, which I cut with a circle die.
I framed the sentiment with a circle cut from red-orange cardstock.
The sentiment circle was added with foam adhesive.

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Spellbinders $25 Gift Certificate Winner – April Club Kits Blog Hop

The winner to receive the $25 gift certificate from the comments on my blog for the Spellbinders April 2020 Club Kits hop is Arlene Martinez-Rivera!

Contact socialmedia@spellbinders.us by 4/29/2020 with the subject line Spellbinders April 2020 Blog Hop Winner from Jean Manis’ Blog.

Spellbinders Sunday Drive

Hello! Today I am delighted to share two cards – wedding and birthday – created with the new Spellbinders Sunday Drive die set and the Hitched add-on die set.

The Sunday Drive set includes the pieces to create the convertible car, as well as balloons, HAPPY letter dies, a package, and a Birthday license plate.

I couldn’t resist creating a red convertible and used primary colors to tie in with the patterned paper.

The Hitched die set works with the Sunday Drive set to create a wedding card. I used the flowers and foliage from the set, along with dies from the April Small Die of the Month set to cut the heart balloons. The set also includes dies to add tin cans to the bumper, which I didn’t use.

I glued strands of floss behind the balloons and tucked the strings in between layers on the car.

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Lawn Fawn Spring Scene

Today I am sharing a spring-themed “Hello” card created with Lawn Fawn products.

To begin, I stamped the images and Copic colored them. I wasn’t sure how I’d combine them at first.
I laid out the pieces and saw that the scene needed to be a landscape one.
I created the background with the Stitched Cloud Backdrop and a grassy hill cut with the Meadow Borders.
To fill the sky, I die-cut the sentiment with the Speech Bubbles die.

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Spellbinders Flourished Fretwork by Becca Feeken

Hello! Today I am sharing two elegant CAS cards created with die sets from the Flourished Fretwork collection by Becca Feeken at Spellbinders.

I created my first card with the Oval Coronet set. The set includes five dies: a small oval (which I didn’t use), an ornate oval overlay, a solid oval of the same size, an ornate base oval, and a base oval of the same size.

I cut the ornate elements from Whip Cream cardstock. I cut the background of the small oval from Robin’s Egg cardstock and the base background from Calypso Coral cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in gold ink in the center of the top oval. I dry-embossed the Petal Pink background with the Inspire embossing folder. I added flowers created with a die in the Floral Tiara Topper set, to which I adhered centers punched with a hole punch from Brush Gold cardstock.

On my second card I used the Richelieu Square set.

The Richelieu Square die set includes six dies: an ornate circle, a circle die of the same size without detail, an ornate square, a square die of the same size without detail, and a 4.4″ square border die, and a square die of the same size. I cut the ornate pieces from Whip Cream cardstock. The background of the circle and large square were cut from Calypso Coral and the smaller rectangle from Robin’s Egg cardstock. I left off a front sentiment to allow the ornate elements speak for themselves.

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