Right as Rain - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis

Freshly Made Sketches #401

Hello! I am playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week. I really like sketch challenges as it forces me to think of new ways to use my supplies.

To begin, I stamped the Flower Explosion stamp in white pigment ink on So Saffron cardstock.
While the ink dried, I cut the two birds, flowers, and foliage with the A Little Birdie set. I used a hole punch to cut centers for the flowers.
I heat-embossed the Pinkfresh Studio sentiment on Poppy Parade cardstock.
I cut the stamped So Saffron piece with a circle die.
I used woodgrain cardstock in my stash to place behind the birds.
The background was cut with the Stitched Woodgrain Backdrop die.

A couple of take-aways: I need to remember that foliage can be cut from vellum, white, metallic cardstock, … it doesn’t have to be green; a stitched circle, something that just cuts the outline, but not the center, would make a great addition to my stash.

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Die-cut Floral Thanks – Fall Colors

Hello! Today I am sharing a “just because” thank you card featuring die-cuts from My Favorite Things.

I colored cardstock with a variety of Distress Oxide inks (some of my favorite colors for this time of year) and cut the blooms, centers, and leaves from the inked cardstock. I thought about creating this card from colored cardstock, but I had very specific colors in mind, which I was able to achieve with the inks. For example, I blended Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint for the green.

I assembled the flowers and added them to squares, which I had dry-embossed with the Taylored Expressions Weathered folder.

I cut the sentiment from cardstock which had been colored with ink as well. I used the negative portion to help with the alignment on my card base.

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Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Kit – Eek-A-Boo

Hello and happy September! With fall in the air, I’m making Halloween projects! It’s one of my favorite holidays, in fact, I’m fond of fall in general.

Today, I am sharing two projects created with the September Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Eek-A-Boo.” This adorable die set is perfect for all sorts of Halloween crafting – cards, treat toppers, scrapbook page elements ..!

My first card features two trick-or-treaters – the ghost and skeleton boy.

I triple-cut the letters in the sentiment for extra depth and added the centers to the letters, cut from Whip Cream cardstock, for better visibility on the teal patterned paper background. Have you noticed how teal has snuck into the Halloween color palette?

On my second card I paired the devil with two ghosts on a vertical card. For one of my very first Halloweens, I dressed as the devil.

I used the ghost die to cut the ghosts and then I lined the die along the bottoms of the die-cut ghosts and trimmed off a little bit. I felt that the slightly shorter ghosts looked better on the vertical card. Again, I triple-cut the letters in the sentiment for extra depth.

For the background, I paired a dry-embossed panel with patterned paper.

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Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #400

Hello! Eek – it’s almost September and that means Halloween cards! I’m a big fan of Halloween. I loved trick-or-treating as a child, and I loved Halloween when my sons were young. I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week.

I die-cut the hat and cauldron with the SugarPea Designs Hocus Pocus set. This set isn’t new, but it is new to me. I added bats, cut with dies in the Spellbinders Haunted Manor set. I used three pieces of patterned paper (I broke down and bought a pad!) from the DCVW Happy Halloween stack. The purple cardstock is SU Gorgeous Grape and the screaming green is SU Lemon-Lime Twist (now retired). The sentiment is from the SU Ghoulish Greetings (now retired). I use this set at least once every Halloween!

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Penny Black Fall Scene

Hello! With fall in the air (although today it’s warm here in the PNW), I am turning to richer colors in my papercrafting projects. Navy and orange is one of my favorite color combinations for fall, and that was my starting point for this card created with Penny Black supplies.

I pulled out a number of different Penny Black die sets that I’ve collected over the years. For example, the fence behind the grass is from a Halloween set.

The Trio of Trees set cuts one-piece trees. I cut the trees from the foliage color and then fussy cut the foliage from the trunks and added the foliage pieces to trees cut in the trunk color.

I’ve listed all of the supplies below, including SU cardstock colors. The one exception is the gold house that I cut from SU More Mustard, which appears to be a retired cardstock color (truth be told this may be the first time I’ve ever used it!).

Supplies: Penny Black Trio of Trees die sets; TE Sweet Potato Pie cardstock; Memento Gray Flannel ink