Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Hello! I recently created a set of watercolor notecards, which were featured on the Taylored Expressions blog. I had a lot of leftover smooshed watercolor cardstock from which I cut flowers and greenery for a die-cut scene.
I created the scene using the Garden Arbor and Gate, the Arbor Fence, Bloomers Greenery, Mini Bloomers, and Mini Bloomers 2 dies.
I stamped a sentiment from the Simply Stamped – Wreath set on to a background brushed with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
Hello! I am back crafting after a break to the Mojave Desert to visit family. Today, I am sharing a birthday card created with the Swirl Happy Birthday Frame, part of the Blooming Garden Collection by Marisa Job at Spellbinders. I previously shared a card created with another die from this collection here.
The Swirl Happy Birthday Frame set includes the birthday sentiment, the background swirl panel, and a die to cut a rectangle which fits inside the background swirl. I used the dies to cut white cardstock with the swirl designs.
I cut both the sentiment swirl and the background swirl twice to create depth. I initially cut the sentiment from gold foil and from black cardstock, but after playing with a variety of patterned papers for the card base and the rectangular panel, the most elegant and striking combination was the one using the white cardstock. I wanted the swirls to take center stage!
Hello! Today, I am sharing another card created with the Newton’s Nook Aloha Newton stamp set. See my first card here.
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Hello! I recently created four cards for the Spellbinders blog using products from the Special Moments Collection by Marisa Job.
The projects were shared over on the Spellbinders blog here, here, and here. Head over to the blog posts for more details.
We are having a record-breaking heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest. Lying in a hammock is about all I have the energy to do!
I stamped this adorable image from the Newton’s Nook Aloha Newton set with Versafine ink on Arches hot-press paper. I colored the image with a variety of watercolor mediums, including Distress Inks and portable palettes (no longer available). I used Taylored Expressions ink and cardstock for the Tropical Leaves stenciled background.
