Right as Rain - Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis

Watercolored TE Birthday Bouquet

Hello! Today, I am sharing a birthday card on which I combined a number of different Taylored Expressions stamp sets.

I stamped and heat-embossed with gold powder the Rosey Posey images on watercolor cardstock. I watercolored the flower petals with Distress Inks. Once dry, I cut the flowers with their corresponding dies. I stamped and heat-embossed flowers and foliage from the Happily Ever After stamp set and cut those with their corresponding dies.

For the background, I stamped the Striped Background with Cookie Monster ink on Cookie Monster cardstock. I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment from Simply Stamped – Roses on a Sugar Cube cardstock strip.

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Marianne Design Die-Cut Mice – Spring Version

Hello! Today, I am sharing a spring-themed card featuring the Marianne Design Eline’s Mice Family die set. Back in the fall, I shared a Christmas-themed card featuring the same mice.

I die-cut the mice and assembled them, adding a dress, cut with a die in the Outfits set from an older Pebbles patterned paper pack (also used for the card base), to the Mama Mouse.

I used a sentiment, whose font I especially like and which seemed suitable for the patterned paper, from the Avery Elle Woodland Wonders set.

Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Woodland Wonders by Heather Campbell

Lawn Cuts Dies, Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk

Hero Arts Dye Ink, Black

Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Tumbled Glass

Ranger Multi Medium, Matte Mini, 1/2 oz.

Simon Says Stamp Kaleidoscope Leaves Background – Count Our Blessings

Hello! Today, I’m sharing a CAS encouragement/friendship card that showcases the Simon Says Stamp Kaleidoscope Background stamp.

To create the background I inked cardstock with Wild Honey, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks. I then stamped the Kaleidoscope Background with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink (not Oxide).

I white heat-embossed a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp You Got This set on dark gray cardstock, popping it up with foam adhesive. I have used this sentiment set several times now on cards showcasing background stamps, including on this card and on this one.

Newton’s Nook Book Club – A Watercolored Version

Hello. Today, I am sharing a CAS card created with the Newton’s Nook Newton’s Book Club stamp set.

A few weeks ago, I shared a card using a different image from the same stamp set (the set contains three cute cat images); on that version, I colored the cat image with Copic markers. For this version, I stamped the cat image on Arches Hot Press Watercolor Paper with VersaFine ink and watercolored the image with Distress Inks and Distress Ink Markers. I used patterned papers from my stash to add visual variety to the card base.

Mama Elephant CAS Easter Card

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS Easter card showcasing one of the cute bunnies from the Mama Elephant Honey Bunny set.

I stamped the bunny and colored him (her?) with Copic markers, as well as colored pencils. To create the cloud background, I made a stencil from vellum using the cloud die in the Landscape Trio set and two of the cloud dies in the Build a Scene – Rolling Clouds set. I sponged white pigment ink with a sponge dauber on to Memory Box cardstock (now retired). For the bottom half of the card, I stamped the Hero Arts Five Line Background (retired, but still available in a couple of stores online) in Celery ink on Memory Box cardstock (now retired).