Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
I haven’t entered the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge for awhile but this Trend Watch really caught my eye. Paper Smooches has so many cute sets from which to create a woodland scene.
My card imagines the bigger squirrel helping the smaller squirrel reach the acorn in a team effort.
Supplies: Simple Stories patterned paper, MME Halloween papers (2011)
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This week’s CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is to create a project inspired by one’s own blog header.
I used a Memory Box die for the umbrella and a slab-serif font sentiment that gives a similar upbeat message as the phrase “Right as Rain” — “Definitely correct; just the way it should be. It could just as well be ‘right as clouds’ or any number of other things, but ‘rain’ it is, doubtless because of the allure of alliteration” from The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers.
The color combination in my blog header is one that I’ve liked for most of my life. I like its graphic punch and it just “feels” happy to me!
Supplies: Spellbinder circle die; Stampin’ Up cardstock
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It’s Day Two of the October Release for Neat & Tangled Stamps. I had so much fun coloring the elves in the “Elves at Work” set. For my first card, I imagined the two elves at work in their workshop. The boy elf believes he’s the “#1 Elf” but the girl elf knows better! 😉 Before I did any coloring I decided on my background papers choosing some from the My Mind’s Eye Winter Wonderland collection. I then looked through my Copic markers to select the best matches. The sentiment is from a set that will be released tomorrow.
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For my second card, I ventured “outside” to the North Pole, where Santa’s Workshop is located. The North Pole sign stamps and background snowflakes are also part of the set that will be released tomorrow. For the snow hill, I combined a circular piece of dry-embossed cardstock with a piece outlined with Ice Stickles.
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Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog for inspiration from more of the team and to enter today’s giveaway – the winner will receive their choice of the stamp set! This week’s featured stamp sets will be available for purchase at the Neat & Tangled store, Friday, October 5.
It’s Day One of the October Release for Neat & Tangled Stamps. Looking for the Simple Scrapper Blog Hop post? Scroll on down.
I just can’t get enough of the “Little Bear” set – so many cute images! For my first card, I combined the bear in the set with a smaller bear from a set that will be shown tomorrow. I embossed the images and then colored them with Copic markers. The sentiment is one from a set that will be released later this week.
Supplies: Echo Park “Summer Days” patterned paper; Fiskars grass punch; Stampin’ Up cardstock
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For my second card, I took the bears camping! The tree and camp fire in the set are perfect for camp-themed cards and scrapbooking projects.
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Be sure to head over to the Neat & Tangled Blog for inspiration from more of the team and to enter today’s giveaway – the winner will receive all five of this week’s sets! This week’s featured stamp sets will be available for purchase at the Neat & Tangled store, Friday, October 5.
This month, I scrapped several memories from past autumns with the October Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates. For more about how I’ve not only increased my scrapping productivity but also maintained my enthusiasm for scrapbooking, you can read Scrapping With the Seasons.
With the first template I scrapped a flight my family took in a small floating plane several Augusts ago. The tilted template in the collection was a perfect fit for my photos.
Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park For the Record 2 Documented; Echo Park This and That Charming; Katie Pertiet Going Away; Bebas title font; Rockwell journaling font
A few weeks ago I kitted up some paper supplies from last fall that I used to document a fun day trip we took when we lived in Massachusetts. I don’t do a lot of paper scrapping, but once I’d gathered everything together, I realized how easy it would be to do something with the products.
Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; American Crafts Nightfall paper and embellishments; Amy Tangerine paper; American Crafts for Studio Calico Thickers; Century Gothic journaling font
With the third template from the collection I scrapped some “outtake” photos from our holiday photo session two years ago. At the time, these photos were mostly ignored because they didn’t fit the bill for the card. Now, they’re priceless! I love seeing the joy on my sons’ faces as they clown around.
Supplies: Simple Scrapper Premium Membership Template; Echo Park This and That Charming
Check out the inspiration from the rest of the Simple Scrapper Design Team using this month’s templates and be sure to enter this month’s giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper.
Julie Aldridge
Sue Althouse
Jeryn Carlisi
Lisa Corbin-Polak
Ronnie Crowley
Michele Holcomb
Margrethe Aas Johnsen
Amy Kingsford
Pam Lozano
Aimee Maddern
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