Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
The Stretch Your Stamps cardmaking course at Online Card Classes starts today and I feel like a kid at summer camp. I started my cardmaking adventure with Online Card Classes last summer and have taken every one of their courses. This course already promises to be fantastic judging from the first day of materials.
Off to play!
This card for the Lawnscaping Challenge #37 didn’t end up the way I initially envisioned it. My first attempt using the Lawn Fawn “Sunny Skies” stamp set included two kites and a sun, but I just couldn’t get the design to hang together. So naturally, I added more kites!
I stamped white cardstock with the Hero Arts Newsprint background stamp. Next I stamped and embossed the kites and the tail pieces on the background stamped paper. Finally I used a variety of Tim Holtz distress inks to color the kites.
Supplies: Lawn Fawn Sunny Skies; Hero Arts Newspaper Background S5601; Versafine + Versamark inks; Tim Holtz distress inks; Hero Arts white embossing powder; Ranger clear embossing powder; Bazzill string; MFT banner die
This month, I did a fair amount of scrapping with the Red, White and Blue color scheme, including a layout for the Simple Scrapper’s July challenge Design Team article, which I’ll share next week.
My two-page layout using templates from the July Simple Scrapper release documents time spent on Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1990’s. These photos were taken with a film camera and scanned for the digital layout. The release includes grid templates that can easily be paired with focal photo templates, as I’ve done here. I think it’s evident that my sons enjoyed the countless hours they spent on the dock of the home we rented in MV.
Digital Supplies: Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Audacious Designs Currently papers; Agnes Biro En Route element (fish); Crystal Wilkerson element (star sticker); Katie Pertiet papers (red, navy) and element (staple); Robyn Meierotto paper (woodgrain)
This month’s Simple Scrapper Premium Membership templates feature large photo spots. I used an image of my oldest son riding a bike on the beach in Florida (probably the only time he’s ever ridden a bike on the beach) on one of the layouts I created from the template set. The photo’s colors just didn’t go with the color scheme I had in mind, so I converted it to black and white. I can see using this template over and over.
Template from Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Digital Supplies from Echo Park, Crystal Wilkerson, Katie Pertiet, Anna Aspnes, Ali Edwards
“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” – The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers
The Guardian offers this explanation of the phrase’s origin.