Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
Hello. I am sharing a wrap-up post featuring holiday cards created with Spellbinders bird dies AND to let you know about the Christmas Clearance Sale that runs until 12/26/2022 Midnight MST!
As I look over the cards that I have made over the past eleven years, I can see that I am drawn to using birds as a focal item. Here are four I have created this year; click on the photo to go to the original post:
Hello! Today I am sharing a wrap-up of cards created in the past several months featuring snowmen (snow people) die sets, which were introduced this past fall. I used snowmen more than any other holiday motif (focal item) this year.
Did you identify any strong Christmas cardmaking themes or trends? The farmhouse Christmas trend – Buffalo check and the red pickup truck – is still holding on, along with gnomes and poinsettias; however, I did not see anything new arrive on the scene this year. I spoke to the seasonal buyer at our grocery store about Christmas trends, (they carry an amazing number of seasonal items, as it is an independent store), and we speculated that the pandemic, and its uncertainty for retail, impacted the creation of a new trend (which would have had to have been created a year ago for this season).
My snowmen cards for Christmas 2022 – click on the photo for the original post.
Hello! Today, I am sharing card created with the Day 12 and Day 14 surprises – a bird die set and a pair of floral greenery (I used one of the two) – in the Crafty Advent Calendar from Spellbinders. Follow along on the Spellbinders blog for daily inspiration. I also used the solid heart die from Day 8.
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Hello! I am delighted to be a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing three projects created with the recently introduced Home Sweet Quilt Collection by Becca Feeken. I would appreciate you heading over to see the projects in full, read how I used color with the patterns, and leave a comment.
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Hello! Today, I am sharing card created with the Day Ten surprise – a set of flower and greenery dies – in the Crafty Advent Calendar from Spellbinders. Follow along on the Spellbinders blog for daily inspiration. I also used the solid heart die from Day 8.
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