You are Appreciated (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

You are Appreciated

by Lynn Mangan



I love fall colors...and distress inks are the perfect inks to add to your cards to have gorgeous fall colors. For today's card, I pulled out a few different colors and inked up a piece of scrap card stock.  I then die cut the maple leaves to have a variety of colors/gradient looks across the leaves. To finish off my card and add a little texture I attached a touch of twine. The small leaves were super easy to adhere with mini glue dots.



Above shows a close up of the fabulous details on these dies. They cut perfectly!

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Back to School (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Back to School

by Lynn Mangan



As my kids head back to school I thought it would be the perfect time to get some teacher thank you cards made for my stash. I pulled out two sets of dies and markets to get to work on making a couple of clean and simple thank you cards. For the first card, I die cut the pencil dies three times coloring the pencils in different colors. I tied them together with a touch of twine to give them a bit more symmetry on the card. Finished off the card with a simple thanks sentiment.



For my second card, I had fun coloring the apple with water color pens. To add a touch of color I put a small strip of rainbow striped paper to finish it off. I love how the water color on the apple provides a sense of texture to the design.

These cards will likely get put to quick use!

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Happily Ever After (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Happily Ever After

by Lynn Mangan


White on white is an elegant combination when making a wedding card.  Love how rich, yet clean a design looks when there is white on white. So, to start off this wedding card, I used the Lattice Flower Square Panel on a square card base.  I wanted to make the card extra feminine so I die cut the Princess Die Cut two times. The first time I cut it in a soft pink. The second time it was die cut using a soft polka dot vellum. The two layers were glued together to finish off the dress form.  The final touch was a happily ever after sentiment. A perfect card to have on hand for a wedding or wedding shower.

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Bloom Where You Are Planted (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Bloom Where You Are Planted

by Lynn Mangan


Flowers are my all time favorite types of dies and stamps, so whenever there is a new set...they quickly get added to my cart!  I was itching to play along with these fabulous new Scribble Flowers.  Coral is also one of my favorite go to colors...so a double favorite of coral and flowers!  

I die cut the flowers and leaves and then added a small strip of patterned paper to ground the design.  The card was finished off with a sentiment from the coordinating stamp set.

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You Color My World (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

You Color My World

by Lynn Mangan


Oh la la...you have to love new dies!  I was super excited to get these art palette dies and have a little fun coloring.  Coloring is not normal for me on my projects so it was fun to color a bit outside of the lines so to speak for this card.  For the palette, a touch of color was added with water color markers and then spread out a bit using a water brush pen.  The paint brush was colored using the same technique.  To finish off the card, I added a touch of paper, striped vellum and two strips of washi tape along with a few enamel elements.

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Christmas Blessings (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Here is yet another card in our monthly holiday card series, posted on the 25th of each month...

Christmas Blessings

by Lynn Mangan


We mail out a lot of Christmas cards and whenever I can come up with a relatively flat card to mail out I am super pleased!  I made this card several weeks ago and decided it was time to make about ten of them to jump start my Christmas card stash.  To give the card a little extra finish, I matted a gray piece of card stock with a thin border of black card stock.  I love the way the square card base and gray/black mimicked the square outline on the fabulous intricate die cut.  To finish off the card I added a simple sentiment and one little gem to highlight the holly in the die cut.  So nice to finally be getting a dent in the Christmas cards...December is right around the corner!

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Happy Birthday (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Happy Birthday

by Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer


It never seems that I have enough birthday cards in my card box so I am always looking for gender neutral cards. I thought it would be fun to make a tie die looking card using the Bubble Border die.  I took four different distress inks and inked up a piece of white card stock.  I then die cut the border die three different times.  To make it easier to have the die cut adhered to the card base I attached a double sided adhesive to the card stock before die cutting. This made adhering them super easy!

The card was finished off by a black strip of card stock and a stamped birthday sentiment.   Love that this could be used for a guy or girl!

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Butterfly Thanks (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Butterfly Thanks

by Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer


I'm quite often in need of thank you cards and love to make them in multiples to give for teacher gifts. With the end of the school year approaching, I decided to make several quick thank you notes.  To add color and highlight the gorgeous detail on the butterfly die cut, I used a variety of distress inks on a piece of scrap white paper. I put the scrap paper behind the die cut. The die cut is adhered on the body of the butterfly only with the a touch of glue.  To finish off the card, I stamped the sentiment and added a black frame. The touch of black gives the colors a little extra pop!



Here's an extra close up of the color. Would love to hear whether you create card sets too?

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Musical Thanks (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Musical Thanks

by Lynn Mangan


As the end of the school year approaches, it's the perfect time to work on thank you notes for the coaches and teachers that support our kids. Last week, my two oldest had their show choir banquet.  We collected money for gifts for them and we wanted two musical cards to go with them.  I was thrilled to have these perfect musical dies!

For the first card, I used the Musical Score die.  It was perfect to pair up with orange and black card stock:  our school colors. The second card I went a bit more grunge with the Rock Guitar die.



Don't you love when you can make cards with a specific person in mind?  It makes the cards all the more special!

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Wish Big - Spitfire (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Wish Big - Spitfire

by Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer



Being the mom of four boys, I am always in need of cards for my boys.  My 11 year old is heading off to a sleepover for a friend this weekend so it was an great opportunity to use the new Spitfire die.  The detail on this die is awesome.  I love the subtle lines showing the detail of the plane and the touch of portions that are cut out to emphasize the design.

The plane is definitely periodic so I added a touch of a red, white and blue feel.  To finish off the card I used a touch of patterned paper and the birthday sentiment.  Simple...but certainly packs a punch!

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With Sympathy (Lynn Mangan)

With Sympathy

by Lynn Mangan


I am frequently in need of sympathy cards and always love to have a few extra on hand. It feels very hard to create them on demand when you have to have one versus having at the ready when the time comes. I love this big sentiment sympathy die as it let's the card message do the talking.  For sympathy cards, I also like to keep the colors fairly muted.  A stamped border of flowers was added and I stamped off quite a bit to mute the colors a bit more.

Hope this card inspires you for those times when you need to express your sorrow for the loss of a loved one.

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Thanks (Lynn Mangan)

Thanks

by Lynn Mangan



I think there is a certain elegance to white on white cards.  The detail on the Quatrefoil Card Panel is absolutely perfect for the white on white trend.  Since this is a pretty intricate die, I used a double sided adhesive on the card stock before I die cut it.  It made adhering it to the card base super easy.

When I popped out the negative pieces of the die cuts, they were perfect to add a few little flowers.  I used distress inks to ink up the flowers and the leaves.  The leaves were made by cutting the small negative pieces in half.  The flowers were finished up with a few enamel elements.

The final touch was to stamp the sentiment on the wavy banners.  This will quickly go to a co-worker for doing a fantastic job.

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Merry Christmas (Lynn Mangan, Guest Designer)

Another month has passed and we are again back on the 25th with a Christmas card for you. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas

by Lynn


Hi there!  I'm very happy to be stopping by with another post as a guest designer at Frantic Stamper. You'll see pretty quickly that I'm a clean and simple girl at heart keeping my designs pretty clean with not a whole lot of layers.  I have a goal to make 15 Christmas cards a month but am very far behind!  So, I thought I'd take care of one of my design team posts with a Christmas card!  I die cut the sentiment from gold paper and adhered it to the black cardstock. I was a bit off center so I added a touch of patterned paper down the edge to ground the sentiment.  I find that adding a touch of striped, polka dot or chevron paper gives a little extra to a CAS design. To finish off the card I added a few sequins. Certainly wanted this fabulous sentiment to do the talking on this card!

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