Spring Chickee!

Hello Crafty Friends,

So glad you are taking a moment to stop by and check out the Easter card I made today.  This card was made with the Spring Release and is featuring the Spring Chickee in Basket.  If you haven't checked out the new release just click HERE.  It is a very sweet set of dies!

Design Steps:

1.  I used the following dies: Spring Chickee in Basket, Slimline Grass and the Spring Sentiments.  I cut them out of navy, pink, orange, yellow and green card stock.  Shade the pieces with ink and assemble with a fine tip glue

2. The base of the card is an A2 navy with a 4 x 5 1/4 white background

3.  Glue the grass and the Happy Easter flat to the card as shown.  I added a second layer of grass and only glued it down at the base of the grass.  By only gluing on the bottom I could then tuck in the basket and eggs 

4.  Add pop dots to the basket and then tuck it into the second layer of grass.  Glue the eggs in the grass as shown below.  Add a few sequins and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  And I will see you next Thursday.

Blessings and Take Care

Hey there Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahdin Krafts, back with another  CottageCutz YouTube  video on the CottageCutz Channel.  Today, I am sharing my "Sweet Wishes - Easter egg hunt" slimline card using several dies from the Spring Release.  

You can find all of the card details in my video and also enter for a chance to win the "Spring Sheep" die!  

House Shaped Window Shaker Card

Happy Terrific TuesDIE Scrapping Cottage friends!Melinda here with you for another fun Tuesday. My project features a couple of dies from  the SPRING RELEASE. Here's what I created.

House shaped card with a window shaker.

I started by creating my house shaped base. I cut it out of some white card stock, light orange cardstock and also some patterned paper. The base of light orange cardstock is not pictured above. 

I colored some of the pieces that were cut in white cardstock.

I then turned to the cute Spring Window Peeker die. I assembled it and added a piece of acetate to resemblance a window.

I then added some foam tape around the sides of the back. I put some glitter and a mix of sequins into the middle area.

I added a piece of white cardstock to the back. Doing this encloses the glitter and sequins and creates a shaker.

Here is a view of the base of the card. In this shot, it is upside down.

I attached the window to the back of the face of the card.

I then added the adorable little bunny peeker to the inside of the card.

Here is a side view of the window to the face of the card.

Here is one more look at the finished card. It is a top folding card.

THE HELLO SPRING BUNNY COTTAGE AND THE SPRING WINDOW PEEKER DIES ARE PART OF THE SPRING RELEASE! CHECK OUT ALL OF THE SUPER CUTE DIES IN THE SHOP,

The Dies I used to create this project:

Hello Spring Bunny Cottage

Spring Window Peeker

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Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda Beltran

Spring Shaker

Hi welcome back and Happy Monday the weather here in Florida  amazing.  We took my grandson to Disney for the first time and omg what  a blast.

  I created this fun spring card using the super cute Spring Chicken.  I made a folded card with a center shaker piece.

I figured it was perfect to welcome in Spring amd with Easter around the corner how amazing…

When Skies are Gray

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Sunday edition of the Blog.

The Spring Release with 20 new designs is in the online store. There is a nice combination of both religious and whimsical designs. So perfect for all card makers out there.

And there is still plenty of time to order and get them for your Easter cardmaking. Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring the new Spring Showers Mouse die and created a thinking of you card for my precious little granddaughter. 

I used the colors from this week's Splitcoaststampers color challenge #888. We were to use daffodil delight, calypso coral and magenta madness for our color trio. 

daffodil delight, magenta madness, calypso coral

I used all the challenge colors for the mouse raincoat and umbrella. I took advantage of the allowed neutrals for my stormy background. I found a navy designer paper in my collection and then stenciled raindrops on the paper with a clear gloss gel.

The clouds are cut from the clouds slimline die in a gray cardstock and sponged the edges with navy and gray inks for a storm cloud look. I stamped my sentiment on the clouds. 

I cut the rain puddle out of the same designer paper as my background. The puddle is from an older retired die Rainy Day Duck. But you could also use the ice pond from the Ice-Skating Kids die or any of our snowbank dies to create a puddle.  

Well, that's it for me for this post. See you next Saturday!

dies I used to create card:

Hello from the Spring Kitten

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

The Spring Release with 20 new designs is in the online store. There is a nice combination of both religious and whimsical designs. So perfect for all card makers out there.

And there is still plenty of time to order and get them for your Easter cardmaking. Today for your viewing pleasure, I have a card featuring the new Spring Kitten w/Envelope die. 

Instead of using it for a Spring or Easter card I created a thinking of you card. I will send this one off to my friend who lives in another state, and I haven't seen her since the pandemic started. Hopefully that will change soon. 

Design Steps: 

Since I knew the type of card I wanted to make and the die I was going to use, I just needed to select the card and image colors. I looked through my designer papers and I found an envelope with some nice shading on it. It was too nice to use as an envelope to send in the mail and then throw away. So, I cut the envelope apart and used it for my card background. I am also using a papaya ribbon for an accent on my card.  

Papaya Card Base - 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper Layer - 4" x 5 1/4"

I cut the envelope, tulips and kitten in colors that coordinated with the papaya shade color I was using. 

I cut the hello phrase from the Hello w/Shadow die. I used coral cardstock and sponged the shadow layer for a color variance. 

Now I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the ribbon and designer paper to the card base with double sided tape. 

The image and hello phrase are attached with dimensional adhesive. I scattered some enamel dots and that completed my card. I hope I have given you an idea for a different way to use this die. I will be back tomorrow with another thinking of you card using these Spring dies. 

Dies I used to create card: