CottageCutz: Woodland Country Church

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

Today is the last day of the big Christmas in July sale with savings of up to 65% on selected dies. It ends at 9:00 pm PST. You still have time to shop and pick up the dies that are on your wish list. Since it's the last day of the sale, I thought I would create a card using a couple of the dies that are on sale.

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring the Woodland Country Church and the Merry Christmas w/ Snowflakes dies. So, let's get started with some details of how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card this week with the colors. The colors for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #906 were perfect for my outdoor church scene. We were to use real red, garden green and silver.

real red, silver, garden green

Next, I cut the church in the red and green colors plus the allowed neutral shades of kraft and brown. For the snow I used white glitter paper. You could cut the images in white cardstock and then color with your favorite medium. If you follow me on this Blog, you know I like to use colored cardstock for my images.

The Merry Christmas phrase is cut in real red cardstock. The image is large enough that I thought one layer would be enough. Sometimes I double them up, but it wasn't necessary with this die.

For my image panel I used a falling snow embossing folder for added background interest.

Now that my card elements are prepared, I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the church image with double sided tape. For the larger tree, I used dimensional adhesive.

Next, I secured the Merry Christmas phrase with a clear drying glue.

To finish off my card, I attached the image panel to the card base. I kept the panels to just the base and image panel. That way the images would be the star of the show. To get the silver color in, I added these snowflake images from my stash and used a silver sequin in the middle.