CottageCutz: Gingerbread Cottage Fun Fold

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.

It's new release time!!! We have our Christmas 2023 release in the online store that has 40 designs. It's an old-fashioned Christmas theme. You can pick up the individual dies at 30% off for a limited time.

We also have a new Fall 2023 release in the online store with 15 designs. You can also pick up these individual dies at 30% off for a limited time.

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring the new Gingerbread Cottage Die and created a center step fun fold. So, let's get started on some details of how I created my card. I have another sample at the end of the post using this same die.

Design Steps:

I started my card this week using the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #970. We were to use real red, pool party, lemon lolly and old olive for the color combo.

real red, pool party, lemon lolly, old olive

I had this center step fun fold card in my stash. I bought these premade. They are an A2 size card and fold flat for mailing. Here is a link to a tutorial that gives exact measurements on how to cut your cardstock.

This premade base is ivory, and I wanted it to be the pool party shade. So, I cut cardstock and pool party designer paper to cover the ivory completely. I wanted to tone down the designer paper a bit, so I added a layer of vellum paper to each panel.

Pool Party Cardstock Center: 3 1/4" x 4 1/2"

Designer Paper Layer: 3 1/8" x 4 1/4"

Side Panel Pool Party Layer: 1 1/8" x 4 1/2"

Designer Paper Layer: 1" x 4 1/8"

Next, I cut the Gingerbread Cottage in the challenge colors plus a few allowed neutrals. It's such a cute die. I love it as a Christmas card.

Now I am ready to start my card assembly. I first attached the cardstock and designer panels to the center step card.

I wanted a bold Christmas sentiment and decided to use the Merry Christmas w/Shadow phrase (Christmas 2021). I cut it in red cardstock 2x and added it to a white glitter cardstock panel. Looks like this is retired but here is another phrase that would work as well. Merry Christmas Phrase w/Tree (Christmas 2022)

To finish off my card, I attached the gingerbread cottage to the center panel with dimensional adhesive. I cut the pine trees that are part of this die in the old olive shade.