Missing You!

Hi!

It's Anja here. Today I did a type of card I enjoy doing most. More elements combined together into a lovely scene. This time it's a winter scene with arctic animals.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Arctic Moose & Polar Bear, Arctic Baby Foxes, Tree Stump & Log for Peekers, Arctic Snowy Trees),
- Distress Inks,
- craft card base (18x13 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts and background (17x12 cm, 14,5x9,5 cm),
- craft card stock,
- black pen,
- white pen,
- sentiment stamp,
- embossing ink,
- white embossing powder,
- heat gun,
- white acrylic paint,
- sponge,
- brush,
- scissors,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored all the animals and trees.

Then I used white acrylic paint and sponge to add a bit of snow.

Then I cut and colored all the elements for the background. I colored the biggest rectangle. For the other element I just used a bit of blue color around the edges. I used a trimmer and scissors to cut the paper.

Next I did the sentiment. I embossed it on a craft piece of paper.  used white embossing powder.

And then I just assembled all the pieces together and adhered it on the card base. And my card was done.

I also did the inside of the card for more interest.

Hope you have a nice Sunday. See you again next week.

Anja Z.



Cottage Cutz dies I used:

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  This is Sukie and I have a fun card to share on this New Year's Day created with the new Arctic Animals die release.  I combined several of the new dies on one card!

I wanted to create a snowy scene for the sweet Arctic Animals so I went with a blue and gray theme. The fun sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms (retired) Farm Fresh stamp set which was perfect for my card.

I shaded all of my die cuts with some Oxide Inks and also used the inks for the two hand cut pieces at the bottom of my card base.

The scene was built with the hand cut hills and Snowy Mountains. Next, the Arctic Snowy Trees were tucked in behind the mountains.

The puffin from the Arctic Birds set was placed in front of the mountains and the Baby Walrus was added on the left hand side of my card.  The husky is from the Husky w/Sled die set.

The Arctic Baby Fox was tucked in next to the husky and the penguin from the Arctic Penguins & Igloo die set.

My card was finished off with the sentiment flag which was trimmed to fit in the upper right hand corner.

Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Have a happy and prosperous New Year!

Foxy Friends

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.  I can't believe that 2020 is just around the corner.  I don't know where time goes.  It seems like the older I get the faster time goes.
While there is a few days before we have more celebrations  I am making a few winter cards.  The cards I am making can be used for a variety of things such as thank you, birthday or just a hello.  I often leave the insides blank so that I can add the sentiment as I need the cards.

Design Steps:

 1.  Use the Arctic Baby Foxes die and cut all of the pieces out of white

 2.  Color all the pieces with your markers and assemble the baby foxes

 3. Using the second from the Largest Crossed Stitched die cut out a DP and then cut out a white circle using the same die.  To cut the white circle down I used the Largest Pierced Rectangle die and placed it across the circle and cut to get the pierced snow.  Glue the two pieces together and add the foxes

 4.  Cut a piece of white card stock 4 x 5 1/4 and add the ribbon

5.  Cut a piece of DP 3 7/8 x 4 1/2 and on top glue a white embossed piece 3 3/4 x 4 1/4.  Glue this piece to the white card stock with the ribbon.  Then add the DP circle with the foxes and the sentiment

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Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year full of God's wonderful blessings!!

Pam

Fox All Occasion Card

Happy Friday Cottage Cutz fans!  It's Jeanne sharing an all occasion card using one of the adorable dies from the new Arctic Animals release.  This release has a great variety of animals that can be used all year long.  And for a limited time they are on sale for 25% off.

This fox card was very simple to put together and can be used many ways.  I have left the inside blank and can use it for a birthday, thank you, get well, congratulations...you get the idea.  He is wonderful for any gender or age!

To start I cut the fox and trees from white cardstock and colored them using Distress Oxide inks.

Next, I stamped my sentiment and cut it into a strip 1/2" tall by about 6" wide.  I left it long so I could cut to fit the card.  The pine pieces were cut from an older die (Santa's Bag) but any die with  small pieces of greenery will work.  The are cut from white and colored with the DO inks.

I cut an A2 panel from patterned paper that reminded me of snowfall, and two circles using the 4th and 5th largest dies from the Stitched Circle set.

I assembled the card, adhering all to the card base and then used foam to pop the sentiment up just a bit.  I finished by using some Stickles on the "berries".

Dies used:

 

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope you have a fun and creative weekend and a very Happy Holiday!