They allow you to add a beautiful touch of folk art to whatever you may be creating - birthday, thank-you, new home, thinking of you and even Christmas. The design team has featured many creative ideas using these dies so take a look back at our posts for inspiration.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Celebrate with Folk Art Flowers
They allow you to add a beautiful touch of folk art to whatever you may be creating - birthday, thank-you, new home, thinking of you and even Christmas. The design team has featured many creative ideas using these dies so take a look back at our posts for inspiration.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Mother's Day Easel Card and Treat Box
You will be able to take the images beyond the Easter or Spring season. And for a limited time you can get individual dies at 30% off. Today for your viewing pleasure I am using the new Spring Tulips die and I created an easel card with a treat box. It's a new fun fold design type for me and I really like how it turned out.
Friday, September 24, 2021
Puppy Celebration
Happy Friday! It's Jeanne today with fun birthday card for the dog lover in your life. The card features pups from the Lil' Bluebird Designs Puppy Love stamp set and the Celebrate w/Shadow die.
I started by using a card sketch from Splitcoaststampers however as often happens I diverged from the sketch. First I flipped it and then in order to fit in all three images, I used a strip down the side instead of circles. I stamped the images at angles to add a bit of whimsy.
To color the images I used a technique that I learned years ago. I started by laying down a flat layer of alcohol markers. After laying down the marker, I added Prismacolor pencils on top of the marker. This gives nice shading and detail.For the card, I cut an A2 base from festive, birthday themed paper and I cut my puppy strip to 1 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches.When cutting the sentiment the die cuts the shadow and word at the same time.This gave me two choices for my sentiment.
I glued the strip down the right side and added a felt embellishment that I had in my stash. I decided to use the pink background sentiment on the card. The other one I placed in the die package for future use.
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Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Coffee Gift Card
Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends
It is Pam creating on the blog with you today!
I have a good number of friends and family who just love coffee! So I am making a little coffee gift card for a few birthday presents. I am using several of the Sentiments with Shadows and the Coffee Time Stamp set. I found this darling card design by Dawn Griffth so I decided to give it a try. I posted her video tutorial link below.
Design Steps:1. There are two cards involved in create this gift card. The larger kraft card stock card is 4 1/4 x 11 folded in half and then the bottom flap folded in half again as shown above. The smaller kraft card stock card is 3 1/2 x 9 folded in half
2. We are first going to decorate the inside of the larger card. Cut 2 pieces 4 x 2 1/2 one in cream and one in Coffee DP. Then cut 2 pieces of black 4 1/8 x 2 5/8. Glue the cream and the Coffee DP to the black layers. Also cut a piece of black 4 1/8 x 5 3/8. Using the Happy Birthday w/Shadow cut the shadow in black and the words in kraft
3. With the card open and vertical glue the coffee piece to the bottom, the cream piece with Happy Birthday glued to the center in the middle and the large black piece to the top (all shown above). Set the big card aside
5. Glue down both pieces of black card stock to the inside of the small card one to the top and one on the bottom. Put glue just the edges of the coffee bean DP and glue it to the top flap on the inside of the smaller card. This is the holder for the gift card. On the bottom glue down the cream card stock on top of the black and add the sentiment and the decorative strip
6. Cut a piece of black card stock 3 1/2 x 1 1/8, cut a piece of cream card stock 3 1/4 x 1. Stamp your sentiment on the bottom right of the cream card stock. Using the Smile w/Shadow die cut out the shadow in black and the words in kraft. Glue them together and then glue to cream strip as shown. Using the 2nd from the smallest Scalloped Stitched Circle die cut out a black circle, using the 3rd from the smallest Pierced Circle die cut out a piece of kraft card stock and last using the 2nd from the smallest Pierced Circle die cut out a piece of the Coffee DP as shown above. Glue the circles together. Close the smaller card and glue the Smile strip in the middle of the card.
7. With the small card closed open the larger card vertical and open put glue on the back of the smaller card to the top of the larger card onto the black card stock. Next fold the larger card up tucking it under the smaller cards front flap. Glue down your little coffee medallion making sure you only glue down the bottom half of the medallion so the smaller cards front flap can tuck into it. Below is a picture of the card completely opened
I found Dawn's wonderful video tutorial that really helped me along since I am a very visual learner. Click HERE for her video.
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Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you give this gift card a try. It is really not a hard card to make and it turns out so cute!