Gnome Birthday

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

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ALSO........ We have a HUGE SLIMLINE DIE RELEASE with 20 fantastic dies.  The dies are at a savings of 25% off right now in the store.  The new designs are just so amazing.  They are sure to put your imagination into overdrive!!  Check them out right HERE.

I am using the Whimsical Heart Slimline today!  I have 8 birthdays in September so I am getting a jump start with this cute little gnome birthday card!

Design Steps:

1.  Use a white slimline card base and cut the background in white using the Whimsical Heart Slimline die

2.  Glue the heart panel to the white card base

3.  Using the Flower Power Tomte die cut out all the pieces in: green, tan, white, blue, yellow and dark brown.  Shade the pieces then assemble the Gnome

4.  Cut out the balloons using yellow, red and blue card stock.  Tie a white string to each balloon

5.  Pop dot the gnome and balloons to the front of the card.  Stamp and layer the sentiment then pop it just under the gnomes feet.  Add a few sequins and your card is complete

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I really appreciate you stopping by today!  I hope you get some time to get crafty especially on a hot summer day. It is so relaxing!!

Blessings and Take Care

Pam

Mr. Bear

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam creating with you today!

As we enter the first few weeks of summer it is fun to see all of the plants and flowers in full bloom.  That also brings the honey bee.  We have some fruit trees in the backyard and they still have a few blooms and the little bees love them! That is my inspiration for this card!

Background Photo by Nikhil kumar on Unsplash

Design Steps:

 1.  Cut the pieces out of a variety of colored card stock using the Garden Bear, Potted Plants, Flower Power Tomte and Potting Shed dies.  Shade the pieces and assemble with a fine tip glue

 2.  Use a piece of white card stock 3 3/4 x 5 and shade in some blue ink for the sky

 3.  Glue your pieces onto the blue shaded background

4.  I decided I need a bit of green at the bottom to ground my scene so I added it using a blender brush just as I did the sky.  Next layer onto a piece of black card stock

5.  I then added the extra pots and the little sign to complete the scene

6. Here is a good trick if you don't have any paper to match your scene.  I used the same ink that I colored the flowers with and brushed it onto the edges of a piece of white card stock 4 x 5 1/4.  Glue the edged panel to a white A2 card

7.  Mount the bear panel to the purple edged panel.  Stamp Hello to the little sign, add sparkle to the bees wings and black dots to the flower centers and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Summer!!

Blessings and See You Next Thursday!

Pam

Herb Garden

Hi Janja here. Welcome to the blog today.
I don’t know about you, but I adore fresh kitchen herbs myself. I combined some dies and made a card with herb garden.

- CottageCutz dies: Planter Box & Seeds, Flower Power Tomte, Gardening Cat (basket), Square Set, Cross-Stitched Square Set
- blank card: 5 5/16 x 5 5/16" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- patterned paper: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8" (13 x 13 cm)
- kraft cardstock: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 " (13 x 13 cm)
- different colors of cardstock
- different colors of ink pads
- glue, double-sided adhesive tape, self-adhesive foam pads

First die-cut all the pieces for main image out from different colors of cardstock. Shade all cutouts with ink pads.

Later, I stamped the names of the kitchen herbs on the sign and added a birdhouse to the top.

Trim three squares. Using two square dies, cut out two frames. Glue both frames together. Paste a small square to the back of the frame.

Start assembling the card. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Janja

Welcome To The Tomte Garden

Hi!

It's Anja here. For today's post I made a lovely scene, using the new Tomte dies. I combined both and this is the final result.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Flower Power Tomte, Gardening Tomte, Hollow Tree w/ Forest Friends),
- Distress Inks,
- white card base (10,5x15 cm),
- silver pigment ink,
- black pen,
- white pen,
- plastic stencil (clouds),
- brush,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored both tomtes and all the other accessories.

Next I colored the tree and the mushrooms. I used white pen for the mushrooms.

I didn't have a sentiment stamp to fit the wooden sign. So I wrote on it with a black pen.

Last I did the background. I used the technique I like the most. Clouds with a plastic stencil and green Distress Ink for the grassy ground.

Then I just added tomtes, the tree and all the other small pieces and my card was done.

That's all from me for today. Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

I Dig You

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card featuring the adorable tomte from the new Gardening release.  I learned a few things this week. To me the new tomtes look a lot like gnomes. So I wondered - what is the difference? I found that Tomte is a Swedish word for a sprite that is pretty much the same as a gnome.  In Norwegian he would be called a nisse.  Very interesting!

Now, on to my card.

As I often do, I started by choosing my colors which I got from the patterned paper I decided to use.  This paper is one of my favorites and features a combination of coral, light grey and light blue/green.

I cut the pieces from Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Smoky Slate cardstock along with white.  The tomte and accessories use the Flower Power Tomte die and I used the Hat Box w/Flowers die for the foliage.

I edged the beard and mustache in just a bit of Distress Oxide Pumice Stone.  I used Distress Oxide inks in Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Tattered Rose, and Vintage Photo to color his face, shoes and shovel handle.

I cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches from the grey/white floral.  Using the largest of the wide stitched circle frames I cut three from Calypso Coral cardstock and one from the zig zag patterned paper.  The third largest of the Stitched Circles fits perfectly inside the frame and I used that as I like the sticthing around the edges.  You could also just use the negative from the frame.

The sentiment is heat embossed in white on a half inch strip.

To give some height to the frame I used three corals frame underneath  the patterned one.  I glued that to the panel and then inset the white circle.

I added my tomte, bird and flower to the circle.  I trimmed the strip and glued it directly to the card, adding the foliage.  The whole panel is adhered to an A2 card base.

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I hope you enjoyed my post today and that you have a fun and creative weekend!