A Little Birdie Told Me!

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam creating with you on the blog today.

Just for your information this is the last day for the Memorial Day sale!!  You can save up to 70% off on most of the dies and the new Gardening release is 25% off.  You don't want to miss this money saving sale!

Today I am using the Tomte.  He has many different looks and little tools you can use with him.  I think is is just adorable!

Background Photo by Lukasz Szmigiel on Unsplash

Design Steps:

1.  Cut all of the pieces using the Flower Power Tomte die.  I used yellow, green, blue and white card stock

2.  Using a variety of inks shade the pieces and then assemble using a fine tip glue

3.  Use an A2 white card base cut a piece of green 4 x 5 1/4 and DP 3 3/4 x 5.  Use the 4th from the largest Pierced Oval die to cut out a white oval.  Use the 2nd from the largest Stitched Scallop Oval die to cut out a green oval

4.  With the pieced oval die in place shade in the opening with a light blue.  Also stamp your sentiment on yellow and layer onto green

5.  Glue the DP to the green card stock then add the ribbon tying a knot in the center.  I use a glue dot to keep the knot in place

6.  Glue the ribbon panel to the front of the A2 white card base.  Add the green oval and then the shaded blue oval

7.  Place pop dots to the back of the little Tomte and add him to the oval on the front

8.  For the inside I used the Happy expressions die to cut out a yellow and green happy. Glued them together slightly off center then placed inside card.  Add the Birthday sentiment and the strip of DP to the bottom with the little flowers.  To finish I added some rhinestones to the front and inside

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I appreciate you stopping by today!  It was so much fun creating this card. I hope you are able to take sometime for yourself today!  And don't forget the awesome sale!

Blessings and see you next time!

Pam

Flower Power Tomte

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

It's Mother's Day weekend and even though we will be having a different type of celebration because of the stay at home orders; it's still a day to honor Mothers everywhere. So on behalf of the CottageCutz team and our wonderful owner, Joanne, I extend greetings to all Moms. 

There is also a Mother's Day sale going on through this coming Monday night, May 11. It's a chance to pick up some new dies and get a deal on them as well. 

Now onto my card for today. I am featuring the new Flower Power Tomte die to create a summer birthday card. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card by cutting the images. I used various colors of bright cardstock. The flower pot that I used is from the new Potting Shed die. Since I was cutting circle windows on my card, I wanted the image just a bit larger. 

 I stamped the HB2U sentiment on the little garden post that the tomte is holding. This is actually a new word (tomte) for me. When I saw the new dies I had to look up that word to find out it's another word to describe a gnome. 

Next, I laid out the circle dies on my cardstock. I taped them down so they wouldn't move when I ran them through my Big Shot machine. Before any cutting took place, I laid the images inside the circles to make sure everything would fit nicely. 

The circles are the 4th, 5th and 6th largest dies from the circle die set. 

For the circle backgrounds, I decided to use some blue designer paper that had the look of a sky. I cut 3 more circles just slightly larger so they would fit behind nicely. I used the 3rd, 4th and 5th dies from the circle set. 

Now I am ready for card assembly. I placed the images inside each circle. 

I thought that at least 2 of the circles need something additional.  For the birdhouse circle I cut a couple of flowers and also a small cloud image. On the flower pot circle, I just added a cloud. The cloud die is from the Lighthouse w/Clouds die. It's an older one from CottageCutz. 

The card still looked a bit empty and too much white space for my liking. So I decided to stamp 3 small birthday sentiments in grape ink. My card is another work in progress this week. 

To finish off my card, I attached the image panel to a highland heather (light purple) card base. I also scattered a few grape enamel dots. I am definitely happy with how the card turned out. I hope I have given you an idea for a way to use this ever so cute Flower Power Tomte new die. 

Well, that's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday. 

dies I used to create card:

  

Hello Sunshine

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing this card for my design team post.  I'm delighted with the new Cottage Cutz Gardening die release.  All of the blooms in this release are perfect for those springtime creations.

I used the Gardening Tomte and the Flower Power Tomte die sets for my card.  All of the flowers inspired the bright and cheery color combination for my die cuts.

I chose a neutral background for my card base to offset all of the colors and patterns I incorporated into my die cuts.  A tiny stamped sentiment on a hand cut flag was perfect for my card.

Once I put together my card base, I adhered the die cut elements one-by-one creating the whimsical scene.

The flowers were placed on the two edges of my card.  The tiny birdhouse was nestled in the center. The little gardening elements are so cute and work great as embellishments on my card.

The sentiment flag was placed in the upper left corner of my card as the final finishing accent.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a nice day!