Hello Honey

Hello and Happy Monday CottageCutz friends! 

I'm Kris ~ one of the Guest Designers here, and I've got a sweet & simple card I made for my daughter.  She's clear across the states (I'm in OR and she's in PA - attending grad school) so she's definitely one of my frequent card recipients, and the dies in this Strawberries & Bees Release were perfect for dropping a sweet hello!  

I've used the Bee Phrases and Flowers dies.  And I'll apologize now that I kinda forgot to take pictures along the way, but it's super simple that I think written details will suffice ☺

How I made it:

1.  I cut a piece of thick white cardstock 11" x 4-1/4" and scored it at 5-1/2" to make a top folding card.

2.  I cut a piece of black/white striped paper from my stash at 5-1/4" x 4" and adhered to card base.

3.  I cut a piece of yellow (Daffodil Delight) cardstock at 5" x 4" and adhered to the black/white striped piece so that the stripes appear at top and bottom.

4.  I cut a piece of kraft (Crumb Cake) cardstock at 4-3/4" x 3-3/4".  I mixed a bit of white acrylic paint with water and with a paint brush, I spattered white ink all over and set it aside to dry.

Here's a closer up shot of that.

5.  While the paint was drying, I die-cut and assembled my pieces from the Bee Phrases and Flowers out of white and yellow cardstock.  I then colored the 'Hello', bottom pieces of the bees & wings, the honey spoon, the top layers of the honeycomb, and the flower with Copic markers and assembled them.  

6.  For the dripping honey, I added some liquid pearls in a golden color to the yellow die-cut and let it dry.

6.  Next I adhered my white-spattered cardstock onto the middle of my card front.

7.  I then attached my die-cuts, gluing everything down, except the flower blossoms and bees in which I popped up with foam dots.

8.  I noticed I smudged my white paint spatter just above my honey spoon and it looked bad, so I added a golden bee charm there and another in bottom right corner just to make it look cohesive. 

That's all!  This was fairly quick and simple to put together.  I hope something I've done today inspires you to create with this ADORABLE release!  ☺

PRODUCTS I USED:

Here's the whole awesome release!

    Hope you have a CRAFT-astic week!!

~Kristine

Two Birthday Wishes Cards

Hello CottageCutz 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 new release time!!! We have new dies in the online store. It's our Strawberries and Bees release with 16 new designs. You can pick up the individual dies are 30% off.

The new dies are perfect for all your cardmaking needs. They would work for so many occasions as our design team have been showing.

Today for your viewing pleasure I created 2 birthday cards. That seems to be the most needed card of the ones I send. So, I can never have enough of these. I have a big extended family plus the friends I send birthday greetings to. 

I am featuring the new Strawberry Treats and the Flowers die. I used the same CAS layout for both cards. Just changed up the designer papers to get a different look. A big plus is this design would be easy to re-create if you had to make multiples.  Let's get started on some details of how I created my card. 

Design Steps: 

I picked the colors for the first card and then chose my designer paper & card base. 

 

Light purple card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

White border strip: 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Attached to the card base with double sided tape.

Next, I cut the cake image and the sweetest phrase in colors that complemented the base and designer. Instead of the strawberry that is part of the cake design I decided to add flowers. I didn't think a red strawberry would look good with the shades of purple I was using. 

I decided to place the images on a circle. I had this one in my supplies already cut from the Wacky Stitched Circle die. It's the 2nd largest one - approximately 3 1/8".  I attached the circle with double sided tape and the images with dimensional adhesive.  

To finish off this first card, I attached the sweetest phrase, stamped an additional greeting on a banner and added a few light purple gems. 

Now for my second card. This one is using the same layout and color scheme. My designer paper is a  different pattern but the same light purple shade. It's called fresh freesia. And I used the Stitched Circle die on this card. 

The flowers are cut in shades of purple. The Sending phrase is from an older Black Friday release. release - Sending Hugs. It looks like it's no longer in stock, but you could use the Sweet phrase that I used in my first card.  

I attached these images with a combo of double-sided tape, glue and dimensional adhesive. I also used a different sentiment on this card and scattered grape enamel dots to complete it. 

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

Dies I used to create card:

  

Daisy Birthday Wishes

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends, 

We have a new release and it is just plain adorable.  It is called Strawberries and Bees perfect for those fun summertime cards. There are 16 designs in this new collection and you can get the individual dies for 30% off right now! This sale will not last so shop today to get the incredible savings.

Here is my card for today using the new release die Flowers and a fancy fold.  The idea for the fancy fold design is from Sharon Hashimoto Burkert.  I just loved her card so I had to give it a try.

Design Steps:

1.  For the fancy fold part of the card use a piece of black card stock 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 3", 5 1/2", 8", 9 1/2"

2.  The base of the card is a piece of black card stock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and white card stock embossed with a honey comb 4" x 5 1/4".  The decorative pieces for the fancy fold are as follows: two pieces cut at 1 1/4" x 4" (black checked and butterfly paper) one at 2 1/4" x 4" (teal flower paper) one at 1/2" x 4" (yellow checked) and white cut at 2 1/4" x 4" and 2 3/4" x 4".  The belly band is black 1 1/2" x 9 1/2"

3.  Glue the white honey comb card stock to the black base, glue the butterfly paper to the first flap, next is the black checked DP, 3rd panel is the teal flower DP, next two panels are the white and finally next to the white on the last panel add the strip of yellow checked DP

4.  Fold your fancy fold piece and glue it to the card base and then place the belly band around the card and glue the band together

5.  Using the Flowers die cut out 3 of the Daisies in white, 3 centers in yellow, and 4 leaves in green.  Assemble the flowers using a fine tip glue.  Using the 2nd from the smallest Scalloped Oval cut it out in yellow.  Using the 2nd from the smallest Pierced Oval cut it out in white.  Stamp the right side of the white oval with Happy Birthday and then glue to the yellow oval

6.  Place your belly band around the card and glue down the sentiment oval to the right on the band.  Glue one of the flowers just below the belly band and the other two flowers on the belly band as shown in the pictures above and below.  Stamp the inside of your card and it is complete

CottageCutz Products

Here is the new release so please check it out in our store today!!

We have more inspiration on our YouTube Channel check it out HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by!  And I will see you next Thursday.

Blessings and Take Care

A CLUSTER OF FLOWERS-EXTENDING STAMPS AND DIES

Hello to all !!!
Before I show you what is in there for you, let me take you to the CottageCutz store where our Anniversary sale is going on and you can save upto 50% for just this week only. Isn't that wonderful !!!

Now on to today's project. Have ever thought that how good it would be if your stamp would have been a little more bigger or if you could increase the design size. Well, you can do that and I call it EXTENDING YOUR STAMP.

This is very well featured in this card here where from one stamp , I have build up a cluster of flowers so that it looks that the stamped image is really bigger in size.
Do check it out here.

All the flowers stamp and die combo that can be used to create this sort of card can be found here

 

Birthday Flowers

 

Stamp out the images in Versafine onyx black and cut with coordinating die.

Use one of the die cut image as a mask and stamp two images on the left and right side of the mask

Remove the mask. This is how the card panel should like.

Arrange all the die cut and stamped images on the card panel to plan out the design

Colour all the images with Zig Real Brush Pens

Arrange the coloured images on the card panel popping some of them with 3D foam tape.

Adhere the card panel on green mat layer and then on the card base 

This is how the card looks like. One stamp can give a big cluster of flowers.

You can build up a similar card from the many stamp and die flower sets . You can check them out here.

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutz-jan20174.aspx

I hope you will create many spring cards. Thanks for being with me.

Happy flowers with CottageCutz dies

Hello ,

Its Anita here and I am back with my Friday post.
Happiness is such a subjective emotion. many derive happiness by spending time with their loved ones while some become happy by being with their pets.  know some people are happy when alone while some like noisy crowd to be happy.
I find happiness in flowers. And I am happy when my flowers bloom the way I want them to. And the CottageCutz 3D flowers dies are most amazing ones that make my flowers look happy.

There is a wide variety of flower and leaf dies ranging from tiny flowers to mega sized blooms.

For my card here, I have created some spring flowers and I loved the purple hue . Do follow the step by step instructions for making these flowers.
Here is my card.

 Instructions for making flowers

Cut the die cuts from white card stock using CottageCutz dies

Cut out 2  frames each for the card base and stick them together.

Colour the flowers and leaves using distress inks and put tiny dots with black pen. Mist the flowers with water.

Shape using an embossing tool on a foam mat as shown

Make pollen centres as shown

Add wire pollens to filler flowers

Carefully make small cut marks in between the petals. This will enable the pollen centres to pass through.

Complete all the flowers and lay them out on the card.

the finished card measures 7"/ 7". It has two mat layers of 6.5/6.5" and 6"/6". The edges have been distressed. Cut 4 strips from pattern paper measuring 1"/ 7" and swipe walnut stain ink to give that distressed look. Adhere on card front as shown.

CottageCutz dies used

CottageCutz 3D flower # 7

CottageCutz leafy foliage die

Wide Rectangle Stitched Frame

Stitched Rectangle set

Fancy victorian Frame

Spring Greenery

Other products

Distress inks-walnut stain, seedless preserve, wilted violet, Memento inks-bamboo leaves, ivy cottage. white card stock

Do leave a few happy words and thanks for stopping by.