Notepad with Chloe

Hi, Janja here!

Small notepads are always useful for writing or drawing. They can also be a nice gift.
I prepared one today and decorated it with lovely bear Chloe.

Supplies:
- CottageCutz stamp & die sets: Chloe with Kitty, Garden Gnomes 2 (butterfly and flowers), Victorian Fence, Square set, Stitched Square set
- white cardstock (2x): 5.3 x 5.1" (13,5 x 13 cm)
- patterned paper: 4.9 x 4.9" (12,5 x 12,5 cm)
- white cardstock: 4.7 x 4.7" (12 x 12 cm)
- white blank sheets: 5.1 x 5.1" (13 x 13 cm)
- Distress ink: Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo
- watercolor brushes
- clouds mask
- stencil brushes

Stamp Chloe with black Archival ink on watercolor paper, and color her.

Cut out all the elements with dies.

Fasten masking tape on white front page, and shadow background.

Trim white and patterned paper. Cut out square in the middle of both with a dies. Use the largest dies from both sets.

Cut off the lower corners on both cardstock and frame with a corner puncher. Glue both frames to each other.

Fasten frame to the front page and decorate it partially.

Bind the sheets with a spiral, and complete the front page of notepad.

Thank you for joining me today. See you again at next Tuesday. 

Happy day

Hi, Janja here!

For today's card, I have chosen the bear Ben. It is from the new CottageCutz release - Chloe and Ben's  Adventures.
You will surely love these cute bears.

Supplies:
- CottageCutz stamp & die sets: Ben with Puppy, Garden Gnomes 2, Fancy Pocket Plus (button), Rounded Rectangle Set, Stitched Rounded Rectangle Set
- white card base: A2 - 4.25" x 5.5" (10,8 x 14 cm) 
- patterned paper: 4 x 5" (10,2 x 13,2 cm)
- patterned paper: 2.1 x 5" (5,3 x 13,2 cm)
- watercolor paper
- white and colored cardstock
- Distress ink: Antique Linen, Faded Jeans, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Festive Berries

Stamp the bear on a watercolor paper, color it and cut it out with the die.
On strip from white cardstock stamp Happy day with coffee Archival ink. You will find it in stamp & die set - Garden Gnomes 2.

Trim patterned papers, glue them with double-sided adhesive tape and attach to the card base.
Cut out two rounded rectangles with dies (the 5th and largest die in a row from the middle of the set) from white cardstock and patterned paper.

Attach the bear with puppy, with self-adhesive foam pads on the background. Also, add a white strip with red heart.

I would like to show you another two cards with Bumblebee Chloe and Bumblebee Ben. I created them for friends with Slovenian sentiment - plenty of happiness.

Thank you for coming over. Have a nice day.

Flip Calendar - Part 2

Hi, Lois here again with the second part of my flip calendar.  Today’s post covers the months from January through August.

Supplies used for today’s post:

CottageCutz stamps/dies – Spring Grass, Garden Gnomes 1, GardenGnomes 2, Sweet Valentines, Woodlands, Daffodil Flower – March, Daisies Flower– April, Rose Flower – June, Larkspur Flower – July

Copic markers

Ink – Distress Bundled Sage

Sponge dauber

Foam pop dots

 I loved the Birthday Month flower stamp/die sets, but I didn’t necessarily want to have just flowers on my calendar pages.  There are several other stamp/die sets available as well – In the Kitchen, Garden Gnomes, Bee Sweet, Woodlands. as well as others.  I interspersed some of them throughout my calendar.

The January, February, May and August pages were made with the non-flower sets, while the March, April, June and July pages used the appropriate flower for the month.  I stamped, colored and die-cut the images for each month.

After I put the die-cut images onto the white panels, I realized that they needed to be “anchored” by something.  So I die-cut a strip of grass, using the Spring Grass die.  I cut 12 of these strips of grass, one for each page.  This also added continuity throughout the calendar.  This photo was taken before I sponged a bit of darker green around the edges.

I glued the grass strips along the bottom of the white panels and then built my scenes.  I chose which of the icons I wanted for each month and applied them on the appropriate dates.

My next post will show the remaining four calendar pages as well as directions for the calendar base.

CottageCutz dies and stamps used on today's post are: