A TEE-rific Bridge Spinner

Happy Monday Scrapping Cottage friends!  Kris here, and I hope you had a wonderful summer weekend!  I'm actually looking forward to the cooler crisp Fall season which makes it much nicer to get outside and do more...like golfing!  

This is another fun fold card & it's interactive!!  I combined the bridge fold card and a spinner!  And Don't forget - the newest release is BASEBALL & GOLF themed and the individual dies are 30% off! 

Here's a short clip of the golf ball spinning ☺ 

 (You can click  in the bottom right corner to make it larger!)

All the dies I've used are pictured and linked at the end of my post.

Design Steps:

I cut my yellow card base at 10" x 5" 

Scored at 1-1/2", 3", 7" and 8-1/2"

 (When it's all put together, it will collapse to a 5" x 7" card.) 

Next, I used a sun stencil from La-La Land Crafts and blended classic ink in the same color as the cardstock. 

Next, I fold-n-burnished my score lines as pictured below... outter scores are mountain folds, and inner scores are valley folds.  

I then cut a piece of green cardstock to 3-1/4" x 7" and cut the top with a die from the Hills Slimline set.  I scored 1-1/2" in from each side and adhered to the inside as shown below.  

Once I folded the card, I saw that my green ends were slightly over-hanging, so I used my scissors to trim so they were flush with the fold.  (see below).

Next, I cut 2 pieces of green cardstock the same size at 2-1/4" x 7" and cut the top of each with the straightest die from the Hills Slimline set - making sure that the 2nd piece has the die exactly in the same position as the first piece.  These will serve as my front spinner piece. 

I die cut the Putting Green in same green color, then ink blended Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink to make it a bit darker so it stands out.  

I then glued my Putting Green to the left side of one of my spinner pieces, with the hole on the left.

Next I die cut my spinner channel using the smallest die from the Nested Rectangles Slimline set.  It fit PAR-fectly (there's so many great golf puns!) except that it was a li'l too tall for the size golf ball I was using, so I manipulated the die a bit.  I taped the die as shown below, leaving space on the right for my foam tape, and put the top cutting plate down just so it covers the top HALF of my die.  And ran it through machine. 

Then, I turned my piece around and moved my die down so it was lined up on the sides, and you can see where it cut the first time (see photo below) Then covered just the top HALF again with my top cutting plate and ran it through.

I'm left with a nicely cut narrower rectangle - you can see the difference in the photo below. 

I then stacked that top piece onto the 2nd green piece - I did not attach it, just laid it on top.  Then I glued that strip that was die cut out back into the opening and lifted off the top piece.  (see photo below)

Using the smallest die from the Pierced Circle set, I die cut 2 white circles.  I added some grey divots with my Copic marker to make it look like a golf ball.  

I turned my top green piece upside down, placed my golf ball centered on the channel opening, and added 1/8" foam strips all around as shown.  You don't want to get too close to the ball or it won't spin.  (the ball laying there just serves as a spacer so I don't get my foam strips too close to the opening.)

I then added some glue to a small spinner disc and attached it to the backside of my golf ball.  I then turned it upside down so the disc is sticking up and laid my front green piece so that the disc is popping up through the rectangle opening.  then I added more glue to the top of the disc and attached my 2nd circle on top, lining it up exactly with the front circle (golf ball).  Sorry I don't have a photo of this.  If you don't have a spinner disc, you can stack 2 foam circles on top of each other.

I peeled my backing off of my foam strips and attached my back green piece to complete my spinner.

I then die cut the TEE (from the Golf Ball & Tee die), colored it red with my Copic marker and glued it on the far right of spinner, under the ball and cut off the remainder of tee.  (see photo below)

I die cut the Fall Tree, the Golfer Silhouette and the clouds from the Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella set. I colored the tree with Copic markers, and die cut the golfer from Espresso brown cardstock.  I glued all die cuts onto card as shown below.  For the sentiment, I printed one I made on computer, adding a red block behind it and making the font white.  Then I cut it out with the smallest die from the Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangles set, and attached it to the right panel of card.

I then added glue to the bottom side panels only and attached my spinner piece.

 Voilà and done!  ☺

and YES!  It folds flat to fit into a 5 x 7 envelope! ☺

Products I Used:

See the whole BASEBALL & GOLF Release HERE!

I hope I inspired you somehow today to get crafty with your CottageCutz dies!

~Kristine

Golfing Joy Fold Card

Hi everyone! Linh here and I have a new video up on the Cottage Cutz YouTube channel. This is an easy joy fold card, which I love because it gives you so much more additional space to decorate but still folds down to a compact US A2 size. If you struggle with making cards for the men and sports lovers in your life, the Baseball & Golf collection for you!

Click here to watch me make this card!

Golfing Double Z-Fold

Happy Monday ~ I hope you all had a craft-astic weekend!  Guest Designer Kris here with a Double Z-Fold Box Card FORE you!  I love a good pun!  Today I have used 7 dies from the new AUGUST RELEASE!  This release is so great for those masculine cards - especially if they like golf or baseball!  And for a limited time you can get the whole release bundle at 50% OFF!!  Individual dies from this release are 30% off! 

The Z-Fold card is so easy to make, and this one is a step up because I added "shelves" in the li'l corner box to adhere even more images/die-cutz to!  

HOW I MADE IT:

1.  I cut a piece of light blue cardstock at 4-1/4" x 11" - then scored at 2-3/4" (mountain fold) and 5-1/2" (valley fold)

2.  I cut a green strip (for the front Z) at 2-1/4" x 11" and scored at 2-3/4"(valley fold) and 5-1/2"(mountain fold)  See photo below.

3.  I used the die pictured below from the Grass Slimline set to cut the top of the green Z strip.  The strip will be a bit longer than the die, so I cut to one of the score lines, then moved the die down to cut the rest.

4.  Next, I cut a piece of patterned green paper to 3-1/4" x 11" and scored at 2-3/4" and 5-1/2".  

5.  I used the die pictured below from the Hills Slimline set to cut all the way across the top of that strip, by doing the same technique.... cutting to one of the score lines, then moving the die down and cutting the remainder.  (see photos below)

6.  I attached the patterned paper to the blue card base, aligning edges at sides and bottom.  

7.  Next, I added tape to the sections pictured below on back of the green grassy strip.  You don't want tape to extend past that first score line on your card base, so if it helps, you can place a pencil mark on the backside of your grassy layer at 2-3/4" so you know where to stop taping.  ☺

8.  Adhere to card as pictured below.

9.  Cut 2 or 3 shelves to insert in that "box" that the short Z creates.  I cut (3) at 1-1/4" x 3-3/4" and scored at 1/2" in from each end.

10.  Miter the top of the side flaps.  Then cut the tops using the straightest section of the grass die.

11.  I added glue to the side flaps and (I tried to) evenly space them from back to front of the "box"

12.  If you want, you can cut a piece of cardstock to 4" x 5-1/4" for the back side of card for writing a message.

13.  All that's left is die-cutting my pieces. gluing them together and adhering to my card!  

• For all the front Z panel die-cuts, I added foam dots to the backs to adhere them
• For the elements on the shelves inside the "box" I glued them to strips of heavy acetate so I could place them up a li'l higher and provide more stability to them.  
• For the words and silhouette golfer, I glued them directly onto the card base. 

PRODUCTS I USED:

See the WHOLE RELEASE HERE!

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  

Have a craft-astic week :) 

~Kristine