Happy Mother's Day

Hello everyone,

It's Donna here sharing another beautiful card using the CottageCutz dies!  How many of you have made your mother a card and mailed it? Not me, but we still have about two weeks to get it out. Now onto my card.

• Card base  is an A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2)
• Top layer is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
• Center pieces are 4 1/4 x 1 1/2 

I die cut the two butterflies and pieced them together. I cut out two circles from the cross-stitched circle dies.  I used the 5th and 6th circles.  The larger circle is with the blue butterfly and the smaller is with the pink butterfly. I adhered them to my card with a glue dot and added my butterflies. I die cut the Happy and Mother's Day out with black cardstock, added some clear wink of stella then used liquid glue to adhered them to my card. I finished my card off by adding some sequins.

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List of dies used for this project:

Ship's porthole

Hi, Janja here!

Today I share with you another card made with the CottageCutz nautical dies.
Let's see how it is made.

For the card you need:

• card base in brown color: 11.4 x 5.7" (29 x 14,5 cm), folded in half
• white cardstock: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm)
• wooden sheet
• scraps of white and colored cardstock
• transparent PVC foil
• embossing folder
• Distress inks: Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Wild Honey
• white pigment ink pad
• white chalk paint, brush
• gold and copper metallic paste
• paper cutter

From wooden sheet we cut out 10 strips. They should be 5.1" (13 cm) long and 0.5" (1,2 cm) wide.

Paste them on a sheet of paper and cut it to size 4.9 x 4.9" (12,5 x 12,5 cm). I advise you to use glue and not double-sided tape. 

The whole area is shaded with the Distress ink Vintage Photo and a white pigment ink pad.
Finally it's painted with a white chalky paint.

When the color is still wet, pull with the finger on some places. This will remove color. Little smearing, but at the end, you will be satisfied with the shabby appearance of the wood. 

Now let's start with porthole.

Prepare the cardstock cutouts. For the glass piece use PVC foil. I can't advise you which one is preferred. I always use the thicker one. 

Use embossing folder for pattern on the foil. 

Coat other cutouts with gold and copper metallic paste and glue them together with the foil.  

The fence consists of two CottageCutz dies. Pillars and the rope around them are from the pelican die. Pillars are also cut out of a wooden sheet.  For the rope between the pillars, use the rope corner die.   Seagull flew to the one of the pillars, while we stuck an anchor to another one. The inscription Happy Birthday is glued to the wooden background.

And don't forget on our April challenge - anything goes. You have time to share your projects with us till the end of the month.  Two lucky winners will get the nice awards.   List of dies used:

I hope that you enjoy my company.

Janja

Happy Anniversary Easel Card

Happy Thursday everyone!

Kathy with you today with an easel card I made using the Swans Die from the CottageCutz Wedding Release, along with the Starburst Flower, Happy, Anniversary, Fancy Lace Border and Greenery Dies.

It's hard to show just one picture of an easel card, so I have a bunch for you!  Here's a view from the front.

Here are views from the side.

Here's the inside.

And finally, a close up of the front.

To make my card, I used cream card stock to create a 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" easel card.  (If you're not familiar with easel cards, there is a tutorial on Split Coast Stampers here that you can refer to as a guide.)  I added a black mat to part of the front that is embossed with a polka dot embossing folder and popped it on the base.  I cut the Fancy Lace Border Die twice, once with black and again with LeCreme Designer Paper and added them to the bottom of the mat.  The Swans Die was cut with the cream and added with pop dots. The 2 small flowers from the Starburst Flower Die with also cut with LeCreme DP and added the the Swan.  Two leaves were added to either side of the flowers cut from the Greenery Die using black card stock.

For the inside of the card, I cut the sentiments using black card stock and added them by running them through my Xyron Create-a-sticker Machine.  I then added a piece of black trim and one of the Greenery Dies cut using black card stock.

To finish my card, I added a bow made with Cream Seam Binding and a couple of black pearls.

These are the dies I used on my card.