Husky Love Mail

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne sharing with you today and I have a Valentine's card for any dog lover in your life.  This card uses the Husky w/Sled die from the new Arctic Animals release along with some older Valentine's Day dies.

I started off by cutting all the pieces from cardstock in white, gray, brown and two shades of red.

I used some gray ink to shade the white areas of the husky, then I glued him together along with the letters and banner.  Final assembly of the pieces will be on the card itself.

My card is going to be a top folding A2 size card so I cut a panel 5.5 x 4.25 inches to glue on top of the base.  I used two shades of red/pink to create a soft background with more of the color towards the bottom and going diagonally from the middle to the upper right.

For my snow, I  cut a free form snow bank and used light blue ink to just shade the top.

I adhered the snow to my background panel and then glued down my dog and sled.  I left the top part of the sled unglued so I could slip the envelopes underneath.

I tucked the envelopes on the sled and used the various size hearts to create a trail.

Finally, I popped up the sentiment using foam dots and added a few rhinestone hearts in clear and red.  A fun and easy to make Valentine's Day card!

Dies used:

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you enjoyed my card.  Have a fun and creative weekend!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  This is Sukie and I have a fun card to share on this New Year's Day created with the new Arctic Animals die release.  I combined several of the new dies on one card!

I wanted to create a snowy scene for the sweet Arctic Animals so I went with a blue and gray theme. The fun sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms (retired) Farm Fresh stamp set which was perfect for my card.

I shaded all of my die cuts with some Oxide Inks and also used the inks for the two hand cut pieces at the bottom of my card base.

The scene was built with the hand cut hills and Snowy Mountains. Next, the Arctic Snowy Trees were tucked in behind the mountains.

The puffin from the Arctic Birds set was placed in front of the mountains and the Baby Walrus was added on the left hand side of my card.  The husky is from the Husky w/Sled die set.

The Arctic Baby Fox was tucked in next to the husky and the penguin from the Arctic Penguins & Igloo die set.

My card was finished off with the sentiment flag which was trimmed to fit in the upper right hand corner.

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

Have a happy and prosperous New Year!

Husky Rings in the New Year

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. I hope you all had a great Christmas. 

There are some big sales going on in the online store. The after Christmas sale has savings of up to 80% on CottageCutz designs. And, the new Artic Animal release is on sale with savings of 25%. There are 13 new designs in this release and each one is so versatile for a variety of card making and giving occasions.

 Today, I am featuring the Husky w/Sled and I used it to make a New Year card. Sometimes I like to think out of the box for different ways to use the CottageCutz dies.

I usually make a few New Years cards and then send them out to friends or family. I select different people each year and send it in place of a Christmas card. Just to change things up a bit !!!

So let's get started with some details on how I created this card.

Design Steps:
I cut my husky and sled and used different colors of cardstock for the images. You could also cut in white cardstock and then color with the medium of your choice.

To make my card a bit festive and help celebrate the new year, I used the Ring in the New Year die, it's from the 2018 Christmas release, for the champagne, champagne glasses and happy new year sentiment. The champagne glasses are cut with vellum and then I added gold glitter cardstock for the champagne.

I decided to emboss a snowy background for the image panel. After all the husky is a sled puller in the Artic! Just don't know how many of them will be pulling champagne and glasses (LOL)!!!

embossed panel: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Now that my elements are cut and embossed, I am ready to start card assembly.
I started with the husky and sled. I used dimensional adhesive to give them a slight lift off the snowy background.

Next, I added the champagne and glasses. I also used dimensional adhesive to secure them.

I added the Happy New Year sentiment. Then I decided to cut a couple of streamers from the same die. It helped to fill in the space.

To finish off my card, I added the image panel to a red cardstock base.

Card Base: 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Well, that's it for me for this week. I hope I have given you a fresh idea for a way to use this new die. Happy New Year Scrapping Cottage friends!

dies I used to create card:

Husky With Presents

Hi!

It's Anja here. I used another adorable die for today's project. You can combine this cute husky with all kinds of dies. I used the presents from one of the older releases.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Husky w/ Sled, Holiday Reindeer),
- Distress Inks,
- craft card base (13x18 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts and background (7x17 cm),
- craft cardstock for background (8x17 cm),
- patterned paper (12x17 cm),
- black pen,
- white pen,
- clouds plastic stencil,
- red ribbon,
- jingle bell charm,
- tape,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the husky and the presents.

Next I started on the background. I used craft card base and trimmed the patterned paper first.

Next I used a strip of white and craft cardstock.

I adhered both together and made the clouds using the plastic stencil and blue Distress Ink.

I adhered this piece on the patterned paper and made a bow using red ribbon and bell charm. I taped it with the tape on the other side.

When I had the background done, I glued it on the card base and added the husky. And my card was done.

That's all from me for today.

Have a nice day and see you again next week.

Anja Z.



Cottage Cutz dies I used for this project:

Husky and Friends

Hello Friends

Our new release called Arctic Animals is just so cute!  And you have just one more day to catch the Black Friday sale.  The discounts are amazing.  So hop on over to the online store!!

I hope you are all ready for Christmas!!  I have a friend who's birthday is close to the holiday and she is a dog lover.  So I made her a card featuring our sweet Husky pup. He is part of the Arctic Animal release.

Design Steps:

1.  Cut all the pieces out of white using the Husky w/ Sled die.

2.  Color and shade all of the pieces using your favorite markers.  I used Copics

 3.  Assemble the Husky and his sled

 4.  Using the Arctic Polar Bear and Cub die cut the pieces out of white card stock

 5.  Color and shade the pieces with your markers

 6.  Use a white A2 card base, cut out a piece of blue card stock just slightly smaller then the  front of the card and then cut a piece of DP slightly smaller then the blue.  Cut a piece of white glitter card stock 2 x 5 1/4.  Glue the DP to the blue card stock and the white glitter card stock to the center of the DP

 7.  Place dimension squares to the back of the dog and sled

8.  Pop the die cut to the glitter card stock as shown.  Using the Expressions Let it Snow die cut it out twice using purple card stock.  Glue the pieces together and add to card as shown below.  I added Glossy Accents to the words

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Check out this amazing collection of Arctic Animals!  It is a terrific buy!!

Blessing

Pam