Sending Birthday Wishes

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.

Our new Folk Art release is still available in the online store at 35% off individual dies. There are 19 new designs that are so perfect for cardmaking, journaling, and scrapbooking.

In fact, we are having a big Labor Day sale going on now. The savings are up to 65%. Check it out here. 

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring the Folk Art Butterfly die on a birthday card. So, let's get started with some details of how I created this card. 

Design Steps:

I started my card this week using the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #963. We were to use highland heather, parakeet party and daffodil delight for her color trio. Optional was to make it a birthday card. I thought these would be perfect colors for the butterfly. 

highland heather, parakeet party, daffodil delight

I cut the butterfly in the three challenge colors and attached to a panel of designer paper. This one has a gray background and gray is an allowed neutral in this color challenge. I also stamped my birthday sentiment in highland heather ink. 

Gray Designer Paper: 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" 

Next, I cut all the elements that would surround my butterfly image and also my sending phrase. I used the Sending Hugs Bear, Folk Art Flowers Mixed and the Little Flowers dies. Again, all cut in the challenge colors. 

I attached the new pieces with a clear drying glue. 

To finish my card, I attached the image panel to the highland heather card base and scattered a few hearts. 

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

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

Reminder: Marla has a video up on the CottageCutz YouTube channel. Click here.

Easter Wishes

 Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

I hope you are all doing well.  I am in Arizona and the temperature is starting to heat up!  We will be close to 80 this week.  So I am in the mood to start my spring card which includes Easter.  I am doing a card with a fun fold for this weeks demo.  I used two of the new release dies Little Flowers and Fence & Grass.  I also added some older dies to create the Easter Theme.

Design Steps:

1.  Using the following dies Fence & Grass, Little Flowers, Hatching Bunny Chick, Mr. Peter Rabbit (for the eggs) cut them out in these card stock colors: pink, yellow, orange, green. white, and brown.  Assemble the chick ad flowers 

2.  Here is a link for the video I used to create the white card base by Dini at SplitCoast Stampers  

• Cut a 3 1/2 square out of green DP then cut it on the diagonal one of the pieces will be for the center flap 
• The other piece of left over DP you will cut in half for the sides of the flap
• Cut a strip of cloud DP 5 1/4 x 1 3/8

3.  Tape the two center flaps pieces together and then glue on the green triangle.  This creates a little pocket.  Glue the side green triangles and the blue strip across the top

4.  Start to decorate the top of the card sliding the pieces down into the pocket.  Cut the Easter Wishes on yellow card stock and glue to the flap.  After you have decorated the card front you can either leave the little pocket at the top open to slide in a gift card or glue it shut which is what I did

5.  Stamp the inside of the card and decorate with additional flowers.  Add a small velcro dot to the tip of the flap and your card is complete

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

Blessings and Take Care

Sweet I Love You Card

Happy Valentine's TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you, on this day to express....our love!   So I thought that was the perfect sentiment for my card today! I am sharing a sweet and pretty card I created with dies from the amazing new Flowers & More release from Cottage Cutz!

This release is amazing and a true MUST HAVE for your creative collection! All the dies in this collection are a wonderful addition and will fast be staples in your creative stash!

Here are my projects for today.

I created this simple yet pretty card featuring the Little Flowers and the Celebrate Banner dies from the new release! My card is a Horizontal top fold card. It is 4.25 x 5.5 with the fold along the 5.5 side and in landscape position.

I added a yellow cardstock mat sized at 4 x 5.25 and also a patterned paper mat sized at 2.5 x 5.25

 I then cut out the Largest double-stitched circle, the three smallest stitched hearts in that set and the second smallest pierced circle die from that set. 

I then used my various colored markers and colored in the two larger hearts and the pierced circle. I didn't have the right colored patterned paper, so this was a great alternative. I just tried to stay to the inside of the pierced or dashed lines. Here is an example of the larger heart.

I then cut out the celebrate banner in white and colored in the various little hearts and stars. I added dots of stickle to various ones for a little extra touch.

Here's a closer look at the assembled piece. I added the sweet little flowers to the center of the pierced circle. I cut them out of white cardstock and then colored them in as well. I added some sequins and scattered them for an extra touch. I then added the sentiment, I Love You and curved the words around the circle.

Here is one last look at my finished card. I think it turned out super cute!

Flowers & More collection!

Here's a look at the entire collection of dies in this fabulous release.

Dies I Used

Celebrate Banner

Little Flowers

I Love You Sentiment

Stitched Heart Set

Double-Stitched Circle Set

Pierced Circle Set

Don't forget to head over to the Cottage Cutz You-Tube Channel where you can see some of our amazing design team members create some beautiful projects!

Well that about covers it for today! May you have a wonderful Valentine's day and enjoy a little love in your day! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran

Two Simple Floral Cards

Happy Thursday Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you, and today I am sharing two pretty and very easy cards I created with the amazing new Flowers & More release from Cottage Cutz!

This release is amazing and a true MUST HAVE for your creative collection! All the dies in this collection are a wonderful addition and will fast be staples in your creative stash!

Here are my projects for today.

I created this simple yet pretty card featuring the Flower 1 die from the new release! It is such a great sized die and very, very easy to put together. I cut the pieces in white cardstock and then used my markers to color them. Once colored, I mounted the flower onto a piece of yellow cardstock. Underneath that is a purple gingham mat and all that is adhered to the scallop stitched rectangle. For the larger part of the card's background, I cut out the Vintage Trellis slimline die in white cardstock. I then cut it down to fit onto the larger yellow mat. I then added a patterned paper mat and then a purple mat all onto my white cardstock base. 

Here's a closer look at the pretty flower 1 die. I added some sequins and some stickles to create the "veins" on the petals. For the sentiment, I used the I Love You die and cut it out of white cardstock. I then colored the letters with my purple marker and adhered all that onto the smallest scallop stitched rectangle. 

Next up, I created this pretty and simple card with the little flowers die set from the release. I cut all of them again in white cardstock and then colored them in.

I then layered them onto the double-stitched oval. I then staggered and layered in a series of double-stitched and scalloped ovals from both sets. I mounted all of that onto some polka dot papers and adhered it all to my white cardstock base. I then used the sentiment love you and cut that from some more white cardstock. Very easy but effective.

Both of these cards came together quickly and can be reproduced quite easily! 

Here is a look at the fabulous collection!

Flowers & More collection!

Grab it fast while you can get the entire bundle for one amazing low price!

Dies I Used

Flower 1

Little Flowers

I Love You Sentiment

Love You Mom Phrase

Double Stitched Oval Set

Scallop Oval Set

Nested Scallop Rectangle Set

Vintage Trellis Slimline

Don't forget to head over to the Cottage Cutz You-Tube Channel where you can see some of our amazing design team members create some beautiful projects!

Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran