Ladybug Love!

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam on the blog this morning.  I am continuing to make my Valentine Cards and having so much fun with the new Valentine and St. Patrick's Day release dies.  They are still on sale for 25% off so don't miss your opportunity to check out this cuter then cute release!   Today I am using the Lovebug Bee & Ladybug die with the traditional Valentine's colors.

Design Steps:

 1.  I used the Ladybug die and cut it out three times in red, black and pink

 2.  I did a little shading on the red and pink then assembled the Ladybug.  I also made the other bug a little Manbug using the black shell and red under layer plus I used the bow for a bow tie!  You can see it below

 3.  Use an A2 white card base, cut a piece of red slightly smaller then the base and then a piece of black polka dot DP slightly smaller then the red.  Also cut a 1 1/4 x 4 inch red polka dot band.  Then using the Fancy Floral Lace Border cut out to lacy strips and then cut them down to 4 inches long

 4.  Glue the Lace border to the top and bottom of the red polka dot strip

 5.  Using the Pierced Rectangle die third from the largest cut out a white rectangle

6.  Wrap your ribbon around the rectangle and tie a square knot.  Pop up you two bugs just about the ribbon.  Stamp your sentiment just below the ribbon

7.  Pop the rectangle panel to the center of the card and add some small red hearts

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Blessings

Pam

You Make My Heart Flutter

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have another Valentine's Day card to share for my guest designer post.  Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays and these new Valentine's dies makes it so easy to create some adorable cards.

I used the Lovebug Butterfly and the Lovebug Bee & Ladybug dies to cut out these sweet die cuts. The squares were cut from the Stitched Rounded Square Set.  I went with a pink and red theme and inked everything on the edges.  A bit of chalk was added to the cheeks along with a tiny dot with a white gel pen.

Each of the die cuts were adhered to the squares.  I found the perfect papers in my stash from an older Martha Stewart paper pad.  The pink, red and white papers complimented my die cuts perfectly.

I hand cut a small rectangle tag and heat embossed it with a sentiment from the Scrappy Moms (retired) Crazy for you stamp set. I hole punched the tag on each of the ends.  The hole reinforcements were punched with the We R Memory Keepers Hole Reinforcer Punch.  The tag was adhered to the bottom of my card and tied with some Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine.

The adorable die cuts were aligned in a row above the sentiment tag. I absolutely love these cute die cuts.

Here are the dies I used on my card which are currently on sale here: 

Valentine Release DT Samples (Part 1)

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. We are sampling DT cards from the brand new Valentine & St Patrick's Day release. There are 16 new designs in this release. And for a limited time the individual dies are on sale at 25% off.

For the next several days, we will be featuring samples from the design team using these new dies. We wanted to  give you some creative ideas for using the dies. So let's get started with the cards for today.

Card 1: Our first sample today is from Sukie Dhillon. She is featuring the new Valentine Cottage and Valentine Phrases & More dies This sweet Valentine cottage is so welcoming with its whimsical appeal. Her use of patterned papers adds the perfect amount of "curb appeal". She added some touches of sparkle and the sentiment connects everything together. By switching out the colors of the die cuts you could easily turn this card into a house warming or Christmas card. 

Card 2: Our next sample is from Pam MacKay. She used the cute Be My Valentine Puppies die to create this sweet card. How special would this be for your sweetheart, your daughter or granddaughter? Her use of red foil adds the right touch for the "be my valentine" sentiment and the small red hearts. It's also a lovely accent for the pink gingham patterned paper.  Notice the sentiment banner, it's a part of this new die.  

Card 3: The final sample for today is from Jeanne Knobbe. She used the Lovebug Bee & Ladybug die to create this super cute Valentine card.  The punny sentiment was made with the help of the Stitched Alphabet die. She framed her bee image with a stitched circle die. Gingham paper is so on trend right now and she used a narrow piece to bring some appeal to her clean and classy design.  Her card is one of those that could be sent to a child or adult or male or female.

Well, that's our samples for today. I hope the team has given you some inspiration on ways to use these new dies. And, if you are contemplating a purchase, don't wait to long, The dies are on sale for a limited time.

 

Stop by again tomorrow for more team samples.

dies used to create cards: