I Wheelie Love You!

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have a whimsical card to share for my design team post. It's been an absolute treat creating with the latest Circus die release which lend themselves to bright and cheery creations!  Head on over to the store to catch these die sets and many others on sale for President's Day!

For my card, I used the Pedaling Puppy, the Oval Set and the Nested Stitched Scallop Oval Set.  All of the pieces were cut from card stock.

My card base was created using a couple of different patterns which seemed to work together.  I'm loving the festive pinwheel design.  

Once I layered my patterned papers on an A2 sized card, I affixed the 2 scallop die cuts in a nested style. The pop of red underneath the white oval brought all of the background colors together beautifully!

The little puppy on his trike bike was nestled inside the double ovals, fitting perfectly.

I found a fun sentiment to stamp on a hand cut flag.  The play on words sentiment was a great way to finish off this quick card!

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

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Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

It is Pam on the blog with you today!

I know slimline cards are all the rage right now so I thought I would make one for Valentine's Day.  The Circus dies plus a few of our older dies made such a cute card.  I am not sure I can give it away!  Hee Hee

Design Steps:

1.  Using a variety of card stock and these three dies: Love Letters , Pedaling Puppy & Circus Train (for the little basket) cut out your pieces.  Shade them with several different inks and then glue them together with a fine tip glue

2.  Using the Sweetheart Dollies die and white card stock cut out one large circle and two of the second in size. Make your slimline card which is also on white card stock cut a piece 8 1/2 x 7 and then on the 7 inch side score at 3 1/2.  Cut a piece of hot pink card stock 3 1/4 x 8 1/4 and a piece of DP 6 1/2 x 3 1/8

4.  Glue the hot pink to the card front, glue the DP to the middle of the hot pink and the center your circles as shown above

5.  Use pop dots on the back of the little puppy and place in center circle.  Glue down flat the mail box and the little bird.  Stamp your sentiment below the bird and your card is complete

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I hope if you haven't tried a slimline card yet you will give it a whirl!  I had so much fun mixing dies and creating this sweet little Valentine!

Blessing and Take Care

Pam

Family Circus

Happy Monday!  It's Jeanne with the Monday post this week and I have a special box card that uses nine of the new Circus dies!  These dies are stupendously cute and are on sale for a limited time.  

When I saw this release I thought of this sentiment that I had in my stash and never used.  I love box cards so I couldn't resist making a FULL BLOWN CIRCUS!

The card folded:

There are many tutorials out there to make box cards.  This one folds to a 5 x 7 size but it could be scaled to an A2 size by placing the elements closer together or not using as many.

I limited my colors to what I think are classic circus colors - red (two shades), yellow and blue (two shades) along with neutrals and used many of the color combinations that are on the packaging.  This cut down my choices when putting my pieces together and made it go a bit quicker.  On some cards I cut everything in white and color with either Copic markers or Distress Oxide ink.  On others I use colored cardstock.  I employed all three techniques on this card!

Although I had a fun sentiment for the front flap, if you do not have  a sentiment you could easily place either the megaphone and "Show Time" or the arrow and "Big Top" across the front while using more of the Circus Snacks (cotton candy and corn dog) on the other small flap. 

The juggling monkey may be my favorite item in the box.  To create the illusion of the clubs in the air I used a 1 1/4 inch acetate circle behind him and glued the clubs to that.  If you look closely at this photo you can see it.  Since he is standing on one foot, I also stabilized him by gluing an acetate strip to his back.

Here are a few more details of the box.

 

 

This box could also be done with just the clown dies.  The Clown with Balloons could be made to juggle just like the monkey!

In my extended family we don't exchange birthday gifts, so I love making special cards like this one.  These are my gifts to the people I love and I know that they appreciate and cherish them.

Dies used:

 

 

 

 

Be sure to stop by the online store for great discounts on this release!  But these discounts are only for a limited time! 

 

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a wonderful week!

Pedaling Puppy (new die)

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. 

We have a brand new release of dies in the online store. It's our Circus release with 16 new designs. They are currently on sale at 25% off individual dies. If you purchase the entire bundle you can save 60% off.
Our Safari dies are also on sale at 25% off individual dies.

The Circus dies are so cute for Birthday, Valentine, Thinking of You or even Father's Day cards. Just let your creativity soar. The DT will begin showing some great ideas for ways to use these dies next week. Here is one that I created using the new Clown with Balloons die. 

Today for your viewing pleasure I am featuring the new Pedaling Puppy die and I created a Valentine card. I have several little boys on my list that would love this card. I just have to decide which one will receive it. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card. 

Design Steps: 

I started off my card this week with the layout. I saw this sketch #835 on Splitcoaststampers and decided to use it for my layout.

Once the layout was chosen I selected my designer papers and that determined the card colors. I wanted a background paper that was a bit festive, and I think this paper achieves that look. 

For layer # 2, I embossed the pink cardstock with a heart embossing folder. Layer #4 is the reverse side of the designer paper I used for my background layer. 

 

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

Designer Paper: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

Layer #2: 2" x 4 1/4"

Layer # 3: 1" x 3 1/2"

Layer # 4: 1 1/2" x 4 3/8"

I cut my pedaling puppy from cardstock colors that are in the designer paper. 

I decided to use a heart for the puppy background since it's a Valentine's Day card. I used the largest die from the Heart Set. I picked a punny sentiment to pick up on the bike movement and stamped on an angle in black ink. 

Now I am ready to start card assembly.  I attached all the card layers to the card base with double sided tape.

Secured the heart with double sided tape and attached the image with dimensional adhesive. 

I wanted a bit more of a Valentine theme to my card so I used the 2019 Valentine Phrase & More die and cut some hearts and the Valentine phrase for my card. Cut those in the melon shade of cardstock that coordinates with the embossed panel and the designer paper. 

Well that's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday!

dies I used to create card: