DT Samples w/Spring & Fantasy Dies (Day 4)

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. We are sampling cards from our Spring and also our new Magical Fantasy release.
There are 27 new designs in the Magical Fantasy release. And for a limited time the individual dies are on sale at 25% off. We want to give your some ideas for your own card making. So let's get started with our samples for today.

Card 1: This is a card that I (Mary Marsh) created using the beautiful new Unicorn Floral die. I thought this would make a great feminine graduation card since the grad will be going on a new life adventure. To create the circular wreath look I used one of our circle dies and drew a pencil line. Then I started building my wreath starting with the unicorn and worked my way around. The coloring on our packaging is so beautiful that I used similar colors. A simple change of sentiment and this could be a birthday, anniversary or even a get well card.

Card 2:  Our next sample is from Anja Zurga. She also created a floral card using the Spring Teacup Bouquet. How perfect would this be for Mother's Day. What Mom doesn't like to get flowers? Or do you have a friend who loves to garden and has flower beds that are the envy of the neighborhood? Make her a card like this to let her know you are thinking of her. So many occasions and possibilities with this die.

Card 3: Our next sample is from Pam MacKay. She used the Sweet Unicorns die to create a beautiful and whimsical birthday card. Since Unicorns are adorable and very magical, the special little one in your life will love it. The background was created with distress oxide inks and the use of shimmer paper on the unicorn manes added just the right touch of sparkle.  The sentiment carries through the magical appeal of her card.

 Card 4:  Our last sample for today is from Janja Albreht. She used the Peeking Egg Bunny and Spring Potted Bunnies dies to create this super cute and colorful Easter card. Don't you just love these precious little bunnies and look at that little bunny behind. The eye catching  Easter Phrase is using an older die -Retro Alphabet.

Well that's our samples for today. I hope the team has given you some fresh ideas for creative ways to use the new dies over the past 4 days. If you haven't seen the other cards check here, here and here. Happy Easter everyone!

dies used to create cards:

Easter Wishes!

Good Morning Friends!

It is Pam creating with you on the blog today!

The weather here in South Carolina has been just beautiful! Not to hot and not to cold! I love to walk in this kind of weather.  The only bad part is the biting bugs are starting to appear.  And the mosquitoes love me! They even get me through my clothes! Oh well on to the card for today.  I have a bunch more Easter cards to make so let's get started on this one.  I used a couple of dies from the new Spring Release.

Design Steps:

 1.  Use an A2 purple card base, cut a piece of white card stock 3 x 5 1/4, use the Fancy Floral Lace Border die and cut it out of white card stock

 2.  Glue the border to the white piece of card stock as shown above

 3.  Glue the white card stock with the border die to the purple card front

 4.  Use purple card stock and cut out the Easter wishes using the Bunny Kisses & Easter Wishes die

 5.  Use the Peeking Egg Bunny die and cut out all of the pieces several times using green, purple, blue, pink, yellow and gray card stock

 6.  Shade the different pieces and color the nose and eyes black using a maker.  Then start to assemble all the pieces

 7.  Pop dot the bunny to the left side of the card and glue the Easter Wishes to the right side of the card as shown above.  I decided to add some small black rhinestones to the eyes for some dimension

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As always I really appreciate you stopping by today to take a peek! Take some time for yourself to play and get crafty!

Blessings

Pam

Easter Wishes Card

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing another card for my guest designer post. I used a combination of dies from the Spring release for this project.  These dies are currently on sale too! It's been a very, rainy few weeks here in Northern California which makes me eager for Spring.

I reached for sunny yellow and aqua inks for my die cuts.  I also incorporated some pinks, purples and greens which all remind me of Spring. The little bunnies in the collection are absolutely adorable.  I combined the Hatching Bunny, Peeking Egg Bunny, Spring Bunny w/Cart and the Bunny Kisses and Easter Wishes die sets for my card.

I created a polaroid type frame with the Stitched Square Set. A larger square was cut with my paper trimmer and inked.  The blue square was adhered inside of the frame and layered on the card base.

The bed of grass was adhered from one side of the frame to the other and the bunny eggs were tucked into the corners.  I slightly trimmed the bunny ear for a better fit on my card.

The bunny and cart were popped up on foam dots for added dimension.  A few flowers were tucked amongst the bed of grass and also popped up.

The "Easter Wishes" sentiment was stretched across the top of my card.  The whimsical color combination plays off the Spring color theme.

Here are the dies used on my card, available here:

Peeking Bunny (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 new release of 36 Spring dies in the online store. There are a variety of designs so perfect for Easter or Spring cardmaking. Take a look in the store you definitely won't be disappointed. And, they are currently on a 25% off sale.

For my card today I am using the new Peeking Egg Bunny and the Bunny Kisses and Easter Wishes dies. He is just the cutest little thing peeking up from the Easter egg.  Just begging to be placed on a card design (lol)!!! So let's get started with some details of how I created my card.

Step 1: I started my card this week with a sketch. I am using the Splitcoaststampers weekly sketch #738. It has lots of layers and the design was a unique one that I thought I would tackle. 

I first decided to figure out what I was going to do for panels 2, 3 and 4. After studying the sketch, I figured I could use a square die and cut it in half for element 2 and 3. Then layer 4 would be the complete square. Tried out my idea first on white paper and when it worked I cut the actual panels in the card stock I was using. Here is a photo that shows what I did.
Used the largest of the Stitched Square dies.

Then I cut it in half. Now I have the perfect shape for this sketch.

I selected my designer paper then colors that coordinate with the pumpkin shade. I chose a medium purple and a lighter green. I liked the whimsical appeal of the designer paper. I thought it would work well with this sweet little peeking bunny.

Card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

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

Next up was cutting my bunny. I used a naturals white cardstock. I like the little speckles in it. Works well for bunnies.  Cut the egg in a medium blue and the flowers in pink and purple.

Step 2: All the card elements are cut and I am ready to start assembling. First I attached panels 2 & 3 to the designer paper.

Attached the image panel with double sided tape. Then I cut the panels to form the straight edge per the sketch.

After the white image panel was attached, I decided I should sponge some background clouds. I laid the stencil on the panel and sponged with tumbled glass distress ink.

I attached the sweet little bunny with dimensional adhesive. I thought it would look better for him to be lifted slightly of the panel.

Now for element 5 of this sketch. I didn't want to use a piece of cardstock or ribbon then a spark went off. I thought I could cut the Bunny phrase and stamp the word "hugs" for a different approach to element 5. I should have planned this out better but sometimes my cards are designs in progress. It was a bit difficult to stamp after the bunny was attached. But with the help of my stamp-a-ma-jig, I pulled it off.

Then I attached the Bunny phrase. It was cut in purple cardstock and the same shade of purple ink for my sentiment.

To complete my card, I attached this panel to the card base. And then as another afterthought, I added a couple of patches of grass under the egg. I also sponged the bottom of the image panel with ink that matched the grass.

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

dies I used to create card: