Monkey Hugs

Hi!

It's Anja here. For today's post I made a card using a monkey die.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Pirate Monkey, Treasure Chest Island, Under The Sea),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (14x14 cm),

- black pigment ink,

- sentiment stamp,

- acrylic block,

- white pen,

- brush,

- paper glue.

 

First I cut and colored the monkey. 

Next I cut and colored the stones and the palm trees.

 

 

Next I did the background. 

 

And last I stamped the sentiment on the card.

 

 

And my card was done.

 

 

I wish you all a nice day and successful week ahead. See you again next Sunday.

 

Anja Z. 

 

 

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

 

Hello Hello Hello

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a simple card for you today.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Pirate Ship, Lighthouse),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (14x14 cm),

- plastic stencil (clouds),

- sentiment stamp,

- black pigment ink,

- acrylic block,

- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the ship and the lighthouse.

Next I did the background. I colored the cloudy sky with a plastic stencil. I used Distress Inks for the sea.

I assembled the card together and added the sentiment for the finish.

And this is the finished card.

Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

Sail Towards Your Dreams

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card of encouragement or congratulations for someone who is working towards fulfilling their dreams.  I used the Pirate Ship from the new Pirates and Sea Creatures release.  This ship makes a fun pirate ship but also a classic looking ship when made with white sails and no pirate symbol.

I started the card by cutting the pieces from white cardstock and coloring with Distress Oxide inks.

I then cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches and used several blue shades of ink to blend an ocean.  I didn't bother to go all the way to the top of the panel as I knew I wasn't going to need that much.

I dry embossed this panel with a wave pattern.  It was a bit tight going through my machine which caused some cracking on the waves.  However, I found this added to the water feel.

I wanted to have my ship nestled in between waves so I used my paper snips and cut along some of the wavy lines.

The portion with the flat bottom will be at the bottom of my card.  I will position the other portion underneath and down to create layers.  My ship will go between.

For my background panel I stamped the sentiment in the upper right and used a cloud stencil to create the sky.  It was quiet easy to avoid blending over the sentiment so that it has a nice white background that blends into the clouds.

I added the ocean panels and tucked in the ship.  The last details to get added were the whitecaps and the sea birds.

Dies:

Be sure to visit the online store where there is a sale going on with great deals on select dies for a limited time!

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Thanks for Helping Us Through the Storm

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing a thank you card.  The Pirates die release is a wonderful collection of pirate and under the sea creatures.  These dies are currently on sale too!

I die cut the Pirate Ship and Filigree Clouds out of card stock.  I used the packaging of the Pirate Ship as the inspiration for the colors of my die cuts.

The card panels were selected to coordinate with the colors of the ship.  The soft blue serves as the background for the stormy scene on my card.  The Boundary Waters Fiskars punch was used for the set of borders.

Once I layered my card panels, I affixed the double borders along the bottom edge of my card. The ship was nestled in between the water borders at a slight angle.

The set of clouds were adhered above the ship with the larger cloud slightly above the smaller cloud.

I found the perfect sentiment in my stamp stash and added it to a hand cut flag which was adhered as a finishing accent on my card.

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