Polar Bear Fishing Die Cut Card

Happy Valentine's Day crafty friends! I wanted to share a cute little card I created with one of the cutest cottage cutz dies!

It's the perfect card for my hubby for Valentine's day. He is indeed the perfect catch and he is all mine!

I started by cutting out and assembling all my pieces. For the cutie patootie polar bear, I cut all his pieces out in white cardstock. I then used some markers and chalks to give the pieces some color.

My card base is a standard A4 side fold card from some standard white cardstock. I used some cute patterned papers for the card base as well as for a mat for the scallop stitched rectangle mat as pictured.

Here is a closer look at the sweet little polar bear. He is holding his little fishing pole and he has one little fish on the hook. That fish I made extra sparkly with a touch of Stickles glitter glue.

I also used some of the glitter to color the water hole. The photo doesn't show the sweet little sparkle.

Here's a closer look at the cute little fish and you can also see a variety of the stitched hearts I cut out in a variety of patterned papers. I also used one of the arrows and one of the pieces from the retro alphabet set to make the arrow head look extra large.

here is a closer look at my layered sign. I layered one of the shapes from the Retro Alphabet die set onto one of the black scallop stitched dies. I then used another one of the arrows in the same retro alphabet set and wrote the words: you're, the and perfect. The perfect arrow points to the letters....

CATCH!  The letters are from the retro alphabet set. I cut them in white like the other pieces and then used the same marker color that I used on my little polar bear to color the letters in. I like doing this so that I can get the same colors on my project without having to try and have that particular color paper on hand. I have so many pieces of patterned paper and they are all from different manufacturers and the colors are so varied. This is the easiest, most economical way I have found to craft with a variety of color palettes.

Dies Used For This Project

Polar Bear Fishing

Scallop Stitched Rectangle

Stitched Heart

Retro Alphabet

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Melinda

Happy Brrr-thday!

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Thursday edition of the Blog. Happy New Year wishes to all our Blogger friends!

Today, I am featuring the Polar Bear Fishing die. It's from our latest Artic Animals release. There are 13 new designs in this release and each one is so versatile for a variety of card making and giving occasions.

I needed a masculine birthday card and I thought this die image would be perfect. So let's get started on some card details.

Design Steps:

I started off by cutting the polar bear image. I used a variety of white and colored cardstock. Sponged blue ink on the edge of the ice float for depth.

I used a snowfall stencil and embossing paste for the top half of my card. I stenciled an A2 size piece of white cardstock but I cut it at 2 1/8".  I stencil on a craft mat because the clean up is a breeze.

Stamped the sentiment in an espresso brown ink. I decided to stamp it before it was attached to the card base. This bottom half of the card front is blue designer paper. I thought it had a water like pattern to it. 

Now that all the card elements are prepared, I am ready to start assembly. I attached the stenciled panel and the designer paper to the white card base. The panels are joined together with blue cardstock cut at 1/4" x 5 1/2". I was trying to get the look of the horizon line.

White card base: 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"
Stenciled panel: 5 1/2" x 2 1/8"
Designer Paper Panel: 5 1/2" x 2 1/8"

The polar bear image was attached using dimensional adhesive. For the ice float, I used double sided tape.

To finish up my card I attached the "brrr" letters. These were cut in blue glitter paper and I used the Retro Alphabet die. I stamped the remaining letters of the birthday sentiment on light yellow cardstock and sponged it with dried marigold ink to make it a bit more vibrant. Sorry I forgot to take pictures of this step in the process. But here is the finished photo.

Well that's my card for this post. I hope I have given you a bit of inspiration for a masculine birthday card. See you on Saturday for my regular posting day.

dies I used to create card:

Winter Birthday Card

Happy Friday Cottage Cutz fans!  It's Jeanne today with a clean and simple card for a winter birthday.

This card uses the Polar Bear Fishing from the new Arctic Animals release.  I started by cutting the pieces from white cardstock.

I used Distress Oxide inks and sponge daubers to colors the pieces.  Ink colors used - Hickory Smoke, Tumbled Glass, Abandoned Coral, Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo.

For the background,  blended several DO inks together and then splattered it with water and white paint to mimic snowfall.

I used the third largest of the Stitched Squares dies to cut the "diamond" background.

My card base is a top folding A2 card.  In order to center the diamond, I very lightly drew lines at the halfway point both vertically and horizontally.

After gluing down the diamond, I erased the lines.  I then stamped the sentiment on a strip of blue cardstock 1/2 inch high by 3 3/4 inch wide.  I used my scissors to fishtail the end.

I wrapped bakers twines around the card and used foam dots to pop up the sentiment over the twine.

I wanted the fish to glisten a bit so I added Wink of Stella to them.

This die is super cute and very versatile.  The Arctic Animals release and select others are on sale right now for a limited time in the online store.  Be sure to stop by to get your favorites before they're gone!

Dies:

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

Warm Winter Wishes

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have another card for you using one of the new dies. This time I used different technique for coloring that I usually use. And this is the card that came out.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz die (Polar Bear Fishing),
- Zig Water color brushes (Numbers: 010, 302, 065, 038, 070, 050, 028, 044, 099, 093),
- white card base (15x15 cm),
- craft card stock for background (14x14 cm),
- white water color paper for die cuts,
- watercolor pencils (blue shades and white),
- water brush,
- wash tape,
- black pen,
- printed sentiment,
- heat gun,
- paper glue.

First I cut the bear. I used washi tape to adhere all the pieces on the back side. I find it easier to color if all the pieces are not apart.

Then I used watercolor brushes to color.

When I finished coloring the bear, I started on the background. This time I used watercolor pencils and craft card stock for background. First I colored the water. I used different shades of blue. When I was happy with the shade I used watercolor brush to blend all the colors together.

Then I did the sky. I used light blue and white pencil and watercolor brush for the end.

Then I printed and trimmed the sentiment. I adhered it on craft background first and then used it on card base.

And in the end I added the bear and my card was done.

Thank you for stopping by. I wish you all a lovely Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz die I used for this project: