Happy New Year

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Sunday edition of the Blog.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and holiday week. Now it's time to settle in for the winter months. It's a perfect time for cardmaking and other crafting pursuits.  To help you out we are having an after Christmas sale over in the online store. The savings are up to 80% off.  

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring a slimline New Year's card. I typically send out a few to friends I may have missed with a Christmas card. I used the Polar Bear Trio & Igloo die and the Stitched Numbers dies. This one is retired but it's still available at 76% off right now. 

Card Details:  

I started my card with the designer paper selection. I have this collection of slimline card fronts and I picked this scene. I thought it had a celebratory look to it. Sort of like fireworks going off in the sky. My interpretation anyway (lol)!!! I added it over a white card base.

White card base: 3 3/4" x 8 3/4"

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

Next, I cut the polar bears in white cardstock and used different colors of complementary cardstocks for their hats. The bears with their hand lifted looked as though they were sending happy new year greetings. 

The "2023" stitched phrase is cut in white cardstock.

Now that all my elements are prepared, I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the designer paper to the card base using double sided tape. 

The bears were attached with dimensional adhesive. 

To finish off my card, I added the stitched 2023 phrase. The numbers were attached with clear drying glue. 

That's my card for this week. See you again on Saturday!

dies I used to create card:

Shaker Tag Gift Card Ornaments

Merry Christmas CottageCutz friends!  I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your loved ones. 

Kris here sharing with you today.  I know most of you are done making Christmas projects now, so maybe you want to save this idea for next year's gifts... OR you can always change the theme and use these for gift bag tags (thinking Valentine's... Birthdays...any special occasion!) ☺  

I'm a huge fan of shakers, so I made 2 ornaments that are shaker tags with gift card holders on the back, using the Jolly Santa Gnome from the Christmas 1 Release & I made the other with the Polar Bear Trio with Igloo from the Christmas 2 Release.  

The patterned papers and tiny tags are from 

Winter Wonderland (Polar Bears Tag) and 

 Let it Snow (Jolly Santa Gnome) from Doodlebug Designs

JOLLY SANTA GNOME TAG

White Cardstock:

• cut 5-1/2" x 3-3/4"

• die cut Jolly Santa Gnome

Red Cardstock (back of tag):

• die cut Merry Christmas Ribbon

Acetate/Window Sheet:

• 3-1/2" x 4-1/4"

Patterned Paper #1 (red with Santas):

• 5-1/2" x 3-3/4"

Patterned paper #2 (green trees):

• 3-3/4" x 3" - then cut the top with a Hills Slimline die

Patterned Paper (tiny tags):

• cut apart one of the tiny tags and punch hole where indicated

HOW TO:

1.  Glue patterned paper #2 to the bottom of patterned paper #1.

2.  Measure along the TOP of the patterned paper #1 and make pencil marks at 3/4", 1-7/8" and 3"

3.  From the TOP, measure down each SIDE and place a mark at 1-1/4"

4.  Make a diagonal cut from the TOP 3/4" marks down to the 1-1/4" SIDE marks.

5.  Punch a hole about 1/2" down from the center (your 1-7/8" mark)

6.  Place that tag over your white piece and use as a guide to cut the corners off of white tag and punch hole in middle. 

7.  Using a rectangle die, (I used the 3rd largest of the Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangles) center it over your Patterned Paper tag and cut.

8.  Turn that tag onto back side and place Scor Tape (or other strong double sided adhesive) close to the rectangle cut-out.  Attach your window sheet.

9.  Add foam strips/tape just outside the rectangle and around edges of tag.  (See photo below)

10.  Add sequins/shaker elements.

11.  Carefully place your WHITE TAG on top, lining up edges and the hole at top.

12.  Color your Jolly Santa Gnome and attach to tag front using foam tape for dimension. 

*Optional (but highly suggested):  Add Snow Writer (puffy snow, etc) to the trim on his hat & coat!  LOVE the dimension it gives 😊

13.  Glue the red Merry Christmas Ribbon to back of tag.

*Optional:  Add a pocket to the back for a gift card!

POLAR BEAR TRIO WITH IGLOO TAG

Same cutting measurements as the Santa tag with the following exceptions:

• the 2nd patterned paper I glued to the top of the white tag (inside shaker, instead of the front & cut the bottom with the hills die)

• I used the 2nd largest Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangle (larger than the one on Santa shaker)

• I die cut a large snowflake from the Snowflake Set

• I die cut Merry Christmas w/ Snowflakes (for back of tag) from purple cardstock

How CUTE are these?!!  

♥ these adorable CottageCutz dies!

They are for my girls, so here they are on the tree ☺

Merry Christmas to you all, and wishing you all the crafty goodness in 2023!

~Kristine

PRODUCTS USED:

New Year's Slimline Shaker

Hello crafty friends!  Wishing you a Merry Christmas this week!

Kristine here with you today and shaking it up with a slimline shaker card for New Year's using the cute Polar Bear Trio with Igloo die from the Christmas #2 Release, and the Fifties Phrases #1 die from the Classic 50's Black Friday Release and more!

Let's Party 2023

The SCS color challenge the next 2 weeks is

Basic Black

Metallic Silver
Metallic Gold

And the dessert option is:  NEW Year's

I chose a slimline paper pack called Shine Bright.that has silver and gold with subtle Snowflakes.

CUTTING & SCORING

Black Cardstock:

 • cut 8" x 9", score along the 8" side at 4"-  score & burnish

• die cut Fifties Phrases #1

Silver Metallic (or foiled) Cardstock: 

• cut 8-3/4" x 3-3/4" 

• die cut Stitched Numbers

Gold Metallic (or foiled) Cardstock:

• die cut Balloon, Round Mini

• die cut balloon from Star Windows Slimline set

Patterned Paper (Silver Snowflake): 

• cut 8-1/4" x 3-1/4" 

Patterned Paper (Gold with Snowflakes):

• die cut Star Windows Slimline

Acetate or Window Sheet: 

• cut 8-1/4" x 3-1/4"

White Cardstock:

• die cut Polar Bear Trio with Igloo

DESIGN STEPS

#1  Cut all your layers and die cut pieces.

#2  Adhere your silver layer to card front.

#3  Rub a used dryer sheet or anti-static pouch to both sides of your acetate sheet and attach to back of star cut-out layer with double-sided tape.

#4 Using foam strips, outline the edges of acetate and around the star shapes.  Peel backing off the strips and add shaker elements inside your 3 sections.

#5  With your silver snowflake paper, pattern side down, carefully center it over your star layer, matching up the edges best you can and adhere.

#6  Turn shaker layer right side up and attach to card front.

#7  Color your polar bears and attach all die cut elements to card front as shown.

Wishing you all the crafty goodness in 2023!

Kristine

PRODUCTS:

Polar Bear Trio Slimline

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Sunday edition of the Blog.

I hoped you enjoyed all the cards and projects the DT has shown with the Classic 50's release. We are heading back to Christmas designs now for even more inspiration. Today I am featuring the new Polar Bear Trio & Igloo die. 

I started my card with the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #923. We were to use the colors of pacific point, fresh freesia and balmy blue. Optional was to add your favorite pink. I chose polished pink.

I decided to go with a slimline card. I started with the background designer paper. I just bought this new pack of Christmas themed slimline card fronts. The patterns are so pretty and perfect for creating outdoor scenes.

I used the challenge colors for their hats & scarves. For the North Pole sign, I used balmy blue and then merry merlot for the pole. It is a candy cane after all. That's an allowed neutral in this challenge. Not wild about the shade-just a bit dark.

The sentiment phrase is the new Season's Greetings die. I cut that in pacific point cardstock. Added a few more pine trees in white to finish off my card. 

That's it for this post. See you again on Saturday.

dies I used to create card: