Mr. Bear

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam creating with you today!

As we enter the first few weeks of summer it is fun to see all of the plants and flowers in full bloom.  That also brings the honey bee.  We have some fruit trees in the backyard and they still have a few blooms and the little bees love them! That is my inspiration for this card!

Background Photo by Nikhil kumar on Unsplash

Design Steps:

 1.  Cut the pieces out of a variety of colored card stock using the Garden Bear, Potted Plants, Flower Power Tomte and Potting Shed dies.  Shade the pieces and assemble with a fine tip glue

 2.  Use a piece of white card stock 3 3/4 x 5 and shade in some blue ink for the sky

 3.  Glue your pieces onto the blue shaded background

4.  I decided I need a bit of green at the bottom to ground my scene so I added it using a blender brush just as I did the sky.  Next layer onto a piece of black card stock

5.  I then added the extra pots and the little sign to complete the scene

6. Here is a good trick if you don't have any paper to match your scene.  I used the same ink that I colored the flowers with and brushed it onto the edges of a piece of white card stock 4 x 5 1/4.  Glue the edged panel to a white A2 card

7.  Mount the bear panel to the purple edged panel.  Stamp Hello to the little sign, add sparkle to the bees wings and black dots to the flower centers and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Summer!!

Blessings and See You Next Thursday!

Pam

Beautiful Friendship

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. It's Memorial Day weekend and what is usually labeled as the "official" start of summer.

And speaking of Memorial Day there is a big sale going on to celebrate this holiday in our online store.  You can save up to 70% on dies and the new Gardening release is 25% off. It's a good time to get some good prices on CottageCutz dies. These new dies are perfect for Father's Day, birthdays, thank you, or even a thinking of you card for the person who loves to garden.

For my card today, I am featuring the new Potted Plants die and created a thinking of you card for a friend. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps: 

As I have said so many times before, having a layout in mind at the card start is always a big boost for me and jump starts my creative thought process. I love working with the sketches that are out there in the online world. That way I can just choose the card colors and designer paper and I am good to go. I had this sketch saved on one of my Pinterest Boards. I thought it would work well with my potted plants. 

Next, I chose the designer papers. I have a pack of watercolored backgrounds that have been a favorite go to for me lately. I love the colors they have blended together in this pack. And, then I don't have to do any ink blending. It's all done for me with the designer paper. 

For the 2 rectangle elements of the sketch, I used a purple and a lemon-lime cardstock. The purple measures 1 1/2" x 5" and the lemon-lime 1" x 4 1/8" 

I cut the potted plants in various bright cardstocks. I used the circle set (4th smallest) to cut my circles from the leftover piece of designer paper. 

Stamped my sentiment on the 1" x 4 1/8" piece of lemon-lime cardstock. I thought this particular sentiment was a good accompaniment for the plant images. 

Now that all the elements are cut, I am ready for card assembly.

I attached the images to the purple rectangle panel using double sided tape. The sentiment panel is attached with the same adhesive. 

To finish off my card, I attached the image panel to the card base and then scattered a few purple glitter enamel dots. And, that's it for me for this Saturday. I will be back on Monday with another card. 

dies I used to create card:

 

Spring Garden

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a garden scene for you today. I combined different dies from the latest release and made the following card.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Potting Shed, Puppy in Garden Cart, Potted Plants, Garden Phrases),
- Distress Inks,
- craft card base (17,5x12 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts and background (17x11,5 cm),
- silver pigment ink,
- plastic stencil (clouds),
- black pen,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the shed, cart and all plants.

Next I cut and colored the sentiment.

Then I trimmed the paper for the background.

Next I colored the background. I used plastic stencil for the sky.

When I had everything colored I put the card together.

That's all from me for today. Have a nice week and see you again next Sunday.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

Have a Bee-utiful Day!

Hello!  This is Sukie sharing a new project for my design team post.  I used a couple of really fun dies from the new Cottage Cutz Gardening die release.

I die cut my pieces from the Golden Bear and Potted Plants die sets. All of my die cuts were originally cut out of white card stock and then shaded with Oxide Inks.  I used the same pot for all 3 of the potted plants for a coordinated look to the larger, upside down pot.

My card base was also inked with the Oxide Inks and then layered with a honeycomb stencil.  The stamped sentiment was a nice compliment for the scene on my card.

Two of the potted plants were adhered on each edge of my card.  The third pot was nestled next to the pot on the left side of my card leaving the perfect amount of space for the bear.

The tree branch fit perfectly between the bear and the stamped sentiment.  The hanging bee hive is absolutely adorable.

A pair of adorable buzzing bees were perfect for surrounding the bee hive and completing the sweet scene.

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

Flower Pots Thank You

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a clean and simple card for you.  This card was created for two card challenges this week -  a sketch and a color challenge.

The sketch is at CAS Colours and Sketches:

and the colors are from the weekly challenge at Splitcoaststampers - Poppy Parade, Cajun CRaze and Mango Melody.

To begin my card I cut the pieces using the flowers from Mouse w/ Garden Wagon and the pots from Potted Plans in the appropriate colors of cardstock.  For the dirt color I used Early Espresso ink to color the pieces that were cut in Cajun Craze.  I used Mossy Meadow for the stems.

I assembled the pots.

I cut a top fold A2 card base in white, a strip of Poppy Parade 5 1/2 x 1 inches and a Mango Melody patterned piece 5 1/2 x 2 inches.  For the box on the sketch I used the second smallest die from the Stitched Scallop Rectangle set.

I used white embossing powder to heat emboss my sentiment.  Then I cut the strip so it was about 5/8 inches high.  I usually emboss or stamp my sentiments on a strip larger than what I want to use so that I can adjust if I don't stamp quite in the center.

Next, I glued the posts to the rectangle leaving the tops of the flowers hang above the box.  If you start with the center first it is much easier to get the placement right.  Then you just need to center each side.

I adhered my patterned piece to the bottom of the card and added my strip 1 3/4 inches from the bottom.

Using foam tape, I added the box with the pots to my card.

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!  Be sure to visit the online store to check out the adorable new Gardening release!