Showing posts with label Safari Monkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Safari Monkey. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Monkey Love

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have another Valentine's Day card for you today. 

For this card  used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Safari Monkey, Be My Valentine Puppies, Love Phrase, Bow Mini),

- Distress Inks,

- white card base (10x21 cm),

- white and colored (red, pink, dark brown, light brown) card stock for die cuts,

- score tool,

- black pen,

- white pen,

- plastic stencil (clouds),

- brush,

- thread,

- adhesive foam pads,

- paper glue. 


First I cut three sets of hearts and colored it around the edges. I scored in the middle. I cut the sentiment out of the white card stock.

Next I cut the monkey out of the brown card stock. I emphasized the edges with brown ink.

Then I cut the bow.

Last I did the background. I used a plastic stencil to make the cloudy sky.

Then I adhered the hearts and added the thread in the back. I used adhesive foam pads to adhere the heart on the card base. I also added the monkey and the bow and my card was done.


Hope you have a nice Valentine's Day. See you again next Sunday. 

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

 




Saturday, February 13, 2021

Safari Birthday

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 brand new release of dies in the online store. It's our Circus release with 16 new designs. They are currently on sale at 25% off individual dies. The Safari release dies are also on sale at 25% off individual dies. This was our Black Friday release.

The Circus & Safari dies are so cute for Birthday, Valentine, Thinking of You or even Father's Day cards. Just let your creativity soar. The DT has been showing some great ideas & techniques for ways to use these dies. So if you missed any check back on the Blog. 

Today for your viewing pleasure I am featuring the Safari Zebra, Safari Hippo and the Safari Monkey dies and I created a whimsical birthday card. This would work for either a young boy or an adult man. 

So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:
I started with the colors this week. Our own Jeanne was the hostess for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #830. She chose blueberry bushel, honey bee and bermuda bay for her color trio.  
The colors had me stumped for a bit and then I decided to stencil a confetti like background using the 3 colors. I used distress inks for my stencil work. 
This is the finished work. 

Next, I cut my Safari images in the neutral shades of white, black, brown and gray. For the vine that is part of the monkey die I used bermuda bay cardstock. 

I stamped my birthday sentiment on a flag banner. Just so the animals would have something to stand on. 
Now I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the stenciled panel to the card base with double sided adhesive. 
I attached the flag with double sided tape. The Safari animals are all attached with dimensional adhesive. I decided to give the monkey a little balloon to hold onto. The balloon is from the 2019 Ballerina Mouse die set. I stamped the hb2u phrase. 

Well, that's it for me for this week. I hope that we are showing you that even though the dies are named Safari or Circus they are so easy to convert to any type card. Like the one I have created here today. See you next Saturday!

dies I used to create card:







Sunday, January 03, 2021

Safari Hello

Hi!

It's Anja here. Hope you had a blast last couple of days. I wish you all the best in this New Year. Lots of happiness, health and crafty ideas. My first card in 2021 is another safari themed project. I just love this dies and it so much fun to make cards with this cute animals.


For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Safari Adventure Gang, Safari Monkey, Safari Cruiser w/Banner, Oval Set),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (13x18 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (11x16 cm),

- craft card stock (12x17 cm),

- silver pigment ink,

- plastic stencil (clouds),

- black pen,

- white pen,

- sentiment stamp,

- black pigment ink,

- acrylic block,

- scissors,

- paper glue. 


First I cut and colored all the animals, greenery and the banner.

Next I cut the biggest oval from the set from the craft card stock rectangle. I colored around the edges with brown shade of Distress Ink.

Next I trimmed another rectangle out of the white card stock and colored the cloudy sky on top. I used a plastic stencil.

Next I stamped and cut the sentiment.

Then I arranged all the pieces and glued it on the craft card base. First I glued the animals in the middle of the oval. Then I added the banner and greenery around it. I cut all the parts that were placed out of the paper. Then I glued this background and the colored sky on the card base. Last I added the monkey and the sentiment. And my card was done. 



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

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:



 
 


Saturday, January 02, 2021

Monkey Hugs

Happy New Year!  It's Jeanne posting this Saturday.  I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's.  Now that I'm finished with holiday cards I get excited to make Valentine's Day cards.  I like making these for friends.  For me Valentine's Day is more about reminding people how much they mean to me rather than romantic love.  My card today reflects that.

The Safari dies make wonderful Valentine's / thinking of you cards.  The animals are perfect for so many sentiments.  For this card I used the Safari Monkey, Stitched Hearts and Safari Adventure Gang dies. 

I started by cutting the monkey in two shades of brown and the leaves in two shades of green.

I wanted this card to still have natural coloring and look embossed so I used a Crumb Cake base panel and cut two stitched hearts using the second largest heart and six each of the smallest and second smallest hearts.

 After stamping my sentiment on one of the large hearts I glued them to the panel, overhanging some of the hearts.

I used scissors to trim the overhanging hearts even with the panel.

I assembled my monkey on the second large heart and added some of the greenery.

 I love interactive cards so I used an "action wobble" on the back of the monkey heart.

 Here is the wobble in action!

I just purchased some small red and white enamel hearts.  The red is the perfect size for the monkey so I added one to his chest.  To give the background a bit of variety I added some of the white ones. 

There is a huge after Christmas sale in the online store and it ends tonight at 9:00 pm Pacific time.  The Safari dies are on sale along with a new release and many more!  Click here to visit the online store!

Dies used:




Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!