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

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Have a Roaring Birthday

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing an interactive card for my design team day!  The new Slimline dies certainly made it easy to create this fun card.

I used the Lift Flaps Stitched Rectangle Slimline die set to cut out the double stitched rectangle and the lift flaps.  I cut out an extra lift flap in white card stock and cut it off on the attached end.  I also cut out the Safari Lion, Safari Rhino, Safari Giraffe, Safari Zebra and Safari Camel.  The grass border is from the Grass Slimline die set.

The safari animals were cut out in both white and colored card stock and shaded with some inks.  The first step in my design process was to layer the lift flap die cut on top of the the grassy background.  This piece was then adhered onto my card base.
Next, the sweet animals were nestled inside of the lift flap frames.  I trimmed the giraffe slightly so that he would fit.
The lion and rhino were adhered on top of the right and left side flaps. 
I stamped a couple of sentiments along with a lion image on the white card stock flap and adhered it to the other flap adding a fun element to my card.
Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Friday, April 30, 2021

Interactive Slimline Birthday Card

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today and I have a fun, interactive card featuring the new Slimline dies and dies from the Safari release. Both releases are on sale right now for a limited time at the online store.  The interactive part of this card are the peeking windows from the Lift Flap Slimline die that allow for a surprise.  In fact, this card does not even open up - the "inside" of the card is under the windows!

To start, I cut a lion, zebra and baby gorilla along with leaves and sentiment from the Safari release dies.  I cut oval Windows Slimline die set and stamped my sentiment on that.

I set this all aside to construct the card itself. 

After picking some safari themed paper I adhered it to a light weight cardstock using a self adhesive sheet.  I wanted to use this for my flaps but the paper was too thin and had a pattern on the back.  By adhering these together it gives the flaps a bit of weight and a solid back side.

Using the largest Nested Rectangle I cut a card base from brown cardstock.  Since this card doesn't open like a traditional card, this IS my card - it will not be glued to side or top opening base.  I used the third largest rectangle to cut a white panel for underneath my window flaps.  This rectangle is just slightly smaller than the Lift Flap panel.

Using coordinating paper, I cut two 2 1/2 inch squares for behind my top and bottom windows and glued those to the white panel.  To get them in place I drew very light pencil lines where the window opening would be.  I also used this to place my "Happy Birthday" sentiment.  I used a slightly off-kilter sentiment so if it weren't lined up perfectly, it wouldn't matter.

I stacked the panels and glued them to the card base.

When gluing the elements to the flaps take care not to overlap the hinge side.  You can have elements hang off the outer edges and the windows will still open.  

The lion is popped up using foam dots.

The other two animals are glued to the the top and bottom inside windows. 

Finally, I added some bronze "photo corners" to my flaps panel.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today.  Interactive cards are always delightful to give (and receive.)  These Lift Flaps can be adapted to any theme to make your card extra fun!

Dies Used:


 


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

 



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 24, 2021

Have A Nice Day

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a simple and clean card for you today. I combined two of the Safari release dies and made the scene below. 


For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Safari Watering Hole, Safari Zebra, Oval Set),

- Distress Inks,

- white card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and paper stencil,

- black card stock,

- black pen,

- white pen,

- washi tape,

- brush,

- black pigment ink,

- sentiment stamp,

- acrylic block,

- paper glue. 

First I cut and colored the watering hole. 

Next I cut and colored the zebra. This time I used black cardstock for black parts.

Then I did the background. I made a paper stencil using the oval set dies. I used the largest and cut it out of the white cardstock. I placed the stencil over the card base and set it with washi tape. I used a makeup brush to blend different shades of blue ink for the sky.

Then I added the sentiment.

And last I just added all the cut and colored pieces and my card was done. 


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

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used: