DT Samples w/Spring & Magical Fantasy Dies (Day 3)

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. We are sampling cards from our Spring and also our new Magical Fantasy release.

There are 27 new designs in the Magical Fantasy release. And for a limited time the individual dies are on sale at 25% off. We want to give your some ideas for your own card making. So let's get started with our samples for today.

Card 1:  Our first sample today is from Jeanne Knobbe. She created a card in a box using the new Princess Dress Up, Sweet Unicorns and Magical Unicorn Dreams dies. A card-in-a-box card is a wonderful way to give the recipient an extra "gift" that can be displayed long after the birthday is over.
She also used some older dies  - Spring Window, Spring Grass, Easter Bunny and Chicks. Jean said working with the Princess Dress Up dies reminded her of playing with paper dolls only better. So much fun choosing the dress and hairstyle for the princess.  This card would be perfect for any little (or big) girl who loves unicorns and all things fairytale.

Card 2:  The next sample is from Sukie Dhillon. She used the super cute Frog Prince die to create a creative special occasion card. She used doily dies as a backdrop for her "prince" and surrounded with a few sprigs of greenery and coordinating flowers.  The happy couple who receive this card are sure to live happily ever after.

Card 3: The next sample is one that I (Mary Marsh) created. I used the new Unicorn Cupcake  + Fairytale Birthday dies and designed a whimsical birthday card. A card like this along with a Unicorn stuffed animal would be an ideal birthday gift for any little girl. It would definitely bring a happy smile as she opened it.



Card 4:  Our last sample for today is from Anja Zurga. She also created a card with a cupcake using the Spring Lamb Cupcake die. The distress ink and white paint splatters are a beautiful backdrop for the sweet little lamb. You could use this card for a variety of occasions- Easter, Birthday, Thank you or even a thinking of you. Thinking out of the box gives you more use of your seasonal dies.

Well that's our samples for today. I hope the team has given you some fresh ideas for creative ways to use the new dies. Stop by the Blog again tomorrow for our final day of DT samples.

dies used to create today's cards:

Lamb Easter Basket Tags

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with some fun Easter basket tags.  This little lamb cupcake is too cute.  I thought it would be perfect to decorate the front of a tag to hang on Easter baskets.

To start, I cut the lambs from vanilla cardstock and the cupcake, flower and tag reinforcement from three different colors of cardstock.  I used white cardstock and the largest of the tag dies for the tags.

Using Distress Oxide ink in Antique Linen, I tipped the lamb pieces to add dimension to the fleece and colored the face.  Then I used a black fine tip marker and white gel pen to color the lambs' eyes.

I played around with how I wanted the colors to line up.  Originally I thought I'd use all one color per tag, but ultimately decided to use all the colors on each tag.

I assembled the tags by gluing all the cupcake pieces together and then putting them on the tags.

Finally, I used coordinating ribbon as the ties.

Dies used:

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