Brighter Day

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a fun friendship card.  I loved this little squirrel in a slicker when I first saw him and then I found this paper in my stash.  Talk about made for each other!

And to make the card even easier I found this old sketch from Mojo Monday that was perfect!

I cut my red card base and two large patterned papers using the two largest Nested Rectangle dies.  For my red patterned layering piece. I cut it to 5 5/8 inches tall.

The yellow strip is 1 1/2 x 4 inches and the striped strip is 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. I cut the white rectangle using the third largest of the Stitched Rectangle dies.

I assembled all the pieces except for the white rectangle.  The yellow strip starts 1 5/8 inches from the top.

Next I cut my squirrel and accessories from various colors of cardstock using the Spring Showers Buddies and the Rooster and Chick dies. My sentiment is stamped on an oval cut from the Windows Slimline dies.

I adhered my squirrel to the white panel.......

and used foam tape to pop it up from the card front.  (I love those little shoes!)

Finally I placed my sentiment in the corner and added the sun from the Rooster and Chick die set.

I hope my card has brightened your day a bit!  Remember the Slimline release is on sale for a limited time!

Dies used:

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

 

Showers of Love

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

We have a brand new release of dies in the online store. Your slimline cardmaking is going to get a lot easier. We have 9 Slimline designs and they are on a 25% off sale. These are wonderful, basic dies that should be a part of every card maker's collection especially if you are liking the new slimline style.

Today for your viewing pleasuring, I am using the Nested Stitched Rectangles Slimline, Clouds Slimline and the Spring Showers Buddies dies. I created a special I love you card for my precious little granddaughter. She loves getting cards from me and saves them all. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card by cutting the Spring Showers Buddies images. I wanted to see what size slimline die to use for my rainy day scene. I cut them using the packaging colors. I like bright colors and these ones are so perfect. 

Next I used designer paper and cut my image panel background with the largest of the Nested Stitched Rectangles Slimline die. It measures 8 1/2" x 3 1/2". Then I took a raindrops stencil and stenciled raindrops on the background designer paper. 

I used gray designer paper to cut the clouds with the Clouds Slimline die. 

Then I attached to the background designer paper. 

Stamped my showers of love sentiment in dark grey ink. 

I die cut a water puddle and splashes of rain water from the 2019 Spring collection "Rainy Day Duck". It's out of stock but you could use a snowbank die for the same effect. Like the one from the Snowman w/Lamp Post die. 

To complete my card I attached the Spring Showers Buddies to the background designer paper with dimensional adhesive. 

I hope I have given you a new idea for a way to use this cute Spring die and the newest Slimline dies. See you next Saturday! 

Dies I used to create card:

 

Spring Showers

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a Spring card for you today. 

For this project I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Spring Showers Buddies),

- Distress inks,

- white card base (15x15 cm),

- blue card stock for background (14,5x14,5 cm; 12,5x12,5 cm),

- patterned paper for background (13,5x13,5 cm),

- green card stock for background,

- water color paper for background (12x12 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts,

- black pen,  

- white pen, 

- plastic stencil (clouds),

- white acrylic paint,

- baby wipes,

- heat gun,

- water spritzer,

- Glossy Accents,

- paper glue. 

 

First I cut and colored the creatures.

Next I started on the background. I used watercolor paper and smooching technique. I dried the paper with the heat gun. 

Then I did the clouds using a plastic stencil. I used white acrylic paint and baby wipes for coloring.

Then I trimmed all the background papers. 

 Last I arranged all the background papers and cuts on the card base and added rain drops using Glossy Accents. 

And my card was done. 

 

And that's all from me for today. Don't forget to stop by on The Scrapping Cottage online store and check out the Anniversary Sale. 

Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.  

Anja Z. 

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card: