Just CHICKEN in ♡ I Miss You

Happy Monday everyone!

It's Kris sharing with you today some inspiration using our Folk Art collection!  I've used the Folk Art Hen to let someone know I'm just CHICKEN in ... cuz I miss them ☺

For this card, I used very few supplies and colors and let the cute dies and papers do the work!  I've used  the Folk Art Hen, Pierced Ovals, Scalloped Ovals, Stitched Sun, and some papers from 'On the Farm' pack by Doodlebug Designs.

Design Steps:

1)  I started with a 5-1/2" square top-folding card base and layered a grey square that was cut at 5-1/4". 

2)  I already had a left-over piece of this cute chicken paper that had an oval already die cut from it so I cut it down to 5".  (The oval size is the 2nd largest from the Pierced Oval dies) I cut a piece of red bandana paper just a li'l bit larger than my oval opening and attached it to the back of my chicken paper.  

3)  I used a strip of the chicken paper that was cut off  when I trimmed that paper to 5" and used the backside -- which has a chicken wire pattern -- and attached that to the lower part of my card. I then wrapped some natural colored twine around that strip of chicken wire paper, and tied in a somewhat of a bow.  Then added a cute red/white gingham brad and attached on top of the grey layer. 

4)  Next, I die cut a white oval frame by layering the 2 largest of the Pierced Oval dies together, taped them in place with a low-tac tape and ran it thru my machine.  Then I glued on top of the oval opening on card.

5)  I die cut my Hen from light grey, white, and red cardstock (to match the cute chickens on my paper!) and assembled.

6)  I noticed the red comb & wattle of my chicken were lost again the red bandana paper, so I die cut a Stitched Sun and placed behind her head ☺  I also added some white gel pen detail on all the red pieces.

7)  And lastly... I added some Scattered Straw (Distress Oxide Ink) onto a piece of white cardstock since that was the closest I thought would match my paper, and then ran it through my computer printer to get the sentiment on it.  Then I backed it with a Scalloped Oval and popped it onto card with foam dots.

****TIP:  I did try printing my sentiment first, then ink blended over it, but the opacity of this pigment ink just covered up my sentiment!  Lesson learned!  LoL.

Thanks so much for taking a look today!  I hope you are inspired to get crafty with your favorite CottageCutz dies!  These Folk Art ones are so cute and different - We'd LOVE to see what you are creating too!  Please use hashtag #cottagecutz when posting so we can find your projects!

~Kristine

Day at the Beach

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

We have a brand new release of Beach & Tropical dies in the online store. We have 14 new designs in this release and they are currently on sale for a limited time at 25% off. They are so perfect for creating beach themed birthday cards, thanks you, thinking of you etc. Let your imagination soar! The Design Team has begun showing cards with these fun dies so take a look back on the blog for some creative ideas. 

For today I am using the new Day at the Beach die to create a birthday card for my daughter-in-law's August birthday. We just came back from a beach vacation in Sandbridge, VA. Sitting under our umbrellas on a beach chair and relaxing is just what her and I like to do at the beach.  She will definitely like this card. Let's get started on some details of how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started off this week with a sketch that I found online. I thought it would help me create a beach scene. The rectangle layer would allow me to have the water in front of the beach chair and the circle to create the beach scene.  

Next, I cut out the beach images in various colored cardstock. I cut the chair and the umbrella from a patriotic designer paper. It looks like the ones that we have and use at the beach. For the sand, I cut in white cardstock and sponged with crumb cake ink (kraft).

I used the largest circle die for the 3.5" circle in the sketch. A cloud stencil helped me sponge in clouds with tumbled glass distress ink. I wanted a sun in this scene and decided to use the sun image from the Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella die. The sun rays were a bit longer than I wanted so I trimmed them to fit in the circle. 

I cut the center rectangle piece (2 1/8" x 5 1/2") in a light blue cardstock and stamped my sentiment. I used just the words "our memories of the sea". 

For the horizontal rectangle, I used the same blue cardstock and embossed it with a wave embossing folder. I sprayed the cardstock very lightly with a little water before I used the embossing folder. Sometimes the paper will crack and rip when I emboss and this helps the fibers to break down a bit. 

Now that all the elements are cut, embossed and stamped I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the sentiment and embossed panels with double sided tape to the white card base. 

I attached the images to the circle panel with dimensional adhesive. I also used dimensional adhesive and attached to the the card base. To complete the card I added a few yellow enamel dots. 

Well, that's it for me for this post. I hope I have given you a fresh idea for a way to use this new die. See you again on Saturday. Also, we just added an Instagram icon to our Blog that links directly to our account on that site. Check us out there and follow us on that site as well. 

dies I used to create card:

High Flying Bunny

Hi, Lois here today.  One of the things from my bucket list that I have been able to cross off is flying in a hot air balloon.  It was so quiet up there (except when they turn on the flame to get more hot air into the balloon).  So, when I saw this cute new die from CottageCutz, I knew I would have to make a card with it.

It was a pretty simple card to construct.  I cut the cardstock and paper as follows:

White - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Navy - 4" x 5 1/4"

Cloud paper - 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"

Then I gathered some scraps of various colored cardstock and cut the bunny and balloon.

The clouds are cut from one of the new stitched dies from CottageCutz.  I stamped my Happy Easter sentiment on the larger cloud.

All that remained was to construct my card.  I used the illustration on the front of the Spring Hot Air Balloon package as my guide.  Easy Peasy!

Both the Spring and the Stitched series of dies are still 25% off, so be sure to check out the Scrapping Cottage/CottageCutz store for the entire line of dies.  CottageCutz dies used on my card are: