Easter in the Forest

Hey there Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahdin Krafts, back on the blog today with this sweet "Easter Moose" card. I used several dies from the Spring Release, as well as a couple from the Winter Release. I absolutely love mixing and matching dies to create a scene.

For my background birch forest I used Winter Pine and Birch Trees and the adorable moose are from the Winter Moose w/ Hot Cocoa, both of these dies are from this past Winter Release.

My Easter decor comes from several Spring Release dies, I cut the Easter eggs from the Bunny Express Carrot Cars.  The tulips and tufts of grass are from the Spring Sheep, I also added some flowers from the Spring Chicken die.  The jellybeans can be found in the Bunny Express Engine set.  The female moose is holding a carrot from the Spring Sentiments set, and the male moose is holding a basket from the same set.

I decided to add my sentiment in the inside of the card, along with some extra flowers for a little pleasant surprise! 

I enjoyed making this fun Easter card, thank you so much for krafting with me again this week.  I will be back with a YouTube Video in a couple of weeks!  Happy krafting!

Announcing New Addition to Design Team

Today I have the pleasure of announcing a new addition to the CottageCutz Design Team.

Jen Hartsgrove

My krafty korner of the world is in Northern Maine, where I live with my very tolerant husband, three active homeschooled children, our two naughty dogs, two spit fire cats, and two very stubborn house pigs…yes you read that right, pet pigs! Basically, I officially do reside in a funny farm!

My love of all things krafty started at a very young age, and led me to attending Green Mountain College in Vermont, and earning my BFA. While at GMC, I specialized in photography. I believe this was my steppingstone into my big passion, scrapbooking.

Scrapbooking had a natural evolution to stamping and card making. I love that I can play with all sorts of mediums and techniques such as die cutting, inks, watercolors, alcohol markers, and glitter….an artist’s dream!

Jen will be joining us as part of our YouTube team. She will be posting on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month. Here is a sample of the work that you can expect to see from this talented paper artist. 

And speaking of YouTube, the CottageCutz video artists are posting on our channel every Wednesdays. We have giveaways every Wednesday on the channel for subscribing, liking and commenting on the post. Here is a link to our channel. 

dies used to create card: 

Moose waiting for Sledging Friend

Happy Tuesday Cottagecutz fans, I hope you are having a good week so far. It’s Wendy bringing you the blog today with a light touch tutorial, I will bring you a full tutorial at the end of the week

So o begin with, I cut out the 'Clouds Slimline' as  template to make the background clouds. I used 'Tumbled Glass' Distress Ink for this. it's always good to start halg way down the card and then move up

Next I cut out 2 pieces of the 'Hills Slimline' to simulate snow. The first layer was attached with glue and then the next layer with 1mm foam pads at the bottom so that I could slot trees behind it.

Next I cut the remaining elements that I needed for my card, ‘Winter Moose with Hot Cocoa, Winter Pine and Birch Trees, Winter Moose on Snow Mobile and Winter Mouse by Woodstove

I assembled the trees first putting them in the background. The other elements I cut and assembled and adhered to my card with 3D foam pads. The dies are so intuitive and easy to assemble and you can change up the colours, they are your own interpretation.

I thought the card looked like the moose hd had a long day in his snowmobile and was due back for a nice hot cup of cocoa

I reall hope you have enjoyed this card today and it had given you some inspiration either for now or I can see these died working well for Christmas too

Have a wonderful week and I will see you on Friday with a full tutorial and another cute card

Hugs

Wendy

Dies I used: