CottageCutz Cross With Vine

Hello, Scrapping Cottage friends!  Happy Wednesday!  This is Beverly Polen from Guneaux Designs, and I am pleased to be a guest designer today!  Because Sunday is the Easter holiday for Christians, my card share for you is an Easter card that showcases the CottageCutz Cross With Vine Die.  But before I discuss the card, I want to draw your attention to the new CottageCutz Baby Release for April.  These new dies are adorable, and I encourage you to check them out.  For a limited time, you can enjoy a 25% discount on the dies!

Here is the Easter card I made for your enjoyment.

If you would like to make the card, please follow these instructions:

• Cut out the cross, vine, and flowers using the CottageCutz Cross With Vine Die.
• Color the cross, vine, and flowers (I used Copics Sketch Markers), and attach the vine to the cross.  (I started with pink flowers following the image for the die but changed to white.)

• Cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of white card stock and use the third to the largest CottageCutz Double-Stitched Oval Die to cut an oval in the center of the card stock.  If desired, emboss the negative piece.  The oval cut out will not be used.

• Cut an oval from a piece of purple designer paper using the same die.

• Cut out three ovals from white card stock using the second and third largest dies from the Double-Stitched Oval Dies.  Glue the three ovals together.

• Cut out and color two vines and grass using the CottageCutz Grass, Trees, and Vines Die.   
• Also, using the CottageCutz Cross With Vine Die, cut and color purple flowers and attach them to the vines.  (Note:  After finishing the card, I decided to add a third vine with flowers.)

• Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece of purple card stock, fold in the middle for the card base, and begin assembling the card.
• Adhere foam tape to the back of the piece of white card stock with an oval cut from the center. Attach this to the center front of the card base.  

• Attach the purple designer paper oval inside the oval on the card front.

• Attach foam tape to the piece of grass and adhere it to the bottom of the cross.  
• Attach foam tape to the cross and adhere it to the center of the oval on the card front.
• Attach the three glued ovals onto the card front.
• Attach the vines with flowers around the oval.
• Add a sentiment.  I added one inside the card.

Enjoy the card and come back tomorrow!  Remember to check out the new baby dies!

COTTAGECUTZ DIES USED:

Bee Happy

Hi, Janja here!

Today I would like to share with you another card with a bear.

Supplies:
- CottageCutz stamps and dies: Ben with Beehive, Sweet Valentines (beehive, honey pot, sentiment), Beehives (branch), Rectangle Set, Stitched Rectangle Set
- white card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm)
- patterned paper: 5 x 5" (12,7 x 12,7 cm)
- patterned paper: 4.25 x 4.25" (10,8 x 10,8 cm)
- colored cardstock
- Distress inks: Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Faded Jeans, Broken China, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Black Soot
- watercolor paper

Trim selected patterned papers. Cut out watercolor paper with the largest rectangle die from the set, and stamp on it the bear with black Archival ink.

First, color the entire motif with Distress inks. Later stamp one more time only the bear, beehive and honey pot. After coloring cut them out with the matching dies.

We will attach one beehive to a branch with leaves. Cut them out from brown and green cardstock.  

Stamp sentiment in black and assemble the card.

 

If you have not yet managed to see the new CottageCutz dies - Baby, I kindly invite you to the store. 

That's all for today. I hope you like it and thank you for stopping by.

Framed Plumeria

Hi, Lois here with my Monday post.  Before I tell you about my card for today, I want to let you know that CottageCutz has some brand-new baby dies in the store.  Be sure to check them out -- they're on sale at 25% off the regular price.  Today I've made a card using some more new-to-me CottageCutz dies. I love making shaped flowers, and the Plumeria die allowed me to have a bit of fun.  I thought I was unfamiliar with the plumeria, so I Googled it.  As it turns out, the frangipani is a common variety of plumeria -- and I actually had a frangipani in my yard at a house in which I lived many years ago.  Here's my card:

Supplies used on this card are:

Orchid cardstock - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" folded in half, scrap for circle

Pale orchid cardstock - approximately 3 1/2" x 4 1/2"

Patterned paper - 4" x 5 1/4"

White cardstock - approximately 4" x 5 1/2" to cut frame, scrap for circle, larger piece to cut flowers

Green cardstock - large enough to cut leaves

Scrap of yellow cardstock

Sentiment stamp

Copic markers - Y02, Y04, Y21, RV00, RV63, E71

Green ink

Embossing folder

Micro glue dots

Circle punches

Foam tape

CottageCutz dies - Plumeria and Leaves, Leafy Foliage, Pierced Wide Rectangle Frame Set

I must admit  that, when I start a card, I do NOT meticulously plan out what it is going to look like.  I usually have half an idea in my head and sort of roll with it, and I wasn't sure just how many flowers and leaves I was going to need to complete my card.  So I cut several sets of the Plumeria and Leaves, plus one set of the Leafy Foliage.

As I mentioned before, I didn't think I knew anything about the plumeria; so, in order to color the petals, I Googled "plumeria" and found this photo.

Using several shades of red-violet and yellow, I colored all my die-cut flowers.

Using a sponge, I gave the leaves some shadowing; and I colored the branches and the flower centers with Copic markers.

As you can see on the photo of the plumeria flowers, the petals are slightly layered over each other.  So I snipped between the petals and, using micro glue dots, layered the petals over each other so they looked a bit more realistic.

Then I cut the pieces to make the card base . . .

. . .  and constructed my card.  Before adhering the background inside the frame with foam tape, I embossed the pale orchid piece of cardstock.  Here is a close-up showing all the dimension created by layering the leaves, flowers, and frame.

I then stamped the sentiment, punched it out, layered it on a punched orchid circle and adhered the circle on the side of the frame.  By the way, I still have some already-colored blossoms left that I can use for another card!

CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

Easter Eggs

Hi! 

It's Anja here. We're one week away from Easter and it's time to make some Easter decorations. I decided to decorate some plastic eggs.

I used:

- Cottage Cutz Dies (Spring Butterfly 1, 3D Flower #7, Spring Greenery),

- colored card stock,

- Distress Inks (Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss),

- tools for making 3d flowers,

- flower stamens,

- plastic eggs,

- glue,

- purple acrylic paint,

- brush,

- purple ribbon,

- glitter

First I colored plastic eggs with acrylic paint and sprinkled them with glitter while they were still wet. I let them dry.

I die cut some greenery from green card stock and butterflies and flowers from light violet card stock. I cut only the tree smallest flowers from the flowers die. I used Distress Inks to color the edges of the die cuts.

Then I used tools to make 3d effects and assembled the flowers and butterflies. I put stamens in the middle of the flowers.

When the eggs were dry I hanged it with some purple ribbon. Then I put all the leaves around the top of the eggs. In the end I added the butterfly on one egg and two flowers on the other egg. 

Have a nice Sunday.
Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used: