Christmas Deer Valentine Love Card Idea

Happy 1st Sunday of 2022 Scrapping Cottage friends! 

Melinda here with my first Cottage Cutz project for 2022! I created this super sweet card featuring the Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox and Gingerbread Cocoa House dies.

Here's a look at my completed card. It features the sweet little Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox die and some of the elements from the Gingerbread Cocoa House die. I also used some of the Rectangle Stitched scallop dies from that set.

I started by die cutting all of my pieces in white. I then used my various markers to color in my pieces. This is by far one of my favorite techniques. 

I then used my chalks to add some depth to my little deer as well as rosy up his cheeks. This is my other favorite technique for dressing up my die cuts. I love using the dies for projects outside of it's obvious use.

I then cut the second largest scallop stitched rectangle from that die set in white cardstock. I cutout a piece of Doodlebug patterned paper for a mat. I cut two of the "whipped cream" toppings from the Gingerbread Cocoa House die set. I lightly inked the edges and then added them to the bottom of my mat.

Here is a closer look at the various layers. I used several pieces from the Gingerbread Cocoa House. I even used one of their small snow pile pieces and put it on top of the mail box.

Here's another angle. You can see on the top of the small mat, I added a couple of the Gingerbread Cocoa House's Drips along the top for a border. I added several of the small hearts from that die too.

Here is one last look at my completed card. I love the super cute and very festive paper from Doodlebug. They are a perfect compliment to the adorable Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox die. I love to take pieces from various dies and use them in unexpected ways. It really helps you get more mileage out of your dies.

The Dies I used to create these projects:

Gingerbread Cocoa House

Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox

Nested Scallop Rectangle

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Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda Beltran

2021 Faves (Part 2)

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

It's the first day of 2022, and I thought I would feature some of our favorite cards from this past year. The dies used to create the cards are all on sale at great prices through January 5, and I have provided a link to the die used.

July (In the Kitchen Stamp Set)

August (Happy Birthday Stamp & Die)

August (Love Bugs Stamp & Die)

September (Baby Farm Animals)

October (High Flying Snowman, Santa's Delivery, Snowman w/Woodsy Friends)

October (Joyful Snowman, Santa's Delivery)

November(Gingerbread Family, Artic Snowy Tree)

December(Christmas S'mores, Sweet as a Christmas Cookie)

That's some of the cards from this past design year. Hope you enjoyed our little look back at 2021. Happy New Year everyone!

(Campin'Out Dies)

2021 Faves (Part 1)

Hello CottageCutz 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. 

It's the last day of 2021, and I thought I would feature some of our favorite cards from this past year. The dies used to create the cards are all on sale at great prices through January 5, and I have provided a link to the die used. 

January (Juggling Monkey)

February (Safari Giraffe)

March (Bunny Tree Cottage)

April (Spring Tea Party)

May (Windows Slimline & Circus)

June (Farm Cow Peeker & Farm Pig Peeker)

That's some of the cards from this past design year. Stop by tomorrow for another round of year end faves. 

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Banjo Playing Birthday Bear!

 Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

 I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year filled with good health and many blessings!  

I have a birthday in January.  And he is a very special great nephew!  He will be turning 5 so I am making him this fun and festive card using the Campin Out Bear w/Banjo.  The Camping release can be used for a variety of different cards especially with all of those adorable critters.

Design Steps:

1.  Use the Campin Bear w/Banjo and cut out the pieces using dark brown, brown, tan, yellow, mint green,  and black

2.  Shade and assemble the pieces with a fine tip clear drying glue.  For the cup cake I used Pastry Goodies cut out of mint green and red

3.  Use a yellow A2 card base, 4 x 5 1/4 piece of Party Hat Dp and a Piece of Music Happy Birthday DP cut 2 3/4 x 4.  I also used a piece of yellow grosgrain ribbon

4.  Glue the Music DP to the bottom of the Party Hat DP.  Add the ribbon to the top of the music paper by taping it to the back.  Then glue the Party Hat panel to the yellow card base

5.  Using the Expressions Happy and Birthday cut them out of red

6.  Place pop dots on the back of the bear and the tree stomp and add them to the front of the card.  Glue the Happy Birthday to the bottom half of the card.  I added a little sparkle to the Happy Birthday and the icing on the cup cake with my Wink of Stella.  Your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a great New Years Celebrations!

And just to remind you we have a wonderful YouTube Channel for more inspiration.  Check it out HERE

Blessings

Pam

Z Fold Campin Out

Good morning CottageCutz fans, I hope you are enjoying the festive break. If I see another turkey I think I’m going to explode. It’s Wendy bringing you the blog today and it’s a pyjamas and movie kind of day so I’m making most of taking it easy.

Today I’m bringing you a Z-Fold card. I’ve never made one f these before but there area. However, there are ton of tutorials on You Tube so check them out.

To begin with I assembled the Z-Fold card base and used the ‘Grass Slimline’ to cover the base. I then used the Farm Fence Slimline above which i thought look really cool.

Next I cut out some of the trees from the ‘Campin Out Tress’ die and dotted them around the card. I used some chalk to make them look more realistic.

I then used the ‘Clouds Slimline die for the top of the card 

To finish I added the Moose and Reindeer by the fire with their mugs of hot chocolate. Also the mushrooms. I’ll list all the dies below

I really hope you like today card. I had fun making it. 

Enjoy the rest of the week and i will be back with a full tutorial on Friday

Hugs

Wendy

Dies used: