Wedding Accordion

Hi!

It's Anja here. Today I'm continuing the wedding theme. This time I made an accordion card in which you can write your good wishes for the bride and groom. But I could also be used as a wedding invitation. I think the chapel and the cake would be perfect to use with ceremony and reception information. 

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Tiered Wedding Cake, Live Laugh Love, Wedding Chapel, Garden Bride and Groom, Nested Stitched Eyelet Square Set, Nested Stitched Eyelet Circle Set, Pierced Circle Set),

- Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Spun Sugar, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint),

- craft card stock (light and dark),

- ribbon,

- paper glue,

- double sided adhesive tape. 

I started with cutting the paper. I cut 30x10 cm piece from light craft paper. I scored it at 10 and 20 cm. I put some Distress ink around the edges. 

Then I adhere the ribbon the way it's shown on pictures below. 

When I had the card base I die cut all the other pieces, colored them with Distress inks and adhere them together. 

And this is the result.

Thank you for stopping by and see you again soon. 

Have a great Sunday.

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz used in this project:

Miss to Mrs (Bridal Shower Card)

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

I mentioned last week that it's wedding season here in my town. Before the big day arrives for the bride and groom, first comes the bridal shower. They are always such exciting events to honor the bride.

Since I am invited to a couple of these showers, I thought I would start to create one of the cards to go along with my gift. So lets get started with some details on the dies I am showcasing today.

Step 1: This week I started my card by planning a layout for my card idea. I wanted a more elegant style card but nothing too fussy. This bride will have that elegance reflected in her wedding.
I then selected the dies that would fit what I had in mind. Since it's a bridal shower card, I chose the wedding gown die. And, then to make it all about love, I am using the love tags and sweet love borders dies.

The cardstock I chose is called blushing bride and I matched it up with some patterned paper of the same color. What an appropriate cardstock name for a bridal card.

Blushing Bride card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Patterned paper layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

I assembled these panels and then placed aside to complete my die cutting.

Step 2: I made all my cuts on this step. The bridal gown, hanger and bow is cut in a pearlized gold cardstock. The tag and borders are cut in the blushing bride cardstock. I am always so impressed with how smooth the CottageCutz dies cut cardstock.

Step 3: Started adhering the die cut pieces to the patterned panel layer. I didn't add the tag and dress at this point because I wanted to stamp the sentiment first. I wanted to make sure I had the correct placement after the heart borders were attached.

Step 4: I stamped my sentiment in chocolate chip ink. This one works so perfectly for my bridal shower theme.

Step 5: I attached the wedding gown and hanger to the tag with dimensional adhesive. Angled it just a bit, mainly for card interest. I let the left side of the bow drape down on the tag and secured it there. I liked the more free flow look.

Step 6: To finish off my card I scattered some of the pink hearts that were part of the border die. As I looked at the border, I thought it would add a bit more elegance by adding some pearls down each side. I like the look and since the pearls are small it's not too fussy.

 Well that's it for me for this post. I hope I have given you an idea for a bridal shower card. There are 20 different wedding designs to spark your creativity. Check them out here. 

Dies I used to create card:

 

 

Fairy Tale Wishes

Hi!  It's Jeanne sharing my card today.  I love the Wedding Horse & Carriage and Wedding Chapel dies - they remind me of Cinderella! So I wanted to create a birthday card for a girl who loves fairy tales or could be used as a wedding card (just change the "wish" to "celebrate"!)

I cut the cardstock to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 and scored it at the 4 1/4 mark to make a top folding A2 card.  All pieces except the word "Wish" are cut from the same vanilla cardstock.

The die cut images are colored with Copic markers.  (You'll see double in some of my pictures because I often make two of the same card at one time!) I used several shades of brown for the horse and cool greys to shade the carriage and wheels.

The chapel was colored with two shades of very light beige and warm greys for the roof. The rose was colored in the same manner using pinks and greens.

To create the horizon line in the background I cut a free form mask using scissors. Then I used a sponge to create the grass and sky.  The white panel is slightly smaller than the front of the card.

I cut another panel out of vanilla cardstock the same size as the card front.  From this I cut an oval using the largest oval die from Basics Oval Set.  I decided to emboss the front to give it some additional interest.

 I played around with the arrangement within the frame and decided to have the steeple of the chapel outside the frame.

The last things added were the word "Wish" and the rose.  I did need to trim one set of leaves off the rose to fit the space.  I also added rhinestones to the center of the wheels.

I hope I've inspired you to be creative!  See you next week.

Products used:

Owl Always Love You!

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends!

Hello it is Pam sharing with you today.  I am using one of the new release wedding dies that has a touch of fun to it!  Wooo.. doesn't love little owls?  I know they sure make a sweet card!

Designer Steps:

1.  Start by cutting out all the pieces using the Cottage Cutz Tandem Bike die. The card stock colors used were blue, black, yellow, brown, white, and green.   Shade your pieces and assemble

 2.  To make the background use the largest of the Cottage Cutz Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangle set for the white background.  Then use the largest of the Cottage Cutz Nested Wackey Stitched Oval set for the hills.

 3.  Stencil in the clouds and add a black strip for the road.  Add a dashed white line down the center of the road

4.  Use an A2 white card base and a slightly smaller piece of blue then a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of dotted DP. Mount the completed scene to the card front and add your sentiment

Cottage Cutz Producted

I hope you give some of our new dies a try!  Make sure and visit our shop soon!

Blessings

Pam