Celebrate You!

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with an easy, fun birthday card featuring the Mouse with Cake die from the new birthday release.  I love  this release; the dies make adorable birthday cards.

For this card I started with the color challenge colors on Splitcoaststampers this week.  They were chosen by none other than our own Mary Marsh!  She chose Lovely Lipstick, Gorgeous Grape and Coastal Cabana.  Just perfect for a festive card.

I cut the pieces from the Mouse with cake and Party Favors dies using the colors plus the neutrals Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, and Mossy Meadow (my cherry stem.)  I used just a touch of the Lovely Lipstick ink to color the mouse's ears.

For my card layout I chose to use a sketch challenge that was on Splitcoaststampers awhile back.  A hint to make cards go faster - I download the sketch challenge each week from SCS, print it out and keep in a file.  I may not use it then, but I have it for future use.

I flipped this sketch and used two of the third smallest Stitched Squares in white, one of the largest Stitched Square in Grape and one of the fourth smallest Stitched Rectangles in white.

I glued them to an A2 card base.

I heat embossed the sentiment on Lipstick card stock and trimmed it close to the embossing.  I glued all the die cuts to the card, popped up the sentiment using foam dots and added a few glitter enamel dots in the corner.  Super easy!

Dies used:

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Birthday Fox!

Hello Scrapping Cottage Fans!

It is Pam creating with you today.

I am continuing to use the dies from the new Birthday Release.  There are so many cute dies that it makes card making for birthdays so much fun.  Today, I am using the cutest fox I have ever seen.  Living in South Carolina we actually have these darling little red fox running through our neighborhood. Now on to the card for the day!

Design Steps:

 1.  Cut out the fox using the Birthday Fox die.  Use rust and tan cardstock for the cut

 2.  Shade the piece with rust ink and then assemble.  Color the nose and eyes with black marker.  Use a white gel pen to add dots to the eyes

 3.  Use a white A2 card base with a piece of DP 4 X 5 1/4 layered on orange card stock.  Cut a yellow striped piece of DP 5 1/4 x 1 layered on orange.  Assemble the card with the striped strip near the bottom of the card as shown above

 4.  Cut out the party hat and package in orange, pink and striped yellow DP

 5.  Assemble the package and hat.  Glue the hat onto the fox's head

 6.  Pop up the package and fox onto the card as shown below.  Stamp Happy Birthday and glue to the front of the card.  Add the rhinestones to finish the card

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Have a wonderful day and make sure to get crafty!

Blessings

Pam

Fall Card

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have a fall themed card to share for my design team post.  After such a hot summer, I'm definitely ready for fall which inspired this card!

I found the perfect fall themed papers in my stash.  The colors are so vibrant and fun.  I especially love the yellow and green mixed with the burgundy!

I used a couple of punches from my stash, one to create a border and the other to punch a scalloped circle for my card.

I used the Flatbed Truck with Accessories, Fall Phrases, Pumpkin Pie & Latte and the Mail Tag Set dies to cut out the pieces for my card.

I created my card base with the patterned papers, added the scalloped border and layered the tag on top of the background.  A small twine bow was used to accent the tag.

Next I placed the Flatbed Truck in the center of my card.  The "fall" sentiment was added to the tag along with the tiny pumpkin on the scalloped circle.

Here are the dies used on my card, available in the shop:

Sweet Birthday Wishes

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

The new release of Birthday dies have been restocked in the online store. So if you didn't get the ones you wanted previously, all 25 designs are in stock. This release is filled with cute little whimsical animals, birthday cakes, cupcakes and birthday phrases. Everything you need to create some outstanding birthday cards.

Today for your viewing pleasure I am featuring the Mouse with Cupcake die. I created this card using the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #754. I am the hostess of the challenge this week.

I don't have a lot of photos but I will give details on all dies used as well as paper sizes. So let's get started.

Step 1: I started my card with the challenge colors. They are lovely lipstick (red), gorgeous grape (purple) and coastal cabana (tropical green). I used these colors on the mouse apron, the cupcake and the birthday present. I used Ranger multi medium matte to secure.

gorgeous grape, lovely lipstick, coastal cabana

I came across a nice sketch online that I used for my card layout. I kept it on the simple side to allow my mouse image to be the star attraction.

gorgeous grape card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
designer paper background layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
coastal cabana striped sentiment panel: 1 5/8" x 4"

Step 2: I used the 4th largest die from the nested wacky stitched circle set for my 2 circles. One is cut in white and I cut another in coastal cabana and offset it slightly. The birthday present is from the Birthday Hedgehog die set.

I stamped the sentiment directly on the striped designer paper in gorgeous grape ink. To finish off the card, I scattered a few gorgeous grape enamel dots.

That's it for this post. I will be back on Saturday featuring another card from this whimsical new release.

dies I used to create card:

Cheesy Birthday

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a little bit bigger project for you today. I made a larger birthday card, using all the cute mice from the birthday release.

For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Ballerina Mouse, Mouse With Cupcake, Birthday Mouse Cupcake, Mouse With Cake, Circle Set),
- Distress Inks (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Barn Door, Mowed Lawn, Pumice Stone, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey) and Oxides (Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- water color paper for background (29,5x14,5 cm),
- yellow/orange card stock for background (30,5x15,5 cm) and cuts,
- black pen,
- white pen,
- white pigment ink,
- water spritzer,
- heat gun,
- black pigment ink,
- scissors,
- adhesive foam pads,
- paper glue.

First I colored all four mice. I used black pen for the eyes and white to add some dimension to the cuts.

Next I colored the water color paper for background. I used Oxides to color and Distress Ink for the edges.

Next I cut the holes. I used Circle Set dies (the smallest three) for the cuts.

Next I cut orange card stock and used white pigment ink to color the cuts in the middle so the middle would look a bit lighter.

I decided to add a bit more interest to previous paper with some water drops. I dried the paper with the heat gun.

And last I made the sentiment. I stamped it on the orange paper and cut it out with the scissors.

And when I had all the pieces I glued the card together. I used adhesive foam pads to glue both parts of the background and paper glue for the sentiment and the mice. And my project was done.

Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this project: