Garden Ladder Step card

Hello Scrapping Cottage 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. Hope you are doing ok in the midst of the pandemic. Since so many of us have the stay at home orders in place, it's nice to have a hobby where we can create beautiful cards. I put on some music and let my creative juices flow!!!

We have a brand new release of dies in the online store. This one is garden themed and has 19 new designs. These new dies are perfect for birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day or even a thinking of you card for the person who loves to garden. 

For my card today, I am featuring the new Garden Ladder die to create a Mother's Day card for a friend. I make a lot and send them to my family and friends. This year they will especially like the kind thoughts. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.
Design Steps:

This week I decided to use a fun card fold to display the ladder image. I made a side step card. Check out this step by step tutorial with a video for how to create one. Here is another tutorial that a former DT member did for our Blog. They are fairly easy and also fun to decorate with images or stamps.

This is one of those cards for me, that is a work in progress. When I started I wasn't really sure how I would decorate the side steps. So I started with the main rectangle panel. I found this designer paper in my stash and thought it would work for a sky background. For grass I used a dirt mound from an older CottageCutz die - it's retired now and out of stock - the Carrot Patch Bunny die. But you could use this Spring Grass die also.

Next, I cut all the images from the Garden Ladder die. I used various colors of cardstock. You could use white cardstock and color with your medium of choice or sponge with distress or other inks.

Attached the ladder to the designer paper using glue dots and then attached all the other elements to the ladder.

The grassy border was attached with double sided tape.

Next I started on the side steps. On the first step, I used the garden tools from the Potting Shed die. On step 2 I used the seed packets from the Planter Box & Seeds die. The tulips on Step 1 are also from this die. On the 3rd step, I used the same die for the heart banner. My card is starting to take shape.

For the top step, I decided to stamp a sentiment. I thought this one complemented the garden images well. I stamped on the designer paper and then cut another layer from the same paper.

To finish off the front of my card, I attached the sentiment and added 2 small bees to the 3rd panel. 

For the back of the card, I stamped a Mother's Day sentiment and added a small flowerpot.

And, that's it for me for this post. I hope I have given you an idea for a way to use the new Garden Ladder die. Have a great week and I will see you next Saturday.

dies I used to create card. 

Flower Pots Thank You

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a clean and simple card for you.  This card was created for two card challenges this week -  a sketch and a color challenge.

The sketch is at CAS Colours and Sketches:

and the colors are from the weekly challenge at Splitcoaststampers - Poppy Parade, Cajun CRaze and Mango Melody.

To begin my card I cut the pieces using the flowers from Mouse w/ Garden Wagon and the pots from Potted Plans in the appropriate colors of cardstock.  For the dirt color I used Early Espresso ink to color the pieces that were cut in Cajun Craze.  I used Mossy Meadow for the stems.

I assembled the pots.

I cut a top fold A2 card base in white, a strip of Poppy Parade 5 1/2 x 1 inches and a Mango Melody patterned piece 5 1/2 x 2 inches.  For the box on the sketch I used the second smallest die from the Stitched Scallop Rectangle set.

I used white embossing powder to heat emboss my sentiment.  Then I cut the strip so it was about 5/8 inches high.  I usually emboss or stamp my sentiments on a strip larger than what I want to use so that I can adjust if I don't stamp quite in the center.

Next, I glued the posts to the rectangle leaving the tops of the flowers hang above the box.  If you start with the center first it is much easier to get the placement right.  Then you just need to center each side.

I adhered my patterned piece to the bottom of the card and added my strip 1 3/4 inches from the bottom.

Using foam tape, I added the box with the pots to my card.

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!  Be sure to visit the online store to check out the adorable new Gardening release!

Potted Plants

Hello Crafty Friends,

It is Pam on the blog today!

You have to check out our new release!  This collection is so fantastic for spring through summer and especially perfect for those who love to garden.  Check it out in the online store there are 19 different dies to choose from and everyone of them is so wonderfully detailed!

Today, I am using the new Potted Plant die and it is just so darn cute!

(Background Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash)

Design Steps:

 1.  Cut out the pieces using the Potted Plant die.  I used a variety of colored card stock: rust, yellow, light green, dark green, brown, blue and white

 2.  Shade the pieces with a number of different colored inks and then assemble with a fine tip glue

 3.  Use an A2 white card base, a piece of yellow check DP (4 x 5 1/4) that I cut with the Double Stitched Square (third from the smallest).  Cut a piece of rust card stock (4 x 3 1/2) which I lined up with the yellow check DP and cut with a slightly smaller square.  I used the Wacky Stitched Square (second from the smallest)

 4.  Glue the rust windows directly behind the yellow checked DP windows and then glue it to a white piece of card stock  4 x 5 1/4

 5.  Next cut out a piece of white card stock using the Double Stitched Rectangle die and stamp it with your sentiment.  Layer your sentiment onto a piece of rust card stock

6.  Pop up your plants and sentiment onto the DP panel (as shown) and then attach it to the white card base.  Add your rhinestones and your card is complete

CottageCutz Products

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you are all staying safe and enjoying sometime to get creative and crafty!

Blessings

Pam

Hello Sunshine

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing this card for my design team post.  I'm delighted with the new Cottage Cutz Gardening die release.  All of the blooms in this release are perfect for those springtime creations.

I used the Gardening Tomte and the Flower Power Tomte die sets for my card.  All of the flowers inspired the bright and cheery color combination for my die cuts.

I chose a neutral background for my card base to offset all of the colors and patterns I incorporated into my die cuts.  A tiny stamped sentiment on a hand cut flag was perfect for my card.

Once I put together my card base, I adhered the die cut elements one-by-one creating the whimsical scene.

The flowers were placed on the two edges of my card.  The tiny birdhouse was nestled in the center. The little gardening elements are so cute and work great as embellishments on my card.

The sentiment flag was placed in the upper left corner of my card as the final finishing accent.

 Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a nice day!

Bee Happy

Hi Janja here. Welcome to the blog today.
In the following posts, I will be creating my samples with dies from past releases. Cottage Cutz dies offer many combination options.

- CottageCutz dies: Birthday Party Bear, Gingerbread Baking Set, Spooky Cake, Beehives, Stitched Alphabet
- card blank: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" (10,8 x 14 cm), folded
- white and brown cardstock
- vellum paper
- stencil - honeycomb
- ink pads
- glue, double-sided adhesive tape, self-adhesive foam pads

Start by die-cutting a bear and bees.
For a bowl full of honey, I used a gingerbread baking set. I cut a dripping honey edge out with a spooky cake die, and shorted it with scissors.

Cut each letter four times for more depth.

Cut out white cardstock for the background.
Now add the honeycomb pattern to the white background. Use a sponge or brush and apply color over the stencil.

First, paste the letters to the lower part. Then attach the bear to the upper edge of the letters with self-adhesive pads. Lastly, paste the remaining letters and bees.

Completed card.

Thank you for stopping by.
Janja