Father's Day

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam sharing with you today on the blog!  I hope you are enjoying your Monday!

I am having so much fun creating with our new Garden Release.  I decided to make a card for my brother for Father's Day.  He loves working out in the yard and at one point in his life he had a landscape company.  So I thought this card would be perfect for him!

To make this card I used a sketch from one of the Splitcoaststampers Challenges.  The sketch looked like this:

I used a variety of designer papers and a bright red ribbon to finish it off.  The dies I used are the Lawnmower, Spring Grass and Wacky Stitched Circle.  I have linked them so you can take a peek.  

CottageCutz Dies

Thanks so much for stopping by and I do hope you check out all the wonderful dies we have in stock right now!

Blessings

Pam

Spring Garden

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a garden scene for you today. I combined different dies from the latest release and made the following card.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Potting Shed, Puppy in Garden Cart, Potted Plants, Garden Phrases),
- Distress Inks,
- craft card base (17,5x12 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts and background (17x11,5 cm),
- silver pigment ink,
- plastic stencil (clouds),
- black pen,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the shed, cart and all plants.

Next I cut and colored the sentiment.

Then I trimmed the paper for the background.

Next I colored the background. I used plastic stencil for the sky.

When I had everything colored I put the card together.

That's all from me for today. Have a nice week and see you again next Sunday.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card:

A Gardening Tomte

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. 

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 Father's Day, birthdays, thank you, or even a thinking of you card for the person who loves to garden. 

For my card today, I am featuring the new Gardening Tomte and created a thinking of you card for a friend. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card with the colors and used the color challenge #790 on Splitcoaststampers. I thought this color trio would work well for my outdoor garden scene. Plus you can add neutral shades and with this challenge dark green is considered a neutral shade. So that helped with the grass I would need for my scene.   

flirty flamingo, crushed curry, rich razzleberry

The outdoor scene was easily created with my landscape themed designer paper. The clouds and sky were a good match for the crushed curry color. The sky goes from the light to dark shades of this color. I decided to go with a square card this week because I didn't want to lose a lot of the designer paper. 

Crushed curry card base: 5 1/2" square

Designer paper layer: 5 1/4" square

Next, I cut all the images in the challenge colors + a few neutrals. To get the varying shades of crushed curry in the flower pot and the gnome's hat. I used a crushed curry designer paper that again went from light to dark. The images are attached to the designer paper layer with a combo of glue dots, double sided tape and multi medium matte. 

I stamped my hello sentiment in a cloud cut in crushed curry cardstock and used rich razzleberry ink. The cloud die is an older one from CottageCutz - clouds and sun die. I used the 2nd largest cloud on my card. 

Attached that to image panel with dimensional adhesive. The image panel is secured with double sided tape. I added a few flirty flamingo enamel dots to complete the card. 

Well, that's it for me for this week. I hope I have given you an idea for a way to use this new die. Designer papers can give you a big assist with your design. See you next Saturday!

dies I used to create card:

Father's Day Cat

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today and I have a Father's Day card for you using some of the dies from the new Gardening release.  I can't believe it's already mid May!  Father's Day will be here before you know it, so I thought I would start now.  Actually, any masculine themed card is something I always need and this could easily be a birthday card just by changing the sentiment!

I used various colors of cardstock to die cut the cat from the Garden Cat w/ Wagon die and the Lawnmower using the Lawnmower die.  I inked the edges with similar or matching ink to give the pieces some depth and shading.

I glued most of the pieces together but not all.  Some needed to be placed when I glued them to the card.

I wanted a lawn scene for the front so I stenciled the grass on a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch white panel.  Then I stenciled clouds using a cloud stencil.  The grass stencil I used has a positive and negative edge, so after stenciling the grass, I used the other side to cover up the grass while I stenciled the sky.

I cut a panel from wood-look paper 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches and then used the largest of the Stitched Rectangle dies to cut down my stenciled panel.

After centering the stenciled panel, I laid out my cat and lawnmower.

I started with the cat on the left and then placed the lawnmower handle and grass bag.  You'll notice my sentiment in white - I also have the cat and lawnmower in white.  I often cut everything out of thin white cardstock and assemble (usually with only the essential shapes no details) so that I can play with the layout of my card.  I store these with the die so that the next time I want to use the image on a card I have it to "play with" again!

I settled on a grass green for the sentiment and mounted the panel to an A2 matching green card base.

Dies used:

I hope you are inspired to create your own special card for Father's Day!  The new release has  wonderful dies for any man or woman who loves their yard!

Thanks for joining us today and have a wonderful weekend!

Gardening Cat

Hello My Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam having fun with you on the blog today!

I have a wonderful sister who has a number of cats.  In fact we call her the cat whisperer!!  And she loves to garden and soak up the sun!  So this card will be a perfect thank you for her!

 (background photo Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash)

Design Steps:

1.  The base is an A2 white piece of card stock.  Second layer is dark green card stock 5 1/4 x 4 and the flower DP is 5 x 3 3/4.  Glue the layers together as shown above

2.  Using the Gardening Cat die cut out the pieces using grey, pink, dark green, metallic silver, yellow and brown

3.  Shade all of the pieces using a variety of inks.  Add white polka dots using a Sukra white gel pen

 4.  Cut the fence using white card stock and the Victorian Fence die.  Also using green card stock and the Spring Grass die cut out the grass

5.  Use the Double Stitched Rectangle die cut out a piece of wood grain DP and layer onto dark green card stock.  Next glue down the grass and fence

6.  Pop the small fence panel to the card base and then pop up the cat and sentiment and your card is complete

CottageCutz Supplies

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful time creating!

Blessings

Pam