Happy Birthday from the Circus Animals

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. Your slimline cardmaking is going to get a lot easier. We have 9 Slimline designs and they are on a 25% off sale. These are wonderful, basic dies that should be a part of every card maker's collection especially if you are liking the new slimline style.

Today for your viewing pleasure I have a slimline birthday card using the Circus Train Animal dies + the Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Slimline die. 

I have a lot of nieces and nephews with young ones and I always seem to need a kids birthday card. These animals are perfect for a kids card. So let's get started on some details of how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card this week with the layout. I saw this sketch #854 on Splitcoaststampers and I thought the layout would work well for the dies I am using. 

Next, I selected the background designer paper. I wanted something fun and found this bright dotted paper.

I cut it with the largest Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Slimline (3 1/4" x 8 1/4") die. The card base is at 6 1/2" x 8 1/4" and then scored at 3 1/4". I used pacific point cardstock (royal blue) cardstock. 

Then, I cut my animal images. The designer paper colors of blue, rose red and yellow would work for the hats and neck scarves the circus animals are wearing. I used different colors of cardstock to cut the animals. You could also cut in white and color with any medium you like i.e. Copic markers, Prismacolors pencils or distress inks. I forgot to take a photo of this step (lol)!

For element 3 of the sketch I used the largest Scalloped Circle die and then cut a portion off the bottom to give it a straight edge. I stamped my sentiment in pacific point ink. It's a long one line sentiment but with the help of my MISTI, I stamped on 2 lines. 

I started the assembly of my card. For element 2 of the sketch I cut another piece of pacific point designer paper 1" x 8", I attached the circle with double sided tape and then secured to the designer paper panel.  

Then I attached three of the Circus Animals in the circle using dimensional adhesive. The seal is attached in the corner for element 4 of the sketch. Instead of him balancing a ball, I have him holding a balloon. It's cut from the Clown with Balloons die. 

To finish off my card, I attached the image panel to the card base with double sided tape. For the 2nd  instance of element 4, I cut a spray of stars from the Circus Side Show die and attached to the right corner. I thought the middle looked empty so I added some rose red enamel dots. 

And that's it for me for this week. I will be back on Tuesday for our Throwback Tuesday post. See you then.

Dies I used to create card:

  

Always Tea Time

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a vertical slimline card for the tea lovers in your life.  For this card I used the Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline and the Rounded Rectangle Slimline dies along with Spring Tea Party from the Spring release.

I started by picking my background paper so that I could have the colors for my fox and flowers.  I used the Stitched Rectangle for the background and the Rounded Rectangle for my banner.

I cut all pieces of my image from white cardstock and colored with Distress Oxide inks.  I cut two of all the flowers and tea cups.

I stamped my sentiment 1 1/4 inches from the top of the banner and placed my fox just below.  Then I added the flowers and teacups, angling them.  I decided not to use the purple teapot.

I wanted to add some ribbon to give a bit of interest to the base and highlight the fox.

I cut a piece of ribbon 7 inches long, folded it in half and adhered in 3 1/5 inches from the top.  I angled the ends.

Because of the height of the ribbon, I used foam tape on the back of my banner piece to adhere it to the card.  I placed it 1/4 inches from the top.

I used some coordinating pearls to give a little bit of playful shimmer and draw your eye down the banner.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today.  Be sure to visit the online store where the new Slimline dies are on sale for a limited time.

Products used:

 

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

Love My Cat

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

It is Pam sharing with you on the blog today!

As I was telling you a couple of Thursdays ago I have a lot of spring and summer birthdays.  My sister and I both have July birthdays.  She is such an animal lover.  She lives in a very rural area so she is constantly feeding any little critter that comes in her yard especially during the cold winter days.  She also has a way of picking up stray or ferral cats.  She has quite a family of both indoor and outdoor cats and she dearly loves them all! So the card I am making today is for her birthday.

Design Steps:

1.  Use a slimline kraft card base, use your Nested Rectangle Slimline dies to create your red layer,  then cut a piece of plaid DP  5 2/4 x 3 1/8 and a piece of cat name DP 3 1/8 x 3.  Cut out your cat using the Cat w/a Spring Bird

2.  Shade your cat using a brown ink and small applicator then assemble it with a fine tip glue.  Ink in the eyes with a Sukura Black Glaze pen and then dot it with Sukura White Gelly Roll pen

3.  Glue the two different DP to the red card stock as shown.  Add a knotted ribbon where the two DP meet and glue to the kraft card base

4.  Using your Pierced Oval 4th from the largest cut out a dark brown oval.  Glue the oval to the card as shown.  Next place pop dots to the back of the cat and pop it to the center of the oval

5.  Using the Love My Dog, Love My Cat die cut out 3 Love My in dark brown and glue them together,  cut out 3 red and dark brown hearts with paws and place pop dots on the back of them

6.  Glue the Love My to the top of the card and add the little paw hearts as shown and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have time to get crafty and stop in our store to look at all of the wonderful dies we have just waiting for you!

Blessings and Take Care

Pam

Celebrating Your Love

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have a bridal shower card to share for my design team day.  With wedding season upon us, I went for a simple but elegant card to celebrate the special occasion.

The new Nested Rectangles Slimline was used to cut out the floral rectangle for my card base.  I also used the Nested Stitched Scallop Oval Set for the white oval and the umbrella is from the Spring Showers Buddies.  I added a few pearls to the umbrella to give it bridal look.

The floral rectangle base was layered on top of a white card stock background for some contrast.  I adhered a strip of coordinating paper on top to break up the floral pattern.

Next, I heat embossed a sentiment inside the oval with some gold embossing powder to give my card an elegant look.

The oval was adhered to my card base with the umbrella inside at a slight angle.

A few more coordinating pearls were sprinkled inside the oval for the final finishing touch on my card.

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

A Cupcake for Your Birthday

It's time for another Throwback Tuesday!  It's Jeanne here today and I have a fun birthday card fusing a die from the 2019 Birthday release combined with the new Slimline dies.  These new dies are a great way to give variety to your card layouts!

I started with a card sketch from Splitcoatstampers that I rotated 90 degrees.  Card sketches are a great way to save time when creating.  Sometime I use them exactly, and other times they are a great starting point.

Next I chose papers and ribbon to get my colors.  The fun thing about this little mouse is that by changing up the colors you can make it more for a younger or older recipient, male or female.  I wanted mine to be very bright for a child so I went with this rainbow stripe paper.

I stamped my sentiment on a strip cut with the smallest of the Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline dies.  Further contributing to the throwback theme I found some small old wooden alphabet stamps.  These worked perfectly to make the "Happy Birthday" sentiment.  I placed my die on my cardstock and drew a light pencil line around the outside edge.   I stamped my sentiment before cutting it out so I could adjust the placement and make sure it was centered.  Stamping at random angles adds to the casual, happy feel and is more forgiving than if I had tried to line up all the stamps!

My background paper is cut using the largest of the Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline dies and I used the Stitched Circle and Nested Stitched Scallop Circle dies to give focus to my mouse.  She is cut from scraps and popped up using foam dots.

I love some bling, so I added some rhinestones to the final card.  Be sure to visit the online store where the new Slimline Release is on sale for a limited time!

Dies used:

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful rest of the week!