Some Bunny Loves You

Hello CottageCutz 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. I am filling in for Melinda for a couple of weeks while she recovers from some recent surgery. 

We have a brand-new release of dies in the online store. It's our Flowers & More release. The individual dies are currently on sale for 30% off. This release has what we are calling "simple cuts". Meaning not as many pieces to put together so they assemble quickly.

They are so perfect for the many card making occasions that we all have. Birthdays, Thank You, Sympathy, Mother's Day, Easter or even a scrapbook layout just to name a few. Today for your viewing pleasure, I am revisiting an older die from our Spring 2020 release. It's the Double Trouble Bunnies die.

I used the colors from this week's Splitcoaststampers color challenge #939. We are to use polished pink, garden green and tahitian tide for our color trio. Optional is to use layers. 

polished pink, garden green, tahitian tide

I decided to make an Easter card with these bold and bright colors. I had the white card base and the tahitian tide tag in my stash.  The top of the tag is partially covered by my circle images, but it has a tahitian tide color gradient.

My first circle is cut in tahitian tide color. I used the largest die from the Sweetheart Doilies set. Looks like that one is out of stock but you could use the Nested Stitched Scallop Circle die.  The image circle is the 4th largest Stitched Circle die.

I cut the Double Trouble Bunnies in an allowed neutral and the egg and grass in the challenge colors. Stamped my sentiment and added a few polished pink opal rounds to complete my card.

See you on Saturday!

dies I used to create card:

Sweet Easter Wishes

Hello Scrapping Cottage peeps! 🐤

Kris here, sharing an Easter card featuring the CottageCutz Spring Bowl w/ Eggs.  

Design Steps:

I cut and layered the following, bottom to top:

• White card base = 4-1/2" x 11" and score at 5-1/2" for a top folding card

• Patterned paper (gingham) 4-1/2" x 5-1/2"

• Die cut largest from the Nested Scalloped Rectangles set (attach with foam tape)

• Patterned paper (scripty) 4-1/4" x 5-1/4" 

• Die cut largest of the Nested Stitched Scalloped Circles set

• Die cut Spring Bowl w/ Eggs, the Sweet w/ Shadow, and Wishes w/ Shadow from white cardstock and apply distress ink and/or markers.  Assemble. 

• Adhere bowl to lower part of scalloped circle with a thin piece of foam strip.  Adhere eggs behind the bowl with glue.

• Stamp "Easter" and trim.

• Run ribbon around the Scalloped Rectangle (between foam strips) and tie a knot on front right side.

• Add foam strips to each of the sentiments and adhere as shown.

Kept it fairly simple this week.  I hope you all have a funtastic week!

~Kristine

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Rock & Roll Pop-up Fun Fold

Hello CottageCutz 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. It's our Flowers & More release. The individual dies are currently on sale for 30% off. This release has what we are calling "simple cuts". Meaning not as many pieces to put together so they assemble quickly.

They are so perfect for the many card making occasions that we all have. Easter, Birthdays, Thank You, Sympathy, Mother's Day or even a scrapbook layout just to name a few. 

Today for your viewing pleasure I am revisiting the Black Friday Classic 50's release. These dies are currently 40% off.  I needed a special birthday card for my son. He's not 50 but he definitely likes rock music. So, I decided to use some of these dies and create a pop-up fun fold card. Let's get started with some card info.

Design Steps:

I started with my card front. I used the Guitar, Music Notes and Records die and the Fifties Phrase #1 die.  

Then I cut my card base and layers.

Turquoise card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Red Layering Panel: 41/8" x 5 3/8"

White Image Pael: 4" x 5 1/4"

I attached the Happy phrase and stamped the birthday sentiment. 

To complete the front of the card, I attached the records, stars and music notes images. 

Now I am ready to start my card inside.

I started with decorating the four inside panels. I used the guitar image from the Fifties Phrases #2, the Jukebox die and the "you rock" phrase from the Fifties Phrases #1 die. I layered the images on white panels and then attached to a black rectangle panel. This will get attached to the pop-up mechanism. 

White Image Panels: 1 3/4" x 2 3/4"

Black rectangle panel: 8" x 3"

Next, I started on the pop-out mechanism. I cut a piece of white cardstock at 8" x 3 1/2". I scored it at 1 3/4" on the short side. then on the long side I put a tick mark at 2 1/4"& another at 5 3/4".

I used the scoring blade on my paper trimmer to make the next score lines. It's easier for me to line up at an angle on the paper trimmer. You score on both sides of this panel. Tick mark to tick mark.

When it's finished you will have an "X" pattern.

Then you pinch this panel in, so it forms a sort of arrow shape.

Then to attach this to the inside of the card you use a strong adhesive (I used Scor tape) and attach to the top and bottom of the triangle areas only. Then lay it inside the card at the top of the card and close it. The photo below shows the mechanism open without the image panels attached.
 

Now I am ready to attach my image panels to the mechanism. You use a strong adhesive- again I used Scor-tape on the bottom right and top left part of the mechanism only. Then the image panel is attached to the mechanism, and you fold and close it.

This is what it looks like when it's opened.

To finish off my card I added another sentiment and layered in red and black cardstock. 

Well, that's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday!

Here is a short video that shows the card open & close. 

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Dies I used to create card:  

2-for-1 Starburst Background... more Mother's Day Cards!

Hi everyone! Linh here and I have a new video up on the Cottage Cutz YouTube channel. This is a really fun 2-for-1 technique. The diagonally cut pattern papers are hand-cut without any special dies. It's really easy and you can quickly make two backgrounds.  Today I'm making a couple more Mother's day cards that are a bit more understated compared to my last Mother's Day card.

Click here to watch me make this card!

 

Hello Flowers

 Hello CottageCutz Friends,

I like to send cards to family and friends with no special occasion.  So today I thought I would make a card just to say hello and I am thinking of you!

The dies I used for today's card are from the new collection.  They are Flower 2, Flower 6 and Flower 7.  I decided to make a slimline to display these pretty flowers.

Designer Steps:

1.  Using the following dies Flower 2, Flower 6 and Flower 7 cut out these colors of card stock: yellow, orange, pink, dark pink, purple, light purple and 3 shades of green

2.  Use a Kraft slimline base measuring 3 1/4 x 8 1/4

• Use the Window Slimline and cut it out in black
• Use the Hello w/Shadow and cut out the hello in black 3 times
• Cut a piece of script designer paper 3 x 8

3.  Glue the 3 Hello's together.  Glue the black window frame to the designer script paper as shown above

4.  Glue the Hello and the purple flower in the middle window as shown above

5.  Glue the pink and yellow flowers as shown above

6.  Ink the edges of the kraft slimline card base in black 

7.  Glue the flower panel to the kraft card base.  Using the Spring Meadow die cut out 3 black butterflies.  Place 3 small pearls on each butterfly and then attach to the card front as shown below and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  And I will see you next Thursday.

Blessings and Take Care