Birthday Die Cut Banner

Happy Wonderful Wednesday crafty friends!

Melinda here with you. I hope your mid-week/hump day is going fantastic so far! Today I am sharing a fun little birthday banner I created with some beautiful cottage cutz dies! Here's what I created.

I made this pretty little mini birthday banner to celebrate a co-worker's birthday. 

I started by cutting out my scalloped ovals from white cardstock. I then used my double stitched ovals to cut out a size smaller some patterned paper. 

I then glued the patterned paper to my scalloped bases for mats.

I then cut out all of my various die cuts n white cardstock and then colored my various pieces in in a variety of shades of pink. Here I am coloring in my Happy letters.

The following are closeups of each little panel I created.

For this one I used my Happy Birthday Shadow die along with the pretty filigree bow die.

For this one I used the Folk Art Butterfly and the Folk Art Mixed flowers. For the butterfly, I cut out two of them and layered them onto each other and then lifted the top layer to give the illusion of the butterfly in a side view.

For this one, I used the swirl cupcake die cut.

For this panel, I used the Folk Art Mixed Flowers die set. I actually created two panels like this one. 

Here is a view of the little banner hanging from my desk. In between each panel I added a little strng of beads and then some tulle. I strung it all on some thin white ribbon.

Folk Art Flowers Mixed

Spring Butterflies

Fligree Bow

Cupcake w/ Twists

Happy Birthday w/Shadow

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Double Stitched Oval Set

Nested Scallop Oval Set

Well that about covers it for today. I hope you were inspired to have some fun and pick up some of these wonderful dies!

Don't forget to check back often and see what the rest of the design team is creating. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Paper Snowflake Ornaments 2-Ways

Hello!  Welcome back to a new crafty week here at the Scrapping Cottage!  

Kris here to share 2 different styles of paper snowflake ornaments that feature the Folk Art Bear and the Peace & Joy Wreath!  I figured since today's the last day to create a Christmas in July project I would jump on that bandwagon  ☺ 

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They are both easy to make, however the 2nd took a bit longer and needed more explanation, so I did a quick 5 min. video on part of that one.  

DESIGN STEPS for the PINK SNOWFLAKE

1.  Cut 6 pieces of 4" x 4" paper (patterned or solid... not too heavy) and fold them all in half on the diagonal.

2.  Measure 1 cm (or about 1/2") on the 2 sides perpendicular to the fold and draw a light pencil line to connect as shown below.  

3.  Make 6 equal cuts up to the drawn line.  Then erase your pencil line.

3.  Open up your square, and starting at the top, bring the top 2 flaps together in front, overlapping them and glue to adhere.  (You could use small staples instead to make it go quicker.)

(See next 2 photos)

4.  SKIP the next set of flaps and glue the 3rd set and 5th sets.

5.  Flip it over and glue the remaining flaps together.  You should have something that looks like this...

6.  Make 5 more!

7.  Alternate the colors (if you used 2 patterns or shades of double sided papers) then staple 3 of them at the base as shown below.

8.  Repeat with the other 3 pieces, then staple the 2 halves together to make a whole snowflake!

9.  Die cut a Nested Stitched Doily in pink and the Folk Art Bear in white, magenta, teal, and the muzzle in grey.  Assemble and pop her onto the doily with foam tape.

10.  Glue doily onto front of ornament.

DESIGN STEPS for the TEAL SNOWFLAKE ORNAMENT:

1.  Cut (2) strips that are 1 cm x 30 cm and glue them end to end.  

2.  Wrap around a cylinder that is about the size of your mini glue bottle, or the plastic lid of the Stampin' Mist etc. adding glue every so often so it holds in place and especially at the end of your roll. 

The rest of the steps to this snowflake ornament are in the video below.  If it doesn't play for you, you can see it on YouTube here - https://youtu.be/vOY3Ptw3q6c

3.  Cut 3 strips that are: 

11 cm x 1 cm

9 cm x 1 cm

7 cm x 1 cm

(you'll need to make 8 total)

4.  Cut (1) strip 21 cm x 1 cm

(2) 19 cm x 1 cm

(2) 18 cm x 1 cm

(2) 16 cm x 1 cm

(you'll need 8 total)

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I hope that was easy to follow & that I've inspired someone out there to give it a go!
Happy crafting! 
~Kristine

Trifold Miura Card

Hello crafters!  

It's Kris here, sharing with you the Saturday edition of our blog with a fun fold card featuring our Folk Art collection.

This card style was a first for me... it's called a Freestanding Trifold Miura card.  I will say in all honesty, this card does have that wow factor as most fun folds do, however I found it a li'l fussy to get it to stand up on it's own.  The trick is to not stretch it out while displaying it... try to keep it half-way folded.  

I choose some beautiful Fall papers (Doodlebug Design) to use with the Folk Art Fox and Folk Art Butterfly and Folk Art Trees.  

CUTTING:

Card Base (Lemon-Lime Green) = 10-1/2" x 5-1/2"

Patterned Paper #1 (Leaves) = (cut 2) 5-1/4" x 3-1/4"

Patterned Paper #2 (Plaid) = (cut 2) 3-1/4" x 1-3/4" 

White cardstock = 5-1/4" x 3-1/4"

DESIGN STEPS:

Card Base--

--  Score along the 10-1/2" side at 3-1/2" and 7"

-- On the 3-1/2" score line, measure down 2" and place a pencil mark.  Score from the top left corner of card down to the 2" mark.  Score again from that 2" mark up to the top of the 7" score line.

-- Turn cardstock 180 degrees and repeat Step #2

-- Fold and burnish on score lines so that one "V" folds back and the other folds inside the card.  

** Below is a pic of the back side of my base, just to show you better where the score and tick marks are  (I didn't want to draw on the front side) 

-- With patterned paper #1 vertical, measure down the right side and place a pencil mark at 2".  CUT diagonally from that 2" mark up to the top left corner.

**IF your pattern has a random pattern like mine, you can repeat the same process with the other patterned paper #1 piece.  

**IF your pattern has a definite up and down pattern, you will need to cut the OPPOSITE angle to fit the right side of card.

6.  Adhere to card sections as pictured.

-- With white piece vertical, measure down 2" on right side and place a mark. CUT from that 2" mark up to top left corner.  

-- Turn 180 degrees and repeat.  Adhere to center of card.

-- With pattern #2 vertical, CUT diagonally from top left corner to bottom right corner.  

-- On the 2nd one, CUT from top right corner to bottom left corner.  (Even if the 2 pattern pieces are the same pattern, you will need to cut opposite diagonals.)  

--Adhere to triangle sections on card base.

-- Die cut Folk Art Butterfly , the Folk Art Fox and Folk Art Trees and assemble.

-- I decided I wanted something for the fox to stand on to break up the patterned paper a bit so I cut a piece of woodgrain paper to 3-1/4" x 4" and followed the same instructions (measured 2" and cut diagonally to the corner) and then I die cut the top with the Hills Slimline die.

-- I chose some stamps and stamped a couple of them following the angles of the papers ☺  Hello Beautiful and Just a note are from the Butterfly Gala set (SU!) and the You Foxy Thing came from Foxy Thing stamp set (La-La Land Crafts).

Thank you so much for looking!  I hope you are inspired to get crafty with your favorite CottageCutz dies!

~Kristine

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