Easy Deer Christmas Masculine Card

Happy Terrific Tuesday crafty friends! 

Melinda here with you today. I hope your Turkey day week is off to a great start. Can you believe it is going to be Thanksgiving this week?! Where is the time going?! Well, I need to get cracking on some Christmas/Holiday cards, so I decided to make this easy, masculine card. Take a look...

I started by applying the foliage to the patterned paper mat. I decided to use black for the leaves.

I then cut out a few of the trees and plain black cardstock. I glued them together to give them some great sturdiness.

I used my Spectrums Noir glitter marker to give my deer head some subtle, bling. Even though this is a 
"masculine" looking card, I think the glitter gave it a nice touch without making it "girly".

I colored the antlers with my gold marker. 

Here is my finished card. I layered the deer head onto the christmas tree. I then added the Merry Christmas tree's sentiment in kraft cardstock on the bottom of the tree. Overall a very eady and yet very effective card!

Merry Christmas Tree

Well that about covers it for today! Be sure to hit up CottageCutz.com for their fantastic 

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Until the next time, hae a wonderfully crafty day.

Melinda

Autumn friends Celebrate Thanksgiving

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.

It's new release time!!! We have our Christmas 2023 release in the online store that has 40 designs. It's an old-fashioned Christmas theme. You can pick up the individual dies at 30% off for a limited time.

We also have a new Fall 2023 release in the online store with 15 designs. You can also pick up these individual dies at 30% off for a limited time.

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring the new Autumn Friends and the Fall Tree dies. I created a slimline Thanksgiving card for a family that has 2 young boys. I thought the whimsical style would be a perfect card for them. So, let's get started with some details of how I created my card. 

Design Steps:

I started my card this week with the colors. I used the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #974. We were to use poppy parade, crushed curry, pecan pie and crumb cake for the color combination. Optional was anything goes. I chose the addition of blue for this part. 

poppy parade, crushed curry, pecan pie, crumb cake 

I cut the Autumn Friends images in the challenge colors plus a few allowed neutrals. 

For the Fall Tree, I wanted the look of the trees we see in PA in the Fall season.  So, I cut in white cardstock and blended barn door and fossilized amber distress inks to get a beautiful Fall color. I colored the 3 leaves with the same inks. These inks are a match for the Stampin'Up colors. 

Next, I chose this pattern of designer paper for the card background. I liked the blue sky and the sun rays. It's from a pack called "heavenly skies" (Divinity Designs) and they are sized for a slimline card at 6" x 9".  

I cut a white card base 4" x 9" and the designer paper is also 4" x 9" to cover the white card front. 

 I attached the designer paper to the card base. And cut a slope in the crumb cake shade using the Hills Slimline die. They are both attached with double sided tape. 

I attached my images with clear drying glue except for the Bear & Owl. I used dimensional adhesive to have lifted slightly off the card base. 

To complete the card, I cut a couple of clouds using the Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella die. I cut them from the leftover designer paper.  Stamped my Happy Thanksgiving sentiment and attached to the card base. 

That's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends. 

Reminder: Marla has a new video and a giveaway on the CottageCutz YouTube channel. Click here.

Space Rocket Santa Slider

Happy Friday friends! 

Kris here, share with you a slimline slider card featuring the Santa Space Rocket die.  And just a li'l reminder that all of the individual dies in our Christmas 2023 Release are 30% off for a limited time!  

Pull the slider to reveal an embossed message from Santa

DESIGN STEPS:

• Start with a light teal top folding card base cut at 9" x 8" and scored in half at 4".  

• Cut a darker teal mat at 8-3/4" x 3-3/4" and adhere to card front. 

• Using the largest of the Pinking Sheer Edge Slimline dies, cut (1) from dark teal and another from a snowflake design paper.  

  --Die cut trees from the Mountains & Trees Slimline die towards the bottom of the teal layer.  (Save the top portion for another project).  Add Snow Writer (puffy snow) to the trees and set aside to dry. 

  -- From the Snowflake layer,  figure out where you want your slider channel to be and die cut the smallest of the Nested Rectangle Slimline set. (You could also use the smallest from the Rounded Rectangle Slimline set if you have that!)   Die cut the end of the die from the short edge in line with your long cut out section as shown below. 

• Cut from thick white cardstock a slider tab that is 3/4" x 8".  Cut the same from Snowflake pattern paper and adhere on top.  

  --I used a tab punch to cut the end of the tab *optional

• Cut a stabilizer piece from white c.s. at 2-3/4" x 1/2" and loosely wrap around the tab as shown.  

• Lay your snowflake patterned paper onto card front and stamp your sentiment in VersaMark in the window and heat emboss with white e.p. 

• On the back of your snowflake layer, place tab towards edge where the opening is and glue the stabilizer down between the open edge and the slimline opening.  Add 1/8" foam strips very close around the pull tab.  

 --I also angled the other end of my tab to follow the tail of my rocket so that part of the slider wasn't showing.  *optional.

• Remove tape backing and adhere to card front.

• Die cut Santa Space Rocket from white c.s., color and assemble. 

• Place rocket towards right edge of card and glue a dimensional or slider disc to the pull tab right under the middle of the rocket.

• Die cut Merry Christmas w/ Friends ... add color or shading... adhere to card front.  

DONE!

 

~Kristine

Christmas Carolers

 Hello Friends 

Our new Christmas Release is available at a wonderful 30% off.  This collection has over 40 different dies.   It has everything you will need for your holiday paper crafting. Make sure to stop by the online store and check out all the fantastic new designs!

Today, I am using 3 of the new dies: Carolers, Vintage Gate and Vintage Lamp Post.   I am using a slimline card design to show off all these wonderful dies.

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Carolers die cut out the pieces in the following card stock colors: red, green, tan, brown, blue, black, flesh, and yellow gold.  For the Vintage Lamp Post die cut out the following colors of card stock: gray, yellow, green, red, white and yellow gold.  I used a copic marker on the faces to add a little more color and some blush.  Assemble the pieces with a fine tip glue.  Color in the eyes with a fine black marker and then a white dot with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen

2.  The base is a white 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 slimline.  Cut a piece of snowy DP 3 1/4 x 8 1/4, use the Hills Slimline die to cut the snow in white and finally cut the Vintage Gate in black

3.  Glue the DP blue snowy background to the white card base next add the gate and then the snow

4.  Glue the Vintage Lamps to either side of the gate as shown above

5.  Add the caroler and your sentiment and your card is complete

We have more inspiration on our YouTube Channel check it out HERE

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

Blessings and Take Care