Sweet New Baby!

Good Morning!

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! It is Pam sharing one of our recently released baby dies.  And I am pairing it with a new release Expressions Word die.  The baby dies make such sweet cards it is hard for me to give them away!

Design Steps:

1.  Use an A2 white card base.  Cut two pieces of designer paper 5 x 3 3/4 and stagger them then glue  to the front as shown

 2.  Using orange, white, grey and blue DP cut out the Cottage Cutz Stork with Baby

3.  Use copic markers to add highlights and color baby's face.  Glue all the pieces together

 4.  Cut the Cottage Cutz Tea Time Doily out of white card stock and cut DP with the Cottage Cutz Cross Stitched Circle die then glue together

 5.  Put dimensional squares on the back of the stork and pop it to the center of the circle

6.  On white card stock using Cottage Cutz Expressions Plus Sweet die, cut out the word sweet three times and glue them together

7.  Glue the word sweet to the card and stamp new baby in blue ink mat then glue under sweet

Cottage Cutz Products

I hope you give this card a try.  It was simple and fun plus you could make a girl or a boy baby card just by changing up the papers!

Blessings and Thanks for Stopping By!

Pam

Elegant Wedding Card

Hello friends. It's Janet from SugarShine Designs. I hope you are having a great week! It's the middle of the summer wedding season so I thought I'd make a wedding card using some beautiful CottageCutz dies you can find in the store. Click below for the video tutorial showing how this comes together.

This is a 5" square card that features the Bride & Groom die on the front in holographic white card stock. I just love this simple but beautiful lacy die that is so smart, it cuts out the groom's bow tie so it can stand out. Very elegant! The couple is attached to a 4.75" square black embossed card stock that is lifted off of the card base with a 4.5" square of fun foam. This is a great way to get a little lift but not make it so thick that it can't be mailed. Across the couple, I placed another die called Tweet Love. It includes the Love sentiment and also two "tweet" little birds. I thought the birds were too big for my design but they are cute! I saved them to decorate the envelope. As a substitute, you could choose the new Love Expressions die or give it a slightly different twist by picking Celebrate, Adore, Dream, Cherish, etc. The pretty script in those dies would match the elegant feel of this card perfectly. To finish the front, I used three metallic flower sequins and white gems.

Inside I used the largest square from the Stitched Square set and added the lacy Balloon Bouquet die in the same white holographic paper as the Bride & Groom on the front. The balloon die is super versatile. It would work for any elegant celebration from birthdays, parties, weddings and anniversaries.

Thanks for joining me today. I'll see you soon with another video tutorial!

Janet

Dies used in this project:

Prayers

Hi, Lois here with my card for today, which could cover several needs.  I am part of a group of ladies at my church called Prayer Angels.  We each pick a name of one of the group out of a hat and become that person's "Prayer Angel."  We offer prayers for her throughout the year and send cards of encouragement.  A card similar to this one would fill the bill perfectly.  Or . . . it could be used as a sympathy card.   Unfortunately, we all need those occasionally.  I used three different CottageCutz dies on this card, including one of the new Expressions Plus dies.

To begin my card I cut a piece of purple cardstock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scoring it at 4 1/4".  I also cut a piece of green cardstock 4" x 5 1/4" and a piece of coordinating pattern paper 3 7/8" x 5 1/8".

Then I cut the cross/vine, the Prayers phrase, and the rounded rectangle panel from various colored cardstock.

Using Ranger Distress inks (Bundled Sage and Antique Linen) as well as a dark yellow Copic marker, I added some dimension to the die-cuts.

I then constructed my cross and vine, attaching the flowers with mini brads.

Because I was going to stamp an additional sentiment in black ink, I decided to shadow my "Prayers" Expressions Plus sentiment with black.  To make the adherence process easier, I had run the panels of cardstock through my Xyron X sticker maker prior to cutting out the words.

I then stamped the small sentiment in the lower right-hand corner of the pale green rectangle, added the cross/vine, which were popped up with foam tape, and constructed the rest of my card.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

Dream under the Stars

Hi!

It's Anja here. I'm a big fan of camping. Always was, always will be :) I would easily trade a five star hotel for sleeping under the stars. I hope I will be able to go camping for a few more days this summer.  And here is my camping card.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Campfire Clothesline, Dream Phrase, Grass Tress & Vines, Pierced Circle Set, Spring Bunny w/ Flowers),
- Distress Inks (Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Black Soot, Stormy Sky, Seedless Preserves, Fired Brick, Walnut Stain, Wild Honey, Forest Moss),

- Craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock square (14,6x14,6 cm),

- watercolor paper (two 14,2x14,2 cm squares),

- white card stock for die cuts,

- white acrylic paint,

- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the backgrounds. I used Distress Inks. I shaded the first one from outside in and the second one from bottom to top. I started with lighter colors and then added darker shades. Over the black I shaded with blue and purple again.

Then I sprinkled a few water drops over the colored background and made some little stars with the brush and white acrylic paint.

When the backgrounds were drying I die cut all the other pieces, colored and glue them together.

I colored the pieces as usually and them shaded them with Walnut Stain Distress Ink to make them look darker around the edges.

In the end I just glued all the pieces together. The tent in the front and all the camping equipment inside the card.

Have a nice Sunday.

Anja Z.