Thinking of You Garden Ladder

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today and I have a thinking of you card today that features the Garden Ladder die from the new release.  This die creates such a sweet scene with it's variety of accessories  that it can be used for many occasions.

To start my card I cut most of the pieces from white cardstock.  I cut the ladder and birdhouse roof and hole from a medium brown.  Then I used blending brushes and sponges to color the pieces.  I chose two shades of green, a soft blue and soft lavender.

I created shading on the ladder by masking off the front legs and supports, then shading with Walnut stain ink.  I used that and Vintage photo to also shade the other pieces.

I cut three panels for my card front - 2 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch panel from a patterned paper, 2 7/8 x 5 1/2 inch panel from dark brown cardstock and a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch panel from vanilla cardstock.

I ran the vanilla through a script embossing folder to mirror the light script design on the patterned paper.  Using Distress Oxide ink I aged the edges of all the panels and assembled them keeping the left edges flush.

I glued the ladder to the far left panel using a clear ruler to keep the top of the ladder straight.

Next I worked on the sentiment strip.  The photo above shows the front and back.  I heat foiled the sentiment in Espresso foil to a half inch wide strip and then inked the edges with the Walnut Stain ink.  Since I had a built up panel on the left side of the card, I added a small scrap to the back right side of my strip.  When I glue this down the strip will sit more evenly on the card.

After gluing down the strip and accessories, I used a little linen thread and a rhinestone to finish it off.  The panel is glued to an A2 card base.

Dies used:

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

Planter Box

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

It is Pam sharing with you on the blog today!

I am using several different dies today to create this little garden card.  Plus some fun designer paper and ribbon.  Hope you can play along with me today!

Design Steps:

 1.  Using the Planter Box & Seeds die plus the Garden Tools die cut all pieces out of white card stock

 2.  Color the pieces using Tim Holtz inks and a sponge applicator.  Assemble the pieces using a fine tip glue

 3. Use a white A2 card base, Yellow card stock cut to 4 x 5 1/4 and Green checked DP cute 3 3/4 x 5.   Cut 2 yellow squares and 1 rectangle square using the Pierced Square and Pierced Rectangle dies.  Layer the squares and rectangle onto white card stock

 4.  Glue the checked DP to the yellow card stock layer.  Glue the yellow retangle and squares to their white layer then arrange onto the DP

 5.  Add the ribbon to the checked DP as shown.  Put pop dots onto the back of the squares and retangle then adhere to the check DP

6.  Add the die cut planter box, seeds, and tools to the squares and rectangle as shown.  Glue to the white card base.  To finish add the sentiment and rhinestones

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you are enjoying this release as much as I am there are a ton of different uses for these dies!

Blessings and see you next Thursday!

Pam

Happy Father's Day!

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing a Father's Day card for my design team post. I went with a simple look for this masculine card.

The paper I selected is from my stash and is the perfect compliment to the outdoor scene.  The die cuts are from the Cottage Cutz Lawnmower and Clouds & Sun die sets.

The grass mound on my card was fussy cut out of patterned paper and adhered onto the card base.  The clouds were floated above.

The sun was tucked into the upper right hand corner of my card.  The lawnmower was then added as the focal point.

The "Happy Father's Day" sentiment was stamped on a hand cut flag and adhered on the grass mound.

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

Herb Garden

Hi Janja here. Welcome to the blog today.
I don’t know about you, but I adore fresh kitchen herbs myself. I combined some dies and made a card with herb garden.

- CottageCutz dies: Planter Box & Seeds, Flower Power Tomte, Gardening Cat (basket), Square Set, Cross-Stitched Square Set
- blank card: 5 5/16 x 5 5/16" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- patterned paper: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8" (13 x 13 cm)
- kraft cardstock: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 " (13 x 13 cm)
- different colors of cardstock
- different colors of ink pads
- glue, double-sided adhesive tape, self-adhesive foam pads

First die-cut all the pieces for main image out from different colors of cardstock. Shade all cutouts with ink pads.

Later, I stamped the names of the kitchen herbs on the sign and added a birdhouse to the top.

Trim three squares. Using two square dies, cut out two frames. Glue both frames together. Paste a small square to the back of the frame.

Start assembling the card. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Janja

Welcome To The Tomte Garden

Hi!

It's Anja here. For today's post I made a lovely scene, using the new Tomte dies. I combined both and this is the final result.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Flower Power Tomte, Gardening Tomte, Hollow Tree w/ Forest Friends),
- Distress Inks,
- white card base (10,5x15 cm),
- silver pigment ink,
- black pen,
- white pen,
- plastic stencil (clouds),
- brush,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored both tomtes and all the other accessories.

Next I colored the tree and the mushrooms. I used white pen for the mushrooms.

I didn't have a sentiment stamp to fit the wooden sign. So I wrote on it with a black pen.

Last I did the background. I used the technique I like the most. Clouds with a plastic stencil and green Distress Ink for the grassy ground.

Then I just added tomtes, the tree and all the other small pieces and my card was done.

That's all from me for today. Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card: