Love My Cat

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

It is Pam sharing with you on the blog today!

As I was telling you a couple of Thursdays ago I have a lot of spring and summer birthdays.  My sister and I both have July birthdays.  She is such an animal lover.  She lives in a very rural area so she is constantly feeding any little critter that comes in her yard especially during the cold winter days.  She also has a way of picking up stray or ferral cats.  She has quite a family of both indoor and outdoor cats and she dearly loves them all! So the card I am making today is for her birthday.

Design Steps:

1.  Use a slimline kraft card base, use your Nested Rectangle Slimline dies to create your red layer,  then cut a piece of plaid DP  5 2/4 x 3 1/8 and a piece of cat name DP 3 1/8 x 3.  Cut out your cat using the Cat w/a Spring Bird

2.  Shade your cat using a brown ink and small applicator then assemble it with a fine tip glue.  Ink in the eyes with a Sukura Black Glaze pen and then dot it with Sukura White Gelly Roll pen

3.  Glue the two different DP to the red card stock as shown.  Add a knotted ribbon where the two DP meet and glue to the kraft card base

4.  Using your Pierced Oval 4th from the largest cut out a dark brown oval.  Glue the oval to the card as shown.  Next place pop dots to the back of the cat and pop it to the center of the oval

5.  Using the Love My Dog, Love My Cat die cut out 3 Love My in dark brown and glue them together,  cut out 3 red and dark brown hearts with paws and place pop dots on the back of them

6.  Glue the Love My to the top of the card and add the little paw hearts as shown and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have time to get crafty and stop in our store to look at all of the wonderful dies we have just waiting for you!

Blessings and Take Care

Pam

Celebrating Your Love

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have a bridal shower card to share for my design team day.  With wedding season upon us, I went for a simple but elegant card to celebrate the special occasion.

The new Nested Rectangles Slimline was used to cut out the floral rectangle for my card base.  I also used the Nested Stitched Scallop Oval Set for the white oval and the umbrella is from the Spring Showers Buddies.  I added a few pearls to the umbrella to give it bridal look.

The floral rectangle base was layered on top of a white card stock background for some contrast.  I adhered a strip of coordinating paper on top to break up the floral pattern.

Next, I heat embossed a sentiment inside the oval with some gold embossing powder to give my card an elegant look.

The oval was adhered to my card base with the umbrella inside at a slight angle.

A few more coordinating pearls were sprinkled inside the oval for the final finishing touch on my card.

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

A Cupcake for Your Birthday

It's time for another Throwback Tuesday!  It's Jeanne here today and I have a fun birthday card fusing a die from the 2019 Birthday release combined with the new Slimline dies.  These new dies are a great way to give variety to your card layouts!

I started with a card sketch from Splitcoatstampers that I rotated 90 degrees.  Card sketches are a great way to save time when creating.  Sometime I use them exactly, and other times they are a great starting point.

Next I chose papers and ribbon to get my colors.  The fun thing about this little mouse is that by changing up the colors you can make it more for a younger or older recipient, male or female.  I wanted mine to be very bright for a child so I went with this rainbow stripe paper.

I stamped my sentiment on a strip cut with the smallest of the Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline dies.  Further contributing to the throwback theme I found some small old wooden alphabet stamps.  These worked perfectly to make the "Happy Birthday" sentiment.  I placed my die on my cardstock and drew a light pencil line around the outside edge.   I stamped my sentiment before cutting it out so I could adjust the placement and make sure it was centered.  Stamping at random angles adds to the casual, happy feel and is more forgiving than if I had tried to line up all the stamps!

My background paper is cut using the largest of the Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline dies and I used the Stitched Circle and Nested Stitched Scallop Circle dies to give focus to my mouse.  She is cut from scraps and popped up using foam dots.

I love some bling, so I added some rhinestones to the final card.  Be sure to visit the online store where the new Slimline Release is on sale for a limited time!

Dies used:

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Burger Time

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have a burger card for you today. My inspiration was homemade burgers we made for friends visit yesterday. So on today's menu is the paper version.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Build-A-Burger, Windows Slimline),

- Distress Inks,

- white card base (10x21 cm), 

- green card stock for background (9,5x21 cm) and die cuts,

- patterned paper for background (9x21 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts, 

- white paper for printing,

- printer,

- adhesive foam pads,

- paper glue. 

 

First I cut and colored the burger and the fries.

Next I cut background paper and the windows. I cut for windows pieces, one from dark green cardstock and three from white. I wanted to give the windows more dimension. I also left two cut rectangles to glue inside of two windows.  

Then I printed the sentiment and cut it out with the banner die. I also cut one in green.

When all the pieces were ready I glued the card together. I used adhesive foam pads to glue the banner in the middle window. And my card was done. 

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

Anja Z.

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used:

To My Favorite Gnomie

Happy Saturday!  It's Jeanne today with a card for you and your favorite gnomie.  I love the new Slimline dies - they offer such fun options for card layout.  I've used dies from both Slimline and Spring release on this card.

To begin this card I cut the gnomes and flowers from white cardstock using the Bunny Gnome 1, Bunny Gnome 3, and Spring Bloom Cottage dies from the Spring release.  I used Distress Oxide ink to colors the images.

I cut the back panel using the largest of the Nested Rectangle dies and the scalloped panel using the largest of the Scalloped Stitched Rectangle dies.

For the scene panels I cut two rectangles from white and a green pattern using the third largest of the Nested Rectangle dies, and a frame with the Windows die.

I made a stencil with the Cloud dies to ink the blended sky.  For my ground, I cut a gentle curve using the Hills dies on the green patterned paper. 

 I then assembled all the layers and stamped my sentiment in the center panel.

After all my panels were assembled I added my gnomes and a few 3D flowers.  A fun card to let friends know you care!

I hope you've enjoyed my card today!  Be sure to visit the online store where the Slimline dies are on sale right now for a limited time!  Slimline cards are really on trend and now is a great time time to add to your stock of basic dies!

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Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!