So Berry Sweet

Hi my crafty friends! Today a I have a bonus slimline card featuring the "Strawberry Girl" and the "Berry Phrases" dies from the new "Strawberries and Bees" release available now in the Scrapping Cottage. For a limited time, you can purchase the individual dies at a 30% discount.

For my card today, I began by die cutting all of my images from Neenah Solar White Classic Crest card stock. I paired the "Ice Cream Truck" and the "Nested Stitched Doilies" from previous releases, to help create a mini scene. Instead of using my Copic markers today, I chose to ink blend the images with my Distress Inks. Here is a list of the colors I used:

Festive Berries, Picked Raspberries, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Tea Die and Vintage Photo.

The "Ice Cream Truck" comes with little hearts for the sign, but to tie in the berry theme, I added the small strawberries from the "Strawberry Cottage" die and the larger strawberry from "Strawberries w/ Mouse" die. I had a few left over from another project coming soon to the CottageCutz YouTube Channel. I die cut my sentiment from the same white cardstock and chose not to color it to keep the focus on the scene.

The finished card is an odd size. My scene didn't quite fit on a mini slimline card base and it was too small for a full size slim. Therefore, I created a custom base of 3.5" x 7.5". I can easily create an envelope using my envelope punchboard or simply put it in a number #10 envelope.

That completes my card. I hope you will head over to the CottageCutz YouTube Channel and subscribe, so you don't miss any of my upcoming projects.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time Marla

dies I used to create card:

Bee Happy - Spinner Card

Happy Saturday friends! 

Kris here with a fun interactive card!  Have you gotten your hands on this ADORABLE Strawberries & Bees Release yet?!  It's so fun to piece together and make really fun cards....and they're all 30% off for a limited time 😀

I've used the cute Bee Gnome and the Bee Phrases to create this fun spinner card!

How I made it:

1.  I cut a piece of thick white cardstock 11" x 5-1/2" and scored it at 5-1/2" to make a square card base and set it aside.

*Next... if you already have some honeycomb papers - Great!  I did not, so I used some paper stencils.

2.  I cut 2 pieces of 80 lb. white cardstock:  the first one 5-1/4" square and the second 5" square.

3.  I sponged wild honey distress oxide ink with a honeycomb stencil onto the 5-1/4" square

4.  I sponged salty ocean distress oxide ink with a larger honeycomb stencil onto the 5" square.

5.  I die-cut my Bee Gnome and Bee Phrases  from white cardstock and colored with Copics.

6.  I laid (most of) my images onto the blue honeycomb piece and figured out my placement for the spinner.  Then I laid the 2nd and 3rd smallest dies from the Nested Wacky Stitched Circles die set onto the upper middle part of the card and taped them with a low-tack tape and removed the die-cut elements before cutting.  

7.  Next, I needed a small circle that is bigger than the opening for spinner, so I die-cut the smallest from the Pierced Wide Circle Frame die set  and I used the very center circle that was cut from the middle of that die.  (see photo below).

8.  I sponged that small circle with the wild honey distress oxide ink so it would blend in with the paper showing thru the channel, and glued a tiny spinner element to the middle of it.  If you don't have that, you could use a tiny button or stack 2 circle foam dots together.... as long as it's round and smaller than the spinner channel. (see photo below)

***Note:  this is the same concept as the penny spinner, however, a penny will show thru the channel as it's larger than the largest bee in these sets, so if you want to add weight,  you can add a magnet or washer, maybe even a dime? (I didn't try that) etc. to the back of your yellow circle which will help it spin better!  ☺

9.  Next, I added foam strips to the back of the blue cardstock (around all edges and some pieces closer to the circle opening, but not too close that it prevents the circle spinner from passing) and center circle piece and adhered to the yellow honeycomb piece.

10.  I placed the spinner circle piece in between the 2 blue layers as shown above and added a tiny bit of glue to the top of the white spinner and centered my bee onto it.  

11.  I glued the sentiment and white honeycomb grouping to the blue layer, and popped everything else up with foam dots.

12.  Lastly, I adhered that whole piece onto my white card base, making sure there's equal amount of white border all around and Voilà!!  

PRODUCTS I USED:

     

    

I hope I've inspired you to try this or your own creation using the new

Strawberries & Bees release!

~Kristine

Sweet Wishes

 Hello Friends,

It is Pam creating with you today!

The new release is just plain adorable.  It is called Strawberries and Bees perfect for those fun summertime cards. There are 16 designs in this new collection and you can get the individual dies for 30% off right now! This sale will not last so shop today to get the incredible savings.

Here is my card using the new release die Strawberry Gnome Girl!

Design Steps:

1.  Cut all the pieces using the Strawberry Gnome Girl die and the following colors of card stock: green, blue, black, tan, red, and white

2.  Shade the hands and nose with a pink ink and a small applicator.  Assemble the pieces with a fine tip, fast drying glue

3.  Use an A2 white card stock base and cut a piece of black 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, cut checked black and white DP 4 x 5 1/4 and finally use the second from the largest Scalloped Rectangle die cut on white.  Stamp the sentiment in black ink on the white rectangle as shown above

4.  Glue the black card stock to the white base, glue the checked DP to the black.  Wrap the scalloped rectangle with black and white twine and glue dot a bow to the twine just slightly off center as shown above.  Pop the whole rectangle onto the center of the card front.  Pop dot the little gnome to the card as shown and then add a few black pearls and some yellow Stickles to the center of the flowers

5.  I decided to add a little decoration to the inside of the card.  Cut a piece of black card stock 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, piece of white 4 x 5 1/4 and a strip of checked DP 4 x 1.  Cut the vine using the Strawberry die and white, green and red card stock. Assemble the vine 

6.  Glue the black card stock inside of the card.  Stamp the sentiment to the white card stock as shown. Then glue the white on top of the black. Glue the checked strip to the left side of the card and add the strawberry vine.  Add some yellow Stickles to the white flowers and your card is complete

CottageCutz Products

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

Blessings and Take Care

Hey Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahdin Krafts, back with another  CottageCutz YouTube  video on the CottageCutz Channel.  This week, I am sharing a "Berry Sweet" flowered layered card.  

For this card I used several dies from the new "Strawberries & Bees Release", this release is so adorable I can't wait to keep creating with it!

Please head over to the channel and watch my video to learn how I created this fun project, also enter for a chance to win the "Flowers" die!  
The winner of the "Build an Ice Cream Cone" die from my last video is Funtography_makes, you can find all the details on the YouTube Channel!

Christmas in July Card and Sale Reminder

Happy TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you today. If you are one that celebrates the 4th of July, I hope you had a wonderful holiday yesterday! Mine was low key...just the way I like it! So today I am sharing a card featuring a Christmas in July theme. While I wait for the fantastic new Strawberries & Bees release! release to hit my doorstep, I thought I would share a project featuring some dies that are ON SALE RIGHT NOW!  Here's my project.

I created a scallop edged open faced box card. Here is a view of it standing open and looking straight on. The back panel is 4.25 x 5.5. So it is an A4 size.

Here's a quick little video showing what the finished card looks like.

Here's a view with it facing to my left.

Here's a view with it facing to my right. I started by creating my base in Adobe Illustrator and converting it into an SVG for my electronic machine. I also cut out mats for the background and the side panels. I covered the inside with my patterned paper and covered the outside panels with my patterned paper.

Next, I went to work creating the "base". I cut out a strip of 1.5" x 11" white cardstock. With the 11" along the horizontal plane, I scored my paper at .75" and then at 5.25" and then at 6" and then 10.25"

I started by folding one flap up and then gluing the first .75 score flush with that side panel and the bottom.

For the other side, I cut a piece of .75 x 1.5 cardstock from some scrap. I glued that piece the same as the other, flush with the other side and base. I am using this piece as a guide only to know where to glue the next fold that is on the strip. See the photo below.

I continued by gluing the next .75" piece to that side. I have one more strip of 4.25 and the last little piece to glue. For that last one, I folded it back in so that it would be flush with the other, very first piece glued. Hopefully that makes sense.

Once I got the base glued in place, I cut out a piece of my patterned paper at 1.5 x 4.25. I wanted to cover the white cardstock with matching paper. This shot also shows you how the inside looks after I glued them in. You can also see that folding that last little flap back seats the little box part well within the side panels. This gives it a nice clean look.

Next, I went to work die cutting all my pieces. I cut out several of the double stitched ovals. The largest in white, the next largest in cream x2 and then the next one down in cream. I layered the largest white and the next one down cream together. I then used the beautiful Farmhouse Floral to cut and create my can and floral arrangement. Once I colored all my pieces, I layered then into the can. I added a little thin twine bow for a little extra touch.

For the sentiment, I glued the Merry Christmas sentiment onto a couple layers of the double stitched ovals dies. I added one of the poinsettias for a little extra pizzazz and added a red dew drop to its center.

It is hard to tell, but it does "fold flat" in case you want to mail it. If you do, then you may want to lower the floral arrangement so it will fit into a standard A4 envelope.

Dies I Used

Christmas Farmhouse Floral

Merry Christmas W/Shadow

Double-Stitched Oval Set

Don't forget about the great sale happening until the 6th!

Make sure you head over to the CottageCutz YouTube channel and check out all of the amazing projects on there. Our video team is doing a wonderful job of filling the channel with all sorts of creative content! You don't want to miss it!

Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran