God Keeps His Promises

Happy Tuesday crafty friends,

I hope your summer day is going well. Boy has it been hot here in Central florida.  Of course the best way to beat the heat is to stay inside and do some crafting! Today I am sharing a fun little home decor piece I made with some of the new CottageCutz.com files. Here is what I created.

I created this fun little home decor piece. I picked up this little stand from the dollar store. I decorated it with all kinds of die cuts from CottageCutz.com. I cut them all out in white and then used my chalks and markers to color everything in.

Holiday Front Door

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Monday edition of the Blog. I am filling in for Kristine today who is enjoying some family time this week. She will be back next week with a couple of posts. 

Our new Folk Art release is still available in the online store at 35% off individual dies. There are 19 new designs that are so perfect for cardmaking, journaling, and scrapbooking.

They allow you to add a beautiful touch of folk art to whatever you may be creating - birthday, thank-you, new home, thinking of you and even Christmas. The design team has featured many creative ideas using these dies so take a look back at our posts for inspiration.

Today I am featuring a card that I made for the Christmas in July color challenge #956 on Splitcoaststampers. We were to use cherry cobbler, pool party and old olive for our color trio. 

pool party, cherry cobbler, old olive

I used the Holiday Door (Christmas 2022 collection) die for my card and cut in the challenge colors.  I ink blended the pool party cardstock to get a deeper shade of blue. My sentiment is an older die from 2018 -  Christmas Greetings.

The background designer paper is from a "tidings of Christmas" collection.

That's it for me for this post. See you again on Saturday.

card details:

Paper: cherry cobbler, old olive, pool party, sahara sand, mossy meadow, tidings of Christmas dsp (Stampin' Up), glass slipper, sugar daddy (BazzillBasics)

Paper Size: A2

Ink: tumbled glass distress ink (Ranger)

Accessories: holiday door die, christmas greetings die (CottageCutz)

Paper: cherry cobbler, old olive, pool party, sahara sand, mossy meadow, tidings of Christmas dsp (Stampin' Up), glass slipper, sugar daddy (BazzillBasics)

Paper Size: A2

Ink: tumbled glass distress ink (Ranger)

Accessories: holiday door die, christmas greetings die (CottageCutz)

Folk Art Rooster Thank You

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.

Our new Folk Art release is still available in the online store at 35% off individual dies. There are 19 new designs that are so perfect for cardmaking, journaling, and scrapbooking.

They allow you to add a beautiful touch of folk art to whatever you may be creating - birthday, thank-you, new home, thinking of you and even Christmas. The design team has featured many creative ideas using these dies so take a look back at our posts for inspiration.

 Today, I am featuring the new Folk Art Rooster die as a thank you card. A friend of ours gave my hubby a bougainvillea plant that he was looking for and not willing to pay the exorbitant price that the nurseries were asking for. She found one that need some tender loving care and gave it to him. He has quite the green thumb and it's already looking good.  So, he wanted to send her a card to express his thanks. 

Card Details:

I started my card with the card colors. I had this designer paper that I thought would make a great background. It has a folk-art appeal to it.

Navy panel: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper: 4" x 5 1/4"

Then I cut the rooster in navy and red colors. 

I was originally going to make this a fun fold card but I changed my mind at some point and just made it a double arrow card. To make the arrows I cut navy cardstock at 3" x 4".  Then on the 3" side I scored at the 1" point. On the 4" side, I made a mark at 2".

I lined it up as you see in the photo and scored. Then turn and score from the tick mark to the other edge of score line. 

When the scoring is done, use your bone folder to burnish and fold into the arrow shape. 

To attach to the designer paper, you add adhesive to the flap. I used double sided tape. 

Then attach the arrow shapes to your designer paper. 

Now I am ready to stamp my image panel. I found this die cut shape with a navy blue edging from a card kit in my stash and decided to use it as a frame for my rooster.  I stamped the thank you sentiment in navy ink and attached the rooster with dimensional adhesive. 

I attached the image panel to the card base. It was at this point I decided not to make this a fun fold card. It was going to be a free-standing card and I didn't want that, and I also couldn't get the bottom arrow panel to tuck in like I wanted. So, I lifted the designer paper from the navy panel and added it to a card base measuring 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". 

I stamped and decorated this panel that was originally going to be under the front image panel flap. I used a couple of flowers from the Folk Art Flowers die. 

That's it for me for this week. I hope I have given you an idea for a way to use this cute Rooster die. See you next Saturday.

Reminder: There is a new video on our YouTube channel from Marla Harris. Click here to see a beautiful Christmas in July card using the Folk Art dies. 

Just Because

 Hello Friends

It is Pam crafting with you today!

Today, I am making a few Just Because cards.  I love sending cards to friends and family for no reason at all!  Many times people tell me when they received the surprise in the mail it was perfect timing.  Because their day wasn't going very well! So with that in mind I made this card with the folksy art look and bright colors to brighten someone's day!

I am using the Folk Art Bird and the Folk Art Flowers Mixed.  These dies are from our Folk Art release!  There are 19 wonderfully detailed dies in this collection.  Each die can be used together or separately.  They are perfect for multiple occasions.  

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Folk Art Bird and the Folk Art Flowers Mixed cut out the following colors of card stock: red, orange, green, yellow and brown

2.  Use a fine tip, clear drying glue to assemble the pieces

3.  Cut a 5 inch kraft circle card base and then run it through the embossing folder of your choice

4.  Begin to arrange your piece onto the circle.  You will notice that I changed up my design a little on the final card

5.  Once you have decided on your design glue the pieces in place add your sentiment.  I used vellum and embossed in gold for my sentiment. 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

Christmas in July

Marla here with another CottageCutz YouTube video tutorial.  On my personal YouTube Channel, I am celebrating Christmas in July.  I noticed that several of the dies in the "Folk Art" release translate well for use into the fall and Christmas seasons, so I rolled the theme into my design team post for The Scrapping Cottage.  
I would love for you to join me to watch the video, but in case you can't, I will share the two dies I used on my project today.  I paired the "Folk Art Deer" with an older Christmas die "Christmas Farmhouse Floral".  I used non-traditional Christmas colors, paired with kraft cardstock for a delightful folk art Christmas card.  
Thanks for stopping by.   Until next time.... Marla

Folk Art Mixed Flowers Birthday Card

Happy Tuesday crafty friends,

I hope your day is going well and you are beating the heat wherever you're at. It has been sizzling here in Florida.

One of the best ways to beat the heat, is to stay inside and do a little crafting. I had the chance to work with some of the wonderful dies from Cottage Cutz's rescent Folk Art dies release. Here is what I created.

I created this birthday card for my future sister in law's 30th birthday. My card is a side folding A4 card. I used the pretty flower dies from the Folk Art Mixed Flowers Die Set available from their website:  CottageCutz.com

I started by cutting out the various flowers from the die. I cut them all out from White cardstock. I then proceeded to color them with my markers. Some I did leave white. I added some foam to the back of some of them so I could give them some lift.

I used some lavendar paper for a mat. Here you can see that I ran it through my die cut machine with an embossing folder. Towards the top you can see where I used the nested stitched circle doily die. I used one of the smaller pierced circle dies for a mat. I then added the Happy Birthday Shadow die for the top and main sentiment.

Here is a closeup of some of the flowers I assembled on the top. I added some stickles to some of the centers and the various flowers. I also used some diamond dots for the centers of some of the others.

Here's another photo and it also shows the happy birthday on top of the circle pierced mat on top of the doily die cut. You can see I used some foam tape to give it some lift. I also used a tiny diamond dot to dot the "i" in birthday.

Here is one last look at my finished card. I think it turned out very cute and I think she liked it. I used various shades of purple as that is her favorite color.

Pierced Circle Set

Folk Art Flowers Mixed

Nested Stitched Doily Set

Happy Birthday w Shadow

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Don't forget to check out the Cottage Cutz You Tube channel to see all the wonderful project on there as well. It will really get your creative juices going!

Well that about covers it for today. Be sure to keep coming by each day to see what else the super creative designers are up to! Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day.