Last Minute Little Gift

Hello Friends

It is Pam sharing with you today!

I am using our new releases dies from Black Friday to create a last minute gift for a sweet friend who loves to garden and make cards.  She is like me and spends a lot of time at her craft desk. So I thought this little garden themed easel card calendar would be cute sitting on her desk. 

For my project I have used several of the new collection dies: Greenhouse, Hanging Plants, Wildflowers and Sentiment Thinking of You (the little flowers).

Design Steps: 

1.  Start by cutting all of pieces using the following dies and card stock: Greenhouse pink, black, silver and light green.  Sentiment Thinking of You yellow and pink.  Hanging Plants brown, green and dark green.  Wildflower purple and green.  Slimline Grass light green

2.  For the base cut a piece of card stock 8 1/2 x 5.  Fold in half and then fold the front flap in half again.  

This will create the base for your easel card.  Cut a piece of white card stock  5 x 4.  This will be the easel panel

3.  Use the piece of 5 x 4 white card stock and ink the background blue.  Glue down the grass at the bottom and making sure not to glue the top of the grass so you can slide in the greenhouse

4.  Glue the black greenhouse frame and then add the pink pieces

5.  Add the rest of your greenhouse plants as shown.  Place the shovel and watering can outside of the greenhouse as shown above.  I placed my entire panel onto a scalloped black retangle for stablitiy and just to make it pop a little more

6.  Place glue on the flap as shown above and then place the greenhouse panel on top of the panel only  glueing down the bottom portion of the greenhouse panel

7.  You card should look like the picture above.  Add some pearls, black rhinestones and silver gems to spice up your little greenhouse

8. For the background on the bottom piece cut out a piece of black polka dot paper 4 7/8 x 4 1/8.  Glue the paper down.  To create the stop for the easel you will use the little mini calendar

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

Dog Treat Jar and Card Set

Hey crafty friends,

So glad you stopped in today! It is coming down to the wire before Christmas! Today I am sharing a super cute and quick gift for my little grand dog. Here is what I made.

I made this super cute card and little treat jar with tag for Kylo, my little grand doggy. He is the sweetest little guy! 

Here is a closer look at the cute little treat jar. I picked uup a jar from the dollar store and filled it wit little milk bone treats that are in red, white and green. I added this super cute little tag. It features the sweet little Christmas Reindeer Puppy die from the new Cottage Cutz Christmas Die release.

Here is a closer look at my card. It is a top folding card and I used the Doghouse w/Pup & Hydrant die as well as the Love My Dog, Love My Cat dies for the card. I also used the Wacky Stitched Rectangle set. I wrote his little nae on the cute little sign and I did the same with the word Grand.

Here is a closer look at the cute little tag. I put the little doggy onto the smaller rectangle wacky stitched dies. I cut the smaller of the two mats in patterned paper and the larger one in black cardstock.

Here is one last look at my cute little set.

Dies Used For This Project

Christmas Reindeer Puppy

Doghouse w/Pup & Hydrant

Love My Dog, Love My Cat

Wacky Stitched Rectangle Set

Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to keep up on all the fun and creative things the designers here are coming up with. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda

Ginger Pocket Peeker

Happy Friday Friends!  

Kris here with you today, sharing a cute Christmas card featuring our Christmas Release!  All the dies in this release are 30% off for a limited time, so a great time to pick some up for those last minute holiday cards for this year OR to get a head start on next year's cards! 

Today I'm showcasing the Ginger Pocket Peeker from our Christmas 2023 Release, and the fun Trellis Background Die from our Black Friday Release!  

It's so easy to create fun plaid backgrounds with this Trellis background die! Marla shared in her latest video HERE how you can layer the die by cutting 2 and turning one upside down!  Easy peasy!!  

CUTTING & SCORING:

Red cardstock:

A2 top folding card

Teal Green cardstock:  

Trellis Background

 Ginger Pocket Peeker

White cardstock:

Trellis Background

 Ginger Pocket Peeker

 2nd largest Scalloped Rectangle

Teal patterned paper with white snowflakes:

3rd largest Stitched Rectangle

DESIGN STEPS:

1.  I layered the white Trellis onto the Green so that they are opposite (one upside down), glued them together and then onto my card front.  **Thanks again for that awesome tip Marla ☺

2.  I glued my patterned paper onto my white scalloped layer, then added foam tape to the back to pop it up a bit to center of my card. 

3.  Next, I stamped a denim background stamp onto my top and bottom layers of my pocket and glued them on. 

4.  I colored my die cuts and assembled.

5.  I added all my elements to the front with 2x the foam tape.  I then added some Snow Writer to the Hat trim and puff for lots of dimension.  I finished it off with a tiny snowflake in the middle of my peppermint and 4 green gems in the corners.  

Such a cute and quick card to make!  

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial ☺ 

 Thanks for visiting!

 

~Kristine

Christmas Bells

Hello Crafty Friends

 Our new Christmas Release is available at a wonderful 30% off.  This collection has over 40 different dies.   It has everything you will need for your holiday paper crafting. Make sure to stop by the online store and check out all the fantastic new designs!

Today, I am featuring the Old Fashion Ornaments 4.  The bell ornament is a rather large die so it is a perfect size for an A2 card or larger such as a slimline.  

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Old Fashion Ornaments 4 cut out gold, hunter green and deep red card stock.  For the foliage I used the Holiday Candle Centerpiece and the Vintage Holiday Lantern.  Cut out the following colors of card stock hunter green, gold, brown and deep red.  Assemble the bells with a fine tip glue

2.  For the card base use a cream A2 card stock, 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 deep red, 4 x 5 1/4 holly DP, 2 3/4 x 4 3/4 piece of gold and 2 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 piece of cream.  Glue the red to the DP and then glue to the card front.  Glue the cream to the gold and then center it to the card front on top of the holly DP

3.  First I popped up the bells using dimension square making sure to leave room to tuck in the foliage.  Arrange the foliage as you wish and glue down

4.  Add a cream colored bow and your sentiment layered onto gold and 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