Garden Butterflies & Flowers

Hi CottageCutz Friends,

Kris here with you today, sharing a split front card featuring the Garden Butterflies and Garden Flowers from our Black Friday Release.

Here's a side view

CUTTING & SCORING:

Berry Burst cardstock 

Cut a 5-1/2" square 

--from that, cut 1-3/4" from one end (card front)

--then cut 2" from the same end, leaving 1-3/4" attached.

White Cardstock

Cut a 5-1/4" square 

Acetate/Window Sheet 

Cut at 5-7/16" x 5-1/2" 

Fresh Freesia Cardstock

Cut (2) at 1-1/2 x 5-1/4" 

SU! Masterfully Made - Fresh Freesia leafy pattern

Cut (2) strips at 1-1/2" x 5-14"

SU! Masterfully Made - Multi-Floral pattern

Cut (2) strips at 1-5/16" x 5-1/16"

DESIGN STEPS:

1.  Open card so the small flap is at the top.  Apply double sided tape to the flap (not too close to the edge, and attach the acetate so that the 5-1/2" is going side to side (horizontally).

2.  Fold the front closed and attach the 1-3/4" Berry Burst panel to the bottom of card front, aligning with the bottom edge of acetate.

3.  With card open, and working on backside of acetate, apply the leafy patterned Freesia paper to cover up the taped acetate panels as shown.

4.  Attach white square inside bottom of card.

5.  Attach floral patterned paper to the Fresh Freesia strips and then onto the front of card as shown.

6.  Stamp a sentiment onto white inside panel.  I added some post-it notes where the front panels ended so I know where to stamp my sentiment.  

7.  Die cut the top layers of Garden Butterflies and the dragonfly from colored cardstock.  Then for the bottom, more solid layers, watercolor using the same color of ink.

8.  Die cut the Garden Flowers from same colors of cardstock plus Perfect Pear.

9.  I used sticky notes again on inside so I know where the solid card front panel ends then I glued my flowers and cut off the bottoms that overhung. 

10.  I gave the wings more dimension by bending the wings up while rolling the ends of wings around my finger, then I glued just the middle of bodies to the card front.  I then added some matching sequins to their bodies.  

and you have a beautiful acetate thank you card! ☺

Thanks so much for looking today!  I hope I've inspired you to get crafty with your favorite CottageCutz dies! 

~Kristine

7 Favorite Bible Verses

Hello Friends

It is Pam sharing with you today!

Today,  I am making a little desk or table decoration with 7 of my favorite Bible Verses.  This can be folded up and mailed off to a friend.  Or it can just sit on your craft desk with some beautiful encouraging verses.  My inspiration for this project came from a calendar I saw on YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmcrg0gFTo&t=619s).  I am using the Garden Tub & Urn die and the Garden Flowers die both are from the Black Friday release.

Here is a short video to show you exactly how it works

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Garden Tub & Urn die cut out 14 gray tubs.  Stamp the tubs with your favorite verses or quotes

2.  Using the Garden Flowers die cut out the flowers in white twice.  Color with your Copic markers as shown below

3.  For the top little tub I used one pink flower and 2 blue flowers on either side.  For the next tubs I put the red flowers on opposite sides as shown.  Glue the flowers in the pots and then glue the extra blank tub to the back to give it some strength and cover the stems

4.  This is what the first three look like stacked together

5.  For tubs 4, 5, 6, and 7 glue the flowers in as shown above.  Then glue on the extra tubs to the back of each one

6.  The picture above is what they look like stacked with the two tall purple flowers in the back of the pile

7.  This is all of the tubs stacked together.  It makes a really pretty display of flowers

8.  To make the stand for the flower tubs:  Cut a piece of white card stock 11 x 3 1/2.  Score on the 11 inch side at 3/4, 1 1/2, 2 1/4, 3, 5 1/2, 8 1/4

9.  Starting at the 3/4 inch score line making sure you have used a bone folder to really get a good crease begin to roll up the small cube 

10.  Put glue on the bottom flap of the small cube and glue the little cube down

11.  Fold the next crease valley style and the last crease mountain style as shown above

12.  To decorate the base cut 2 pieces of gray 5/8 x 3 3/8, cut 2 pieces of pink DP 1/2 x 3 1/4.  Glue the pink strips to the gray strips.  Cut one piece of gray 3 3/8 x 2 5/8 and cut one piece of pink DP 3 1/4 x 2 1/2.  Glue the pink to the gray

13.  Glue the large piece to the front flap and then glue the to strips on to the top of the cube and one to the front side of the cube

14.  To hold the flap to the little box I used pink paper clips that way if I want to send this in the mail I can take out the paper clips and fold it flat

15.  You can now add your title to the front side of the cube and tuck in the tubs of flowers

We have more inspiration on our YouTube Channel check it out HERE

I would like to wish you all a Blessed New Years and thank you so much for stopping by!

Hello Scallop Edged Card

Hey crafty friends,

So glad you stopped in today! It's another Terrific Tuesday and I am sharing over on the Cottage Cutz blog. I am sharing this fun, easy "Hello" card. Take a look.

I made this cute and easy card. It is a side folding A2 card. 

To make the scalloped edge of the top layer, I scored a line 1" from the edge. I then put the slime line scalloped die in such a way, that the top edge will cut the scallop and the bottom edge is underneath the cardstock.

Here is a closer look at the scored line. I then just but the scallop edge of the slimline die up to the scored line. I then sent it through my die cut machine and it left a really nice scalloped edge.

Here's a closer look at the super cute bicycle die cut. I layered the bike on top of an oval, double stitched mat cut from some bright yellow patterned paper and then layered all of that onto an oval scallop layer with white cardstock.

Here's a closer look at the "hello" sentiment and the hearts. You can also see the stitched scallop edge from the slimline die. I used some blue/teal striped paper for the inside of the card.

Here is one last look at my completed card. I colored the hearts with my markers. I also used some fun striped paper for the inside mat layer.

Dies Used For This Project

Garden Bicycle

Sentiment, Hello Sunshine

Double-Stitched Oval Set

Nested Scallop Oval Set

Whimsical Hearts Slimline

Scallop edge slimline die

Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to come back and check out what the rest of the designers are doing. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda

Easy Coloring with Distress Inks

Happy New Year, friends.  It's Marla here today with another CottageCutz YouTube video.  With all the cold weather making its way around this past week, I thought it would be nice to share a little ray of sunshine using the "Greenhouse" die. 

I have a full tutorial using this die along with several others from the Black Friday release.  I used my Distress Inks and some water to add color to these pieces.  Check out the variance in colors that add so much character to the card.

I hope you join me on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel to see how this came together.  I will also link all of the CottageCutz products I used on this project below.  Until next time, stay warm and happy crafting.... Marla