Timeless Friendship

Hello Scrapping Cottage 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.

We are still showcasing samples from the Just For Guys release.  This latest release has 14 different designs and they are ideal for masculine cards. They all have a great retro as well as a classic look. The design team has been showing samples all month. So if you haven't seen them, take a look back on the Blog for some creative ideas for your masculine cards.

For my card today, I am featuring the new Vintage T-Bird die. I needed  a "thinking of you" type card to send to a male friend of my hubby and mine. He is a long time friend, and we just wanted him to know we are thinking of him.

I was focusing on the timeless friendship sentiment, and I thought the vintage T-Bird would carry that theme through. Of course, he was only 3 years old when this T-Bird was cruising the streets, but he will get what I am trying to convey with this card.
So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Step 1: Since I had my sentiment and image already chosen, I just needed some masculine looking papers to bring my idea to life. I settled on a soft suede cardstock and a coordinating striped patterned paper.
I had a pre-cut and embossed blue circle card base in my stash, which I cut in half to use on the card. I saw this card on Pinterest that I used for inspiration. I used her layout but changed colors added an additional layer of patterned, sequins and of course my image is a red hot vintage T-Bird not a stamp.

The lighter striped paper was actually a bag that I cut with the stitched circle die and used as more patterned paper. The oval is  cut from vanilla cardstock and I used the 4th largest die from the oval set.
Soft Suede Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Soft Suede Striped Paper: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
Blue Embossed Circle: 4"
Light Brown Striped Paper: 3rd largest stitched circle die
Vanilla Oval: 4th largest oval die.

Step 2: I used red, silver, black and dark gray cardstocks to cut the pieces of the Vintage T-Bird. For the windshield I used vellum paper. It's a classy looking car and so perfect for our class-act friend. I remember when I was a youngster a guy on our street had one of these cars. I was in awe of it.

Step 3: Before I started my card assembly, I stamped my sentiment on the image panel. Stamped on an angle just for added interest. 

I attached the panels with double sided tape. I added gold twine as another accent to lay under the image panel

. Step 4: Attached the image panel with dimensional adhesive. Then, to finish off this card, I scattered some gold sequins.
Well, that's it for me for this week. I hope I have given you another idea for a way to use these new dies. See you next Saturday!!

dies I used to create card:

 

You Look Fabulous

Hi Cottage Cutz fans!  It's Jeanne posting today with another fun card using the Just for Guys dies. 

These dies are so fun and have a great retro look!  To start I die cut the car, gas pump and medallion from Real Red, Crushed Curry, Blueberry Bushel, white and black card stock.

Next, I cut a panel 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches from striped paper, a white panel 5 x 3 3/4 inches and a strip 1 x 3 3/4 inches from the polka dot paper.

I put the panel together and then adhered all the gas pump and car pieces.

Finally, I stamped the sentiment on the medallion and glued that together.  I thought this went perfectly with the retro look of the car and pump.  Foam dots pop it off the panel.

The panel is adhered to an A2 card base.

Dies:

Thanks for stopping by today.  Be sure to check out the new release.

Have a creative weekend!

Happy Days!

Good Morning Friends!

It is Pam creating with you on the blog today!

Today, I will be working with the new Build A Sign die!  It has so many options for making a cute retro looking sign.

Design Steps:

 1.  Using the Build a Sign die cut out the pieces of the signs in white card stock

 2.  Use your markers to color all of the pieces of the signs

3.  Using the Double Stitch Square die and cut out 2 in white cards stock. Assemble the signs on the 2 squares

4.  Use an A2 white card base and cut out a slightly smaller piece of yellow card stock and glue to the front of the card base.  Cut out a piece of DP slightly smaller then the yellow card stock and then glue it to the yellow card stock

5.  Glue the squares to the front of the card and add clear sequins.  Stamp the signs with Happy Days and your card is complete.

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Thanks for stopping by and checking out the new and fabulous dies!

Blessings

Pam