Baking In the Kitchen Recipe Cards + Tutorial

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog. This is a 2 part post and today is Part 1. I will have the 2nd part on the Blog tomorrow, March 12.

There was a new stamp & die combo release back in January of some really cute kitchen style stamps. I thought "The Baking In The Kitchen" set would make a cute gift for a bridal shower.

The last few bridal showers I attended they asked us to bring a copy of our favorite recipe to give to the Bride. I always want to give her a recipe on a cute pre-made card. But, sometimes I don't have the right one on hand. Now I can always make my own original and unique designs. 

So I decided to make some recipe cards using the Envelope Punch Board and add some of the elements of this new stamp & die combo. Let's get started on how I created my project today.

Step 1.  I started by cutting the white cardstock to measure 5" x 3 1/2".

 

 

 I placed it on the punch board right at the place where it says score guide and made my first punch. 

 

I then moved it over to the 2 1 /2" marker and punched again.  

I now have the start of my recipe card.

 

Step 2: To make this look like a recipe card, I cut the section of cardstock to the right of my 2nd punch. I wanted a rounded corner so I placed it back in the Punch Board. There is a corner rounder on the back of the Board.

 

 

Step 3: My recipe card is now ready to be stamped with the "From the Kitchen of" sentiment. I also stamped lines on the recipe card. This is a stamp from my own collection. I made 4 of these cards for my little gift. Now the cards are ready to add some embellishments.

 

 

Step 4: I stamped the images with Memento Black ink and then colored with various alcohol markers. Once the coloring was finished I used the matching dies to cut them out and attach to my recipe card.

 

 

 

 

Various markers used to color the images

Recipe cards are done and ready for a delicious recipe to be added to them. This completes Part 1 of my post. Tomorrow I will post the 2nd installment. I have made a mini file folder to present the recipe cards. So tune in then.

 

Dies used for today's project 

 

 

Happy flowers with CottageCutz dies

Hello ,

Its Anita here and I am back with my Friday post.
Happiness is such a subjective emotion. many derive happiness by spending time with their loved ones while some become happy by being with their pets.  know some people are happy when alone while some like noisy crowd to be happy.
I find happiness in flowers. And I am happy when my flowers bloom the way I want them to. And the CottageCutz 3D flowers dies are most amazing ones that make my flowers look happy.

There is a wide variety of flower and leaf dies ranging from tiny flowers to mega sized blooms.

For my card here, I have created some spring flowers and I loved the purple hue . Do follow the step by step instructions for making these flowers.
Here is my card.

 Instructions for making flowers

Cut the die cuts from white card stock using CottageCutz dies

Cut out 2  frames each for the card base and stick them together.

Colour the flowers and leaves using distress inks and put tiny dots with black pen. Mist the flowers with water.

Shape using an embossing tool on a foam mat as shown

Make pollen centres as shown

Add wire pollens to filler flowers

Carefully make small cut marks in between the petals. This will enable the pollen centres to pass through.

Complete all the flowers and lay them out on the card.

the finished card measures 7"/ 7". It has two mat layers of 6.5/6.5" and 6"/6". The edges have been distressed. Cut 4 strips from pattern paper measuring 1"/ 7" and swipe walnut stain ink to give that distressed look. Adhere on card front as shown.

CottageCutz dies used

CottageCutz 3D flower # 7

CottageCutz leafy foliage die

Wide Rectangle Stitched Frame

Stitched Rectangle set

Fancy victorian Frame

Spring Greenery

Other products

Distress inks-walnut stain, seedless preserve, wilted violet, Memento inks-bamboo leaves, ivy cottage. white card stock

Do leave a few happy words and thanks for stopping by.

Announcing New CottageCutz Design Team Members

The time has finally come to announce our NEWEST CottageCutz Design Team Members!

The creative and artistic applications we received made the selection process difficult. And, narrowing it down to 3 was challenging.  We did enjoy visiting your blogs and online galleries. So thanks to all that took the time to apply.

The new members to the CottageCutz Design Team:

Anja Zurga 

Pam Mackay

Janet Axtman (our new video artist)

 

We are also welcoming Bev Polen as guest designer

 

Congratulations Ladies! You all are bringing some amazing talent and we are looking forward to seeing your creations.

 

Happy day

Hi, Janja here!

For today's card, I have chosen the bear Ben. It is from the new CottageCutz release - Chloe and Ben's  Adventures.
You will surely love these cute bears.

Supplies:
- CottageCutz stamp & die sets: Ben with Puppy, Garden Gnomes 2, Fancy Pocket Plus (button), Rounded Rectangle Set, Stitched Rounded Rectangle Set
- white card base: A2 - 4.25" x 5.5" (10,8 x 14 cm) 
- patterned paper: 4 x 5" (10,2 x 13,2 cm)
- patterned paper: 2.1 x 5" (5,3 x 13,2 cm)
- watercolor paper
- white and colored cardstock
- Distress ink: Antique Linen, Faded Jeans, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Festive Berries

Stamp the bear on a watercolor paper, color it and cut it out with the die.
On strip from white cardstock stamp Happy day with coffee Archival ink. You will find it in stamp & die set - Garden Gnomes 2.

Trim patterned papers, glue them with double-sided adhesive tape and attach to the card base.
Cut out two rounded rectangles with dies (the 5th and largest die in a row from the middle of the set) from white cardstock and patterned paper.

Attach the bear with puppy, with self-adhesive foam pads on the background. Also, add a white strip with red heart.

I would like to show you another two cards with Bumblebee Chloe and Bumblebee Ben. I created them for friends with Slovenian sentiment - plenty of happiness.

Thank you for coming over. Have a nice day.

Woodland Scene

Hi, Lois here, with a fun card today.  I have used quite a few CottageCutz dies and stamp/die sets on my card.  If you know me at all, you probably know that I love making fun-fold cards -- so it will be no surprise to see that my card is a Side-Step Card.

Supplies used on this card are:

Green cardstock - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Pale blue cardstock 1 3/4" x 3 7/8" and 1 3/4" x 3 1/4"

White cardstock for stamp/die sets

Scraps of brown and two shades of green for shrubbery

Copic markers

Liquid glue and tape runner

Fiskars paper trimmer

Scoring board

CottageCutz stamp/die sets - Woodland Animals, Woodlands, Garden Gnomes 1

CottageCutz dies - Spring Grass, Spring Greenery, Campfire Clothesline, Grass with Cattails

To make the card base, I placed the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of green cardstock into the paper trimmer with the long edge at the 3 1/2" mark.  With the cutting blade at the 1" mark, I cut a line down to the 6 3/8" mark.  Placing the long edge of the card base at the top of the scoring board, I scored the wide section at 1", 2", 3 1/8", 4 1/4" (all the way across the center of the card), and 6 3/8" and folded on the score lines so that my card looked like this:

Using my Copic markers, I colored and cut the various stamps from both the Woodlands and Woodland Animals sets.

Then I cut the shrubbery from the scraps of green and brown, using the Spring Grass, Spring Greenery, and Campfire Clothesline dies.

I stamped the sentiment at the top of the tall pale blue panel and assembled my card.  The Campfire Clothesline tree had only a few leaves, so I made branches out of some of the Spring Greenery die cuts.  Here is a close-up of the steps of the card.

And again . . . the finished card.

CottageCutz sets used on this card are: