Expressions Plus Precious Phrase

Hello, Scrapping Cottage friends and thank you for stopping by. This is Beverly Polen and I am a guest designer today for the Scrapping Cottage Blog.  Today I am featuring one of the beautiful, recently released Expressions Plus Design Dies, "Precious" and the CottageCutz Pram Die from the April CottageCutz Baby Designs Release. 

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I love the new CottageCutz script dies as they are made with such a beautiful font.  They are also a wonderful size.  The "precious" die used on this card is approximate 4"W x 1"H.   And the darling vintage baby carriage, also showcased on this card, is an awesome die.  One can make so many variations of the carriage by using different colors of card stock and other crafting products.  I wanted to dress this one up, so I added pearls and sparkling glitter.  May this card inspire you to try the CottageCutz Pram die to create such a beauty!

SUPPLIES USED AND STEPS FOR CREATING THE CARD

Supplies:

• 1 - 6" x 12" piece of pink card stock 
• 1 - 6" x 6" piece of pink and green designer paper
• White, pink, and green card stock scraps
• Pink "Precious" sentiment cut from the CottageCutz Expressions Plus Design Precious Die
• Baby Carriage cut from the CottageCutz Pram Die 
• Pink Flowers cut from the CottageCutz Tree of Nature Die
• Green Stems with Leaves cut from the CottageCutz Grass, Trees & Vines Die
• Pink Flowers cut from the CottageCutz 3D Flower #7 Die
• Crafting pearls
• White sparkly glitter
• Pink Stickles
• Stylus
• Prills
• Adhesive

Steps:

• Cut a 6" x 12" piece of pink card stock and fold it in the middle for the card base  
• Cut a 6" x 6" piece of designer paper with shades of pink and green
• Adhere the 6" x 6" designer paper to the front of the card base
• Using the CottageCutz Pram Die, cut the baby carriage from a piece of white card stock, and repeat with pink card stock

• Adhere the pieces together (I attached one carriage to another to offset mine)

• Cover the center piece of the carriage with white sparkly glitter
• Add crafting pearls to the carriage 

• Attach this to the center of the card front (as seen in the first photo)
• Cut out several pink flowers using the CottageCutz Tree of Nature Die

• Cut out several green stems and leaves using the CottageCutz Grass, Trees & Vines die

• Attach the flowers to the stems
• Add pink stickles to the center of the flowers
• Add the stems and flowers to the bottom and left side of the card
• Cut out the "precious" sentiment from pink card stock using the CottageCutz Precious Die and add it to the top center of the card

• Cut out a flower using the CottageCutz 3-D Flower #7 die
• Shape with a stylus the three smallest flowers, cover them with a white glitter, adhere them together, and add Prills to the center

• Attach the flower to the bottom, right of the card front

That finishes the card, and there are more photos below.  Let me know what your thoughts are about this card by leaving comments.  I love reading comments!  Before you go, I want to share more information with you about the newly release Expression Plus Designs Dies.

The Expression Plus Design Dies (35 word dies) were released just two weeks ago, and the font of these dies is beautiful! The word dies are definitely ones you will want for your crafting toolbox! To give you an idea of the size and font of these dies, our video artist, Janet, prepared the video below that showcases some of the Expression Plus Design Dies. 

These are the CottageCutz dies used for today's card share:

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Expression Plus Phrase Die and Sunflower Shaker card

Hello to all !!!!
This is Anita here.
Summer is at its peak and so are the beautiful sun flower blooms .
CottageCutz has come up with amazing set of Expression Plus dies 35 in total and all of them are awesome. You can check them out here.

There is also a video showcasing the dies made by our design team mate.
Here in this video she shows the beautiful dies and how she has used them on the cards.

For my card today, I have used the beautiful sun flower die and have created a shaker card . Also see how I have added the expression WISH in a 3d way.

Start by die cutting all the designs in white card stock. Cut two foam frames from the stitched round rectangle frame. Cut the Wish frame three times and the sun flower die two times.

Colour all the die cuts as shown with Archival inks

 Adhere the two sponge frames together. Cut another backing frame from a pattern paper. Adhere a transparent sheet of the same size as the frame with glue. Adhere one sunflower face down as shown. Add the sequins and mini glitter balls. Cover with the backing paper.

Distress the frame with Peeled Paint ink. Add the other sub flowers.

Adhere the wish die cut colouring two with green ink giving a little shading and adhere to the last white piece , offsetting a little. Adhere this shaker panel on a card mat. Add twine and the wish phrase. Adhere the whole panel on an A2 card base.

the finished card

Do visit the CottageCutz blog to see the inspirations and stop by at the store for all your die cutting shopping.

Thanks for stopping by.

Prayers

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Fans!

It is Pam sharing with you today. And I really excited to show you our new release Expressions Plus Dies!  Here is my Design Teammate to show you how wonderful these dies are!!

We gave you a small sample in the video of the 35 dies so I am including a picture of all the new release dies!

Now onto my design for today!  I am featuring one of the new word dies prayers mixed with the flower and stems dies!  This card is going to someone who is need of some support and cheer.

Here are my design steps:

1.  Using Wildflowers 1, Wildflowers 2, Wildflowers 5 and Garden Stems cut all of them out in white card stock

2.  Using dabbers ink the flowers and leaves with green, red and orange

3.  Cut out a 5 x 3 3/4 piece of white card stock and embossed with a musical notes embossing folder

4.  Use white card stock as your A2 base.  Cut out a piece of green card stock 5 1/4 x 4 and glue to the A2 white base.  Glue the note embossed white card stock to the green

5.  Glue all of the flowers down as shown

6. Cut out a 2 x 4 inch piece of vellum and gently tear the edges.  Attach to card front as shown the on white card stock cut out the word prayers.  Glue prayers to the vellum and add the pearls

This card is beautiful and easy!  It will bring cheer to someone who needs to have their spirits lifted!

Here are the Cottage Cutz Products used:

I hope you will check out all of the new Expressions Plus dies that are in our store!

Blessings

Pam

Two Ways to Make Shaker Cards Using Expressions Plus Dies (New Release)

Hi Everyone! It's Janet from SugarShine Designs here to help get you through Hump Day! If you feel like you could use some words of encouragement then you're in the right place. My project is a set of clean and simple cards featuring some of the 35 available dies in May's Expressions Plus word release. 

When I saw these dies, I immediately knew I would use the negative space of the words as windows for shaker boxes. In the video I show the traditional shaker box created by making a well for the shaker confetti with foam tape and covering it with an acetate window. The second method uses tulle to create both the window and the pocket to hold the shaker confetti. I'm a big fan of using tulle! It's much quicker, doesn't add additional bulk to your card and doesn't allow the shaker bits to gather at the bottom of the window. The size of the new Expressions Plus dies worked perfectly for either shaker method.

Check out the card set featuring the new Expressions Plus Dies by clicking below:

If you'd like to see more of the Expressions Plus die release, click on the YouTube video link below. See how these new dies compare to the older Expressions dies, ideas on using the two styles together and other thoughts to jump start your crafting imagination.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time here at the Scrapping Cottage. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

-Janet

Dies used in this project: