The Tandem Bike on a Scenic Route

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.

Hope you have been enjoying all of the beautiful creations that the DT has been showing over these past weeks with the wedding dies. If you haven't seen them, just page back through the Blog for some delightful eye candy.

Today I am using one of the wedding dies, Tandem Bike, and decided to create a little outdoor scene with it. I am going to send this to a friend to let her know she is being thought of.  We ride bikes together at a local trail. So this die was perfect to use. Let's get started with some details of how I created my card. 
Step 1: For my outdoor scene, I wanted a tree (grass, trees and vine die) a fence (garden accessories die) and the tandem bike. Cut these pieces first and then I chose my card colors of a medium gray and the blue -green based on the color I used on the tandem bike.

 

Step 2:  I used a cloud template and sponged Tumbled Glass Distress ink for my clouds. I used a Taupe ink and sponged the ground at the bottom of my card.

Step 3:  I am ready to start assembly of the die cuts in my scene. I used multi matte medium, glue dots and dimensional adhesive to secure. The tandem bike has dimensional adhesive. I wanted it lifted slightly off the card base so it wouldn't be flush against the fence.  It gives it a bit more depth this way.

Step 4:  I wanted a sentiment on the front of my card and I found one in my stash that was ideal for this card. Especially since the bike trail we ride on is very scenic. Decided to stamp it inside a cloud with the blue-green ink that matches the bike and the layering panel. Adhere it with dimensional adhesive. The cloud is part of the clouds & sun die.

And that is my card for this week. I hope I have given you some inspiration on another way to use this new wedding die. See you next Saturday.

Dies I used to create card:

 

Beautiful Bride

Good morning!  It's Jeanne sharing with you today.  My nephew just got engaged and we're having a celebration lunch for his bride-to-be so I wanted to make her a special card.

This elegant card is fitting for her personality!  The card uses only two colors of card stock - white and vanilla.

It's a top folding card so I cut the vanilla base 4 1/4 x 11 and scored at the 5 1/2 inch mark. I used a piece of white card stock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 for the front panel and scraps of vanilla and white for the die cut pieces. (And I used a tiny piece of silver CS for the hanger!  You could cut it out of white and color it instead.)  My banner is 3 1/2 x 5/8 inches.  I used paper snips to cut a flag at one end.

I heat embossed the 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch white card stock and the white scrap using a lace background stamp and white embossing powder.  The powder I had came out a little bit cream color giving it a nice contrast to the white and blending well with the vanilla.

I die cut the dress from the scrap and trimmed the full panel down to 4 1/8 x 5 3/8.  I cut my ovals using the middle and second largest ovals from the Nested Stitched Eyelet Oval set.

The larger oval is adhered directly to the card so I used Scor-Tape to make certain it stuck to the embossing - any really strong adhesive should work.  The embossing is slick so the adhesive needs to be strong.  The smaller oval is popped off the card using foam dots. The die cut dress and hanger were added to the top.

I finished off the card by embossing the sentiment in silver and using silver ribbon and a crystal button. 

I hope you enjoyed this card - I had a lot of fun making it!

See you next week!
Jeanne

Garden Wedding!

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Fans!

Hello everyone it is Pam on the Blog today! I have another very special wedding die to share with you today and I paired it with two additional dies!

Design Step:

1.  Start by using the Cottage Cutz Garden Bride and Groom die and cut it on white card stock.  Color the flowers with Copic markers.

 2.  Using the largest Cottage Cutz Stitched Wide Rectangle Frame cut out a white card stock frame

 3.  Using Cottage Cutz Wildflower2 and Wildflower 5 cut out 6 flowers and color with Copic markers

 4.  To give the flowers some dimension use a stylus and round out the blooms

5.  Cut out a piece of pale pink Bazzill card stock 4 1/8 x 5 1/4 and pop up the frame and then glue the bride and groom flat.

6.  Add three flowers on each side and glue dot a ribbon to the flowers as shown

7.  Mount the pale pink card stock to an A2 white base.  Add a small butterfly from the Cottage Cutz Wildflower 5 die.

Cottage Cutz Products

These dies paired together make a wonderful garden wedding card! Hope you will visit our store and look around!

Blessings

Pam

Love Doves

Hi!

It's Anja here. I'm still inspired by the wedding theme, that's way I have another wedding card for you today. This time I used Fancy Doves die and new Distress Oxides colors.

- Cottage Cutz Dies (Fancy Doves with Vine, Nested Stitched Scallop Oval Set, Love Phrase),
- Distress Oxides (Abandoned Coral, Twisted Citron, Antique Linen, Peeled Paint),
- white card base (15x15 cm),
- white card stock (for die cuts, 14,6x14,6 cm square),
- black pen,
- soft brush,
- Sizzix Impressions pad and Silicone Rubber,
- paper glue,
- foam adhesive pads.

First I cut a square from white card stock and embossed the largest oval from Nested Stitched Scallop Oval Set on it. I sprinkled a bunch of drops on the paper. I used Abandoned Coral mixed with water. I dried it with heat gun. I also cut a smaller oval from white card stock.

 

The I die cut all the pieces and colored them with Distress Oxides. I used a brush to color the vines. I wanted a softer touch of green and the brush is great for that. I cut two doves of each. Later I glued them together on one side (where the head is). 

When I had all the pieces colored I put the card together. I glued the smaller oval and the doves with adhesive foam pads. 

Have a nice week and see you again on Sunday.

Anja Z.

Holly Swag

Hi, Lois here with a little change of pace card.  It's 90 degrees outside, but I'm here to cool you off a bit with a Christmas card today.  I'm still playing with the new Nested Shapes release from CottageCutz -- this time the Nested Stitched Eyelet Square set, as well as one of the Expressions Plus sentiments.

A little twist to this card is that the "Happy Christmas" sentiment is actually on the inside of the card.  It shows through a strip of acetate on the front.

To start my card I cut the 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" card base from some heavyweight white cardstock.  In addition I cut two strips of red (1" x 5 1/2"), two strips of green (1/2" x 5 1/2"),  a white 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square and a strip of clear acetate 2 1/2" x 5 1/2".

After scoring the card base at the 4 1/4" mark, I trimmed a 1 1/2" strip from the bottom and adhered it to the acetate strip.  I trimmed that same side of the card 1 1/4" from the top, adding Scor-Tape to the top of the acetate and the edge of the card.

After removing the Scor-Tape, I lined up the acetate/cardstock piece to the bottom of the card and pressed down on the taped sections -- creating the card base.

Next I cut the die-cut pieces from red and green cardstock . . .

. . . adding some darker color to the pieces.  I sponged around the edge of the white square with red distress oxide ink.

Using a scallop punch, I trimmed down the red strips, adding some 1/8" Scor-Tape to the backs.

I then constructed my holly swag, using small foam pop dots to give dimension to the swag.

I then stamped the inside of the card, making sure that the sentiment was placed so that it would show through the acetate strip.

I then added the red/green strips to the outside of the acetate and constructed the swag panel and glued it on either side of the acetate strip.  The "celebrate" sentiment was centered at the bottom of the card front.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are: