Joy Nativity in a Z-Fold Card

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 were able to jump in on some of the huge savings with our Black Friday sale that was held on the online store.

Today, I am back to Christmas cards. The time is getting shorter and I need to finish up my cards for this year. That is my plan for this weekend. For this post, I decided to make a Z-Fold card and feature the Joy Nativity and Angel Trio dies. So lets get started with some details on this card.

Step 1: this week I started my card with the fancy fold I wanted to use. I like the Z-Fold and thought it would work well with the dies I wanted to showcase. This fold makes a very nice card presentation and is not difficult at all to make.

Dark Brown Card Base: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Step 2: Cut 2 pieces of patterned paper- one is 3" x 5 1/2" and the other is 1 1/4" x 5 1/2".

Attach the 3" piece to the cardstock between the scored lines.

Turn the card over and line-up the 1 1/4" patterned paper to the corner of the card.

Used my bone folder and reinforced the scores that I made on the cardstock. I folded back the score line on the 1 1 /4" panel and now I have my Z-Fold card.

 

 

Step 3: I created the front panel for my card. I used one of the angels from the Angel Trio die and on the square panels I used the Stitched Square (4th largest) and the Square Set (3rd largest) dies.

Assembled the square panels and attached the angel with dimensional adhesive.

I used doubled sided tape and attached the panel to the 1 1/4" panel.

Step 4: Now onto the inside of the card. I used the Joy Nativity die for the inside panel. I also used another of the angels from the Angel Trio die.

Attached the pieces to the card inside with glue dots and Ranger Multi medium matte adhesive. After I attached the kneeling angel I decide to add a few pine sprays to ground the image. I also added some stars to this panel. I used the stars from the Snowglobe Friends die.

I also added stars to the front image panel to complete my card. That's it for me for this week. I hope I have given you an additional idea for a Christmas card. Especially if you bought these dies when the big sale was going on. See you next Saturday!

 

 

Dies I used to create card:

 

 

 

 

Hope for Healing

Hi Cottage Cutz fans.  It's Jeanne posting today with a card of encouragement for those courageous women we know who are battling breast cancer.

I started this card by watercoloring a piece of 6 x 5 inch mixed media paper in three different shades of pink - Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette and Primrose Petals.

I then cut it down to fit the front of an A2 size card base.

I used the second largest rectangle from the Double Stitched rectangle set to cut a white panel for the front and I used two shades of pink for the sentiment.

I found the two shades of pink made the ribbon stand out a bit more.

This card was also entered into this week's CAS Colours Sketches challenge blog sketch challenge.

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you have a great weekend and find some time to be creative!

Sweet Get Well Bear!

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam creating with you today!!

A HUGE SALE IS GOING ON NOW!!! THIS SALE FEATURES OUR LATEST RELEASE DIES FOR THE ULTIMATE GET WELL CARD! HERE IS A PEEK of all the new release dies! Also make sure you check out our entire store there are many items on sale!! HERE IS THE LINK TO THE STORE!

Now on to todays card!

I am continuing to share our new release Get Well Dies.  They are just so perfect to cheer someone up who is not feeling well.  And we all know that this is the time of year for the nasty colds and flu.  As a matter of fact I think I will send this to myself because I have my first cold of the year!

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Bear Patient die cut the bear out of kraft card.  Then cut the soup can and tissue box out of white

 2.  Using TH Distress Oxides shade in the bear and add the rhinestones for his eyes

3.  Using Copic markers color in the soup can and the tissue box and assembly all of the pieces

 4. Using the Tea Time Doily die cut out a white doily.  Use the Expressions Get Well Phrase die cut get well out of red card stock

 5.  Us an A2 white card base cut a slightly smaller piece of red card stock and then a slightly smaller piece of DP and glue them all together

 6.  Glue the white doily to the top of the card

 7.  Pop dot the bear with the soup can and the tissue to the doily

8.  Glue the Get will to the bottom half of the card and your Get Well card is complete

Cottage Cutz Dies

I hope you will check out our massive sale and take a look at the new release Get Well Dies.  They are all so cute and perfect for a great Christmas Gift!

Blessings

Pam

Oh No Kitty Double-Window Card

Hello everyone! It's Janet and it's my turn to share a project video with you. I hope all our U.S. fans enjoyed a few days off and lots of time with family and friends! Likely among all that you visited with there were people recovering from a cold or some other ailment. It seems so many people are suffering with something or other right now.

There's no better way to make someone feel better than to receive a cheery get well card from someone. Well, we have that covered! You've been seeing lots of the new get well projects from our talented design team lately and I'm showing another twist on the Oh No Kitty die. This kitty is so darn cute with all of his little owies bandaged up! I couldn't help but use it on a project.

Click on the thumbnail link to learn how this double-window card was made. It's a little tricky to cut the windows so they are centered over each other but pretty easy once you learn a few tips.

If you'd like to see all twelve of the Get Well themed dies in the new release, click on the thumbnail link below. These dies and many others found in the Scrapping Cottage site are on sale through December 1st. Don't miss it!

Dies used in this project:

Chicken Noodle Soup

Hi, Lois here today with another card made with one of the Black Friday release Get Well dies. There are 12 dies in the release, and all of them are really cute and sure to cheer up anyone who is under the weather!  The entire bundle can be purchased at a special price, plus you can buy individual dies at a discount also.  Some up to 80% off!  That is a great deal!!!   My card today uses two of the new Get Well sets, Chicken Noodle Soup and Get Well Phrase.

To begin my card I cut cardstock for the base:

Red - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Black - 4" x 5 1/4"
White - 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"
Gingham patterned paper - 3 7/8" x 1 1/2"

I have found that sometimes it is much easier to cut all the various pieces of a die from white cardstock and then color them.  That is what I did with the Chicken Noodle Soup die.  The sentiment die was cut from black cardstock, which I had backed with a double-sided adhesive sheet.

Using the illustration on the packaging, I colored the various die-cut pieces with Copic markers -- with the exception of the soup can and the spoon.  These I colored with a silver Wink of Stella brush.  I didn't think it was necessary to color the entire soup can because only the top and bottom would eventually show.

Then I constructed the chicken, soup bowl, and soup can.

After I put my card together, I decided that the "CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP" didn't show up very well; so I used an XS Faber-Castell black pen to go over the words.  I was much happier with this.  I then added the three enamel dots.

I was  really impressed with all the parts of this die -- down to the steam and the noodles!  Be sure to check out these very cute Get Well dies, as well as all the others that are on sale.

CottageCutz dies used on my card are: