Valentine Release DT Samples Round 2 Saturday

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. We are having another round of DT samples from the brand new Valentine & St Patrick's Day release. There are 16 new designs in this release. And for a limited time the individual dies are on sale at 25% off.

So for the next several days, we will be giving you some additional creative ideas for using the dies. Our cards today are all about St Patrick's Day.

Card 1: The first sample today is one that I (Mary Marsh) created using the new St Patrick's Day Cupcake die. I thought this cupcake image would make a great card for an Irish friend of mine. She celebrates the day with full gusto (lol)!!! I followed the MojoSketch508 for my card layout. The green leprechaun top hat makes a perfect topper for the cupcake. And, the gold coins that are part of the die fit so well with the Irish blessing sentiment.


Card 2: Our next sample for today is from Anja Zurga. She used the super cute Lucky Leprechaun die. For her sentiment, pot of gold, shamrocks and good luck horseshoe, she used the St Patrick's Day Phrase and More die. Anja creates such great backgrounds with distress oxide inks and for this one she used the smooshing technique. Here is a link to the tutorial she followed. This card would be perfect for any of your Irish friends, a great teacher thank you card or for any of your special little ones.




Card 3: Our last sample for today is from Janja Albreht. She used the St Patrick's Day Cupcake and the St Patrick's Day Phrase & More to create her good luck card. The leprechaun top hat and pot of gold accent both corners perfectly. For another creative touch, she filled the center of her square with shamrocks with gold coin centers. This would be a great card for someone retiring, or starting a new job or even as a graduation card. Think out of the box because our dies can always be used for other occasions.




Well, that's our samples for today. I hope the team has given you some inspiration on ways to use these new dies. Make sure you stop by again tomorrow for more team samples.


dies used to create today's cards:

Valentine Release DT Samples Round 2- Friday

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. We are having another round of DT samples from the brand new Valentine & St Patrick's Day release. There are 16 new designs in this release. And for a limited time the individual dies are on sale at 25% off.

So for the next several days, we will be giving you some additional creative ideas for using the dies. Our cards today are all about Valentine's Day.

Card 1: Our first sample today is from Jeanne Knobbe. She used the Valentine Hedgehog and the Valentine Phrase & More dies to create this sweet Valentine card. I love how she is presenting this cute little hedgehog as the writer of the Valentine phrases. She kept her design on the clean & simple side which is so perfect for the masculine cards we might need. By placing the sentiment panel on an angle and using only red & white colors, her card makes such an impact.



Card 2: This next sample is from Janja Albreht. She used several of the doggie dies to create this ever so cute card. Puppy with Valentine, Puppy Love Letter,  Shamrock & Valentine Scottie and Be My Valentine Puppies to create her pet themed Valentine. Each one of the little pups is cuter than the next. How perfect would this be for your pet loving friends? She kept her design simple to allow the pups to be the center of attention. The "With Love" phrase is an older die and is currently on a 50% off sale. It worked so well as the finishing touch on her card.



Card 3: Our last sample for today is from Anja Zurga. She used the Valentine Hedgehog and Swinging Monkey dies to create this playful Valentine card. Her background was sponged with distress oxide inks and then she used a cloud stencil and baby wipe to get the white clouds.

For her little scene she has the hedgehog busy painting his little fence for Valentine's Day, and the monkey came and stole away the heart. So cute! This would be a great card for your significant other or a loved little one. Kids love getting cards especially handmade ones.



Well, that's our samples for today. I hope the team has given you some inspiration on ways to use these new dies. And, you still have time to order and receive the dies in time for Valentine card making. If you are contemplating a purchase, don't wait to long, The dies are on sale for a limited time.

Stop by again tomorrow for more team samples.

dies used to create cards:

Ladybug Love!

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam on the blog this morning.  I am continuing to make my Valentine Cards and having so much fun with the new Valentine and St. Patrick's Day release dies.  They are still on sale for 25% off so don't miss your opportunity to check out this cuter then cute release!   Today I am using the Lovebug Bee & Ladybug die with the traditional Valentine's colors.

Design Steps:

 1.  I used the Ladybug die and cut it out three times in red, black and pink

 2.  I did a little shading on the red and pink then assembled the Ladybug.  I also made the other bug a little Manbug using the black shell and red under layer plus I used the bow for a bow tie!  You can see it below

 3.  Use an A2 white card base, cut a piece of red slightly smaller then the base and then a piece of black polka dot DP slightly smaller then the red.  Also cut a 1 1/4 x 4 inch red polka dot band.  Then using the Fancy Floral Lace Border cut out to lacy strips and then cut them down to 4 inches long

 4.  Glue the Lace border to the top and bottom of the red polka dot strip

 5.  Using the Pierced Rectangle die third from the largest cut out a white rectangle

6.  Wrap your ribbon around the rectangle and tie a square knot.  Pop up you two bugs just about the ribbon.  Stamp your sentiment just below the ribbon

7.  Pop the rectangle panel to the center of the card and add some small red hearts

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Blessings

Pam

You Make My Heart Flutter

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I have another Valentine's Day card to share for my guest designer post.  Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays and these new Valentine's dies makes it so easy to create some adorable cards.

I used the Lovebug Butterfly and the Lovebug Bee & Ladybug dies to cut out these sweet die cuts. The squares were cut from the Stitched Rounded Square Set.  I went with a pink and red theme and inked everything on the edges.  A bit of chalk was added to the cheeks along with a tiny dot with a white gel pen.

Each of the die cuts were adhered to the squares.  I found the perfect papers in my stash from an older Martha Stewart paper pad.  The pink, red and white papers complimented my die cuts perfectly.

I hand cut a small rectangle tag and heat embossed it with a sentiment from the Scrappy Moms (retired) Crazy for you stamp set. I hole punched the tag on each of the ends.  The hole reinforcements were punched with the We R Memory Keepers Hole Reinforcer Punch.  The tag was adhered to the bottom of my card and tied with some Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine.

The adorable die cuts were aligned in a row above the sentiment tag. I absolutely love these cute die cuts.

Here are the dies I used on my card which are currently on sale here: 

Balloon Heart

Hi!

It's Anja here. My package of new dies arrived this week and I couldn't wait to try it out. First I made a Valentine's card with this cute hedgehogs.

For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz (Be My Valentine Puppies, Hedgehogs In Love, Love You Mom Phrase),
- Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone) and Oxides (Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, Abandoned Coral, Candied Apple),
- grey, brown and green card stock,
- white card base (15x10,5 cm),
- water color paper for background (14,5x10 cm),
- red cotton string,
- cloud plastic stencil,
- baby wipes,
- heat gun,
- adhesive foam pads,
- water spritzer,
- paper glue.

First I cut the heart and colored it with Distress Oxides. I used lighter shades in the inside and darker shades on the edges.

Then I sprinkled it with drops of water. I dried it withe the heat gun.

Then I cut and colored the background.

I used plastic stencil and wiped the clouds with a baby wipe. I dried it withe the heat gun.

I cut parts for the hedgehogs from the colored paper. I used Distress Inks to color the edges and add some dimension.

Then I cut the sentiment and a little heart. I used grey card stock for the sentiment.

I cut a piece of green card stock for grass. I tore one side of it. I used Distress Ink around the edges.

When I had everything cut and colored I started gluing the bits on the card base. I used adhesive foam pads for the hedgehogs ...

and the heart. I used double here. In between bottom two I put the string.

And then I glued everything together and here is m finished card.

This is all from me for today. You can get the dies from the Valentine's release in the store for a 25 % discount.

Have a great Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cut dies I used: