Gardening Mice Slimline Card

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne sharing today.  I've been seeing slimline cards everywhere and I've been wanting to make one.  So I thought I'd combine some of the mice in this release and create a fun gardening scene.

I did some research into sizes of slimlines and there are slight variances.  I went with a card that is 8 1/2  x 3 1/2 inches.  It is easily made by using an 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of card stock, cutting it at 7 inches and then scoring it at the 3 1/2 inch point.  I cut 1/2 inch off the remaining 4 inches of cardstock, giving me a panel 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches that I could use to stencil and assemble my dies on.  When finished it gets adhered to the card base.  One sheet of card stock gives you one card with little waste.

I cut my pieces from the Gardening Mouse, the Mouse w/ Garden Wagon and the Gardening Cat w/ Wagon dies in white cardstock and then colored them with the inks shown below.

I used Distress Oxide ink for the animals, dirt and wagon.....

...and Stampin' Up! dye ink for the flowers and stenciling.

The stencil I have for grass is double edged, so that after you have colored the grass, the opposite side can be used to mask off what you have just colored.  It works quite well and I was even able to align it to repeat since it is not as long as the slimline panel.

I used a cloud stencil for the sky.  This one was a bit trickier to get to line up to the extended length, but much of the sky is covered by the mice and sentiment.

I worked from left to right to lay out the elements.

The flowers are tucked into the holes in the garden bed.

The hedgie looked like he needed something, so he got his own flower to hold.  The wagon in this die can be made to go either left or right!

I love the bright colors of this card and used sequins in matching colors for sparkle and whimsy.  My daughter said they look like seeds so I'm going with that!

Dies:

 Thanks for joining me today!  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Peeking Pup!

Hello My Scrapping Cottage Friends!

Today,  I have a sweet pup just peeking out of a lovely garden cart!  I decided to make it into a thank you card but it could easily be a birthday, just because or a hello card!

Background Photo by Joe Woods on Unsplash

Design Steps:

 1.  Using white card stock and the Puppy in Garden Cart die cut out all of the pieces.  I did use a piece of red polka dot DP and recut the umbrella pieces

2.  Using Tim Holtz inks and a small sponge applicator color and shade all of the pieces.  Next assemble them using a fine tip glue

 3.  Use a white A2 card base, a piece of red card stock cut 4 x 5 1/4, a piece of polka dot blue DP cut with a Stitched Scallop Square and a piece of green card stock cut with the Spring Grass die

4.  Attach the ribbon toward the bottom of the red card stock and add your sentiment

5.  Next add the grass to the bottom of the polka dot blue scallop square.  And then glue your garden card to the square as shown.  Pop the blue square to the red panel just above the ribbon and then attach to the white card base.  Lastly add the tiny black rhinestones to the pup's eyes and some tiny red rhinestones to the yellow flowers and your card is complete

 CottageCutz Products

Thanks so much for stopping by today! And I will see you next Thursday!

Blessings

Pam

All Things Grow with Love

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing this all occasion card for my design team post.  I used one of the fun dies from the Gardening die release.

My card features the Garden Ladder, the Pierced Circle Set and a little arrow from the Retro Alphabet die set.

I incorporated a couple of different patterns for my card base on a solid white card panel.  The sentiment was stamped on a strip of solid card stock.

The base of my card came together quickly with the different layers which were topped off with the circle.

The ladder was adhered to the left side of the circle.  The neutral background allows for the gardening elements to pop even in the softer colors.

The sentiment strip was adhered along the top edge of my card.  I added the arrow inside the circle as an embellishment.

Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Beach Huts

Hi Janja here with you. Welcome to the blog today.
In the beginning, I intended to prepare a greeting card on the topic of gardening.
However, since summer is almost here, I changed my mind and turned the garden shed into a beach hut.

- CottageCutz dies: Potting Shed, Puppy in Garden Cart (parasol), Fairytale Castle (flags), Camping Trailer (flags garland), Seagull (sand dunes)
- blank card: 5 7/8" x 5 7/8" (15 x 15 cm)
- white cardstock: 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" (14 x 14 cm)
- patterned papers
- different colors of brush markers
- different colors of ink pads
- glue, double-sided adhesive tape, self-adhesive foam pads

Cut the beach huts out of striped papers. Also cut out three parasols.

Use white cardstock for the background. Shade it with different colors of ink pads. For a sandy beach, use a stamp or simply add dots with a marker.

Now attach all the elements to the prepared background with glue and self-adhesive foam pads as shown. Attach the parasols to small sand dunes.

Thank you for stopping by.

Janja

Gardening Time

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have another gardening card for you today. I combined this cute cat die with a mini hose.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Gardening Cat, Garden Hose Mini, Circle Set),
- Distress Inks,
- white card base (15X15 CM),
- white card stock for die cuts and paper stencil,
- silver pigment ink,
- black pen,
- black Versafine pigment ink,
- sentiment stamp,
- acrylic block,
- brush,
- paper trimmer,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the cat and all the gardening accessories.

Next I did the same with the hose.

Then I made a paper stencil. I used the paper trimmer to cut the circle in two. I used the biggest circle die from the set.

I used the negative and the bigger part of the circle to color the ground. You could also use washi tape to set the paper for easier coloring.

Then I used the smaller part of the circle to color the sky. I used a brush for coloring.

Then I added the sentiment in upper right corner of the colored circle.

Last I added the cat and the hose and my card was done.

And this is all from me for today. Have a nice Sunday and see you again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card: