You Arrrrgh Awesome

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

We have lots going on at the online store with a brand new Beach & Tropical release that has 14 new designs. You can currently save a big 60% off the retail price of these dies and pick up the entire bundle for under $100.  The Design Team will begin featuring these new dies next week. We also have a Christmas in July sale with savings of up to 65% on select dies.

For my card today I am featuring the new Pirate die and created a birthday card for a little boy. I always seem to need kid's birthday cards so I like to have them on hand.  So let's get started with some details on how I created my card. 

Design Steps: 

I am showing a fun fold card this week. This one is called a split panel fold. I started off with an olive card base measuring 4 1/4" x 11". I scored it at 5 1/2" for an A2 size card. 

Then I cut the front panel at the 2" mark. From the piece I cut off, I cut another 2" x 4 1/4" panel. 

I picked a bright colored designer paper for my layering panel. Bright colors always seem to resonate with little boys. I cut the designer paper at 1 7/8" x 4 1/8". 

Next, I decided to cut the Pirate image so I would know how large to make the image panel. I used the cardstock colors to match the designer paper. I used a striped designer paper to give him some fancy pants. For his face, hands and hair I cut in white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I attached the pieces with Ranger multi-medium matte.

Skin: E00, E11, E21

Hair: E35, E57, E59

For the image panels I used the 2nd largest Stitched Rectangle  (2 7/8" x 3 7/8")& 2nd largest Rectangle (2 3/4" x 3 3/4") dies. I sponged the panel with a cloud stencil and tumbled glass distress ink then sponged salty ocean distress ink for water. 

Now that all the elements and panels are cut and stenciled I am ready to start card assembly. I attached the Pirate with dimensional adhesive, I decided to have him stand on a sand dune so I cut one from the Treasure Chest Island die. 

Stamped my sentiment "you arrrrgh awesome" on an angle in the right corner in black ink. Used my misty for placement and just in case I needed a second inking. But with this one one inking was perfect. 

For the image panel I just used double sided tape on the top and bottom.

I attached the image panel to the card base.

Well, that's my card for this week. I hope I have given you a fresh idea for using this super cute die with the fun fold design. See you next Saturday!

dies I used to create card:

Sail Towards Your Dreams

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card of encouragement or congratulations for someone who is working towards fulfilling their dreams.  I used the Pirate Ship from the new Pirates and Sea Creatures release.  This ship makes a fun pirate ship but also a classic looking ship when made with white sails and no pirate symbol.

I started the card by cutting the pieces from white cardstock and coloring with Distress Oxide inks.

I then cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches and used several blue shades of ink to blend an ocean.  I didn't bother to go all the way to the top of the panel as I knew I wasn't going to need that much.

I dry embossed this panel with a wave pattern.  It was a bit tight going through my machine which caused some cracking on the waves.  However, I found this added to the water feel.

I wanted to have my ship nestled in between waves so I used my paper snips and cut along some of the wavy lines.

The portion with the flat bottom will be at the bottom of my card.  I will position the other portion underneath and down to create layers.  My ship will go between.

For my background panel I stamped the sentiment in the upper right and used a cloud stencil to create the sky.  It was quiet easy to avoid blending over the sentiment so that it has a nice white background that blends into the clouds.

I added the ocean panels and tucked in the ship.  The last details to get added were the whitecaps and the sea birds.

Dies:

Be sure to visit the online store where there is a sale going on with great deals on select dies for a limited time!

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Turtle Time

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Fans!

It is Pam on the blog with you today!

We have a brand new release of dies in the online store.  This selection of dies features Pirates and Sea Creatures! There are 14 awesome designs in the collection and you are going to want each and everyone of them!!


Today my card is using the adorable Sea Turtle!

Background Photo by Noah Usry on Unsplash

Design Steps:

 1.  Use a white A2 card base with the front flap cut in half.  Cut a piece of purple DP 4 x 5 1/4 and 2 x 5 1/4.  Using your second to the largest Pierced Circle die cut 2 pieces of white card stock and a piece of blue DP

2.  Glue the purple DP to the inside of the card and the front flap.  Glue the blue DP circle to a white circle and set aside

 3.  Using the Sea Turtle die cut out the pieces of the turtle in 3 shades of green.  Using the Tropical Fish die cut out different shades of seaweed and the sand in brown

 4.  Using TH inks shade the pieces with a small applicator and then assemble.  Add a small white dot on the eye with a gel pen

5.  Arrange the die pieces onto the blue circle and glue down

6.  Next put glue on half of the circle and glue it to the front flap.  Add extra sand and seaweed to the corners of the card as shown.  Stamp your sentiment and cut out, finish the front card with some sequin and star fish

7.  Open the front flap and directly behind the front circle glue down the inside circle.  Add your sentiment and some additional sand and seaweed.  Your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!  We really love seeing you!

Blessings

Pam

Ahoy Matey!

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing this adorable pirate card. The dies are from the new Pirates die release combined with an older die set.  This card was so much fun to put together with its masculine theme!

The Pirate and Ahoy Matey are from the newest die release.  I love the oversized pirate looking for his next treasure.  I also used the Map and Spyglass die set for my card.

The background was created by blending a few different colors of inks.  The top layer was torn around the edges to look like a rustic map.  The torn edges add a lot of texture to the basic background.

To build my card, I first added the Ahoy Matey sentiment and anchored the map and spyglass in the corner above.

Next, the pirate was affixed on my card.  I wanted him to look like a pirate captain standing on a ship's deck

For a finishing touch on my card, I add some punched out dashes, leading from the sentiment to the map.

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

Homage to the Beatles

Happy Monday!  It's Jeanne today with an extra card this week and one I had a lot of fun making!  When I saw the octopus in the new release I was working on cards for the last release - gardening.  I immediately thought about putting the Garden Phrases and Octopus dies together.  And I couldn't resist throwing in the Toy Submarine die.

I love music - all kinds of music!  I grew up listening to the Beatles and I listened to them while working on this card.   Lot's of good memories!

The background of this card is a patterned paper that happened to be perfect to set the scene.  For the sign I used the Garden Phrases sign and simply trimmed along one of the wood grain cuts to make it smaller.  The seaweed is from the Tropical Fish die.

I cut everything but the sign various colors of cardstock except the sign which I cut from white.  I used ink to shade the seaweed and octopus and to color the sign.  The octopus was popped up using foam dots.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  It would certainly be perfect for the music lover in your life!

Dies:

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a great week!