Ocean Deep

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a card featuring the adorable mermaid from the new Pirates and Sea Creatures release. I haven't yet decided who I will send this to - it could be used for a birthday, congratulations or encouragement.

I chose the colors of this card from this week's color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.  They seemed perfect for a mermaid.

I cut her from white and colored cardstock.  I used Distress Oxide ink to color her skin and shade her hair (cut from Cinnamon Cider cardstock).

Her tail, the fish and starfish are cut from the challenge colors and shaded with the matching inks.

The card base is quite simple.  I cut a panel from Strathmore Mixed Media paper 6 x 5 inches and used a hot foil system to hot foil the "waves" in silver on the panel.

I then used the Pacific Point and Gorgeous Grape in to watercolor the ocean.

When that had dried, I cut the panel down to A2 size and stamped the sentiment in black.

I adhered my mermaid and glued it all to an A2 card base.  A very simple card that is super bright and cute!

Be sure to visit the online store to check out this release - the dies are very fun!

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

By the Sea!

Hello My Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam on the blog with you this awesome Thursday!

Today,  I have a beautiful lighthouse scene to share!  This lighthouse looks exactly like the one on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.  If you watch the Heritage Golf Tournament you will get a glimpse of it!

Background Photo by Philipp Deus on Unsplash

Designer Steps:

 1.  Use the Lighthouse die and cut out your pieces: Rust, red, white, brown, and teal blue card stock

2.  Shade your pieces using a variety of Tim Holtz inks and a small applicator.  Next assemble the pieces using a fine tip, fast drying glue

 3.  For the base use a piece of white A2 card stock.  Cut out a white frame using the largest Stitched Wide Rectangle Frame die.  Next use the largest Pierced Rectangle die and cut on white card stock.  Place the third from the largest Pierced Oval die in the center of the pierced rectangle piece cut out the oval. Using the same oval die cut out a piece of cloud DP

4.  Glue the white frame directly to the A2 white card front making sure to center it.  Next put dimensional tape on the back of the white pierced retangle piece with the oval cut out.  And tape it to the middle of the frame as shown.  Put glue on the back of the DP cloud piece and push it down into the middle of the oval

5.  Glue down the hill behind the oval frame and slide in the lighthouse behind the hill.  Pop up the little house and then glue down the water.  Next on black card stock cut out two Happys using the Expressions Happy die.  Glue together and then glue on card as shown.  Stamp birthday and layer on red then glue to card as shown 

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I really appreciate your visit!

Blessings

Pam

Thanks for Helping Us Through the Storm

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing a thank you card.  The Pirates die release is a wonderful collection of pirate and under the sea creatures.  These dies are currently on sale too!

I die cut the Pirate Ship and Filigree Clouds out of card stock.  I used the packaging of the Pirate Ship as the inspiration for the colors of my die cuts.

The card panels were selected to coordinate with the colors of the ship.  The soft blue serves as the background for the stormy scene on my card.  The Boundary Waters Fiskars punch was used for the set of borders.

Once I layered my card panels, I affixed the double borders along the bottom edge of my card. The ship was nestled in between the water borders at a slight angle.

The set of clouds were adhered above the ship with the larger cloud slightly above the smaller cloud.

I found the perfect sentiment in my stamp stash and added it to a hand cut flag which was adhered as a finishing accent on my card.

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

You are Mermazing

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Monday edition of the Blog. For all our American friends out there, I hope you had a great 4th of July weekend.

For my card today, I am featuring the new Mermaid die. I created a whimsical card for someone that I think is pretty amazing and that would be my precious little granddaughter. They live right at the Pacific Ocean so a water theme is perfect for her plus she loves mermaids. What little girl doesn't?

My colors were determined by the color challenge #798 on Splitcoaststampers. I thought these colors were good for an ocean scene.  Optional was to use waves or scallops. So that fit right with my mermaid image. 

pacific point, gorgeous grape, bermuda bay

On the background I used a cloud stencil and peacock feathers distress ink and a wave stencil and salty ocean distress ink. They are both a close match for bermuda bay and pacific point inks. I used a light touch with the sponge dauber.

I cut her fin and starfish in the gorgeous grape cardstock, her bra is cut from gorgeous grape designer paper, the fish in her hand from bermuda bay cardstock . Her face and body are colored with Copic markers. I used E000, E11 and E13. Her hair is colored with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol odorless mineral spirits. Those pencil colors are PC1082 Chocolate and PC946 Dark Brown.

The wave she is resting on is part of the Lighthouse die. I thought it was a cute resting place for my mermaid. Finished off my card with a few pacific point enamel dots. Well, that's it for me for this post. 

Just a reminder that there are some great sales going on in the online store. The 4th of July sale ends tonight at 9:00 PST. You have savings there of up to 60%. 

We also have a sale going on with these new dies. You can save up to 60% by buying the entire bundle and it's less than a $100. The individual dies are also 25% off.

dies I used to create card:

Hello Baby

Hi!

It's Anja here. There's a baby boom going on among my friends this year. So I decided to make a few cards to welcome their babies.

For 4 cards I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Flying Stork, Fancy Bassinet, Fancy Baby Boder, Baby),
- Distress Inks and Oxides,
- 4 white card bases (15x15 cm),
- water color paper (4 backgrounds, 14,5x14,5 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- black pen,
- sentiment stamp,
- black pigment ink,
- water spritzer,
- heat gun,
- 4 envelopes,
- paper trimmer,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the bassinets and baby phrases.

Next I did the same with the storks.

Then I started on the backgrounds. I used Distress Oxides. I put some color on my glass surface and spritzed it with water. Then I tapped watercolor paper on top. I used a heat gun to dry the paper. I used the same technique for all for papers.

I used the same technique to color baby borders. I used the borders to decorate the envelopes.

This is all the unique backgrounds and border I got.

Then I trimmed the paper and stamped the hello sentiment on top. Next to it I glued the baby sentiment. 

When all my pieces were ready I put the cards and envelopes together.

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

Anja Z.



Cottage Cutz dies I used: