Bunny Baker

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

The Spring Release with 20 new designs is in the online store. There is a nice combination of both religious and whimsical designs. So perfect for all card makers out there.

And there is still plenty of time to order and get them for your Easter cardmaking. Today for your viewing pleasure, I have a whimsical card for Easter using the ever so cute Spring Bunny Baker die. I made this one for my neighbor who is an avid baker. I have enjoyed many of her homemade treats, and I thought she would really like this card. 

I used the colors from this week's Splitcoaststamper color challenge #887. The color trio is real red, petal pink and pool party. 

I used the challenge colors to cut the elements of the Spring Bunny Baker die. Plus, some allowed neutral colors for the bunny, her mixing spoon and the card base. I thought the pool party needed a darker shade to make it pop. So, I used a dark gray cardstock.  

My card is a little larger than what I usually make, but I needed that because of the layout I used. 

Gray card base: 4 3/4" x 6"

Pool party layer: 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Pool party designer paper: 4 3/8" x 5 3/8" 

I used the largest of the Stitched Oval die and cut in pink cardstock and then the largest of the Oval Set die and cut in white cardstock. I attached my image to the circle with dimensional adhesive to give it some depth.

The sentiment is from the 2019 Bunny Kisses & Easter Wishes die. It is still available in the online store. I cut it in pink cardstock and used Art Glitter Glue to attach to the image panel. 

Well, that's it for me for this post. I will be back tomorrow for my regular Saturday post. 

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dies I used to create card:

Spring Chicken

 Hello Friends

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I hope you are wearing green!!

Today, I am making a thank you card because my stash is running a little low.  I decided to use the cute Spring Chicken for my card.  I love the little sign she has with her.  You can really put any sentiment you want on it.

Design Steps

1.  Use an A2 white card stock base and cut a piece of blue 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 run it through a cloud embossing folder

2.  Using the Spring Chicken die and cut the pieces out of tan, rust, brown, pink, yellow, purple, red, and green.  Shade the pieces with ink and glue together with a fine tip glue.  Stamp your sign with Thank You

3.  Cut 3 white frames using the largest of the Pierced Wide Rectangle set.  Glue the frames together.  Use the Spring Grass die and cut it out using green card stock.  Glue the grass to the back of the frames

4.  Layer the back of the frame with dimension tape.  Adhere it to the blue cloud card stock

5.  Glue in the Chicken then the sign.  Finally add in the flower and the white ribbon bow. Glue the blue panel to the white card base and your card is complete

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

Blessings and Take Care

Hey there Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahdin Krafts, here with my first CottageCutz YouTube video over on the CottageCutz Channel.  Today, I am sharing my "Hippity Hoppity Easter Train" slimline Card using several dies from the Spring Release.  

You can find all of the card details in my video and also enter for a chance to win the "Bunny Express Engine" die!  

Hello Spring Chicken Pop Up Slider Treat Box

Happy Terrific TuesDIE Scrapping Cottage friends!Melinda here with you for another fun Tuesday. My project features a couple of dies from the marvelous new SPRING RELEASE along with some others!  Here's what I created.

I decided to make a little Pop Up treat box! Check out this fun interactive box.

Here it is closed and standing on an angle.

Here's a look at it with the little "drawer" slightly opened.

I started by creating the box base. It comes from a 7x7 piece of cardstock. I simply scored it on all four sides at 1" and 2" . I cut the squares and trimmed in the "flaps" just slightly.

I added adhesive and began to fold the sides up.

I made sure to add some ribbon around one of the two sides that has the flaps. This way the ribbon wouldn't pull out as I used it as a "pull" See photo above and below.

I turned in all four sides and that gave the interior of the box some sturdiness and gave it a finished off look.

Next, I turned to making the box "top" or belly band if you will. I used the largest die from the Slimline Stitched Rectangle set. I then scored it to match the top and sides.

I then added glue to the back side of the largest slimline scallop stitched die. I glued this to the pink "top" we just made. See photos above and below.

I scored the mats again once the white was adhered to the pink.

I then used the second smallest die from the double stitched rectangle set.

I ran it through my die cut machine a couple of times and it cut out fine. 

Next, I burnished the score lines and then ran a bead of glue along one of the seams and adhered the two ends together. 

I cut a strip of pink paper 1x4". Scored it and that is the base for the easel part.

Once I attached it to the under side 

Here's what it looks like with nothing in the box and once it was adhered to the inner top of the top and the center of the inside of the box. Here are some additional photos at varying stages of it opening.

Here is a pic of it closed.

I proceeded to decorate one of the square scallop eyelet stitched dies with the cute Spring Chicken Die. I added the word Hello from the Hello Spring Bunny Cottage Die.

Here is another photo of the sweet little box open. Inside is a bunch of sweet "chewy" little (bubblegum) eggs.

DON'T FORGET THE SPRING CHICKEN AND THE HELLO SPRING BUNNY COTTAGE DIES ARE PART OF THE FABULOUS NEW SPRING RELEASE! CHECK OUT ALL OF THE SUPER CUTE DIES IN THE SHOP, AND PICK THEM UP TODAY!

The Dies I used to create this project:

Hello Spring Bunny Cottage

Spring Chicken

Nested Stitched Rectangle Slimline Set

Scallop Stitched Rectangle Slimline Set

Nested Stitched Eyelet Square Set

Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set

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Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda Beltran