Hello Honey

Hello and Happy Monday CottageCutz friends! 

I'm Kris ~ one of the Guest Designers here, and I've got a sweet & simple card I made for my daughter.  She's clear across the states (I'm in OR and she's in PA - attending grad school) so she's definitely one of my frequent card recipients, and the dies in this Strawberries & Bees Release were perfect for dropping a sweet hello!  

I've used the Bee Phrases and Flowers dies.  And I'll apologize now that I kinda forgot to take pictures along the way, but it's super simple that I think written details will suffice ☺

How I made it:

1.  I cut a piece of thick white cardstock 11" x 4-1/4" and scored it at 5-1/2" to make a top folding card.

2.  I cut a piece of black/white striped paper from my stash at 5-1/4" x 4" and adhered to card base.

3.  I cut a piece of yellow (Daffodil Delight) cardstock at 5" x 4" and adhered to the black/white striped piece so that the stripes appear at top and bottom.

4.  I cut a piece of kraft (Crumb Cake) cardstock at 4-3/4" x 3-3/4".  I mixed a bit of white acrylic paint with water and with a paint brush, I spattered white ink all over and set it aside to dry.

Here's a closer up shot of that.

5.  While the paint was drying, I die-cut and assembled my pieces from the Bee Phrases and Flowers out of white and yellow cardstock.  I then colored the 'Hello', bottom pieces of the bees & wings, the honey spoon, the top layers of the honeycomb, and the flower with Copic markers and assembled them.  

6.  For the dripping honey, I added some liquid pearls in a golden color to the yellow die-cut and let it dry.

6.  Next I adhered my white-spattered cardstock onto the middle of my card front.

7.  I then attached my die-cuts, gluing everything down, except the flower blossoms and bees in which I popped up with foam dots.

8.  I noticed I smudged my white paint spatter just above my honey spoon and it looked bad, so I added a golden bee charm there and another in bottom right corner just to make it look cohesive. 

That's all!  This was fairly quick and simple to put together.  I hope something I've done today inspires you to create with this ADORABLE release!  ☺

PRODUCTS I USED:

Here's the whole awesome release!

    Hope you have a CRAFT-astic week!!

~Kristine

Two Birthday Wishes Cards

Hello CottageCutz 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.

It's new release time!!! We have new dies in the online store. It's our Strawberries and Bees release with 16 new designs. You can pick up the individual dies are 30% off.

The new dies are perfect for all your cardmaking needs. They would work for so many occasions as our design team have been showing.

Today for your viewing pleasure I created 2 birthday cards. That seems to be the most needed card of the ones I send. So, I can never have enough of these. I have a big extended family plus the friends I send birthday greetings to. 

I am featuring the new Strawberry Treats and the Flowers die. I used the same CAS layout for both cards. Just changed up the designer papers to get a different look. A big plus is this design would be easy to re-create if you had to make multiples.  Let's get started on some details of how I created my card. 

Design Steps: 

I picked the colors for the first card and then chose my designer paper & card base. 

 

Light purple card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

White border strip: 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Attached to the card base with double sided tape.

Next, I cut the cake image and the sweetest phrase in colors that complemented the base and designer. Instead of the strawberry that is part of the cake design I decided to add flowers. I didn't think a red strawberry would look good with the shades of purple I was using. 

I decided to place the images on a circle. I had this one in my supplies already cut from the Wacky Stitched Circle die. It's the 2nd largest one - approximately 3 1/8".  I attached the circle with double sided tape and the images with dimensional adhesive.  

To finish off this first card, I attached the sweetest phrase, stamped an additional greeting on a banner and added a few light purple gems. 

Now for my second card. This one is using the same layout and color scheme. My designer paper is a  different pattern but the same light purple shade. It's called fresh freesia. And I used the Stitched Circle die on this card. 

The flowers are cut in shades of purple. The Sending phrase is from an older Black Friday release. release - Sending Hugs. It looks like it's no longer in stock, but you could use the Sweet phrase that I used in my first card.  

I attached these images with a combo of double-sided tape, glue and dimensional adhesive. I also used a different sentiment on this card and scattered grape enamel dots to complete it. 

Well that's it for me for this post. See you next Saturday. 

Dies I used to create card:

  

Stamping With Dies!

Hi everyone! My name is Linh and I'm honored and excited to be here as a guest designer. I have a new video up on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel. I was so inspired by the new Strawberry & Bees Collection that I made a couple batches of cold process soap bars in my bee-themed mold. Using several of the bee die sets in this collection, I created a wrap to package my soap bar and even made a matching card to go with it!

In this video, you'll see how I used the honeycomb die to stamp out my own background! Not only can you make your own pattern paper but you can even dress up things like tissue paper (or wax paper, which is what I wrapped my soap bars in). Watch this video to see how you can turn your dies into stamps!

Daisy Birthday Wishes

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends, 

We have a new release and it is just plain adorable.  It is called Strawberries and Bees perfect for those fun summertime cards. There are 16 designs in this new collection and you can get the individual dies for 30% off right now! This sale will not last so shop today to get the incredible savings.

Here is my card for today using the new release die Flowers and a fancy fold.  The idea for the fancy fold design is from Sharon Hashimoto Burkert.  I just loved her card so I had to give it a try.

Design Steps:

1.  For the fancy fold part of the card use a piece of black card stock 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 3", 5 1/2", 8", 9 1/2"

2.  The base of the card is a piece of black card stock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and white card stock embossed with a honey comb 4" x 5 1/4".  The decorative pieces for the fancy fold are as follows: two pieces cut at 1 1/4" x 4" (black checked and butterfly paper) one at 2 1/4" x 4" (teal flower paper) one at 1/2" x 4" (yellow checked) and white cut at 2 1/4" x 4" and 2 3/4" x 4".  The belly band is black 1 1/2" x 9 1/2"

3.  Glue the white honey comb card stock to the black base, glue the butterfly paper to the first flap, next is the black checked DP, 3rd panel is the teal flower DP, next two panels are the white and finally next to the white on the last panel add the strip of yellow checked DP

4.  Fold your fancy fold piece and glue it to the card base and then place the belly band around the card and glue the band together

5.  Using the Flowers die cut out 3 of the Daisies in white, 3 centers in yellow, and 4 leaves in green.  Assemble the flowers using a fine tip glue.  Using the 2nd from the smallest Scalloped Oval cut it out in yellow.  Using the 2nd from the smallest Pierced Oval cut it out in white.  Stamp the right side of the white oval with Happy Birthday and then glue to the yellow oval

6.  Place your belly band around the card and glue down the sentiment oval to the right on the band.  Glue one of the flowers just below the belly band and the other two flowers on the belly band as shown in the pictures above and below.  Stamp the inside of your card and it is complete

CottageCutz Products

Here is the new release so please check it out in our store today!!

We have more inspiration on our YouTube Channel check it out HERE

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

Blessings and Take Care

Scene Building with the Strawberries and Bees Release

Marla here today, oh boy... have you been enjoying all the inspiration from the new "Strawberries and Bees" release?  I am so smitten with each and every die and I can't stop creating with them.  

What I personally love about this release is that it is perfect for scene building.  As you can see, I used bits and pieces from several different dies to create the sweetest summer scene.  I wanted to get as many of these super cute images into this scene as possible so I could really showcase how incredible this release is. I hope I did it justice. You let me know.  It also meant, I left little to no room for a sentiment on the outside of my card.  That's ok, because I made up for it on the inside.

You can see how I put this card together and how I added finishing touches to the inside when you head over to the CottageCutz YouTube Channel.  While you're there, don't forget to enter for a chance to win the "Honey Bee" die as an added bonus.  

Until then, I will leave you with a list of all of fabulous products I used to create my card for quick and easy shopping.  Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time....Marla

Floral Card

Happy TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you on this Terrific Tuesday. I hope you are enjoy these wonderful days in July! Today I am sharing a very simple but effective card I created with one of the dies from the new Strawberries and Bees release. Here is what I came up with.

I created this pretty card with a simple floral theme. I used the wonderful new Flowers 4x6 die that is part of the new Strawberries and Bees release. I die cut several of the flowers in the die out all in white cardstock. I then lightly colored them with a some light shades of pink and gray.

Here is a closeup of one of the flowers. It has two layers as part of the flower. I just curled the petals to give them more movement. I also stuck a small piece of foam between the two layers to give them some additional lift.

Here is a shot looking at the card straight forward. I nestled the various flowers onto the largest double stitched oval from that set. 

Here is a view with the card at an angle so you can see more of the dimension of the flowers and leaves. I added some stickles to the centers of the flowers for a little extra touch. I then mounted the black oval with all the flowers onto three layers of mats. A Black, Pink and Pink and White Polka dot layer. All of that went onto a top folding standard A4 white cardstock base.

I purposely put no sentiment on it as I am not sure if this will be a thinking of you or a birthday card. We shall see :-)

Dies I Used

Flowers 4x6

Double-Stitched Oval Set

Here's a look at the super cute new set!

Be sure to check it out and all the amazing creations from the design team!

Make sure you head over to the CottageCutz YouTube channel and check out all of the amazing projects on there. Our video team is doing a wonderful job of filling the channel with all sorts of creative content! You don't want to miss it!

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

Melinda Beltran