Baseball Cap Triangle Easel Card

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 Baseball and Golf release with 16 new designs and currently on a 30% off sale. These new dies are so perfect for a masculine themed card.
Or for the kiddos (boys and girls) who are baseball or softball players. Don't forget about the golfers either. If you are a scrapbooker and are putting together the summer season of your child's baseball season, we have you covered.

My card today is featuring the new Baseball Cap, Baseball Phrases and Baseball Glove, Hat & Ball dies. I made this one for my precious little California granddaughter who likes baseball and her SF Giants team. So, let's get started with some details of how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I love trying different fun fold techniques. I had this diamond easel technique saved on my Pinterest board and I thought it would work today for my images. I have all the steps and sizes below but if you like watching a video - here it is

I started by picking my card colors. I wanted a pink hat and then I found this pink variegated paper in my collection. I had another matching color of pink designer paper to use for the angle cut. 

Card Base: 4-1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5-1/2″ on the 11″ side then scored on the front on the diagonal from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

This is what it looks like after the score line is burnished. 

Striped Designer Paper: - 4″ x 5-1/4″ cut on the diagonal the same as the scoring on the front of the card. Attached the designer paper to the card base with double sided tape. 

Next, I cut my baseball cap and the #1. 

I used the largest of the Stitched Rectangle (4 1/4" x 3 1/4") die for the card front.  I stamped my sentiments in the pink shade that matched the cardstock and designer papers. 

I attached the baseball cap to this panel with dimensional adhesive. Then the panel was attached to the card base with double sided tape. I only taped the bottom right of this panel so when the easel is opened the top left of the panel will move freely. 

Now for the card inside, I cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5-1/4″. I stamped another sentiment and added the glove and ball as the anchor to hold the easel card when opened. 

Well, that finished my card for this week. I hope I have given you a fresh idea for another way to use these new dies as well as a fun fold idea. See you next Saturday. 

Dies I used to create card:

Batter up!

Hi everyone! Linh here and I have a fun baseball card for you sports fans! The latest Baseball & Golf collection is amazing! If you struggle with making cards for the men and sports lovers in your life, this is the perfect collection for you!

For this particular card, I followed a fun card sketch. it's nice a simple and perfect for using some of your pattern paper scraps!  These papers are Lawn Fawn's Gotta Have Gingham and Plaid papers.  I thought they'd be perfect for this baseball themed card.

The Retro Alphabet set from CottageCutz seemed like a perfect fit for this masculine card! 

Par-fect Day

 Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends,

We have a NEW RELEASE which is perfect for all those sports fans in the family! It is called Baseball & Golf! It has 16 fantastic dies which will make your card making and scrapbooking pages look great! The release has special pricing right now so go and check it out HERE!

My husband is a golfer so I am really going to enjoy creating with the golf dies.  I used the Putting Green and Golf Cart for this card.  I mixed it with a few of the slimline dies for the background.

Design Steps:

1.  I used the Golf Cart die and cut gray, silver, red, blue, rust and black card stock.  I then assembled with a fast drying, fine tip glue

2.  I used the Putting Green die and cut brown, red and green card stock.  I will assemble the putting green on the card. You will see on the card I added a little piece of white on the back side of the hole

3.  For the background of the card I used an A2 white base, blue DP for the sky 2 1/4 x 5 1/4, dark green card stock cut with Mountain & Trees Slimline, a piece of green measuring 3 x 5 1/4 cut with the Hills Slimline and not pictured a piece of white 2 x 5 1/4 cut with the Clouds slimline

4.  Glue the sky down first to the white card base. Glue the tree line to the green hills and then glue to the card

5.  Glue the putting green to the green hills as pictured above

6.  Pop up the golf card, add the clouds to the top and your sentiment to the bottom.  Your card 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

Baseball Box and Card Set

Happy TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you on on another sweet TuesDIE. Today I am sharing a fun card and box set, featuring dies from the Baseball and Golf release.

Here’s a look at the set. It features an A4 top folding card and a fun circle shaped box. I made the box from some circle dies from the Pierced Circle die set. Below is a quick tutorial on how I made the little box.

I started with cutting out two each of the two largest circles in the set. I cut a strip of paper 2.5” x 11”. I then scored the strip at .5” the long way.

Next I used my ruler and “curled” the paper. The same way you would take a pair of scissors and curl ribbon for like a balloon.

Using the ruler allowed me to curl and or “train” the paper to have a curve as pictured above.

I then cut the half inch strip into little tabs by cutting thin little triangles out as pictured above. I kind of followed along with some of the creases that were created when I "curled" the paper.

Here is a shot showing you the way I cut the tabs. I didn't "measure" them or make them exact. I just cut them about every half inch or so.

I then added adhesive to the tabs and began to attach them to the bottom of the second to the largest circle from the die set.I just made sure as I was going around, that I kept the edge of the circle flush against the edge of the paper.

Once I made it all the way around, you can see I just closed up the side by adhering the two ends together.

The above white pieces were my first try. I started by making the box white. I decided that I wanted a blue base instead so I did all the above steps with blue cardstock. Once I got here, I cut out a piece of the same blue cardstock about 3/4" x 2". I scored it at the 1" mark length wise. I then glued it to the inside of the largest circle and to the outside of the box. I put it on the outside of the wall so that it would get covered by the patterned paper. 

I then added the second largest circle to the bottom of the box. Doing this allowed me to "sandwich" the tabs between the interior circle and the larger outside circle. I also added the second circle of the size smaller than the largest to the inside of the lid. Doing this covers the mechanics of the hinge.

Here's a closer look at the card. I used a combination of blue and white pierced circles. To those, I added a variety of the super cute dies to them. For the hat, I used my white gel pen and did some faux stiches. It was real easy to do that as the stitching marks are already on the die.

Here's a closer look at the finished top of the box. I used the large baseball die as well as the glove ball and bat. I inked the mit and the bat. I also used the scallop stitched rectangle die and added the All Stars sentiment to it. I used foam tape on the various pieces to give them a bit of lift off the top.

Here is one last look at my set. I think is turned out very cute!

Here's a link to a YT Video I made showing the set and explaining it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAVSkatJQo

The Dies I Used For This Project

Baseball Die

Baseball Glove, Bat and Ball

Baseball Cap

Baseball Phrases

Pierced Circle Set

Nested Scalloped Rectangle

I used the stitched scallop rectangle set, however this one would be a great alternative.

Here's the entire release. Head over to the shop and check them all out!

CLICK HERE

Also, don't forget to 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