Sending You Sunshine

Hey Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahin Krafts, back with another CottageCutz YouTube video on the CottageCutz Channel.  I am featuring several dies from the latest release, "Flowers & More."  

To create my card I worked with "Little Flowers", "Fence w/ Flower Garland", "Fence & Grass", "Arch Sun" and an oldie but goodie "Snowy Gnome Home."

I loved putting a new twist on the "Snowy Gnome Home", I made the snow...into moss!  

You can see how I created this card over on the YouTube Channel!

While over on the channel, make sure you like and comment for a chance to win the "Little Flowers" die!

The winner of the "Lemonade Stand" die from my last video is Meghan Kennihan, the details for collecting your giveaway prize are over on YouTube!  

Thanks for stopping in, and happy krafting!

Sweet I Love You Card

Happy Valentine's TuesDIE Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you, on this day to express....our love!   So I thought that was the perfect sentiment for my card today! I am sharing a sweet and pretty card I created with dies from the amazing new Flowers & More release from Cottage Cutz!

This release is amazing and a true MUST HAVE for your creative collection! All the dies in this collection are a wonderful addition and will fast be staples in your creative stash!

Here are my projects for today.

I created this simple yet pretty card featuring the Little Flowers and the Celebrate Banner dies from the new release! My card is a Horizontal top fold card. It is 4.25 x 5.5 with the fold along the 5.5 side and in landscape position.

I added a yellow cardstock mat sized at 4 x 5.25 and also a patterned paper mat sized at 2.5 x 5.25

 I then cut out the Largest double-stitched circle, the three smallest stitched hearts in that set and the second smallest pierced circle die from that set. 

I then used my various colored markers and colored in the two larger hearts and the pierced circle. I didn't have the right colored patterned paper, so this was a great alternative. I just tried to stay to the inside of the pierced or dashed lines. Here is an example of the larger heart.

I then cut out the celebrate banner in white and colored in the various little hearts and stars. I added dots of stickle to various ones for a little extra touch.

Here's a closer look at the assembled piece. I added the sweet little flowers to the center of the pierced circle. I cut them out of white cardstock and then colored them in as well. I added some sequins and scattered them for an extra touch. I then added the sentiment, I Love You and curved the words around the circle.

Here is one last look at my finished card. I think it turned out super cute!

Flowers & More collection!

Here's a look at the entire collection of dies in this fabulous release.

Dies I Used

Celebrate Banner

Little Flowers

I Love You Sentiment

Stitched Heart Set

Double-Stitched Circle Set

Pierced Circle Set

Don't forget to head over to the Cottage Cutz You-Tube Channel where you can see some of our amazing design team members create some beautiful projects!

Well that about covers it for today! May you have a wonderful Valentine's day and enjoy a little love in your day! Until the next time, have a wonderfully craft-die day!

Melinda Beltran

Partial Front Birthday Card

Happy Monday crafty friends!

Kris here with a super easy floral birthday card using Flower 1 and Flower 2 from the new  "Flowers & More" Release!  I do love the larger size of these flowers as they are super easy to color and assemble so this card came together very quickly!

The individual dies in this release are all 30% off!  ☺ They are FANTASTIC for birthdays, weddings, sympathy... you name it!  A great staple to have in your stash of dies!

This is an A2 top folding card, but with part of each side cut off the front for a li'l bit different look.

CUTTING & SCORING:

Yellow Cardstock = 4-1/4" x 11" 

- score at 5-1/2" (card base)

- Cut 1" off each side of the card front, just up to the score line. 

White Cardstock = 5-1/4" x 2" (inside panel) 

- die cut a circle using 4th largest Pierced Circle Set  

*Tip - this would look great using ovals instead of circles - I used what I had.

Coral Cardstock = die cut a scalloped circle using the 2nd largest from the Nested Stitched Scalloped Circle Set

Patterned Paper Green (center panel) = cut at 2" x 5-1/4"

Patterned Paper Floral (sides) = cut (2) that are 3/4" x 5-1/4"

DESIGN STEPS:

1.  Open your card and attach the 2 floral pieces to each side, leaving equal border all around.

2.  Stamp a sentiment if you wish on the white panel and attach to the center inside of card.

3.  Close card and attach your green patterned paper to the front center panel.

4.  Stamp on white circle if you wish and glue to the coral scalloped circle, then onto the center panel of card front. 

5. Die cut your flowers from white cardstock and add Distress inks with a blending brush.  (I used Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral, and Candied Apple for the flowers, and I used Old Paper, Shutters, and Mowed Lawn for the stems/leaves.)  Assemble the pieces.  

6.  *Optional:  Next, I spattered some metallic gold paint (mixed with a tiny bit of water) for a shiny distress look.

7.  And attach to your center panel.  Embellish with enamel dots or gems if you wish, and done!

These make quick and pretty cards that are always nice to have on hand. 

PRODUCTS I USED:

      

 

Thanks so much for looking!  Happy crafting!

~Kristine

Flower 7 Sympathy 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.

We have a brand-new release of dies in the online store. It's our Flowers & More release.  The individual dies are currently on sale for 30% off. This release has what we are calling "simple cuts". Meaning not as many pieces to put together so they assemble quickly.

Today for your viewing pleasure, I have used the Flower 7 die to create a sympathy card. I never seem to have any of those style cards on hand when I need one. Let's get started with some details of how I created my card. 

Design Steps:

I already had the designer paper pattern in mind so I wanted to use a layout that would allow the paper to be seen. I settled on the layout I used last week for my card. You can see that one here. The layout is from Splitcoaststampers sketch challenge #787. Made a couple of minor changes to the layout. I decided to eliminate layer #4.  I wanted my white flowers on the peacock background. 

I chose this pretty floral pattern paper as the background for my sympathy card. 

Peacock Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Designer Paper Layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
Peacock Layer #2: 3 1/8" x 4 3/8"

Next, I cut the floral image. I cut these in white cardstock. I liked the contrast of having the darker blue-green background against the white flowers. For a sentiment, I cut the hugs phrase from the Hugs w/Shadow die. 

Now that my panels and images are cut. I am ready to start my card assembly. I started with the image panel. The floral images are attached with clear drying glue and the Hugs phrase with mini glue dots. I had a pack of white sentiment strips with gold lettering that I thought would work to accompany the Hugs phrase. I chose the "from the heart".

For layer 3 of the sketch, I was going to use ribbon and then decided to cut a 1" strip of a pear green cardstock and embossed it with a small branch folder.  This way the image panel would lay flat on top of it. My cards are always a work in progress.

I attached the designer paper layer panel to the card base with double sided tape. The embossed panel -element #3 of the sketch is also attached with double sided tape. 

I attached the image panel to the card base with double sided tape. I added 3 white enamel dots to the corner instead of the image panel base. Sketches are a starting point and as long as they end looking similar to the layout given a few changes are okay.  

I decided to finish off the inside of my card as well. I stamped my sentiment, added a 1" piece of the designer paper and another flower. this flower I cut from cardstock that matches the designer paper. 

That's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday.

dies I used to create card:

Corner Tuck Card Featuring a Flower Market Stand

Hi everyone! Linh here and I have a new video up on the Cottage Cutz YouTube channel. This is a Corner Tuck card. It's pretty easy to put together but is just something a little different and fun. I used the Lemonade Stand die set but converted it to a flower stand! The Little flowers are perfectly scaled to fit in the small elements of the Lemonade Stand. I covered up the debossed "Lemonade" word with my own Dymo label to relabel the stand. 

Click here to watch me make this card!

 

Two Simple Floral Cards

Happy Thursday Cottage Cutz Friends!

Melinda here with you, and today I am sharing two pretty and very easy cards I created with the amazing new Flowers & More release from Cottage Cutz!

This release is amazing and a true MUST HAVE for your creative collection! All the dies in this collection are a wonderful addition and will fast be staples in your creative stash!

Here are my projects for today.

I created this simple yet pretty card featuring the Flower 1 die from the new release! It is such a great sized die and very, very easy to put together. I cut the pieces in white cardstock and then used my markers to color them. Once colored, I mounted the flower onto a piece of yellow cardstock. Underneath that is a purple gingham mat and all that is adhered to the scallop stitched rectangle. For the larger part of the card's background, I cut out the Vintage Trellis slimline die in white cardstock. I then cut it down to fit onto the larger yellow mat. I then added a patterned paper mat and then a purple mat all onto my white cardstock base. 

Here's a closer look at the pretty flower 1 die. I added some sequins and some stickles to create the "veins" on the petals. For the sentiment, I used the I Love You die and cut it out of white cardstock. I then colored the letters with my purple marker and adhered all that onto the smallest scallop stitched rectangle. 

Next up, I created this pretty and simple card with the little flowers die set from the release. I cut all of them again in white cardstock and then colored them in.

I then layered them onto the double-stitched oval. I then staggered and layered in a series of double-stitched and scalloped ovals from both sets. I mounted all of that onto some polka dot papers and adhered it all to my white cardstock base. I then used the sentiment love you and cut that from some more white cardstock. Very easy but effective.

Both of these cards came together quickly and can be reproduced quite easily! 

Here is a look at the fabulous collection!

Flowers & More collection!

Grab it fast while you can get the entire bundle for one amazing low price!

Dies I Used

Flower 1

Little Flowers

I Love You Sentiment

Love You Mom Phrase

Double Stitched Oval Set

Scallop Oval Set

Nested Scallop Rectangle Set

Vintage Trellis Slimline

Don't forget to head over to the Cottage Cutz You-Tube Channel where you can see some of our amazing design team members create some beautiful projects!

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

Melinda Beltran