Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

Friday, January 12, 2024

2 Swinging Monkey Valentines


Hi CottageCutz Friends,

Kris here with you today, sharing 2 Valentine's Day cards featuring the cute Swinging Monkey and the Valentine Phrase & More!.  The first one is a quick & easy valentine's card.  For my 2nd card, I made an interactive swinging card!

CARD #1


DESIGN STEPS:

I cut my A2 top folding card base in a dark pink, then I layered a piece of Doodlebug Design Hearts paper slightly smaller, 5-1/4" x 4".  

I die cut the largest Nested Wacky Stitched Rectangles from white c.s. and stamped half of a sentiment onto lower portion as shown, then mounted it onto card front. 

I also die cut the Swinging Monkey and the Valentine Phrase & More from white cardstock, and the hearts from  2 shades of pink.  I also foiled the 2nd half of my sentiment onto pink c.s.


I colored my monkey and assembled.  Then I cut off his hands so I could glue them on top of the hearts like he's actually holding them.  


I decided to hang him by his tail instead of his arm, so I glued the tail to tree limb and then onto the card.  I added some foam tape behind his body to pop him out a bit.  


Next, I popped up 2 hearts where his hands would be with foam tape, then glued his hands to the hearts.  I then glued the li'l hearts to the tree limbs and around. 


And lastly, I popped up the foiled sentiment with foam mounting tape and Voila!   How stinkin' CUTE is he??!!!  



CARD #2
(This one actually swings!)



DESIGN STEPS:

For this one, I started with a 5-1/2" square top folding card in light pink.  I stenciled on front to add a li'l interested, then stenciled hearts (from the Valentine Phrase & More cut outs) where the dotty lines intersect.

Next, I die cut the largest Stitched Rectangle set from the center of my card front (with the card open).


Next, I die cut a darker pink frame by nesting the largest Scalloped Rectangle and the 2nd largest  Stitched Rectangle set as shown


I glued the frame to the card front. 


I cut a piece of white c.s. to 5" square and cut 2 pieces, also 5" wide and die cut tops with the Grass Slimline dies.  Then I colored with distress oxide ink.



 I glued the monkey's body and arm to an acetate strip.  Then I punched a hole where his hand would be that was big enough to go around a tiny spinner disc (you could also stack 2 round mini foam dots on top of each other if you want) and position and glue it to the center of the inside of your card as shown below.  

*It helps to close the front of card for positioning.  


Then, with the acetate strip around the glued disc, I glued the tree limb to the top of disc (or dimensional dots). Then I glued his hand to the top of the tree limb where his arm is at and glued the hearts to the tree limb.

I then attached my sentiments to the front as shown. 


And lastly, I cut a piece of lime cardstock 5-1/2" x 3" and scored at 1/2", 1-1/2", 2-1/2" then mountain fold, valley fold, mountain fold it.  Burnish score lines, and add Scor Tape to the 2 outer flaps.


Attach the flaps to insides of card at the bottom. 


For the back, I cut a piece of white cardstock 5" square and mounted a piece of dark pink that was die cut with largest scalloped square die.  I then mounted the sentiment and have room to hand write on the white border.  ☺









Thanks so much for looking today!  I hope you get creative with your favorite CottageCutz dies and be sure to check out the Black Friday Release!!!  It's still on sale - individual dies are 30% OFF and has lots of versatile dies for Valentine's, Spring or Summer! 

~Kristine

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Our Love Is A Classic - Valentine's Day Slimline Card






Hey Krafty Friends, Jen from Katahdin Krafts, back with another  CottageCutz YouTube video on the CottageCutz Channel Creating my card this week I used two dies from the "Classic Fifties" release, "Classic Car (Front)" and "Fifties Phrases #2."  I also used "Love Shadow", "Ice Cream Sundae" and the "Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Slimline" to make my Valentine.


I made this card with my personal Valentine in mind, thinking that the classic car was a perfect way to make it masculine...even though it's pink!  

Remember you can find my card instructions over on the YouTube Channel!

While over on the channel, make sure you like and comment for a chance to win the "Classic Car (Front)" die!

The winner of the "Guitar, Music Notes & Records" die from my last video is C.Z., the details for collecting your giveaway prize are over on YouTube!  

Thanks for stopping in, and happy krafting!














Friday, January 05, 2018

Love in the Mail

It's Jeanne posting another Valentine today using the Love Postage die.  I just love this die; it's one of my favorites!
To begin, I used a white A2 card base (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 scored and folded at the 4 1/4 inch mark.)
I cut six red stamps and five "love" words from white card stock and one from black card stock.  I saved the little white hearts from the center of the word.

This card is pretty straightforward but did require some math (which I did for you) and some measuring.  I wanted the stamps to all line up and have an equal border.  Each stamp is 1 1/2 inches so I could make my borders around the edges and in between 1/4 inch.  My white panel for the top of  the card measures 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches.
Look closely and you will see the pencils lines.  I lightly marked guidelines 1/4 inch on each side and then 2 inches up from the bottom. (1/4 + 1 1/2 + 1/4)
I lined up the stamp bases on the top and bottom using the guidelines on the sides.  For the stamps in the middle I used the guideline at the 2 inch mark.  In this way I could get everything to line up with minimal pencil marks.  I then very carefully erased the marks.
Before finishing the stamps and gluing the front panel to the card base, I cut a strip of red card stock 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches and glued it to the right side of the card base.  I also cut two of the heart borders from the Sweet Love Borders die.  I needed two since they are not quite 5 1/2 inches long.  However, they go together seamlessly when glued down.
After gluing the front panel over the card base with strip, I was left with a 1/2 inch strip of red on the side.  I adhered the heart borders to that, bumped them right up to the edge of the front panel and cut off the excess.  For the "Love" word I used my clear ruler as a guideline to glue those 1/4 inch above the edge of each stamp.
For my last stamp I used the black "Love" and a white heart.

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzlovepostage.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsweetloveborders.aspx

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a creative weekend!!


Friday, February 17, 2017

MINI ACCORDION PHOTO BOOK

Hello Dear Friends !!!

It's Anita here and I hope you had a great week. Spring is in the air and birds and bees are to be seen in the gardens.
CottageCutz has something new for you this season and that is the combination of stamps and dies that will surely make you happy. These are super cute and so much fun to colour.
You can check all of them here.
Valentine's Day just got over but a gift for our loved ones is what we all love making.
So here I have a cute mini accordion photo book featuring the CottageCutz Sweet Valentines stamp and Die set.



To make this book, follow the pictures and instructions below.
  

Stamp the image with black ink

Colour with medium of your choice. I have used Zig Brush Pens


Cut them out with coordinating dies




Cut two card stock 12" x 5" and score in mountain and valley fold at 4".


Adhere the last panel of one card stock to the first panel of the other card stock to form an accordion book.


Cut out pattern paper 4.75" x 3.75" and round of corners. Distress with aged mahogany distress ink.

Adhere these panels to the front and back of the book. Adhere Wide Stitched Rectangle frames after they also have been distressed.

Add the die cut images popping them up with 3D foam tape




Tie the book with a ribbon.



CottageCutz dies


Its so much fun to create cute projects using this stamp and die combination. To see many new dies , visit the store here.
Thank you so much for your time and comments. Happy crafting.