Showing posts with label CottageCutz stitched circle set. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CottageCutz stitched circle set. Show all posts

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Gate Fold Masculine Birthday

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.

Our Folk Art release is still available in the online store at 35% off individual dies. There are 19 new designs that are so perfect for cardmaking, journaling, and scrapbooking.

In fact, all of the releases from 2023 through Halloween of 2022 are currently on sale. Check them out here if you want to pick up any that you may have missed and still want.

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring a die from our Classic 50's release . It's the Motorcycle die, and I used it for a masculine birthday fun fold card. The fold is a gate fold with a belly band. My friend asked me to make a card for her son who loves to ride his motorcycle.
 
Design Steps:

I started by preparing the card base and the layering panels. 

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". I scored both panels at 2 1/8" on each side.

White Layers - 5 3/8" x 2"
Designer Paper Layer - 5" x 1 7/8"
Next, I adhered these pieces with double sided tape.
Belly Band -11" x 1 1/2" - scored at 7 3/8" & 3 1/8". 
I placed the band around the card front and then folded in on the score lines. I used clear drying glue to form the band. 
I cut the pieces for the motorcycle. I used red and black since that's the color of her son's bike. 
I cut a circle using the 3rd largest Stitched Circle die. Sponged some clouds using Tumbled Glass distress ink and Mowed Lawn distress ink for grass. Attached the motorcycle image with dimensional adhesive. 
I wanted a sentiment on the front but I didn't have any stamps that would work. So I used the letters from the Cinema Drive-In Sign and Fifties Phrases #2 dies for the "Ride On" phrase. 
I attached the image on the belly band and slid it over the card front. 
I finished the inside of my card using the Happy Birthday w/ shadow die. I also stamped a sentiment. 
That's it for me for this post. See you again next Saturday. 

Reminder: Marla has a new video up on the CottageCutz YouTube channel. Click here. 








 


Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Some Bunny Loves You

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Tuesday edition of the Blog. I am filling in for Melinda for a couple of weeks while she recovers from some recent surgery. 

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.

They are so perfect for the many card making occasions that we all have. Birthdays, Thank You, Sympathy, Mother's Day, Easter or even a scrapbook layout just to name a few. Today for your viewing pleasure, I am revisiting an older die from our Spring 2020 release. It's the Double Trouble Bunnies die.

I used the colors from this week's Splitcoaststampers color challenge #939. We are to use polished pink, garden green and tahitian tide for our color trio. Optional is to use layers. 
polished pink, garden green, tahitian tide

I decided to make an Easter card with these bold and bright colors. I had the white card base and the tahitian tide tag in my stash.  The top of the tag is partially covered by my circle images, but it has a tahitian tide color gradient.

My first circle is cut in tahitian tide color. I used the largest die from the Sweetheart Doilies set. Looks like that one is out of stock but you could use the Nested Stitched Scallop Circle die.  The image circle is the 4th largest Stitched Circle die.

I cut the Double Trouble Bunnies in an allowed neutral and the egg and grass in the challenge colors. Stamped my sentiment and added a few polished pink opal rounds to complete my card.

See you on Saturday!

dies I used to create card:




Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Round Easel Racoon Skiing


Good morning Cottagecutz fans. I hope your week is going well so far. It’s Wendy bringing you the blog today. Can you believe we are over half way through January, Before you know it, we’ll be making those Christmas cards again :-)

I have been a massive fan of easel cards today and this time I thought, why not mix it up and make a circle easel card.

To begin with take a piece of light blue card, fold in half and make sure that is large enough to to be able to use the largest of the ‘Nested Scalloped Stitched circles’. What you need to do is make sure that when you out it though the die cutting machine that you lave a small amount at the top so you don’t cut 2 circles, but one 



Next fold one of the circles in half. You can measure but I’m not a fan so I folded it in half as best I could. It doesn’t really matter as no one will see it as we go through making the card


Nect cut out another circle of the same size and attached this to the bottom of the folded card


I then cut a white ‘ Nested Stitched Circle’ to fit inside the card above. 


I then decided to have some sky on the top of the circle so that it will be effective on the finished card. I did this by using the ‘Clouds’ Slimline die and used it as a template. As always, start part way down the card an build up to the top


Next I cut the same size white circle as those above and used the ‘Hills Slimline’ to cut some now hills into the card. I attached the base layer with glue and then the next layer with 1mm foam pads


I cut some of the tress from the ‘Winter Whimsical Village and attach to the card with 1mm foam pads


To finish off my card I assembled the ‘Winter Racoon on Ski’s’. I added some chalk for effect


I attached the Racoon to the cars with 1mm foam

To Keep the card upright I used the snowboard from the ‘Snowboarding Penguin’. I attached it with 2mm foam pads 


Dies I used:












I hope you have a lovely rest of the week and I will see you on Friday with hopefully a ner project using the Spring Release

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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Santa Gnome in Throne


Good Morning Cottagecutz fans. I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend crafting. My usual weekend includes dog walks with my Border Terrier Betty and a whole lot of crafting 

Todays post is a light tutorial as I will be including a full tutorial on my Friday post

I’m including some of the designs from the new release where you can still get 30% off which is amazing. These dies have really inspired me to make some really different cards, not usually my style. Get your dies why the discount is still available.

Top tip from me today, If I know I’m going to repeat a card, tag etc. many times, I always buy more than one of the design. If you have an A4 cutting plate you can load several does at once.

So lets get on to todays project 

I started with a card when folded measured 6” square. The next layer was a piece of red card measuring 
5  3/4”square, followed by a silver piece of card measuring 5 1/2” square. Finally I took a piece of white card measuring 5 1/4” square and in the centre using the largest of the nested stitched circles I cut a hole. With all the other pieces of card stick I stuck them down with glue but the white piece of card I adhered using 1mm foam pads.

Next I cut out the Santa Gnome and the chair in the colours above. I used a small stitched oval coloured in blue to act as a rug and then adhered the design on the top with 1mm foam pads. I took the mug from the new Smores die and gave it to Santa. He needed a hot cup of cocoa after delivering all those presents. I used some brown chalk to look like the marshmallow is toasted

I thought it might be nice to adorn the card with some additional elements so I used the ‘Window Christmas Friends’. From this I took the Christmas tree, the vine and the poinsettia. What I liked about the vine is that you could bend it to fit around the tree and also for the top left hand corner of the card.

Finally I used the new ‘Merry Christmas W/Shadow’ sentiment. I think the red looks really powerful on the silver card. I used a diamanté above the ‘I’ in Christmas to give the card a little more bling. I attached the sentiment with 1mm foam pads

I really hope you like the card. I’ve tried to keep this simple and clean and a card that can be easily repeated for your crafty stash. Have a wonderful week and I really look forward to seeing you Friday with something a little different

Dies I’ve used for the card