Showing posts with label Mr and Mrs with Hearts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr and Mrs with Hearts. Show all posts

Monday, July 31, 2017

A Love Story

Hi, Lois here today with a card using some of the new CottageCutz dies.  As you may know, there is another great release of new dies over in the online store. The Nested Shapes with 17 designs as well as a Wedding Release with 20 designs. Janet (CottageCutz's video artist) has put together a video showcasing all the new nested shapes dies. Just click on the photo below to be taken to the CottageCutz YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOQcFflcIE&feature=youtu.be



I'm showing off several of the new wedding dies  today.  I saw a fold-out card on Pinterest a couple of weeks ago that I thought I could create -- depicting a little love story.  The card I saw on Pinterest was a birthday card; mine is a wedding card, using the following CottageCutz dies:

Pair of Doves
Wedding Chapel
Garden Bride and Groom
Mr and Mrs with Hearts
Honeymoon Car



There are many panels of cardstock on my card:

White - 5 1/2" x 11 1/2", 2 3/4" x 4 1/4", 3 3/4" x 5", 3" x 4 1/2" (2), 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" (2)
Blue - 4" x 5 1/4", 3 1/4" x 4 3/4" (2), 2 1/2" x 4" (2)
Patterned Paper - 3 5/8" x 2 1/4", 2 7/8" x 1 1/2" (2), 2 1/8" x 1 1/4" (2)


Cut the various die-cut pieces from white, blue, gray, pink, and black cardstock, as shown.


Score the 5 1/2" x 11 1/2" piece of white cardstock at 1/4", 3 3/4", and 7 1/4".


Rotate the cardstock  and, with the 1/4" scored side at the top, place it at the 5/8" mark of your paper cutter and cut down to the last score line.  Cut out the 5/8" section, as shown.


Place a strip of 1/8" Scor-tape on one side of the 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" piece of white cardstock and adhere to the 1/4" section.  Trim the excess 1/4" strip at the top, as shown.


Adhere the various pieces of patterned paper to the remaining white panels and run a piece of narrow blue ribbon around the top of the patterned paper, adhering at the back.  Add some color to the die cuts using Copic markers to give some dimension and construct the die-cuts on the white panels. (As I was constructing the chapel, I decided that I needed a couple of yellow pieces for the windows.)  Then adhere the white panels to the blue panels.


Stamp the small sentiments to several of the panels and adhere to the card base.  Add some pearls throughout.



CottageCutz dies  used on my card are:

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpairofdoves.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzweddingchapel.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzgardenbrideandgroomelites.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzmrandmrswithhearts.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzhoneymooncar.aspx


Thursday, July 20, 2017

Summer is for Weddings!

Hello Scrapping Cottage Fans!

Pam is on the blog sharing with you today! Summer is traditionally about weddings!  So with that in mind Cottage Cutz had just released 20 wedding dies that are just beautiful! Today I am using two of the new dies for a sweet little wedding card that is sure to please!

Design Steps:
1.  Use a vanilla A2 card base and cut a slightly smaller piece of gold and glue to front of card base.  Then emboss a piece of vanilla card stock that is 4 x 5 1/4 and glue to gold

 2.  Cut out a gold Mr & Mrs using the new Cottage Cutz Mr. & Mrs with Hearts.  And also cut out a gold dove swing using the new Cottage Cutz Pair of Doves die
 3.  Using the new Cottage Cutz Pair of Doves die cut out the doves with vanilla card stock and ink around the edges
4.  To bring more dimension to the doves use a stylus and go around the belly to make it rounded and popped a little
 5.  Glue the Mr & Mrs to the card front
6.  Glue the dove swing to the bottom loop of the Mr. and Mrs. and added a heart for the attachment to the loop.  Then using dimensional dots to pop up the doves and hearts



Cottage Cutz Products




I love all of the new release wedding dies and I think you will too! The new dies are in the online store for a limited time at 25% off CLICK HERE to go shopping!

Blessings

Pam

Monday, July 17, 2017

Wedding Diorama

Hi, Lois here with some exciting news.  Two  new die collections have just been released, and you can see them on the website.  The first collection is a series of wedding dies -- both elegant and whimsical.  The second collection contains nested shapes -- squares, circles, rectangles and ovals -- in both stitched and eyelet designs.  My card today was made using dies from both collections.  It is a diorama card.



To start my card I cut two panels of pink cardstock 4 1/4" x 9 1/2" and one panel of cream cardstock 4 1/4" x 7 1/2", as well as two pieces of wedding patterned paper  4" x 5 1/4" and one piece 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".


I scored the pink cardstock at 2" in from each side and the cream cardstock 1" in from each side.  Then I centered the patterned paper.  The 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece was adhered to the cream piece; the other two identical pieces were adhered to the pink pieces.


Fold on the score lines as follows:  one piece of pink and the one piece of cream were folded with the tabs going toward the back of the card; the other piece of pink has the tabs folded toward the front of the card.

Using the largest stitched scalloped rectangle die, I cut an opening in the front panel.  Using the second largest double-stitched rectangle die, I cut an opening in the center, cream panel.   I did not use these cut-out panels on my card, so I can save them for other projects where the stitching will then show. 


I then cut the bride and groom pieces from white, black and silver cardstock/paper.


I colored the skin and hair with markers . . .


. . . and constructed them on the back panel.


As I usually make up my designs as I go along, at this point I decided that I would probably need to embellish my card a bit; so I cut some additional die-cuts.


I had tried to cut the wedding bells from the same silver glittery paper I used to cut the background for the bridal gown, but the cuts were too intricate for that paper.  So I just cut it from silver paper and brushed some clear Wink of Stella over them to give them the same sparkly look.

Then I constructed my card.  I applied glue to the outsides of the tabs on the center panel and glued it to the tabs on the back panel.  I added the wedding bells and bow to the center panel.



Then I applied glue to the insides of the tabs on the front panel and completed the card.  I added the "celebrate" to the bottom of the front panel.


Here is a close-up looking into the card.


This card will lie flat for mailing; however, a custom-sized envelope will be necessary as the card measures 4 1/4" x 7 1/2" when it lies flat.

I decided  to make another, simple card using the cut-out portions from my diorama.  I cut another panel with the Nested Stitched Scallop Rectangle die to match the cut-out portion from the front of my first card.  After carefully removing the patterned paper from the pink panel, I adhered it to the black panel and mounted the smaller rectangle from the center panel on top.  Then I die-cut the Mr and Mrs sentiment and glued it to the front and added some red hearts (also from the Mr and Mrs die).  I adhered this to a white card base and added some light accents with a white gel pen.   Voila!  Another card!




CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzelegantbrideandgroom.aspx



http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzweddingbellswithbow.aspx




http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutznestedstitchedscalloprectangleset.aspx


http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzdouble-stitchedrectanglesetbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzexpressionscelebrate.aspx


http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzmrandmrswithhearts.aspx