Hampster Hugs!

Good Morning Friends

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!  I certainly did!  It was so much fun spending time with my family.  Today,  I am starting to make my Valentine cards if you can believe it!  I am using one of our adorable new release pet dies!

Designer Steps:

 1.  Using the Happy Hampster die cut out the wheel using a metalic silver, cut out the hampsters using light brown and brown card stock.  Cut the little teeth on white and the little tuffs of fur in dark brown card stock

2.  Use TH inks to shade the hampsters and assemble them

3.  Start by using a 4 1/4 x 11 piece of white card stock scored at 2 3/4 inches and 5 1/2 inches

4.   Cut an 11 x 1 1/2 inch piece of white card stock and score at 5 1/2 and 8 1/4

5. Cut Pink card stock 1 piece 4 x 5 1/4 and 2 pieces 4 x 2 1/2 set aside

6.  Cut Pink Heart DP  1 piece 3 3/4 x 5 and 2 pieces 3 3/4 x 2 1/4.  Glue the Pink DP to the pink card stock  and then attach to the card

7.  Cut pink card stock 1 piece 1 1/4 x 5 1/4 and 2 pieces 2 1/2 x 1 1/4.  Emboss each piece and then glue the pink card stock to the white strip

8.  Attach the strip to the card making sure you only place glue on the first 4th of the strip and the last 4th of the strip.  The middle fold will pop out toward you as you fold the card

9.  Cut out the Hugs using the Stitched Alphabet die on white card stock

10.  Glue the Hampster onto the wheel and then glue to the front flap.  Glue the Hugs to the front strip as shown

11.  Glue the other little Hampster to the inside on top of the strip as shown

12.  Cut out 2 red hearts using the Stitched Cupcake die pop them inside the hampsters mouths

13.  Stamp your sentiment and glue inside the card

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Thanks so much for stopping by and I would like to wish you a very happy and healthy New Year!

Blessings

Pam

Tags with Cupcakes

Hi, Vladka here! Today I have these fun and happy tags for you. It is really easy to create them. So, let's start!

For two tags you will need the following supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
White cardstock for tag base
Additional piece of white cardstock to cut out the die cuts
Inks: Fired Brick Distress Ink and red dye ink for stamping
Other: paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, water, sheet of acetate, some sentiment stamps and polka dot stamp or polka dot pattern paper

Let’s prepare tag bases first! 

1. With Stitched Rectangle die cut two second biggest squares (seventh from the center).
2. With Rectangle die cut two third biggest squares (sixth from the center).
3. And now my favorite "smooshing" technique again :) Add some Fired Brick Distress Ink on acrylic block and spritzed some water on it. Then take a piece of plastic acetate and gentle pressed it against the block to pick up some of the ink. Now, press the plastic to smaller square to transfer the ink. This will give you a splotchy look. Do the same with second smaller square. Let dry.

Now, let's put Cupcakes together:

With Stitched Cupcake die cut both cupcakes out of some white cardstock. With polka dot stamp and red ink, stamp on both cupcake bottoms, on the heart and cherry. If you don't have such stamp, cut all these pieces out of polka dot pattern paper. You can also find free sample on internet. All you need to do is to print it with your printer. Now put all cupcake pieces together and glue one on each of the tags. For a finishing touch, stamp some sentiments and make the small hole on the top of both tags and put some string through them.

Such tags can be part of the presents or they can be used instead of cards or if you have guests, they can be part of the decoration.

Have fun creating!

Sweet tooth bear

Hi, Janja here!
Creating children's cards for me, as grandmother of three little boys, is the greatest joy. Today I am sharing with you a fun birthday card.

For the card base I chose a brown cardstock. The folded card measures: 5.3" x 5.3" (13.5 x 13.5 cm). With a paper cutter, I cut 2 squares, both a little smaller than the size of the card. One from the patterned paper and another from the same cardstock as the base card. 

To make the framed bases, I used the 2 largest dies (from the basic set: stitched square and square) and cut out the openings for the image and that creates a frame. 

For patterned paper I used a die stitching square in the size 3.5" x 3.5" (8.9 x 8.9 cm) and for the brown cardstock, square die in the size 3.3" x 3.3" (8.4 x 8.4 cm). I glued frames to each other so that the edges are aligned.

To begin assembling the card I first applied a script patterned paper centered on my base card front. I applied adhesive foam pads to the back of my double frame and centered it over my patterned paper.

The whole basis of my card is created using dies from the CottageCutz birthday release: stitched cupcake and balloons, which I combined from a previous Christmas release: peeking Santa bear.

Just look at how cute he is, curiously peeking over the cupcakes!

All the cutouts are made with colored cardstock that have the edges shadowed with Distress Inks (Mustard Seed , Wild Honey, Moved Lawn and Vintage Photo).

When card was finished, I applied glitter on the cupcakes and the balloons. I also added white gel pen lines on the balloons for reflections.

I hope you give this adorable card a try and make one for the child in your life!

List of dies used:

Have a nice day!

Janja

Cupcake Matching Memory Game

Hi everyone, Janja here.  For my first post at Scrapping Cottage blog I decided to make a memory game. We already played and it was a lot of fun; searching for pairs of small cupcakes.

 

I chose a die from the new CottageCutz Basics set - rounded square set. I cut 60 squares (20 white, 20 from patterned paper for backside and 20 colored for front sides, 2 for each color).

After cutting, it was time for gluing. 

On each white square I placed a patterned back paper and a colored front paper.

 

 

While I waited for glue to dry, I made 20 cupcakes. I cut them with die, stitched cupcakes, in different colors as well. Of course it was important to make pairs of the same cupcakes. Finished cupcakes were attached to the front sides and our game is finished. 

 

After playing the game, I did not want to lose the squares so I made a custom box, using a ruler, scissors and a paper cutter. For the box cover I printed a sign in Word and attached a cupcake.

Dies used in making memory game:

   

I hope you enjoyed my company. 

Janja