Showing posts with label Sun and Cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun and Cloud. Show all posts

Monday, September 11, 2017

Pop-Up Pumpkin . . . and Toad

Hi, Lois here in the throes of Hurricane Irma.  But I do have a card for you today.  Halloween  is right around the corner, and I've got another card made with a new CottageCutz Halloween die.  This was a fun card to make.  When you look at the front, it's not very exciting, BUT . . .


. . . all the fun is on the inside!


To start my base card, I cut cardstock as follows:

Orange - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Black - (1) 4" x 5 1/4", (1) 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", cut in half
Patterned Paper - (1) 3 7/8" x 5 1/8", (1) 5 1/8" x 8 1/8", folded in half


After folding  the orange base in half, I glued down the black mat piece and the smaller patterned paper piece on the front.

I cut all the die cuts from white, orange, black, or green cardstock . . . 


. . . and colored them with either ink or markers.  Then I constructed the frog/pumpkin piece.  Note that the small stars and curly-cue are glued to a small piece of acetate, which was then glued to the large star on the wand with a glue dot.


On the front I stamped the sentiment and the cat in Versafine Black Onyx ink and embossed them with clear embossing powder . . .

. . . and added the scarecrow and strip of grass.


Now came the fun part!  To make my pop-up support on the inside, I cut two 2" slits 1" apart on the patterned paper across the scored center and scored at each end of the strips.


I glued the two pieces of black cardstock to the inside of the card, getting them close to the fold line, but not touching.  This allows the card to close without bending up the edges.  I didn't want to adhere one large piece of black cardstock to the inside because that would tend to "bind" when the card was closed.  Then I added the patterned paper, being careful not to apply glue to the support section in the center.  This section will fold OUT when the card is closed -- with the pumpkin/frog glued to the front of it.


Because the paper is very "busy," I wanted to tone it down a bit by putting a panel on each side of the card.  I cut two pieces of black cardstock, one piece of white, and one piece of "sky" paper.  (These could be any size you wanted.)


I stamped the sentiment on the white piece and sponged a bit of green ink around the edges.


I then cut out the sun and cloud, sponged on some darker color to the sun, and (using a Copic gray marker) added some shading to the under side of the cloud.


I put the pieces together and adhered them to the upper and lower panels of the card.


This photo shows how the frog sits on the pop-up support piece.


CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

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



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




The new Halloween die (Happy Toad Wizard), as well as several new series of Christmas dies, will be available for purchase in the CottageCutz store starting September 20th.  Because of the support of their wonderful customers, it has become necessary to move into a larger warehouse.  Because of the move, the store is temporarily on hold.  But that gives you lots of time to decide what you want next!  LOL!



Friday, November 28, 2014

Black Friday 2014 "In the Woods" Relaese/Preview Day 8

Welcome to day eight of the preview of the beautiful CottageCutz BLACK FRIDAY "In The Woods" Release! Vladka here today. This Release consist of 14 New CottageCutz Dies and it is already on SALE for an AWESOME Price for Black Friday!!! 

The whole Week the CottageCutz Designers already showcasing different Dies from this Beautiful New Release. So, don´t forget to check previous days too and take a look at all beautiful Projects. You wont want to miss this Release!
For my card today I am showcasing 8 new dies: Moose and Pine TreesTeardrop TrailerSun and CloudCute FoxMoose & BirdPuppy in BagCampground and Bear and Sign. I combined all of them with some older dies into one project, so called Camping Journal. Above is the front page, where I used also following dies: Spring TweetieBuild-A-Grapevine Wreath and Splish Splash Alphabet. Fox is peeking through and when I open the first two pages it looks like this (here I used also Hedgehogs die):
Next two pages show camping place by Day and at Night:

And here are already 5th and 6th page with the Dog (here I used also Library Pocket die) and the Home under the Sun:
And last but not least, two Moose pages. The whole journal is made out of kraft paper and I used different Distress Inks to colored everything. CottageCutz dies have so cute motives that is really fun to work with them. They are telling the stories by themselves.
Thanks for stopping by today. And don´t forget to check the SALE!

Here are dies, used for my project: