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It is Pam sharing with you today!

My supply of cards is running a little low so I thought I would make one that could be used for multiple occasions such as thinking of you, miss you, just because and so on.  I did a fancy fold that I have done in the past that I just love.  I am featuring two dies: Bee Gnome and Flowers.

Background photo by FreePiks

Design Steps: (Here is a link to a video that I used to make the base https://www.pinterest.com/pin/443534263317816376/ )

1.  Start with a piece of white card stock measuring 10 x 6 3/4.  Score at 3, 4 1/2, 6, 7 1/2

2.  Fold the flap back along the 6 inch score. Place a ruler at the bottom along the fold and use a pencil to mark small dots at 1/2, 1 3/4, 2, 3 1/4, 3 1/2, 4 3/4, 5, 6 1/2

3.  Place your card into a paper cutter and cut from the dots to the closest score line as shown above

4.  When you have completed the cuts fold as shown below

5.  To cover the panels cut 2 black pieces 6 3/8 x 2 3/4, 2 white pieces 6 1/4 x 2 1/2, 1 black piece 6 3/8 x 1 1/4 and 1 white piece 6 1/4 x 1 1/8

6.  I used a honeycomb stencil to decorate the white panels and 2 colors of yellow ink

7.  I then splattered the panels with the darker yellow ink

8.  Glue the panels together and then add to the white card base

9.  Glue down the 8 black rectangles as shown above

10.  Use the Flowers and the Bee Gnome dies and cut out the pieces

11.  Shade the pieces and then assemble

12.  Stamp the sentiment and layer onto black card stock.  Decorate with front as shown above.  Cut out the letters in yellow and shade then add to the card.  Finish adding the flowers and bees and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  And I will see you next Thursday.

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Paper Pieced Pumpkin

Hello friends!  

It's Kris sharing with you today this easy-to-make pumpkin card for your inspiration!

I was inspired by some other die-cut and punched pumpkin cards on Pinterest and thought I'd give it a go with some cute Fall-themed papers and of course I got creative with my CottageCutz dies! 

CUTTING & SCORING:

Dove White Cardstock:

•  5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and scored at 4-1/4"

• 3-7/8" x 5-1/8"

• die cut Thanks w/ Shadow (shadow)

Pecan Pie Cardstock (brown):

• 5-1/4" x 4"

• die cut Thanks w/ Shadow (shadow)

• die cut Fence & Grass (fence)

Patterned Papers (Doodlebug Designs: Pumpkin Spice):

• (5)  die cut the 3rd smallest of the Pierced Oval set

• die cut (2) of the large leaves from the Flowers 4x6 die

*Tip... I just cut a piece li'l bit larger than the leaf w/ scissors first then die cut just the leaf

• die cut Thanks w/ Shadow (thanks)

• die cut Fence & Grass (grass)

DESIGN STEPS:

1.  First, I stamped "for all you do" in an olive green in the top right corner of my white layer.

2.  I assembled my pumpkin using foam strips between each of the top 2 layers.

3.  I hand cut a stem for my pumpkin and added some lines with a marker.  I then ran some twine thru a button and glued it to the top over the leaves.  

4.  Next, I decided I wanted more texture on the white layer, so I ran it thru with a lattice embossing folder.  I then smoothed it out with my bone folder, just over my stamped sentiment so it would be easier to read. ☺

5.  I cut apart my fence and grass as shown below so there are 3 slats and 2.

6.  I added my pumpkin with foam strips between the fence.

7.  I offset my brown "thanks" shadow behind the white and then glued my "Thanks" on top and added to the top left corner of card.  Done!

Thanks for looking!  I hope you're inspired to create something CUTE with your CottageCutz dies! 

♡ Kristine

  

  

Pop Up Gatefold Card

Happy Monday friends!  Kris here with a fun and easy card fold that was a first for me, but certainly won't be my last as I had too much fun with this one!   I thought this was perfect for the new Flowers  in the Strawberries & Bees Release!  I hope you will craft along with me in today's tutorial!

Here are a couple of photos to get us started.  It's easier than it looks and you can make it as simple or detailed as you wish. ☺  This is a 6" square card when folded - and yes it does fold flat to put in an envelope!  

CUTTING AND SCORING:

White Cardstock:

(1)  Cut 6" x 12" - score along the 12" side at 3", 6", & 9"

(1)  Picket Fence Slimline

(1)  Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella

(2)  Flowers

(1)  5" x 1/2" - score at 1/2" and 4-1/2" 

(1)  4" x 1/2" - score at 1/2" and 3-1/2"

(1)  2" x 1/2" - score at 1/2" and 1-1/2"

Acetate (or you can opt for green cardstock):

(5 or 6)  11" x 1/2"

Patterned Paper:

 6 pieces (2 of each pattern - 4 on front and 2 on back):  2-3/4" x 5-3/4"

Green Cardstock:

Cut (1) 6-7/8" x 2-1/2" and score 1/2" , 3-7/16", and 6-3/8"

(if you want, you can cut the top of that piece with the grass die)

Cut (2) 2-3/4" x 1-1/2" and cut the top edge with the Hills Slimline Die

Dark Pink Cardstock:

Stitched Sun, Clouds & Umbrella:  Die cut 1

Nested Scallop Circles Set:  Die cut middle size 

Flowers:  Die cut 1 or 2

Yellow Cardstock:

Nested Wacky Stitched Circles Set:  Die cut 2nd smallest

Flowers:  Die cut 1 

Purple, Lavendar, Light Pink, Light Orange Cardstock (or colors of your choice!):

Flowers:  Die cut 1 of each

HOW TO:

1.  Fold and burnish your score lines on card base so that the middle score is a valley fold and the 2 ends are mountain folds.

2.  Adhere your patterned papers to the 4 front panels

3.  Adhere 2 more to the back panels.  Leave the middle panels white for your written (or stamped) message.  (If stamping on it, do it now as it will harder to stamp evenly after your get your flowers on the front side.)

4.  With your green middle piece, miter the top edges of your 1/2" flaps as shown below.  You can choose to cut the top with the grass die, leave it straight, or cut it down so it's not sticking up above the fence.  I trimmed my fence down to fit the width between the flaps of the green layer.

5.  With your 3 pieces of 1/2" white strips, using the edge of a bone folder (or other object) run it between the scored lines (like you would with curling ribbon and scissors) to make the strips curve.  

6.  Flattening out the strip just a enough to attach it, glue the flaps across the middle of the backside of your grass piece so that the middle lines up with the scored line of your grass.

7.  Glue flaps of the next largest strip and place it directly on top of your first strip, flattening it down and repeat for the 3rd strip.  It should look like this when standing up.

8.  Add glue to side flaps of grassy layer and adhere to bottom center of card while it's laying flat.  The sides of your grassy layer should be just short of the score lines on card base.

9.  Color your flowers, adding highlights, etc.  You'll want to color some of those white pieces like the flower centers yellow, and the leaves green etc.  

10.  Glue your pieces together. 

11.  Attach acetate strips to the back of your flowers. For the back (tallest) flowers, I cut my strips to 4-3/4" and added Score Tape to the bottom fronts of the strips.  Then I attached them BEHIND the largest curved strip in my card.

12.  For the rest of my flowers, I held the flower in the placement I wanted, marked it with my thumb and pulled it back out and cut the strip where my thumb was.  Then added Score Tape to the bottom and attached the flowers.  

*** You'll want to alternate which side your put your Score Tape on as some flowers will be attached to the BACK of the curves and some will be attached to the FRONT of the curves.  Continue until the whole section is filled in with flowers.

13.  Adhere your green hills, sun, clouds, umbrella and sentiment pieces as shown below.  

OPTIONAL - create a belly band to help hold the card together!

1.  Cut a white strip 12" x 2-1/2" and wrap it around the middle of your card loosely.  Should not be scored first, or wrapped too tightly as you want to be able to slip it off.  The ends will not quite meet in the middle and that's ok.  

2.  Cut (2) pieces of patterned paper 2-3/4" x 2-1/4" and attach to the front side ends of your strip

3.  Die cut (1) of the largest die from the Nested Scallop Circles Set from blue cardstock.

4.  Die cut (1) of the 2nd largest die from the Nested Wacky Stitched Circles Set from white cardsock.

5.  Attach blue scalloped circle to the wrap, making sure not to add glue to the very center of the circle or you'll glue your belly band to your card!  

6.  Attach white circle to the blue and embellish with another flower.

PRODUCTS I USED:

And here's the whole release!

Thank you so much for being here today!  I hope I've inspired you to try this or something else with this fabby release!  Have a wonderful week :) 

~Kristine