Thank You Card

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 new 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.

They allow you to add a beautiful touch of folk art to whatever you may be creating - birthday, thank-you, new home, thinking of you and even Christmas. The design team has featured many creative ideas using these dies so take a look back at our posts for inspiration.

For my card today I am doing a throwback to some older dies from a 2018 release. I used the Stitched Jars & Stitched Fruit dies to create a thank you card. My neighbor always sends us a jar of her homemade pear butter each year and I want to be prepared with a thank you card. The pears are on her tree now and will be ripe in a few weeks. 

Design Steps:

I started my card with an old sketch I had saved on my computer. 

 I looked through my designer paper to see if I had any pear themed paper. I found this one that I have had for years and thought it would work for my card layout. 

Chocolate Chip Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Curry Layer: 4" x 5 1/4"

Designer Paper Layer: 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"

Next, I cut the jar and pear. I used vellum for the jar and a metallic silver for the jar lid. The pear is cut in olive card stock. 

For the rectangle panels on the sketch, I used the Stitched Rectangle Set on the choc chip panel.  It's the 3rd largest die (2 7/8" x 3 7/8"). The curry panel is cut from the Rectangle Set. I used the 2nd largest die (2 5/8" x 3 5/8"). 

I used the Thanks w/Shadow die for my sentiment. The shadow is cut in choc chip and the thanks phrase in olive. 

My elements are all cut. I am ready to start assembly. I attached the card base and both layering panels w/double sided tape.

For the image panel I attached the jar w/clear glue- adding it behind the lid and where I was placing the pear image. The pear image is lifted slightly off the jar with dimensional adhesive. I used a border die cut in chocolate chip and added white pearls for interest.  I also added some chocolate chip ribbon. 

To finish off my card I attached the Thanks phrase with glue dots and scattered a few more pearls. 

Well, that's it for me for this post. See you next Saturday.

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Good Morning to Our Scrapping Cottage Fans!

It is Pam sharing with you today from Stamper at Heart Blog Spot.
Before I get started I wanted to give you a heads up about the sales we are have at our store.  We have a Collection of new release dies called Rise and Shine that are currently 25% off and they are just so much fun!  To see some card samples from the design team click here,  here and here!

Now onto the card for today! I had a stash of country looking paper so I used that as my inspiration for today's card!  Plus I have a friend from church who makes delicious jams and butters.  I was lucky enought to get one of each.  So I thought this would make a cute thank you card.

 1.  Using the Stitched Jar and Stitched Fruit die cut out the different elements.  I cut the jars out of vellum and silver paper for the lids.  The fruit is cut out of different colors of card stock

 2.  Use copics to give the jars a little shading

 3.  Glue the labels and lids to the jars

 4.  Using the labels as a base glue down the different fruits inside the jars on the back of the jars

 5.  Use a vanilla A2 card base and cut a piece of 4 x 5 1/4 piece of yellow card stock and a 3 3/4 x 5 piece of DP from the Studio Calico South of Market Collection.  Also cut a 5 x 1 1/2 strip of DP newsprint.

 6.  Glue all the pieces together and pop dot the jars to the card front

 7.  Cut out 3 Thanks and glue together and then add glossy accent to the top

8.  Cut out a small rectangle using the Double Stitched Rectangle die.  Glue to the front and then glue down the word Thanks

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Blessings
Pam

Stitched Fruit Thank You Set

Hi everyone! It's Janet here to show you a set of thank you cards for the spring season. I have really enjoyed working with the dies in the new In Stitches collection. There is so much to choose from and they can be used year around. I am a huge fan of the stitched look so these are right up my ally!

Today's set of five cards feature the delicious Stitched Fruit dies. Here you will find a lemon, apple, pear, strawberry and cherries. These are nice sized dies when assembled and were perfect as the focal points for my card set. They would be awesome on tags also.

The Thanks sentiment is cut from the Stitched Alphabet set. The entire alphabet cuts out at once and are a nice chunky size at 1" tall for words or short phrases on your card projects. The letters would also work wonderfully on your scrapbook layouts. There are matching numbers to match the letters although I didn't use them in today's project.

The circle die cut comes from one of my most favorite shape sets, Nested Wacky Stitched Circle Set. To create a little additional interest, I trimmed about 3/8" of the circle off and butt it against a narrow green strip and a red embossed strip of card stock.

Please click on the video thumbnail below or this link to watch how these cards were created.

Thanks for stopping by to get some inspiration for your projects. Have a crafty day!

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