Geometric Cottage Frames with Freshly Picked Images | Rachel Alvarado

Hello friends! It's Rachel here with a festive card that features the Freshly Picked and Cottage Frames product suites.

I love how the geometric design of the cottage frames beautifully frame the fruit and floral images.

*Disclaimer: All products used are linked below as clickable images. If a product isn’t listed, it’s been discontinued.

How to recreate this card:

1.  Trim a piece of red card stock to 5.5" x 8.5" and score it at 4.25" along the 8.5" side to create a top-folding, horizontal card base.

2. Die cut a piece of white card stock with the Lattice Glow Coverplate Die and adhere it to a 4.25" x 5.5" piece of white card stock with liquid adhesive. 

3.  Once the liquid adhesive is dry, trim off 1.5" from the bottom of the piece from step 2 and set the larger piece aside.  This piece should now measure 3" x 5.5".

4.  Trim a 5.5" x 2" piece of white card stock and die cut one of the edges on the 5.5" side with one of the dies from the Fancy Edgers Die Set.  Adhere it to the bottom of the piece from step 2 so that the bottom has a fancy die cut edge.

5.  Adhere the entire piece with the fancy edge on top of the red card base, leaving the remaining 1-1.5" of the red card stock showing at the bottom of the card.

6.  Stamp your sentiment with black ink onto the bottom right corner of the red card stock.

7.  Add a skinny layered strip of white and black card stock to the seam below the trimmed piece from step two and above the die cut fancy edge from step 4.

8. Stamp the images from the Freshly Picked Stamp Set onto a sheet of smooth white card stock (I used Neenah Solar White 110lb) with Detail Black Ink.

9.  Use the Freshly Picked Stencils and Pinkfresh Inks to ink blend some color onto the stamped images.

• Stencil 1: Eucalyptus
• Stencil 2: Lush Forest
• Stencil 3: Sweet Mustard / Marigold
• Stencil 4: Passion Fruit
• Stencil 5: Candy Apple
• Stencil 6: Candy Apple / Espresso

10. Use the coordinating Freshly Picked Die Set to die cut the ink-blended images.   

11.  Stamp three frames using the Cottage Frames Stamp Set onto another sheet of white card stock with Detail Black Ink.

12.  Die Cut the frames with the coordinating Cottage Frames Die and adhere them to the front top-center of the card.

13. Adhere your images with 3D foam adhesive tape to the center of the frames for a pop of dimension. 

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  I would love to see what you create!  Make sure to tag us on Instagram with your personal creations using these products!

Please feel free to leave a comment below as well as any questions you may have.

- Rachel