Showing posts with label Vladka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vladka. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Poinsettia with Greenery


Hi, Vladka is here!

Today I have Christmas card with Poinsettia. It is easy to make it. So, it can be mass produced.


Basics:

Kaft card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of kaft cardstock and some red and white cardstock to cut out the die cuts. 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink:  Peeled Paint,  Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, text stamp, white pigment ink


1. Use Holiday geenery die to cut the poinsettia petals out of red carstock and greenery out of white cardstock. Color greneery with green distres ink and if you want, distress the edges with darker shade of green distress ink. Distress also the edges of poinsettia petals.


2. Glue all pieces together as shown on the photo:


3. Now prepare white strip. Use Cross-Stitched Rectangle Set and cut the second biggest rectangle out of white paper. In second step use the same die one more time put it on the white rectangle as shown on the photo and cut it out again. Now, the strip is a little bit more narrow.


4. Time to cut out "Merry Christmas" and cardbase with additional piece of paper.


5. With text stamp and white pigment ink, stamp the text on additional piece of paper. Distress the edges with the same white ink.



6. Now glue all pieces together as shown on the photo and card is finished:


This is is for today. Have a nice day. And don't forget, seventh CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is FALL. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Mugs with hot chocolate on the plate

Hi, Vladka is here!

Today I have another Christmas card where I combined dies from different releases:


Basics:

Kraft card base: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (cut 5 1/2 x 11 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock (5 x 5 inches) and some white, green and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Old Paper, Ground Espresso
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, vellum paper, printer, glue, spruce branch stamp


1. Let's prepare all die cuts first. I used follwong dies: Turkey on Platter (plate die cut is used), Holiday Mason Jar (greenery, poinsettia and bow), Mug with Heart (mugs) and Peppermint Latte (peppermint stick).


2. Poinsettia and peppermint stick were cut out of the red cardstock and edges were distressed a little bit with Aged Mahogany distress ink. Mugs were cut out of the kraft carstock and distressed with Ground Espresso distress ink. Greenery was cut out of the green cardstock and distressed with Forest Moss distress ink. I cut also two greenery poinsettias, which I used as poinsettia's leaves.  Plate was cut out of white cardstock and distressed with Old Paper distress ink.


3. Cut the mugs also out of brown fun foam and glue the one from kraft cardstock on it. Now, glue also both poinsettias together and glue it on the mugs together with peppermint stick. Cut also plate out of white fun foam and glue it under the paper plate.


4. Prepare kraft card base and piece of white cardstock which is slightly smaller as cardbase. With your computer, design "Smells like Christmas" sentiment and print it on the vellum paper.  Now cut the strip out of it.


4. Glue all car pieces together as shown on the photo and stamp spruce branch in all corners. Card is finished.



This is is for today. Have a nice day. And don't forget, seventh CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is FALL. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.
 
 

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Woodland Mailbox


Hi, Vladka is here!

Today I have another Christmas card for you with this cute Holiday scene. Let me show you how I created this card.


Basics:

White card base: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (cut 5 1/2 x 11 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock and some white and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Brushed Corduroy, Blueprint Sketch
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, White watercolor in tube, paint brush


1. With the Woodland Mailbox cut all pieces out of white cardstock and. Color them with distress inks and if you want, distress edges with darker shades of distress inks. Then glue all pieces together.


2. Apply some Tumbled Glass and Blueprint Sketch distress ink on the acrylic block and add also some water. Mixed with the paint brush. Use large paint brush and apply color on the additional piece of paper. Let it dry or use heat gun to speed the process.


2. Mix some white watercolor or acrylic paint with water and use thin paint brush to flick some droplets of the mixture on the previous colored surface. Let it dry.


This is is for today. Have a nice day. And don't forget, seventh CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is FALL. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Holiday Car


Hi, Vladka is here!

Today I have another Christmas card for you with this very cute Holiday car. Let me show you how I created this card.

Basics:

White card base: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (cut 5 1/2 x 11 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of kraft cardstock and some white and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint, Twisted Citron, Picked raspberry
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, White watercolor in tube, paint brush


1. With the Holiday Car die cut the car out of red cardstock and all other pieces out of white cardstock. Distress the adges of the car with Aged Mahogany distress ink and color Christmas tree, and gifts with distress inks and all other small pieces with grey, black and yellow copics or with distress inks.


2. Prepare white card base and piece of kraft cardstock which is slightly smaller as cardbase. Prepare also piece of white cardstock and cut out the snow hill out of it. Cut the Merry Christmas ribbon out of white cardstock and cut off the bow.



3. Mix small amount of white watercolor or acrylic paint with water and flick some droplets of the mixture on craft piece of paper. Let it dry.


4. Glue all car pieces together. Now glue kraft paper, snow hill, car and expression on card base as shown on the photo and card is finished.


This is is for today. Have a nice day. And don't forget, seventh CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is FALL. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

Thursday, October 06, 2016

CottageCutz Challenge #7 - FALL

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all 33 beautiful cards and projects you've made for Challenge #6. Two lucky winners will be announced at the end of this post. So, stay tuned.

And here is time to start new challenge. 
This time theme is FALL

Fall is so inspiring with the beautiful colors. So, create a card or any other projects wich will represent fall and colors which are characteristic for this time of the year. 

So, grab your favorite Fall/Autumn dies. But please, use ONLY CottageCutz dies and not any other dies. "Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies. If you are not familiar with this button, please check this post for more explanation.  Challenge will be closed on 31st of October!


So, before I announced the winers, I'm going to show you my project for today. Here is my card:


Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock and some red and kraft cardstock to cut out the die cuts. Prepare also some watercolor paper. 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink:  Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss, Rusty Hinge 
Other: acrylic block, Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, water, spray bottle

1. First we are going to prepare paper for all die cuts. So, let's take first piece of watercolor paper and color it with different  Distress Inks: Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired brick...


2. Now spray a water on it, to cause colors to move and blend. Leave it to dry or speed the drying process with heat gun.


3. If you want you can add more layers of colors, but after each layer of color and water, paper needs to dry.


4. With Autumn Foliage cut foliage out of previous colored watercolor paper. This will give beautiful autumn look. If you want, you can distress edges with the same distress inks, which were used for coloring the paper.


5. Take another piece of watercolor paper and color just with different shades of orange distress inks and spray it with water. Cut the pumpkins out of it. Distress pumpkins edges with darker shade of orange distress inks. Color also the pumpkin stems with green distress ink. and glue everything together.


7. Now take additional piece of white cardstock and glue all die cuts as shown on photo:


8. Cut also one strip out of white paper and stamp happy fall or any other sentiment on it. Glue it under dies cuts.  If you want, you can aslo flick some droplets of gold shimmer spray and let it dry. Now, glue everything together on cardbase and card is finished.


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And now go back to our challenge a little bit more. As I told you before, two lucky winners will be randomly chosen and will get gift certificate for Scrapping Cottage store.

First one will get gift certificate value of 50$...

... and second one in the value of 25$.

You have time till 31st of October to participate. 
Both winners will be announced at the beginning of November.

All you need to do is take your CottageCutz dies and start creating! 
Please, use only CottageCutz dies!
Have fun and don´t forget to show us all your projects.

"Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies.

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And of course we should not forget about the winners for the fifth challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Dusi. Her card was linked under number 8:



2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Karenladd. Her card was linked under number 18:



Congratulations!

Please, contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to claim your Gift Certificate.

This is it for today. All I want to show you before I left is the list of CottageCutz dies which I used on my project. Here they are: