Happy New Year! Bottle Tag

Hi everyone! The new year is fast approaching and that means that many of us will attend a gathering of some sort to celebrate the arrival of 2018. Often a bottle of wine is an easy and appreciated choice for a hostess/host gift. I thought I would create a bottle tag instead of the usual wine bag to make it a little extra special. 

To construct this tag, I started with a piece of black glitter card stock and used a Scalloped Nested Die to cut the bottle neck hole. Then I used the Birch Tree die as the background and slipped the doe and fawn into the trees. The Happy New Year Ornament was cut out of gold card stock and placed on top of a doily from the Nested Stitched Doily set cut out of white holographic paper. For a final touch, I applied some chunky white glitter at the feet of the deer to appear as if they are standing in snow. You could skip this step if you are in a hurry or do not have the glitter on hand.  

This tag was made using the dies shown below but if you do not have these particular designs, use your creativity to decorate your tag in another way. For example, it does not have to say anything about the new year. Instead, you can use a Thanks or other Expression die in combination with other shapes to create your own bottle tag. There are many occasions it could be used for as well. For example, you could decorate it to celebrate a birthday or to congratulate someone for something. 

This tag was surprisingly quick to construct when you let the dies do all the work for you. If you wanted to put more time into it, you could shade the deer and the birch trees but I really wanted to show you could create this without much fuss and still get a great result.

To learn how to construct this bottle tag, click on the YouTube thumbnail below. 

Thanks for joining me here at the Scrapping Cottage. I hope you have a very happy New Year!

- Janet

Silent Night is one of my favorite hymns.  I created this easy and fun art journal page using the Winter Deer Family  and Snowflakes die cuts.

I colored in the deer and snowflakes with watecolor and then letting dry.  Next I added white pen to add more dimension to the deer.

Then I added a little glitter glue for shimmer and mica flakes for more interest.

This is a simple page that looks beautiful in it's simplicity.

I hope this inspires you to add some pages to your art journa.

Sheila

Deer Family

Hi!

This is Anja again. I hope you all had a great holiday weekend. We got a little bit of snow today, but not enough to make it look like a winter wonderland. That's why I decided to make it my own.

For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Winter Deer Family, Woodland Cabin),
- Distress Oxides (Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Lucky Clover, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Broken China, Faded Jeans),
- white card base (10,5x21 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- old toothbrush,
- paper scissors,
- paper glue.

First I colored the background. I colored directly on the card base. I started with the lighter tones and then went toward darker ones. I blended the colors together with lighter tones.

When I was happy with the sky color I used an old toothbrush ant spritzed a bit of water all over it. I let the small water drops to dry. In the meanwhile I cut a longer strip of paper with my scissors o use it as the snowy background for the deer.

Then I die cut the deer family and the trees. I colored the die cuts with Distress Oxides.

When I had everything colored and ready I just glued it together into a winter scene.

Don't forget to check the sale in The Scrapping Cottage shop. You can find some awesome discounts til December 1st. 

 

 May you Sunday be relaxed. See you in a week.

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz products I used: