Elegant Deer

Hi, Vladka here!

I have another  Christmas card for you, this time with beautiful elegant Deer. So, let's take closer look to how I created it.

Basics:

Kraft cardstock for the card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)

Additional piece of white and kraft cardstock and red cardstock for die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below

Distress Ink:  Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs, Brushed Corduroy

Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, White watercolor in tube, piece of  dish sponge

1. First prepare the card base and use the biggest Cross-Stitched rectangle die and cut the rectangle out of white and kraft cardstock. With the scissors, cut of the white snow hill.

2. Put some white watercolor on the piece of dish sponge and drag gentle over the rectangle and card base. You can do the same later also on all die cuts.

3. Cut the Elegant Deer out of white cardstock and color it with brown distress ink.

4. Cut the Holly and Beries out of white cardstock and color ot with green distress ink. Cut also greeting out of red cardstock. You can apply some white paint also on these pieces.

Now put all pieces together as shown on my finished card!

I hope you like it. Have fun creating. And don't forget, sixth CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is HOLIDAY. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

 

 

A Winter Scene in Pop up Diorama card

HELLO !!!! Warm greetings from Anita!

It's Saturday and everyone waits for this after a week of busy hard work and routine chores. Saturday means a weekend with family and friends and relaxation. For me relaxation is crafting. And nowadays , I am just making a variety of Christmas cards. With so many Christmas theme craft goodies, one can create amazing projects. One such product is dies and CottageCutz has newly released some beautiful Christmas dies. You can check them out HERE

Today I will share with you a very  pretty project and believe me !! It's one of the most enjoyable project that I have made. You must try this as this super easy to make and one can do so much with type of card. This is Pop Up Diorama Card. Its is actually a 3D  dual window card to create layered scenes etc. In my card , I have created a winter snow scene with the CottageCutz Christmas dies.

  Instructions

Cut two pieces of card stock ( blue and white A-B) measuring 7.5 inches by 7.5 inches.

Cut one piece of white card stock-C  7 inches by 7 inches

Score card stock A and B at 0.5 inch, 1 inch, 6.5 inches and 7 inches

Score card stock C at 0.5 inch and 6.5 inches.

Position CottageCutz Stitched Rectangle die on the A piece-blue card stock in the centre. Cut out the die.

Use the CottageCutz Stitched Rectanlge die the next smaller one and position on middle layer C

 Place A on C to see the exact position. The inner window will be smaller than the outer window.

 

After cutting out the window, place card stock in Misti tool and stamp out snow trees with Distress inks-Chipped Sapphire and Mowed Lawn.

Colour the CottageCutz die cuts ( list is below) with Zig Markers. Apply distress clear rock candy and adhere in layers on the middle layer. Keep the front blue layer on top to see the exact position of die cuts.

Distress the Top blue layer with Evergreen Bough and Chipped Sapphire distress ink. Stamp snow flakes with Chipped Sapphire and add glitter.

 Adhere the three layers together with the first score line of all three coinciding with each other.

Add the sentiment on CottageCutz Stitched Oval die. Adhere on top.

  

Detailed view of the layers. Cut some layers in white card stock. Apply Glitter and add to the base as shown. Add more die cuts as shown.

CottageCutz Forest Friends Border (Elites)

CottageCutz Winter Cabin Border (Elites)

CottageCutz Birch Trees & Deer

CottageCutz Snowy Tree

So do create this fun and wonderful card using the above tutorial and do not forget to share what you make. 

Card with the Pocket - VIDEO

Hi, is Vladka and welcome to my new post where I will show you how to create this card with the Pocket, using CottageCutz dies.

Here is list of all supplies I used:
Cardstock: White Cardbase (4 1/4 x 6 inches) and additional piece of white cardstock and Kraft paper to cut out the pocket and both rectangles
CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Other: copic markers (YG95, G99, E37, E77), Tumbled Glass Distress ink, Paint brush, Scissors, Sizzix machine, water, glue

This card has many layers, but this makes it interesting, don't you think? It is really easy to make it. Check it out in the video:

I just can't stop to work with dies from This N That release. They are beautiful and really useful too.

Thank you for stopping by and for checking the video. 

And don't forget, third CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is POCKET. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

CottageCutz Challenge #2 - HELLO SPRING

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all your great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #1. 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 HELLO SPRING. 

So, get out your CottageCutz dies and create the project which will be associated to the spring. For example, flowers, greenery, green color are some ideas which are perfect for the spring. And 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 31th of May!

Ok, let's go to my project. I hope this will inspire you a little bit. If flowers on sticks are familiar to you, this is because Yuliya showed you already how to do it and she made Easter decoration. You need to check it, it is beautiful. I shoot my video some time ago, so I thought there will be no harm if I show you my way too :) And I used the same flowers to decorate also the frame.

So, here is my video, where you will see how to color the wooden photo frame and decorate it with paper daisies and some greenery and also how to put together these daisies and create a bouquet out of them.

Suplies which I used for this project:
CottageCutz dies: listed below
Cardstock: white cardstock for die cuts
Distress Inks: Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs
Others: white acrylic paint, paint brush, water, wooden sticks, glue, Sizzix machine, yellow marker

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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 31th of May to participate. 

Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for June) will begin.

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 first challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Helena. Her card was linked under number 19:

2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Karen. Her card was linked under number 29:

Congratulations!

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

This is it for today. Have fun!

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