Showing posts with label Floral Spray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Floral Spray. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Risen Empty Tomb Home Decor DIY piece

Hey crafty friends,
So glad you stopped in today! Today I am sharing a pretty home decor piece that I created for the passover, resurecction season. Here is what I came up with.
My piece is a little mini sign that sits on a wooden easel that I picked up from Dollar Tree.


I started with a variety of Cottage Cutz dies. I cut them all out from white cardstock. I typically do this so I can use my markers and coloring to match the color scheme of whatever paper I am working with. 
My finished piece is 4.5 x almost 7". I started with a piece of cream cardstock for the base. I then found a piece of pretty paper that I thought would be nice. It is not the traditional type of Easter theme, but I thought it would work. I did have to cut my paper and add some extra to the bottom as it was only a 6" piece of paper from a 6x6 pad.


Here is a closer look at my finished cross. I colored the cross to look like wood coloring. I then cut the draped cloth in that same cream color. I did lightly add some pink shading to it. I then went to work on my flowers and the foliage and picked colors from my marker stash that I thought were close to the colors in the paper. I then took the draped cloth and gave it some slight curve to give it a feeling of movement. You can see in the YouTube video project share the depth it creates!



Next I went to work on my hill and tomb. I had to try and color them to look like stone. So I used my different gray markers and did some stipling, squiggles and shading to try and make it look like stone. I then colored the little hill in a variety of greens to make it look like a combination of grass and dirt. I did have to put a piece between the back of the tomb piece to make it some up to the grass/dirt hill. I then colored in the little grass pieces with some of the same green colors as the grass.


I went to work attaching all of the pieces onto the mat. I used some foam for the cross to give it a little lift. Here is one last look at my finished piece. I think it turned out pretty good. I know it isn't a traditional look, but living here in Florida, the palm fronds in the paper really attracted me.


Dies Used For This Project









I created a quick project share video so you can see if a little better than the pictures.

Head over and check out my quick project share video


Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to come back real soon. You will want to keep up with all that our wonderful design team is creating!  Dont' forget to head over to the Cottage Cutz YouTube Channel where you will find so many great inspirational projects and pick up some great crafting tips too!

Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!
Melinda


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Saturday, June 11, 2016

LIVE LAUGH AND RELAX

Hello!!

This is Anita here and I'm back with another wonderful project made from CottageCutz dies. This May, the new release dies-This and That has some most beautiful dies.
For my post today, I have a pretty floral card which has many dies combined and used in many ways.

Do have a look !!!




Here is the step by step photo tutorial on how I made this card.

Make a card base measuring 7 inches x 5 inches. Adhere a pink cardstock as mat layer 4.75 inches x 6.75 inches. Add a pattern paper 0.25 inches smaller than the mat layer. Distress the edges with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink. Create a die cut window using the CottageCutz Wide Rectangle Stiched Frame die and the CottageCutz Filigree Butterfly Pocket die
 

Add foam tape behind the die cut window frame.


 Cut out die cuts using the CottageCutz Victorian Birdbath and CottageCutz Greenery die and colour with Peeled paint and Forest Moss Distress Ink



Arrange the vine and leaves on the right corner of card using adhesive as shown.


Cut die cuts using CottageCutz Floral Spray die and colour as shown.

 

Arrange the flowers and leaves on the card as shown.




Add Sentiments and birds



The finished card



close up view







Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Easter candy basket

Hi, Janja here!
Countdown to Easter. With home-made candy basket in the shape of a heart, we can decorate Easter table and make children happy with chocolate eggs.


For the basket, I prepared a template in the form of a heart. I cut it out 4 times (2x from cardstock and 2x from patterned paper). All parts were glued to each other and decorated.
The width of the basket can be adjusted by your preferences with changing the width of the side tabs.


The handle of the basket is 11" (28 cm) long and 0.60" (1.5 cm) wide.


At the center of the basket, I added two cut-out hearts. I used a dies from the basic sets: heart (the largest die) and stitched heart (the 3th die from the center). 


All the flowers are cut with the new CottageCutz die 3D flower #5. The bloom is so rich that you can create different size with cutouts.
For the largest bloom I used all the cutouts. For two I removed the lower leaves and for three smaller ones I used only the middle of the bloom. They are all shaded with Distress ink: Worn Lipstick and Victorian Velvet.
For the twigs and leaves I used floral spray die. They are shadowed with Distress ink: Moved Lawn.
The bow is attached on the handle of the basket.


List of dies used: 







Thanks for visiting.

Janja

Friday, March 18, 2016

Vintage card with Wreath, Butterfly and Bow

Hi! Vladka here. Today I have vintage card with wreath for you. You know how I like to combine old and new dies and I will show you how you can create this one.  Let's start!


Basics:
Card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of kraft cardstock: 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches
Some white and red cardstock scraps to cut out the die cuts 

Other Supplies:
CottageCutz dies: listed below
Cardstock: kraft cardstock
Distress Ink: Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs, Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint

Other:  text stamp (optionally), scissors, paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, scor-buddy, brush, white watercolor tube paint or you can use acrylic paint instead, piece of sponge, pencil or any other tool with round handle.


Let's prepare everything first:

1. With the Floral Spray die and Laurel Wreath cut greenery out with some white (I actually used light gray one) cardstock. Color greenery with green ink.
2. With the Expressions Thank youLisbeth Butterfly and Build a Bow die cut out the Butterfly, Thank you expression and pieces to create the bigger Bow. Distress all the edges with Aged Mahogany distress ink.
3. With Build a Grapevine wreath die cut out two wreaths and color them with brown ink.
4. Stamp text on additional piece of kraft cardstock - this step is optional.
5. Use a sponge to gently color the edges of all die cut pieces and edges of additional piece of kraft cardstock with white watercolor paint straight from the bottle. You can also use white acrylic paint. Let them to dry.
6. Before glue bow together, curve bow edges with pencil or any other tool with round handle as shown on the photo.


7. After bow is finished, put pencil also through the both loops which will give them beautiful round look (as shown on the photo).


Preparations are now finished. Let's make the card!

Apply adhesive on the back side of additional piece of cardstock and add it on the card base. On the front of the card, glue both wreaths, all the greenery, butterfly, bow and the sentiment as shown on the photo. Card is finished.


Have fun creating!