Christmas Cookies!

Happy Black Friday Cottage Cutz fans!  It's Jeanne sharing today.  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now it's time to get ready for Christmas.  The Scrapping Cottage has a Black Friday sale going on right now with great deals.  You'll want to shop early for the best selection!

Now on to today's post.  Even after my Thanksgiving cooking/baking I'm still in the mood for more.  It must be that time of year.  So I made a card featuring the Handmade Cookies dies.

To start I cut all the pieces from Kraft card stock and white glossy card stock.  I used glossy stock to simulate white icing.

Then I used Multi Medium Matte to glue the icing to the cookies.

I used the largest Double Stitched Rectangle die to cut a white rectangle and adhered that to a piece of red card stock.

I have a guide that allows me to cut a mat in various sizes larger than a rectangle or square panel (I'm afraid I have forgotten what it is called).  In this case I cut the red 1/16th inch larger than the stitched panel.  I then mounted that to an A2 size piece of patterned paper mounted to an A2 card base.

I placed the cookies on the card but did not glue them down.  I used this to position my sentiment and used my stamping platform to stamp it in red.

I glued most of the cookies to the card base, but used foam dots to pop up the tree and the angel.

Finally I added a few sequins for sparkle.  This card goes together quickly and would be perfect to make for multiple cards.

Dies:

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend.  And don't forget to check out the Black Friday sale at the Scrapping Cottage!

Cookies and Cocoa

Hi, Lois here with my regular Monday post.  Before I start with my card, I invite you to visit the CottageCutz store, in which you can find many of our dies on sale -- up to 70% on some.

And now my card.   Who doesn't love cookies and cocoa?  That's exactly what I've got for you today!  My card was made with several new Christmas dies from CottageCutz as well as an old one.

To start my card I cut the cookie images from some cream-colored cardstock using CottageCutz Homemade Cookies 1 and 2.

Using some Ranger Distress ink (Tea Dye and Vintage Photo) I colored the cookies and topped them with the icing pieces, which I did not color -- except for the two hearts. After they were all constructed, they looked just like gingerbread cookies!

To make the plate on which to serve the cookies, I cut two ovals (one in cream and one in green) using the 2nd largest Nested Stitched Scallop Oval . . .

. . . cutting the center out of the green oval and adhering it to the outside of the cream one.

I then placed the cookies onto the plate, gluing some of them down flat and popping some up with foam adhesive circles.

I cut the cup, cocoa, marshmallow and holly from the CottageCutz Sweet Christmas die . . .

. . . sponging the "cocoa" with Tea Dye distress ink and coloring the holly/berries with Copic markers.

I then cut my cardstock as follows:

Cream - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"

Red - 5 1/4" x 4"

Plaid patterned paper - 5 1/8" x 3 7/8"

It was then just a matter of constructing the card base, adding the cookie plate and cup of cocoa.  I then stamped an appropriate sentiment and punched it out, attaching it at the top -- and my card was complete.

CottageCutz dies used on my card are: