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

Cup of Comfort Ornament Tag

Do you enjoy a little cup of comfort?  You know the kind that is filled with delicious, warm cocoa, coffee or tea.  I created these sweet Cup of Comfort Ornament/Tags using the Nested Stitched Doily Set and the Cocoa & Sweet Treat Dies.

I used watercolors to color in the images.  To add deeper color to areas of the die, I add a base coat of the watercolor then let dry.  Next add a second coat in the areas to you would like a deeper more intense color, letting dry between coats.

Assemble the images, add some red/white twine, lace pieces, embellishments and glitter glue to add shimmer.  Add a hanging tag with the red/white twine.

I hope you enjoyed a little Christmas inspiration.
 Wishing a  creative day, dear friends.

Sheila

Sweet Greetings Christmas Cupcake

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

Yikes, can you believe that it is already October 21? Time to get a start on Christmas cards. I have about 10 or so made. Not nearly enough that's for sure. That's where my samples will be headed each week for awhile.

Today, I used a new die Christmas Tree Cupcake, for my sample card. I wanted to show a card that would be easy to mass produce using this new die. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Step 1: Since this is a Christmas cupcake, I knew I was going to use red and green for the cupcake itself. So I checked my cardstock and patterned papers for a Christmas theme of red and green. I found this dotted paper that I thought would look good as a background. Dots and stripes always work for me for Christmas.

Step 2: Once I had the shades of red and green chosen, I was ready to cut my cupcake image.  As with all CottageCutz dies, this has such detail with it. I really like how cute this image is.

 Step 3: I wanted to have the cupcake framed inside a circle die. I used the Nested Stitched Doily die and cut in the cherry red cardstock. I also used the stitched circle die (3rd largest) as a layering piece and cut this in kraft cardstock.

I adhered the circles together with double sided tape and then stamped my "Sweet Greetings"sentiment.

Step 4: I started the assembly of my card. I decided that I wanted to break up all the dots on the background panel. So, I used a 3/4" x 4 1/8" piece of the green cardstock and layered some kraft ribbon over that.  It will be just enough once my circles are layered on top.

Attached the cupcake to the circles with dimensional adhesive.  There are little circle ornaments that are part of this die that I forgot to attach earlier. I cut them in white, green and red cardstock. I scattered the extras on the image panel for added interest.

To complete my card, I attached the image panel to the red card base. I thought it just needed something else so I added a small bow made with the kraft ribbon. It finished my card off nicely.

I hope I have given you some inspiration on a way to use the new Christmas Cupcake die. Well, that's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday.

Dies I used to create card

Baked with Love

Hi!
This is Anja again. My colleague asked me to make her a card for her friend who loves to bake. And this is what I came up with. I played with embossing and Distress Oxides.

I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Tiered Wedding Cake, Baking In The Kitchen, Nested Stitched Scallop Circle Set, Nested Stitched Doily Set),
- Distress Oxides (Antique Linen, Abandoned Coral, Vintage Photo),
- transparent embossing powder,
- Versamark embossing ink,
- watercolor paper (10,7x14,7 cm),
- white card base (11x15 cm),
- paper glue,
- enamel dot,
- Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.

First I stamped the images on watercolor paper. I used the stamping platform to make it easier. I embossed the images with transparent embossing powder.

I colored the images with water and Distress Oxides. I spritzed a few drops of color all over the paper at the end. I used the same technique to color the cake.

I decided to stamp the sentiment directly on the cake.

Then I die cut two different circles that combine each other nicely.

And after that I just combined and glued all the pieces together. I added a little glitter with Wink of Stella marker to the cake and colored images on the background.

Have a fun filled Sunday.
Anja Z.

Mr & Mrs Wedding Card

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

It's wedding season here in my neck of the woods. It seems like every couple of years I get invited to several weddings and this is the year. Fortunately for me, we just had a release of 20 new wedding dies that fit perfectly for my card ideas.

So lets get started with some details on the card I am showcasing today.

Step 1: I start my cards each week in several different ways. Today, I started with my card colors. That made it easy because these are the ones the Bride has chosen for her wedding. I looked through my paper stash for colors that matched along with patterned paper. I chose a soft green, a rich espresso brown and peach as my accent colors. I am also using a peach ribbon. I assembled these parts of the card at this point.

Green Card Base: 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"

Espresso Layering Panel: 5 3/8" x 4 1/8"

Patterned Paper Panel: 5 1/4" x 4" 

Step 2: I decided to use the Mr & Mrs with Hearts and frame it with the Nested Stitched Doily dies. I assembled this part of my card and attached to the base panel. I used dimensional adhesive to attach it to card. It adds depth to your card. 

 

 

Step 3: I also wanted to finish the inside of my card. I don't usually do this with anything more than a sentiment. The exception is wedding cards.  I like to add other embellies to make it a little more special for the couple. So for this card I used the Rose with wedding rings, Love Phrase.and the  Nested Scallop Rectangle dies.

 

I adhered the images to the scallop panel. I really like the wedding rings that are part of the rose die. The hearts were leftover when I cut the Mr & Mrs phrase.

Attached the decorated panel to the card inside. The espresso is such a rich shade of brown and complements the green nicely. The bride chose some beautiful colors for her wedding.

I decided to add a bow to the card front. It just seemed a little more complete. I don't have to mail this card so no worries that my bow will get ruined. Well that completes my card for this week. I hope I have given you another idea on how to use these new wedding dies. See you next Saturday.

 

 

Dies I used to complete card: