Showing posts with label Orchid Flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orchid Flower. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Everything's coming up Poppies!

I love poppies! I have to say they are one of my favorite flowers, so I decided I needed to figure how to make one using my CottageCutz dies. I used the Pink Peony Flower for the petals and the stamen is from the Orchid Flower.



Step 1. Cut one base flower, 2 petal pieces and 3 stamens.


Step 2. Ink the petals. I used Distress Ink ( Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door and Black Soot).


Step 3. Cut into the base flower to form four separate petals (but don't cut all the way through). Cut the end off of the stamens, so you just have a tip with three balls.



Step 4. Shape the parts with a flower shaping tool or ball stylus.


Step 5. Assemble the flower. Add a little Flower Soft in Sage Green for the centers.



Here's a layout that I made using some of the poppies. This is a picture of my nephew at the Land of Oz festival with the Wicked Witch. The quote says, " And now my beauties, something with poison in it. Poppies...poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep." ~ Wicked Witch of the West







Hope you get a chance to try these beautiful flowers!

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Orchids and Carousels Oh My!!!

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by the Cottage Cutz blog today. I'm Erika Taylor and this is my first post as one of the new design team members. I'm so excited about using the Cottage Cutz dies, and I hope that I can inspire you to use them too. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think and if there are any particular types of projects you would like me to create for the blog.

Today I have 2 projects to share with you The first project uses the 4 x 4 Orchid Flower Die. I love the layers that this die has and it works so wonderfully well with patterned papers. I created two of these little orchids for the first card. I also added a little glitter to each of them for that extra "KAPOW" factor hehe


Next is a super sweet card using the amazing Carousel Horse die. I think this is one of the sweetest dies I've ever seen. Again, I used patterned papers from Nikki Sivils and some glitter to really make the pole stand out. Easy Peasy!!!


If you haven't tried the Cottage Cutz dies before, you should really take a boo at all the different dies available. You will be blown away I guarantee. Thank you so so very much for stopping by today. I hope that you have a fantastic rest of your week. Happy cutting!!!

Erika Taylor



Thursday, August 04, 2011

Summer Fun



Hi Everybody. With the heat of the season in full gear it's hard not to think of summer fun.  Outdoor parties, afternoon pinics and breezy nights at an amusement park.  So our new carnival collection is so awesome, in fact I couldn't stop creating so I have two cards for you today.

My first card uses the Carousel Horse Die .  I used Mcgill paper bloom tools to curve the body out and make it 3-D then I added all of his detail.  The tickets from the Ticket Booth Die were perfect for adding sentiments.

My second card I fell in love with the Airplane Ride Die. How stinkin cute is it...LOVE IT!

Close Up of Airplane Die

Handmade Rosette Flowers

Side View
For the leaves of the rosette cluster I used the Orchid Flower Leaves and it really finished off the cluster perfect.  This collection is just so much fun and I know you'll have fun playing with them yourself. 

See ya next week,