Showing posts with label Pumpkins & Vines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pumpkins & Vines. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2018

Autumn Memories

Happy Friday Cottage Cutz fans!  Its Jeanne today with my last card before Thanksgiving!  This card uses the Country Candles dies along with a few from the Autumn release. The Autumn release dies are on sale for a limited time so be sure to stop by the online store!
I started by die cutting the lantern from a "galvanized tin" cardstock, the candle, flames and bow from vanilla, and the glass from velum.  I used leaves that I had left over from last week's card!  I had already used a sponge to color the edges of the leaves.
Next, I colored the vanilla pieces with Copic markers.
 I carefully adhered the velum window to the back of the lantern using Multi Medium Matte.
I cut a gold panel the size of an A2 card - 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, and a 5 1/4 x 4 inch panel from brown Co'ordinations cardstock.  This cardstock was popular several years ago and has a different color interior which shows when embossed and/or sanded.  Today, I embossed the panel and used a sanding block to reveal the interior color and enhance the embossing.
 I stamped the sentiment in Mossy Meadow ink and used the third smallest stitched oval to cut it out.
The lantern is popped off the embossed panel using foam dots and I used linen thread behind it.
I glued the sentiment below and slightly to the right of the lantern and then glued on my leaves. The embossed panel is glued to the gold one and both are adhered to an A2 card base.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  My next post will be after Thanksgiving and I wanted to get in one last autumn themed post!

Dies used:
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzcountrycandles.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpumpkinsandvines.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpumpkinpieandlatte.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzstitchedovalsetbasics.aspx

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have a happy and weekend (and find some time for creativity!)

Sunday, November 11, 2018

A Harvest of Blessings

Hi!

This is Anja again. I have a Autumn cad for you today. Autumn is my favourite season for inspiration for coloring. I really love all the colors  around us in Autumn. And this last Autumn release was one of my favourite. So many beautiful dies to use and to craft with. And today I used two more for this card.


For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Pumpkins & Vines, Basket of Vegetables),
- Distress Inks (Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Barn Door, Vintage Photo, Forest Moss, Twisted Citron, Seedless Preserves, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Aged Mahogany, Walnut Stain),
- white card stock for die cuts and background  (14,1x14,1 cm),
- craft paper for background (14,5x14,5 cm),
- white card base (15x15 cm),
- sentiment stamp,
- Versafine Onyx black ink,
- acrylic block,
- paper glue.

First I colored the pumpkins.


Then I colored the vegetables. I used Distress Inks.


Then I made the background.


I stamped the sentiment on top.


Then I cut another piece of paper for the background to add a bit of dimension.


When I had everything cut and colored I glued and arranged everything together and adhere it to the card base.

And this is my finished card.




Hope you have a nice Sunday. I'm going on a short trip to have some fun after a very busy working week.

Enjoy and come back again next week.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used:



Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Fall Pumpkins

Hello, this is Sukie sharing a card for my guest designer post today.  I adore Cottage Cutz dies and the Autumn release is one of my favorites with so many inspiring products!
I found the perfect fall themed papers in my stash from the Recollections Harvest Delight 6x6 paper pack. I wanted to break up the background pattern so I cut a couple of strips of paper from the same paper pack in the solid colors. All of the pieces were adhered with Glue Dots Adhesive Gluetape to the kraft card base.
Next I cut out the pumpkins and leaves from colored card stock using the Pumpkins & Vines dies. The pumpkins were inked on the edges for added dimension.  I cut out the oval using the Stitched Oval Set and also inked it on the edges.  The whimsical "fall" sentiment is from the Fall Phrases die set.
I adhered the oval to the base of my card which is a standard A2 size card (4.25 x5.5) and layered it with the set of pumpkins.  The pumpkins were overlapped a bit so they would fit perfectly on my card.
To finish off my card, the leaves were anchored around the pumpkins along with the sentiment.  The rustic look of this card is definitely the look I was trying to achieve.
The dies I used for my card are available over at Cottage Cutz:




Monday, October 15, 2018

Enjoy Fall

Hi, Lois here with my Monday card.  CottageCutz has a brand-new release of Fall dies -- and they're all just marvelous!  Be sure to check the website because they are currently on sale for 25% off.  In addition, the Halloween and Christmas Part 3 releases are also 25% off.   I chose two of the Fall dies for my card today -- Pumpkins and Vines as well as Fall Phrases.   I had seen a card made with a die-cut frame mounted on top of patterned paper and liked the way it looked, so I used basically the same idea on my card.


To make the frame I cut a piece of orange cardstock 3 3/4" x 4 3/4" and placed the largest of one of the straight-edged rectangle dies in the center.  You could use any rectangle die -- I just happened to have the Cross-Stitched ones, so that's what I used.  I can use the center (with the cross-stitches around the edge) for another card.


I then cut my card base . . .

Brown - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Patterned paper - 4" x 5 1/4"


. . .  and constructed my card.


I then cut the Pumpkins and Vines die -- the pumpkins in orange and the vines in green.


Using a brown Copic marker I colored the pumpkin stems and sponged the pumpkins and vines with orange and green distressed ink.  A little hint:  because the pumpkins are slit, you can slip a piece of scrap paper into the slits to allow you to sponge the edges of each section separately.  It gives a bit of dimension to your pumpkins.


I cut the Fall Phrases die from orange cardstock, although I am only using two of the words,


which I sponged with a little bit of brown distress ink.


I then gathered all my die-cuts and placed them on the card.  I moved them around a bit until I was satisfied with the arrangement and then glued them down.  As you can see, I extended some of the leaves over the frame.


My card was now finished.


CottageCutz dies used on my card are:

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpumpkinsandvines.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzfallphrases.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzcross-stitchedrectanglesetbasics.aspx