Nest with eggs

Hi, Janja here!

Each spring, most of the migratory birds return from wintering in their rearing area. We will see most of the nests just in this and the following two months.
And so for today I prepared nest with eggs on thank you card.

Supplies:
- CottageCutz dies: Nest With Eggs, Songbirds, Spring Greenery, Thank You
- white card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm)
- patterned paper: 4.72 x 4.72" (12 x 12 cm)
- white and colored cardstock
- corner punch

From white and colored cardstock cut out with dies a nest with eggs and greenery. Coat eggs with glossy accents to get the shine. On some green twigs apply pearl dots. Also prepare birds cutouts and add "Thank you". Cut them out twice.

While the eggs and dots are drying, prepare a card base and the background from patterned paper. Cut off one corner with corner punch.

Assemble the card.

Thank you for coming over. Have a nice day. 

Easter Eggs

Hi! 

It's Anja here. We're one week away from Easter and it's time to make some Easter decorations. I decided to decorate some plastic eggs.

I used:

- Cottage Cutz Dies (Spring Butterfly 1, 3D Flower #7, Spring Greenery),

- colored card stock,

- Distress Inks (Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss),

- tools for making 3d flowers,

- flower stamens,

- plastic eggs,

- glue,

- purple acrylic paint,

- brush,

- purple ribbon,

- glitter

First I colored plastic eggs with acrylic paint and sprinkled them with glitter while they were still wet. I let them dry.

I die cut some greenery from green card stock and butterflies and flowers from light violet card stock. I cut only the tree smallest flowers from the flowers die. I used Distress Inks to color the edges of the die cuts.

Then I used tools to make 3d effects and assembled the flowers and butterflies. I put stamens in the middle of the flowers.

When the eggs were dry I hanged it with some purple ribbon. Then I put all the leaves around the top of the eggs. In the end I added the butterfly on one egg and two flowers on the other egg. 

Have a nice Sunday.
Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used:

Happy flowers with CottageCutz dies

Hello ,

Its Anita here and I am back with my Friday post.
Happiness is such a subjective emotion. many derive happiness by spending time with their loved ones while some become happy by being with their pets.  know some people are happy when alone while some like noisy crowd to be happy.
I find happiness in flowers. And I am happy when my flowers bloom the way I want them to. And the CottageCutz 3D flowers dies are most amazing ones that make my flowers look happy.

There is a wide variety of flower and leaf dies ranging from tiny flowers to mega sized blooms.

For my card here, I have created some spring flowers and I loved the purple hue . Do follow the step by step instructions for making these flowers.
Here is my card.

 Instructions for making flowers

Cut the die cuts from white card stock using CottageCutz dies

Cut out 2  frames each for the card base and stick them together.

Colour the flowers and leaves using distress inks and put tiny dots with black pen. Mist the flowers with water.

Shape using an embossing tool on a foam mat as shown

Make pollen centres as shown

Add wire pollens to filler flowers

Carefully make small cut marks in between the petals. This will enable the pollen centres to pass through.

Complete all the flowers and lay them out on the card.

the finished card measures 7"/ 7". It has two mat layers of 6.5/6.5" and 6"/6". The edges have been distressed. Cut 4 strips from pattern paper measuring 1"/ 7" and swipe walnut stain ink to give that distressed look. Adhere on card front as shown.

CottageCutz dies used

CottageCutz 3D flower # 7

CottageCutz leafy foliage die

Wide Rectangle Stitched Frame

Stitched Rectangle set

Fancy victorian Frame

Spring Greenery

Other products

Distress inks-walnut stain, seedless preserve, wilted violet, Memento inks-bamboo leaves, ivy cottage. white card stock

Do leave a few happy words and thanks for stopping by.

Woodland Scene

Hi, Lois here, with a fun card today.  I have used quite a few CottageCutz dies and stamp/die sets on my card.  If you know me at all, you probably know that I love making fun-fold cards -- so it will be no surprise to see that my card is a Side-Step Card.

Supplies used on this card are:

Green cardstock - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Pale blue cardstock 1 3/4" x 3 7/8" and 1 3/4" x 3 1/4"

White cardstock for stamp/die sets

Scraps of brown and two shades of green for shrubbery

Copic markers

Liquid glue and tape runner

Fiskars paper trimmer

Scoring board

CottageCutz stamp/die sets - Woodland Animals, Woodlands, Garden Gnomes 1

CottageCutz dies - Spring Grass, Spring Greenery, Campfire Clothesline, Grass with Cattails

To make the card base, I placed the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of green cardstock into the paper trimmer with the long edge at the 3 1/2" mark.  With the cutting blade at the 1" mark, I cut a line down to the 6 3/8" mark.  Placing the long edge of the card base at the top of the scoring board, I scored the wide section at 1", 2", 3 1/8", 4 1/4" (all the way across the center of the card), and 6 3/8" and folded on the score lines so that my card looked like this:

Using my Copic markers, I colored and cut the various stamps from both the Woodlands and Woodland Animals sets.

Then I cut the shrubbery from the scraps of green and brown, using the Spring Grass, Spring Greenery, and Campfire Clothesline dies.

I stamped the sentiment at the top of the tall pale blue panel and assembled my card.  The Campfire Clothesline tree had only a few leaves, so I made branches out of some of the Spring Greenery die cuts.  Here is a close-up of the steps of the card.

And again . . . the finished card.

CottageCutz sets used on this card are: