Less is More, Sometimes

Hello Everyone!  Today I wanted to share a card that is different than my usual style.  This is clean and simple with high impact, I think.  I also wanted to show you that you do not need a Christmas tree die to make a Christmas tree.  I first cut a triangle in the shape of a Christmas tree, from glittered cardstock.  I cut several strips of paper using the Scallop Three Edger die from green patterned paper.  I then layered the strips onto the Christmas tree, offsetting each strip so the scallops were staggered.  I cut a brown tree trunk and then adhered the tree to a red card base.  I cut a strip of white glitter cardstaock with a slight wave for a hill.  Merry Christmas was written with a white gel pen, and a white snowflake was added for the tree star.  How do you use your dies in different ways?  I hope this inspires you to look at the possibilities your dies can create.  Thanks for stopping, as always.

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Driving By With Merry Christmas Wishes!!

Good morning!  Lorie here today, and as the title says, I'm driving by this this cute little Santa to send you wishes for a VERY Merry Christmas!  I was so happy when this Santa's Truck with Tree die arrived in my mailbox, because I though he was SO stinkin' cute!!  I knew it would be loads (pun intended) of fun to work with, and I wasn't wrong!!  Here's my card using this adorable Cottage Cutz die.

I cut nearly everything with white card stock and colored with Copic markers, with just a few exceptions.  Now with this being Santa's ride, I just HAD to have a little bling, and glitter card stock fit that bill to a "T".   If you haven't asked Santa for all those Cottage Cutz dies that are on your wish list, then you'd better get to it.  Just eight more days, and the big day will be here!

Thank you so much for dropping by today.  I wish you a glorious Christmas filled with more blessings than your heart can hold.  Merry Christmas!!!!

Flying By To Say Hi

I think I have been making Christmas projects since August - so I decided I needed a little break from the Holiday festivities! So I've got a card that is a little bit more spring inspired! I love the layering of the dies and patterns - I just think it makes for a fun card!

CottageCutz Dies

Bird With Flowers
Ornate Circle Frame
Leafy Foliage
Scallop Three Edger
Eyelet Edger

Other
October Afternoon Papers
Inspired By Stamping The Sky's the Limit stamp set
Want2Scrap Pearls
Worldwin Papers Cardstock

Quick but Beautiful Last Minute Gift

Are you needing a small little handmade gift for a teacher, hostess or friend?  I have an easy gift that really doesn't take long at all to make but is so useful.  A tissue box holder.  You can pick up wooden tissue box covers at your local craft store for just a couple dollars and then the creative fun begins. 

You can cover the box with just one sheet of designer paper...granted I used two but I just wanted the mixed up patterns.  Then just add a few die cuts and and your done.  Of course you can go more detailed if you want, but I figured I didn't want to much going on as you needed to be able to get to the tissue.

I used the beautiful Blossom Branch die.  I did ink up the center and some of the edges with a little distress ink and then cupped the flowers with my McGill paper tool to lift them up.  Easy Peasy...glued them down with some strong glue and topped them off with "of course" pearls.  I do love me some pearls, LOL. 

Have a great rest of the week and happy crafting.

Festive Penguin Ribbon Wreath

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends! Angelica here with a SUPER simple, fun, festive ribbon wreath that you still have time for, even just a week or so away from Christmas. Whip up a few in an afternoon for your kid's teachers, neighbors and friends.

Starting with a small styrofoam wreath form, I wrapped some grosgrain ribbon in a muted shade of green all around my wreath, stopping at the bottom so I could wrap in an accent color. I placed dots of hot glue along the way (in the back). I then wrapped the bottom of the wreath in a red twill ribbon and secured to the back using my low-temp hot glue gun again. 

I even wrapped some baker's twine to anchor the red ribbon, but after I placed the snowflakes, it was hard to see. I cut out my Snowflakes 1 & 2 dies a few times and ended up using two of one of the snowflakes and just one of the other. It also would have been pretty to put them all over the wreath, but I really liked how the ribbon looked, so I chose to keep them on the bottom.  

I got the "peppermint" idea from The Twinery's Blog when Julie used her red twine to make holly berries. I think they look just perfect as peppermints, too! :)

The joyful penguin I added to the scene is from the Peachy Keen Penguin Doll die.

Hope you enjoyed today's inspiration! See you again right before Christmas! 

Gift Card Holder

Hello everyone, its Cheryl with a Gift Card Holder made for The Scrapping Cottage, and our Challenge #8 hosted by Pearl(square card& Embellished Cottage Cutz)

 I LOVE making these they are super fun and easy to make. 

Hope you will join us for her SUPER FUN challenge to make a Square Card & Embellish in 3-D a Cottage Cutz Die :) 

On my Gift Card holder i used the Christmas collection cottage cutz dies-

Winter Bird with Ornament

Boxwood Vine with Wreath

Ribbons

Pearls,Stickles,button

Here is the inside that holds the gift card. Also there is room to write on the inside, if i add another frame.

So for my Winter Bird i used design paper for the red and white. i added a black pearl for the eye, and then white pearls to separate the white and red. I added some red stickles to the wing. I wanted some greenery and added some to the botton of the bird with 2 candy canes.

I also stamped Merry Christmas from the Boxwood Vine and Wreath Cottage Cutz Die. love that this set has some stamps to match.

Thank you for looking and have a lovely day!

Hugs to all,Cheryl

Gift Tags with Matching Box

 Just in time for Christmas I created a gift box of gift tags. . a great gift for someone at the work, next door or that person who has everything . . and who has enough gift tags at Christmas anyway.

 The box 9" long, 2" high and 3" wide. I added a gift tag label and the above gift tag.  Notice the colors in the outer edge area's of the snowflake.

 Really easy to cut three each of the snowflakes from the Cottage Cutz Filigree Snowflake die. I cut one each of three colors of blue. Than took the large pieces that came out of each snowflake and added them randomly back into the other snowflakes. . .like a puzzle. This gave each snowflake a three color shadings without cutting the snowflake more than once.

 Than I randomly glued the snowflakes onto tags. Notice how I overlapped the snowflake. . that way the cut off of the other side of the same snowflake . . could use on the same tag.  I sponged a bit of blue ink around the edges of the white tag.

 For the additional three snowflake tags I used the Cottage Cutz Snowflake Doily die. Again cutting only three and using the tree shape pop out to fill the other snowflakes.

 I also added blue swirl lines with a rubber stamp to randomly fill the white area, than used Stickle on some of the blue ink lines and added a few jewels. The tags were knotted with a white sparkling wired rope cord. All six tags fit into the 3"x9" box to create the gift.

 Here I have shown you how I cut all the tags the same size on the top. Each tag was 2.5" x 6". when I found the angle that I wanted on the corners of one the tag. . I built a Jig, I rolled tape and put a triangle at the top of the cutter and than taped a scrap (green) of paper at the bottom, than all I had to do is lay the retangular tag into the frame (jig). . cut one corner, flip the paper and cut the other side. Every tag had exactly the same angle.

These are the the Cottage Cutz dies that I used for the seven tags.

Cottage Cutz . . Snowflake Doily 4x4 and Filigree Snowflake 4x4

Thank You and hope all of you are having a Merry Season. Barry

Scrapping Cottage Saturday Challenge #8 !

Hello, everyone ! 

Pearl here , back with a second Saturday Challenge for you this December ! 

Our winner for November's challenge is ...... Linda 

with her adorable entry here : 

http://www.myquillingnest.com/2011/12/quilling-it-thursdays-episode-5-cottage.html

Congratulations ,Linda ! 

You've won a $25.00 gift certificate to The Scrapping Cottage. 

And on to my December challenge for you : 

Make a SQUARE holiday card - any size - 

and decorate your Cottage Cutz die used with 3D embellishments. 

For my 6x6 square Christmas card sample here - 

I have used the Whimsical Tree die cut out of patterned paper. 

I chalked the edges and the embossed areas for more definition . 

And for some fun embellishments for the tree, 

I have added Eyelet Outlet's Holiday Sock Monkey brad, 

gingerbread man and some peppermint candy brads. 

We will choose one random winner and you will win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage! 

Link below and thank you for all your creativity. 

I love Snowflakes!

It seems like I'm always drawn to snowflakes and this CottageCutz Filigree Snowflake is no exception. I simply cut these out of a heavy white cardstock and then added Stickles, Star Trail pen and gems to embellish them.

The one on the right I glued down to the cardstock and the other one I applied mounting tape to it to give it some dimension.

Be sure to visit us tomorrow for our Second Saturday Challenge from Pearl.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Kay

Santa has Laundry too!

For those that didn't get a chance to participate in the blog hop last weekend I wanted to share with you the card I made with Santa's Clothesline. Yes, Santa has laundry too - of course

Mrs. Claus gets to do that.......

This is such a fun die and makes a great rectangular card. I inked the edges, added some Stickles and some details with my Star Trail pen and used pop dots to give it more dimension.

I'll see you back here tomorrow with a new Christmas creation.

Have a great day!

Kay

Season's Greetings

Hello everyone!  Sorry for the late post.  Better late than never right?  I have a couple of cards to show you using the Boxwood Vine Wreath and I had an extra snowman scrap from the Snowman in Mug die.

I cut the wreath out twice and inked the leaves a bit with Brilliance olive ink.  I put the 2 wreaths together and then wrapped some red and white twine around it.  I had the snowman hold a stocking, and added a few poinsettias to the wreath along with a bow.  I then used some striped background paper for the card.  I stamped the sentiment, included with the die, onto the banner.

I used some of the other parts from the boxwood die to make the second card.  I put 2 of the banners together to make it look like garland.  Have you seen the new hunting dies?  You may check them out here.  As always, thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

We have some Winners!

The winners from our Blog Hop are:

April

Michelle

Joanna

Pruttybird

Terri

Annette

Carol

each of you has won a 3x3 die of your choice.

The Grand Prize Winner is:

Ann Marie

Congratulations everyone and thanks for participating!

Please email scrappingcottage@cox.net with your die choice and address if you haven't already.

Another Sparkly Ornament

Good morning!  It's snowing here in mid Missouri, and oh how pretty it is.   Lorie here to share a card with you today.  That first little bit of snowfall for the season brings out the kid in all of us, and today is certainly no exception.  It's the perfect day to share a Christmas card complete with snowflakes and sparkles, and that's exactly what I've got for you.

I used a couple of techniques for this card.  First, I created some background paper using an ornament die cut from the Holiday Ornament Cottage Cutz made Easy die.  I just cut the ornament using the waxy paper that you peel away from the foam that comes with your Cottage Cutz dies.  That stuff is wonderful for this technique, because when you spritz your paper,  with Glimmer Mist, it won't stick to the die cut, and you can reuse it time and time again.  I moved the die cut around on the paper and misted away.  Since I was using a light blue Glimmer Mist, I didn't mind if there was a little over spray.  In fact, I liked that look.  Let your paper dry well, or dry it carefully with a heat embossing tool, and use just as you would any paper.  

For the ornament, I cut 1 layer with glitter card stock, then cut a layer of blue by hand in the same color as my base card stock for a backing on the ornament, and to make the sparkly part stand out.  The snowflake embossing folder is from Stampin' Up!.  Combining techniques shows just how versatile these dies are, and adds so much interest and texture to all your cards and projects!

So happy you could stop by today!  Have a wonderful day and happy crafting!!!

Love ya!
Lorie

More Christmas Cheer!

I've certainly been having fun creating lots of Christmas projects! For today's card I used Snowman in a Mug from Cottage Cutz. I made him into a Christmas card, but you could certainly use him for any winter projects.

Thanks for looking!