CottageCutz Zinnia Flower & Video Tutorial

Hello everyone Cheryl here with the CottageCutz Zinnia Flower from the Spring Release. I love this flower and wanted to share a video on how I made them super easy!

Supplies used:

CottageCutz Zinnia Flower Die

Cryogen White Card Stock

Glimmer Mist /Tattered Rose

Glimmer Mist /Pink Bubblegum

Helmar/Scrap Dots(glue)

Tweezers/scissors 

3 of the middle size large flower

3 of the small flower, this will create the big flowers, to create the small ones just use 3 small and do the same steps.

All I did was spray the Glimmer mist, and set aside for a moment, then dab them to remove excess glimmer mist. Then I scrunched them up and glued them using the wonderful scrap dots(my favorite) then set aside to dry fully before using on project.

There are sooo many possibilities with this CottageCutz Zinnia Layered Flower and  I love it!!!! You can add pearls,brads ,buttons,glitter,beads or whatever you would like to the centers of these. They are perfect for cards,layouts,albums, or any altered item of your choice :)

Zinnia Layered Flower video

I hope you enjoy my video, and thank you for looking!!

Hugs to all,Cheryl

Lilac Mom Card

 Spring has sprung at Cottage Cutz with a great new Spring Collection. This week I am doing a MOM card using the Cottage Cutz Flower Cluster, along with the Cottage Cutz Magnolia Doily die.

 This cluster of flowers looks like a cluster of Lilacs. The Cottage Cutz die comes with two size flower clusters and two leaf/stem clusters. You can mix and match to create any style cluster. I used a combination of Stickles and Glossy Accents on the edge of the doily. This gave a raised high gloss edge. The flowers were cut from three different shades of purple card stock and the leaves two shades of green. Than I used Copic markers to tint the flowers and leaves. I liked the Purple and Turquoise larger Rhinestones that I had to use on the bottom of the card. . . . . so I used a #B05 Blue and #V17 Purple Copic marker to tint the crystal mini rhinestones in the center of the flowers. **reminder that because or the reflection on the base of the rhinestone you do not need to tint the entire rhinestone just three quarters of the top. (this makes it easy to tint a rhinestone without coloring ink on the finished card). In this case I tinted  half of one side in blue and the other about a third in purple. Than switched up some of the color more or less on each jewel. This made them random in color.  The photo doesn't show well, but I tinted the edge of the card in purple to match the vertical ribbon.  

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Spring.   Barry

Cottage Cutz Lady Bug Gift Box

 

Greetings friends and bloggers.  Today I wanted to share with you this gift box I made for Cottage Cutz Die Cuts from The Scrapping Cottage.  I used the Ladybug and the Daisy Doily Dies.

This Ladybug is awesome.  So cute and so easy to put together.  All I did was cut the body with black card stock and the wings with red card stock.  I put some foam dimensional adhesive on the back of the wings and mounted it on the body.    My daisies are made with a punch and the centers are Martha Stewart Flocking.

 Here you can see a close up of these pretty Ladybugs which are "Good Luck" by the way! The Daisy doily was used as the base for this flower and bug arrangement.  I cut it down approximately 3/4 of the way and applied it to the top of the box.

 Here's the corner Ladybug at the bottom right of the box. 

Surprise!!!!  Now here is what is inside the box.  I bet you weren't expecting these little sweeties in here were you.  How could I resist not making something so cute with this die.

 They are paper clips.  All you have to do is assemble the Ladybug like I described above then cut one extra black body.  sandwich your paper clip between the Ladybug and the body piece and glue together-so easy and so cute.

I die cut a little leaf to place behine the Ladybug to make it look like the Ladybug was crawling on a leaf.  Here are the dies from Cottage Cutz that I used in this project.  Your can find them here:

 

Thank you so much for stopping by to see my project today.  I am so in love with this ladybug die that you will probably see it throughout the summer in my projects.  I love it!!!

Easter Blessings

Hello friends!  What a beautiful sunny day we are having in Massachusetts!  Hope you are having a beautiful Spring day!  Today's card features this adorable Bunnies die and Filigree Egg die.  The bunny was cut from white cardstock and colored with Copics.  I cut some ovals for the smaller eggs and wrapped them with twine then added a few bows to finish the card.

Happy Easter tomorrow!  Happy Spring!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Hogs & Kisses and Happy Wishes!

Good morning!  It's Lorie here today, and I've been playing with some of my CottageImpressions stamps, right along with my new CottageCutz Dies.  Talk about a PERFECT pairing!!  Being a "farm girl", I've always been partial to these adorable On The Farm CottageImpressions stamps.  I used the Pig Stamp, and added the Hogs & Kisses sentiment, which makes this card usable for many different occasions, just by personalizing what I put on the inside.  This sweet image is framed using one of the new dies from the March 2012 release at The Scrapping Cottage.  This CottageCutz 4x4 Magnolia Doily die is a staple for any avid paper crafter, as the possibilities with this die are absolutely endless!

The thought of a pig framed with the lacey edge of this Magnolia die, and lace ribbon just makes me smile.  That's what I love about this craft.  If you can imagine it, then it's possible.  There is no right or wrong, because if it makes you happy, or makes someone else smile, then it can't get any more right than that! 

This precious little piggie was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and colored with Copic markers.  The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye Life Of The Party from their Lime Twist collection.  Both the lace and gingham ribbon are from Stampin' Up!. 

Thanks so much for dropping by today!  Hogs & Kisses to you, and HAPPY CRAFTING!

CottageCutz April Tea Time Release

Hello everyone,and Happy Thursday to you all!
 Today is the NEW RELEASE Day for CottageCutz APRIL Release called
"TEA TIME"! 

Here are some of the CottageCutz for The Tea Time Release:

This is such a Beautiful release just in time to create those scrapbook pages for Mothers Day,Or Mothers Day cards, Mother and Daughter Tea Time. Also this collection is perfect for cards,mini albums invitations,and so on.
I LOVE this new Tea Time Release and know you will too!! Tea Time Release for April can be found HERE!

Cottage Cutz Duck

Hi Everyone, I`m so EXCITED to be joining the CottageCutz Design Team! I just love their ADORABLE dies, and they are so FUN to work with.

I have used:

CottageCutz Duck w/ Egg

CottageCutz Duck Accessories

Thank-you for joining me today, I`m so thrilled to be sharing my CottageCutz creations with you, see you on the 14th!!

Hugs Cindy xoxo

CottageCutz Welcome 2 New DT Members

Hello everyone, I Hope you all will help us Welcome 2 new Designers to the CottageCutz Design Team!

1st we have Cindy Haffner who is super Excited to be part of the CottageCutz Design Team. 

 Cindy is from Canada and has been crafting for a long time. She is a Wife,Mother, and Grandma who LOVES card making and spending time with her hubby and grandchildren. We are super excited to welcome Cindy to our team, and cant wait for you to see her work. 

So hope you will visit her post this coming week,

Post Dates for Cindy are 

 4th,14th,and 24th of every month.

Cindys Blog Here

2nd we Have Kelly who is also super excited to be part of the CottageCutz Design Team.

Kelly has been married to her HS sweetie for almost 19 years. They have 4 kids, 2 puppies  she is a  SAHM,and lives in tropical South Florida!  she's been paper crafting for 30 years now - starting with simple scrapbooking as a teenager.  She has since added on card making for the past 7 years and loves every minute of it!  Her crafting style is pretty elemental - She loves lots and lots of layers and lots and lots of color!  The more texture, element and embellishment to a card or layout out, the more excited she is  :)  When she's not crafting, you can often find her where her kids are - she is an avid volunteer at their schools and at our church.  I love being outdoors enjoying the beauty of our environment - the nature trails, beaches, biking with the kids.  When indoors, you can find me with my nose buried in a book (or two!) and I'm an aspiring writer and I'm constantly scribbling in (altered!) notebooks ;)  I'm honored to be part of TSC team!

We are super excited to welcome Kelly to our DT and cant wait for you to see her work. 

Post dates for Kelly will be 

5th,15th,and 25th of every month

Kellys Blog Here

We are super excited to have both of you as part of The CottageCutz Design Team, and cant wait to see your work with the Beautiful CottageCutz Dies!! Welcome Ladies!!!!

Hugs to all,Cheryl

CottageCutz Spring Release

Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday to you all! My card for today features the new Spring Release. Im loving these new CottageCutz dies by The Scrapping Cottage, and you will too!!

So for my card today I used these 3 CottageCutz:

CottageCutz Flower Vine 4 x 6

CottageCutz Zinnia Layered 4 x 6

CottageCutz Magnolia Doily 4 x 4

For the Zinnia Flowers I cut them out in Cryogen White Card Stock and spritzed them with Glimmer Mist. I then put them together with Liquid glue. Next i cut my vine out with green card stock and thought a little green for this card would be perfect. I wanted to keep it a little simple on this one so you could see the beauty of the flowers and card stock i used. Also wanted you to be able to see the Magnolia Doily how I layered it with a circle. I then stamped my sentiment "on your special day".

I made a double bow, using 2 different ribbons from RRR. Then added my button.

Here are the close ups to see the shimmer and ruched card stocks i used.

thank you for stopping by and hope you will be back tomorrow we will have some exciting news to share with you all!!!

Hugs to all,Cheryl