Monday, July 01, 2013

A bowl full of strawberries

Hello dear friends of CottageCutz dies.
Today I am (Simona) sharing with you another
card made with beautiful CottageCutz dies:
I thought it would be fun to use those two dies together.


I cut the strawberries out twice from white cardstock and
colored and sponged them with distress inks -
barn door, fired brick, peeled paint and pine needles.
I cut the largest bowl out of DCWV paper - Nana's Kitchen Stack
and sponged the edges with distress ink vintage photo.


I cut oval doily out of white cardstock and placed it 
under the bowl with strawberries.


The background paper and the Welcome tag are also
from the same DCWV paper collection - Nana's Kitchen Stack.


I added the little flowers from the Spring Strawberries die
to the card and made a double bow.

Hope you like todays post.

Thank you for looking and wish you
all a great day!

Hugs,
Simona

The dies used:



Sunday, June 30, 2013

bluebird "Flying high"



Hello everyone and Happy Sunday to all! Cheryl here today with a sweet CottageCutz Bluebird card. Love this sweet bird and the beautiful branch it comes with. My pieces are all cut from white card stock and then colored to match.I used copics on the bird,branch,and flowers. For the tag and the doily I dusted them with distressed inks.


CottageCutz Used and each Photo is LINKED for easy finding at the store:


Lastly I added some RRR ribbon on the tag, and some lace on the border. I also added some gems, and a little gem butterfly for that added touch.

Thank you for looking and have a wonderful day!!
Hugs to all,
Cheryl

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Cottage Cutz Vintage Bath Tub Gift Box

Happy Saturday.  Welcome friends and bloggers to another Cottage Cutz Creation.  Today it's Carol with a Gift Box.  This was created with a plain old corrugated cardboard box.  You can do anything with a few pieces of scrapbook paper, lace, and embellishments.  Warning:  This post is picture heavy!
The Vintage Bath Tub die from Cottage Cutz was use for the focal point.  It was mounted on a few spellbinders dies.  The corners of the box are the Bella Spring Corner.  The Bella Leafy Branch was used under the flowers.
The box was covered on all sides with paper.  The bottom has a Martha Stewart Deep punched border trim.  When covering your box, don't worry about covering those corrugated edges.  You can paint them with paint or gesso like I did and you just get a Shabby Chic look to your project.
Lace was glued around the top edge of the box along with some crochet trim and a row of bling.  The bow was created with sheer ribbon with pieces of lace inserted between the layers for fullness.
Cut the Vintage Bath Tub die with white cardstock and use your Copic markers to shade the pieces and assemble.  It doesn't show well in the picture but I painted the pieces and the flowers on this box with Twinkle Toes Glimmer Glam.
The flowers were created with two different size Marvey Punches.  Pink bling was inserted between the flowers to compliment the pink in the main focal point.  K & Company Elegance Designer Paper was used to cover the box and create the flowers.
 So by now I bet you are wondering what you would use this box for, right?  Well here is what you could include in the box as a wonderful gift to someone!
A collection of Bath and Body Works products!  How fun is that.  I used the Eyelet Insert Card/Tag to decorate the bottles.  I just turned it upside down so the pretty decoration was at the bottom and punched a hole at the top to tie onto the bottles.  I repeated the decorations of flowers, the Bella Leafy Branch, and some pink bling.

As you can see, this would be a wonderful gift presentation-so don't throw out any of those corrugated boxes that you might think aren't pretty enough to alter.....they are.
 Here's a little peek at the individual Bath and Body Works bottles.
Here are the Cottage Cutz dies used.




Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope you have a creative day wonderful day!  Take care and see you soon!


Friday, June 28, 2013

Spring Tweetie


Hello everyone, Vladka here!

I hope you are all ready for a great weekend. I will spend this one with my three best friends from high school. It will be fun, four of us girls together again. There is only one problem - that we won´t have enough time to talk about everything and we will be definitely louder as this little Spring Tweetie :) 


This die can be used on every cards for different occasions: wedding, baptism, confirmation, birthday and it is also perfect for masculine card. Great, right? 


I wish you all a beautiful weekend!


Thursday, June 27, 2013

Sweet Baby Girl


Hello everyone and Happy Thursday to all!!
Today I am sharing a BABY girl card I designed using the beautiful CottageCutz dies. All pieces were cut using White card stock and then all the baby items were colored with copics.  I just LOVE this darling CottageCutz Baby Girls Clothes die. The CottageCutz Baby border and the doily I left white, so you could see the details in the clothes and teddy bear.


The design paper is baby paper I had, and I thought it would be perfect fit for this sweet baby girl card. I added some sewing, and then some beautiful Really Reasonable Ribbon Pink Satin to complete my card.

All CottageCutz dies are linked by photo below :)




Thank you for looking and have a lovely day!
Hugs to all,
Cheryl

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Springtime Strawberries and Victorian Window

Beautiful morning everyone!

It's Simona with you today, showcasing  a card
made with beautiful CottageCutz dies:


I cut the strawberries and the window out of white cardstock
and colored/sponged them with Distress inks:
pumice stone, peeled paint, antique linen, fired brick,
barn door and mustard seeds.


For the picture behind the victorian window I used
Graphic 45 paper - Secret Garden.


White background was dry embossed with a brick
folder and sponged with pumice stone distress ink.
I used white gel pen to hand draw some lines and added
some white half pearls.


Hope you feel inspired.

Thank you for looking and have a 
lovely day!

Hugs,
Simona

The dies used:



Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Home is where the heart is...

Hi, happy day to you all!
I have created a new card showcasing some 
wonderful CottageCutz dies.
Here I used the lovely CottageCutz Spring Treehouse
and CottageCutz Oval doily.
Take a look:

This is a side-step style card, you can find
a tutorial on how it's made, Here.


This is the die I used:


Other materials used are American Crafts - 
5th & Frolic Collection papers,
sentiment was cutout from one of the papers,
flowers ribbon by Tim Holtz,
butterfly from Michael's stores.

Happy crafting!
Hugs,