Invitation

Hi everyone, Janja here!

Warmer weather is an opportunity for meetings with family and friends in nature, garden or home terrace. Whether it's birthday party, relocation party or just anything like that.
Therefore I share today with you the invitation.

As a central element of the first page, I chose a window. I really like the Victorian window die, since the cutouts can be treated with various techniques. Invitation with it becomes mysterious, and mystery will be disclosed in its interior.

For the invitation we need:

• white card base: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2", folded
• colored cardstock: 4 x 5.2"
• white cardstock: 3.7 x 5 "
• stamp
• embossing folder
• Distress inks: Iced Spruce, Weathered Wood, Antique Linen, Moved Lawn and Worn Lipstick
• Distress crackle clear paint
• paper crimper

On white cardstock with an embossing folder, create the look of a stone wall. On the convex part of an embossing folder we apply ink (Distress ink - Iced Spruce) with a brayer and place over it a white cardstock. Individual stones are shaded additionally.

My window is cut from the natural paper, which gives the impression of a limestone. Unfortunately, during the cutting, paper is slightly flattened.
For the other elements of the window, use a white cardstock and shade them plentiful with Distress ink - Weathered Wood. Cover them with Distress transparent crackle paint. Apply a thicker layer.

On the inner side of the window fix a pleated roll. This is done with a paper crimper. 

For greenery use the die leafy vines. Small leaves are wonderful for creating a climbing plant. I took tiny flower from the fancy Mary Jane shoes die. In the middle of each flower add a dot of liquid pearls - buttercup.

Arrange greenery and tiny flowers around the window.

In the upper right corner, add an inscription. Use the die rustic sign & trees.

As you already noticed on the second picture, we prepared two stone walls.

From the second one cut out a frame with a stitched wide rectangle frame die (the largest die of the set).

Add text, and our invitation is ready to send.

Don't forget on our May challenge - Hello spring. You have time to share your projects with us till the end of the month.

Dies, which I used at work:

Have a nice day. 

Janja

Happy Mother's Day and my Tag

Hi friends!  Yuliya here. Today is Mother's Day in the US and I will be sharing  how to make beautiful tag using the CottageCutz dies!

Supplies:

- chipboard
- cardstock
- patterned paper
- ribbon- CottageCutz Tea Time Doily (4x4)

- CottageCutz Cross-Stitched Circle Set (Basics)

- CottageCutz Plumeria & Leaves (4x4)
- CottageCutz 3D Flower 5

Please follow the step by step pictures on making of the Tag.  I really like the color palette i chose.

1. Prepare cardstock for base and prepare the details for our Tag

2.Use distress ink - vintage Photo - to make nice edges

3. Glue the details

4.Add some volume with the help of chipboard.

5.Cut out all little pictures from paper sheets and prepare some die-cuts

6. The cutouts are molded with a shaping tool and assembled. 

7. 

Happy Mother's Day Ladies!!

3 TECHNIQUE WEDDING CARD

Hello dear friends...

It's Saturday today and I'm Anita with my weekly post. I hope you all are enjoying the spring season and the summer fun in your place. In India, it is extremely bright and sunny but I think in many parts of the world, the spring flowers are still blooming.
So lets begin with today's work. In my post today, I will show you a technique of partial die cutting and adding a little twist to the background of a card, with negatives of diecuts as stencils.And we will make a shaker card!!! Sounds difficult !!!!! Of course not !!! It's super easy and fun to play using these and believe me , the results are very pretty.

So here is my full card reveal.

Please follow the pictures below to see how to proceed with my card.
If you are still doubtful about flower making, then follow my flower making video tutorial .

The card measures 5 inches x 7 inches


Cut a  white card stock measuring 4.75 inches by 6.75 inches.
Draw a line with pencil, 3 inches from the top across the card as shown.
Make a mark on either side of the CottageCutz Swan (Elites) die, a little above the final bottom cutting lines and extend the mark at the back of the die so that you know where to place the die, when you turn it on the paper to cut. Coincide the marks with the pencil line.

Now for cutting , place the die and paper on your cutting plates in such a manner, that the part that is below the pencil line will be extending out of the cutting plate and the part above the pencil line will be on the cutting plate. So the part , that is out of the cutting plate, will not cut through the paper when passed through the die cutting machine. This is how it should look.

Now remove the portion attached to the die cut that is on the top of the line, with a craft knife, giving an empty background space behind the die cut.

Cut a rectangle out of the middle die from the CottageCutz Wide Rectangle Stitched Frame die and further cut it as shown.
Adhere around the cut frame of the partial cut swan with foam tape.

Cut another die cut from the swan die , apply glossy accents and sprinkle Fairy dust shimmer glitter on top . Let it dry and attach to the partial die cut of the swan with foam tape.

Let us make the shaker card  now.

Turn the card and attach a piece of transparent acrylic sheet covering the cut portion behind the swan.
Put foam tape all around and add lot of silver sequins in the centre.
Cut a piece of white card stock and colour with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. Further colour with Wink of Stella clear Glitter pen to add a little sparkle .
Attach this to the foam tape on the acrylic sheet.

Make flowers using 3D Flower # 2 and colour the leaves in green using peeled paint distress ink . I have used cutwork leaves and flourish from the CottageCutz Lacey Rose Die.
Arrange on the corner as shown. Finish with pearlised flowers and lace strips.

For the background, Cut out two die cuts from CottageCutz Congratulations die and stick two die cuts together to get a fairly thick expression. Ink with Tumbled glass ink and colour with glitter pen.
Take the negative of the congratulations die cut and use it as stencil to add a print on the background as shown.
Distress with same colour. Add the expression and finish off with sequins.

Attach the final mat card stock on to the front of the card base.

The card is ready.

I hope you liked this post and my card. Do leave your feed back.
The CottageCutz challenge #2 is active now and the theme is spring. CottageCutz has most beautiful spring themed dies that you can find here.

Happy Saturday and keep crafting !!!!

CottageCutz Challenge #2 - HELLO SPRING

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all your great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #1. Two lucky winners will be announced at the end of this post. So, stay tuned.

And here is time to start new challenge. 

This time theme is HELLO SPRING. 

So, get out your CottageCutz dies and create the project which will be associated to the spring. For example, flowers, greenery, green color are some ideas which are perfect for the spring. And please, use ONLY CottageCutz dies and not any other dies. "Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies. If you are not familiar with this button, please check this post for more explanation. Challenge will be closed on 31th of May!

Ok, let's go to my project. I hope this will inspire you a little bit. If flowers on sticks are familiar to you, this is because Yuliya showed you already how to do it and she made Easter decoration. You need to check it, it is beautiful. I shoot my video some time ago, so I thought there will be no harm if I show you my way too :) And I used the same flowers to decorate also the frame.

So, here is my video, where you will see how to color the wooden photo frame and decorate it with paper daisies and some greenery and also how to put together these daisies and create a bouquet out of them.

Suplies which I used for this project:
CottageCutz dies: listed below
Cardstock: white cardstock for die cuts
Distress Inks: Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs
Others: white acrylic paint, paint brush, water, wooden sticks, glue, Sizzix machine, yellow marker

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And now go back to our challenge a little bit more. As I told you before, two lucky winners will be randomly chosen and will get gift certificate for Scrapping Cottage store.

First one will get gift certificate value of 50$...

... and second one in the value of 25$.

You have time till 31th of May to participate. 

Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for June) will begin.

All you need to do is take your CottageCutz dies and start creating! 

Please, use only CottageCutz dies!

Have fun and don´t forget to show us all your projects.

"Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies.

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And of course we should not forget about the winners for the first challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Helena. Her card was linked under number 19:

2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Karen. Her card was linked under number 29:

Congratulations!

Please, contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to claim your Gift Certificate.

This is it for today. Have fun!

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