Jingle Bells!

Hello everyone,

I am here with the Scrappin Cottage blog today with another fabulous die set from the Christmas release.  I love the bells and the bow in this set.  I hope you have enjoyed so far all the beautiful designs the design team has been creating.  I know I have enjoyed seeing them.

This is a very easy card to create.  I cut all my pieces out and assembled them with glue.  I added them to my card and stamped my sentiment.  All done!

Here is how I created my card:

1.  Card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
2.  The holly design paper is 4 1//4 x 3 1/2
3.  The stripe piece is 4 1/4 x 1"
4.  The square stitched white paper is from the Cottage Cutz Square stitched die set
5.  Finished off the card, by adding the sentiment with gold ink.

Closer look at the bells. 

I love making Christmas cards, I hope you have been inspired to start making yours. Please stop by and join the challenge, this months theme is Fall.

Autumn Tree + Distress Crayon technique

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Friday edition of the Blog.

 

I went to a garage sale recently and the person holding it was selling some Ranger Distressed  Crayons. She had 18 of them for $5.00. They were brand new and she just didn't like working with them. What a find for me!!

 

So I watched some YouTube videos to see what to do with them and the idea for the background on this card was born. I am also using some new dies from the Autumn 2016 release. These ones are the autumn tree w/ swing and the give thanks die set. So let's get started with details on my card for today.

 

Chocolate Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Kraft Layering Panel: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

Image Panel: 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"

 

Distressed Crayon Technique:

Step 1:  Used watercolor distressed cardstock and applied a layer of Gesso to prepare the paper. Set aside to dry.

Step 2.  After that dried I applied the distress crayons in fossilized amber, spiced marmalade, mustard seed and peeled paint. Used my finger and a little water to spread the color around. The finger method is what Tim Holtz recommended in of his videos. I set this aside to dry. You could use a heat tool to dry it as well. I used this time to start making my die cuts.

 

 

Step 3. Once this was dry I took a sun-ray stencil laid it over top of the color and used a wet (but not soaking) paper towel. I followed the stencil layout and started to remove color. I was really pleased how this turned out. Especially since it was my first attempt with these crayons. I did make another one and didn't use the Gesso layer. The color is much subtler without the Gesso.  Just depends what you are looking for with your color.

 

Step 4: Now that my background is prepared, I am ready to make my die cuts. I used various shades of fall cardstock and cut my autumn tree with swing, the leaves pumpkins and sunflower. I used some distress ink to highlight the colors.  The Give Thanks word I cut 2x in chocolate cardstock for dimension.  I attached it to the right side of the card and took it just slightly off the card for added interest. I didn't want to completely cover up the stenciled sun image.

Step 5:  Now my card is ready for assembly. I used a combination of Ranger multi-matte medium, glue dots and double sided tape on all the die cuts. 

 

Step 6: The image panel is layered on kraft cardstock. I then used foam adhesive for added dimension to attach to the chocolate card base. And with that, my card is completed. I hope I have given you some inspiration on a way to create a fall scene using a couple of different die sets.

 

We are also underway with our challenge for October. The theme this month is Fall. Get all the details here as well as the winners from Challenge #6.  So until next time........inky hugs!

 

 

 

 

CottageCutz Challenge #7 - FALL

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all 33 beautiful cards and projects you've made for Challenge #6. 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 FALL

Fall is so inspiring with the beautiful colors. So, create a card or any other projects wich will represent fall and colors which are characteristic for this time of the year. 

So, grab your favorite Fall/Autumn dies. But 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 31st of October!

So, before I announced the winers, I'm going to show you my project for today. Here is my card:

Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)

Additional piece of white cardstock and some red and kraft cardstock to cut out the die cuts. Prepare also some watercolor paper. 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below

Distress Ink:  Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss, Rusty Hinge 

Other: acrylic block, Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, water, spray bottle

1. First we are going to prepare paper for all die cuts. So, let's take first piece of watercolor paper and color it with different  Distress Inks: Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired brick...

2. Now spray a water on it, to cause colors to move and blend. Leave it to dry or speed the drying process with heat gun.

3. If you want you can add more layers of colors, but after each layer of color and water, paper needs to dry.

4. With Autumn Foliage cut foliage out of previous colored watercolor paper. This will give beautiful autumn look. If you want, you can distress edges with the same distress inks, which were used for coloring the paper.

5. Take another piece of watercolor paper and color just with different shades of orange distress inks and spray it with water. Cut the pumpkins out of it. Distress pumpkins edges with darker shade of orange distress inks. Color also the pumpkin stems with green distress ink. and glue everything together.

7. Now take additional piece of white cardstock and glue all die cuts as shown on photo:

8. Cut also one strip out of white paper and stamp happy fall or any other sentiment on it. Glue it under dies cuts.  If you want, you can aslo flick some droplets of gold shimmer spray and let it dry. Now, glue everything together on cardbase and card is finished.

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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 31st of October to participate. 

Both winners will be announced at the beginning of November.

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 fifth challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Dusi. Her card was linked under number 8:

2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Karenladd. Her card was linked under number 18:

Congratulations!

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

This is it for today. All I want to show you before I left is the list of CottageCutz dies which I used on my project. Here they are:

An InLinkz Link-up

Chocolate pocket card

Hi, Janja here!

Autumn not only brings us cooler days, but it also makes beautiful warm colors and an abundance of crops for winter days.
Glowing autumn colors found place on chocolate pocket card, which I share today with you.

For chocolate pocket card we need:
- white cardstock for the pocket card base
- patterned paper
- white and color cardstock
- ribbon
- Distress ink: Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, Peeled Paint, Moved Lawn, Vintage Photo, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany

Cut out cute scarecrow with the harvest scarecrow die. Use cardstocks in different colors, shadow edges with Distress inks and assemble a scarecrow.

Prepare also die cuts with dies: give thanks, garden accessories (fence) and grass, trees & vines (grass) and shadow them with Distress inks.

The base for chocolate pocket card is a white cardstock. Measure the size of a chocolate bar and add 0.25" (0,6 cm).
This is my size of white card base: 11.8 x 7.7" (30 x 19,5 cm). Folding measurements are: 3.75", 4.25", 8", 8.5" (9,5 cm, 10,8 cm, 20,3 cm, 21,6 cm). For the corner flap trim cardstock to size: 3.3 x 1.7" (8,4 x 4,3 cm).

Fit a ribbon to tie on the card base and cut a patterned paper. Shadow the edges with Distress ink Vintage Photo and fasten them on the card base.

Glue corner flaps to the card base.

Chocolate pocket card is ready to decorate.

On the inner side add the text area. Use the 2nd die from stitched wide rectangle frame set and 6th die from rectangle set.

Decorate the chocolate pocket card.

That's all for today. I hope you like it.