Sleeping Bear

Hi!

It's Anja here. Today I was inspired by violet. It's not one of my favourite colors, but I wanted to use something vibrant and Distress Oxide Wilted Violet seemed a perfect choice. I made a baby card with a cute bear sleeping in a basket.

I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Sweet Spring Kitty, Bear On Cloud and Moon, Cute Phrase),
- Distress Oxides (Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo),
- white card base (15x15 cm),
- watercolor paper (14x14 cm),
- colored and white paper for die cuts,
- little white enamel dots,
- Versafine Onyx Black ink,
- alphabet stamps,
- paper glue.

First I made the background. I tapped the ink on my non-stick craft sheet and sprayed it with water. Then I just put the water colored paper on top and rotated it around. I dried it whit my heat gun.

I die cut all the paper pieces from colored and white paper. I colored the edges with Distress Oxides.

I put some dimension to my flowers and leaves. 

And then I just glued all the pieces together. I decorated the flowers with little enamel dots and stamped the rest of the sentiment.

And this is my finished card.

See you next Sunday when I will be here again using new wedding and nested dies. You can get a sneak peak at all the beautiful new dies in Janet's video below. The new dies are already in the store.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a fun Sunday.
Anja Z.

Wedding Carriage

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

Have you had an opportunity to visit the online store to see the new dies that have been released? There are 20 new wedding dies and 17 fun new nesting shapes.

Janet (our video artist) has put together a video showcasing all the new nesting shapes dies. Just click on the photo below to be taken to the CottageCutz YouTube channel.

Now onto the card that I have created. Today, I am featuring the new Wedding Horse & Carriage and the Wedding Bells with Bow dies. So let's get started with some details.

 

I am attending an outdoor wedding in September that will be held at a farm type venue. I have seen the property and rustic elegance would be a perfect description. The ceremony will be held in front of a lake on the property and the bride will make her appearance in a carriage. So the new wedding horse & carriage die was spot-on for my card idea.

 

Step 1: I like to make wedding cards with the same colors that the bride has chosen. I always think that's a great compliment to her. I am using chocolate, pearlized gold and a copper metallic paper. Found these papers in my stash that are a good match for her wedding colors.

 

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

Pearlized Gold Layer: 5 1/4" x 4 1/8"

 Step 2: Embossed the pearlized gold panel with a scrollwork embossing folder. I like the added interest it gave my card.

Step 3:  Cut all the die cuts at this point. The horse & carriage are cut in chocolate,  and the bells and bow are cut in copper. I wanted another layer to my card so I used the largest stitched oval die as a backdrop for the carriage and bow.

Step 4: Decided to add some burlap ribbon to enhance the rustic appeal of my card. Just a strip across the middle of the embossed panel will work fine.  Attached the dies to the oval panel and added a couple of copper hearts.

Step 5: Since I had the bells already cut in copper, I used them to finish the inside of my card. Added another layer of the pearlized gold cardstock, more hearts and the celebrate phrase completed the inside. The hearts are part of the new Mr & Mrs with hearts die.

I hope I have given you some inspiration on a way to use some of these new wedding dies. See you next Saturday and happy crafting!!!

 

Dies I used to create card:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love You Forever!

Hi Scrapping Cottage Fans! It is Pam sharing with you today.

There is another great release of new dies over in the online store. The Nested Shapes with 17 designs as well as a Wedding Release with 20 designs. Janet (our video artist) has put together a video showcasing all the new nested shapes dies. Just click on the photo below to be taken to the CottageCutz YouTube channel.

Now onto my card. I am featuring two different new release dies that make beautiful wedding, anniversary or Valentine cards.  I love the vintage feel to this wonderful bird die.  All the swirls and gorgeous detail is so pretty.

Designer Steps:

 1.  Start with a A2 Vanilla card base cut a slightly smaller piece of deep red card stock and glue to front.  Cut a piece of 4 x 5 1/4 piece of designer paper and glue to the red

 2.  Using the Nested Stitched Scallop Circle set place the largest circle onto the cutting platform and then the second to the largest inside the largest and cut a open scalloped circle

 3.  Cut the vine on dark green card stock using the Fancy Doves with Vine and then cut the flowers in the deep red

 4.  Glue the red flowers to the tips of the vine

 5.  Glue the open scallop circle to the card as shown just slightly of center.  The glue the vine down as shown

 6. Using the Fancy Doves with Vine cut out the two doves on designer paper then ink the edges with a distress ink

7.  Use a sharping tool to give the doves some dimension then pop them onto the vine add pearls and your card is complete

Cottage Cutz Products

I hope you give these new dies a try.  They both are so versatile! 

Blessings and thanks for stopping by!

Pam

New! Nested Shapes Release

Hello Scrapping Cottage Fans! It's Janet from SugarShine Designs. Today I'm sharing a video with you that takes a look at all 17 new nested shapes dies. These are exciting new additions to your crafting toolbox. I invite you to take a few minutes to see the new sets up close and you might see a few new designs from this month's wedding release too!

Click on the link below to go to the YouTube video showing this fantastic new release.

Dies used in this video:

Two Doves

Hi, Lois here with my Monday post.  As you are probably aware,  CottageCutz has two new die collections -- a wedding collection and a nesting shapes collection.  And they are currently 25% off through 9:00 pm tonight PST.  I'm using a die from each set this week for my monochromatic card.

To start my card, I cut two pieces of white cardstock -- 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (scored at 4 1/4") and 3 7/8" x 4 1/8", and one piece of black cardstock 4" x 5 1/4"; as well as a piece of patterned paper 2 7/8" x 3 7/8".

Next I cut the Stitched Eyelet Rectangle panel, using the largest die in the set, and the Two Doves die-cuts from white and black cardstock.

Using some ivory Copic markers and a black pen, I added some accents to the doves.

I wanted the doves  to be raised from the card, so I placed some foam dots on the backs of them . . .

. . . and adhered the bird stand and doves onto the patterned paper, which had been glued to the black panel.  Sometime ago I bought a package of wedding paper, which also included some tags.  I adhered one of the small tags to the top corner.

I ran the 3 7/8" x 4 1/8" piece of white cardstock through my Cuttlebug using an embossing folder with a similar pattern as that on the patterned paper; then I constructed the card base.

I glued down the finished eyelet panel at an angle, and my card was finished.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are: