Christmas Duo

Hi!

It's Anja here. I made two simple cards for today's post. I usually prefer to create my own scenes on cards, but when a have to make more cards and don't have lots of time, I look for shortcuts. This time I used two dies from the Christmas Part 2 release, Fireplace Scene and Holy Nativity. You get two beautiful scenes real quick and you can easily make a bunch of cards to send to your family and friends for Holidays. 

First I cut the scenes from white card stock and embossed it with two shiny embossing powders. Next I cut the square from the craft card base. I used the biggest square from the set. And last I trimmed a square (10x10 cm) to cover the hole from the back side to hide all the embossing powder leftovers on the back of the cut scene. And then I just glued all the pieces to the card base and my cards were done. 

I wish you all a lovely week. Stay safe and healthy. 

See you again next Sunday.

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used for the cards:

Happy Halloween

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have another Halloween card for you today. This time I made a scene from a haunted house. I combined bits and pieces from some of the Halloween release dies.

For this card I used:

- Cottage Cutz dies (Spell Books & Potions, Spooky Ghost & Crow, Slime Cupcake, Spooky Witch House, Spooky Camper),

- Distress Inks,

- craft card base (15x15 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (13,3x13,3 cm),

- black card stock for die cuts (14,2x14,2 cm),

- craft card stock for background,

- embossing folder (bricks),

- background stamp (wood),

- paper trimmer,

- paper glue. 

First I cut and colored all the bottles, books and the candle.

Next I cut and colored all the pumpkins and other small pieces.

Then I started on the background. First I trimmed the paper.

Next I embossed the bricks. I tapped some color directly to the folder and put it through the cutting machine. Then I colored the edges with grey and black. I trimmed the wooden parts from the craft card stock and stamped it. I again colored around the edges to give it more dimension.

And when I had all the pieces ready I arranged the card together. And this is the final result.

 

 

Hope you liked the card. I wish you all a pleasant Sunday and see you again tomorrow for another project. 

 

Have fun.

 

Anja Z. 

 

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used:

 

 

Monster Cupcake

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

We have four brand new releases in the online store. It's Christmas Part 1 (22 new designs), Christmas Part 2 (21 new designs) and a Halloween release (14 new designs). They are all currently on sale and you can save 25% on the individual dies. Christmas Part 3 has just been released and is also on a limited time sale. This one has savings of up to 60% if you purchase the complete bundle

Today, I am here with a card from the Halloween release. Many of you create cards for Halloween and are looking for ideas to use these new dies. So, I am featuring the new Monster Cupcake die. 

Nothing to scary at all so it would be one you could send to a child or to your cupcake loving friend. So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

I started my card this week with the layout. As I have said so many times before, having a layout in mind at the start of my card is always a big boost for me. It jump starts my creative thought process. I love working with the sketches that are out there in the online world. That way I just choose the colors and designer paper and I am good to go.

I liked this week's sketch #822 from Splitcoaststampers. It's a simple layout and would give me space to display the monster cupcake image and also the sentiment. 

Next, I chose my card colors. I found this nighttime sky background paper in my stash. I thought it would work for a Halloween card. I paired it with a coral card base. I cut 3 pieces of cardstock for the 3 lines behind the shape. 

Coral Card Base: 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Designer Paper: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Coral Strips: 1/4" x 5 1/2"

My monster cupcake image was cut with cardstock that coordinated with my background paper.

At this point I decided to start card assembly. I attached the designer paper to the card base with double sided tape. The 3 coral card strips are also attached with tape. 

I decided to place the cupcake on a circle die. I used the Wacky Stitched Circle die (3rd largest) and cut a circle from coral designer paper. The cupcake is attached with dimensional adhesive and I also used dimensional adhesive to attach the circle to the designer paper. 

For my sentiment I used the Halloween Phrase die and cut the Trick or Treat words in a grape cardstock. I attached to the designer paper with Ranger multi medium matte. Then to finish off the card I added 3 star metallic enamel shapes. 

Well that's it for me for this week. See you again next Saturday. We are also having a Columbus Day sale with savings of up to 50% on select dies. Click here to see what's on sale. The sale runs through October 14. 

dies I used to create card:

Which Way to the Candy?

Happy Friday Cottage Cutz fans!  It's Jeanne today and I have a fun Halloween card featuring an adorable ghost trick-or-treater from the new Halloween release!  I love this new release - there are some really sweet Halloween images and I'm a cute Halloween (as opposed to scary Halloween) kind of gal.

This card features the Trick or Treat Ghost die and along with a few previously released dies.  I started by cutting all my pieces from various colors of cardstock.  I took my candy colors from Halloween candy themed paper I'm using for behind my ghost.

I cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches from a coordinating Halloween text paper, a panel 1 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches from black cardstock and a circle from the candy paper using the third largest of the Stitched Circles dies.

I adhered the black panel to the right side of the card front and glued the candy randomly down the side.  The sentiment is placed in the lower left with the top of the "T" in "Trick" 1 1/2 inches from the bottom and 1/4 inch from the left.

Next I adhered my ghost to the circle leaving most of his balloon above the circle.

I cut the circle and placed the ghost so you could see the candy corn in the paper since that ties in the die cut candy colors.

I used foam dots to pop the circle up off the card front and glued the bat in the upper left.  (I love those big eyes on the bat!)

Finally, I added sequins as a little "eye candy" and sparkle!

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  Be sure to visit the online store for the Columbus Day Sale where these and other dies are on sale for a limited time!  There is a brand new release a Christmas dies as well!

Dies used:

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a fun and creative weekend!

Spooky Witch House

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends,

It is Pam creating with you today.

I am making one last Halloween card today using the Spooky Witch House.  It is an amazingly detailed die and the card turned out spooktackular!  The Halloween dies are 25% in our online store today.  We also have 2 new releases of Christmas dies.  They are adorable. So you can get a jump start on your Christmas cards.

Background Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Design Steps:

1.  Cut all of the pieces out using the Spooky Witch House and gray, black, green, purple, brown, yellow, dark yellow and orange card stock

2.  Shade the pieces using a variety of ink colors and a small applicator.  Assemble the pieces using a fine tip glue

2.  For the background cut a piece of white card stock 4 1/2 x 3 1/2.  Mask off a little moon using a 3/4 punch.  Use a cloud stencil and some gray and purple ink to create the sky

3.  Use an A2 black card base and cut a piece of green slightly smaller then the base.  Then cut a piece of purple DP 4 x 5 1/4. 

4.   Glue the green to the black card base and then add the purple DP.  Next die cut green grass using the Spring Grass die.  Also cut a brown fence using the Old Farm Fence die.  On the stenciled cloud panel glue down the fence and the grass.  Next pop up the Witch House on top of the fence and grass

5.  Using black card stock and the largest Stitched Wide Rectangle Frame  die cut ou the frame.  Place strips of dimension tape on the back of the frame and pop onto the top of the cloud panel

6.  Glue the little tombstone flat next ot the house on the left side. Next on the same side pop the tree up and glue to the black frame.  On the right side of the house pop up the caldron and also glue to the frame.  Add the ghosts and the bats glued flat to the back cloud panel and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed learning how to make this fantastic Haunted House!  It was so detailed and fun to make.

Blessings

Pam