Good morning, and welcome to The Scrapping Cottage Blog!!! Boy have I had an exciting week! First and foremost, our first grandchild was born! Can I just say that he is the cutest and sweetest little guy I've ever seen, and yes, I am completely biased, and totally in love!!! *wink* Our little Max was born on Monday, and it's been a whirlwind of a week, between Thanksgiving, and a little Christmas shopping, and having a new baby in the midst of all of it!! We feel so very blessed! Amazingly, amid all the mayhem, I did have some time to do a little bit of stamping, and card making, although I have no idea how I managed it!. Here is a card I finished up this morning that I made using one of the newly released Cottage Impressions stamps,from
The Scrapping Cottage, Moose with lights. Now those who know me, know that I LOVE to color large images, and friends, let me tell ya that this image is WONDERFUL. It's large enough to get in plenty of shading and dimension with Copics, and is just adorable after all the color brings it to life. You've just gotta try these new Cottage Impressions stamps! You're going to LOVE them, too!!
As I mentioned, I colored Mr. Moose with Copic Markers, and used some Stickles on the Christmas lights, although it doesn't show up very well in the picture. The paper all comes from Basic Grey, and I did some hand stitching with twine around the panel, then popped the moose up with foam dots. I mixed up the plaid patterned paper with some striped grosgrain for added interest, and while I would NEVER wear plaid and stripes together, it works for this card.
I'd like to leave you with a picture of my new grandson, because I'm as proud as I can be of him, and that's just what grandma's do!!! The kids stopped by with him on their way to the doctor this morning to show off his Elmer Fudd hat that I bought for him a couple of weeks ago. It's a little big for him, but it's as cute as can be, because there's ears on the top of that hat that you can't see in the picture. What a sweetheart he is!!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and for indulging me by allowing me to share my picture of Max. I promise I won't do that any more than I absolutely HAVE to! *wink* Have a glorious day, and happy crafting!!
Love ya!
Lorie
I've used the snowman chef to serve up these yummy gems from my kitchen (in a mini cork version, that is LOL). For the buttons and berries I've used mini bling and for the spatula and serving plate, metallic paper.
I love how I can match my dies to whatever paper I want them to go with!
We are all such FISH. . . . I was out over the Holiday weekend . . you know . . just looking. . . I really don't need anything! I really . . really don't need any more Christmas scrap book paper. Well . . I just follow the scent of NEW paper, the scrapbook store in our area. . . had to have something new! Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate Collection. I needed to work on my cards for this week and . . WOW, that was exactly what I needed. (not really. . but you know that fish-y thing again). The Collection was really different in color, they used Sage, Red-ish Rust, Chestnut, Cream and two shades of Lite Blue. I hadn't used rust for Christmas, so I went for it.
I had already decide to use the Cottage Cutz Snowman Chef Die this week, but was not sure what he would be baking. I decided on a shaped card. I used my Cricut to welds an ornament shape to create the card (7.5 inch). I cut the Cottage Cutz Snowman Chef and filled his platter with snowflakes (replaceing the cake).
The rectangle card was set out about the same, but used the stripe paper on the vertical. I also used the Cottage Cutz Scallop Border Die to add a lacy edge to the stripe on both cards. The verse stickers from the Fancy Pants Collection worked out great for both cards.
Here is a closer look at the Acorn Mousie
and Mervin's Turkey. Such cute dies!
I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you get your share of the turkey!
Ski season is open, Homer knows that he has a lot of work ahead of him for the holiday and is ready to play . . just a bit! This guy is from the Cottage Cutz Christmas Stamp Collection. Love this guy, he has a cute personality, I really liked the green and purple that was used on the package, so I decided to use my Copic markers because of the intense color and used Leaf Green (Lime) and Amethyst. . but still needed that third color. . so I went with Duck Blue Copic with a little Blue Green (looks like Teal to me!). I added a bit of Stickle to add the glitz.
The Bo Bunny lime polka dot and a teal card stock seem to show him off well, I wanted to pop-dot a stream of snowflakes in the same colors so I cut the snowflakes from white and used the Copic markers to color the snowflakes. I variegated them primarily in purple, but added the lime and teal as accents. I added a few clear jewels and MM pewter snowflakes to add a metal embellishment.
As you can see the Cottage Cutz rubber stamp has nice thin, clear lines and a far amount of room to color. Giving you all kinds of opportunity to be creative. 
This little tag was a quick-y that I did at midnight last Saturday. I wanted to use the Cardinal Stamp from Cottage Cutz and if I was to asleep to stay within the lines no one would notice. Well. . I didn't do to bad. I colored the Holly leaves and bird with Copic makers, than added a calendar circle stamp in the upper corner (DEC 25) with seasons greetings in the other two corners. Than added a pine branch in between. Than went crazy with two shades of green and red Tin Holtz ink. Last I added the Distress Crackle paint, Clear Rock Candy over the bird and holly. Last added a bit of Smooch Spritz in Gold. (I may have gotten more smooch on me than the tag!) I by that point I was down to only having one eye open. 
