Mushroom card

Hiya! Nikki here with a SUPER simple card. I liked how my mushroom turned out so much that I just wanted it to be my focal point. ☺

See, told ya! SUPER simple! See ya back here next Sunday!

♥ Nikki ♥

Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day!!

I love St. Patrick's Day and since my scheduled posting day wasn't until today, I didn't get to wish everyone a Happy St. Patty's Day!!

So, I was looking over my dies from the Gnomes and Fairies release and trying to see if I could use any of them on a St. Patrick's Day card. I decided to grab the Filigree Fairy because for one thing, I love her, but more importantly, I thought she would be perfect for sending a little Irish wish!

I also used the Cottage Cutz Frame Die to add my sentiment. I still love the dies from the Love Notes Release!! So much versatility packed into one release!!

That's all from me today! Check back tomorrow for another fabulous creation using your favorite Cottage Cutz dies. Until next week, happy scrapping!!

There's Gnomeplace Like Home

Hello and happy Friday!  I have a card for you today that I made with a couple of the new dies from the Gnome/Fairy release at The Scrapping Cottage.  I used Mr. Gnome and the Gnome Tree Stump House.  I cut everything with white card stock and colored with my Copic markers.  I thought it would be cute to have Mr. Gnome peeking from behind the house.  I hear Gnomes are kinda shy like that.  LOL!!

My post is short and sweet today.  I'm babysitting for little Max, and he's keeping me on my toes!!  I hope you don't mind if I share a picture of his first wagon ride yesterday.  The weather was a warm 75 degrees, and it was so good to be outside.  The dog ran into the picture just about the time I snapped the shot.  I could have done without that, but that's the way it goes!  Max looks a little terror stricken, but he REALLY liked the ride!!  Have a blessed weekend, and happy crafting!

Your heart in my pocket

This week I decided to use some of the shapes from the Valentine release. They are perfect for everyday 'love' pages, like this one of my son and granddaughter. :)

Papers are mostly Bo Bunny, bling is all pink but the scanner always eats the color right off my bling for some reason.

Martha Stewart border punch

pocket, and hearts from the locket die.

Heart flower and small eyelet circle

Thank you for looking. I hope you enjoyed a little change of pace with a layout vs a card today. Tomorrow is Friday already, the weekend is almost here. Hang in there! ;)

Sweet Sounds

One of my favorite things about Spring is hearing the birds sing in the trees. This CottageCutz Bluebird is from last years spring release, but I never had a chance to use it till now. This went together so quickly and was perfect for my father-in-law who is an avid "birder".

Here is hoping you hear the sounds of spring today. Have a great one!

A Very Gnome Thanks

A Very Gnome Thanks. . . This is the front of my card for this week, I used the Cottage Cutz Mushroom & Flower Die along with last years 2x2 Fence Die. The fence is the perfect size to add to the Mushroon and Flower Die.

The inside of the card has the Cottage Cutz Mrs. Gnome Die along with the same two dies from the front of the card. At this point you are looking directly at the open card, but as you see in the next photo. . . .

Mrs. Gnome and the fence are popped out. I made two oblong bands of card stock to create the pop out.

The band in the back is about a 1/2" high and 1/2' wide x 2 1/2" long. The band in the front is 3/8" high and 1/2" wide x 1" long. I glue the bands together. . but to be sure that I can flatten the bands and pop them back out easily. . I have attached a fence to the side (like a door). The fence needs to be three card stock thick (cut three fences and glue together). You need a heavy base to control the door. Lay the bands on the card where you think they would best work, add Mrs. Gnome, second fence and flowers. than glue the band onto the card. Add the additional cutouts (Flowers) to the background to finish your scene. Always continue to flatten the band throughout the process before gluing to be sure you have not over built the design in one area.

This is the design as you start to flatten the bands, you can now see how the fence (side door) becomes part of the front of the design. Because I did not make the bands as wide as the card, when you flatten the bands. . they will not overlap on the outside of the card.

Thanks Barry

"Shroom" With a View

Good morning friends!  Here is a card I made with the Cottage Cutz Mushroom House die!  I love this die!  I think it is really cute!  I am always "Title Challenged" but Shroom with a View popped into my head.  I can't remember if Room With a View is the title of something or some show, or if I have been watching too much Home and Garden Television.

I cut the mushroom using white cardstock from Papertrey Ink and used copics to color it.  I hope you like it. There are a lot of cute dies in The Scrapping Cottage  store.  You can visit the store by clicking here.  Thanks for having a look!
Hugs and smiles,Janice

You make me happy...

Hello! For my cards today I used the adorable Mrs. Gnome die. SO CUTE!!! I traced the face and hand cut two so I could give them PeachyKeen faces. :) Since I had the pieces cut from two patterned papers...I just made her over again and switched up her dress n stuff....

Ok, that's it for me today! I hope you have a wonderful week!

♥ Nikki ♥

Have a Pixie Perfect Day!

These Fairy and Gnome Shapes are so much fun!! For my project this week, I wanted to show you that not only do the different shapes in our Cottage Cutz releases look like they go together, they actually really are specially designed to coordinate with other similar shapes.

A created a card today using the adorable Pixie Fairy and the Mushroom and Flowers. As soon as I saw this release and starting looking at the different shapes, I could just see this fairy lounging in these mushrooms and flowers. I used stickles to add the little shoe detail and I cut her wings from Doodlebug White Glitter Paper to give them some extra sparkle.

I hope you are having a lovely Saturday filled with scrapping!! See you next week!

    

Believe In Miracles

Hello and happy Friday!  I'm sorry I'm running so behind today.  I hope what I have to share with you will make up for my being a little late.  I thought I'd share this tutorial with you for the butterfly I used on this card.  This is the very first technique I ever learned at the first workshop I ever attended to make a card.  THIS is what hooked me on stamping forever!!  When I saw this Ornate Butterfly die from The Scrapping Cottage, I was instantly reminded of the first card I ever made, and I knew exactly what I was going to use this die for first!  So, off we go!!!!  Here is my finished card, and below, are instructions for how I did it.

This is a chalking technique using Versamark clear watermark ink.  You will need:  Chalks, an ornate, or filigree stamp (I used the Eyelet Circles Background stamps from TSC),  Versamark ink, and the Ornate Butterfly die from TSC.

 The first thing you will do is stamp the surface of your prepared die cut (I cut this out with Georgia Pacific white card stock) randomly with Versamark.  Sorry!  Pictures of that step don't show up, obviously, because it's clear.  ;-)

 After you have the surface covered to your liking, you will start applying the chalk colors of your choice randomly over the stamped ink.  There is no right or wrong.  It's just whatever you like, and don't be afraid to rub the chalk in for a deeper tone.  You can do one or as many colors as you like.

 I used a variety of rainbow colors for my butterfly.  Once I had the colors of the butterfly finished, I used acetate to cut the backing for the wings, then filled in with Crystal Effects and sprinkled with glitter for some sparkle.  Here's a close up, where you can see that you can see through the acetate backing on the wings, even with the glitter.  It's soooo pretty IRL!!!

I hope you've enjoyed this quick and easy tutorial today, and I wish you a blessed day, a wonderful weekend, and of course some happy stamping!

Gnomes, flowers and butterflies, oh my!

For this week's projects I've used versatile Cottage Cutz Made Easy flowers, ornate butterfly, and Mrs. Gnome. The new flower designs are so much fun. You can create so many flower designs with just these few pieces. And I love the "buttons" too! Such a great design.

Inside message:

I combined the new butterfly with an older one using the same glittery idea for the openwork in the wings. They go so well together and look how pretty when combined with the flowers.

Thanks for looking. Be sure to check out the store for the adorable gnomes, flowers, butterfly and more fun designs from the new spring release!

Flutter Fairy

I think this is my favorite design from the Gnomes & Fairies release - the Flutter Fairy.

I decided to take a picture outside with the Crocus' that are blooming in my yard, although the snow we had overnight has got them a bit shy today. It's a sign of Spring and I'm all for that.

For the wings on the fairy I took some clear contact paper and poured glitter on it, shook it off and then adhered it to some more contact paper. Press firmly so the two sides mesh together. After I cut them out I used a little aqua ink around the edges to they'd show up a little better.

Isn't she cute? She's just so delicate - I'm going to have fun making these in lots of pretty colors.

I also took my Spica Clear pen and went over the sentiment and the details on her dress, it just doesn't photograph very well but gives it a light sparkly look.

Have a great Wednesday!

Kay