Made with Love

There is something so special about gifts made with love. That little extra thought that goes in to make something perfect. The heart that one used to create it and the time that someone selflessly put into it. Yup, I'm a big fan of homemade gifts.

Hi everyone, Erika Taylor here today to share with you a card I created using some wonderful papers from My Little Shoebox and the Sewing Notions Die Cut . I added a little pleated ribbon, twine and buttons to finish the card off and I know exactly who I'll be sending this one to.

I'm absolutely adoring that little spool and could a pin cushion get any cuter? I think not. Well, I'm off to do some more creating, so I hope you all have a fantastic Tuesday. Until next time

Toodles
Erika Taylor

2 Christmas Pooches

Good morning friends!  Today I have 2 cards to show you.  I used the adorable Santa Puppy and Dog with Sled dies.  I have been enjoying the new winter release dies and will be showing you more cards soon.  I hope you will have a peek in the store and check out all the new, adorable dies.  Enjoy your day!

I used liquid applique on the puppy's hat, sprinkled with glitter and then heat set.

Hugs and smiles,

Janice

Baby It's Cold Outside!

Good morning!  Yeah baby!  It IS cold outside, and getting colder.  I guess it's time, and after the long hot summer, I'm ready.  It sure makes crafting winter and Christmas cards much easier.   I've been playing with the dies from the latest Christmas release at The Scrapping Cottage, and this card was made with the Winter Bird with Ornament Cottage Cutz die.  This one was really fun to color, and I love the bigger size.  I can't help it, I just love to color bigger images and die cuts.  This was cut with white card stock and colored with Copic markers.

I used some Basic Grey paper for this card, and I added plenty of stickles to the ornament, along with a rhinestone embellishment.  NO ribbon on this one, and I gotta tell ya that it just doesn't feel right!  I think I use ribbon on about every card I make, but it's good to change it up once in a while.  ;-)  I gave the bird some extra shimmer by going over it with a Saukura Gelly Roll pen in red, and smudging it with my fingers to spread the sparkle around.

 

Here's a closer look at the sparkle on the birdie.  I'm so glad you could drop by today, and I hope you're enjoying a wonderful weekend.  Have a blessed day, and happy crafting!

Love ya!

Lorie

Tis The Season

Hi, It's Gini and I've got another Christmas Card to share with you today! I hope you've been enjoying all of the Christmas Inspirations we have been sharing with you. Cottage Cutz just has so many adorable dies for the season, it's hard not to keep making projects with them.

I used the Boxwood Vine Wreath for the main image on my card. It's such an amazing die, that can really be used all year long. The boxwood branches are perfect greenery for any flower projects - you also get a banner, a bow, a 3-d flower - and then all of the Christmas goodies...!!! Oh, and I forgot to mention that this die set, also comes with 3 stamp sentiments. I love it!

Another really versatile die that I used was the Holiday Doily. This is perfect to add a circle element to your project, or maybe to frame it.

Poinsettia Pretty

Hi Everyone, it's Lori here and I want to show you one of our new holiday die sets...Ornate Poinsettia.  It's so beautiful!  

The holly leaves on the side of the sentiment are from the Christams Fawn and they add such a delicate touch.

The border is the Scallop Three Edger that has been doubled to make more of a bolder border. 

See you in a few days and keep on scrapping!

Hugs

Non-Traditional Christmas Greeting

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage friends! 

Angelica here with one of my favorite non-traditional Christmas color combos - that's right - it's not red and green! 

I do love those gorgeous evergreens and holly berries, but isn't it fun to see bright blues and pinks, too?  With just a little bit of sparkle? 

The Ornate Holiday Tree is one of my favorite Cottage Cutz ever! It is so versatile and perfect for stenciling or just as it is! I used some of my most favorite specialty cardstock - American Crafts glitter paper to cut the tree. It has a fabulous sparkle, is a breeze to cut, and the glitter is completely encapsulated so there is absolutely no rough texture, it doesn't flake off - ever.

Here's a close up of the paper:

I used my iRock to rock those beautiful little ornament circles that punch out with the die. Using the size of the circles as my guide, I chose three different gem sizes and placed them inside the tree.

Hope you enjoyed today's inspiration - the holidays are fast approaching and this would be an easy and quick card to make for your friends and family this Christmas season! Thanks for coming by today!

Angelica

Snowman Angel Post-it Notebook

Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday to all! Today im sharing my Post-it Notebook made using the DARLING Cottage Cutz Christmas Die's.

On my post-it notebook i used these darling cottage cutz

Snowman Angel 4 x4

Penguin with Tree 4 x 4 (for the tree)

Boxwood Vine Wreath 4 x 8

 For my snowman i used all white silver lustre card stock, and then distressed with tim holtz distressed inks. I colored the star,gloves,scarf,and wreath with copics. for the Tree i used 2 different card stocks and just layered them. I love the leaves from the boxwood vine wreath cottage cutz and used it for a filler on the left side of my notebook.

The Scrapping Cottage has come out with soooo MANY DARLING releases and you can view them all HERE!! Im just loving them all, they are all sooo SWEET!!! Cant wait to share the others with you on my next post :)

Hope you have a lovely day!!! Hugs to all,Cheryl

Celebrate the Season !

Hello from Sunny Singapore , everyone ! 

Today I'm featuring the Celebrate the Season die 

from our second release for October . 

Gotta love the swirls and flourishes of this design . 

I've added Red Glitter glue to my diecut cut

 from American Craft's Cranberry cardstock 

and embellished with a coupla pearls. 

Enjoy all the  adorable designs with our great 

 bundle offer for this release ! 

Pearl 

Poinsettia Cluster . . .

 Hello all! I apologize. . have to dash out of town very quickly for work so I am posting just the center of my card so not to miss my day. I have used the Cottage Cutz Ornate Poinsettia die. This die is great on its own as a ornate doily type cutout. . .but even better when cut up and layered.

Here I have broken down the layers of my finished poinsettia. Cut the die as is, one cut with green card stock ( I used a sage green here). Than cut again with burgundy card stock. Cut all the holly and berries off the burgundy three cluster poinsettia card stock. ( you should only have the three Poinsettias). There are three dots on the die that are to be done in yellow card stock for the centers of the poinsettias, at this point glue the small and medium dot behind the small and medium poinsettia. Glue the three flower cluster on top of the green card stock. With two pieces of burgundy  2 1/2" x 2 1/2" card stock, cut two large flowers. Glue the two large burgundy poinsettias together with the large yellow center glue between them (Oreo style). Pop dot the large poinsettia onto the large poinsettia/leaves base.  (the reason you double the single large poinsettia is for strength). I highlighted the poinsettia in #G94 Red Copic and the holly and vines in R46 Green Copic Pen. I added Sakura clear star pen for glimmer and last added red crystals as berries.

When I return I will get it mounted to a card. . but I just wanted to get you started. This group of Poinsettias will mack a very elegant card.  . . off I go. . till next week.

Thank You   Barry  

Christmas Tags

Today I am featuring the Mrs. Chef Mouse on a cute little baking tag. I always give away goodies at Christmastime and my CottageCutz dies are perfect for making tags.

Whether it's cards or tags there are lots of wonderful Christmas/Winter designs to choose from.

Hope you get some crafty time today - have a great weekend!

Kay

We interrupt this Christmas Season...

For a little Halloween treat. Haven't the projects this week been amazing??? The new Christmas dies are simply beyond precious and I hope you've all grabbed a few of your favorites.

Erika Taylor here today to share with you my favorite Halloween Die. The Elegant Witch Legs die really has a tonne of options. From Witch to Barbie and everything in between. I've paired this great die up with my favorite Halloween paper collection this season. The Oct 31st line from Fancy Pants. I love the colors and the distressed look they have. I added a few small marker doodles to the skirt and the boots and then a layer of Helmar Crackle Medium to the skirt. This is the final product. I hope you like it.

Don't forget there is a new challenge here on the Cottage Blog. Use frames!!! If you don't have a frame die, create one using small pieces from other dies. You could win a gift certificate!!! You can find the challenge HERE

Until next time
Toodles
Erika Taylor

Winter is Coming Already

Hello friends!  I've just returned from a really fun gathering with my Crafty friends from the Peachy Keen Design Team and Lorie and Angelica that are also on this team.  Lots of great memories that I will cherish forever!  For today's card I used the newly released die Snowman in Mug available for pre-order for next shipment.  I am loving the new Christmas release.  I cut the die cuts from white cardstock.  I wanted to use a Peachy Keen face so I traced and cut the snowman from a piece of shimmering white cardstock so it wouldn't have the details in the face.  I then used Copics to color the images and mounted it on Stampin Up designer paper and cardstock.  The ribbon is also Stampin Up.  Expect to see more winter designs shortly.

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Simple Elegance

Good morning, and welcome to The Scrapping Cottage Blog!  I hope you're enjoying a beautiful day wherever you are.  Lorie here today with a simple and elegant Christmas card to share with you.  Have you seen the beautiful Cottage Cutz dies that have been released for Christmas?  Oh my goodness, are they EVER fabulous!!!!  Now, I am a big fan of coloring, and using many different mediums for coloring, from watercolor, to Copic markers, to paint, but once in a while, I like to create a card that is quick and easy, but looks like I spent a lot of time on it.  Simple elegance is how I like to describe those creations.  Here's what I came up with using the Snowflake Ornament Cottage Cutz die, and I've included a little picture tutorial so that you can see how I put it together.  These little honeycomb type cards are so much fun, and the three dimensional effect is so showy.

 To begin this project, you will need to cut 5 of the ornaments in your choice of card stock.  I used a metallic silver.  Place the cut ornaments on a scoreboard, and score right down the center.  As you can see, scoring at one inch worked perfectly.

 Once you've scored and folded all the pieces in half, the you can start gluing them together.  Start by placing adhesive on the left under side of the first ornament, and gluing that to the right under side of the second ornament.  Keep going until all 5 pieces have been glued.  You should have the left under side of the first piece, and the right under side of the last piece free from adhesive.  You will add adhesive to those when you're ready to put the ornament on your card.

 Once the ornament has been secured and is dry, you can add some sparkle.  I used a 2-way glue pen and some Martha Stewart white gold glitter.  Kinda messy, but that's the way I roll!  ;-)

 The finished 3-D ornament.  Gorgeous!!  I did take a Zig Painty pen and color the top with a bit of gold.

Apply adhesive of your choice to the back side of the ornament and secure to card front.

VOILA!!!  One completed very simple and elegant card!!  Wouldn't these make wonderful ornaments for a mini tree?  You'd need to add a couple more cut ornaments to allow them to come full circle when you glue them all together, but that would work great.

Have a blessed and beautiful day!

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Santa Clause is coming to town, and he's driving his favorite old truck! Thanks to the latest release from Cottage Cutz dies! My adorable Santa 's Truck with Tree die is in the store for pre-order now. And just think how cute this little truck will be for any time of the year! And with a little ingenuity, I used the Holiday Doily die to add a border to my circle. Finally, a "borrowed" the sentiment stamp from the Boxwood Vine Wreath set, so I could wish you Merry Christmas!