Happy Spring!

Good morning, and welcome to The Scrapping Cottage Blog.  Lorie here today, so share a cute card using Cottage Cutz dies from the Spring release.  For this card, I had fun creating with the Watering Can with Tulips 4x6 die, and the Bunnies in the Grass Border 4x6 die. 

The watering can and tulips were cut with white card stock and colored with Copic markers, and with a little spring paper, ribbon, and some pearl embellishments, this card is finished and ready for wishing someone special a happy spring.

So happy you could join us today.  Wishing you a wonderful day and happy crafting!

Lorie

Love Bandit

I hope you had a fantastic Valentine's Day! My husband and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant and it was so yummy! If you are still in the mood for a little romance, perhaps this adorable raccoon will do the trick. Looks like he's heading out of the forest ready for a big date!

I love this pine branch, and thought it would be great to create a little scene.

Frame One
Love Bandit, Raccoon
Pine Cone Branch

Happy Valentines Day with Scrapping Cottage

Happy Valentine's Day love birds. I made this sweet gift card holder that would be perfect for a Valentines gift. Let's take a closer look...

I love the way in this picture you can really see the detail. The birds wings pop up and add such great dimension.   I bent the tips just a bit before gluing them down so they would be elevated.

TIP: Don't forget to ink your edges of your dies to give them a finished look.

The back of the holder is attached with a heart key that was stamped and embossed and is held down with a small piece of twine.

I used the following Scrapping Cottage Dies to create this little gem.

Seed Packet Envelope

Vintage Keys with Stamps

Sweet Daisies with Birds

I wish you lots of love today and for the rest of the year.

Hugs,

Challenge #9 Winner Posted

Hello everyone and hope you all are enjoying your day! Today we are announcing the WINNER of our Layout Challenge #9 and the WINNER is................

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#7 Jill with her entry here:

http://jrugg.blogspot.com/2012/02/christmas-day.html

She used the Cottage Cutz Snow Globe Accessories from the Christmas Snow Release found HERE!

**CONGRATULATIONS JILL!!! Please contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to receive your Gift Certificate to The Scrapping Cottage!!!

****Also we want to THANK everyone who played along in our Layout Challenge, you all did such a Beautiful Job!!!!

Have a lovely day!!Hugs to all,Cheryl

♥Sweetheart Flower♥ & Video Tutorial

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday to all! Today I'm sharing a couple of projects I made using the Super Pretty ♥Sweetheart Flower Cottage Cutz die♥. I also have a ♥video ♥on how i made these flowers!

♥♥1st I used them on these candy conversation heart boxes i bought at walmart. I used My Little Shoebox design paper, and then ribbons,trims and laces for the boxes

For the flowers Ive used the Sweetheart Flower Cottage Cutz die from the Valentine Collection found here.

♥♥For this box, I also used the sweet Love Tags Set  I stamped the stamps from the Vintage Key Die set found here.

♥♥These treat boxes were super easy and fun to make! I think they are perfect for valentines day!!

♥♥Here is a card I made using the Sweetheart Flowers! I have made other flowers using this same die and will be sharing that video soon!

♥Sweetheart Flower Video Tutorial!♥

I hope you all enjoy todays post and video!!!

♥I will be back on Monday the 13th to post the winner of our Challenge #9 Layout Challenge!! Thank you for looking and have a lovely day!♥

Hugs to all,Cheryl

Hugs & Kisses

 Hugs and Kisses . . . This is my oldies but goodies week. We all have dies that we may have bought in the past and you look back at them and say. . .you know I really like that one . . so you look at all the options that you could use it for again. This week I used four Cottage Cutz dies from the past that I really like. The Mini Love Postage, The 4x4 Puppy with Valentine, Lacy Heart Doily and the Hugs & Kisses Phrase. The card is really also the envelope. As you can see from the first photo, I used the Cottage Cutz Mini Love Postage Stamp die a couple of times to create a swoop of design and color down the envelope to where I added the dangle. The HUGS , KISSES and XOXO came off the Cottage Cutz Phrase die. It is hard to tell but I used foam tape to layer the pink stamp three times . . building it up to the sparkle heart.  

 This photo is the envelope turned over and opened up to see the in with the Cottage Cutz Puppy with Valentine. Because of the cut line in the puppy die, I was able to raise the flap on the min pink envelope and the dogs ear with foam dots to add dimension to the pup. I know I should have raise one of the legs with a dot also. . .but . . . well it looked like he was about to wiz on something. . so I . .  left well enough alone. sorry. . .

 Here is how I scored the Cottage Cutz Lacy Heart Doily's to create the flaps on the envelope. I started with a 4 1/4" square card stock for the card, scored the hearts about a 1/3 of the corner (center bow to third leaf cluster). Glued them under on all four sides.

 Here is the envelope completely open from the front. You can see how the corners of the hearts glued down make a nice embossed look. That is why I used red on red. I highlighted the red hearts in white ink with a sponge. It looks kind-a like a pin wheel. You just have to score all the hearts the same first, than glue. . than you are sure that they will flippy fold and match on the open side of the envelope. I glued the hearts 1/2" from the corner on each side. You need the sharp corner to begin with to measure, than use a corner rounder to round the corners. 

This is a photo of the four hearts. . flippy folded closed. It will tend to dome a little when closed to begin with. . but just put a book on top of the card  (to iron out) for a while and it will flatted more.

Thanks and Happy ""V"" Day     Barry

Puppy Love

Hi Everyone!

Today I have this adorable Sweetheart Puppy die to share with you.  I think Cottage Cutz make the cutest dies!

I cut the puppy from white cardstock and colored her up with my Copics.  I think this makes a cute Valentine card but like all Cottage Cutz, they can be used in a variety of ways, by adding or removing different components from the die.  Be sure and stop by the store to browse some of the newest releases.  So many to choose from.  I just received my new dies designed by Peachy Keen and will be sharing those with you soon.  Have a great day!
Hugs and smiles,Janice

Take Time To Smell The Flowers

Good morning!  It's Lorie here today to share a fabulous Cottage Cutz creation with you.  It's still technically winter around here, even though our weather has been more like spring, so with all this spring in the air, I couldn't resist playing with the new Cottage Cutz dies from Peachy Keen Designs.  Some of my all time favorite  images are now available in die form, and they come complete with adorable face stamps to give you all the versatility you can imagine!! 

For this card, I used the Cottage Cutz Shower Peepers 4x6 die, along with the My Little Shoebox Ornate Circle Frame 4x6 die.  I added some pearls to the flowers, and pretty satin and organza ribbon for embellishment.  I found this sentiment in a set of stamps I had from Peachy Keen Stamps called Spring Bouquet.  I cut this chickie out with white card stock and I colored it with Copic markers.  Before I colored, I stamped the face with Memento Tuxedo black ink, which is great for use with Copics because I never have to worry about it smudging.  The patterned paper is some I had in my stash from Stampin Up!, and I did pop this cutie up onto an action wobble, so she's got a little bit of wiggle going on.  What a happy card!!!  

Be sure to head over to The Scrapping Cottage to check out all the wonderful new dies.  There's still time to get your order in for the Valentine's Day release, and these Cottage Cutz by  Peachy Keen Designs like I used today are now in stock, AND if that's not enough newness for you, you can now preorder the beautiful and absolutely gorgeous spring release!!

So glad you could join us here today!  I wish you a blessed and beautiful day and some happy crafting, too!

Hoot Loves You?

Have you seen the Valentine release from CottageCutz? It's so cute! And I have a sweet pair of love birds to share with you. These owls (Hoot Loves You) are just adorable, and by leaving off the hearts, you could use them for anything!

U Make Me Bloom

Have you ever had someone in your life that just makes you bloom? Makes you a better person just because? I'm so blessed to have several of those people and my sister Gini is one of them. She's been my best friend my whole life..This layout is about how she makes me bloom.

 I used multiple Leafy Foliage die cuts to great the vine over the page using two different shades.  I also inked all my edges.

 The small flowers are from Spring Embellishment...I love dies that can be versatile.  I curl them inwards with my McGill tools after I had cut them out.



Hope you enjoyed!  I'll see you soon.

♥Sweetheart flower Mini album♥

Hello everyone today i'm sharing a mini Album designed for

 ♥The Scraping Cottage using the beautiful Valentines Cottage Cutz.♥

So for my album I used the SweetHeart Flower Cottage Cutz,to make my flowers for this album. I will have a tutorial coming soon on this. I didnt get to finish my album due to having my 2nd surgery, but all is going well, and when i finish it i will post more pictures for you all to see. Now I used the tags for the front pocket, i put 3 in there. And then used the darling oval one for the front, i figured it could have the title added later. :)

The Love tags are a perfect size for any card,page, or album.

For this top page i used the Sweet Sign Shape with the wording Sweet! LOVe this shape its a perfect sweet sign. I added some pearls to the sign too with some little white gel dots. Now I also made a matte for a photo, and then added one of the new darling tags from The Love Tag Set

For this next page there is another photo matte and i was thinking of adding some tags, if i do i will take more pictures and post them later with the rest of my book. 

These flowers are also from the Sweetheart Flower Cottage Cutz, and there are sooo many different flowers to be made with this one set. LOVE LOVE LOVE this set!

I used all valentine design papers for my album, and ribbon is all from Really Reasonable Ribbon. All flowers were made with card stock and some were distressed.. I used Scrap Dots for the dimension on my flowers, its a liquid glue, and works perfect for flowers.

Sweetheart Flower

Love Tag Set

Cottage Cutz Sweet Sign Shape

I hope you enjoyed my post today and have a lovely day!!

♥Hugs to all♥Cheryl