CottageCutz Challenge #4 - GREENERY

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all your great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #3. Two lucky winners will be announced at the end of this post. So, stay tuned.

And here is time to start new challenge. 

This time theme is GREENERY. 

So, create a card or on any other project and decorate it with some greenery, like leaves, trees, grass...
And please, use ONLY CottageCutz dies and not any other dies. "Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies. If you are not familiar with this button, please check this post for more explanation. Challenge will be closed on 31st of July!

Ok, let's go to my project. I hope this will inspire you a little bit. 

Here is list of all supplies I used:

Cardstock: White Cardbase and Watercolor Paper 

CottageCutz Dies: listed below

Other: Watercolor Set, Paint Brush, water, Sizzix machine

1. First I cut out the Tree, Bench and Cat, Clouds and Sun out of watercolor paper.

2. I did the coloring the same way as with Watercolor Bicycle in this post or in this video. So, all you need to do is, to take watercolors and mixed them with a little water and apply them on the die cuts. You can add more layers of one watercolor if you want, but you need to dry one layer before you apply another one. And you can use heat gun for this. As you can see here, I applied one layer of green on the treetop and here I'm applying new layer of the same green color.

3. To get even more watercolor look, leave some spots white, don't color them. Here are watercolors which I used and all die cuts which I colored:

4. Next step is, to colors also the background. For the sky, apply just some water on the watercolor paper first and then add blue watercolor. Water will spread color around and create sky. Dry it.

5. Do the same with green watercolor at the bottom of the watercolor paper and so, you will create green hill.

6. Now it's time to glue everything together. I used 3D adhesive foam squares for Tree, Bench and some Grass and liquid glue for all other pieces. For finished touch I put the Cat on the Banch and stamp the sentiment. 

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And now go back to our challenge a little bit more. As I told you before, two lucky winners will be randomly chosen and will get gift certificate for Scrapping Cottage store.

First one will get gift certificate value of 50$...

... and second one in the value of 25$.

You have time till 31st of July to participate. 

Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for August) will begin.

All you need to do is take your CottageCutz dies and start creating! 

Please, use only CottageCutz dies!

Have fun and don´t forget to show us all your projects.

"Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies.

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And of course we should not forget about the winners for the third challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Treebug. Her card was linked under number 2:

2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Алёна Шатохина. Her card was linked under number 7:

Congratulations!

Please, contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to claim your Gift Certificate.

This is it for today. All I want to show you before I left is the list of CottageCutz dies which I used on my project. Here they are:

An InLinkz Link-up

~Framed Sofa & Chair Scene~

 

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

Today for your viewing pleasure, I am featuring several new dies set from the June "Home Sweet Home" release. This release is chock full of dies that are all about the home. They can be used in so many creative ways as the Design Team has been showing you for the past 2 weeks.

 

Today, I thought I would make a card to send to a friend who has had some stressful days at work. We all need to take time to relax a bit. Don't you agree? The sofa & chair dies were so perfect for my card idea. So let's get started with some card details.

 

Card Base: 5 1/2"  x 4 1/4" - used a Caribbean Blue shade of cardstock.
Embossed Paper Layer:  5 3/8" x 4 1/8" - used a vanilla cardstock

 

Step 1.  Created the background texture using an embossing folder and my BigShot machine.

 

 

Step 2. I wanted this panel raised from the card base. The card has nice dimension that's not picked up in these photos. I decided not to use mounting tape. Instead I has some fun foam which works quite nicely. I only had blue but once it's on the blue card base you can't really see it. It gives about an 1/8" lift to the panel.

 

 

 

Step 3. I die cut my frame using the Pierced Wide Rectangle Frame set and attached it to the embossed layer. Added some pearls to the frame corners. I die cut my sofa and chair in a medium brown cardstock and the sofa pillows with a striped patterned paper. This card could also work for a guy just eliminate the pearls.

 

Since I don't have the floor lamps, rugs and plant dies, I punched an oval for my rug and used the flower pot from the Garden Accessories and the leaves from the Fancy Pocket Plus to create my plant. Just another way to get more use out of the CottageCutz dies you own.  I attached the dies with a variety of adhesives - double sided tape, glue dots and multi-matte medium.

 

 

Step 4. To complete my card, I stamped my sentiment on a die that is also part of the Fancy Pocket Plus set. I added a bit of thick baker's twine that matches my cardstock color. I decided to add a couple of cats to this scene because my friend likes cats and that finishes off the card. 

 

Well friends, that's it for me for today, so until next time.......inky hugs.

 

 

 

 

 

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Singing birds

Hi everyone, Janja here!

The sun's rays are more powerful every day and in the morning you can listen to the birds singing.
So, today I share with you two cards with birds.

For the cards we need: 

- white card base: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" (10,8 x 14 cm), folded

- light brown cardstock: 4 x 5.2" (10 x 13 cm)

- patterned paper: 3.7 x 4.7" (9,5 x 12 cm)

- gray cardstock: 3.6 x 4.5" (9 x 11,5 cm)

- white cardstock

- watercolor paper

- Distress inks: Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, Lawn Mowed, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Weathered Wookd, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany and Tea Dye

- Memento ink: Cantaloupe

From the watercolor paper cut out two birds with the tweet die and paint them with Distress inks.

Prepare another cutout and paint it with Distress ink only around the birds. The birds cutout are not removed. Paste them on the back side of the paper.

Once the paper is dry, cut out a rectangle with the largest die from the stitched rectangle set. Paste the colored birds.

Cutout the inscription hello and assemble the card.

For the second card prepare cutouts from white cardstock with the die birdhouse with vine and shadow them.

Place a birdhouse in frame which was cutout with the largest die from the stitched wide rectangle frame set. Stamp inscription and assemble the card.

That's all for today. I hope you like it and thank you for viewing.

Janja

List of dies used: 

Go with the Flow

Hello everyone,

It's Donna here today to share with you an easel card. I am loving these cute fish and shell dies. The fish are called "Happy Fish 1 (blue) and Happy Fish 2 (yellow).  They sure do look happy! I had so much fun creating this card....let's get started on how I created it.

This card is an easel card.  The base of the card is 4 1/4 x 11 long.  I scored at 4 1/4 and 2.  I added my design paper and then created all the elements on the card.  The sentiment was computer generated.

Here is a closer look at the fish 

 sentiment was computer generated

Here is started coloring the fish with copics. I love how the colors I choose they make the fish look so vibrant! After I finished coloring these, I used dimensional's to pop the fish on the circle.  

 I then colored the shells and then arranged them on the card.  I popped up the beige color shell over the yellow one.  I also used dimensional's on the green shell and used it to hold the fold up on the card.   

I cut out the largest cross-stitched circle from the cross-stitched circle set. The paper is already embossed with water like lines, and I thought it would make the perfect water background.  I used some distress inks to give the water an ombre look.  After adding all the elements to the circle die I adhered it to the center of the easel card.  To finish the card off, I added some bling to look like bubbles in the water.  I also added some tiny bling to the fish eyes. 

I hope you were inspired by my card.  Here are the list of dies I used: