All Is Calm

Hi, Lois here to wish you a Happy Christmas Eve!  I hope you have all your Christmas shopping, wrapping, baking, and card-making finished.  If not, I have one last, rather quick and simple Christmas card to share with you today.   I love the way silhouettes look on a card.  This one was made with a not-so-new silhouette die from CottageCutz called Away in a Manger.

To start my card I cut the silhouette from black cardstock.

And then I cut my cardstock as follows:

White - 8 1/8" x 5 1/2", 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Black - 4 x 5 1/4"

I cut the smaller white piece larger than I will eventually need; but, because I am going to sponge the background, I made it slightly larger to allow for trimming after I've finished my sponging.   Then, using four different distress inks, I sponged my background.

I then trimmed the piece down on all four sides to 3 3/4" x 5".  What this does is eliminate the darker color around the edges where the sponge initially hit the cardstock.  And then I constructed my card base.

After gluing down the silhouette at the bottom, I stamped the sentiment in the upper left-hand corner, and my card was finished.

As promised at the beginning of this post, this card went together quite quickly.  The CottageCutz die I used on it is:

Nativity Scene

Hi!

It's Anja here. We are a few days away from Christmas. I look forward to some work free days ahead of me. And more time to do some crafting and making a few small handmade gifts for my friends.

Today I made a Nativity themed card. A simple one, where I tried out new spray colors.

For this card I used:
- Cottge Cutz dies (Nativity),
- Spray colors (three shades of blue),
- craft card base (13x13 cm) and paper for die cuts,
- watercolor paper for background (11x11 cm),
- black card stock for background (11,5x11,5 cm),
- Distress Inks (Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire),
- Gansai Tambi watercolors (silver),
- heat gun,
- brush,
- paper glue.

First I made the background. I used the lightest color. I spritzed it on my glass surface and then tapped the paper on the color. I used the heat gun to dried it. 

 I did the same with the darker color.

And again with the darkest colors.

Next I spritzed the colors over it to get more effect.

I dried the paper and then spritzed it with silver color.

When colors were dried I used Distress Ink around the edges.

I cut another piece of paper for the background.

And then I just needed the Nativity scene. I used craft paper and some black color around the edges.

In the end I just glued everything together and my card was done.

I wish you all a merry Christmas. I hope you spend it with people you love. 

See you again next Sunday.

Anja Z.



Cottage Cutz dies I used:
 

Journey to Bethlehem

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

Well, it's just 3 days until Christmas. I hope all your decorating, wrapping, baking and Christmas card making is all complete. I have some baking to do yet and that will finish everything for me.

I do have a Christmas card for your viewing pleasure today though. I am using the Journey to Bethlehem die. It's a die that represents the true meaning of Christmas. So I created a very simple card today.

Step 1:  I just bought this flocked metallic paper, and I thought it would be perfect as the background for this image. I had a hard time getting a good photo of the copper metallic. But IRL it has a beautiful copper sheen. 

The metallic on the paper is copper so I cut the image from copper foil cardstock.

For my card base I decided to use a shade called crumb cake (light kraft color). It seemed to blend well with the copper. 

Card Base: 3 3/4" x 5 3/8"
Designer Paper: 3 3/8" x 5" 

I assembled card using a combination of double sided tape, glue dots and mounting tape. The mounting tape was used to lift the image off the card base. 

I stamped a sentiment on the inside of the card and added a few copper stars.

That's it for me for this Saturday. Merry Christmas everyone!

die used to create card:

Celebrate!

Happy Friday Cottage Cutz fans.  It's Jeanne posting today.  Christmas is just around the corner and I've made a card for you that could easily be adapted to Christmas or other celebration just by changing the colors and paper.  Today I made it a birthday card.

This card goes together very quickly.  I cut most pieces from white card stock.  For the cat, balloon and present I used colored or patterned paper.

I used alcohol markers to color the white pieces to match the colors in the patterned papers and glued the pieces together.

I chose some coordinating paper and cut an A2 panel and a square from the second largest of the Nested Wacky Stitched Squares along with the word Celebrate in red.

I angled the square in the lower right corner and added the cat, present, balloon and sentiment.

Finally, I popped the cupcake up using a foam dot and added some sequins.

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a happy holiday!

Christmas Tree

Good Morning Scrapping Cottage Friends!

It is Pam on the blog with you today!

I have one more Christmas card for you!  I used two of our new dies to create this fun card.

Designer Steps:

1.  Use an A2 card base and cut the front flap in half

2.  Cut a piece of red checked DP 4 x 5 1/4, piece of tree DP 3 3/4 x 5, green card stock 5 1/4 x 2, red checked DP 5 x 1 3/4, cut 2 white oval using the Stitched Scalloped Oval die

3.  Glue the green card stock and the red checked DP to the front flap as shown

4.  Glue the red checked DP to the inside and then glue the tree DP to the red checked DP

5.  Using the Handmade Tree and Presents die cut out the tree in green and the trunk in brown shade with TH inks.  Assemble the tree and glue to the white oval.  Cut out the packages in the DP, assemble and pop to the oval

6.  Glue the oval to the front flap only putting glue on the left side of the oval

7.  Add the star and rhinestones to the tree.  Use the Joy of Giving die to cut out the sentiment and package and then glue to the oval on the inside of the card

CottageCutz Products

Thanks so much for stopping by and I would like to take the opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Blessings

Pam