Christmas Hound and Friend

Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends

It is Pam sharing with you on the blog today!

Our new release for Christmas is available for purchase today!!  It has 40 darling dies that would make gorgeous cards, gift tags, banner or toppers for a bag.  In this release there is everything from farm animals to beautiful Navitiy Scenes.   Today, I am using the Holiday Hound Dog.

My card was inspired by a fun and playful design by Meghan Kennihan.  I just loved the sketch she created so I had to give it a try.  Thanks for the wonderful idea Meghan.  

Design Steps:

1. Start out with a red slimline card base 8 3/4 x 3 3/4.  Next use the Random Circle Slimline die and cut it out of white card stock.  Cut a piece of blue card stock 8 1/2 x 3 1/2.  Cut a piece of red card stock 3 x 4 1/3 and a piece of striped DP 2 3/4 x 3 3/4.  Glue the blue to the red card front, next glue the white random  circle piece to the blue and last mount the striped DP to the red and glue to the card front at an angle as shown

2.  Cut out a white circle using the Crossed Stitched Circle die second from the largest and a red circle cut with the second from the largest Pierced Circle die.  Glue together and then to the card front

3.  Using the Holiday Hound Dog die cut him out of brown, blue, green, red, black, tan and white.  Shade the dog and assemble

4.  Using the Moose and Tree die cut out the tree in green and the trunk in dark brown.  Assemble and glue to the card front as shown.  The little owl is from the die Snowman w/Woodsy Friends

5.  Pop up the dog using dimensionals add the little bulbs on the tree and coat them with glossy accents.  Add the sentiment and your card is complete

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Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget it is never to let to start on those Christmas cards or even start to shop for our crafty friends!  One more bit of info our YouTube channel is up and running with some wonderful video inspirations check it out HERE.

Blessings and Take Care

Pam

Special Delivery Santa

Hello, my crafty friends.  Marla here, with another card share over on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel.

Christmas card making is in full swing now and the new release over in the Scrapping Cottage store is filled with tons of adorable new dies to help you create the cutest cards this holiday season. 

Here's a look at the card I am creating today.  I love how the sweet snowman is delivering all the packages just in time for Christmas.  This scene reminds me of those old Frosty the Snowman or Santa Clause is Coming To Town Movies.  What do you think?  

I am a super fan of slimline cards, especially for scene building.  If you didn't know, CottageCutz has several amazing slimline dies. If you struggle with fitting everything you want onto an A2 card, I highly recommend diving into slimline cards.  It's a game changer for sure.  
Thank you so much for stopping by.  I'd love for you to head over to the YouTube Channel for more card details and please don't forget to hit subscribe and ring the bell so you are notified when a new video is uploaded.  
Announcement: The winner of the first YouTube giveaway is Karen Ladd. Contact Mary Marsh at mrmarsh917@gmail.com to make arrangements for your prize. There will be having another giveaway for this video as well. So drop by our channel. 
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One die three ways

Happy Tuesday Cottagecutz fans, It's Wendy bringing the blog to you today. It’s my birthday today so I am sharing 3 full tutorial projects with you. I have a shaker tag or it could be a bauble, some cupcake toppers and a Shaker Napkin Ring

So I’m going to start with the gift tag and then the napkin ring as they are very similar to make. Take 2 of the nested circles dies measuring 3” and 2” and cut a ring

Next take some acetate and choose a circle die that is just smaller than the ring, cut it our and glue to the reverse of the ring

Next use some 3D foam pads at lease 2-3mm and apply all around the ring and pop to one side

Now cut another 3” circle in the teal, a cut two 2” circles in the lighter blue and white. glue the lighter blue circle in the middle of larger circle. Then with the white circle create a snow hump using one of the slimline hills dies and stick to the light blue circle

Now cut out the snowman from the ‘Joyful Snowman’ die in coordinating colours and attach to the base you have created 

Now I’ve added chunky glitter onto my snowman scene but you could use little beads

Now you can peel off the foam pads from the acetate circle you made and carefully place over top to make your shaker element. I’ve cut a circle at the top to thread through some ribbon and added some holly for decoration. So this could be a bauble or a gift tag.

We’re going to make the napkin ring now and It’s exactly the same method as above, you just don’t need to cut the hole for the ribbon or add the holly. So here is how I made base ring for the napkin. Take a piece of card 7” x 1.5” and mark at 1” either end. At the same time cut one of the nested stitched circles measuring 3”

Take a stapler and staple one end to the middle of the circle

Take the other end of the card and staple to the middle of the napkin ring. Make sure the more pointy part of the staples are facing out as we’ll cover that up

Next add 1mm 3D foam pads to cover all of the circle

Attach to the shaker design we made earlier

Here is your fun and final shaker napkin ring

Finally we come to the cupcake toppers. These are so quick and simple to make. So using the ‘Joyful Snowman’ again, cut the main body 12 times if you are making 6 cupcake toppers.Then cut our the remainder of the design 6 times as we are only going to decorate the front of the toppers 

Now to create the basic cupcake topper. I would use 2-3mm foam pad and add this to one side of the snowman but leave enough room for a cocktail stick. In that void use a strong blue such as cosmic shimmer and then app,y another snowman over the top before inserting the cocktail Stick.

Finish by adding the remaining elements onto the snowman and you are done. There are so many other dies that Cottagecutz has that lends themselves to make cupcake toppers

I hope you’ve enjoyed the projects today. Have a lovely week and I’ll look forward to seeing you on Friday

Wendy    

Announcement: The winner of the YouTube giveaway is Karen Ladd. Contact Mary Marsh at mrmarsh917@gmail.com to make arrangements for your prize. We will be having another giveaway on YouTube starting Wednesday when the newest goes live. 

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Layered Slimline

Hi everyone Happy Monday.  Today I am back sharing a layered slimline Christmas card that I will be sending to a friend.  This year I vow to mail Christmas cards to everyone on my list!  So, I created this card using Mountains & Trees Slimline and Christmas on the Farm dies from The Scrappin Cottage.

I first die cut the different layers from the Mountain & Trees using watercolor paper.  I used  Mowed Lawn distress ink for the tree line as seen below 

Next I cut 2 layers of Mountains and colored them using some Chipped Sapphire and Tumbled Glass

Once I was done I put the tree line between my two colored mountains to offset the colors

I used my glue pad to apply glue to the snow top layer and added some art glitter to give it a look of snow.

I diecut the Christmas on the Farm scene in white glitter paper and adhered it to the top of the 

I glued all my layers together for my final completed look below.  

I hope everyone enjoyd my post and Be sure to head over to the Cottage Cutz You Tube Channel where some of the designers will be posting videos! Make sure to come back by each day for some more great crafty inspiration from the super talented team. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

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