Birthday Badges

Happy Tuesday Cottagecutz fans. I hope you had a wonderful new year. I can’t believe how quickly Christmas went. What I do know is that come June I’ll be working on Christmas for next year.

Anyway it’s Wendy bringing you the blog today and I thought I’d use the Black Friday release to make some birthday badges. I think it’s really cute for youngsters to have a name badge at a birthday party. So this is how I made them

Firstly I cut out 3 of the ‘Nested Stiyched Scalloped Circles’ in a bronze brown colour. I have also cut out 3 of the ‘Stitched Rounded Rectangles’ as we’ll need these shortly

I use 38m broach bars to make my badges and secure wit a hot gun. I then use the small rectangle as cut above to extra secure the broach bar in place

Next I printed some names on this beautiful cream pearlescent card and cut out with the ‘Stitched Circle Set’

I wanted to add a little background to the badges so I cut out some green circles in the same size

Next I used the ‘Grass Slimelime’ to cut some hills from the circles

I then attached the grass to the bottom of the badges and they are a perfect fit

Next I added the names to the brown badges 

To finish off, I used some of the designs from the ‘Black Friday’ release, which I will list below and you have your badges

I really hope you like the badges as much as I did making them. 

Have a wonderful week and I will see you on Friday with another project

Dies I used:

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New Year

Hi everyone and welcome 2022 and it has been an fun yet tough year. So 2022 is going to be my year for sure and I am looking forward to what crafty fun comes my way. So my cards for today close out the year and brings in the new with a smile. 

I made my first card with Winter Penguin Snowboarding but he stands in front of the shop window. 

My next card I used the Safari Watering Hole because for me it symbolizes a new beginning and appreciating something so simple as having a drink of water with friends. 

I made them by die cutting a coloring the pieces with my copics and using patterned background papers.

I hope everyone enjoyed my post and be sure to check out our latest video on YouTube here 

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Christmas Deer Valentine Love Card Idea

Happy 1st Sunday of 2022 Scrapping Cottage friends! 

Melinda here with my first Cottage Cutz project for 2022! I created this super sweet card featuring the Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox and Gingerbread Cocoa House dies.

Here's a look at my completed card. It features the sweet little Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox die and some of the elements from the Gingerbread Cocoa House die. I also used some of the Rectangle Stitched scallop dies from that set.

I started by die cutting all of my pieces in white. I then used my various markers to color in my pieces. This is by far one of my favorite techniques. 

I then used my chalks to add some depth to my little deer as well as rosy up his cheeks. This is my other favorite technique for dressing up my die cuts. I love using the dies for projects outside of it's obvious use.

I then cut the second largest scallop stitched rectangle from that die set in white cardstock. I cutout a piece of Doodlebug patterned paper for a mat. I cut two of the "whipped cream" toppings from the Gingerbread Cocoa House die set. I lightly inked the edges and then added them to the bottom of my mat.

Here is a closer look at the various layers. I used several pieces from the Gingerbread Cocoa House. I even used one of their small snow pile pieces and put it on top of the mail box.

Here's another angle. You can see on the top of the small mat, I added a couple of the Gingerbread Cocoa House's Drips along the top for a border. I added several of the small hearts from that die too.

Here is one last look at my completed card. I love the super cute and very festive paper from Doodlebug. They are a perfect compliment to the adorable Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox die. I love to take pieces from various dies and use them in unexpected ways. It really helps you get more mileage out of your dies.

The Dies I used to create these projects:

Gingerbread Cocoa House

Christmas Deer w/ Mailbox

Nested Scallop Rectangle

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Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda Beltran

2021 Faves (Part 2)

Hello CottageCutz 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. 

It's the first day of 2022, and I thought I would feature some of our favorite cards from this past year. The dies used to create the cards are all on sale at great prices through January 5, and I have provided a link to the die used.

July (In the Kitchen Stamp Set)

August (Happy Birthday Stamp & Die)

August (Love Bugs Stamp & Die)

September (Baby Farm Animals)

October (High Flying Snowman, Santa's Delivery, Snowman w/Woodsy Friends)

October (Joyful Snowman, Santa's Delivery)

November(Gingerbread Family, Artic Snowy Tree)

December(Christmas S'mores, Sweet as a Christmas Cookie)

That's some of the cards from this past design year. Hope you enjoyed our little look back at 2021. Happy New Year everyone!

(Campin'Out Dies)

2021 Faves (Part 1)

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

It's the last day of 2021, and I thought I would feature some of our favorite cards from this past year. The dies used to create the cards are all on sale at great prices through January 5, and I have provided a link to the die used. 

January (Juggling Monkey)

February (Safari Giraffe)

March (Bunny Tree Cottage)

April (Spring Tea Party)

May (Windows Slimline & Circus)

June (Farm Cow Peeker & Farm Pig Peeker)

That's some of the cards from this past design year. Stop by tomorrow for another round of year end faves. 

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