Using Up Odds and Ends

Happy Wednesday, friends.  It's time for another CottageCutz YouTube Video.  I don't know about you, but my craft room looks like a bomb went off in it.  I have been happily crafting away, but honestly, not putting things away.  This left me with a pile of Christmas die cuts I had cut but had not colored or assembled.  I decided to roll up my sleeves and use a few of these odds and ends on my cards today.  

If you caught the Black Friday sale, there were several fun large sentiments in the release.  This got my crafty mind churning and I thought I would pair some of my CottageCutz Christmas dies with these new large sentiments to create a couple post-holiday cards.

I've linked all of the items I used on my two cards below, but you can see how they came together and enter to win one of the sentiment dies by watching the video.  I hope this gets your crafty mind churning too and you continue to find ways to use some of the beautiful Christmas dies after the season ends.

Until next time....Marla

Window and Plants Card

Hey crafty friends,

So glad you stopped in today! I am sharing another card with the fun Black Friday release from Cottage Cutz. Here is my card.

I created a top folding card. It is an A4 size. It is of white cardstock.  

I started by using the new window die cut. I wanted to make a curtain so I turned the die cut around and just made a quick outline.

I mirrored it and then cut them out.

I put the window on top of the curtain cut out. I then added that to a dark green paper mat and then placed those on the scallop stitched rectangle mat. I then added three of the cute hanging plants from that die cut. I added the cute little kitty die cut to the right of the window sill. 

I then added a stone paper mat to the base of the cardstock. I think that paper choice pulled it all together. I purposely left the card with no sentiment. I am either going to use this as a congratulations on your new home or a thinking of you for someone who loves plants.

Dies Used For This Project

Garden Window

Hanging Plants

Nested Scallop Rectangle Set

The one I have is currently out of stock. 

This is a great alternative.

Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to come back real soon. You will want to keep up with my crafty adventures! Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda

Holiday French Horn

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.

We have 2 new releases in the online store. The Christmas 2023 release is available and currently at 30% off individual dies. The Black Friday In The Garden release is also available at 30% off individual dies. 

For today's card, I am featuring the new Holiday French Horn die. I don't know about you but I am still making my Christmas cards. I have about 10 more to make and then I need to get them addressed and mailed. It's crunch time for me. 

So, let's get started with some details of how I created this card. 

Design Steps:

I started my cad this week with the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #977. We were to use berry burst, old olive and crumb cake (Kraft) for our color trio. Optional was to add gold. 

berry burst, old olive, crumb cake

I decided to use berry burst cardstock for the card base. I just bought this gold vellum  designer paper that had all Christmas words in gold. I layered it with a brushed gold cardstock. For some reason my camera picked up a yellow tone.

Berry Burst Card Base: 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"

Gold Layering Panel: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Gold Vellum: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

I cut the horn in gold mirror cardstock, and the berries & bow in berry burst cardstock and the greenery in old olive cardstock. I attached these layers with double sided tape and clear drying glue.

To finish off my card, I attached the image panel to the card base and scattered a few crumb cake enamel dots to get that color on my card. I decided not to add a sentiment to the card front. I thought the Christmas words were sufficient. 

That's it for me for this post. See you next Saturday!

 

Holiday Lantern Tea Light Décor

Happy Friday Crafties!

Kris here today sharing a home décor item for the holidays!  This can also be a cute li'l gift box by adding some printed tissue paper to hide the gift or gift card etc.  I was inspired by the new Vintage Holiday Lantern die (from the 2023 Christmas Release) to turn this Elegant Favor Box into a lantern using a battery operated tea light candle.  

How I made it:

I die cut (4) of the Elegant Favor Box die from one 12" x 12" piece of textured black cardstock.

As you can see, it also adds score lines where you need to fold ~ so I folded all of them inward.  

I glued 3 of the vertical side flaps together.  Then at the top, I glued only the tiny tabs to the larger tab of the next piece as shown below. 

*Do not glue the larger flaps together as you won't be able to get your hand in to pull out the contents. 😏 

Then I glued the final connecting side flap.  (You could do this before you glue the top tiny flaps.)

For the bottom, I folded the flaps in so that the 90 degree angled corners are hidden by overlapping the next one and so forth, and the last one tucks under the first flap.  Add glue to secure if you wish.

Next, I die cut my decorative elements -- the foliage from the Vintage Holiday Lantern die --from green, gold and red.  I also foiled a sentiment for my tag.

I placed a small battery operated tea light in the bottom of my lantern and added some fake greenery around it.

Next, I took some black/white gingham ribbon and cut the end at a deep angle so I can run it through the holes at the top to close it.  

This step took me a couple of times, but what worked best for me was to start from the outside and go into the first hole, come back out of the 2nd one, into the next and out of the last.  This way you end up with both strands coming out so you can tie a nice bow.

I glued my greenery to the back of my tag/sentiment piece, steering clear of the hole in the tag.

Then I tied my bow, adding my tag just before I made the loops of my bow.  ((yes, the tea light is on the outside of my lantern just because I wanted to show y'all what I used))

And ta-da!!  Super easy... yet elegant and festive décor for the holidays!  

*oops, just realized after seeing my photos that I forgot to add the gold jellyroll accents to my berries!  Let's just pretend there's gold accents there 😁

   

I hope I've inspired you in some way to get crafty with your favorite CottageCutz dies this week!  

Ink Something Crafty!

♡  ♡  ♡

~Kristine

Puppy Carolers

Hello Friends 

I can't believe I am finishing my Christmas cards!  I have to send many cross country so I need to complete the handmade ones. 

I am using our new Christmas Release which is available at a wonderful 30% off.  This collection has over 40 different dies.   It has everything you will need for your holiday paper crafting. Make sure to stop by the online store and check out all the fantastic new designs!

Today, I am using the Puppy Carolers and the Pine Tree Slim.  These pups are so sweet and make a perfect card for all those dog lovers in our lives!

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Pine Tree Slim die cut out the following colors of card stock: green, brown and white (I made three of these trees).  Using the Puppy Carolers die cut out the following colors of card stock: white, brown, red, green, blue, black, and mustard yellow.  Glue the pieces together with a fine tip glue

2.  Use a white A2 card base, cut a piece of navy snowy DP 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, use the Hills Slimline and cut the white bank of snow (cut it down to 4 1/8) and use the Picket Fence Slimline and cut it on white (cut the fence down to 4 1/8)

3.  Glue the navy DP to the white card base.  Next add the trees then fence and finally the snowy ground

4.  Glue the brown and black dogs down flat as shown above then put dimension squares on the yellow dog and pop him in the middle as shown below.  Add the sentiment layered on red and your card is complete

We have more inspiration on our YouTube Channel check it out HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by!  And I will see you next Thursday.

Blessings and Take Care