Days till Christmas

This weeks project I used the Cottage Cutz Skating Penguin Die, I gave him a red scarf and lime ear muffs. Mounted him on the side of a 3 1/2" x 6" chalkboard panel. The Base panel is 6" x 8". Added mini tinsel garland around the chalkboard. Highlighted the penguin in black and white ink.

You know when you have an idea and have it all worked out in your mind and than you complete the project except for that last THING. Well this is one of the projects, completed it last week except for one thing. . Chalk. A good while ago I found this cool, self sticking chalkboard vinyl (had not yet used it) came in several colors by Wallies. . . I thought about the penguin skating on the black ice and being able to change the number each day and leading up to Christmas, added the wire handle so you could hang on a door or add magnets to the back and stick to the fridge. . . . well. . . I hadn't eaten chalk for years, so NO! I did not have any chalk in the house. I kept forgetting to pick some up.. so . . .today I did. . . went to take the pictures. . get the chalk out of the box . . . write a big bold ""10"" for ten days left to Christmas. . . . . . . . . . What happens. . .the chalk does NOT write on the chalkboard vinyl !!!!!!!!! I'm a guy, you know we don't read direction. I break down and read the instructions on the Wallies package. ""NO help '' (I knew reading the package would not be of use . . .that's why I did not!). So I am now going to cut out numbers with self sticking back to use and remove to change out.

By the way, Mr. Wallies and Mr. Crayola Chalkman do not seem to be compatible. . at this point.

Thanks and Merry Christmas !

Baby It's Cold Outside

Good morning friends. Today I have a darling die to show you. It is the Polar Bear on Sled die. I think that he is so cute! I made him going down a hill on his sled. No snow here in MA yet, but my home town in WI has a 2 hour delay this morning because of snow. I do hope we have a white Christmas! Enjoy the day!

Hugs and smiles,

Janice

Snow Many Memories

Hello! For my card today I used the Cottage Impressions Penguin with ski's stamp. I just think he is absolutely adorable! I colored him with my prismacolor colored pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. I used my sakura glitter pen to give his ski's some sparkle.

I attached him to the card with a wobble, so he wiggles around. ☺ Ok, that's it for me today. See you back here next Sunday. Have a wonderful day!

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. You have until midnight tonight to comment on all my posts for the last 12 days on My Blog...I have 12 giveaways, including some Cottage Cutz Dies!!! ☺

Ho Ho Ho Y'all

One of the reasons why I love Cottage Cutz dies so much is because they can be used year after year. For my project today, I have combined the Cottage Cutz Poinsettia Spray which is one of this month's Christmas dies with a couple of Christmas dies from last year which are the Ho Ho Ho Die and the Ornament Die.

Ya Better Watch Out...

Hello and happy Friday!!  Are you ready for Christmas yet?  Not me, by any stretch of the imagination, but, this is the time of year, when we're telling the little ones that they'd better watch out, better not pout, better not cry, becasue... YES... Santa Claus is coming to town.   Ready or not, it's coming!!  My card today uses the Santa With Reindeer Stamp from The Scrapping Cottage.  Another fun and fabulous Cottage Impressions image to color. 

 There's plenty of sparkling glitter on the snow in the reindeer's antlers, and under their feet, although it doesn't show up so well in the picture.  I thought the rhinestone swirls paired up great with this pretty paper from K&Co..  Well, I still have plenty to do to get ready for Christmas, which includes some wrapping that's calling to me.  I wish you a glorious day, a wonderful weekend and lots of happy stamping and crafting!

Yummy tweets!

I've been busy making Christmas goodies, decorating and getting the tree up this week. So it seemed only fitting that this week's project is a layout of my daughter, Cyndi, making goodies last Christmas. I love using non-traditional themes and colors for Christmas pages so having dies that coordinate with the bird and cage on these Christmas papers is pretty cool, dontcha think!

I cut the birdcage from metallic paper...

...and colored the "bluebird" to match the brown and red birds on the paper.

Are you ready for Christmas? You have just two weeks and two days left to finish, believe it or not!!! But hey, no pressure. ;) Have a productive weekend!

Today I'm featuring the Christmas Doily. This die is so cool and can be used as a backdrop on a card, clustered on a layout, and so many other things. Barry showed you how to use them on tags and my project today is using it on a little gift bag.

I cut it out and inked it, and added some Stickles and a gem in the center.

I put some pop dots on the back of the trees so it would stand out against the busy patterned paper.

You got to love dies that have multiples ways to use them.

Hope your holiday shopping is coming along well.

Don't forget the Scrapping Cottage for those crafters on your list.
Happy Wednesday!
Kay

EZ Quick & Simple Christmas Tags

EZ. . .Quick and Simple, that is what I wanted to show this week. You can make a set of Christmas Gift tags in no time. I used the Cottage Cutz Tree, Wreath and Doily from the Elegant Collection. One sheet each of four colors of card stock(red, white and two greens), a holly edge punch, 1/8" hole punch, Red & green ribbon, red and green ink, sponge and Stickles.

The white card stock was cut at 3" x 6" and the shadow card stock were cut at 3 1/8" x 6 1/8" . Two tags I edged with a holly punch on the full right side of the tag and the second I edged on the left side and bottom. Inked the edges of the white with a sponge in red and green. Used a 1/8" hole punch to cut a ton of dots for berries, randomly scattered on the holly edge. Stickled the berries for a bit of twinkle. I cut 4 Cottage Cutz Elegant Shapes (one quick CUT) glued them on the white card stock at an angle with a little over hang (cut the over hang off). I needed to remember to leave space on the tag for the TO:/FROM:.

As you can see, five parts to each tag, ribbon, white tag, shadow tag, berries and Cottage Cutz. . . EZ Cut . .One Cut Dies.

So when you need to make about 10 or 20 quick gifts for the holiday. . .fix 6 tags in a cello bag, tie it up with some ribbon. Everyone always need gift tags for the season, you know that it is a gift that will be used.

What if you are giving bottles of wine or home baked bread. . A nice big tag to attach will always added a festive touch.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, your Family and Friends

Santa's Workshop

Good morning friends! For today's card I used Santa's Workshop die. Isn't the workshop adorable? It comes with a tiny stamp for the words above the door. How cute is that? I hope you have had a chance to look at all the new dies and take advantage of the promotional sales that The Scrapping Cottage has had, or that you are writing a wish list of things you would like to receive. I can' believe it is Dec. 6, 2010. This year has gone by faster than I could have ever imagined it would. I haven't even started my shopping yet. I hope you all have a great week!

See you next Monday.

Hugs and smile,

Janice

Reindeer Crossing

Hello, and happy Sunday! For my card today I used the Flying Reindeer die. Just a quick and simple card.

 I hate to post and run again, but I have a friend from Guam here visiting. ☺ See you back here next Sunday! Have a WONDERFUL week!

 ♥ Nikki ♥

Deck the Halls!

Happy Saturday everyone!! Christmas is just around the corner and what better way to start getting ready than to decorate your holiday crafting projects with this gorgeous Cut-Out Ornament dies from the latest Cottage Cutz Christmas release!

For my card, I chose to cut the two shapes from glitter cardstock and then I cut them out a second time using white glitter cardstock. Since my background paper is rather busy, I wanted to fill in the cut out areas with the solid white glitter pieces so the lovely cut-out designs would really show up.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! One great thing about this colder weather is that it makes me want to stay inside and scrap!!

Oh By Golly... It's Christmoose!!!

Good morning, and welcome to The Scrapping Cottage Blog!!!  Boy have I had an exciting week!  First and foremost, our first grandchild was born!  Can I just say that he is the cutest and sweetest little guy I've ever seen, and yes, I am completely biased, and totally in love!!!  *wink*  Our little Max was born on Monday, and it's been a whirlwind of a week, between Thanksgiving, and a little Christmas shopping, and having a new baby in the midst of all of it!!  We feel so very blessed!  Amazingly, amid all the mayhem, I did have some time to do a little bit of stamping, and card making, although I have no idea how I managed it!. Here is a card I finished up this morning that I made using one of the newly released Cottage Impressions stamps,from The Scrapping Cottage, Moose with lights.  Now those who know me, know that I LOVE to color large images, and friends, let me tell ya that this image is WONDERFUL.  It's large enough to get in plenty of shading and dimension with Copics, and is just adorable after all the color brings it to life.  You've just gotta try these new Cottage Impressions stamps!  You're going to LOVE them, too!!

 As I mentioned, I colored Mr. Moose with Copic Markers, and used some Stickles on the Christmas lights, although it doesn't show up very well in the picture.  The paper all comes from Basic Grey, and I did some hand stitching with twine around the panel, then popped the moose up with foam dots.  I mixed up the plaid patterned paper with some striped grosgrain for added interest, and while I would NEVER wear plaid and stripes together, it works for this card.  

I'd like to leave you with a picture of my new grandson, because I'm as proud as I can be of him, and that's just what grandma's do!!!  The kids stopped by with him on their way to the doctor this morning to show off his Elmer Fudd hat that I bought for him a couple of weeks ago.  It's a little big for him, but it's as cute as can be, because there's ears on the top of that hat that you can't see in the picture.  What a sweetheart he is!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and for indulging me by allowing me to share my picture of Max. I promise I won't do that any more than I absolutely HAVE to!  *wink*  Have a glorious day, and happy crafting!!

Love ya!

Lorie

Warm buns for the holidays!

I don't know about you but I love dinner rolls.....and warm buns too. We're having snow and it doesn't look like it will end till spring, so warm buns are a thing of the past, I'm afraid, unless Santa brings me a heating pad and a Snuggie! LOL

So for this week's project I've done a layout featuring this photo of my awesome homemade dinner rolls. Sorry it's not a scratch-n-sniff because they smell so delish and taste like heaven. i wish I could share them with you for real!


I've used the snowman chef to serve up these yummy gems from my kitchen (in a mini cork version, that is LOL). For the buttons and berries I've used mini bling and for the spatula and serving plate, metallic paper.

Do you make homemade goodies more during the holidays or are you like me, and love to bake year round? If you don't have a bread machine or KitchenAide stand mixer, I highly recommend adding these items to your Santa list.......be nice and maybe he'll bring you both of them! ;)

A Taste of Homemade

If you are like me, December brings a little extra baking around my house. From the parties and get togethers to neighbor gifts it seems like there is always something baking around the holidays. This Snowlady Chef die is a perfect way give those homemade goodies to others.

From tags to cards to bag toppers she will be sure to present your treats well.

I love how I can match my dies to whatever paper I want them to go with!

Happy baking and especially sampling those baked goodies :)

Kay

bring on the SNOW

We are all such FISH. . . . I was out over the Holiday weekend . . you know . . just looking. . . I really don't need anything! I really . . really don't need any more Christmas scrap book paper. Well . . I just follow the scent of NEW paper, the scrapbook store in our area. . . had to have something new! Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate Collection. I needed to work on my cards for this week and . . WOW, that was exactly what I needed. (not really. . but you know that fish-y thing again). The Collection was really different in color, they used Sage, Red-ish Rust, Chestnut, Cream and two shades of Lite Blue. I hadn't used rust for Christmas, so I went for it.

I had already decide to use the Cottage Cutz Snowman Chef Die this week, but was not sure what he would be baking. I decided on a shaped card. I used my Cricut to welds an ornament shape to create the card (7.5 inch). I cut the Cottage Cutz Snowman Chef and filled his platter with snowflakes (replaceing the cake).

The rectangle card was set out about the same, but used the stripe paper on the vertical. I also used the Cottage Cutz Scallop Border Die to add a lacy edge to the stripe on both cards. The verse stickers from the Fancy Pants Collection worked out great for both cards.

Hope everyone had a feative Thanksgiving.

Holiday Cards

Hello friends! I apologize for being late with my post. Comcast went down last night, along the East Coast, and didn't return until recently. Here are some things I have been working on. The Thanksgiving card was made with the die Autumn Centerpiece. I love this die and plan on using the candles for a Christmas Centerpiece card. The moose was made with a Cottage Impressions stamp, Moose with lights. I colored him with Copics and added various stickles for the lights. The Christmas tree was cut from green foil cardstock with the Elegant Christmas Tree die. The penguin was cut with white cardstock and colored with copic markers. I color the pieces before assembling, my personal preference. The die is Penguin with skis. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mine was really nice and the food was delicious! Thanks for stopping by!Hugs and smiles!Janice