Monday, October 19, 2015

CottageCutz Halloween Matchboxes & Giveaway

Welcome papercrafts and friends to another CottageCutz creation for Halloween. It's Carol here today.  You know you have those special "Trick-or-Treaters" that you just want to just do a little something extra for.  These are so stinking cute.  They are matchboxes created with the beautiful CottageCutz dies.  These little boxes will put a smile on the recipients face.  How about the teller at the bank, the cashier at the grocery store, a child's special teacher, or your co-workers.  These will add some fun to you Halloween festivities!
 You can find directions of making your matchbox tutorials on youtube or perhaps you own a matchbox die.  This matchbox was created with black cardstock and cover with Halloween cardstock on the outside only leaving a 1/4" edge,  The orange burlap is from the "Dollar Tree".  The spider is a Recollection embellishment.  Use any square die that fits you diecut image and top of box.  The Cottage cutz die here is the Witch on Broom.  The rose was created on orange cardstock with a 5 petal medium Marvey punch that are destressed with black soot ink and the leaves are the frond punch mounted on a seam binding bow.
This box uses the same basic design but with the CottageCutz Pumpkin and Bat die,  I backed the pumpkin with black cardstock because I liked the way it looked and it made it show up well.
The third and last matchbox uses the same basic design with the CottageCutz Cat w/Pumpkins.  The die was cut on Orange Designer Paper and again on Black Cardstock.  Cut the just the cat from the black cardstock and mount it on top of the cat cut from the Orange Designer paper.  The pumpkins were backed with golden yellow cardstock to match the polkadots in the Designer paper.  The "Boo" embellishment is Recollection.
Thank you so much for stopping by today to view these sweet Matchboxes.   Be sure to make something cute for those special people in your life.  It just makes a memorable moment.  Until next time......Happy Crafting.  Here are the dies used:



Also don't forget to join us in our CottageCutz Giveaway for the Month of October, leave a Comment on each post from October 12th-October 31st for chances to WIN a Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Don't be angry with me, Santa + Giveway

Hi all. Vladka here today!
I have to admit, I did it also these year. I wasn't good and I promised Santa previous year. And now he has enough and doesn't want to talk to me and reindeer either. Is there still enough time to change this? 
Cards can be fun, don't you think? I surely had fun creating it, specially because new CottageCutz Christmas dies are so adorable. I used Santa and Reindeer Resting die and kraft cardstock this time and stamped background with stamp and white pigment ink. I also used white watercolor tube and put it some on my craft sheet and added some water. Then I used sheet of plastic acetate, gentle press it into the white color and carried it to paper, to get some white splodges. Edges were distressed with edge distresser and after that with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. All die cuts were also colored with different Distress Inks. Text was printed directly on paper, I just added "Dear Santa" expression. Die is part of Christmas Gift set.
Also don't forget to join us in our CottageCutz Giveaway for the Month of October, leave a Comment on each post from October 12th-October 31st for chances to WIN a Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store.
Card Supplies I used:
CottageCutz dies: Santa and Reindeer Resting and Christmas Gift set (Dear Santa expression) 
Card stock: kraft
Distress InkGathered Twigs, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Black Soot
Other: scissors, paper trimmer, scor-buddy, glue tape, plastic acetate, craft sheet

Friday, October 16, 2015

Christmas Pocket Page Letter Tags/Giveaway

Hello everyone, Cheryl here today ,and I'm sharing a CottageCutz Pocket Page(Using the NEW CottageCutz Christmas dies) , but instead of notes, these are Christmas Tags to put on gifts :) I thought it would be a neat way to give them. You can make a bunch and put them in a binder, or a small binder in smaller pages,and give as a gift for Christmas :) SUPER FUN!!!!

My tags were cut 3 x 4 and corners rounded with 1/4" corner rounder. I picked my paper 1st then cut each piece and placed it where I wanted it. Next I picked out TONS of CottageCutz Christmas Dies and placed them where I thought I would like them to be. Next I did all my cutting for each tag. Then colored them all up :)

CottageCutz Dies Used- 26 dies used to create this project
North Pole Tag Topper
Mr. Claus
Mr. Claus
Gingerbread Village
Santa & Reindeer Resting
Wind Up Teddy Bear
Wind Up Mouse Toy
Holiday House
Santa's Laundry
Santa Stuck in Chimney
Wintery Trees
Reindeer w/Scarf
Potted Poinsettia
Pine Tree Scape
Winter Trees
Fir Trees
Merry Christmas Reindeer
Nutcracker
Santa with Tree
Presents
Winter Window
Deer w/Pine tree
Scrolly tree
Elf w/Toys
Santa's Naughty /Nice List
Older CottageCutz die- Christmas Fireplace
 Ribbon used is random Christmas color pieces leftover(Scraps). Some of the buttons are antique, and others are from my collection. I used viva pearl pen for the pearl accents. Ric Rac is from my stash as well. All coloring was done using copic markers.

I hope you enjoyed my post for today! thank you for looking and have a wonderful day!
hugs to all,
Cheryl

Also don't forget to join us in our CottageCutz Giveaway for the Month of October, leave a Comment on each post from October 12th-October 31st for chances to WIN a Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

4 Christmas Pocket Page Letter Tags & Giveaway


 Hello everyone Cheryl here with some Christmas Pocket tags made using the CottageCutz Christmas Release.
I will be posting the entire project tomorrow, and hope that you will come back and take a peek , as there will be lots of the CottageCutz Christmas Dies being used. :)
For my tags here I used the CottageCutz Christmas Release

I colored all the trees, and images using copic markers. The pearls are done with the Viva Pearl pen. Love the look of these.

I will have my post up tomorrow for my project :)
I hope you will come back and take a peek!
Thank you for stopping by, and have a lovely day!
hugs,
Cheryl

Also don't forget to join us in our CottageCutz Giveaway for the Month of October, leave a Comment on each post from October 12th-October 31st for chances to WIN a Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Happy Halloween card and FUN Giveaway

Hi there and welcome to CottageCutz Blog!
Today I am sharing with you my new 
Happy Halloween card I created with  
boooooeautiful  
 NEW CottageCutz Halloween Release.
  
The finished card measures 5" x 4 1/2".

To make card, start by cutting white card stock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 
score at 4 1/4" and fold crease to make card base.
To create the background cut a circle (use craft punch) for your mask to create the moon.  Tape it with removable tape and use your craft inks to color the background. Yellow, orange and dark orange was used here. 
The next "Haunted Mill" was cut on black card stock and glued on created background and black frame from Spellbinders. To finish card, add all pieces to white card base and decorate with Dew Drops and sentiment.  Don't forget to decorate Halloween Haunted Mill with white dots using white gel pen. 
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We have a super FUN Giveaway to announce to all CottageCutz Fans!

We will be giving away a CottageCutz $15.00 Gift Certificate to one lucky person, who leaves a comment on each post on the CottageCutz Blog from October 12th-31st, super fun huh??!! All you have to do, is leave a comment, on each post and you will be entered to win a CottageCutz Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store!!!  
Have fun, and good luck to all!!!

For project I used:


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Card Supplies:
CottageCutz dies: Haunted Mill
Card stock: black and white
Inks: black, orange, dark orange and yellow
Stamps: Happy Halloween sentiment
Other: Sizzix die cut machine, scissors, Word Window paper punch, Circle punch, Spellbinder die, craft glue, pierce tool, Dew Drops, foam double tape and white gel pen.
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Thanks for visiting, I hope your day is wonderful!  
Olena


Monday, October 12, 2015

CottageCutz October Giveaway!!

Hello CottageCutz Fans, and Happy Columbus Day to all!
Today we have a super FUN Giveaway to announce to all CottageCutz Fans!

We will be giving away a CottageCutz $15.00 Gift Certificate to one lucky person, who leaves a comment on each post on the CottageCutz Blog from October 12th-31st, super fun huh??!! All you have to do, is leave a comment, on each post and you will be entered to win a CottageCutz Gift Certificate to the Scrapping Cottage Store!!!  Have fun, and good luck to all!!!


Winner will be announced the 1st week of November, have fun to all!!!

Hugs from the CottageCutz Design Team!!!

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Halloween Hop Winners & Giveaway

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday to all!!! Today we our announcing the Winners for the Blog Hop & we are also doing another Giveaway!! Woohooo

So our next contest will go from October 12th- the 31st. And all you have to do is leave a comment on the Daily Blog Post for a chance to WIN! Be sure to check back tomorrow as I will have more information on this :)
 

Now onto our WINNERS!!

We want to Thank you all for your Participation in our CottageCutz Halloween Blog Hop for October!
We enjoyed all your wonderful /sweet comments. Thank you again!!!
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1st Gift Certificate Goes to

Karen Briguglio Congratulations!!!
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2nd Gift Certificate goes to Kyle Burch
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 3rd Surprise Gift Certificate of $10.00 
goes to
Lynn C Congratulations!!!!
 
 
Congratulations to the 3 lucky winners, please contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to claim your Gift Certificate.

We want to thank you all who join us for this wonderful and fun release, and hope you all had fun!!!
Hugs to all,
CottageCutz Design Team
 
 
 

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Fun for FALL

Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday to all!
Cheryl here with an extra post to share with you all. My card for today was designed for Splitcoaststampers TLC challenge to use watercolor or any medium to color your diecuts with.
 

For my card I chose to use some older CottageCutz dies to create a FALL themed card. I love fall too, and just had to make something fun for fall...hehehe So I used the CottageCutz Mini HedgeHog, Filigree Leaf Pumpkin, and Mini Leafs all from the Scrapping Cottage.

While in California for a week, I came upon these paints and thought they would be perfect for paper crafting. So I used them and some water to color my CottageCutz leaves. I did mix them to give them a different look than just coloring one color. Love the look. Paints used- Lumiere Citrene , NE OPAQUE Yellow , and Red  

Also used some design paper that I bought at the warehouse sale this past summer. I got these packs of 25 sheets each for 1.20 each pack of design paper. Mind you they are all the same pattern, but what an awesome price so I bought tons of packs, and these were among those packs.

Ribbon is gingham, and the buttons are vintage and came from an estate along with the paints. I have listed the CottageCutz dies used below, and linked them to the store for easy finding.
 
 

Thank you for looking and have a lovely day!
hugs to all,