FOREST FRIENDS ARE HERE FOR YOU

HELLO!!!!!

It's Anita here and a warm welcome to the Cottage Blog on New Year. I wish loads of happiness and good health for all of you.

New Year means new things and I start my post with my new friends from the forest. They are super cute and you will love assembling them. You can find the entire collection here

I have made a sweet forest scene where the bunny and the deer are my new friends peeping from the foliage and can you see the mushrooms. I have given a glossy look to them by applying glossy accents.
I loved assembling the whole scene and it looks so pretty.

Have a look for yourself.

I have embossed the card panel with an embossing folder and all the die cuts are coloured with distress inks.

CottageCutz products used.

CottageCutz Forest Peekers, Deer & Rabbit

                                                                                    CottageCutz Mushrooms & Greenery

                                                            Cross -Stitched Circle Set

I hope you had a good time with my friends. I will share more inspirations with you in the coming week.

Valentines, Part 1

Hi, Janja here!

I wish you all a happy new year full of joy, and creativity.

In the next three posts, I'll share with you a few simple cards created by new CottageCutz dies - Valentines. These dies will be available in store in the next few days.
Motives that are cut out with these dies are very cute, and they speak for themselves.
Let us show someone that we love. Such small attentions are never too much.
To warm up a little, today I will show you two cards from Valentine's series, that I have created.

Supplies:
- white card base: 4.1 x 5.4" (10,5 x 13,7 cm), folded
- patterned paper: 3.7 x 5" (9,5 x 12,7 cm)
- white and colored cardstock
- Distress ink: Worn Lipstick, Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Hickory Smoke
- glue
- double-sided adhesive tape
- adhesive foam pads

Prepare two card bases from white cardstock for both cards. On one card base cut out corners with corner punch. Trim patterned papers, and cut out with dies all the elements that will be placed on cards.

CottageCutz dies: typewriter, love postage, sweet love borders.

 Assemble the card as on photo.

CottageCutz dies: telephone, love hearts, rounded square set (7th die from the middle of a set), rounded rectangle set (the largest die from the set).

Cut out polaroid photo frame. 

Completed card. 

Thank you for coming over and have a nice day.

 

 

Birthday Time!

Hi, it's Lois here again.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.  Now it's time to get back to work . . . or fun, as the case may be!   I have another fun birthday card for you today using a few CottageCutz Mini, Petite, and Expression dies.

Supplies needed for this card are:

Card base - white cardstock, balloon patterned paper

Scraps of colored cardstock - pink, green, purple, red, yellow, orange, black, white

Dies - CottageCutz Balloon, Round (mini), CottageCutz Present, CottageCutz Happy, CottageCutz Birthday 

Ink - Distress Worn Lipstick
Other - red pen, ribbon, foam pop dots, adhesive sheet, scallop border punch, ruler, pencil

I started with a white card base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", folded in half.  Using a pencil and ruler, I marked in 1/2" on all four sides.

Using a red pen, I drew a border around the edge. Then I cut a strip of patterned paper 1 1/2" x 5 1/4" and punched the scallop border down the long left-hand side, adhered it to the left-hand side of the card and ran a ribbon round the center, gluing to the inside of the card.

Next I cut all my dies. I wasn't sure how many balloons I was going to need, so I arbitrarily cut six of them. 

As it turned out, I used only five of the balloons on the front of the card, so I put the sixth one on the inside.

I had cut two present die-cuts -- one in pink cardstock and one in patterned paper.  I cut the ribbon portion of the pink one out and backed the hearts with a small strip of red.   After sponging around the outside of the patterned paper, I glued the ribbon to the package.

All that was left was to construct my card.  To make it a bit easier, I had put an adhesive sheet behind some of the cardstock for the smaller die-cuts, such as the sentiment dies, string and shadow on the balloon die.  The sentiment is glued flat, while the balloons and present are popped up on foam dots.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

Let's Go Camping!

Hi, Lois here today with a fun fold card.  I have to admit that I'm not much of a camper.   I do remember one summer when I was a kid, we went to the Pocono Mountains for a week; but "camped" in a cabin -- not a tent.  With that said, I have a gatefold card for you today -- using several of the dies from the "Camping" release from CottageCutz.

Supplies for this card are:

Gold cardstock - 5 1/2" x 11" scored at 2 3/4" and 8 1/4"

White cardstock - 2 pieces 5 1/4" x 2 1/2", 1 piece 5 1/4" square

Various scrap pieces of colored cardstock - green, red, pale blue, green, silver, yellow, tan, orange

Distress ink - green, orange, brown

Patterned paper - grass, sky, sand, macadam

CottageCutz dies - Jeep, Camping Trailer, Camping Gear, Campfire Clothesline, Campfire Squirrel, Camping Phrases, Snowcapped Mountains, Campsite

Double-sided tape and tape runner

I started by cutting out the pieces for the Jeep and Trailer and constructing each one.  I used double sided tape for the smaller pieces to make it easier to adhere them to the base pieces.

 Then I made the scene by cutting the patterned paper and adhering it to the two white panels, which I then glued to the front panel.  I created my scene by adding the jeep and trailer as well as some trees, the mountains, and the sun.

The fun part of a gatefold card is when you open the panels to the inside.

Using several of the accessory dies in the Camping release, I created a fun campsite.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are: