My Peeps

Good morning Cottage Cutz fans - it's Jeanne today with one of my favorite dies!  First let me say that the new release is absolutely fantastic.  However, the die I'm using today is especially adorable.

In our house, no Easter basket is complete without Peeps. So this die brings back memories of those sweet marshmallow critters. This card is super easy to make but looks so cute.

I started with an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 card base scored at 4 1/4, with a landscape orientation.  I also cut a panel from plaid paper 4 /14 x 5 1/2 inches.  The smaller white panel is cut using the second largest of the Double Stitched Rectangle dies.

I die cut a full set of peeps in two colors that coordinated with my paper.  The die cuts a row of peeps along with two single ones.

Next I used a Multi-liner pen to color the eyes and nose.  I added clear Wink of Stella to one of the single peeps to give it that sugar coated look.

I stamped the sentiment on the white stitched panel.

I assembled the panels and popped up the odd colored peep by using foam dots.

This card goes together so quick and makes an adorable piece of happy mail.

The new release featuring the Spring and In Stitches dies are on sale for a limited time  Be sure to visit the website to take advantage of these great prices.

Thanks for topping by today and have a creative weekend!

Painting Eggs!

Hello Scrapping Cottage Family!

It is Pam from Stamper At Heart Blog Spot.  Cottage Cutz has a brand new release of two collections of dies.  They are In Stitches and Spring Designs in all there are 33 new dies.  And for a limited time the new dies are 25% off!
Today, I am really excited to be sharing one of our brand new Easter dies!  It is called Egg Painting Bunny!  Isn't the cutest bunny you have ever seen!!

Designer Steps:

 1.  Gather your papers for the card and use a white A2 card base. Pink DP is 5 1/4 x 4, Jelly Bean DP 4 3/4 x 3 1/2, Orange sparkle paper 1 3/4 x 5 1/4 and the rectangle was the second largest Pierced Rectangle set.

2.  Glue the pink DP down first and then add the DP Jelly Bean paper

3.  Glue down the orange sparkle strip as shown and then the pierced rectangle on top of that

4.  Cut out all of the pieces using light grey card stock and the Egg Painting Bunny die.  Ink the edges with grey ink.  Ink the nose, eyes and whiskers with black marker.  Begin the assembly of the bunny

5.  Cut out the belly, face, eyes, inside of the ears, paint brush and eggs out of white and then color with copic: Y15, 17 - YG03, 13 - YR18, 68 - RV52, 55 and black

6.  Cut the bucket out of metallic silver and then assemble all of the pieces pop the bunny to the card as shown

7.  Color and shade the eggs using the same color of copic used to for the paint brush and paint.  Glue the eggs next to the bunny.  Stamp the sentiment and layer onto pink and attach to the card

Cottage Cutz Products 

Don't forget to stop by the store to take advantage of the 25% off sale!  The new collections are adorable and you can get an early start on your Easter Cards!

Blessings

Pam

Spring Happy Mail!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great week so far! It's Janet here with an extra video post to show off the Happy Mail I received from the Scrapping Cottage this week. It's the dies I ordered from the Spring and In Stitches releases that just arrived and I am super excited to share them with you!

Now, I'm always a fan of all things CottageCutz but I have to say that this release is even more wonderful than normal. The Easter and Spring themes in the release are so cute and fun! CottageCutz does animals better than anyone and you'll not be disappointed in the little critters in this release! The bunnies and chicks are adorable! There are also butterflies, eggs, flowers and scenes that will seriously get your creativity flowing. Just a few of these darlings are shown in the picture below.

The In Stitches collection included in this release are 12 images outlined and accented with stitches. You'll find fruit, flowers, bees, an owl and bird, sewing notions, mushrooms, a new sun, cloud and umbrella set, canning jars and best of all, a set of letters and numbers!

Please make sure you click on the cute animated owl at the top of the blog to visit the store. These dies are are available now and are currently 25% off. Get them while you can because I suspect some of these will sell out.

Click on the video link below to see the dies I picked up. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for spending a few minutes here today. I'll be back on Valentine's Day with a new video tutorial.

Get To Know Jeanne Knobbe

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us. We started a new feature several weeks ago that we are continuing with today on the Blog.  We would like to give you a closer look at our designers.  It's  a "get to know the design team"  and today we are featuring Jeanne Knobbe.
 

I’m Jeanne Knobbe and I have been drawing, coloring and creating ever since I can remember. I grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA with a degree in fine arts. I then moved to Oklahoma where I turned to graphic design and spent over 20 years creating with a computer.

I gave that up six years ago to move back to southern California and help my husband run his business.  My days are still spent in front of a computer but now it’s accounting programs and spreadsheets not Photoshop!

Paper crafting has become my creative outlet and I particularly love cardmaking.  I would say my style is clean and simple, but I also love mixed media.  Sometimes I feel I have multiple art personalities – at times I know exactly what I’ll create and at other times another style decides to show up instead!   Art for me is a journey and I enjoy seeing where it takes me. I find I love getting my hands messy as opposed to making art on a computer - it is much more gratifying.

I live near San Diego with my husband of 33 years, our two daughters, two cats and feisty Shorkie.  I’m very appreciative that they are all understanding of the mess I can make while creating and the delayed dinners that can occur when I’m “in the creative zone.” 

When not accounting, card making or working on my blog, I love to attend concerts, play Mah-Jongg and watch hockey.

Here are a few of my favorite projects made with CottageCutz dies.

 

 

Bee Yourself

Hi, Lois here with some exciting news today.  CottageCutz has a brand-new release of two series of dies -- In Stitches and Spring Designs -- for a total of 33 new dies.  PLUS, for a limited time both sets of dies are 25% off.  I'm using two dies from the In Stitches series (Stitched Alphabet and Stitched Honey Bees) for my card today.  I so enjoyed the card I made a couple of weeks ago using the Eclipse technique, I "sort-of" used it again today.

For the card base, the following pieces of cardstock are needed:

Black heavy cardstock - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"

White cardstock - 4" x 5 1/4"

Honeycomb patterned paper - 4" x 5 1/4"

Because all the letters of the Stitched Alphabet are on one die, I cut four sets of letters from yellow cardstock.  I had to cut four additional E's from scraps of cardstock.  I'll put the remaining, unused letters into a bag for future use.

I ran the letters through my Xyron sticker maker.

I then cut the images from the Stitched Honey Bees die . . . 

. . . and colored them with ink and markers, assembling the pieces to create my hive, bees, and honey pot.

After stacking the letters, I sponged them with a bit of Wild Honey ink and created the front of my card.  I did not use all the die-cut images on the front.

The remaining images I glued to the inside of the card and stamped an appropriate sentiment.

CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

Sending Hugs

Hi!

This is Anja again. Yesterday Mary showed you some new dies that are already in the store. They are super cute. I'm still waiting for mine to come, so I used a cute bear die today and some Distress Oxides to make a simple card.

I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Sending Hugs Bear, Oval Set (Basics),
- Distress Oxides (Worn Lipstick, Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral, Fired Brick) and Inks (Forest Moss, Fired Brick),
- white card base 10,5x15 cm),
- white water color paper for background (10x14,5 cm) and die cuts,
- Zig brush pens (grey and flesh shades),
- black pen,
- heat gun,
- watercolor brush,
- silicone pad,
- paper glue.

First I made the background. I started with lighter shades and then got to darker ones. It shows on the pictures in which order I added the colors.

When I was satisfied with the colors, I spritzed water over it and dried the paper with the heat gun.

Then I used oval die (the second in size) and embossed it on the paper wit my silicon pad and Big Shot machine.

This time I used Zig markers to color the die cuts. I wanted the bear to have a more water colored look.

When I had everything colored I glued it together. And this is the finished card.

Have a nice Sunday and don't forget to check all the new dies in the store. You can get them on discount. Easter will be here soon.

See you next Sunday.
Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz products I used: