One die three ways

Happy Tuesday Cottagecutz fans, It's Wendy bringing the blog to you today. It’s my birthday today so I am sharing 3 full tutorial projects with you. I have a shaker tag or it could be a bauble, some cupcake toppers and a Shaker Napkin Ring

So I’m going to start with the gift tag and then the napkin ring as they are very similar to make. Take 2 of the nested circles dies measuring 3” and 2” and cut a ring

Next take some acetate and choose a circle die that is just smaller than the ring, cut it our and glue to the reverse of the ring

Next use some 3D foam pads at lease 2-3mm and apply all around the ring and pop to one side

Now cut another 3” circle in the teal, a cut two 2” circles in the lighter blue and white. glue the lighter blue circle in the middle of larger circle. Then with the white circle create a snow hump using one of the slimline hills dies and stick to the light blue circle

Now cut out the snowman from the ‘Joyful Snowman’ die in coordinating colours and attach to the base you have created 

Now I’ve added chunky glitter onto my snowman scene but you could use little beads

Now you can peel off the foam pads from the acetate circle you made and carefully place over top to make your shaker element. I’ve cut a circle at the top to thread through some ribbon and added some holly for decoration. So this could be a bauble or a gift tag.

We’re going to make the napkin ring now and It’s exactly the same method as above, you just don’t need to cut the hole for the ribbon or add the holly. So here is how I made base ring for the napkin. Take a piece of card 7” x 1.5” and mark at 1” either end. At the same time cut one of the nested stitched circles measuring 3”

Take a stapler and staple one end to the middle of the circle

Take the other end of the card and staple to the middle of the napkin ring. Make sure the more pointy part of the staples are facing out as we’ll cover that up

Next add 1mm 3D foam pads to cover all of the circle

Attach to the shaker design we made earlier

Here is your fun and final shaker napkin ring

Finally we come to the cupcake toppers. These are so quick and simple to make. So using the ‘Joyful Snowman’ again, cut the main body 12 times if you are making 6 cupcake toppers.Then cut our the remainder of the design 6 times as we are only going to decorate the front of the toppers 

Now to create the basic cupcake topper. I would use 2-3mm foam pad and add this to one side of the snowman but leave enough room for a cocktail stick. In that void use a strong blue such as cosmic shimmer and then app,y another snowman over the top before inserting the cocktail Stick.

Finish by adding the remaining elements onto the snowman and you are done. There are so many other dies that Cottagecutz has that lends themselves to make cupcake toppers

I hope you’ve enjoyed the projects today. Have a lovely week and I’ll look forward to seeing you on Friday

Wendy    

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Dies I have used

Layered Slimline

Hi everyone Happy Monday.  Today I am back sharing a layered slimline Christmas card that I will be sending to a friend.  This year I vow to mail Christmas cards to everyone on my list!  So, I created this card using Mountains & Trees Slimline and Christmas on the Farm dies from The Scrappin Cottage.

I first die cut the different layers from the Mountain & Trees using watercolor paper.  I used  Mowed Lawn distress ink for the tree line as seen below 

Next I cut 2 layers of Mountains and colored them using some Chipped Sapphire and Tumbled Glass

Once I was done I put the tree line between my two colored mountains to offset the colors

I used my glue pad to apply glue to the snow top layer and added some art glitter to give it a look of snow.

I diecut the Christmas on the Farm scene in white glitter paper and adhered it to the top of the 

I glued all my layers together for my final completed look below.  

I hope everyone enjoyd my post and Be sure to head over to the Cottage Cutz You Tube Channel where some of the designers will be posting videos! Make sure to come back by each day for some more great crafty inspiration from the super talented team. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

PRODUCTS USED:

 

Christmas Farmhouse Floral Card and Mini Gift Bag Set

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! I'm so glad you stopped by. Melinda here with another fun project! Today I am sharing a pretty card and little gift bag set. It features the fabulous Farmhouse Christmas die. It is one of the new dies in this month's new release. Now is the perfect time to pick them up! They are 30% off and they are FANTASTIC! They will help you get your Christmas projects done in style!

Here is my project. I created this pretty card and little gift bag set. It is the perfect set for a co-worker or teacher gift. It features the Christmas Farmhouse Floral die. 

The card is an A4 top folding card. The base is from black cardstock. I cut a mat from some plaid digital paper I created. I then used the largest Double-Stitched Oval die from the Nesting die set. It is part of Cottage Cutz Basics line of dies.

I then cut the Christmas Farmhouse Floral die from some white cardstock. I set about coloring all of the images. I picked up some markers on Amazon to give them a try. I then used some of my chalks to blend the colors.

I then used this sponge applicator to ink some dark gray ink all over. This gave the can some pretty good texture.

Here is a closer look at all the beautiful foliage and flowers you get with this one die! I layered the poinsettias and then added some touches of stickles and scattered some sequins for a little extra bells and whistles. Of course I finished off the can with a cute little organza bow.

Here's a look at just the little bag. I created the file for the little bag. I cut it out of some black cardstock. I used some more of the plaid paper I created to cut a mat for the front and back of the bag. It matches nicely with the card. I used another double stitched oval die from the set and then created a couple of mats. I layered that all underneath another of the beautiful Christmas Farmhouse Floral die set.

To finish off both of them, I added a sentiment to the smallest scallop stitched rectangle from that basics set. 

Here is one last look at the set. I think it turned out super cute and it was simple enough, that you can re-create it in multiples.

The Dies I used to create this banner:

Christmas Farmhouse Floral

Double-Stitched Oval

Stitched Scallop Rectangle

Well that about covers it for today! Be sure to head over to the Cottage Cutz You Tube Channel where some of the designers will be posting videos! Make sure to come back by each day for some more great crafty inspiration from the super talented team. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Joyful Snowman Interactive Card

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to visit with us today. It’s Theary Chea, and I am so excited to be here today on the blog. I am such a fan of the winter season, and the recent release has just put me in the holiday mood. I am sharing a fun interactive card that was made using the Joyful Snowman die set. So, Let’s get started!

Design Steps:

I cut out the images from white cardstock and colored them in with Copic markers. The markers that I used are listed below:

Snowman: W6, W4, W3, W1, W0, E37, E31, YR21, YR14, BG18, BG75, BG09

The letter J and the letter Y: R89, R59, R39

 Poinsettias: R29, R39, YG99

(The photo shows the letter Y colored in green, but I did change it to the color red on the final card.)

There are four layers to my card.

1. For the card base, I used white cardstock cut down to 4.25” x 5.50”
2. The red card layer measures 3.75” x 4.75”
3. The vellum sheet was cut with the largest Nested Stitched Scallop Rectangle Set
4. The white card front was cut using the Double-Stitched Rectangle Set

The card front:

For the background, I used hybrid ink in a combination of four colors. The colors that I used are mustard seed, broken china, prize ribbon, and black soot. I like to use a blending brush to help with the blending process when I am ink blending.

 I then used white and gold paint to splatter onto the card front.

For the ground, I used a hillside border die and cut that out of white cardstock. I also use the same nested stitched rectangle die to cut it down to size. I’m am doing this because I want to have the same stitched border all over the card front. 

I wanted to add a little bit of interest to the hillside cutout. So, I used a snow pen to create a snow effect. I love this technique because it gives the card front a lot of drama without doing a lot. 

Then, I adhered the snowy hillside and the letters onto my blended card front using liquid adhesive, making sure to leave space in between for our cute snowman.

So for the fun part! I attached the cute snowman to an action wobbler. If you’re unfamiliar with an action wobbler, it is the mechanism used to create movement (wobble) on your card front. The action wobbler is used to create the interactive effect. I attached one side of the action wobbler to the snowman and the other side to the card front. 

I also added a black sentiment strip from my stash on the bottom corner of the card front.

Isn’t it so cute! 

Then, I used a snowflake embossing folder in my stash to emboss the red layer. I also went over the embossed area with white ink. Applying white ink over your embossed areas is a great trick to create extra interest in your card. 

Now, to assemble the card.

Using liquid adhesive, I adhered the top card front to the vellum piece that I cut out using Cottage Cutz Nested Stitched Scalloped Rectangles Die. Then, I used foam tape to adhere the card front to the red embossed layer. And finally, I adhered everything down onto the side folding card base. 

I love adding dimensions and layers onto my cards, and I hope you give some of the techniques that I share a try. 

💖Have a wonderfully blessed day! Until next time!💖

Theary Chea

Here is a short video with the wobble in action! 

Supplies used:

Joyful Snowman

CottageCutz Nested Stitched Scallop Rectangle Set

Double-Stitched Rectangle Set

Trio of quick and fun cards

Good morning Scrapping Cottage fans. This is Wendy bringing you the blog today. I hope you’ve had a wonderful week and are looking forward to a weekend of crafting.

I have 3 cards for you today as they are fairly simple to make and use quite a few of the new designs from the Christmas release 

All of the base cards measure 5” x 4” and are layered with the largest of the ‘Nested Stitched Scallop Rectanglesp’. For the Santa and penguin cards I have created snow, grass and used the largest ‘Stitched Rectangles’ to cut the backgrounds to size

I have fallen in love with this Santa from the ‘Ho Ho Ho Santa’ die. Isn’t his reindeer super cute. I used the ‘Slimline Hills’ to create the background. I added some small white dots with a white pen to give the effect of snow 

Now we come to the ‘Penguin Decorating the Tree’ die. I created a cloudy background using the ‘Slimline Clouds’ to make a stencil. For the base I used the Slimline Grass’. I added some pine cones from the ‘Christmas Farmhouse Floral’ to finish the card off 

Finally we come to the ‘Ice Skating Kids’ die. For the ice i coloured certain areas and then used a clear glitter pen to make it shiny. The hills have been created using the ‘Snowy Mountains’ from an older release.  

I really hope you like the cards. I think they are quick and easy to repeat so you can make lots of cards this Christmas. Have a wonderful weekend and make sure you have plenty of time to craft

Wendy 

Here are the dies I have used