Showing posts with label Snowglobe Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snowglobe Friends. Show all posts

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Festive Penguins

Hi!

Anja here. I can't believe how quickly this week went by. I'm still waiting for my new Cottage Cutz dies to come, so I used a few holiday dies and combined different pieces together to make a cute penguin card. It's so cool how different Cottage Cutz dies go so well together.


For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Penguin With Present, Snowglobe Friends, Vintage Holiday Car, Sweet Baby Lamb),
- Distress Oxides (Black Soot, Faded Jeans, Broken China) and Inks (Black Soot, Wild Honey, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss),
- smooth watercolor paper for background (13x13 cm),
- white card base (14x14 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- black pen,
- Zig watercolor brush (pink shade),
- watercolor brush,
- adhesive foam pads,
- paper glue.

First I colored the background. I used smooth watercolor paper which is great for coloring with Oxides. It allows you to blend the colors really well. I started with black and then went to light blue. I just circled around the paper with round blending tools. I prefer the round ones over the rectangular ones. When I had the color I wanted, I spritzed it with a few drops of water and dried it.


Then I die cut the  penguins from two different dies. I colored them with Distress Inks. I added eyes and cheeks with black and pink pen.


Instead of the skates I used another die to make penguin feet.


I die cut the wreath from Vintage Holiday Card die.


I used adhesive foam pads to add a bit of dimension.


And this is the finished card.




Have a peaceful Sunday.

Anja Z. 


Cottage Cutz dies I used: 






Sunday, November 12, 2017

Snowglobe tags


Hi!

It's Anja here with my latest project. This time I used Snowglobe die and made a bunch of small gift tags. Holidays will be here soon and I will have to get my gifts wrapped. A small handmade tag can give a nice touch.


For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies and stamp (Snowglobe w/Fawn, Snowglobe Friends, Snow Friends),
- Distress Oxides (Broken China, Faded Jeans, Fired Brick),
- Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Pine Needles, Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone, Seedless Preserves, Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- gold pigment ink,
- black, yellow, brown pen,
- watercolor pencils,
- water brush,
- watercolor paper for stamping,
- Onyx Black Versafine ink,
- gold and red ribbon,
- hole punch,
- stamping platform,
- washi tape,
- paper glue.

First I stamped all the images on watercolor paper. I colored it with my watercolor pencils and water brush. Then I die cut every piece with coordinating dies.





When I had all the stamped images I die cut the snowglobes and colored them with Distress Oxides. I made holes on top for the ribbon.


It thought it would be fun to use snowglobe die for some round tags. I die cut all the pieces and colored them with Distress Inks. I also made holes on top.




Then I just glued all the pieces to my tags and put ribbon through it.





Have fun!

Anja Z.

Cottage Cutz dies I used:





Saturday, November 04, 2017

Penguin in SnowGlobe Christnmas


Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

Welcome to November and my favorite upcoming seasons of the year- Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love making Christmas cards and once I start it's hard for me to stop (lol)!!!  So you know where my Blog posts will be going over the next several weeks.

Today, I am showing a couple of the new 2017 Christmas dies released by CottageCutz. They are the Snowglobe w/Fawn and the Snowglobe Friends dies. So let's get started with some details on my card for today.

Step 1: I started my card this week with my layout. I found this great sketch on Splitcoaststampers that I thought would work well for my card idea. Using a sketch is a good starting point when you are creating a card.
I look at the sketch design and then think of possibilities that would fit the circles, rectangles etc. It helps me to get my Mojo in gear. In this case, as soon as I saw the circle I thought of a snowglobe. You can see I am in Christmas mode.
Step 2:  Since my dies were already chosen, I needed to decide on the card colors as well as patterned paper. Of course, I wanted it to be red and green so I just needed some coordinating papers. Looked through my Christmas papers and found some stripes and dots paper.
Step 3: I decided on a white background for layer 1 of the sketch. But, I didn't want it plain white so I used a falling snow embossing folder. I like the deep embossing I was able to achieve with this folder.
Step 4: I cut layer 2 and 3 of the sketch from cardstock and the patterned paper. Used the CottageCutz Rectangle and Pierced Rectangle dies. On the dotted panel (Layer 2) I used the 2nd largest rectangle die and the 3rd largest pierced rectangle die.
On the striped panel, I used the 4th largest rectangle and the 4th largest pierced die.
Step 5: Now I am ready to cut my snowglobe and penguin. These dies are just too cute and so detailed. Even the snowballs for sale sign has incredible detail. And look at his cute little ice skates. You can click on any picture to make it larger.
Step 6: Time to start assembly of my card. Layered the embossed panel to the cherry red cardstock.
Then layered the patterned paper panels.
And finally, the snowglobe is attached it with dimensional adhesive. I doubled up on the dimensional adhesive because some of the globe was on the patterned paper panel and some directly on the embossed panel. By doubling up it evened everything out.
 Step 7: To finish off my card I wanted a Christmas sentiment. I used the smallest CottageCutz oval die and stamped the sentiment.
I hope I have given you an idea for using this new die. Wouldn't it be great as your own Christmas card this year? The die is in the online store ready for ordering.
 
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 Dies I used to create card:
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsnowglobefriends.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsnowglobewfawn.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzrectanglesetbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpiercedrectanglesetbasics.aspx
 
 
 

Friday, October 20, 2017

Polar Bear Shaker Card

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today and I'm sharing a shaker card!  I LOVE creating interactive cards.  When I saw the Snow Globe dies from the new release I knew they would make great shaker cards.
First I cut plaid paper and a piece of lightweight white card stock to 5 1/12 x 4 1/4 inches (A2 size) and used snail adhesive to glue them together.
I then used the third largest circle from the Circle Basics set to cut a circle approximately 3/4 inch from each side and the top (it's actually a little bit over 3/4 inch).  It's important to use lightweight card stock under the paper since you will be cutting through two layers.
Next I die cut the pieces from the polar bear in the Snowglobe Friends set and the base from the Snowglobe with Fawn set.  (By the time I finished with the card I decided to change the color of my snowglobe base and I cut another.)
I sponged the edges of the snow in soft sky, the bears in smoky slate and the sign in crumb cake.  I hand wrote "North" on the sign and colored in the bears' eyes and noses.
I took a piece of white card stock that was A2 size and used Distress ink to blend a blue sky on about half of the piece.
Then I placed my patterned piece with the cut-out on top so I could place all my die cut pieces and glue them down.
I took the top piece off and used a piece of acetate on the back to cover the circle.  Then I added foam tape two layers thick to the back.  I also used some anti-static powder on the inside edges of the foam tape so the sequins wouldn't stick.  You can use baby powder for this as well.
I piled a small amount of sequins to the card front.  Deciding on the amount of shaker elements is always difficult as it depends on how big your window is.  It just comes with experience, but if you do not place your foam tape closely against your window (as I have done) you will need more elements as they will fall into corners and not be seen.



I removed the backing from the foam tape, placed the top piece on the front and adhered it. Then I glued the whole thing to an A2 card base. 


My final steps were to add the snowglobe base with bow sentiment.  For the sentiment I used a 7/8 x 4 1/4 inch strip of the green card stock layered under a 3/4 x 4 1/4 inch strip of red card stock and I heat embossed the stamped sentiment in white.



I love this set of dies.  It gives you so much variety in making fun interactive cards!
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsnowglobewfawn.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsnowglobefriends.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzcirclesetbasics.aspx

I hope you have a great weekend and do something creative!!!