Showing posts with label Wheat Stalks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wheat Stalks. Show all posts

Saturday, October 07, 2017

Give Thanks

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.

Just as a reminder, CottageCutz has a new release of Halloween & Christmas dies that are now available in the online store for ordering. The DT has been showing lots of great samples and will continue to show them over the next couple of months to get your creativity flowing. There are plenty of beautiful new Christmas dies  and something for everyone's tastes.

Today, I used a new Christmas die, Pine Spray, to create a Thanksgiving card. I  love celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday and making Thanksgiving cards to send out to family and friends.  So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Step 1. I found this Give Thanks word already die cut and placed on vanilla cardstock. The words are cut in a rich, purple shade and popped up on fun foam It gives great dimension. So that determined the other colors I would use on my card. The card base is the purple and my layering panel is a curry color. I think they make a great fall combo.
Razzleberry Card Base: 4 1/8" x 5 1/2"
Curry Layering Panel: 3 3/4" x 5"
Image Panel: 3 5/8" x 4 7/8"
Step 2: Since this is a fall card I wanted some fall leaves in addition to the other elements. I cut 3 leaves from the Pine Spray die in white cardstock. I sponged with various distress inks and then pressed them into a Versamark ink pad and clear embossed.
Step 3: Again using the Pine Spray die, I cut the pine cone and some sprigs. I cut the pinecone in 2 shades of brown cardstock and the sprigs in a cinnamon cardstock.
I also used the Sunflower and Wheat Stalks dies- these are older CottageCutz dies- for additional elements on my cad. The sunflower is cut in curry cardstock and the center is razzleberry cardstock. For the wheat, I used a kraft cardstock and then sponged with some fossilized amber ink. 
Step 4: On this step, I figured out the layout for all my die cut elements and adhered them to the image panel. Used dimensional adhesive on the sunflower to left it from the background. On the other elements I used glue dots and multi matte adhesive.
I attached it to the curry panel with double sided tape.
 
To complete my card, I attached it to the Razzleberry base and then scattered a few sequins. I hope I have given you an idea on a way to user the Pine Spray die other than for Christmas. Well, that's it for me for this week. See you next Saturday.
Dies I used to create card:
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpinespray.aspx

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

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsunflowers.aspx
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzgivethanks.aspx
 
 

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Rose Bouquets

Hi!

This is Anja again. I hope you are all doing well on this rainy Sunday. My thoughts and prayers go to all who are battling for safety and protection during the hurricanes. 

I made two cards today that can be used on variety of occasions. The rose die from the new wedding collection is one of my favourite new dies. You can use it in so many different ways. Today I made two bouquets. I combined it with wheat sticks, but you could also use some other greenery. 






For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Rose with Wedding Rings, Sweet Spring Kitty, Wheat Stalks, Nested Wacky Stitched Square Set),
- Distress Oxides (Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Wild Honey, Fired Brick),
- white card base (13x13 cm),
- patterned paper (12,6x12,6 cm)
- white card stock for die cuts,
- paper glue.

I cut the background from patterned and white paper. I used nested dies. This wacky ones add such a nice border to the square. I colored all the edges with Distress Oxide Fired Brick.




I die cut all the other pieces from white card stock. I use 300 g paper for the die cuts becuase it is easier to color. I colored everything with Distress Oxides.


Then I added some 3 effect to the roses and the wheat sitcks.


And then I just arranged the bouquets and glued it together.






And just a reminder for the end. New Halloween and Christmas dies will be available September 20th. No products will ship during this time beacuse we are moving to a larger warehouse. 

Have a nice Sunday.
Anja Z. 


Cottage Cutz dies I used:









Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Sunflowers

Hi, Janja here!

Tuesday is already here and my time for post on the Scrapping Cottage blog.
Beautiful sunflower heads are proudly displaying their beauty and invite our eyes to admire. This inflorescence composed of hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers simply deserve our admiration.

Today on a thank you card.


Supplies:
- CottageCutz dies: Thanks Phrase, Sunflowers, Wheat Stalks, Pilow Box Plus (ladybug)
- white card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- kraft cardstock: 5 x 5" (12,7 x 12,7 cm)
- watercolor paper
- Distress oxide pads: Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo
- Distress ink pads: Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, Twisted Citron
- ColorBox pigment ink pad Frost White
- stamp with handwriting for background
- glue

From watercolor paper cut out elements for sunflowers. Color them with Distress oxide pads. Sprinkle with water and shape with a flower shaping tool.




Cut out Thanks phrase, some wheat stalks and ladybug.
Trim kraft cardstock. Stamp on it handwriting with a white pigment ink pad. Nothing serious if we cannot evenly cover the entire background as the focus is on sunflowers. 


Use only the sunflower leaves. Cut off the stems with scissors. Glue each flower separately on the background and arrange them with leaves and wheat stalks. 
Finally glue Thanks phrase and attach a ladybug for luck on it.


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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Wheat Stalks in Frames


Hi, Vladka here!

Today I'm using some dies from Autumn release. I love this time of the year, when nature is so generous with colors. This is my card:


Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock and some red and kraft cardstock to cut out the die cuts 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink:  Tea dye, Brushed Corduroy, Fossilized Amber
Other: acrylic block, Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, piece of acetate 

1. First let's do some smooshing on additional piece of paper to prepare the background.  Add some Tea Dye Ink on acrylic block and spritzed some water on it. Then take a piece of plastic acetate and gentle pressed it against the block to pick up some of the ink. Now, press the plastic on the paper to transfer the ink. This will give you a splotchy look. Put paper aside to dry or use heat gun to dry it:



2. Prepare all die cuts: Wheat Stalks cut out of white cardstock and bow cut out of the red cardstock, "Give thanks" cut out of the kraft cardstock and two second biggest Pierced Wide Rectangle Frames (one white and one cut out of the kraft cardstock):



3. Color wheat stalks gentle with Fossilized Amber distress ink first and then distress the edges with Tea dye and Brushed Corduroy distress inks:


4. Now glue piece of paper with smooshing on card base, then glue both rectangles and also all die cuts as shown on the photo.


5. To finish the card, flick some droplets of gold shimmer spray and let it dry. Card is now finished.


I hope you like it. Have fun creating. And don't forget, sixth CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. You still have two days to participate. This time theme is HOLIDAY. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.