Showing posts with label Build a House Accessories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Build a House Accessories. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Christmas Window



Good morning Cottagecutz fans. I hope your week is gong well and that you are almost ready for Christmas. I can’t believe it’s next week. I say this every year but where does the year go?

Anyway, it’s Wendy bringing you the blog today. I have a simple sweet card for you using some of my very extensive Cottagecutz stash.

I thought’s I’d make a little window scene. I have had these dies for a while and I thought, let’s use them.

To begin with I took s card 6” x 4”. At each inch point I have scored a line. I then cut out the ‘Window with  Shutters’ die in white an then the top and bottom in grey. Behind the window I used the “Window Christmas Friends” tree die and added some some gold tinsel from the same die. I then added some red pearls to look like lights. I thought it would be fun to have wallpaper behind the tree so I had this in my crafty stash.

I attached the window with 2mm foam pads as I wanted some dimension. At the top of the card I used the same ‘tinsel’ that I used on the tree and added some poinsettias,l finished with gold gems.

Next I thought the card looked a little bland so I used the ‘Build a House Accessories’ and cut out the lamps twice for each side of the card. I also used the dog which I layered 3 times so it looked more realistic. That is our card done


Dies I have used:






I have been a little bit distracted and excited this week as my craft room was finally finished,I am so blessed to have such a large room and my family have really pulled together to get this finished for me.

Here’s a few photos, excuse my crafty mess





 









Sunday, December 22, 2019

From Our Home To Yours


Hi!

It's Anja here. Today I have a bigger project for you. As one of the last projects for this year I made a Christmas scene that will decorate my craft room in this holiday season. I had a frame in my shelf for quite some time and decided to use it for my project and give it a winter touch.


For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Farm Truck w/Tree, Build A House Set 2, Build A House Accessories, Tree, Christmas Trailer, Fireplace w/ Accessories),
- Distress Inks and Oxides,
- black card stock for background (26x21 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- white acrylic paint,
- brush,
- sponge,
- plastic stencil (bricks),
- silver pigment ink,
- white pigment ink,
white picture frame (20x25 cm),
- pencil,
- black pen,
- scissors,
- paper glue.

First I cut all the pieces. I cut additional pieces for the inner side of the windows and door. I colored it with yellow.


Next I colored the parts of the house. I used plastic stencil to make it look as it's build out of bricks.


Then I colored all the other pieces and glued it together. I used white acrylic paint and a sponge to color around the edges to look like snow (not photographed).


The I made the background. I used black cardstock and colored it with blue Oxide inks and white pigment ink. For the finish I splashed it with acrylic paint to look like snow is falling.


And then I cut the bottom part of the scene. I cut the snow ground out of the white card stock. In the end I just adhered all the pieces together and inserted the scene in the frame.
 

And my project was done.




That's all from me for today. I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I hope you can spend it with people you love.

See you again next Sunday for my last project in 2019.

Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this project:








Friday, July 15, 2016

Old House as Home Decor


Hi, is Vladka. I love pictures of old cottages. There is something homely and magically in them. So, I decided to create one out of the paper. My first idea was to create a card, but after it was finished, I decided to leave it as it is and added some twine. So, this way I can hang it on the door or on the wall. Are you interested how I did it? It is really easy actually. Let me show you.


Here is list of all supplies I used:
Cardstock: watercolor paper for die cuts
CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Peeled Paint, Forest Moss. Fired Brick, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke, Victorian Velvet
Other: White watercolor in tube, brown fun foam, scissors, Sizzix machine, liquid glue, double sided tape, twine

1. So, let's start with the roof, which I cut out from watercolor paper. First I colored it with Fired Brick distress ink and my blending tool. I didn't press too much:


2. Second step is to cover the whole area with Gathered Twigs distress ink. Another layer of distress ink is done with Hickory Smoke. Here you can see, that mixter of all this colors creates realistic roof look.


3. But, because my roof is old, I will use some more Gathered Twigs distress ink and this time I will press a little bit more and also distress the roof edges. Last touch is white watercolor in tube,  or white acrylic paint. I used it together with sponge and gently apply it here and there. When it was dry I apply some more of Hickory Smoke.


4. If you want to get really old look, then use also green acrylic paint and apply it here and there with the paint brush. This will look like a moss. It is optional, but here you can see how did turn out:


5. So, nothing difficult, just playing with distress inks and other color medias. And this took me most of the time. So, let's go to the house. All I did here was, that I colored it with white watercolor in tube and after it was dry, I distress the edges with Hickory Smoke distress ink.


6. I also colored the windows, door and picket fence with Gathered Twigs distress ink and with blending tool and added some white watercolor in tube  here and there. Just curtains are colored with Victorian Velvet distress ink.


7. For the greenery I used Garden Accessories die and cut the greenery out from white cardstock and colored it with Peeled Paint and Forest Moss distress inks. Then I took paint brush and some water and just went across the greenery. This way paper got wet and I was able to wrinkle all little leaves:


8. Then I glued them on the roof. I think it look cool, don't you? I also used some greenery for the pot plant.


9. Time to put everything together. For this you will need also one more roof, cut out from brown fun foam and additional piece of fun foam, size of the whole house. But first glue the roof on the fun foam roof with double sided tape.


10. Now, glue the roof on the house and in next step glue the whole house on additional piece of fun foam. Cut off the redundant foam. For the finishing touch I also made the back side of the house, so I colored additional piece of the roof and house wall.


11. The last step is to glue the picket fence and some grass and Welcome expression if you want and little old cottage is finished. Today's post has a little bit more photos and I hope this will help you. Have fun.


And don't forget, fourth CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is GREENERY. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.

Friday, July 08, 2016

CottageCutz Challenge #4 - GREENERY


Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all your great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #3. Two lucky winners will be announced at the end of this post. So, stay tuned.


And here is time to start new challenge. 
This time theme is GREENERY. 

So, create a card or on any other project and decorate it with some greenery, like leaves, trees, grass...
And please, use ONLY CottageCutz dies and not any other dies. "Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies. If you are not familiar with this button, please check this post for more explanation. Challenge will be closed on 31st of July!


Ok, let's go to my project. I hope this will inspire you a little bit. 

Here is list of all supplies I used:
Cardstock: White Cardbase and Watercolor Paper 
CottageCutz Dies: listed below
Other: Watercolor Set, Paint Brush, water, Sizzix machine



1. First I cut out the Tree, Bench and Cat, Clouds and Sun out of watercolor paper.

2. I did the coloring the same way as with Watercolor Bicycle in this post or in this video. So, all you need to do is, to take watercolors and mixed them with a little water and apply them on the die cuts. You can add more layers of one watercolor if you want, but you need to dry one layer before you apply another one. And you can use heat gun for this. As you can see here, I applied one layer of green on the treetop and here I'm applying new layer of the same green color.



3. To get even more watercolor look, leave some spots white, don't color them. Here are watercolors which I used and all die cuts which I colored:



4. Next step is, to colors also the background. For the sky, apply just some water on the watercolor paper first and then add blue watercolor. Water will spread color around and create sky. Dry it.



5. Do the same with green watercolor at the bottom of the watercolor paper and so, you will create green hill.

6. Now it's time to glue everything together. I used 3D adhesive foam squares for Tree, Bench and some Grass and liquid glue for all other pieces. For finished touch I put the Cat on the Banch and stamp the sentiment. 



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And now go back to our challenge a little bit more. As I told you before, two lucky winners will be randomly chosen and will get gift certificate for Scrapping Cottage store.

First one will get gift certificate value of 50$...

... and second one in the value of 25$.

You have time till 31st of July to participate. 
Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for August) will begin.

All you need to do is take your CottageCutz dies and start creating! 
Please, use only CottageCutz dies!
Have fun and don´t forget to show us all your projects.

"Add your link" button is available under the list of used dies.

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And of course we should not forget about the winners for the third challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Treebug. Her card was linked under number 2:


2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Алёна Шатохина. Her card was linked under number 7:



Congratulations!

Please, contact Joanne at scrappingcottage@cox.net to claim your Gift Certificate.

This is it for today. All I want to show you before I left is the list of CottageCutz dies which I used on my project. Here they are: