Showing posts with label CottageCutz dies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CottageCutz dies. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Spring All Occasion Card




Hello friends, it's Marla here today and I have a new YouTube video featuring the "Spring Daffodils" die.  I am so happy that it is finally flower season once again, aren't you?  Creating cards that include flowers really bring me great joy.  I chose not to add a sentiment to the front of this card because I thought it could be used for many different occasions.  I love keeping several cards like these on hand to use in a pinch.

I hope you'll join me over on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel to see how this card came together.  If you can't join me, I've linked the CottageCutz product I used below.

Until next time... Marla











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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Spring Tulips and Spring Sheep







Hi friends. Marla here, back with another spring themed card. I had a couple of backgrounds on my desk. Well, actually I have a pile of them, but I regress. I don't know about you, but there are many times that I set out to create a background and for whatever reason it doesn't work out for the card I am making. Of course, I don't throw these backgrounds away, I set them aside to use later. Here's a look at two backgrounds I found, that I had created for two different projects, that I will use on my card today.




As you can see, these coordinated perfectly and ended up being the jumping off point for my card. I had several CottageCutz dies, sitting on my desk, to consider for future projects. I looked through them and settled on using the "Spring Tulips" and "Spring Sheep" dies. I envisioned a split scene for my design and thought they complimented each other.




After die cutting my images, I watercolored them using the Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor pencils. I had created my background with his Distress Inks, so I knew the watercolored images would coordinate with my backgrounds. For the larger tulips I used "Kitsch Flamingo" and "Shaded Lilac". On the sheep, I used "Hickory Smoke" "Shaded Lilac" and "Tattered Rose". I added "Rustic Wilderness" and "Twisted Citron" to the large tulip leaves and the same colors with a touch of "Cracked Pistachio" to the grass. Finally, for my small tulips I used "Cracked Pistachio" and "Seedless Preserves".



After assembling the die cuts, the card came together quickly. I cut one of my background panels down to 3.5" x 4.75" and used a piece of blue cardstock cut to 3.75" x 5" to use as a mat. Next, I added foam tape to the back and adhered it to my second background, which had been adhered to a 4.25" x 5.5" card base. Again, I had the sentiment already stamped and die cut along with the green vellum that I had trimmed using the Deckled Edge Trimmer from Tim Holtz.  I attached those pieces to the center of my top panel and then built my split scene around the sentiment. Finally, I covered the vellum and sheep and splattered the panel with a "Picket Fence" Distress paint to complete the card.



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Saturday, February 17, 2024

I Can't Color Like This.... Think Again






Hello, my crafty friends.  It's Marla here today with a new CottageCutz YouTube video tutorial.  I am so excited to be back and to share this beautiful card with you today.  I hear from so many people that they struggle coloring their die cut images.  Today, I am here to show you that anyone can get this beautiful water colored effect with minimal effort.  I hope you'll join me over on our channel.

I have linked the CottageCutz products I used below.  Until next time... Marla





















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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Easy Coloring with Distress Inks




Happy New Year, friends.  It's Marla here today with another CottageCutz YouTube video.  With all the cold weather making its way around this past week, I thought it would be nice to share a little ray of sunshine using the "Greenhouse" die. 

I have a full tutorial using this die along with several others from the Black Friday release.  I used my Distress Inks and some water to add color to these pieces.  Check out the variance in colors that add so much character to the card.

I hope you join me on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel to see how this came together.  I will also link all of the CottageCutz products I used on this project below.  Until next time, stay warm and happy crafting.... Marla
















Thursday, December 28, 2023

Moving on from Christmas




Hello friends!  With the passing of Christmas our card making moves on to other seasons and holidays.  When I sat down to create my card this week, I turned my attention from snow to strawberries and pulled out the "Strawberry Plant" and "Sentiment Thank you Berry Much" dies.  I am not much of a winter girl past the holidays, so I quickly shift gears into spring and gardening after Christmas.


You can find all of the details for this card on the CottageCutz YouTube Channel.  If you don't like to color or ink blend, then using spray stains may be right up your alley.  I am sharing a few different sprays stains that I have and demonstrating how each is a little different and how easy they are to use to ink up die cuts.  I hope you'll join me.  The Scrapping Cottage is generously allowing me to offer the "Strawberry Plant" as a giveaway, so watch all the way through the video to see how you can enter.

Until next time.... Marla








Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Using Up Odds and Ends





Happy Wednesday, friends.  It's time for another CottageCutz YouTube Video.  I don't know about you, but my craft room looks like a bomb went off in it.  I have been happily crafting away, but honestly, not putting things away.  This left me with a pile of Christmas die cuts I had cut but had not colored or assembled.  I decided to roll up my sleeves and use a few of these odds and ends on my cards today.  

If you caught the Black Friday sale, there were several fun large sentiments in the release.  This got my crafty mind churning and I thought I would pair some of my CottageCutz Christmas dies with these new large sentiments to create a couple post-holiday cards.

I've linked all of the items I used on my two cards below, but you can see how they came together and enter to win one of the sentiment dies by watching the video.  I hope this gets your crafty mind churning too and you continue to find ways to use some of the beautiful Christmas dies after the season ends.

Until next time....Marla