Showing posts with label Holiday Mason Jar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday Mason Jar. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Christmas ornaments with winter faces

Hi, Janja here!

Today I share with you another holiday card. I joined CottageCutz Christmas ornaments dies and Peachy Keen winter faces stamps.


For the card we need:
- white scalloped edge card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- patterned paper: 5 x 5" (12,7 x 12,7 cm)
- golden paper
- embossing folder
- Distress ink: Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Tattered Rose, Rusty Hinge
- Memento ink: Dandelion, London Fog

Trim patterned paper in appropriate size. With the 2nd bulb ornament die cut out two ornaments and two golden tops of ornaments. Cut out golden bows with the holiday mason jar die.


Also cut two ornaments from a golden paper, slightly smaller than the size of holes in the patterned paper. First cut half ornament, slightly move the die and then cut out the other half.
Use only negatives. Glue them to the back side of patterned paper.
Stamp "Believe in the magic" and with an embossing folder create snow background.



On watercolor paper draw the edges of ornaments with a pencil and stamp cute faces. Use Peachy Keen face stamps 1 5/8th inch sets: ornament and candy cane.


Paint faces. I used Distress and Memento inks.
After completion of painting, erase pencil silhouette and attach watercolor paper to the back of patterned paper.


Add golden pieces and the card is completed.


Use remained ornaments for tags. We can decorate gifts under the Christmas tree with them.



 Thank you for coming over and have a great day.






Sunday, October 23, 2016

Mugs with hot chocolate on the plate

Hi, Vladka is here!

Today I have another Christmas card where I combined dies from different releases:


Basics:

Kraft card base: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (cut 5 1/2 x 11 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock (5 x 5 inches) and some white, green and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Old Paper, Ground Espresso
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, vellum paper, printer, glue, spruce branch stamp


1. Let's prepare all die cuts first. I used follwong dies: Turkey on Platter (plate die cut is used), Holiday Mason Jar (greenery, poinsettia and bow), Mug with Heart (mugs) and Peppermint Latte (peppermint stick).


2. Poinsettia and peppermint stick were cut out of the red cardstock and edges were distressed a little bit with Aged Mahogany distress ink. Mugs were cut out of the kraft carstock and distressed with Ground Espresso distress ink. Greenery was cut out of the green cardstock and distressed with Forest Moss distress ink. I cut also two greenery poinsettias, which I used as poinsettia's leaves.  Plate was cut out of white cardstock and distressed with Old Paper distress ink.


3. Cut the mugs also out of brown fun foam and glue the one from kraft cardstock on it. Now, glue also both poinsettias together and glue it on the mugs together with peppermint stick. Cut also plate out of white fun foam and glue it under the paper plate.


4. Prepare kraft card base and piece of white cardstock which is slightly smaller as cardbase. With your computer, design "Smells like Christmas" sentiment and print it on the vellum paper.  Now cut the strip out of it.


4. Glue all car pieces together as shown on the photo and stamp spruce branch in all corners. Card is finished.



This is is for today. Have a nice day. And don't forget, seventh CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is FALL. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.
 
 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Christmas ornaments and card

Hi, Janja here!

Decorating the Christmas tree is for me one of the most beautiful parts of Christmas. Creating homemade ornaments is nice socializing for the whole family.


For the card and ornaments we need:
- white scalloped card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- brown cardstock: 4.8 x 4.8" (12,2 x 12,2 cm)
- patterned paper: 4.5 x 4.5" (11,5 x 11,5 cm)
- gold and green cardstock
- tape with cork
- ivory embossing powder and embossing pad
- golden string

First paste the tape with cork on a cardstock. Such fortified tape is very easy to cut with dies. Use the smallest dies from the nested ornaments: ball and star. From the golden cardstock cut the tops for hanging ornaments.


Stamp chosen pattern on the ornaments and treat it with hot embossing technique. First I used golden embossing powder, but I was not pleased with the color contrast, so I used an ivory powder.


Cut a few spruce stems from green cardstock.


Use the tape with cork also for branches, that are cut out with the die holiday mason jar. With this die also cut out a bow in gold.


Now we have everything ready and we can start assembling the card.


Attach both ornaments on the patterned paper, and on the upper part start adding spruce stems and branches. Pay attention to cover the both ends of the golden string.



Fasten patterned paper on to a brown cardstock and mat them together on front of the card. Add the golden bow and some golden dots, which remain us in cutting tops for hanging ornaments.


Use the same technique for Christmas ornaments.
We need two cutouts for each ornament, which are glued together. Add the golden tops of Christmas ornaments (2 on each ornament) and insert a golden string.



Ornaments are light, pleasant to the touch and really easy to make. 



I would like to remind you on our challenge #6 - holiday
You still have time to share your projects with us. 

Enjoy and have fun while creating. 





Friday, September 23, 2016

Suspended Spinner Ornament Card


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

For the record- yesterday was the first day of Autumn. The temperatures are still soaring here in the Eastern part of the U.S. The gardens are still producing vegetables galore and that includes mine. But, nonetheless the summer season of 2016 is officially over (lol)!!!

So even though I feel like I should be showing beach style cards, Christmas is starting to knock on our door. With that in mind today I am bringing you a Christmas card using several of the new CottageCutz Christmas 2016 dies.

I have said before that I like making Christmas cards in non-traditional colors and that's what I have done today. I used the Nested Ornaments : Teardrop, the bow from the Holiday Mason Jar and the Christmas word from the Wisdom Tree Die.

I also tried my hand at a suspended spinner card for the first time. I don't have a video to show you but the ornament spins nicely. It will be a fun surprise when the recipient opens the card. I did find this video on YouTube that helped me create my card. My ornaments spin just like her Christmas tree does.  So let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Mint Green Card Base:  4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Patterned Paper Layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

1.  I started off by cutting my teardrop ornaments. For this card I used the smallest ornament in this 3 die set. I cut those in a denim blue color. I wanted to add a flourish to the ornament so I used the wisdom tree die and cut the bottom flourish in a hot pink shade. My camera is almost making it look red.
2.  The next step was to cut the opening in order to suspend my ornament. I used the CottageCutz Circle Set dies (3rd largest) to cut both the patterned paper as well as my card base.
3.  Once the first opening was cut, I took the next largest circle die and this time just cut my patterned paper. I wanted to be able to see the underlying cardstock and give the appearance of a framed layer.
 
4.  Now I am ready to attach some gold metallic thread to the 2 ornaments and then adhere those together. I cut approximately a 5" piece of the gold thread and laid it in the middle of the ornaments. I used Tombow adhesive for this step. I used 2 ornaments so when it spins around you will see a finished back of the ornament. The silver dots were left after I cut the ornament tops. I thought they made a cute little embellishment.
 
5.  The ornament is now ready to be centered in the opening of the card base. I pulled the thread so it was taut and then taped it down and trimmed off the excess metallic thread.
6.  On this step, I attached the patterned paper to the card base. I wanted a bow over my ornament but did want to use ribbon. So, I used the bow that is part of the Holiday Mason Jar die set. This was cut in the hot pink color.
7.    My card is ready for the sentiment. I debated on whether I should stamp a greeting or use a die cut. Once I cut the Christmas word from the Wisdom Tree die in the hot pink color my mind was made up without even trying a stamped sentiment. I really like how the pink color complimented the mint patterned paper.
Well, Blogger friends that completes my card for this week. I hope I have given you some inspiration for the teardrop ornament dies. Don't forget about our newest challenge that is running right now. The theme is holiday and here is a link for more information.
 
So until next time........inky hugs!!!
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutznestedornamentsteardropbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzholidaymasonjar.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzwisdomtreeelites.aspx