Showing posts with label Holly Branch w/Bow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holly Branch w/Bow. Show all posts

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Christmas Gift Tags

Hi!

It's Anja here just before Christmas. I hope you are doing fine and that you're surrounded with your loved ones for Christmas. I got all my Christmas shopping done and I'm looking forward to see the expressions on everyones's faces when they open the presents.

Yesterday I made a few gift tags with the new dies I got. Mail tag dies are perfect for different tag sizes. I decorated them with golden bells and some holiday greenery.


For this project I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Christmas Holly Bells, Mistletoe & Bells, Holly Branch w/Bow, Happy Holidays Greeting, Mail Tag Set),
- Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles, Forest Moss, Vintage Photo),
- craft paper for tags,
- white card stock for die cuts,
- white pigment ink pad,
- gold pigment ink pad,
- gold ribbon,
- paper glue.

 First I cut the tags. I used white ink to color the edges.


Then I die cut the greenery and the bells. I used Distress Inks and gold pigment ink for coloring.




I cut the greeting from white card stock.


When I had everything cut and colored I arranged it on the tags and glued everything together. I used gold ribbon to go with gold bells.


And this is how they look from up close.





Have a beautiful and peaceful Christmas!
Anja Z.







Monday, August 21, 2017

Holly Swag

Hi, Lois here with a little change of pace card.  It's 90 degrees outside, but I'm here to cool you off a bit with a Christmas card today.  I'm still playing with the new Nested Shapes release from CottageCutz -- this time the Nested Stitched Eyelet Square set, as well as one of the Expressions Plus sentiments.


A little twist to this card is that the "Happy Christmas" sentiment is actually on the inside of the card.  It shows through a strip of acetate on the front.

To start my card I cut the 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" card base from some heavyweight white cardstock.  In addition I cut two strips of red (1" x 5 1/2"), two strips of green (1/2" x 5 1/2"),  a white 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square and a strip of clear acetate 2 1/2" x 5 1/2".


After scoring the card base at the 4 1/4" mark, I trimmed a 1 1/2" strip from the bottom and adhered it to the acetate strip.  I trimmed that same side of the card 1 1/4" from the top, adding Scor-Tape to the top of the acetate and the edge of the card.


After removing the Scor-Tape, I lined up the acetate/cardstock piece to the bottom of the card and pressed down on the taped sections -- creating the card base.


Next I cut the die-cut pieces from red and green cardstock . . .


. . . adding some darker color to the pieces.  I sponged around the edge of the white square with red distress oxide ink.


Using a scallop punch, I trimmed down the red strips, adding some 1/8" Scor-Tape to the backs.


I then constructed my holly swag, using small foam pop dots to give dimension to the swag.


I then stamped the inside of the card, making sure that the sentiment was placed so that it would show through the acetate strip.


I then added the red/green strips to the outside of the acetate and constructed the swag panel and glued it on either side of the acetate strip.  The "celebrate" sentiment was centered at the bottom of the card front.


CottageCutz dies used on this card are:

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

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

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



Thursday, December 11, 2014

Christmas Memories Album/Video


Hello everyone Cheryl here  today , and I'm sharing my entire "Our Family Christmas Memories" Mini Album, using LOTS of CottageCutz Christmas Dies.
For the front cover I used the Sweet CottageCutz "Santa & Friends" Die, along with the Fireplace,  Deer Flying, Winter Wonderland Sleigh. I also used the Vintage Bells

For this next page I used the CottageCutz Vintage Bells, Sleigh Expressions Die "Our Family"  To see how each page is interactive please see my VIDEO below.


For this next page here, I used the Sweet CottageCutz Holiday Dove Die. Another beauty from the Christmas Release.

Here is another Interactive Page. For this one, I cut several of the CottageCutz Holiday Floral Spray, and used the flower to layer for each one. Love the look I was able to achieve using this beautiful die.

Next up is another Interactive Page, using envelopes to create a mini within this mini album. I used CottageCutz Vintage Bells, CottageCutz Bells, CottageCutz Woodland Pine Trees , CottageCutz Holiday Village , Stamp  and Merry Christmas from the CottageCutz Homemade Christmas Giftset.


For this page I used more of the Stamps from the Homemade Christmas Giftset, and Santa & Friends.

On this page here, I kept it pretty simple. There is room for 1 photo on the front, and then the tag will hold 2 more. 
Dies Used:

My last Interactive Page. This one is a pocket, with a mini album made out of cards. You can see the mini, it has the cardinals on front of it. The large photo matte will hold 2 large photo's are several smaller ones. On this page I used these CottageCutz Dies:

My Mini Album Video

Thank you for looking and hope you have a super wonderful day!
hugs to all,
Cheryl