Showing posts with label Altered Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Altered Project. Show all posts

Saturday, March 05, 2016

ALTERED GIFT BAG WITH ANITA KEJRIWAL

Hello! It's Anita Kejriwal here and I am super excited to begin my first post at the CottageCutz blog. I feel so happy to be a part of this wonderful team and would put my best effort to feature the best of CottageCutz dies.
 
For my first post, I have altered a juice carry bag into a gift bag for a baby. I like to alter many such things and give them a new look. Dies really help to bring out the beauty in my projects.
 
This is a picture of the bag before I altered it.
 
 

Here are the instructions on how to altered the bag:
 
(The bag measures 6.75 x 7 inches)
Remove the green string from both sides and paint the edges with white acrylic paint on both sides of the bag. Cut two red pieces of card stock to 6.5 x 6.75 inches and adhered it to both sides of the bag. Add another layer of pattern paper. Two pieces for front and back measuring 6 x 6 inches. This is adhered on both sides on top of the red card stock.
 
Cut two pieces of die cuts in white card stock from the Cottage Cutz Baby Border (7" long). Distress the edges of this die cut with Candied Apple Distress Ink. Emboss the die Cottage Cutz Bella Floral Frame (Elites) on a piece of white card stock and cut out the frame with scissors. Cut another die cut from the same die and color it well with Candied Apple Distress Ink. Emboss the frame with Twisted Citron Distress Ink. Adhere it on the bottom die as shown.
 
Cut two die cuts in white card stock from the Cottage Cutz Baby Blocks (Elites) and color it with Candied Apple Distress Inks.  Placed on top of each other with double sided foam tape. This gives it a 3D look. Finish the bag with some baby sentiment, flowers and a red button and ribbon.
(I added red and green ribbon as handle.)
 
This is my finished bag and it looks really beautiful after being decorated by CottageCutz dies.
                                           

Do stop by the store to view the amazing collection!
An important tip for die cutting- I always place my dies diagonally on my cutting plate to get smooth cutting in one go.
I hope you enjoyed my first post. Please do leave a comment and your feedback.
I will be back next week with more creative inspiration with CottageCutz dies.
Till then........ happy crafting!!!!!!

Saturday, September 04, 2010

May Flowers

I started this little 6x6 Through the Years Album as a fun side project to my regular layout scrapping. I love the 6x6 size because I can complete pages so quickly and easily yet still have fun with my Cottage Cutz!

I have sort of started out of order with my months - again, just doing what I wanted - and here is my May double page. I thought the Cottage Cutz Potted Flower was the perfect touch for my May page to go along with the saying April showers, bring May flowers. Plus, the little stamped faces are so cute!! Again, perfect for my simple, whimsical mini album.

I hope my project today inspires you to get out your crafting tools and do some scrapping on this long weekend. This is a great time to start a quick and fun little project like a mini book!

Have a great weekend and happy scrapping!
Ruth Ellen



Thursday, November 05, 2009

School Days Mini Album


I think the new Quickutz Santa's Workshop Gift Set is so fun!! When I first saw it, I was afraid that the albums were going to be too small. Boy was I wrong!! They are perfectly sized for quick and easy mini albums!!

The Peppermint Album is a really nice size! The pages are 3.75 inches wide and 5.5 inches tall. I chose it to use to create my School Days album. I have created a two-page spread for every grade Kindergarten through Senior Year of High School. Now, all I will have to do each year is pop in the new photos and add a few notes and that's it!

I can't wait to see how my daughter changes over the years. I think this is going to be such a fun mini album and so easy to keep current because the album is already finished! I just have to add the updates each year. Anything I can do to make myself feel "up to date" is great!! ;)

I used Imaginesce papers and some other Quickutz dies to embellish the pages and book cover. The little page tab is one of the extra cookie cutter dies that comes in the new Gift Set. How cute is that!! I love it! Lots of other fun little surprises in the Gift Set so be sure to check them out at the Scrapping Cottage! Quantities are limited and once they're gone - they're gone!! So you don't want to miss out!











Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Fun and Quick Photo Book

Normally I am a layout girl, but with Halloween fast approaching, I have been feeling very crafty. I think it must be all the super cute decorations I see as I am driving through my neighborhood. Or maybe it is the stack of adorable Cottage Cutz Halloween dies sitting on my scrapbook table to inspire me every time I sit down to work. Whatever it is, I wanted to create something a little different today.

I purchased some of those $1.00 plastic photograph albums in Walmart the other day to use for brag books. Well, of course the covers that come in those are weird and not very fun. So I pulled out the front piece of paper and covered it up and this was the result...

I used velvety brown paper to cut the piece of caramel for the top of my apple. Then I sprayed it with a mixture of perfect pearls (*tip coming soon!!*) to give it some sparkle like real caramel. Now you just slip the new and improved into the plastic sleeve and voila - quick and easy upgrade to an otherwise boring photo holder. I scanned my new cover so that you could see the caramel apple detail better.

Cottage Cutz dies just make everything better!! Get your orders in now for your Christmas Cottage Cutz dies and be sure to include the Limited Edition Gingerbread House and Christmas Shoppe in your basket! You don't want to miss out on these for sure!

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Tooth Fairy Kit

A scrapbooking friend of mine made a Tooth Fairy kit for her granddaughter and I thought it was such a fun idea that I wanted to make one for my oldest daughter, too. I used the tin that the old Silhouette Download Cards used to come in. Then I covered it with some papers from my stash. I used the QK Merry font and the retired QK toothfairy die. I added some stickles on the top for some extra bling which I knew my daughter would like. Then, when she lost her first tooth, this is what the tooth fairy left her along with a special toy for her first tooth.


Thursday, July 16, 2009

Christmas in July :)

I thought I would do something completely different for my post today. How about a little Christmas in July?! I created this little mini album to use as a fun Christmas Planner. I also included a few pictures on a couple of pages for some shopping inspiration.






Of course I can't make anything without adding some Quickutz. The Rev clipboard makes the perfect place for a list so I definitely wanted to include it in my planner. I used the QK metal sheets to make the top of the clipboard.
As soon as I saw the Lamp Post from the June release, the first thing I wanted to do with it was decorate it for Christmas. I used some QK rub-ons to make the string of lights on the lamp post, but you could also use the light string from the 2008 QK Holiday Gift Set.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Fun and Simple Quickutz Mini Album

I just recently purchased all of the Quickutz Adhesive Backed Materials and OMGosh are they cool!! I just couldn't wait to get them out and play. I decided to share a fun little mini album I created using the new Double Sided Adhesive White Chipboard and the Quickutz Nesting Labels (Rectangle).
This new chipboard makes creating your own mini book so quick and easy! No more tracing and cutting your paper down to the right size and then having to sand the edges in order to have a nice clean finished product. I just used the Nesting Label Die to cut my page shapes and then used the same die to cut my patterned papers. Then, you pull off the adhesive backing from the chipboard piece and lay your patterned paper right onto the chipboard page. Perfect fit every time! Then I used my Bind-it-All to bind my little album together using 3/8" O-wires.

You will see several other Quickutz products used throughout this book including the Chocolate Alpha, the Chick-a-dee (which I received for my birthday!), and even Chemistry on the very last page. The Revolution machine was created using the Quickutz Tools Club Die (you never want to miss out on the club dies!!) and some of the Quickutz Metal Sheets. I used my 2x2 Flourish Goosebumpz to add the design on the side of the machine to replicate the actual Revolution. On an earlier page, I also used this month's Club Die the Polka-Dot Arrow (how cute is that!)