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

Thursday, October 06, 2016

CottageCutz Challenge #7 - FALL

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all 33 beautiful cards and projects you've made for Challenge #6. 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 FALL

Fall is so inspiring with the beautiful colors. So, create a card or any other projects wich will represent fall and colors which are characteristic for this time of the year. 

So, grab your favorite Fall/Autumn dies. But 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 October!


So, before I announced the winers, I'm going to show you my project for today. Here is my card:


Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock and some red and kraft cardstock to cut out the die cuts. Prepare also some watercolor paper. 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink:  Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss, Rusty Hinge 
Other: acrylic block, Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, water, spray bottle

1. First we are going to prepare paper for all die cuts. So, let's take first piece of watercolor paper and color it with different  Distress Inks: Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Fired brick...


2. Now spray a water on it, to cause colors to move and blend. Leave it to dry or speed the drying process with heat gun.


3. If you want you can add more layers of colors, but after each layer of color and water, paper needs to dry.


4. With Autumn Foliage cut foliage out of previous colored watercolor paper. This will give beautiful autumn look. If you want, you can distress edges with the same distress inks, which were used for coloring the paper.


5. Take another piece of watercolor paper and color just with different shades of orange distress inks and spray it with water. Cut the pumpkins out of it. Distress pumpkins edges with darker shade of orange distress inks. Color also the pumpkin stems with green distress ink. and glue everything together.


7. Now take additional piece of white cardstock and glue all die cuts as shown on photo:


8. Cut also one strip out of white paper and stamp happy fall or any other sentiment on it. Glue it under dies cuts.  If you want, you can aslo flick some droplets of gold shimmer spray and let it dry. Now, glue everything together on cardbase and card is finished.


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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 October to participate. 
Both winners will be announced at the beginning of November.

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 fifth challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Dusi. Her card was linked under number 8:



2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Karenladd. Her card was linked under number 18:



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:

Thursday, September 08, 2016

CottageCutz Challenge #6 - HOLIDAY

Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all 33 great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #5. 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 HOLIDAY

So, create a card or on any other gift for a Holiday, such as Thanksgiving or Christmas... 

We all love to create holiday cards, don't we? So, grab your favorite Christmas or Thanksgiving dies and create something. But 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 30st of September!


So, before I announced the winers, I'm going to show you my project for today. Here is my card:


Basics:

White 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 and some white and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass, Fired brick, Aged Mahogany, Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, White watercolor in tube, paint brush

1. Apply some Tumbled glass distress ink on the acrylic block and add also some water. Mixed with the paint brush. Use large paint brush and apply color on the additional piece of paper. Let it dry or use heat gun to speed the process.


2. Mix small amount of white watercolor or acrylic paint with water and flick some droplets of the mixture on the previous colored surface. Let it dry.


3. Cut two Cardinals out of red cardstock and distress the edges with Aged mahogany distress ink. Now cut two more cardinals out of white cardstock and color the beaks and surface around it. Glue these on the top of the red Cardinals. Color also the branch and the Birdhouse with red and brown distress inks. Apply some white paint also on the branches and Birdhouse.



5. With Happy Holidays Notecard die, cut also the expression out of red cardstock. Use scissors to cut of just Happy Holidays part. Glue everything together as shown on the photo. Card is now finished.


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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 30st of September to participate. 
Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for October) 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 fifth challenge.

1st Gift certificate value of 50$ goes to Ana S Her card was linked under number 9:



2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Mojca. Her card was linked under number 14:



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:

Friday, August 05, 2016

CottageCutz Challenge #5 - BIRTHDAY CARD


Hi, Vladka is here!

Thank you very much for all 29 great cards and projects you've made for Challenge #4. 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 BIRTHDAY CARD.


So, create a card or on any other gift for birthday.
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 August!


So, before I announced the winers, I'm going to show you my project for today.

Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)
Additional piece of white cardstock and some white cardstock to cut out the die cuts and kraft paper for the pocket.

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below
Distress Ink: Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber, Mermaid Lagon, Aged Mahogany, Black Soot
Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy


Are you thinking what kind of card is this? It is birthday card for a boy which adores cars and so I was thinking that it will be fun to create a card  with a pocket and fill it with cars and the garage. Boy can take all these parts out of the pocket and can play with them.


Here you can see, how it looks when I put all the cars and the garage out of the pocket.


So, what you need to do first is, to cut all cars out of the white cardstock. I used Cars and Moving Track die for this. Color each of the car differently. Use distress inks and blending tool for this. Color also the tyres and use copic marker or any other black marker for this. I colored the tyres which are part of the car and also separate cut out tyres and glue separate one on the top of the car's tyre.


Now, color also the garage. Use red distress ink to color the roof and distress the edges with darker red distress ink. Color also the main part of the garage and use blue distress ink. 


To make garage's door, cut the rectangle (I've used the fourth biggest die) out of the white cardstock. To get more garage door look use the scoring board and make score lines. I made the score line every 1/8 of the inch. Glue all parts of the garage together: first the roof on the blue piece and than also the door. 


Now, prepare also the bow. Cut the biggest one out the white cardstock and colored all the parts with blue distress ink. Color also the back side of the main bow piece, because also this part is visible when bow is glued together.


Use also Fancy Happy Birthday die and cut the expression out of the white cardstock. With Scissors cut off the present and the cake.


Cut also the pocket out of the kraft carstock and glue it together and after that on the white card base. Glue bow and happy birthday expression on the pocket and put all the parts (garage and cars) in the pocket. Card is now finished.



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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 August to participate. 
Both winners will be announced in the same post as new challenge (for September) 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 fourth challenge.

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


2nd Gift Certificate value of 25$ goes to Keti's Projects. Her card was linked under number 27:



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:




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: