Showing posts with label Farm Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farm Animals. Show all posts

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Farm Animal Birthday

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog. Hope you are staying warm during this cold snap that is currently with us.

While we are preparing for a brand new CottageCutz release, the design team has been showing you a mix of creations from some of the older dies. And, that's where my card is going today. I created this birthday card from the stamp & die combo farm animals. So lets get started with the details on how I created my card.

Step 1: As I frequently do, I started my card with the layout. I saw this sketch posted on the Splitcoaststampers site and a card idea immediately came to mind. Well a rough idea had been brewing in my mind for awhile. Then this sketch just finalized everything.
Step 2: As with any sketch you can change things up a bit. Like the shapes that are shown here. I decided to used the circles and stitched circles die for my shapes. I chose circles because of the background designer paper I am using. The paper reminded me of cow spots so I decided to go with a circle to place the cows on. The circle die only is currently on sale at 60% off the regular price. So you can pick it up for only $7.95 right now.

Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Patterned Paper: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
White Circle: 4th largest die
Black stitched circle die: 4th largest

Step 3: I stamped the cow images, used the corresponding die and colored the images with both Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Gamsol is odorless mineral spirits that is used to spread the wax in the pencil around.
Copic Markers: E000 + E02
Primsmacolor Pencils: Black PC935 + Warm Grey 70% PC1058
 
Step 4: I thought the cows needed a little pop on the white circles. So I cut a scallop circle for a cloud template and I stamped the hay from the "on the farm" stamp & die combo. Sponged the clouds with distress ink and colored the hay with alcohol blenders.
 Step 5: I am ready for the card assembly. I attached the cows to the circle panels with Scotch mounting tape. And used the same adhesive to attach the circles to the patterned paper layer.
Step 6: I decided to make layer 4 of the above sketch my sentiment panel. I wanted the panel to be a pierced rectangle but the rectangle dies were just a bit too big to fit in the corner. So I adjusted the size of the 4th largest pierced rectangle.
The first photo below shows the finished panel with my stamped sentiment as well as the original size of the rectangle.
I placed the panel back in my big shot and just moved the die to where I wanted to re-cut it.
Once I re-sized the panel, it was the perfect fit for my sentiment as well as the corner of the card.
And that my friends, completes my card for this week. If you have these stamp & die combos, I hope I have given you a new idea for using them. If you don't have them they are still available in the online store. In fact, the on the farm stamp & die set is on sale for 50% off. You can get it for just $10.
See you all next Saturday!!
 
Dies I used to create card:
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzfarmanimalsstampanddie.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzonthefarmstampanddie.aspx
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzcirclesetbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzstitchedcirclesetbasics.aspx
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzpiercedrectanglesetbasics.aspx
 
 
 

Sunday, March 19, 2017

100% Country Scrapbook Page


Hi! It's Janet with SugarShine Designs here to share with you my very first post as a video designer for CottageCutz. I'm so happy to be given the opportunity to share projects with you. You will see a variety of projects from me including scrapbook pages, cards and other dimensional projects.

Today's project is a scrapbook page featuring the adorable stamp and die set, Farm Animals. This set is so cute! I couldn't help but use them in a page about my family's visit to a ranch in Arizona a few years ago. This set has so many applications that I'm sure you'll see these animals show up in some of my future projects.


For the photo mats, I used three stitched die cut shape sets including the circle, oval and square sets. I also used the double-stitched rectangle set which adds a unique look. The Spring Grass die is used in the page's title.


Click the video link below to see how the page was made using all these great dies. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!


Dies Used in Today's Project:

 Farm Animals Set
 Spring Grass Die



 Double-Stitched Rectangle Set

 Stitched Circle Set

 Stitched Oval Set

 Stitched Square Set

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

On the farm

Hi, Janja here!

Another new CottageCutz products line I share with you today. This are stamp & die combo sets. You can choose from eight sets for different occasions.
I have chosen the set - On the farm and supplemented it with two stamps and dies from the set - Farm animals.


Supplies:
- white card base: 5.3 x 5.3" (13,5 x 13,5 cm), folded
- white cardstock: 4.6 x 4.6" (11,7 x 11,7 cm)
- watercolor paper
- Distress ink: Dried Marigold, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany, Spiced Marmalade, Scattered Straw, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Hickory Smoke, Antique Linen, Ground Espresso

Since I use Distress inks for coloring, I stamped selected motives with black Archival ink on watercolor paper.


Once we have all the motives that we want to put on card painted, cut them out with matching dies that are attached to the set.


For background trim a white cardstock, shadow it with Distress inks, and stamp "Hay friend".


When the background is dry, begin by placing the elements on the card. Some of them are fastened with glue and some with self-adhesive foam pads to create depth.
The sun is from the Campsite die set.


 

Thank you for coming over and have a nice day. 



Monday, January 23, 2017

Hi, Chick!

Hi, Lois here today,  using one of the new stamp/die sets from CottageCutz -- Farm Animals.  I think the red gingham patterned paper gives a warm, country feel to my card.


Supplies used on my card:

Card base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", folded in half
Cream layers - 4" x 5 1/4", 3 1/4" x 4 1/2"
DP layer 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"
Ink - black, red
Other - Copic markers, Foam pop dots

I stamped, colored, and cut out my three Farm Animals images.


Then, using two pale shades of blue and tan, I "painted" the background to my focal panel.



I stamped my sentiment on a scrap of cream cardstock and then cut out two ovals using the Double Stitched Ovals dies.


When I layered the two ovals, I thought the difference in size was too wide; so I trimmed the gold oval at the inner stitch line, sanded it smooth, and then mounted the cream oval onto the gold one.  I liked the size contrast much better.   Then I constructed my card.  All the die-cut elements are popped up on foam pop dots.


Dies used on this set are:














Saturday, January 21, 2017

~ Udder-ly Awesome ~

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

We have some fabulous new stamp & die combo sets released and they are available at 25% off in the online store. I am using a couple of the new sets today with the On The Farm and Farm Animals.

So let's get started with some details on the little farm scene I created on my card today.

Black Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Image Panel: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"
 
I started my card by stamping the images with Memento tuxedo black ink. I colored the images with Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. This ink doesn't bleed into your inks or pencils. I also used X-Press It blending cardstock. It is designed to work with Copic markers. 
Markers & Pencils used to color images

After the images were colored I started on my background. I used tumbled glass distress ink for my sky then shabby shutters and mowed lawn for the grassy area. I used some torn paper to create the appearance of a hilly area. I wanted a softer background so I used a stencil brush. It achieved the look I was after. At the bottom of the card, I used tea dye distress ink for a non-grassy area.
 
 I decided to use the "udder-ly awesome" sentiment from the Farm Animals set. I cut a cloud from the "clouds & sun" die set because I wanted to stamp the sentiment inside of it. This sentiment is a single line and was just a bit to long for my cloud.  So I used my MISTI tool and took it to a 2 line sentiment. You just tape off the part that you don't want stamped and ink up your sentiment.
 




When I started the assembly of my card, I decided to use the fence stamp and die from the On The Farm set. And then I added some hearts going from the cow up to the sentiment. I just thought they fit so well with this sentiment. The hearts are from the Love Bird Branch die set.

 
Well that's it for me for this week. See you next week.
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzfarmanimalsstampanddie.aspx
 

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzonthefarmstampanddie.aspx
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzlovebirdbranch.aspx