Homemade Christmas Gift Set Release!

Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday to you all!

It's Release DAY here at The Scrapping Cottage!
We are SUPER EXCITED about this DARLING

"Homemade Christmas Gift Set" 

 

 

 

All the photo's on the front are all CottageCutz dies and the stamps mixed in. all the stamps are posted along the bottom of the back flap, so you can see them better there. We are super excited about this darling Gift Set that The Scrapping Cottage has come out with. You can find more about this super DARLING set HERE at The Scrapping Cottage!

 

 

CottageCutz Homemade Christmas Gift Set PRE-ORDER

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Shipping End of September. Order today to reserve your Gift Set. Limited Quantities are being produced.

 

 

Here are the full views of my projects with this gorgeous set!  First, is the adorable bear die! 

I think he is just so cute and I love the way it's "sitting" on the ribbon! I cut his body, hat rim and pompom with white cardstock and colored them with inks. I used red, green and black cardstock for the remaining parts. The sentiment "Merry Christmas" is also one of the dies that I added using my Xyron Machine. The round sentiment is one of the 7 stamps in the set that I punched out with a circle punch and added a red punch out behind it.


My second project is a banner!  This is my first attempt at making a banner and boy did I have fun making it!  I may have to do these for Christmas Gifts this year!

Click on the photo for a closer view

I had trouble photoing the banner all together so I did closer ones of each side too.

All the little dies inbetween the banners would be super cute as individual ornaments or little decorations for Christmas gift packages!

To make my banner, I used O' Christmas Tree Designer Paper by Recollections, white, Robin and Basil Cardstock by Coredinations.  For the banners, I cut 5" x 4" pieces, marked with pencil 2" on the 4" side and cut corner to 2" mark on each side.  I scored the top of the banner at 1/2" and folded down which would then be the "pocket" for the jute to go through.  (Hope I'm making sense!)

So I could coordinate all the colors and patterns together nicely, I decided to make a second layer for the banners by cutting smaller ones 4" x 3", mark at 1-1/2" and cut corner to mark in the same manner as the larger one.  I glued the banners pieces together and had lots of fun with the different die shapes to decorate all the pieces and for the little pieces inbetween!  Before I assembled everything onto the jute string, I layed everything out to see what looked best where.  Once I had it the way I wanted it, I put the jute through the banner and glued the scored piece down with scor-tape making sure the banner could still be moved along the jute.  Then I just added the little pieces inbetween with twine tied in a bow.

Make sure to visit the Scrapping Cottage Blog to see all the designer's projects together and leave a comment for a chance to win a Gift Certificate at the Scrapping Cottage Store!

You can also visit the designer's Blogs and see more about their creations.

Carol - http://chocolatecraftsandbearsohmy.blogspot.com/
Vladka- http://ustvarjalnaskrinja.blogspot.com/
Olena- http://olenasplace.blogspot.com
Simona- http://papiart-simko.blogspot.com/
Cheryl- http://sweeetdesignsbycheryl.blogspot.com/
Frances- http://becreativebeyou.blogspot.com/

I'm submitting my Christmas Bear Card to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #96 - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge #52 - Cute Christmas in September
Crafty Cardmakers #99 - Snow or Ice

I'm submitting my Christmas Gift Banner to the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps & More #61 - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime #18 - Use 3 Different Papers

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy


Project recipes:

Christmas Bear

CottageCutz: Homemade Christmas Gift Set
Paper: Ruby Slipper, Rain Forest (Bazzills), Solar White (Neenah), black (Recollections)
Ink: Iced Blue (ColorBox), Vintage Photo, Antique Linen Distress (Ranger), Blue Moon (Powder Puffs)
Accessories: Tool Kit & Mat (McGill), ribbon, Bow-Easy, snowflake button, round punches 1-3/8", 1-1/2", Perfect Polka Dots (SU), Triad Leaves (Sizzix) Embossing Folders.

Christmas Gift Banner

CottageCutz: Homemade Christmas Gift Set
Paper: O' Christmas Tree (Recollections), white (DCWV), Robin, Basil (Coredinations)
Ink: Wheat (VersaMagic), Aqua Mist (Palette), Rhubarb Stalk (Momento)
Accessories: Bay Leaf Seam Binding, White Jute String (Really Reasonable Ribbon), White Twine (May Arts), Bow-Easy, 1/8" Scor-tape