Cottage Cutz Santa's Coat & Rack

This is a Cottage Cutz die - Santa's Coat & Rack - from last Christmas which I received too late to use.

I used scraps from my stash to cut it out and it was quick and easy to assemble.  The rest of the card is made up also with scraps from my considerable stash of paper.  The sentiment, I think, is from Lily of the Valley.  It has no name on the packet or the stamp set.  I used Spellbinders Pinking Circles to frame the sentiment.

Cottage Cutz - Festive Deer

At a recent craft evening I made up a number of Cottage Cutz dies making it easy to assemble cards when needed.  The sentiment is from Lily of the Valley die cut with Spellbinders Pinking Circles.  The background paper is from my stash and it is edged with a SU border punch.

CottageCutz - Festive Deer

Again another easy CottageCutz die to make up.  This is one I could do a lot of cards with as it is quick and easy to put together.

The embossing folder is a Sizzix one, the sentiment is from Lily of the Valley and I used (again) Spellbinders Pinking Circles for sentiment.  I have had the large and small pinking circles in my collection for a long time and cannot recall a time when I used them.  All of a sudden they are my circle of choice.  It goes to show, don't get rid of any craft items, you never know when you might need them !

Christmas Card - Cricut Create a Critter Reindeer

Every now and again I haul out the Cricut and set it up.  I was cutting out a couple of Halloween items this past weekend and found this dear little reindeer on the Create a Critter cartridge.  I cut four of him out as this year I am going to have to do multiple cards of each design I create otherwise I will not get finished in time.

The reindeer was cut at 3" with a dark brown cardstock underneath and a coral colour on top.  I did not have the correct colour for the top and sponged on Antique Linen Distress ink to change it into the colour I wanted.  The mouth was DH's idea and I used Peachy Keen's Funshine Face Assortment ⅝" - I blocked out the rest of the stamp and used just the mouth.

The embossing folder is one from Sizzix and I used Chipped Sapphire Distress ink for the top of the card.  The sentiment is from Lily of the Valley in the UK - Set 5 Christmas Circular Sentiments.  I matted the sentiment on a Nestabilities pinking circle which was the only circle I had which fit the odd size of this stamp.