My Garden Cottage

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous day! I have been working at my scrappy desk today and wanted to share my project with y'all. I am playing along in a little challenge at a new forum. It is a forum headed up by Marivic...you may remember her from my post a few days ago. She created the gorgeous handmade tags that I used on a card and an altered frame. HERE is the link to the forum if you are interested. The specs of the 'June Purple Garden' challenge are:

1. Use the colors purple and green

2. Use flowers on your project

3. Project may be layout, card, altered, etc.

4. There are also some pix on the forum that you can use to see the colors you may use in the challenge. I used those pictures to help me pick out my patterned papers.

Purple is not a favorite color of mine. I always seen to have trouble working with it. But I decided to jump feet first into this challenge and give it a go. For my project, I have created a little gift box that is in the shape of a little cottage. I cut this box out using my Cricut, Sure Cuts A Lot Software, and the 'Peony Cottage' SVG set that I purchased at SVGCuts.com. If you would like to check out this set of files, go HERE. Now, I have to be honest, this was not the easiest thing I've ever cut out and put together. I had a lot of trouble getting it put together right. As a matter of fact, I think I have done a few things wrong and had to cover up a few boo boo's. LOL. But I am definitely going to give this a try again...maybe a Halloween or Gingerbread house. All in all though, I was pleased with my results. I am going to display this in my house for a bit. The 'roof' of the house comes off so that you can add things to the inside and make this into a gift box if you would like.

"Garden Cottage" Gift Box

Supplies Used

Cardstock: The Paper Studio, Core'dinations, The Paper Company

Patterned Paper: Die Cuts With A View

Rhinestones, Pearls: Queen & Co

Brads: The Paper Studio

Ink: ColorBox (Clearsnap)

Glitter Glue: Stickles (Ranger Industries)

Lace: Offray

Trim (along bottom of cottage): source unknown (picked this up at a discount store)

Electronic Cutter: Cricut Expression (Provo Craft)

Software: Sure Cuts A Lot (Craft Edge)

SVG's: SVGCuts.com

Adhesive: Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner, Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

Here is my cottage...

 There are flowers in my patterned paper, but I also included the flowers that came with this set of svg's.

 I wanted extra dimension on my roof so I used strips of lace for my 'shingles.'

If you would like to play along with us in this challenge, HERE is the direct link for that. Also, check out the prize up for grabs! Some yummy scrappy goodies if you ask me!!!

Thanks for visiting my blog! Happy Scrappin'!