You are Truly Original!

Hello peeps! I hope you're having a fabulous Easter week. Tina here today with another hen and chick project from the sweetsassydiva Design team.

I decided I wanted to play a little with my Imagine and my new Stamp of the Month from CTMH. I think they were a perfect match.

I started by filling my images with patterns from the Kate's Kitchen cart. This is my favorite way to use my Imagine. I mean how easy is it to create matching pattern papers without going through my whole stash. I put in all the layers I needed to create my chicken and then filled them with the colors I wanted. I did a couple of extra so I could use my leftovers for another card. Hop on over to my blog tomorrow to see it. Then I chose the layers I wanted and put her together. I inked the edges, added a little pen work and some chalk for her cheeks and she really came to life.

I stamped the crosshatch background with grey wool. The words were stamped with barn red and then cut out. I adhered then onto an oval milepost shape. I love these little corrugated cardboard shapes to create with. The green base was printed with the Imagine as well.

I hope you enjoyed my card today. It totally makes me laugh because I can't keep from thinking KFC Original or Extra Crispy. LOL Of course my daughter looks at me like I've lost my mind. haha

Here are all the Details:
Cricut Imagine
Imagine Kate's Kitchen
Cricut Animal Kingdom
CTMH Milepost Shapes
CTMH April Stamp of the Month You Are
CTMH Cocoa Ink Pad
CTMH Barn Red Ink Pad
CTMH Grey Wool Ink Pad

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Hugz


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Design Team Challenge: Scene Layout!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug. This week at SweetSassyDiva's the challenge is to do a scene LO. When I started this project, the LO I did is not what I had in mind. lol It just kind of worked out that way. My youngest son will probably not be real happy with me over posting this, poor kid.



To make a long story short (er), he was having a ton of problems with his car. We decided it was best to get rid of his old car and buy something with less problems. He certainly needs a reliable car with the baby on the way. So my son and husband went car shopping and he came home with a "Competition Orange" Ford Focus SVT. He was happy and it was reliable, so I was happy. Three weeks into owning this car, he was coming home one night about 8:30 after class and hit a deer. Didn't seem to be a lot of damage, so he continues on his way home. 15 minutes later, about 10 miles from home, he hits a huge Raccoon! In the space of 20 minutes two animals totaled his car! It wasn't actually a tow truck who hauled his car away, it was a flatbed, but the meaning is the same. Ok, so on with my LO.



I used Everyday paper dolls for the roads. I cut them out at 5 and instead of using yellow paper for the stripes in the road, I used yellow stickles. The paper is from an old DCWV paper pack.

I used Nates ABC's for the car and cut that at 5. I used Gypsy Wanderings for deer and cut that at 5 also.

The tow truck, from Nates ABC's was cut at 3.

The Raccoon came from Animal Kingdom and was cut at 5.

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Family Reunion!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug

The theme this week for SweetSassyDiva's; DT is Picnic, which comes at a great time for me! Every year my family has a reunion at the end of July at Fox Lake. My Grandparents bought a place there about 40 years ago, so my family has been going there for a long time. My parents bought my Grandparents place just before they died and my husband and I bought a place two doors down about 5 years ago. It's on a small island, so not only is there fishing, but there's also a lot of wildlife to see, hence the animals in my LO. (I wasn't trying to "say" anything about my family! LOL)



I used 11 different carts for this project. The background paper is My Mind's Eye, the Penny Lane collection. The photo mats were left overs, so I'm not sure what collection they are from. I always use Core'dination paper, I think it cuts the best in my expression. I added glossy accents to the firefly's wings, black enamel accents to the watermelon and the grill, white enamel accents to the frogs and liquid pearls to the deer. All the cuts were just regular cuts, so I didn't take pictures of each step.

Country Life: the banner cut @ 3, the white letters were also the banner, but I used hide contour on the banner to get just the letters in the correct size without too much work. The "July 2011" was cut @ 2.



George and Basic Shapes: the photo mats in different sizes



MS Seasonal: the grass was cut @ 1 and welded together in Design Studio



Walk in my Garden: the caterpillar was cut @ 1



Animal Kingdom: the frogs (3) were cut @ 1



Kates ABC's: the bunny was cut @ 2.5 and flipped in DS



Doodlecharms: the fireflies were cut @ 1.5



Paper Dolls for Everyday: the grill was cut @ 8.25. The utensils were cut @ 4



Indie Art: the birds were cut @ 2



A Childs Year: the watermelon was cut @ 1



Cindy Loo: the deer was cut @ 4 and the squirrel was cut @ 3

It's A Circus!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats with a Bug.



This week on SweetSassyDiva's; the theme our design team picked was circus. I picked doing a word book, I love making these! All my patterned paper used was DCWV and Core'dinations for the solid paper. I used my Cinch to put it all together.



I started out cutting the chipboard, the last page is 4 x 11. The first page is 4 x 3 (not counting the letter) and an inch more for each letter afterwards.

Next I cut out all the background papers and then flipped them to cut out the reverse side.

I used the Carousel lite cartridge and cut out the letters and their top layers @ 3 and glued them all down. I only did the letters on the front side.

The only thing that wasn't cut from Carousel was "It's A Circus" from Animal Kingdom, cut @ 2.5. I used design studio to hide the word circus. (Sorry for the blurry picture)

The dog was cut @ 3.5

The bear was cut @ 3.0

The house was cut @ 3.75

The elephant was cut @ 3.75

The lion tamer was cut @ 3.25

The lion was cut @ 2.25

The photo mats were cut at whatever size fit.

Thanks for looking!