Design Team Challenge: Luck of the Irish!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug. This week at SweetSassyDiva’s the theme is Luck of the Irish. I was figuring out how I wanted to do this project as I went along. I wasn’t sure how it was going to look when I was done with it, so I didn't take pictures of the process. I cut the Angel out @ 20 from the Christmas Solutions cartridge, so I had to cut it in pieces. Thanks to my Gypsy, this wasn’t a problem! I cut out the upper body first, along with the hair and the floral vine (from MS Elegant) and flower on a 12 x 24 mat.

Next I cut out a larger portion of the Angel for the yellow dress and the top cut of the wings, cut @ 11.75.

The solid part of the wing, also @ 11.75 in dark green.

The bottom part of the yellow dress:

I trimmed the brown hair and added it to the flesh colored face and added that and the hands to the yellow part. I glued the two yellow pieces together and added some green ribbon to cover the seam. I printed out my saying on velum and glued that to the top of the skirt. I took a piece of my Reflections rhinestones cut it down for her necklace. I really need to invest in some Peachy Keen face stamps, but my crafting budget has become my “spoil my Grandson” budget. LOL

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Design Team Challenge: Get Sketchy with it!

Good Morning!



This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug. This week at SweetSassyDiva's the DT is following a sketch.

I did two cards, but only because I really didn't like the first one. The drawback for me when that happens is that I don't take pictures during the process of making a new one. The first card, the ugly one lol, I used pinks and purples and weaved the ribbon through the border. The border (on both cards) was cut at 1.5 x 4.25 from MS Elegant. After weaving the ribbon through it, I ran it through my Xyron to hold everything in place.

I cut two pieces of paper at 4.25 x 1.75 and 4.25 x .75. I used some cuttle bug border embossing folders on both pieces. I also cut two smaller pieces at 1.75 x 1.75 and 1.75 X 2.75. The background piece was cut at 4.25 x 5.75. (The size is a bit odd because I have some envelopes that are smaller than normal.)

I cut a rose and it's layers from Walk in my Garden at 2.75 and added some stickles.

(Click on the picture to increase the size to see the embossing)

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