Chicks dig me!

Good Morning!
 This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug!  This week at SweetSaddyDiva's  the design team is doing anything that uses 3 or more Cricut cartridges. I went with the "or more" part and used 5 cartridges.

For Easter, my daughter bought my Grandson the cutest lil outfit! The shirt says "Chicks dig me" and he was so adorable in it. I had to buy him a huge bunny for Easter since he's too little for an Easter basket.   So, on to my layout.

 I cut out two different chicks, one from Easter 2010, cut @ 3 and one from A Child's Year, cut @ 4. I embossed the chick from ACY and debossed the other one and then colored it in.

I cut the bunny from Easter 2010, cut @ 6 and embossed that one also.

I added stickles to his ear, white enamel accents on his tail and black enamel accents for his eye.

Also from the Easter 2010 cartridge I cut out two eggs, cut @ 2.5.  I added stickles, gems and used my viva decor pen to decorate them.

I cut the words "Dig Me" from Cindy Loo, cut at 3.5. I embossed the D and M, added stickles and a gem to decorate them. I also cut out a bow for the chick, cut @ 1 from Easter 2010 and added a matching gem to that.

I cut out the word Chicks from Straight From The Next, cut @ 3.5. I embossed the heart and used my white gel pen to decorate the letter.

For the grass I used MS Birthday Cakes Cartridge. I welded two pieces together, each cut @ 2 twice for both layers. I only wanted each piece to go 12 inches.

On the light green grass I used my thumb nails to curl up the tips. When I glued the two pieces together, I just ran a strip of glue on the bottom half so that the grass would still stick up. I did it the same way when I glued it to my background paper.

Thanks for looking!

It's all about fun!

This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug! This week we have a fun theme at Sweetsassydiva's, using a Mojo Monday Sketch! I can't wait to see what the rest of the design team comes up with for this sketch. I'm using this sketch to make a birthday card for my son's 21st birthday.

The tags was cut from Sentimentals, @ 3 and I used my white gel pen to add a border to the dark blue tag. The scalloped circle was cut from Easter 2010 @ 3. I used my Gypsy to hide the inside cuts on it. The banner was cut from Lovely Floral, @ 3. I used my Gypsy to hide the two slits in the banner and the circle part of the image. I used my white gel pen to add the border. I used Straight from the Nest to cut out the cupcake @ 2. I used Sweet Treats to cut out "21" @ 1.5 and added orange stickles to the flame.

Please stop by my blog, 3 Cats and a Bug and see what else I've been up to! Thanks for looking.

Slider Invitation!

You are invited!!!!  Hi ~ Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway with a super fun invitation for you!

I saw a slider invitation in Hobby Lobby's  Scrapbooking Magazine (1st Quarter 2012) and thought it looked like fun to make.

As usual, I grabbed my Gypsy and got started.

I lined up all of my elements on separate Layers.  I started with a 6x6 square.  I put a circle at 5 inches on the next layer.  

I put the doily from Easter 2010 on the next layer at 3.13 inches.

I put a scalloped oval from Art Philosophy on the next layer at 2.57 inches.

I put the fancy oval tag on the next layer at 1.25 inches (the size of the coordinating stamp).

I welded two butterfly borders from Paper Trimmings at 1 inch and put them on the next layer.

I opened yet another layer and copied all of the pieces onto one mat to cut them out.

I used white card stock for my doily, orange cardstock for my circle, and scrap paper for the rest.

I cut a 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 square from light blue cards tock.  I cut my striped paper 6x6 and adhered it to the blue card stock.

The blue scalloped oval is cut on 2-sided paper.  I don't like the blue side as much as I thought I would.

I flipped it over!  Much better.

I used the You're Invited stamp from CTMH ~ these stamps come with the Art Philosophy Bundle.

I cut out this butterfly (2.24 inches) from Hannah Montana to attach to the slide.

I only glued the center of the butterfly layer and bent the wings up just a bit.

Here is the closed invitation.  I hope you can come!!

Oh Happy Day!

I loved this project because I have an amazing friend who just graduated. She has worked so hard to get to this point and is now about to have a new baby. I am very proud of her. I made this card to give her with a gift card.

I used Daisy Bucket Designs Patterned Paper from the In the Meadow collection. This paper is Finley. I also used DCWV card stock.

The ink in Quick quotes and gel pen. I inked every edge. I popped up the graduation cap to give the card added dimension.

The cartridges are Tags Bags Boxes and More for the tag at 4.8 inches x 3. The scallop circle is from Easter 2010 at 3 1/2. The graduation cap is from A child's year at 2 1/2 inches.

The ribbon is from JoAnne's.

I used my gypsy to cut all the pieces. I am in love with my gypsy. Even though my cartridges are right behind me on their lovely shelves I love not having to search one out and switch the carts on the machine. I can just pop the item into search and tada onto the mat ready to be cut.

Spring!

Good Morning!



This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug.



Sweet Sassy Diva asked her DT use a kite as their theme for this week. While I'm not a DT member, I do play along when I can. :)



I started off with with the girl and kite shadow from A Child's Year cut @ 4.75 in purple and the regular cut at the same size in pink.

I didn't want the rope of the kite done in paper, so I cut it off both images.

I took some twine and put it where the paper had been. I taped it on the back so it would stay in place and "shredded" the tail end of it.

I cut a solid color at 4 X 5.25 and the patterned paper just a hair under that size. I added "spring" colored flower soft to the bottom. (My husband bought me a flower soft kit for Mother's Day and this is my first time using it.)

On the kite, I used Crystal and Glam Pink Stickles to add some interest. (Sorry for the bad picture!)

I glued everything but the twine down.

The bottom piece of my easel card was cut @ 3 X 4 and the patterned paper just a hair smaller. Spring was cut @ 1.25 from the Easter 2010 cartridge with the shadow. I added Pink Glam and Yellow stickles along with Viva Decor Violet pearl pen. I added 4 blue gems to the top to hold up the easel card.

The easel base was cut @ 4.25 X 11 in light purple.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Easter!

Hi, this is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug.

I actually had all my Easter cards done (it's been a long winter lol), but I love this bunny from the Nursery Tails Imagine cart, so I had to make another card! He was cut @ 3, True size. I added a left over bow from the Easter 2010 cart. The butterflies were cut @ 1.5, True size. I added stickles to the body and glossy accents to the wings. The grass was also cut with the Easter cart and stretched in Design studio. The Happy Easter is leftover, so I'm not sure on the size of that. The trellis is from StoryBook, cut @ 1, also a leftover.

On the inside of the card I used the other butterfly, the bunny cut @ 1 True size and flipped. The lined paper and border were cut @ 4 True size with some green ribbon added.