Remembering Jujubee

Hello, friends.  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that we lost our sweet cat, Jujubee, last Christmas Eve, and that my husband and I were quite torn up about it.  After a few months, I can now talk about her and remember her without getting choked up.  But I still feel her absence, and I miss her terribly.  I crafted this layout of my sweet girl that is up on the Core’dinations blog today.

I chose a photo of her when she was in her prime, during a period of my life in which I had a cozy little backyard with lots of grasshoppers for her to hunt.  She really was such a coquette – flirtatious, feminine, and with the prettiest markings.  So I chose pink as a major color, and played with sanding edges of the deeper colored die-cuts for a subtle, quiet, elegant result.

I die-cut these pretty birds using Core’dinations Core Essentials in  Burgundy, sanding the edges.  For a bit of dimension, I propped the birds’ wings up on a small pop dot.

The pretty flourishes were crafted the same way, creating nice movement without being distracting.

To soften the horizontal lines of the composition, I added some Sizzix die-cut branches  in a  softer hue, “Concerto,” and paper punched some dainty blossoms in “Snowflake.”

This butterfly in the softest tint, “Rose Embroidery,” was dry embossed and sanded to further the natural theme of this layout.

Hope you’ll stop by the Core blog to see a card project as well!

-Vivian

SUPPLIES:
Core’dinations – Core Essentials in Burgundy, Concerto, Rose Embroidery, and Snowflake, Sand-It Gadget, Dust Buddy
Sizzix – Dies and Embossing Folders
Fiskars – Small Floral Punch
My Mind’s Eye – Patterned Paper
Prima – Self-adhesive Gems