Dancers Dancing! Two Challenge Projects from the Weekend Before Christmas!

I have sooo missed doing the challenges!  To catch up, I have been crafting like crazy!  These are my challenge projects from this weekend.

The first one is a challenge I did for the Circle MB.  The challenge was to use a second 'machine' in addition to the Cricut.  I LOVE my Xyron thanks to Allison and Caroline on the board.  The Xyron makes glittering a snap-- the glitter is adhered permanently and smoothly every time.

This is a surprise door decoration for my daughter's room.  I cut all the 'dancers' from Twinkle Toes at 7".  I drew on the faces using a Zig Millenium 01 and Sakura white jelly roll pens with colored pencils.  In between the dancers, letters spell her name.  For those, I used Mini Monograms.  The background scallop was cut at 3" and the front circle with the letter was cut at 2-3/4" using the 'dots' feature.

 For fun, these are each of the dancers:

They are all connected with brads.  I just had so much fun with this!

My next project was the Weekly Blog Challenge #12:  Nine Ladies Dancing.

For this project, I used one of the dancers from Shall We Dance.  I discovered an omission on the layers for this figure-- the hair is missing at her shoulder on the right.  I hand-cut that to look more like the cart.  I cut the character at 8-1/4" and then just chopped off her bottom half.  I cut a second figure, cutting off her head and hands in order to create a pattern for her new shirt. 

I hand-cut her top, adding the loop side of adhesive velcro for the fur trim, as well as buttons and jewelry.

I cut four packages from Sweethearts at 1-1/2", and then hand-cut the remaining 5 gifts, since the requirement of this challenge was to include nine of any one thing.  All elements were adhered to or pop-dotted onto cardstock that I cut to fit my envelope and finished (after folding for the card) at 6-1/4" x 9-1/4".

I love doing challenge projects and really had so much fun completing these!  I am loving these new dance cartridges, dancing or not!

It is the weekend before Christmas and I still haven't put up the tree but mass tonight was beautiful in the Cathedral of the Assumption and I was reminded of the hope and anticipation that comes during advent.  Hug your family and say a prayer for peace this year.