Doodlebugs – Give You a Squeeze Card

Welcome everyone! I’m pining for sunshine and summer vibes lately so I pulled out some older favorites to craft my way into sunshine.

First I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamp set and stamped a whole bundle of each image in the set. I colored everything with copic markers in combos of oranges of lemons on my mind. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and started playing around with arrangements. I landed on this line of fruit vibe and used liquid glue to adhere them all together.

With this much direction I knew I wanted a vibrant, fun background so I pulled out this Lawn Fawn Stitched Wavy Backdrop. I spritzed distress oxide sprays on a panel. Let it dry and then spritzed it with water and watered down white paint. When that layer dried, I cut it out with the backdrop die.

Finally, I glued the background to a card base, then popped the strip of citrus up with foam squares. Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment in the Citrus stamp set on black cardstock and die cut it with a Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip die. This is also popped up with foam strips.

For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the flower centers and glued a scattering of yellow baubles I had in my stash.

Products used today:
Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Stitched Wavy Backdrop die
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Magic anti-static bag
Embossing powder
Embossing and watermark ink
Distress Oxide Spray – mermaid lagoon

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Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Day

Happy Release Day everyone!!! I’m so excited to share that the Newton’s Nook Retro Party release is available in the shop! Head over and snag your favorites now but make sure you join us on Instagram for a hop with prizes up for grabs too!

For the Instagram hop today, I’m sharing another card featuring Puppy’s Mix Tape and a different pattern from the Retro Mix toner card front pack too.

After foiling my card front, I decided to color my image in a bright rainbow of colors too! I used the coordinating die to cut him out along with a few of the music notes included in the Puppy’s Mix Tape stamp set.

I trimmed the foiled panel down and popped it up on a teal panel, then added a black border between the two. I added Puppy with a combo of foam squares and liquid glue to he lays flat against the raised panel. I added the music notes with liquid glue floating up from him as well.

I finished the design off with glossy accents on Puppy’s nose and toe beans, with stardust Stickles on the music notes and wrapped twine around the top of the card design.

Remember – head to Instagram and hop with us for a chance to win, then head to Newton’s Nook to order your favorites and party with us!

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Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Week Day 4

Now that we’ve shared some fun inspiration with Newton and Puppy, it’s time to highlight this great add on to the release – Party On! which is a great sentiment stamp set to have in your stash for lots of occasions!

Party On! stamps

Today I have a trio of cards I created with the new Card Layout 7 die and the New Retro paper pad. This is a fabulous way to bust out a bunch of cards to have on hand in your stash or if you have an occasion where you need multiple of the same theme of card.

I also want to point out that I assembled these three cards just a little differently to show ways you can change the look. With the background – one has just the frame popped up, another has just the inserts popped up and the other has the frame and inserts glued to the card front.

Here’s the look with the frame popped up and the sentiment banners popped up on the same level as the frame. Also, I added color to the card bases of these cards by taking my felt ink pad direct-to-paper which essentially means I drug it across the surface for a quick, easy, textured look.

This card has the frame glued down and the inserts all popped up with foam tape and then the banners popped up with foam tape on top of that. Lots of dimension and lots of interest. It’s also fun to mix and match ink/embossing powder colors for different looks.

This final card has the frame and inserts all glued directly to the card base and the sentiment banner is popped up with foam tape. I also mixed stamping and heat embossing sentiments on the same banner here for a bit of extra interest.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Week Day 3

Of course we started our highlights off with the famous Newton, but a fair amount of us are equally puppy fans so we couldn’t leave him out of this party!

Puppy’s Mix Tape stamps and dies

Puppy’s Mix Tape is equally as cute and with a new batch of mix tape titles, some of which are great to mix and match between Puppy and Newton!

For this card, I chose a few bright ink colors and blended them together on a white panel using distress oxide inks. I splattered the panel with water and blotted it dry. Then used the new Music Notes stencil and spread black widow Stellar Paste through for a great shiny background.

I stamped and colored Puppy with copic markers and used the coordinating die to cut him out. *Pro tip I forgot to mention before today – color your images and stamp your mix tape sentiment after to avoid possible smearing of the words.*

With all the pieces of my card ready I started to put it together and decided to change it up a little. I trimmed the stenciled panel down and added a glitter cardstock border. Then I blended some teal ink at the top of my card base before adding the panel with foam tape. Last, I added Puppy with some foam squares to the bottom right corner.

To finish things off today I tied some organza ribbon around the top and added my favorite glossy accents to Puppy’s nose and toe beans like always.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Week Day 2

We’re back today to highlight inspiration featuring the new Newton’s Mix Tape stamps and dies. Here’s a closer look at this adorable upcoming set.

Newton’s Mix Tape stamps and dies

He’s so adorable and those mix tape titles are absolutely purrrr-fect! Now, on to some added inspiration for this set.

Today I colored Newton in a different colorway and also used deeper, brighter colors for my 80s mix tape! Isn’t it awesome!?! I love it!

Today’s background features the new Retro Vibes stencil set. It’s a 2-step stencil with solid images on one and the dot/line details on another. So for the first layer, I used distress oxide inks for vibrant solid color. Then I combined a few of my Neon Lunar Pastes for the detail layer and I’m kind of obsessed with how awesome it turned out!

When the background panel dried, I glued it to a card base. Then popped up a scallop circle from the Circle Frames die set and added Newton to that with more foam squares.

I finished the design off with more glossy accents for Newton’s nose and toe beans, along with bright neon ribbon tied at the top of the card design.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Doodlebugs – Flying By to Say… and a Contest Winner

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m here with this week’s fun concoction, featuring the giveaway from last week – the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame – and at the end of this post the reveal of the winner of this die set!

To create this card, I stamped and colored the images from the Lawn Fawn Have a Mice Flight stamp set, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Switching gears to my background, I die cut the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame from blue cardstock and the frame from melon cardstock.

I paired my blue panel with the Lawn Fawn Stratus Cloud stencil, spreading white lie Stellar Paste through it for some great textured glossy clouds. Once that panel was dry, I glued the frame over the top and popped up my images in the center.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment, cutting it out with a Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strip die. I popped this up with foam strips and then added foam tape to the back of the curly screen panel to adhere it to a light yellow card base.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the mouse’s goggles and nose. Isn’t it so sweet?!?

Now, on to the part you scrolled down to find out…the winner of the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame die set donated by Doodlebugs!

Congratulations BO GILMORE!!! You are the winner! Please email me at twiddlersnook@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Products from today’s card are:
Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Have a Mice Flight stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Stratus Clouds stencil
Stellar Paste – white lie
Glossy accents
Foam tape, strips and squares
Liquid glue

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Week Day 1

Hey friends! So excited that it’s release week for Newton’s Nook and we’re taking it way back!!! Today we get to reveal the whole release with some fun inspiration and then through the rest of the week we will be highlighting different products each day for more inspiration!

Newton’s Nook Retro Party Release

Today I have a card to share highlighting both sets of toner card fronts, the awesome Party On sentiment stamps and our favorite Newton with his mix tape!

This card started by playing with the new toner card fronts. I first used a silver flower foil on the patterned panel from the Retro Mix Toner Card set, then took the negative foil from that and foiled it on one of the new Solid Black Toner Cards. It’s a great way to stretch your foil and get some fun reverse designs.

After foiling, I stamped and colored Newton’s Mix Tape with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut him and his music notes out. With a direction on color palette, I splattered my white foiled panel with ink and spritz spray that coordinated and die cut a circle from the upper center. I lined the back of the white panel with foam tape and adhered it to the reverse foiled panel so the patterns matched up.

Next, I added Newton and the music notes with foam squares. Then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Party On! on one of the banner trio dies. After gluing the ends in place, I popped this up with foam strips as well.

Finally I glued the whole panel to a white card base and tied some neon ribbon to the top. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and toe beans, along with the music notes too.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Spellbinders – All My Senses

Hello everyone and happy Friday! I hope your week went well and you’re ready for a fun weekend ahead of you! Today I’m here with a trio of cards featuring a couple of products from the recently release All My Senses Collection from Spellbinders. This is a beautiful collection with such a variety of products. Be sure to check it all out at Spellbinders.

If you’ve been around, you know that I love a good stencil set! Today I created three cards because this amazing Ambient Aura stencil set from the All My Senses Collection has 6 layers. They’re made to mix and match but also are labeled A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 so you can easily pair them. For my first round playing with them I kept them in pairs and created three backgrounds.

Because I wanted vibrant colors on my backgrounds, I used distress oxide inks for all the stencil blending today. I chose a lighter color for each layer and came in with a darker/accent color on the edges of each opening. Once the panels were inked up, I splattered them with water and let it air dry, then splattered all the panels with watered down white paint for more texture.

Then I trimmed or ripped edges of each panel so they were all just a bit different. Finally, I chose colors coordinating with my panels and cut the Line of Being die multiple times, using pieces from each color on my panels. These are all adhered with liquid glue directly to the stenciled panels.

I added foam tape to the back of each panel but before adhering them to my card bases, I chose coordinating colors of ink to add color the the card bases that would show along side the stenciled panels. I love the texture that direct-to-paper gives when you use felt ink pads, which is what I’ve done here.

Remember, not every card has to have a sentiment on the front. Sometimes it’s just a work of art and your words on the inside are their own work of art.

Products used:
Ambient Aura stencils
Line of Being die
Foam tape
Distress Oxide Inks
Liquid glue

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Newton’s Nook – Hogs and Kisses

Hi friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with some fun inspiration using older, but still favorite, goodies! Who doesn’t love a good farm pun?!? Definitely this girl!

I started by stamping and coloring a couple of adorable pigs from the Oink set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I found some great orange cardstock to cut my oval from using one of the Oval Frames dies. But I knew I needed to break it up with something so I went digging in my stencils.

That Argyle stencil will win the day every single time! I inked a white panel up with light teal and dark blue for a great play on the orange we’ve got going on. I trimmed the stenciled panel down by 1/2 inch and popped it up on a white card base. Then I stamped my sentiment on the bottom of the orange oval before popping it up on the argyle with the piggies.

I ended up not liking the white strip at the bottom of my card like I thought I would so I cut a strip of the orange cardstock and added it which I love! It’s great when things work out. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the piggy snouts, hooves and dots on the bandana.

This is such a fun love-themed card using anything but traditional colors and I think it’s fantastic!

Products used:
Oink stamps and dies
Argyle stencils
Oval Frames dies
Foam tape
Blending brushes
Stellar Inks
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – You Got This Card and GIVEAWAY

Hi friends! Happy Mix it up Monday! Today I’ve got a card to share plus a little giveaway at the end sponsored by Doodlebugs! Let’s get on with it!

For this card, I pulled out the Concord & 9th Fish Friends stamps and dies. I cut the fish from a bunch of different colors, then mixed and matched creating fun and vibrant fish along the way. Then I cut the base to one of the fish shapes and stamped my sentiment on it for a fun and interesting look instead of a banner.

For my background, I took a piece of white cardstock and spritzed it with different Distress Sprays – stains and spritz for bold color and shimmer. After the sprays dried I splattered a little water for some texture too. Then I cut the panel with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate.

I arranged the fish and seaweed to my liking on the background panel. Then I glued the seaweed down with liquid glue and added all the fish with foam squares. It made a big difference to give them height. Last, I glued the panel to a white card base.

GIVEAWAY:
Today I have one of the new Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame die sets to give away courtesy of Doodlebugs! Please leave a comment on this blog post by Friday, March 6 at noon PST. I’ll choose a winner later that day.

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