Doodlebugs – Cutest Cupid Around

Hey friends! I’m back with a Doodlebugs Mix it Up Monday post for you! I haven’t been the greatest at getting these written up but we all have goals right?!? I’ve been having fun creating Valentine themed things for a bit now and I’m so excited to start sharing them!

I couldn’t wait to play with the new Lawn Fawn Valentine accessories for the build-a-critters! And I love this bunny so it was the perfect combo! I did a little ink blending for depth and some white gel pen highlights on the nose and eyes. So cute!

Next, I ink blended a white panel with the Pretty Pink Posh layered hearts stencil set. I used Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers and lobster with blending brushes. Then I die cut the Pretty Pink Posh Love Word Shaker from the center of the panel.

I glued the negative of the panel to a red panel and added that to a card base but it wasn’t working for me. So I popped up the actual die cut for a subtle raised look. Then I added the cupid bunny to that with more foam squares.

I was mindful to use a top fold card base when I assembled my card so that I could easily wrap and tie some twine around the top of the card to finish the design off. This twine has a strand of silver sparkle in it too!

Products:
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Bunny dies
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Accessories Valentine dies
Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils
Pretty Pink Posh Love Shaker dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – lobster and ballet slippers
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Gelly roll pen – white

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Ranger Ink – A BERRY Cute Simon Hurley Release Day

Hey friends! I’m going to be popping in and out the next week with some really fun inspiration with today’s Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create release! It’s the BERRY cutest and most fun to create with for sure!

Today I have a pair of cards I created using one stenciled background torn in two! That’s right, I inked the new Very Berry stencils with my Stellar Inks and blending brushes, used some new stellar paste on the final layer, let it all dry and tore it in two pieces.

Then I cut two teal card bases and stamped the new Dotted Leaves on those with iced out Stellar Ink. I took the stenciled pieces and added foam tape to the back before popping them up on the teal card bases and also inked the torn edges for added interest. I like how this looks on the raw edge.

After adding those torn panels, I chose sentiments from the new Berry Best stamp set and stamped them in the bee string and loch ness ink colors that my ink blending was done with.

This is such a fun release with so many options to create different styles of projects! This is just the tip of the iceberg for what I’ve created. So, stay tuned!

Products:
Very Berry stencil set
Dotted Leaves background stamp
Berry Best stamp set
Stellar Ink – iced out, loch ness and bee sting
Stellar Paste – white lie
Foam tape

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Newton’s Nook – Thanks a Latte

Happy New Year everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve been on here but I plan to remedy that getting back into the swing of things in the new year. I hope your holidays were wonderful and you’re recharged and ready to start anew.

Today I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog with a little winter thank you, which I find great to have in my stash after the holiday gift giving.

I created this background with white cardstock and a few different distress oxide sprays and distress spritz sprays. The oxides give great base color and the spritz give that perfect shimmer and shine in the light. Once the panel was dry I used the largest Newton’s Nook Frames & Tags die to cut the panel down.

Next, I die cut some of the Snowfall snowflakes and chose cute mugs from the Cup of Cocoa set to go in the center of each one. I stamped and colored those with copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut each one out.

I adhered the mugs to the snowflakes with a foam square and arranged them scattered on the distressed background panel. Then I cut the sentiment “thanks a latte” from white cardstock three times and blue cardstock once, using liquid glue to adhere all the layers together.

Last, I added the whole panel to a white card base with foam tape before finishing the design off with stardust Stickles on various parts of each mug. I love a little sparkle!

Products used:
Frames & Tags dies
Snowfall dies
Thanks a Latte dies
Cup of Cocoa stamps and dies
Distress Oxide Sprays – prize ribbon and speckled egg
Distress Spritz Spray – broken china
Stickles – stardust
Liquid glue
Foam squares and tape

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Doodlebugs – Distress Sprays for Holiday Color

Happy Mix it up Monday again! Today I have a card to share that I worked on intermittently for a few days. Spritzing and spraying with distress oxide sprays, water and watercolor to get fun textures before die cutting my pieces. It was really low stress and fun to pop in the craft room play a little and leave to see what it looked like after it had dried.

I did this with red, green and yellow panels to create my poinsettias. Then I added some white paint splatter to my kraft background for texture as well. There are quite a few layers to the Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettias so I didn’t used foam on them at all, just liquid glue and reverse tweezers to hold pieces while they dried.

I chose the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover die for my background, so when I went to choose which Banner Greetings die to use, I chose the one with the same piercing detail on it. I stamped and heat embossed sentiments on the banners and did add foam strips to the back so they laid nicely with the poinsettia layers.

After gluing everything down and to a white card base, I did trim off any excess from the foliage so it fits in an envelope nicely.

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettias dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover die
Pretty Pink Posh Banner Greetings dies
Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Banner Greetings stamps
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Foam strips
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Distress Oxide Spray and Spritz – squeezed lemonade, wild honey, rustic wilderness, forest moss, lumberjack plaid, tarnished brass

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Doodlebugs – Crafting is a Labor of Love

Hello everyone! For today’s mix it up Monday, I’m sharing a fun holiday card with you using Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and stencil; paired with Pretty Pink Posh sentiment dies. But what I want to focus on in the design is being willing to take the extra time to make a simple stenciled background extra. Crafting is a labor of love and sometimes it’s not about the fastest version but one that makes you happy in the end.

I started this card by wanting to create the fun sweater-style background you see using the Lawn Fawn Cozy Sweater stencil. In order to accomplish this, I taped off one section at a time ink blending each line individually. Sure, it would have been quicker to go at the whole thing with one color but it wouldn’t have had the same look or impact on my card design.

Pulling from the colors of my background, I stamped and colored two of the kitties in the Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats stamp set. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside.

Then I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Merry sentiment from white cardstock 4 times and glued the layers together with liquid glue. Then I cut the shadow from vellum and adhered the two together. I glued this to my stenciled panel and popped the kitties up on either side with foam squares.

Then I stamped and heat embossed “Christmas” from the Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats add on and trimmed it into a rectangle. I popped this up with foam strips so it laid nicely on top of the “Merry” sentiment.

To finish off the design I added glossy accents to both kitty noses and stardust Stickles to the scarf, mittens and earmuffs.

Products used today:
Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats Add On stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Cozy Sweater stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Merry dies
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, jalapeno, mermaid, lobster
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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Newton’s Nook – Let it Snow

Hi friends! This is my last Newton’s Nook post for 2025. The year sure flew by, didn’t it?!? I think so but don’t they all. I’m here today to share a fun winter themed card with you. This is typically my sentiment because we don’t get snow often where I live but I can understand those that get so much might not agree.

To create my card, I started with a piece of white paper and lots of strips of teal and blue cardstocks in varying widths. I didn’t measure any of the strips, just chopped away. I glued them down in a random order and trimmed the panel down to just smaller than the scalloped panel from the Frames & Flags die set.

Once the striped panel was complete, I took the white scalloped panel and cut three of the Snowfall snowflake shadows from it. Then I used those pieces to cut the snowflakes from them. I splattered some distress oxide spray and pearl watercolor across the panel and left it to dry.

Next I used just the sentiment die and cut Let it Snow from three colors of blue and teal cardstocks gluing them together shifted just a bit to show all the colors. Once the cover panel was dry, I added foam squares to the back and attached it to the strip panel from the beginning. Then I used liquid glue to add my snowflakes in their spots and the sentiment in the area between them.

Last, I just glued the whole panel to a white card base and my card is finished. How are you doing with your holiday card stash? Are you finished and have them mailed out or still creating until the last minute?

A small tip, as it gets closer to the holiday and I might not need as many actual Christmas cards, I try to keep the sentiments generic so that they might be used for thank you cards after the holidays as well.

Products used today:
Snowfall dies
Frames & Flags dies
Let it Snow dies
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Distress Oxide Spray – mermaid lagoon
Pearl watercolor

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Ranger Ink – Postage Fun plus Stenciling

Hello everyone! I’m here today with another card featuring some of the holiday releases from Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create! I love these fun vintage postage images in the Christmas Postage stamp set. I have had a few colored and cut out on my desk for a while but creating a card with them was eluding me every time I tried. Then, everything came together. It’s funny how that works sometimes.

My images are stamped and watercolored on watercolor paper and then fussy cut out. I added foam squares to the smaller ones and popped them up on the larger image.

For my background, I layered the stars from the Sparkling Stars stencil set over a piece of light teal cardstock and blended loch ness Stellar Ink over the top. I removed that and placed the sparkle layer over the panel and spread fool’s gold Astro Paste through that layer.

When that was dry, I used a corner rounder punch on the panel and wrapped jute twine around the left side, tying it in a bow toward the top. Then I added foam tape to the back, avoiding the twine so it lays flat. Next, I ink blended the edges of a kraft panel with weeping willow Stellar Ink and glued that to a card base.

Finally, I removed the release paper on the foam tape and popped my teal panel on the kraft card front. Isn’t this such a fun and whimsical design?!? I’m so happy I waited it out and didn’t force the previous designs I tried.

Products used:
Christmas Postage stamps
Sparkling Stars stencil set
Astro Paste – fool’s gold
Stellar Ink – loch ness and weeping willow
Blending brushes
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Sending Joy & Cheer

Welcome to another Mix it Up Monday for Doodlebugs! Today we’re playing with lots of dies and creating a fun, shaped card for the holidays.

I picked up the new Lawn Fawn Build a Fox and some of the holiday dress add ons a bit ago and was just itching to play. So I set some time aside with no intention other than to build a cute fox for the holidays.

After I built him, I knew he had to be the star of the show. So I dug through my Spellbinders dies to find the perfect scene, landing on the one of my favorites – Make a Wish Arch Labels. I cut the base twice, once from green and once from white cardstock. I scored the white about 1/2″ from the top and glued the two together at the flap so I have a shaped card base now. Then I cut the next size down from white cardstock ink blending the center with green and splattering some water and distress oxide spray on the panel as well.

Next I cut two Pretty Pink Posh Banner Greetings shapes from black and red cardstocks. I heat embossed one of the Christmas Banner Greetings sentiments on the black one. I glued the layers together and then added foam strips to the back, along with foam squares to the back of my fox.

I removed the release paper, adhering both to the white panel before adding more foam tape to the back of that, adding it to the shaped card base. I finished the design off with glossy accents on the fox’s cheeks and stardust Stickles to the pompom on his hat.

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Build a Fox dies
Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels dies
Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Banner Greetings stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Banner Greetings dies
Foam strips and squares
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn artichoke ink
Distress Oxide Spray – rustic wilderness
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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Ranger Ink – Watercolor with Ink and Reinkers

Happy Tuesday everyone! I’m here with simple, festive card to share using Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create products. Just simple stamping and watercolor with the same inks I stamped in. It’s really as simple as that to add color to your images.

I chose my image from the Christmas Borders stamp set and stamped it on watercolor paper with tropical tango stellar ink. Next, I took a clear acrylic block and smooshed my ink pad on the corner. I spritzed that with water and proceeded to use a paint brush to color in my leaves. The light leaves are one layer and the darker ones are two and three layers of ink.

Next, I smooshed love bomb Stellar Ink on another acrylic block and painted the berries in the same way. Gathering your ink from the ink pad gives you a more diluted color which works great when you’re painting with the same color you’re stamping in. If you want a deeper, richer color, I suggest dropping one or two drops of re-inker on the block and painting with that.

I used my heat gun to help the watercolor dry and then went back in to add more layers on various leaves and berries. After hitting that layer with the heat gun as well, I splattered the panel with tarnished brass Distress Spray Stain.

Once that dried, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Skating By on the lower right corner. Finally, I glued the panel to a card base and wrapped some green organza ribbon around the top.

Have you tried this technique before? How do you feel about it? I think it’s refreshing to throw something different in from time to time.

Products used:
Christmas Borders stamps
Skating By stamps
Stellar ink – love bomb and tropical tango
Distress Spray Stain – tarnished brass
Liquid glue
Heat gun
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – black
Anti-static bag

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Doodlebugs – Christmas Tags Have Begun

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! If you’ve been around for a minute, you know I love making tags for all occasions. I rarely give a gift without a tag attached and sometimes I make tags for fun and go hunting for a gift to give it with. Yes, I’m serious I’ve done that more than once.

Let the Christmas tag create commence! Today I’m using Mama Elephant tags, Lawn Fawn stencils and Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies. Dig in your stash and see what strikes you! Tags are a fun, smaller canvas and can serve as a quick bit of crafting to scratch the itch or possibly pull you out of a creative slump.

Mix and match different colors and textures. Remember you can write on the back of the tag or cut a second one so you have another layer to write on. This also gives you more area to write if you’re adding a little message along with it.

I’m curious today too. How do you attach your tags to gifts? Do you tie them on with a longer string? Attach them with tape or glue? I usually create my tags like they’re shown in the photo and depending on the gift, add double-sided tape to the back of the last layer or thread a thinner string through the knot at the top to tie them on a bag.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Holiday Word Scenes stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Sweet Shoppe Frame dies
Lawn Fawn Woodgrain stencil
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn walnut ink
Foam squares
Distress Spray Stain
Gelly Roll white pen

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