Doodlebugs – Sending Love Valentine Mice

Welcome everyone! It’s time for Mix it up Monday with Doodlebugs! Still in my Valentine vibe and every time Lawn Fawn comes out with more cute mice, I must play with them! I just adore their little stances and cute faces!

Today’s card started by stamping all the images from the Lawn Fawn Valentine Mice set and coloring with copic markers. This is a mid-size set so it’s great for your pocket book but complete enough to use it on projects on its own too. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and set it aside to figure out my background.

While I was digging around for a stencil or embossing folder for my background, I remembered these awesome Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Heart dies from last year and thought they would be perfect! So I started cutting them from all my red and pink scraps. Then, because it’s me, I didn’t want a plain background so I spritzed distress sprays on a piece of white cardstock to add color and texture at the same time. Then I glued my hearts directly to that.

Then I added foam squares to the back of my mice and the mini sentiment that amazingly has a coordinating die to it and placed them in different areas of the card. Triangles are appealing to the eye so I keep that in mind when positioning focal points.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Valentine Mice stamp set and trimmed it into a couple of sentiment strips. These are popped up with foam strips. Then I finished the design off with a touch of glossy accents on mouse noses and the baby hearts.

Status check, have you created anything Valentine themed yet???

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Valentine Mice stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hearts dies
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Distress Spray Stain – lumberjack plaid, gold
Glossy accents

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Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – Berry Best

Happy Friday friends! I’m back with another card featuring different products in the Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create Berry Best release. This card actually came about because of my previous card on Tuesday. It’s funny but I hadn’t opened the dies for the coordinating stamp set until I needed them. It wasn’t until then that I realized it’s a dual die set! It can be used with and without the stamps! So naturally I started playing around immediately!

I cut all the pieces from white cardstock so I could use my Stellar Inks and blending brushes to add color on my own. And, of course they had to be chocolate covered the moment I had the option! So after I die cut and ink blended all the pieces, I used liquid glue to assemble everything and get a good idea what I had to work with. They’re SO GOOD!!!

I wanted a background but something quiet and soft so my strawberry die cuts really popped. I pulled out the Very Berry stencils again and, without reinking my blending brushes added color using my red, green and brown brushes. I trimmed that panel down to 3.75×5 inches and used my Spellbinders corner notch punch on the corners to give interest.

Next, I adhered the strawberries together and added foam tape to the back of them. I used them as a guide where to stamp my sentiment. I stamped the sentiment in my MISTI before actually adhering the strawberries in place. This time I used love bomb ink for the sentiment.

Wanting a contrast between the stenciled panel and the card front, I knew I didn’t want it white but I wasn’t convinced of a color. This often ends up in my choosing layers to get multiple colors so I don’t have to choose. Hence my border panel that is also notch punched and my card front color – I couldn’t choose one or the other of those to go with my design. But I do love the combo!

Products used:
Berry Best stamps and dies
Very Berry stencil set
Spellbinders notch corner punch
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Blending Brushes
Stellar Inks

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Newton’s Nook – Love Quarry

Hi everyone! Today I’m back on the Newton’s Nook blog with a Valentine themed card featuring one of my all-time favorite sets – Love Quarry! It’s punny and so cute! Also fun to color and create with in a variety of ways!

Today I stayed with a more traditional color palette throwing in a splash of my favorite teal to break things up. I stamped and colored images from the set and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Next I ink blended the Bokeh Hearts stencil set on a piece of teal cardstock before die cutting it with the rounded rectangle found in the Frames & Flags die set. While the set was out, I also die cut a white panel using the largest die in the set.

Back to the teal panel, after die cutting it I spread texture paste through the Petite Hearts stencil for dimensional texture as well.

After the texture paste dried, I stamped my sentiment on the upper right corner and started arranging my images. This is what I thought having a “ground” for my cement mixer would be awesome and I pulled out the Valentine Word Trio dies! Finding coordinating cardstock colors, I cut and paper pieced the XOXO panel together. Then I adhered it all to the teal panel with foam squares.

There’s never a shortage of dimension on my cards. So now that the teal panel is perfect, I popped it up on the white pane with foam tape and then added that to a red card base. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to parts of the truck and cones. It makes such a difference!

Are you creating Valentine goodies yet?

Products used:
Love Quarry stamps and dies
Frames & Flags dies
Bokeh Hearts stencils
Petite Hearts stencil
Palette knife
Texture paste
Liquid glue
Foam squares and tape
Glossy accents

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Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – Thank You BERRY Much

As promised I’m back with another card featuring a couple of the products in the new Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create release. Today we’re using the background stamp again and the full Berry Best stamp set.

I don’t often stamp my coloring even when the solid stamps are in a set, I like to color. But today I wanted to give it a try and I loved it! Using this new Berry Best stamp set and my Stellar inks I just played. I stamped the outlines in black widow – two sets of everything on the stamp sheet.

The first round of strawberries are stamped in bee sting and because I didn’t have a plan I stamped the second set in love bomb to see the contrast. Then I stamped the leaves in later gator and the flowers in shooting star. I used the coordinating dies to cut these out and just started playing around. Originally thinking two cards with the different sets of strawberries. Then I realized they were the perfect length so create the design I have here.

Once I had my design estimated. I stamped the dotted leaves background stamp on a piece of light green cardstock using iced out ink. I glued that to a white card base with liquid glue. Next I arranged my strawberries along the seam and picked them up with a strip of post-it tape. This is where I was able to glue the leaves down to the card front and add foam squares to the strawberries to pop them up.

Then I removed the post-it tape and glued the flowers on top. I added the whole thing to my MISTI and stamped a sentiment using love bomb ink and finished the design off with stardust Stickles in the center of the flowers.

Products used:
Berry Best stamps and dies
Dotted Leaves background stamp
Stellar Inks
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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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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