Doodlebugs – Wish Big Floral Birthday

Welcome everyone! Mix it up Monday is taking a birthday turn this week. With florals even! If you’ve been here you know that I gravitate toward all cute critters with a side of whatever strikes me at the moment. Well, the Waffle Flower die and stencil combos are very inviting and I really couldn’t resist the Rose Bouquet set. It’s big and beautiful. A perfect focal point to play with.

So I started my card with that using blending brushes and Lawn Fawn inks – lemonade and no. 2 pencil for the flowers with mermaid and peacock for the leaves. Then I die cut teal cardstock with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate and splattered it with watered down peacock ink, white paint and unicorn watercolor paint.

While that was drying, I used the Pretty Pink Posh Wish Big dies and cut my sentiment out. I added gold glitter foam to an adhesive sheet and cut it out. This made it easy to remove the backing paper and adhere it directly to the florals.

When the scallop panel was dry, I glued it to a white card base and then added foam tape to the back of the florals. The dimension from the florals and the foam sentiment is perfect together.

I finished the design off with a scattering of yellow glitter enamel dots across the whole design. I love how the pops of yellow on the side break up the teal and tie in with the flowers perfectly.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Wish Big dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover die
Waffle Flower Rose Bouquet die and stencil combo
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Spellbinders die cutting foam – gold
Adhesive sheets
Glitter enamel dots
Lawn Fawn inks – mermaid, peacock, no. 2 pencil and lemonade
Blending brushes

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Doodlebugs – One of a Kind

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m working my way out of all things valentine and into some fun spring ideas; I hope you don’t mind. Today we’re playing with ladybugs and big beautiful sentiments! I love that combo!

The start of this was purely to play with the Pretty Pink Posh Ladybugs layered stencil set. I inked up the body layer with a combo of red and orange inks because you see such a variety of ladybug colors anymore and I thought they should all be here. Then to finish the stenciling off, I spread black widow Stellar Paste through the dots for some shine.

While that panel was drying, I stamped images from Pretty Pink Posh Lovely Ladybugs and colored them with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and then moved on to heat embossing a sentiment from Waffle Flower’s Old Friend Sentiments stamp and die combo. I went ahead and also stamped and die cut the sub sentiment using Lawn Fawn lobster ink.

Digging through my cardstock I found this great melon color and decided it was the perfect base for my card front. After trimming it down, I glued it to a card base and used a corner rounder on opposing corners. Then I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 4×5.25 inches and rounded the same corners. This panel is popped up on the card front with foam tape. Then the sentiments and ladybugs are all added with foam squares as well.

For finishing touches on today’s card, I just added glossy accents to the dots and antennae of the colored ladybug images.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Lovely Ladybugs stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Ladybugs layered stencil set
Lawn Fawn inks – lobster and carrot
Waffle Flower Old Friend Sentiments stamp and die combo
Foam squares and tape
Embossing & watermark ink
Anti-static bag
Embossing powder
Glossy accents
Blending brushes
Stellar Paste – black widow
Paste tools

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Doodlebugs – Valentine Mini Note Cards

Over the years I have done many different things to celebrate Valentine’s Day differently at home. One year I made a scavenger hunt for my daughter to find her gift, another year I made a mini tag or card to tape to her door every morning leading up to the day, and others I make a card or tag to give my daughter and husband on the holiday. As I was creating these mini note cards I was thinking they would be perfect lunchbox notes on random days in February to brighten anyone’s day.

I made 5 note cards because I simply couldn’t resist stamping and coloring all of the adorable versions of the Lawn Fawn Critter Conversation Hearts! After coloring, I stamped a senitment in each heart and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I took notes from Mona Toth and added vellum wings to their backs using the Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Valentine Accessories die set.

Then, for each one I die cut the Pretty Pink Posh Mini Scallop Card from teal cardstock and the decorative panel from pink. I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils to add a little interest behind the images. Nothing crazy, just Lawn Fawn ballet slippers pink on pink. I glued the panel to the card fronts and popped the critters up with foam squares. The designs are finished off with some white gel pen highlights on the hearts.

Do you have any fun Valentine traditions or ways of celebrating to share?

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Critter Conversation Heart stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Valentine Accessories dies
Pretty Pink Posh Mini Scallop Note Card dies
Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ballet slippers ink
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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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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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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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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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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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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Doodlebugs – Christmas Mice Duo

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m here today with a pair of cards featuring the same products in two colorways to help stock my stash for Christmas cards before it’s here.

I started by cutting the Mama Elephant All Tied Up cover from pink and teal cardstocks. Then I cut the string and bow from white and rose gold cardstocks to see how the different colors looked. They’re both good but I think I like the flashy better.

I cut white card bases next and inked up the front with the Pretty Pink Posh deco leaves stencil coordinating with both panels I had ready to go. I used Lawn Fawn peacock and ballet slippers inks here.

I pulled out the Mama Elephant Holiday Happiness dies and cut both sentiments from red and pink cardstock, using liquid glue to adhere the layers. I always have a hard time choosing which to use so I love making double cards for these to use one of each.

Next, I stamped two sets of the cute mice from the Lawn Fawn Sweet Christmas Mice and colored one set gray and the other brown. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and now we can start assembling everything together.

The gift panels are glued directly to the card bases, along with the ribbons strings. Then I popped the sentiments and mice up with foam tape and squares. I finished the designs off with glossy accents on mouse noses and stardust Stickles on bits of each image.

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Sweet Christmas Mice stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Holiday Happiness dies
Mama Elephant All Tied Up dies
Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ink – ballet slippers and mermaid
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares

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