Doodlebugs – Fall Mice Postcard

Welcome back to Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs! Today I’m playing with the recently release Mama Elephant postcard dies, in a fall theme before fall gets away from us!

There are quite a few layers on the postcard die set so I didn’t use foam today at all, just liquid glue to adhere the layers together. My card front is dark brown, then I glued the striped pieces from the postcard to a piece of white cardstock so they popped more. Next, I glued the kraft layer to that.

With all of that decided, I cut the postcard panel and postage stamp from white cardstock and inked them up a bit. The edge of the stamp is lightly inked with brown ink. Then I masked off the edges to ink the center with light teal ink. Then I added speckled egg distress oxide ink to the center of the postcard panel, splattering more ink after for added texture.

Finally, I pulled out the Lawn Fawn You Autumn Know set to choose my images. I stamped and colored everything with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut it all out. I glued the images down with liquid glue and then placed the panel in my MISTI to stamp the first portion of the sentiment on the upper left area.

I finished this design off with glossy accents on all the mouse noses and white gel pen highlights on the mice and the leaves. This turned out so cute and the postcard die set is really fun to create with! It’s going to be great at valentine time!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Postcard Combo dies
Lawn Fawn You Autumn Know stamps and dies
Blending brushes
Distress Oxide Ink – speckled egg
Lawn Fawn Ink – walnut and mermaid
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Happy Fall

Welcome to this week’s Mix-it-Up Monday for Doodlebugs! We’re into full fall mode with Halloween behind us now so let’s celebrate that with a sweet fall-themed card today!

This card actually started with the sentiment which I created for another card but it didn’t end up fitting. I always save those items in case they can be used later on. So with that in mind, I inked up the Lawn Fawn Autumn Breeze stencil using a combo of fall colors on a kraft panel. I cut that panel with a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels and Tag die, then inked the edges with brown for depth.

I chose a few images from the Mama Elephant Hey Pumpkin stamp set to stamp and watercolor. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and arranged everything with my sentiment on the kraft panel. The sentiment has 3 layers of white cardstock behind the blue so it stands up nicely. I added the images with foam squares so they’re on the same level.

Next, I found the green polka dotted cardstock in my stash but you could always stencil or emboss your own to match. That is glued to a card base with liquid glue and the sentiment/scene panel is popped up on that with foam tape.

Watercolor doesn’t say “shiny” or “sparkly” to me so I don’t typically add any finished touches like that to these cards. I like the muted tone and the soft way about them, so I leave them how they are. But if you’re in the mood, add whatever speaks to you!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Hey Pumpkin stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Autumn Breeze stencil
Lawn Fawn Hey Fall die
Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels & Tag dies
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – pumpkin, jalapeno, walnut, lobster

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Doodlebugs – Star Treat Boxes

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! Today I’m giving life to the awesome new Lawn Fawn star treat box die. It’s perfectly designed – as theirs always are – and going to be so fun to use year round! Let’s get started with some Halloween treats!

I started by cutting the boxes from black cardstock. Then like in the Lawn Fawn intro video, I used adhesive tape to adhere the box as I built it. Be sure to watch the Lawn Fawn intro videos for all of these interactive-type die sets. They’re a life saver!

Next, I ink smooshed some spooky colors on watercolor paper for a mottled effect. Then I stamped my Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Word Scenes images and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I love the extra color but the pictures needed to pop so I added a little extra coloring here and there throughout.

Next, I added foam squares to the back of the word scenes and removed the release paper. Before adding them to the box fronts, I looped up a bit of embroidery floss for some added interest behind them. Places where the floss covered too much of the foam square I added some liquid glue for good measure.

To finish these off, I stamped and die cut Pretty Pink Posh Halloween sentiment strips and popped them up with foam strips below the word scenes on each box. Last, I added stardust Stickles on parts of the images for some sparkle and fun.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Halloween stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Word Scenes stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Star Treat Box die
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Embroidery floss
Stickles – stardust

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Doodlebugs – Joyful Wishes Mice

Welcome to Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs everyone! This week really switches gears to holiday inspiration from all directions so bear with me if you’re still in spooky mode.

Today I created a simple card using the Mama Elephant Candy Cane Lane stamps and dies. I started by stamping and coloring three of the mice with copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to create my background.

Taking an A2 size white panel of cardstock, I used post-it tape to mask off the bottom portion of my card, a few inches from the top. I ink blended that section with Distress Oxide Ink in tattered rose and spun sugar for a soft peachy pink gradient. Then, leaving the mask in place, I stamped the mushroom house from Candy Cane Lane on the right side.

I also stamped my sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Wavy Christmas Greetings stamp set on the bottom before gluing the panel to a white card base. Last, I popped the mice up with foam squares and added stardust Stickles to the poms on each of their hats.

Isn’t this a sweet but simple Christmas card!?! I adore how it turned out!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Candy Cane Lane stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Wavy Christmas Greetings stamps
Foam squares
Distress Oxide Ink – tattered rose and spun sugar
Liquid glue
Stardust Stickles

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Doodlebugs – Grateful for Fall

***Sorry friends, I had this scheduled for the wrong day so it’s publishing a day late.***

Hey friends! This week for Doodlebugs Mix it up Monday, I’m really feeling the fall vibes. I have been itching to play with these Lawn Fawn Sunflower dies since I got them and today it just felt perfect!

Instead of using colored cardstock for the petals, stems and leaves I used distress oxide and spritz sprays to add color to white cardstock. It gives great texture, shimmer and depth. After the panels were dry from spraying them, I cut out the pieces and used liquid glue to assemble everything.

I cut a red background panel at 4×5.25 inches and ink blended the Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil over top with darker red ink. Then I ink blended the edges for depth before adding it to a white card base.

Next I popped up my sunflowers with foam squares. Then stamped and die cut a sentiment using the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips stamps and dies. I glued the layers together and popped it up over the stems with foam strips.

For finishing touches on the design I glued a scattering of brown flat sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Here’s a close up look at the texture on the sprayed sunflower parts. I love them!

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Sunflower dies
Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Fall stamps
Pretty Pink Posh flat sequins
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn cranberry ink
Liquid glue
Foam squares and strips

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Doodlebugs – Potions Lessons

Hello again! I’m back with another Mix-it-up Monday for Doodlebugs and, of course, I’m back to my Halloween antics. This time we’ve got potions class. So grab your text books and turn to page 394 please.

I started this card by wanting to play with the Pretty Pink Posh Potions Shaker dies so I cut out all the bits and blending brushes to add shading and dimension. After that I splattered them with unicorn watercolor and let them dry.

While those were drying, I chose a couple of images from Mama Elephant Bewitched to stamp, color and cut out. Then I assembled my potion bottles, and decided on arrangement. I adhered them together with liquid glue and added foam squares to my images.

My gray background panel was too drab so I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Crackle Background stencil and inked it up. Then splattered the panel with darker gray ink for more distressing. We’re in the dungeon after all.

Finally, I adhered the panel to a card base, used liquid glue to adhere my potion bottles and popped my images on with their foam squares. I placed the whole card in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment in the upper right corner and finished the design off with just a bit of glossy accents on my witch and ladel.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Potions Shaker dies
Pretty Pink Posh Crackle Background stencil
Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn narwhal and manatee inks
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Foam squares

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Doodlebugs – Cozy Autumn Greetings

Welcome to Mix it Up Monday for the Doodlebugs shop! Today I’m falling into cozy fall vibes with a fun combo of Pretty Pink Posh and Lawn Fawn goodies new and older.

I started by die cutting all the bits from Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug and Fall Mug Additions die sets. I used some ink blending to give the pieces depth and liquid glue to adhere them all together.

Next, I pulled a piece of the new Lawn Fawn Favorite Flannel Fall paper pad for my card front, and cut a rounded rectangle from vellum to center my images. Next I heat embossed my sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips Fall on brown cardstock and used the coordinating dies to cut the strip and scallop panel out.

Everything was adhered with foam tape on the vellum panel and then another layer of foam was added behind those to pop it up on the plaid card front. To finish things off I glued down a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh espresso pearls across the design.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug dies
Pretty Pink Posh Fall Mug Additions dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Fall stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Pretty Pink Posh espresso pearls
Lawn Fawn Favorite Flannel Fall paper pad
Lawn Fawn Rounded Rectangle dies
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Embossing and watermark ink
Magic anti static bag
Embossing powder – white

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Doodlebugs – Halloween Word Art

Hi there! Today for Doodlebugs Mix-it-up Monday I’m playing with this new set from Pretty Pink Posh called Halloween Word Scenes. They are really fun spooky words and sayings with images in place of some letters. They’re adorable and a fun way to combine your sentiment and images into one.

I was really stuck on the “trick or treat” sentiment so I stamped and colored that first, then used the coordinating die to cut it out. I immediately went to the notched rectangle dies because it seemed like it would fit and I was right. It’s perfect!

After popping the sentiment up with foam squares on the black square, I switched to deciding what I wanted to do with my background. That’s when I remembered this new Concord & 9th embossing folder called Dashed Lines that I hadn’t played with yet. So I embossed a green panel and went over it with my blending brush to help those lines pop.

After gluing the embossed panel to a card base I thought it was missing something so I added a gray strip about 1″ wide behind the notched square. Then I finished things off with a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh pearls and some stardust Stickles on some of the images, plus glossy accents on the jack-o-lantern’s face.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Word Scenes stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Notched Square dies
Pretty Pink Posh pearls – pistachio
Concord & 9th Dashes Lines embossing folder
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn ink – artichoke
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents

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Doodlebugs – Rustic Christmas Inspiration

Welcome everyone! So glad you stopped by for this week’s Mix-it-up Monday for Doodlebugs! I’m squeezing in a little Christmas in between all my fall and Halloween crafting for the fun of it.

Today I created 2 of the Waffle Flower Poinsettia Frames with the die and stencil combo. I added some glitter brush pen to the yellow centers and die cut white glitter centers for the poinsettias themselves.

Next I used the Concord & 9th Woodgrain embossing folder on dark brown cardstock. I ink blended it with ground espresso distress oxide ink and splattered it with white paint. After gluing that to a card base, I popped the poinsettia frame pieces up with foam squares.

Last, I die cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from Spellbinders. I didn’t love the stark white background so I went over the edges lightly with my brown blending brush; I just didn’t add any more ink to it and used a light hand. Last, I added the sentiment to the center of the card with foam squares and liquid glue.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Poinsettia Frame dies and stencil
Concord & 9th Woodgrain embossing folder
Spellbinders Merry Christmas dies
Foam squares
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Beach Days

Hi friends! I’m here with my installment of Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs. I’m still intermittently playing with my summer goodies and having fun before it’s all things holiday! I have two cards to share today and they happened by accident in a really cool way.

I wanted to play with my recently ordered Concord & 9th Beach Days dies so I pulled out some colored cardstock and started cutting umbrella pieces. Once I had a good variety I just started assembling, honestly thinking it would be enough for one card. Nope, easily enough for two.

Once I figured that out, I pulled out watercolor paper and kraft cardstock to start making some sky and sand. I used distress oxide sprays for my sky and a splattering of watered down ink and paint for my sand. Those panels ended up being the perfect size to cut in half and use on both cards too. The umbrellas perfectly span the seam.

Once all of that was assembled, I stamped and heat embossed sentiments from the Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. But things were still a little empty so I die cut and added a sea gull to each card. Aren’t they funny up there?!? They make me giggle.

Products used:
Concord & 9th Beach Days dies
Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamps and dies
Distress Oxide spray – salty ocean
Lawn Fawn ink – walnut
White paint
Anti-static bag
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Foam squares and tape

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