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.
Hi there! It’s Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog and today we’re celebrating my favorite way…TACOS!!! I love the new taco cart add on to the Lawn Fawn Treat Cart series. It’s so fun and makes me giggle because mexican food is my favorite!
So today, I chose a few images from the Treat Cart original set and the Taco Cart add on set, stamped and colored them. Then I used coordinating ides to cut it all out and a little liquid glue to assemble the pieces together.
Then I snagged the Mama Elephant Scallop Circles dies and cut the stitched circle from white with the two back layers from orange and green. Such a festive color combo! I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together and ink blended a little yellow in the center of the circle to take off the harsh white background.
Next, I took a piece of white cardstock measuring 4×5.25 inches and spritzed it with Distress Oxide spray and Distress Spritz for color and shimmer. Then I took my Lawn Fawn jalapeno ink pad direct to the edges of my card base for texture and color. While that was drying I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment and cut it up into sentiment strips.
For assembly, I popped the orange panel up with foam tape, then popped the circle up on that. The taco stand is glued directly to the circle and the critters are popped up with foam squares. Last, I added the sentiment strips with foam strips filling in some of the white spaces. For finishing touches today I just added white gel pen highlights to the images.
What’s your favorite type of food? The one that makes you happy dance in your seat…
Products used: Lawn Fawn Treat Cart stamps and dies Lawn Fawn Taco Cart Add On stamps and dies Lawn Fawn Taco Cart Sentiments stamps Mama Elephant Scalloped Circles dies Distress Oxide Spray – spiced marmalade Distress Spritz Spray – squeezed lemonade Lawn Fawn ink – jalapeno Liquid glue Foam tape, squares and strips Sakura jelly roll pen – white Embossing and watermark ink Embossing powder – white Anti-static bag
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Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! On the Doodlebugs blog today I’m mixing some really fun bookish products together. I have a very special librarian in my life who I needed a card for so this was extra fun to pull together.
I started by die cutting and inking up the Waffle Flower Open Book die and stencils. I used blending brushes and Lawn Fawn dye inks to color the layers. It was so much fun! I can’t believe it took me this long to give it a try. I’m for sure hooked and excited to make some with the new Christmas stencils too!
Once that portion was finished I pulled out the Concord and 9th Wood Plank embossing folder for my background panel. I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches after it was embossed and inked it lightly with gray to bring out the texture.
Next, I pulled out the Lawn Fawn Little Woodland Library stamps and dies to choose the sweet reading critters to place around my open storybook. After those were stamped, colored and die cut I moved on to assembling the parts together.
Wanting a little contrast I added deep sea ink to my card front before popping the wood plank panel up with foam tape. Then I glued the storybook down with liquid glue and popped up my critters and sentiment strip with foam squares and strips.
For finishing touches I just added a little glossy accents on the worm’s glasses and white gel pen highlights on all the stamped images.
Products used: Waffle Flower Open Book dies Waffle Flower Open Book stencil Waffle Flower Open Book Dragon Castle stencil Concord & 9th Wood Plank embossing folder Lawn Fawn Little Woodland Library stamps and dies Lawn Fawn Sentiment Strip die Embossing & Watermark ink Embossing powder – white Anti static bag Blending brushes Lawn Fawn dye inks Foam tape, squares and strips Liquid glue
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Hey friends! I interrupt your regularly scheduled summer fun for some spooky wishes featuring the Mama Elephant Halloween awesomeness that recently released! If you’ve been here for just a minute, you know Halloween is my favorite and any excuse to create for it has me ALL IN!
I had a general idea that I wanted to create a big sentiment with the adorable mummies and witches around and in the letters somehow. So I started with my background to set the tone and choose my color palette…perfect summerween colors! I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencil set on pink cardstock to start off with. I used Lawn Fawn carrot and jet black inks.
Next, I adhered white cardstock to craft foam and covered the back with adhesive sheet. Then I die cut my sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Henry’s ABCs die set. This gave instant dimension with less work than cutting each letter 4 times and gluing them together. After arranging my letters together I chose a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Label die to cut from vellum as a backdrop.
Now that I had a general placement and size of open space, I chose a couple of mummies and a witch from the new Mama Elephant sets – Mummified and Bewitched. I stamped, colored and die cut them, then adhered each mummy with foam squares and the witch with liquid glue.
Hiding adhesive behind the letters and images, I adhered the vellum panel with tape runner to the stenciled background. Next, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a card base.
For finishing touches I added orange glitter brush pen to the sentiment and white gel pen highlights to the images.
On a scale from 1 to spooky, how much do you love crafting for Halloween?
Products used: Mama Elephant Mummified stamps and dies Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencils Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies Blending brushes Lawn Fawn inks – carrot and jet black Liquid glue Adhesive sheets Craft foam Foam squares Tape runner
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Hey friends! I’m in full beach mode these days, loving all the new beach themed goodies coming out and having fun pairing them with some favorites I didn’t get enough of from previous years!
For today’s card, I got inky and splattery and loved every moment of it! I started by playing around with the Waffle Flower Beach Tote. I cut all the pieces, stamped my towel stripes and heat embossed my sentiment. Then I used liquid glue to adhere it all together.
To create my beach scene, I cut a couple pieces of kraft cardstock using the Lawn Fawn hillside borders and splattered them with brown ink and white paint for that sandy look. Then I cut a piece of cardstock with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover die and splattered it with distress oxide spray and white paint.
When everything was dry, I glued the back layer of sand to the sky panel and then popped the beach tote up with foam tape. Next, I added the front layer of sand with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares.
Finally, I glued the whole thing to a card base and finished the design off with glossy accents on the sunglass lenses.
Now, who’s ready for a trip to the beach? ME!!!
Products used: Waffle Flower Beach Tote Combo Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover die Lawn Fawn Hillside Border dies Foam tape and squares Liquid glue Glossy accents Lawn Fawn walnut ink White paint Distress Oxide Spray – mermaid lagoon
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Hey friends! It’s Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog today! I’m sharing some really fun stenciling in a bunch of color combos because who doesn’t love a good citrus!
I was really in the mood to play with stencils a little bit ago so I went digging through all my layering stencils, finally landing on this fun Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stencil set. I inked it up with the orange combo because it seemed immediately logical but right after that I thought, I want to make lemons and limes and, what about grapefruit too!?! So I did.
The final layer is the juice splatter so I spread glossy gel through it and sprinkled those with super fine glitter for sparkle. While those were drying I cut some Lawn Fawn scripty sentiments from white cardstock – 3 layers for each card – and glued them together with liquid glue. But I didn’t like the white sentiment so I cut another layer for each card and inked it with the same inks I used on the stenciling.
Once the panels were dry, I trimmed the edge off and lined the back with foam tape. Then I inked the edge of my card base to match each panel and adhered them together. Last, I glued my sentiments in the center and suddenly have an adorable set of 4 cards done!
Hi friends! It’s getting juicy around here! There are lemons for days and I’m here for it. The original idea was for one card but I ended up with so many lemons and lemon slices that I just couldn’t let them spoil, so we’ve got two cards today!
They are the same design but I put the sentiment in different places so you could see the options; maybe you like one place better than the other. Personally, I couldn’t choose.
To get these started I took yellow cardstock and splattered it with white paint. Then I took watercolor paper and did some ink smooshing with different yellow inks. When the papers were dry, I cut bunches of lemons and lemon slices using the Lawn Fawn Zesty Lemon dies.
Next, I cut the center piece from white cardstock. This is the clincher right here. This step ended up giving me twice as many slices as planned because I loved the combo both ways so I made them all!
I cut two notched squares using the new Pretty Pink Posh dies from teal cardstock and used them as a guide for the size of my lemon wreaths. I used liquid glue to adhere the lemons together and an acrylic block to hold them in place while they dried.
While those were drying I got messy with distress oxide spray and spritz on my teal squares. I also added some watered down white paint to these for more texture.
While all that was drying, I cut pink panels for my card fronts and glued them to bases. I inked the edges a little with a blending brush and ballet slippers ink but I think the colors were too close because it didn’t show up a lot. Next, I cut Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strips and stamped my sentiments on them. This one came from the Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamp set.
Then everything was assembled with foam tape and squares so there is a bundle of dimension and visual interest on both cards. For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the centers of the flowers on both cards.
Products used: Lawn Fawn Zesty Lemon dies Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamps Pretty Pink Posh Notched Squares dies Distress Oxide Spray and Spritz – salvaged patina and cracked pistachio Liquid glue Foam tape and squares White paint Blending brush Lawn Fawn ink – bubblegum, ballet slippers, sunflower, carrot Stardust Stickles
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Hello again everyone! I’m on the Doodlebugs blog with a bundle of thank you tags I created for the end of the school year. The design is really versatile, easy to do it batches and cuter than cute!
To create these cards I did them in a few different sessions. First, I ink smooshed some watercolor paper with dark yellow and orange inks. Then I took yellow cardstock and spritzed it with Distress Oxide ink so it had some texture. Then I let all of that dry. Next, I die cut the yellow with a 2″ circle and the ink smooshed panels with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Sun Frame. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and an acrylic block to hold them flat while they dried.
Next session, I stamped and colored the same cute Mama Elephant Little Agenda Hedgehog and used the coordinating die to cut him out. I also die cut a banner from the Mama Elephant Banner Greetings die set and glued the layers together.
In my last session, I added the banners and hedgehogs to the sunshines with foam strips and squares. I finished each one off with some blue twine to tie on the gift bags I have set aside and stardust Stickles on the little flower he is holding.
I don’t want to ruin any surprises but these are going on gift packages with a “don’t grow up, enjoy summer” vibe and I’m really excited about them!
Products used today: Mama Elephant Banner Greetings dies Mama Elephant Little Agenda Hedgehogs stamps and dies Lawn Fawn Stitched Sun Frame dies Waffle Flower Nesting Circles dies Foam squares and strips Liquid glue Lawn Fawn sunflower and carrot inks (ink smooshing) Distress Oxide Spray – mustard seed Stickles – stardust
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Hi friends! Today’s card came about in a funny way. I had a scrap of copic paper left over months ago. Randomly I stamped 2 Mama Elephant critters on it because they fit perfectly. Then that piece of paper has moved all around my craft desk and the clipboard I use to color on since then. Randomly, I came across them again while looking for fresh copic paper to stamp on and today’s idea just hit me! So I switched gears and went to work…
After coloring and die cutting the first two critters, I realized that I needed a third. So I remedied that and set them aside to work on my fun background idea…faux notebook paper with the Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes Portrait die! I cut the backdrop from white cardstock and glued it to a card base. Then I used a ruler to keep my lines straight and BG11 and R20 copic markers to add the notebook lines.
Next, I added foam squares to the back of my critters and set them in place while I stamped some of the fun designs from the Mama Elephant Write With Me stamp set. I used colored ink for some a black ink for the text. After those were stamped I felt good about the critter placement and actually removed the release paper from the foam squares and stuck them down.
Next I pulled sentiments from the Mama Elephant Way To Go stamp set and added them around the critters. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to critter noses, glasses and parts of the pens.
It’s end of school year/graduation time so I thought this card would be perfect to share now! It could go to a kiddo or a teacher celebrating the end of the year.
Happy Mix it up Monday again everyone! I’m excited to be playing with the new interactive dies from Lawn Fawn! I love this style of interactive card. They are honestly easy to create and really fun to decorate with any theme of products!
I highly recommend watching Lawn Fawn intro videos for any and all interactive dies. Kelly Marie does a fantastic job explaining the parts and how to assemble it all. Here is the link to this one specifically – Intro to Pull ‘n Slide Surprise.
To create my card, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Fresh Berries stamps and dies. I stamped a ton of berries, the basket and extra leaves. I colored everything with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it all out. Next, I followed the video to create my interactive mechanism using patterned papers for fun visual interest.
With the interactive portion done, I adhered my berries and basket with liquid glue to the bottom half of the sliding part so my box of berries pops up instead of folding in half. Remember to be mindful of where you’re gluing things on this style of card.
I carefully used an acrylic block to stamp the smaller portion of my sentiment on the berry basket and then stamped and die cut the other portion to pop up at the bottom of the scene. Finally, I added white gel pen highlights all over the images.
Do you like making interactive cards? It’s been a while but I really do enjoy it and hope this was my intro to getting back into the swing of things.
Products used: Lawn Fawn Pull n’ Slide Surprise dies Lawn Fawn patterned papers Pretty Pink Posh Fresh Berries stamps and dies Foam squares Liquid glue Tear tape – 1/4 inch Lawn Fawn raspberry ink Sakura gelly roll pen – white
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