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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doodlebugs – Brewing Up Some Halloween Fun

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m creating for the Doodlebugs shop as usual, but the shop blog is no longer being used so I thought it would be important to keep things going here in case anyone has questions on the creation process.

Today I’m playing with Mama Elephant spooky goodness and adding some Pretty Pink Posh and Waffle Flower dies to round things out.

I started by choosing images from Mama Elephant Bewitched to stamp, color and die cut out. The Mummified set came out in the same release and would be a lot of fun to mix with this or substitute if you have that one but like this layout.

Next, I cut the Waffle Flower Nested Piercing Ticket Frame from black and white cardstock. I kept the white insert and ink blended it for my scene with teal and brown inks, adhering the insert to the black frame with washi tape on the back side. I glued the house and moon directly to the panel and quickly thought it would be cool to color the edges of the images to match, so I did. Then I placed the scene in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Fall on the bottom.

Next, I popped the witches and kitty up with foam squares on my scene panel. To add more interest to the background, I cut a piece of white cardstock with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate and ink blended it with purple ink to coordinate the reoccurring color in my images.

I glued the scallop panel to a card base and popped the scene panel up with foam tape. Then I finished the design off with glossy accents and stardust Stickles on bits of the images – windows, moon, stars, etc.

Products used today:
Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Fall stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate
Waffle Flower Nested Piercing Ticket Frames dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents

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

Doodlebugs – Special Delivery from Out of this World

Happy Mix it up Monday friends! I’m here with a lighter and brighter take on outer space than I typically choose. It’s been hot so I’ve had watercolors out to play with and had the urge to try some lighter galaxy vibes. I had fun and the outcome is really pretty!

To create my card, I played with watercoloring the background one evening and then chose some images from the Pretty Pink Posh Outer Space set to stamp. The next morning, I splattered the watercolor panel with white and black paint and colored my images with copic markers before it heated up.

That evening I die cut the background panel with one of the Mama Elephant Mod Heart dies. Then I used coordinating dies to cut the images out as well. For my sentiment I chose a Banner Greeting from Mama Elephant. I added foam to the back of everything because you know I love my dimension!

Before assembling it all I chose a light periwinkle blue cardstock to adhere to my card base, then I removed the release paper and adhered things one layer at a time. Then for finishing touches I added glossy accents to bits of each image.

Isn’t this a fun card!?! The sentiment is generic enough that it could be used for any number of occasions from new baby boy to just sending love. These kind of cards are my favorite to make and have on hand because that right occasion is just around the corner every single time.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Outer Space stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Mod Heart dies
Mama Elephant Banner Greetings dies
Foam squares, strips and tape
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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

Doodlebugs – Seashell Shaker Card

Hi friends! I’m on the Doodlebugs blog today with a really fun seashell shaker card to share with you. I mixed and matched more of the Pretty Pink Posh and Waffle Flower June beach releases to make this one. They just play so well together, it’s natural.

I started this card by playing with the Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil combo. I cut the frame from white cardstock and chose an assortment of Lawn Fawn dye inks to color it in, one layer at a time.

Next, I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Seashell Shaker die – solid once from white cardstock and once from acetate, then I cut the shaker frame from white cardstock 6 time. I inked one of them lightly with teal and apricot inks. I glued all of the white frames to the solid base, and glued the inked frame to the acetate. Next, I filled the shaker wells with glitter, microbeads and heart confetti before gluing the top layer in place.

While that was drying, I took a piece of white cardstock and spritzed it with Distress Oxide Spray and Distress Spritz for color and shimmer.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamp and die combo. Now, with all the elements finished and dry, I started assembling the layers with liquid glue, except the sentiment which I popped up with foam squares.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamps and dies
Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Seashell Shaker dies
Lawn Fawn inks – juice box, blue jay, guava, peach fuzz, mermaid
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Blending brushes

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

Doodlebugs – Heading Back to the Beach

Happy Monday everyone! Back this week to playing with all things beach! Have you noticed how much amazing beach-themed product has been released this year? It’s over the top and I’m here for it! Today I took the time to play with Waffle Flower and Pretty Pink Posh beach releases from June. Still loving it all!

This card starting with the Waffle Flower Lighthouse and Coastline die sets. I love that the Coastline set comes with a simple coloring stencil and the lighthouse dies were so easy to put together! I used some copic markers on the lighthouse for dimension. Plus I added splatter to my sandy beach panel from the coastline.

Moving on to the background panel, I chose the Pretty Pink Posh Seashell background stencil and Lawn Fawn forget me not ink. Then I spritzed it with Solar Spray for shimmery texture.

I used liquid glue to adhere the lighthouse to the rock and then glued that whole scene to my background panel. I adhered that to a card base and moved on to choose my spattering of sentiment strips.

The Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strip dies and stamp series are literally one of the best investments I’ve ever made. They’re available for every occasion and the perfect little addition to almost any design. I chose three from the Summer stamp set and cut them out with the smallest strip die, then adhered them with liquid glue too.

This might be the flattest card I’ve ever created. But it works so well and I love it!

Products used:
Waffle Flower Lighthouse dies
Waffle Flower Coastline dies
Pretty Pink Posh Seashells background stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip | Summer stamps
Liquid glue
Solar Spray – golden hour
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn forget me not, peacock, narwhal and walnut inks

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

Doodlebugs – Spooky Wishes

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

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

Doodlebugs – Seashells Everywhere

Welcome everyone! I’m not over the beach theme and I found a new stencil set to play with on top of it! Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog brings us beautiful stenciling for quick coloring and some relaxing seashell coloring too. It was a great crafting session!

I started by die cutting and ink blending the new Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil combo. It’s so easy to use and is going to be so fun to mix and match different color combos on!

Next, I chose a handful of seashells from the new Pretty Pink Posh Seashells stamp set. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I arranged them how I wanted and used liquid glue to adhere them together. Then I chose a sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Summer set and cut it out with the Sentiment Strip dies, along with a scalloped shadow too.

For my background panel, I chose saltwater taffy Distress Spritz spray for shimmer and light color. I think it goes so well with everything else going on but doesn’t distract from the images at all. After it dried, I adhered it to a card base with liquid glue and attached the frame, images and sentiment strip with foam squares.

I’m having so much fun creating with all of these new ocean themed goodies that have just released! Do you enjoy beach and ocean crafting? It makes me want to put my toes in the sand for sure!

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Seashells stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Summer stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil combo
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Lawn Fawn mermaid, peacock, manatee and carrot inks
Distress Oxide abandoned coral and tattered rose inks
Distress Spritz Spray – saltwater taffy

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