Doodlebugs – Beach Vibes

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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Doodlebugs – Citrus Stenciling All the Ways

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!

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Citrus
Lawn Fawn Scripty Congrats die
Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello die
Lawn Fawn inks – celery stick, jalapeno, lemonade, sunflower, carrot, peach fuzz, bubblegum
Liquid glue
Foam tape

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Doodlebugs – Postage Collage Happy Mail

Hello friends! Today for Mix it up Monday, I’m playing with some more of the Waffle Flower Postage Collage series. I love all of these and that you can mix and match bunches of them together if you want. It adds life to the product and makes it more fun today play with. Today I had a hard time breaking up my rainbow of envelope stamps though.

After die cutting the postage collage base, I cut that with the postage collage envelope base. Then I stuck it to my grip mat and used the postage collage envelope stencil to ink them up in a rainbow of colors.

I used my scissors to trim them apart and arranged them on an A2 scrap of cardstock before using liquid glue to adhere them all together. While those were drying, I cut a piece of dark blue cardstock with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate and splattered that with white paint.

Once all of that was dry, I glued the blue panel to a white card base and popped the envelopes up on that with foam squares. After trimming off the excess I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment from the Waffle Flower Birthday Wishes set. This set has coordinating dies so I also cut it out before popping it up with foam squares to match the level of the envelopes.

For finishing touches here I added a little sparkle to the envelope hearts with stardust Stickles.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Postage Collage dies
Waffle Flower Postage Collage Envelope die
Waffle Flower Postage Collage Envelope stencil
Waffle Flower Birthday Wishes stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover plate
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – guava, juice box, mermaid, cilantro, sunflower, carrot
Anti-static pouch
Embossing & Watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Stardust Stickles

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Pretty Pink Posh – Using Shaped Dies for Tags

Hello everyone! So, I needed a set of gift tags and thought mixing and matching dies to create them would be fun and different. Traditional tag shapes are cute and all but how fun is it to get a butterfly shaped tag attached to your package!?!

I even coordinated the colors of the butterflies with the gifts inside the bags since they are clear cellophane bags. It’s going to be adorable! To start these off I cut two different butterflies from the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Butterflies die set. Then chose a mid-sized body to go with them. I placed the butterflies in my splatter box and sprayed them with distress spritz spray and solar spray for fun shimmer and sparkle in the light. Once they were dry I used liquid glue and reverse tweezers to adhere the layers together.

Next, I cut the smallest die in the Mama Elephant B2B Arches die set from teal cardstock. Then I stamped a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Essential Tag Sayings stamp set. It seemed boring so I pulled the sketch heart from Mama Elephant’s Write with Me set and stamped in with Lawn Fawn mermaid ink above the sentiment.

Last, I punched holes in the butterfly wings and threaded them together with the sentiment tag using pink jute twine. I think they’re super cute and can’t wait to hand these gifts out.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Butterflies dies
Mama Elephant B2B Arches dies
Mama Elephant Essential Tag Sayings stamps
Mama Elephant Write with Me stamps
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Solar Spray – royal flush
Distress Spritz – tattered rose
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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Doodlebugs – When Life Gives you Lemons…

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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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Spring | Summer Hop

Hi friends! I’m excited to revive my love of creating caffeinated cards for today’s hop! And, as always, proud to be a super sponsor for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hops. Today you have a chance to win $20 to the Twiddler’s Nook shop.

I took a moment earlier this week to create a fun shaker card using a number of our products to do so and I wanted to share it with you today!

I used a number of fun Pretty Pink Posh products, paired with Twiddler’s Nook embellishments and tools to create my sweet teacup shaker card. Starting with the shaker teacup, I filled it with primrose confetti bits and the spring fling mix too.

Moving on to the background, I used our blending brushes with the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Sunflowers stencil set. After inking all the layers, I thought it would be more fun to add texture to the flower center layer so I mixed paint with texture paste to make the perfect yellow paste to spread through the stencil.

I had so much fun creating this sweet card and hope you enjoyed the bit of inspiration too!

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Doodlebugs – Thank You Berry Much Slider Card

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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Doodlebugs – Ink Blending and Die Cutting

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! Today we are creating a fun card using nothing but ink blending and die cutting techniques. It was really fun to pull this card together and when I was finished I realized that I didn’t stamp or color a single thing. It was a woah moment.

First off, I recently ordered a couple of die and stencil sets from Waffle Flower which is what started this whole journey…just playing with new goodies, having no plan in mind. That’s how I ended up with my sentiment and those beautiful little butterflies – Waffle Flower’s Multiple Butterflies Combo and Overlapping Birthday Combo.

This is kind of funny but in that same order was the Mama Elephant Classic Card Quads. I immediately thought it would be a perfect background for the fun stenciling I had just done. So I chose 1 style and cut it 4 times from white cardstock. Then I layered the Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil over the top of 2 at a time. I inked one blue and one green to go with my sentiment since the butterflies were already pink.

After removing the stencil, I didn’t like how white the panels still were so I added a light layer of the same color over top and thought it flowed much better. Then I added foam tape and squares to the back of everything.

After adding everything to a white card base, I came in with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the butterfly wings for just a little sparkle.

Products used today:
Waffle Flower Multiple Butterflied Combo – stencil and dies
Waffle Flower Overlapped Birthday Combo – stencil and die
Mama Elephant Classic Card Quads dies
Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – ballet slippers, mermaid, jalapeno
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen – clear

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Doodlebugs – Spring Philosophy

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I had a lull between new, fun orders being delivered so I gave some of my older spring products a little love. It started with a little relaxed coloring and quickly became a card design in my head.

All of these adorable images are from the Mama Elephant Rainy Days stamp set. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.

Next, I cut a smaller Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangle from light gray cardstock and stamped my sentiment in the middle. As soon as I read this sentiment, I knew I had to use it today! It’s probably the #1 best philosophy for spring.

I wanted a little texture on my card base without distracting from the colors of my images so I inked up the Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil with gray ink before popping my sentiment panel up in the center with foam tape.

Last, I added all the images with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to critter noses (including umbrellas) and all the raindrops too.

What are your thoughts on spring? It’s my least favorite season and I can’t wait for summer to take over. That’s where this sentiment comes in handy and keeps me positive.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Rainy Days stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangles dies
Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn Narwhal ink
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Continued Birthday Inspiration

Hey friends! It’s Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog and I’m very behind on birthday cards for the year so forgive me if it seems like that’s all that’s on my mind for a while. Today I’m mixing some cute new Pretty Pink Posh critters with the great Lawn Fawn giant sentiments.

I loved how the kitty and puppy go perfectly on either side of the sentiment so I stamped those plus a couple accessories straight away and colored them in some fun colors. Then I used the Pretty Pink Posh Candles layered stencil set and inked them in the same color-way.

Next I did a bunch of die cutting all at once. I cut the images out and used the largest Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangle to cut the stenciled background. Then I cut the sentiment 4 times from cardstock, using liquid glue to adhere all the layers together.

Before assembling everything I did a few extras to various parts of my card. I used a dark yellow copic marker to add detail to the flames on the stenciled candles. Then I used a BG copic marker to add darkness to the bottom of the letters on the die cut sentiment. Finally before assembling everything I to the mermaid ink pad directly to the card front to tie in the teal and give the background some texture at the same time.

To assemble, I glued the sentiment to the stenciled panel and popped that up on the card base with foam tape. Then I added the images with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue depending where they overlapped the sentiment.

For finishing touches I added a few white gel pen highlights before coming in with my classis glossy accents for noses, flames and hat pompoms.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Dogs and Cats stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Candles stencils
Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangles dies
Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Birthday To You die
Lawn Fawn mermaid, ballet slippers, sunflower and cilantro inks
Blending brushes
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Sakura gelly roll pen

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