Doodlebugs – Fun Shaped Camping Scene Card with Extras Inside

Hello there! I’m happy to be on the Doodlebugs blog today sharing a sweet camping scene card on a fun shaped card. Plus, I’m horrible at this usually, but I extended my sentiment and, sort of, my scene to the inside too. I think it turned out really fun and am excited to hear what you think.

This card is extra fun with its different shape and that’s easy to do with any large shape dies you may have.

I cut the largest Essential Modern Oval from Spellbinders from white and yellow cardstocks. I placed the white one in my scoring board and scored it about 1/4″ away from the top edge. Then I added tear tape to that flap. This will be the back part of our card and hides the hinge on the back so it doesn’t interrupt your scene on the front.

Then I cut the next smallest oval from blue cardstock and inked the top edge with chipped sapphire distress oxide ink and the bottom part with ground espresso. Then I spritzed it with my distress sprayer and blotted it dry. I also flicked gold watercolor on the top portion for some stars in the sky.

I chose a few sweet images to stamp, color and die cut from Mama Elephant’s Around the Campfire. I love how these images mix and match for different camping scenes. Once these were ready to go, I arranged them on my oval to find the best spot to stamp and heat emboss the first part of my sentiment, which comes from Mama Elephant So Appreciated.

Now we can assemble everything. I popped the scene panel up on the yellow panel with foam tape, then also popped up the moon and bunnies while the campfire is attached with liquid glue. Then, I removed the release paper and attached the back part of my card base. After it was attached I used a bone folder to really burnish the adhesive strip and also reinforce the fold so the card opens nicely.

Next, I placed my open card in my MISTI and stamped the second part of my sentiment on the left side in black ink. After that I chose a couple of images from the front to stamp in light yellow ink. It gives a little something cute but if your writing goes over it, it’s still visible.

There was so much visual texture on the background panel that I just used an iridescent glitter pen on the flames and moon, along with black glaze pen on the bunny’s eye and the other bunny’s open mouth.

Do you stamp on the inside of your cards? Have you ever tried making a shaped card from your large dies? Share in the comments below!

Products used:
Spellbinders Essential Modern Oval dies
Mama Elephant Around the Campfire stamps and dies
Mama Elephant So Appreciated stamps
Distress Oxide Ink – ground espresso, chipped sapphire
Foam tape
Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Pen – clear
Sakura Glaze Pen – black
Bearly Arts liquid glue
Anti-static Pouch
VersaMark ink
Embossing Powder – white
Lawn Fawn ink – jet black, sunflower
MISTI
Scoring board

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Doodlebugs – Hip Hip Hooray Spellbinders Hot Foiling with Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters

Welcome, welcome friends! I’m so glad you stopped by today. I’m over on the Doodlebugs blog sharing a fun celebratory card featuring goodies from Spellbinders and Mama Elephant.

Today’s creation could very well be a birthday card but it’s also generic enough to celebrate just about anything you feel like!

I started my card today by stamping and coloring the two images from Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside.

Next, I heated up my Glimmer Hot Foil System and foiled the Hip Hip Hooray with rose gold hot foil. I thought it went perfectly with the pink in my balloons. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and set it with my images for now.

Next, I embossed a 4×5.25 inch piece of white cardstock with the Spellbinders Balloons 3D embossing folder. Then I used a blending brush to add some teal ink to bring them to life. I added foam tape to the back and popped it up on a white card base.

Then I added my sentiment and images with foam squares and started on finishing touches. For this little cutie, I added black glaze pen to his eyes, glossy accents to his nose and a little stardust Stickles to the sparklers.

Last, for this sweetheart floating in the sky I added black glaze pen to his eyes too and glossy accents to his nose and ALL of those balloons. It might be a little extra, but I’m so okay with it! It’s really fun and shines so pretty in the light.

These kind of cards are invaluable in my stash because sometimes you can’t plan the type of celebration you need a card for and it’s not always a birthday! Am I right!?!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters stamps and dies
Spellbinders Hot Foil – rose gold
Spellbinders Hip Hip Hooray hot foil dies
Spellbinders Balloons 3D embossing folder
Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System
Foam tape and squares
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Glossy accents
Sakura Glaze pen – black
Stickles – stardust

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Doodlebugs – Mini Note Card with Pretty Pink Posh, Mama Elephant and Spellbinders

Hi everyone! Today I’m sharing a mini note card featuring dies from Pretty Pink Posh, stamps from Mama Elephant and embossing folder and stamps from Spellbinders. This little card was so fun to create and I think they’re going to be a little addictive. They will be so fun to pop in lunch boxes or leave places for my family.

I really wanted to color this adorable image from Mama Elephant Storytime stamps, so that’s where I started…with no other plan in place. Sometimes this is the most therapeutic craft sessions. No pressure, just do something you want and if it turns into a completed project, cool. If not, you got to relax and color.

However, after I die cut this adorable image, it struck me that it might fit the Pretty Pink Posh Sweet Note card. And it did, perfectly! So I cut the base from white cardstock and the stitched square from teal. Then I added some texture to the square using the Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder. The embossed panel is glued to the card with liquid glue and the image is popped up with foam squares.

Then I found this perfect sentiment in the Spellbinders I’ve Got You Covered stamp set. After I stamped it, I just trimmed it into a strip and added it with a foam strip. For finishing touches I added some white gel pen highlights, black glaze pen to open eyes and stardust Stickles to the clouds and sun. Last, I did put little dots of glossy accents on noses and the frog’s crown.

Do you give little notes to your family members? I can’t be the only one. Lol!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Storytime stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sweet Note dies
Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder
Spellbinders I’ve Got You Covered stamps
Liquid glue
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Sakura Glaze pen – black

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Doodlebugs – Hip Hip Hooray Tropical Bird Hot Foil

Woohoo!!! I’m so happy to be joining the Doodlebugs team! I’ll be bringing you fantastic inspiration with your favorite brands mixed and matched together. Sometimes we get in a rut of using only one brand of products per project but remember that it’s fun to combine your favorites together.

Today I had some fun hot foiling with the new Spellbinders Hooray hot foil and die set. Isn’t that speckled prism hot foil eye catching! I love it! Once that was done, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Tropical Toucans and Trellis stencil to play around.

My orange panel measures 3×5.5 inches and is inked up with Lawn Fawn carrot ink for a tone-on-tone background. I popped the panel up with foam tape before adding my birds and sentiment with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the toucan’s eyes and glossy accents to their beaks. Next I put a bit of stardust Stickles on the the flower and finished the design off with a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh sea foam pearls using liquid glue.

I love how fun and happy this bright card is! It’s perfect for a variety of occasions and great to have in your stash.

Products used:
Spellbinders Hooray Hot Foil Plate and Die
Spellbinders Speckled Prism Hot Foil
Pretty Pink Posh Tropical Toucans stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil
Pretty Pink Posh sea foam pearls
Glossy accents
Sakura Glaze Pen – black
Stickles – stardust
Bearly Art liquid glue
Foam tape and squares

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Spellbinders – It’s My Party Too with Hot Foiling

Happy Friday everyone!!! I’m popping in today with a pair of cards featuring the Spellbinders It’s My Party Too collection. It’s a fabulous add on to Carissa Wiley’s It’s My Party so be prepared you’re going to want it all! Super versatile, brilliantly designed and amazing to create with!

To start off, I just pulled out some hot foil and played with that for a minute so I had extra sentiments when I was done. I used two from the Metallic & Holographic Variety Pack today.

I’m going to start with this Best Day Ever card because I’m a little obsessed with it and how totally cool the holographic foil is on the sentiment! I paired the sentiment with the new Tiny Dots embossing folder and the middle section you get using the Scrolled Punch & Pierce Plate.

You know I love dimension so the embossed panel is trimmed to 4×5.25 inches and popped up with foam tape, then the scroll frame and sentiment are popped up with foam squares too. To finish off the design I added some pink opalescent sequins across the design.

Next, I went a different route and added some stitching fun to my card.

I loved how the Hooray sentiment perfectly covered the length of the Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem die cut so I paired them together for a different look. I stitched in pink and added pink and purple layers behind the border. Then glued the hot foiled sentiment to the top edge.

Next, I embossed another 4×5.25 inch panel with the Tiny Dots embossing folder. This time I added a little ink splatter to the embossed panel using watered down spun sugar distress oxide ink too. Everything is popped up with foam tape the same way as the first card and I finished things off with the same scattering of sequins too.

Here’s one more look at the pair of cards together. They’re so shiny and pretty! I’m so happy with how they turned out and seriously love playing with that holographic foil in the light. It’s addicting.

Products used today:
Glimmering Best Day hot foil plate and die
Glimmering Hooray hot foil plate and die
Tiny Dots embossing folder
Scrolled Punch & Pierce Plate die
Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem dies
Metallic & Holographic Variety Pack hot foil rolls
Pink Opalescent sequins
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Ink – spun sugar

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Spellbinders – Daisy Mouse Watercolor Card

Welcome to a fresh, new week everyone! Thanks for stopping by today. I’m keeping things very clean and simple to start a very busy week. I have loved House-Mouse Designs for decades and am very happy to see them working with Spellbinders. I have the Daisy Mouse stamp set and chose to have some mellow watercolor time to create with it first.

My version of watercolor is more faux watercolor than anything. I stamped my image and sentiment on a piece of watercolor paper cut to 4×5.25 inches. All of my color is laid down with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then I use a wet paintbrush to move the color around.

I love the feel of watercolor and how it doesn’t have to be perfect to look gorgeous. Also remember that if you dry your ink between applications, it’s easy and so pretty to layer colors on top of each other for different looks.

When my painting was done but the panel was drying, I created a white card base but wanted to add some color to the edge. I grabbed picked raspberry distress oxide and added a light layer around the edge that would show through but the pink was not working for me. So I went right over the top with ripe persimmon and LOVE the melon color that I ended up with. It’s so pretty!

Once the watercolor panel was dry I just popped it up on the card base with foam tape and my card is all finished.

Products used:
Daisy Mouse stamps
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Distress Oxide Ink – picked raspberry and ripe persimmon
Foam tape

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Spellbinders – Stampendous Bear Hugs Release Day

Hello everyone! I’m popping in today to share a couple of cards featuring some of the new dies release by Spellbinders, the Stampendous Bear Hugs Collection. There are actually a bear, dog and cat to choose from and they are all fluffy cute and fun to play with!

I have the sweet bear and made a couple of cards to share with you today using him and the add on die sets too.

I cut my first bear and all his pieces from white cardstock so that I could ink blend and color with copic markers. It gives a whole different look than cutting from colored cardstock. Both are great, it just depends if you have the color cardstock you want or if you want to add more texture here and there.

After cutting and coloring my pieces, I used liquid glue to assemble the bear and his banner. Then I cut the deckled rectangles from orange cardstock and ink blended the bottom for a gradient depth. I cut a piece of teal cardstock and ink blended the edges of that before splattering it with teal ink as well.

I glued the panel to a card base and added the orange rectangles with liquid glue. Then I popped up my bear and the hearts with foam squares.

For my second card, I cut all the pieces from colored cardstock and used liquid glue to assemble everything. I found reverse tweezers to be my friend when assembling the envelope because it wanted to pop open.

For this background, I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4×5.25 inches and ink blended mustard seed distress oxide fading out toward the right. I splattered the panel with black paint and added the package with liquid glue and the bear with foam squares. After that I added the panel to a white card base with foam tape for added dimension.

Aren’t these just so sweet!?! They’re so cute and happy. Can’t help but smile.

Products used:
Stampendous Bear Hugs dies
Stampendous Hugs Accessories dies
Stampendous Fran’s Frames dies
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Ink – mustard seed, peacock feathers, spiced marmalade
Bearly Art liquid glue

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Spellbinders – Photosynthesis Collection with Distress Oxide Sprays

Welcome! Today I have a pair of cards to share with you using dies and hot foil plates from the Spellbinders Photosynthesis Collection. This collection has an array of wonderful products that play perfectly together but also great with others too! Today I used the Zig Zag Chevron cover plate frame and negative pieces to create two cards.

For the first card, I wanted to use the frame the chevron gives you with a textured background. The best way I could think to accomplish that was with distress oxide sprays.

I used mermaid lagoon and scattered straw on a piece of white cardstock. Once it was dry I spritzed it with water for extra oxidization and it blended the colors a bit too. Then I adhered the zig zag chevron panel over the top with liquid glue.

While that was drying, I die cut and glued together three flowers from the Floral Stems die set. I still have some sentiments I created using the Must-Have Sentiments hot foil plate and die set and there was a perfect one for the this card so I didn’t even have to create more.

I glued the flowers directly to the card front and popped the sentiment up with foam squares.

Next, I had the negative chevrons still in perfect placement in the die so I was able to create a second card really easily.

I just added glue to the back of the pieces and placed it on a white cardstock panel. I used my Tool-in-One to pop them out and removed the die. I couldn’t believe it but I only had to adjust one piece before placing an acrylic block on top to help it all dry flat.

While that was drying, I die cut and created more florals from the Floral Stems die set again. This time I added a little copic marker to the tips of the flower and I also added stems and foliage.

Same story with my sentiment…having a bundle already created is so cool! I highly recommend this trick.

I trimmed the chevron panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up with foam tape on a card base. Then I added the flowers and greenery with liquid glue before popping the sentiment up with foam squares again.

I can really see this whole collection being a go-to for a variety of cards in the future. It’s relaxing and fun to create with using different techniques.

Products used today:
Zig Zag Chevron cover plate
Floral Stems dies
Go-To Sentiments hot foil plates and die
Distress Oxide Sprays – scattered straw and mermaid lagoon
Foam squares and tape
Bearly Art liquid glue

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Spellbinders – Glimmer Cardfront Collection

Hi crafty friends. Today I have a pair of cards using the Spellbinders Glimmer Cardfront Collection. This is a small collection with large hot foil sentiments and a beautiful layering stencil. The stencil also has a coordinating die available if you weren’t going to hot foil sentiments over the top. I used it in my card earlier this month. Today I have two cards featuring the hot foil sentiments though.

I started with the card on the left because I wanted to pair the stenciled panel with the die cut frame you see and that sentiment fit so perfectly, I couldn’t ignore it.

So, I inked up the Hello Blooms stencil on a piece of white cardstock and then used my Glimmer Foil Press to hot foil the Giant Thank You sentiment over the top of the stenciling. Then I die cut the Scrolled Punch and Pierce Plate from white cardstock. I inked up the inside edge of the largest frame with yellow ink and then glued it to the foiled panel. I didn’t like how much white there was so I went around the outer edge with the same orange ink I used on the flower in the stenciling.

Once that was how I liked it, I just glue the panel to a card base and my card was all finished. I really couldn’t believe how cool this looks and how easy it was to create.

So I couldn’t stop at just one and wanted to try some non-traditional colored flowers next. Why not?!?

This one turned out so pretty! After stenciling the flowers, I hot foiled my sentiment and trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches. I was going to pop it up on a white card base but there was too much white for me. So I simply took the same blending brush I used for all the blue flowers and inked up the edge of a white card base with whatever ink was left.

Then I popped the panel up with foam tape for a little dimension. For this card, I thought it would be fun to add some silver baubles for added shine and interest. I seriously love it! Don’t you?!?

Products used today:
Hello Blooms stencil
Card Full of Hugs hot foil plate
Giant Thank You hot foil plate
Scrolled Punch & Pierce plate
Spellbound hot foil variety pack
Foam tape
Bearly Art liquid glue
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Silver baubles

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Spellbinders – Love You So Much

Hello everyone. I’m back with another card featuring products from the Spellbinders Photosynthesis Collection from Simon Hurley. The products are so different but work amazing together. Today I used a background die, floral dies and a hot foil sentiment. I even made it a flat shaker with super fine glitter that moves around behind the chevrons.

I started by inking up an A2 piece of white cardstock with light purple ink around the edges. Then I cut it with the Zig Zag Chevron cover plate. I added a piece of acetate to the back with liquid glue. Then I inked another piece of cardstock with seedless preserves and milled lavender distress oxide ink. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry. Next, I sprinkled some super fine glitter on the panel and sealed it up with liquid glue adhering the chevron panel on top.

I chose some colors and started die cutting florals from the Floral Stems die set and used liquid glue to adhere the layers together, and then added them to stems with leaves. I gathered them together in an arrangement so you could see them all and glued them to the card front.

Finally, I added a hot foiled sentiment from the Must-Have Sentiments glimmer hot foil plate and die set. This set is top on my favorites because it hot foils and die cuts multiple fantastic sentiments all at once. I love having a stash to choose from when I’m running out of time and need something extra to add to my card.

Products used today:
Zig Zag Chevron dies
Floral Stems dies
Must-Have Sentiments glimmer plate
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Silver hot foil
Pink & Main Super Fine Glitter – icicle
Distress Oxide Ink – seedless preserves and milled lavender
Blending brush

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