Doodlebugs – Deck the Halls Scene Card

Hello everyone. I’m on the Doodlebugs blog today for Mix it Up Monday, the last Christmas one of the year. I’m sure most everyone is wrapping up holiday crafting and ready to move on with other things but I really wanted to share this card with you all. It’s so sweet and was therapeutic to color the images and pull it all together.

I started off with a bundle of images from the Mama Elephant Little Agenda Sweets set. I stamped and watercolored them, then after they dried I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I saved the window the die cuts out and glued it to my gingerbread guy for continuity in my scene. Otherwise it’s pretty straight forward.

Next I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Circle from teal cardstock and a scrap of white for some snowy ground. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and a combo of liquid glue and foam tape to adhere my images to that.

Next I took a piece of white cardstock and embossed it with the Spellbinders Peppermint Stripes embossing folder. To add color, I drug the Lawn Fawn cilantro ink pad lightly across the panel going in the direction with the stripes (at an angle) until it had the coverage I wanted. I used liquid glue to adhere it to a card base and added my circle scene with foam tape to that.

Last, I cut a sentiment banner from the Mama Elephant Winter Banners die set. I inked the top layer with pink, glued the layers together and popped it up with foam strip. For finishing touches I just tied some fun peppermint twine around the left side of the card and tied it in a cute little bow.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Winter Banners dies
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Sweets stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Circles dies
Spellbinder Peppermint Stripes embossing folder
Lawn Fawn cilantro ink pad
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Zig clean color real brush markers
VersaFine brown ink

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Spellbinders – Advent Calendar Check In

Hi everyone! I’ve been having a blast with my Spellbinders Advent Calendar this year and wanted to share. I open the package every morning and then create with that day’s item in the evening. It’s been so much fun and a great way to unwind. My posts have all been on social media so I wanted to do a few round ups on here so share with you all.

Here are the creations I made using days 1 through 9.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

If you didn’t pick up the Advent Calendar ahead of time but want to get in on the action, here are links to a few places that still have them in stock.

Spellbinders

Scrapbook.com (stitching version only)

ScrapbookPal

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Spellbinders – Felt Stitch & Create

Hi friends! I’m popping in with a couple of fun “not a card” projects I created lately for Spellbinders. The new Felt Stitch & Create line from Nichol Spohr is my favorite thing ever right now! I have completed two projects so far but I have two more in process on my craft table now. They’re so fun and easy to create!

First off, I created this fun home decor wall hanging using the new Pumpkin Lane House die set. I cut all the bits from Benzie felt and stitched with DMC embroidery floss. Then I wrapped velvet ribbon around an embroidery hoop and added some fabric and felt to create a background. Then I just used hot glue to assemble my scene to that. I finished it off by wrapping more ribbon around the fastener at the top and it’s ready to hang up.

While I was creating that large hoop I remembered extra stock I had of the mini 3″ hoops from past paper creations and it gave me this idea. I lined the back with patterned paper and used foam squares to pop the holly and berries up in the center. These come from the Candy Cane stitching set. I finished it off with a velvet bow and hanger on the top and a sentiment banner on the bottom.

Products used:
Spellbinders Felt Stitch & Create dies
Benzie felt
Spellbinders Delivering Joy dies
Foam squares

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Doodlebugs – Christmas Mug Cuteness

Welcome to this week’s Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog! Today I’m pulling out some cuteness from last year that did not get enough love! Spellbinders mugs and Mama Elephant critters, could it get any cuter? I think not!

These adorable Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers were just asking to hang out of something fun and when I came across my Spellbinders Merry Mugs I knew it was a match made in heaven! I really tried to make all 3 huggers fit in one mug but it wasn’t happening so I gave in and have that sweet bunny saved for another occasion. *Spoiler alert, gift tag to match!*

So I stamped and colored my images, die cut all the things and then assembled it all with a combination of liquid glue, reverse tweezers and foam tape. I added a double snowflake to the front of the mug with an enamel dot in the center which I really can’t get over is so pretty!

Then I cut a Mama Elephant Shimmer Lights cover from pink cardstock and glued it to a white card base. I added my filled mug to that with liquid glue and found the sweetest sentiment in the Mama Elephant Deliver Lots of Cheer stamp set to add to a banner. I stamped that with Lawn Fawn mermaid ink so it matched the mug and popped it up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights, black glaze pen to the critter eyes and glossy accents to their noses. To finish it all off I added stardust Stickles to the Santa hats.

Oh my goodness, I really can’t get over the cuteness of this card. I love how it turned out so much!!!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Shimmer Lights cover die
Mama Elephant Deliver Lots of Cheer stamps
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Lawn Fawn Banner die
Spellbinders Merry Mugs dies
Sakura Glaze pen – black and white
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular Hop

Happy Halloween everyone!!! I’m super excited for our final Spooktacular Hop of the year! I created a fun shaker card to share with you but remember to head to Instagram and comment on the hop posts for entries to win a gift code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop!

My most amazing crafty friend gifted me these sweet Picket Fence Studio ghosts and I just had to include them in our final hop. So I chose a few to stamp and color, then also stamped a sentiment before die cutting it all.

I used the Spellbinders banner punch to create a trio of banners, glued them together and wrapped the top with twine. Then I added my sentiment and images with foam squares and set that aside to create my shaker panel.

For that I ink blended over the Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Words stencil using Lawn Fawn inks – jalapeno, ballet slippers and carrot. I removed the stencil and lightly went over the panel with the same colors. After trimming it down to 4×5.25 inches I added it to a Waffle Flower shaker pouch.

I used a few different embellishments for my shaker bits today to create the perfect color combo mix – hearts from Spring Fling, Luscious Lime stars and orange Seed Beads. The variety of materials really helps them all move around when you shake it and the seed beads make an extra cool sound too.

After everything was adhered together on a white card base I added glossy accents and stardust Stickles to my ghosts for the finishing touches.

Products used:
Picket Fence Studios Be My Boo stamps and dies
Spellbinders Banner Punch
Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Words stencil
Twiddler’s Nook blending brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Luscious Lime Stars embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Seed Beads – orange
Twiddler’s Nook Spring Fling clay embellishments (pink hearts)
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, carrot, jalapeno
Waffle Flower 5.25×4″ shaker pouch
Foam tape and squares
EZ Tear Tape
Liquid glue

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Halloween Treat Holders

Welcome everyone! Today I’m stopping by to share a couple different treat holders I created for Halloween. The ideas are basic and since Halloween is tomorrow, you could always make them for Thanksgiving or Christmas by changing out the paper and images. Keep that in mind if you’re into this sort of thing. It’s definitely my favorite!

Let’s start with these fun ghost friends! I created the base with a strip of orange cardstock measuring 1.5″x6″. I scored each strip at 2 1/2″ and 3 1/2″ and then used the Spellbinders tag punch to cut each end. I splattered the strips with black metallic watercolor and set them aside to dry.

While those were drying I cut the cute ghost from the Lawn Fawn Scallop Treat Box Haunted House Add On and the actual haunted house from the Lawn Fawn Shadow Box Halloween Add On. I used liquid glue to adhere everything together and then one foam square on the bottom of the house.

These were sized perfectly for Hershey’s Nuggets so when the watercolor splatter was dry I stacked my chocolate inside and threaded ribbon through the holes to keep it all together. Then I removed the foam square release paper and popped those on the front.

The fit is perfectly snug so I didn’t have to use adhesive on the chocolate but they stayed in place. I made enough of these for my whole office in one evening. They came together really quick and turned out so cute!

This next box I just made one of but it would be fun to make lots of these too. I chose a piece of Newton’s Nook Halloween Party paper and followed this tutorial to create my box. It perfectly fits three Hershey’s Nuggets so I slid those inside and tied it closed with black embroidery floss.

I stamped and colored two of the Trick or Treat Newton images like our kitties at home and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I hot foiled a sentiment using the Newton’s Nook Spooky Sentiments hot foil plates and coordinating Banner Duo die to cut it out. I popped the kitties and sentiment banner up with foam squares.

Here’s a side look at the box. It’s the perfect little something to add to a certain someone’s lunch box before they head to school.

Products used today:
Spellbinders Tag Punch
Lawn Fawn Scallop Treat Box Haunted House Add On dies
Lawn Fawn Shadow Box Halloween Add On dies
Newton’s Nook Trick or Treat Newton stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Spooky Sentiments hot foil plates
Newton’s Nook Banner Duo dies
Newton’s Nook Halloween Party paper pad
Thermoweb hot foil – silver
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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Spellbinders – Beads of Friendship Card Trio

Hello everyone! I’m here today with a trio of cards using the new Beads of Friendship collection from Spellbinders. I couldn’t believe how fun these were to create and how much more of a Better Press believer I became. So much good stuff!

Essentially I used the Bestie Alphabet and Beads stamp set first to stamp and die cut a ton of alphabet beads. Then I cut more beads and bracelet bases from the Bestie Beaded Bracelets die set and then just started playing around.

After putting together a few of the open-ended bracelets, I paused and created this card. I used the Flowers & Foliage 3D embossing folder for my backgrounds and a little distress oxide ink blending for the panel with my bracelets.

I couldn’t resist making a few closed bracelets as well and just love the Bestie Heart in Hand dies to go with them. I pulled this together with more distress oxide ink blending in the background and a frame created with the Make a Wish Arch Labels dies.

Then, unrelated to my massive bead and bracelet creation, I really wanted to play with these sweet hands that shape a heart! This is the Heart Hands dies, with mini bracelets as part of the set. So cute! Plus the Bestie Sentiments press plate and coordinating die. This one presses and cuts 12 sentiments at once! It’s pure perfection!

I used more ink blending and the Notched Corner Frames dies to pull it all together. This ink blending also has some white paint splatter for added texture.

These cards were so fun to create! Once they were done I just kept thinking of new bracelet themes to create so another bead session will be coming soon for sure!

Products used:
Beads of Friendship Collection
Notched Corner Frames dies
Make a Wish Arch Labels dies
Flowers and Foliage 3D embossing folder
Better Press system
Platinum 6 die cutter
Foam tape
Distress Oxide Inks
Blending brushes
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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Doodlebugs – Merry Coloring with Stencils

Welcome friends! It’s Mix it up Monday and I’m slowly transitioning my crafting to a sprinkling of Christmas, as I’m sure some have noticed. We can’t let it creep up on us unaware and be scrambling to create and mail out our Christmas cards now can we?!?

So today I inked up one of the Waffle Flower holiday themed postage stamp stencil sets. This one is called Gingerbread. If you haven’t tried this line of products from Waffle Flower just go into it knowing a few things…they are addicting and so fun to create with, they are so simple with Waffle Flower etching color or theme ideas in the top right corner of each layer, and there is something for everyone, and the collection keeps growing still!

I prefer to die cut my postage stamp backdrop first, then ink up the stencils and stamp my postage extras, then I use my paper trimmer to cut the stamps apart for today’s project. But you could use it whole as a full card design too. It’s that good!

I decided which images I was going to use and tucked the others away to create with another time. Then I cut a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Label, plus the insert layer from pink cardstock. I inked the larger one up with pink ink and splattered them both with pink ink and white paint.

At the same time, I inked the edges of my card base with mermaid ink and splattered it in the same fashion. After those were dry, I layered everything with liquid glue and foam tape.

Next, I popped my postage stamps up with foam squares on the pink rectangle and finished the design off with a sentiment banner from Mama Elephant.

To keep the red cohesive, I inked the background layer of the banner the same way I did on the bird postage stamp. It’s a mix of brown and red from the gingerbread stenciling.

Here’s a little up close of the cuteness we’ve created today! I’m itching to take the other three stamps this stencil set created and get another card checked of my Christmas list!

How far along are you this year? Be honest…I have a solid 15 Christmas cards ready to go and better get cracking if I’m going to get them all done in time.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Postage Collage Gingerbread stencil set
Waffle Flower blending brushes
Waffle Flower Postage Collage North Pole stamps
Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies
Mama Elephant Winter Banners dies
Lawn Fawn Inks – walnut, lobster, mermaid, ballet slippers
Liquid glue
Foam tape

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Doodlebugs – Mixing Critters and Sentiments to Stretch Your Supplies

Happy Mix it up Monday again everyone! I hope this doesn’t get old for you because I truly love it! My brain used to have a hard time reaching for different companies to put on the same card and now it’s like a fun weekly exercise to see how I can extend the life of my crafty stash!

Today we’re playing with cute critter sets that might not have enough or any sentiments in them. So go ahead, grab that other brand and go to town!

Today we’re starting with watercolor and the Pretty Pink Posh Reindeer Friends set along with the new Mama Elephant Holiday Block set. I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, including the blender to keep things bolder today. If you wanted to tone down your colors, blend them with water which inevitably removes some of the pigment and lightens them.

Once everything was colored and dry, I used the coordinating dies from both sets to cut them all out. So great that the Mama Elephant dies cut the sentiments in the set too! I love it!!!!

For my background, I embossed a piece of white cardstock with the Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder and glued it to a card base. Then I cut a piece of kraft cardstock 2 inches tall and glued it on top of that. I covered the seam with a strip of black cardstock about 1/4″ thick and proceeded to add my images and sentiment with foam squares.

For finishing touches today, I added red twine wrapped around the top and tied in a bow and I also went ahead and added glossy accents in a couple of places – reindeer noses and the hearts in the sentiment.

I love how happy this card turned out! It’s a little early yet but I think Christmas crafting is going to be extra fun this year!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Holiday Block stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Reindeer Friends stamps and dies
Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Die Cut Mania, Getting Ready for Christmas

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! Today I’m sharing more die cut creations but starting to sprinkle in Christmas with my Halloween and fall creations. This time I was thinking about how to stretch some of the products that might not be holiday and I chose the Pretty Pink Posh dump truck die set to start with!

I cut all the pieces from atypical construction colors and used liquid glue to assemble it. I wanted the bed of the truck to sit on top of the “frame” so I just used a little washi tape to keep them lined up while I was playing around with the other elements.

Digging for Christmas gifts to fill my truck with, I landed on the ones in the Spellbinders Delivery Joy die set. I cut the elements and used liquid glue to assemble everything. Then with the help of a little washi tape, I arranged everything taped it together on the front so I could flip it over and add dabs of liquid glue where things overlapped. After letting the glue dry for a minute I could carefully remove the washi tape and it all stayed put!

For my sentiment, I went with the Spellbinders Make it Merry banners and thought the “jingle all the way” sentiment was too cute with this truck load of gifts. I layered the black top banner over white glitter cardstock and offset them for a little extra sparkle. I popped it up on the truck with foam strips.

For my background, I cut 2 of the largest Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies from white cardstock, scored one 1/2 inch from the top and adhered it to the back to create a shaped card base. Then I cut the inner label from teal cardstock and inked it up with the Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil and Lawn Fawn peacock ink. That is adhered with liquid glue and my truck is popped up on that with foam tape.

Isn’t this a fun segue into holiday crafting? Now that I’ve filled this truck with gifts, I’m going backward to fill it with pumpkins and when Valentine’s Day rolls around, watch out!!! We’re going to have fun with this!

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Big Dump Truck dies
Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil
Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies
Spellbinders Make it Merry banner ides
Spellbinders Delivering Joy dies
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn peacock ink
Liquid glue
Foam strips and tape
Reverse tweezers

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