I love to stencil on colored cardstock. Here's how I was inspired today:
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Hi friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook 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.
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I'm a big fan of all things capybara so I was a happy crafter with Lawn Fawn's newest release. Here's how I was inspired:
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Happy Monday everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I'm 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!
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I don't know about you but I've been a long time fan of all things nautical/beachy. There is so much to enjoy out there right now with those themes. Here's how I was inspired today:
Let me introduce you to the purple crab. I googled 'crab colors' and caught an article about a purple crab that was spotted in the Philippines. My card features:
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Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and 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?
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I'm a long time fan of all things nautical so I've been really enjoying the current papercrafting trend.
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Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. 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!
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I started designing a floral project but then switched to a fruit theme. Here's how I was inspired today:
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Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook for Mix it up Monday! 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!!!
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Did you hear that Doodlebugs is the sponsor for this month's Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge? Link up a newly created Christmas/Holiday themed card with Coffee, Tea and/or Cocoa. We no longer have monthly themes. Cards still have to have a Christmas/Holiday theme. Remember to use Coffee, Tea and or Cocoa too! One lucky random card will win a $20 Doodlebugs gift card.
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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!
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