I started designing a floral project but then switched to a fruit theme. Here's how I was inspired today:
My project features:
Lawn Fawn - Cheery Cherries | lawn cuts
Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles | dies
Concord & 9th - Slanted Shortcuts | dies
Pretty Pink Posh - Sweet Cherries | stamp
Lawn Fawn - Stripes 'n Sprinkles | 6x6
If you've been following me, you know that I LOVE working with fruit themes. I added a bit of Cranberry ink to the cherries and finished off my design with some white gel pen.
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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 createdChristmas/Holiday themed card with Coffee, Tea and/or Cocoa. We no longer have monthly themes. Cards still have to have aChristmas/Holiday theme. Remember to use Coffee, Tea and or Cocoa too! One lucky random card will win a $20 Doodlebugs gift card.
Monthly challenge will start on the 1st of every month at 4 am pacific and close at 11:55 pm pacific on the 25th of each month.
Here's how I was inspired this month:
I wanted to concentrate on a postal friendly design that is easily to mass produce. I combined these products:
Concord & 9th - Stay Cozy | die
Concord & 9th - Sweater Season | stamp
Pretty Pink Posh - Winter Drinks | stamp
You could easily switch out color palettes.
We can't wait to see how you're inspired.
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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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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.
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The flowers in the neighborhoods are so gorgeous. I love to walk around in different Seattle neighborhoods with friends and family.
Today's project features:
Pretty Pink Posh - Spring Floral | Die
PinkFresh Studio - Brackets - Blanket Stitched | Die
Waffle Flower Crafts - Subsentiments - Bloom | die cuts
Altenew - Glitter Cardstock Set | Gilded
I knew that I wanted to do those daffodils in Pink Grapefruit and Nectar. The centers have been cut in gold glitter cardstock.
The twine was in my stash and I thought it would be a fun way to add the subsentiment. That and because I was having a real struggle trying to figure out where to add the sentiment.
I love those PinkFresh Studio Brackets. They add just a touch of texture to the overall design.
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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.
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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
I love the coordinating stencils that Lawn Fawn comes out with. It makes coloring their images super fast! I cut the interior out from the Eyelet Circle and backed it with vellum so that you can see a bit of the plaid paper.
The Boba drinks have been colored with the following Distress Oxides:
Barn Door
Dried Marigold
Mustard Seed
Mowed Lawn
Broken China
Ground Espresso
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Hello again everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook with a bundle of thank you tags I created for the end of the school year. The design is really versatile, easy to do it batches and cuter than cute!
To create these cards I did them in a few different sessions. First, I ink smooshed some watercolor paper with dark yellow and orange inks. Then I took yellow cardstock and spritzed it with Distress Oxide ink so it had some texture. Then I let all of that dry. Next, I die cut the yellow with a 2" circle and the ink smooshed panels with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Sun Frame. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and an acrylic block to hold them flat while they dried.
Next session, I stamped and colored the same cute Mama Elephant Little Agenda Hedgehog and used the coordinating die to cut him out. I also die cut a banner from the Mama Elephant Banner Greetings die set and glued the layers together.
In my last session, I added the banners and hedgehogs to the sunshines with foam strips and squares. I finished each one off with some blue twine to tie on the gift bags I have set aside and stardust Stickles on the little flower he is holding.
I don't want to ruin any surprises but these are going on gift packages with a "don't grow up, enjoy summer" vibe and I'm really excited about them!
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Hi friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. Today's card came about in a funny way. I had a scrap of copic paper left over months ago. Randomly I stamped 2 Mama Elephant critters on it because they fit perfectly. That piece of paper has moved all around my craft desk and the clipboard I use to color on since then. Randomly, I came across them again while looking for fresh copic paper to stamp on and today's idea just hit me! So I switched gears and went to work...
After coloring and die cutting the first two critters, I realized that I needed a third. So I remedied that and set them aside to work on my fun background idea...faux notebook paper with the Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes Portrait die! I cut the backdrop from white cardstock and glued it to a card base. Then I used a ruler to keep my lines straight and BG11 and R20 copic markers to add the notebook lines.
Next, I added foam squares to the back of my critters and set them in place while I stamped some of the fun designs from the Mama Elephant Write With Me stamp set. I used colored ink for some a black ink for the text. After those were stamped I felt good about the critter placement and actually removed the release paper from the foam squares and stuck them down.
Next I pulled sentiments from the Mama Elephant Way To Go stamp set and added them around the critters. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to critter noses, glasses and parts of the pens.
It's end of school year/graduation time so I thought this card would be perfect to share now! It could go to a kiddo or a teacher celebrating the end of the year.
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