Cozy Caffeinated Christmas Card

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.

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.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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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!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

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

Hope

 I've been gravitating to florals a bit more and having so much fun with them.

Today's card features:

• Concord & 9th - Paper Posy | Embossing Folder & Die Bundle
• Waffle Flower - Full Bloom Sentiments | Combo Stamp & Die 
• Lawn Fawn - Backdrop Stitched Woodgrain | Lawn Cuts

The Paper Posy Set makes it so much fun to build blooms. I love that sentiment - it was stamped with Concord & 9th - Sorbet.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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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. 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: