Wishing you a Gull-Tastic Birthday

 I don't know about you, but I think any umbrella drink makes everything a party.

Today's project features:

• Waffle Flower Crafts - Inquisitive Seagulls | die + stamp
• Waffle Flower Crafts - Seafoam | stencil
• Waffle Flower Crafts - Wave Texture Panel | die
• Waffle Flower Crafts - Outside Scalloped Circle | die
• Lawn Fawn - Build-a-Drink | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - St. Patrick's Day | clay confetti  

That seagull is so much fun.  There are two different sizes, this is the larger one.

The stencil work was done with Concord & 9th - Harbor | ink.  The drink has been ink blended with Salvaged Patina | distress oxide.  I lightly distressed the seagull with Pumice Stone | distress oxide.

The sentiment has been heat embossed in white.

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Mass Producing Gift Tags

Hello everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. For this week's Mix-it-up Monday I'm sharing a gift tag project I created for work. We just had our annual Conference last week and I made gift bags for some of the Board as an end of year thank you to them. You know I can't have gift bags without cute tags to go with them. So I spent a little bit and assembly lined a batch of froggy cuteness.

This whole project started with me playing around with the Mama Elephant Combo Circle creative cuts. They're so fun and I thought they would be great for a different tag. Once I chose my scallop colors I started die cutting all the pieces - 2 white centers (front and back), a blue scallop and a green scallop.

I couldn't decide which little agenda critters to use so I solicited my daughter's help and she chose my favorite frogs. I can't get enough of them. So I stamped out nine different ones, colored them all and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

After assembling the layers of the combo circles, I blended a little green and teal inks in the center and splattered them with cracked pistachio distress oxide ink.

While the splatter was drying, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Fall and cut them out with a Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip die. This die set and the coordinating collection of sentiments will not collect dust on your shelf. I promise. I am constantly reaching for them to add that perfect something.

Last, I popped the sentiment strips and frogs up with foam squares and strips. I used a Fiskars hole punch and threaded some twine through the holes. Now these are ready to be tied to the bags and handed out. 

 

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

 

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Birthday Cheer

 Any root beer float fans?

I've been a long time fan of root beer floats.  I had so much fun mixing and matching products for this card:

• Lawn Fawn - Build-a-Drink | Root Beer Add -On | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Fruit Mug Additions | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Valentine Mug Additions | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Friend Shadow | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sentiment Strips | Birthday | stamp
• Lawn Fawn - Brick | stencil

The brick was stenciled with Distress Oxide - Pumice Stone.  The root beer panel was ink blended with Distress Oxide - Walnut Stain.  The float was inked up with Distress Oxide - Antique Linen.

The sentiment was heat embossed in white on a black cardstock strip.

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Treat Yourself on your Berry Special Day

Hello everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. It's time for another mix-it-up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog. Today we're mixing all the strawberry things together again in a different way. I love how bright today's card turned out! It's so sweet you can almost taste it.

I started with the Pretty Pink Posh Fresh Berries stamp set. I stamped out a few berries and leaves, coloring everything with copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut it all out.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Birthday Wishes stamp set and cut it out with the coordinating die. I also cut a Waffle Flower Sweet Lattice panel for my background. 

With all the pieces ready to go, it's time to assemble some. Using the sentiment as a guide on the background panel, I used liquid glue to adhere the strawberries and foliage in place. Then I added the sentiment with foam squares so there is some dimension.

Not wanting white on white for my background, I took the Lawn Fawn guava ink pad direct to my card base for some textured color. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the lattice in place.

For finishing touches I added a few Spellbinders pearls and white gel pen highlights to the images.

 

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

 

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