Thanks...for all that you do

I needed to design a couple thank you cards so I'm thinking of having all my September posts feature that theme.

I designed this one especially for a friend of mine that always opens her home up to our group.  I'm featuring:

• Concord & 9th - Mushroom Medley | stamp and die bundle
• Concord & 9th - Friendly Florals | dies
• Lawn Fawn - Backdrop Stitched Woodgrain | lawn cuts

The overall color palette is by Concord & 9th:

• Cranberry
• Tidepool
• Pebble

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Florals For All Through the Year - Small Die Sets that Go a Long Way

Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. It's Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog and I'm moving outside of my typical and playing with florals. There are some newer die sets from Spellbinders that are a fabulous price point but adorable, fun to create with and really versatile. The one we're playing with today is called Little Blooms. The dies in this collection range from $7 to $15 and you can use them for a billion and one different cards!

For today's card, I cut the different elements from a limited color palette (happens to be a favorite these days) and used liquid glue to assemble all the pieces. I played around with arrangement on my craft mat and landed on a loose circle. To make it easy to add them to a card front, I used a piece of Press-n-Seal to hold them together while I added foam squares to the back of everything. This also made it a piece of cake to figure out what size circle die I could use for my background and actually adhering all the pieces to that circle at once. Definitely a kitchen item to keep in your craft room.

So after the florals were stuck to the Press-n-Seal, I die cut a white circle from the Mama Elephant Circle Combo dies and ink blended distress oxide spun sugar to the center. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I cut two of the scallop layers from a peach-orange cardstock and used liquid glue to adhere all my layers together.

After removing the release paper from the foam squares on my flowers I popped them in place on the scalloped circle card front. To turn this into a card, I cut the same stitched circle a second time, scored it 3/8" from one side and used liquid glue to adhere it to the back.

I went digging for a specific theme of sentiment and landed on it in the Spellbinders I've Got You Covered stamp and die set. I stamped it with celery stick ink and cut it out before popping it up across the center with foam strips.

I'm not a floral crafter but sometimes they're just what you need. This little die set will be a long standing part of my stash for that reason. It's simple and so pretty.

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

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Congrats Grad!

 Last week I shared a college grad card design for a guy that received a musical degree.  Today I'm sharing a high school grad design. She will be attending college out of state:

Today's project features:

• Lawn Fawn - How you Bean? Money Add-On | stamp & lawn cuts die bundle
• Lawn Fawn - Backdrop Sunburst | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Simple Sentiments | stamp
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sentiment Strips | die

Since I'm sending along a Target Gift Card, I designed Target Bucks.  The shaker bits are from my stash.

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Monochromatic Fun and Shaped Cards

 Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and today I'm playing with monochromatic designs and shaped cards to make things a little extra interesting.

I started by creating an adorable Spellbinders Roller Disco Dottie with a red collar and red skates. She's the cutest but I couldn't decide on a complimentary color that I liked today. So I decided to keep it all in the family, the red family.

Next, I pulled out some Mama Elephant dies and created a sentiment banner using Spring Banner Greetings dies. Then I created my card base with the Mama Elephant Circle Combo dies. I love the wiggle room of liquid glue for all of these types of things. It gives you that couple of seconds to line things up.

After creating the 3 top layers of my circle, I cut an additional white circle, scored it about 3/8" away from one edge and then used liquid glue to adhere it to the back of the stacked circle combo. You can decide if your card opens up or to the side this way too. Total flexibility.

I ink blended the center of the circle on the front and splattered it with the same red ink color. Then I popped Dottie and her sentiment banner up with foam squares and strips.

 

I'm excited to pop this cutie in the mail to a special friend along with some crafty goodies I picked up. 

Products used:
Spellbinders Roller Disco Dottie dies
Mama Elephant Circle Combo dies
Mama Elephant Spring Banner Greetings dies
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Scoring board
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn lobster ink
Reverse tweezers 

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