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.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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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! 

Hooray

 I'm late for a couple graduation cards.  I'll be sharing a different version next week.  Today's is for a guy who graduated from a Washington State college with the school colors of red + black

This could easily work as any other celebratory occasion.  The guy graduated with a music degree so the Target Gift Card caught my eye.  

This project features:

• Lawn Fawn - Giant Hooray | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Pierced Stars | cover plate

The shaker bits are from my stash and coordinate with the cover plate design.

Have a great week!

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Pastel Christmas Wishes, Non-Traditional Color Palettes for the Holidays

Welcome to a fun Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog where I'm still thinking of the holidays that are far away but are sure to creep up on us in no time! Typically I'm not a make ahead Christmas card type of person, I start late fall and do my best. But this year I've been really inspired by all the Christmas in July releases and extra inspiration I've seen from other design team members. It's fabulous and so fun!

Another thing that happens for me when I create outside of the typical time of year for a holiday or season...I'm interested and willing to choose outside of my typical color palettes. It's been SO FUN!

Today I have the Spellbinders Delivering Joy Sleigh in pinks, teals and mint greens. I added a little gold for some flair and kept the gifts classy with white. Isn't is so pretty?!? I really adore it!

For the background, I went with the same green and teal color scheme using the Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Trees stencil set. I trimmed the panel down to 3.75x5 inches and popped it up on a pink card base because, well, pink. I chose the same teal from the poinsettias for my sentiment strip, which is also Pretty Pink Posh.

After popping the sleigh and sentiment strip up on the stenciled panel, I finished the design off with a scattering of Spellbinders pearls.

I'm really curious to know how you feel about non-traditional colors for any holiday season. Please share! I used to be really rigid with my colors and now I'm definitely enjoying playing around with it all. 

 

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

 

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