Sugar Shoppe Layout Tutorial + Giveaway Final Day!

It's Melinda with you today and firstly I would like to wish everyone a very crafty National Scrapbook Day! Today is also the final day of our Sugar Shoppe Launch Party and that also means your very last opportunity to enter the prize draw for one of six Sugar Shoppe collection packs on offer.

Sugar Shoppe is the perfect name for this collection because every piece of paper, sticker, embellishment etc reminds me of walking around a sweets store as a child. So much to look at, so many yummy colours and patterns and little bits and pieces that just make you want to 'taste' everything. Now I didn't actually 'eat' the paper but I did manage to go a little wild on this layout.

First step in creating the heart feature on this layout was to cut a pile of strips 3/4" in width in various patterns and colours.

I then adhered the strips to a piece of backing cardstock and then roughed up the edges a little to add a bit of dimension to the panel.

Next step was to cut out a heart shape to use as a template for the hole. I laid the heart in the centre of the panel and using a new blade in my craft knife I cut around the heart and right through the strips and the backing sheet.

I then adhered the panel to my layout by using some thin foam pop dots just to raise it off the layout slightly so a small shadow was created under the heart which added to the look I was after.

Final process was to embellish the heart using identical colour schemes as the strips of paper and simply continuing the line down through the heart. Now I won't tell little white lies and say this was a relatively quick step because it took me forever, however it was fun to do and I was happily using up lots of my embellishment stash.

Sugar Shoppe Collection Giveaway:

We are giving away some amazing boxes filled with an assortment of our new Sugar Shoppe  Collection SIX lucky winners. The more you enter the more chances you have to win!!

1. Pin the images from each day's posts that you love to Pinterest and leave a comment when you do. The more you pin the more chances you have of being picked.

2. Go to the Doodlebug Facebook page and share each day's posts with your friends. Simply click SHARE under the image and then leave a comment under any blog post that you did this.

3. Follow Doodlebug on Instagram (@Doodlebugdesign) and leave a comment that you are following us!!

You will have until Saturday, May 3rd at 12:00 noon MST to enter. We'll post the winner on Sunday, 5/4. Good luck!!