Mix it Up Challenge: Christmas Cards by Courtney Lee

Hello out there! This is Courtney Lee from Court's Crafts here with my final cards on the Doodlebug team. I decided to step down this coming year. With three small children at home I want to be enjoying them more and I think I am getting into quilting! My heart is heavy leaving Doodlebug. They are truly the best company to "work" for as it always feels like play. Cynthea is the most generous person I have ever met in the crafty world and her encouragement along with Lori's keeps me going. I will miss it so. With that said, here are my cards for the mix it up challenge! 

Santa down the Chimney

I had such a great time grabbing my supplies from all over the place! I was really in love with this red, green and black palate and so I went diving into my extensive doodlebug stash to find my supplies. :) 

A Forth of July line, a Halloween line, and some staples? yes please. This santa going down the chimney from the Milk and Cookies odds and ends had me at hello. I added some liquid adhesive and tinsel glitter and gave Mr. Claus some pizzaz! 

kraft in color: beetle black stripe/houndstooth (4178)
booville 6x6 paper pad (5805) (green polka dot paper and black and white stripe paper)
yankee doodle: festive flowers (5619)
milk and cookies: odds and ends (5766)
milk and cookies: this and that (5776)
mini doily in beetle black

Merry Christmas

This card was so much fun to put together. Again I wanted to showcase this stocking odds and ends. I added some tinsel glitter to the top mantle and the tops of the stockings. The Merry Christmas sentiment is a sticker that comes pre-made from doodlebug and the little dog came from the mini icons in the milk and cookies collection. The velvet black cardstock gives it a lovely depth. 

I had my 5 year old encouraging me when I thought of the idea to cut the gingerbread and candy cane sprinkles and "stuff" them down the stockings. I cut the bottoms off at an angle to make it look like they were going down. It was so hard to do. I kept hearing that gingerbread man from Shrek™ say, "not my buttons! Not my gumdrop buttons!!!" brutal. But alas, it looks darling. tee hee.  

kraft in color: ladybug/chevron (4161)
kraft in color: beetle black stripe/houndstooth (4178)
yankee doodle: festive flowers (5619)
milk and cookies: odds and ends (5766)
crushed velvet cardstock: beetle black (1898)
yankee doodle: patriotic paisley (5620)
milk and cookies: mini icons (5768)
shape sprinkles: sugarplums (5754)
doodles: merry christmas - beetle black (3157)
mini clothespins: black and white (4448)
doodle twine: beetle black (2994)

Christmas Cake

Last but not least I felt like I was missing some green in my life so I grabbed this 6x6 paper pad from Booville and this fabulous green on green tone paper stood out to me. Isn't it vivid!?! And of course this Christmas cake doodlepop looked good enough to eat.  

Look at the depth of that doodle pop? I layered it onto two pieces from the This and That sheet and tied a twine bow around the base. I also added the candy cane stripe arrows to the four corners of the green panel and pulled all three cards together using the black on black houndstooth patterned paper from the kraft in color line (the BEST staples).

yankee doodle: festive flowers (5619)
kraft in color: beetle black stripe/houndstooth (4178)
booville 6x6 paper pad (5805)
doodle pops: Christmas cake (5759)
milk and cookies: this and that (5776)
doodle twine: beetle black (2994)
doodles: cardstock stickers: merry Christmas (3155)

And that is all I have for you today! I wish you a VERY merry Christmas and I will miss you all dearly! Luckily you have the BEST design team sticking around to inspire you (and myself). Did you mix and match any doodlebug lines to make Christmas cards this year? We would LOVE to see them! Please share them on any of our social media sites! 

Washi Tape Challenge: Flamingo Layout by Melinda

Washi tape is one of those particular products we seem to hoard because we can't bare to part with it. However, you will be amazed at just how little you need to use from your stash to add a touch of fun to your projects. Today I'm going to show you how to apply a little bit of dimension using a very small amount of washi leaving plenty of leftovers in your collection for future projects... or just to look at and admire.

I simply used multiple strips of washi tape in layers and gently curled at the ends to create a feathered look to the wing of the flamingo. It produced a soft effect that gave the layout a lift without going overboard on using too much of my tape.

First step was to place small lengths of tape to plain vellum before cutting each individual strip and then punching one end with a rounded corner punch. Next step was to overlap and adhere each strip to the wing of the flamingo before gently bending each tip around a pen to create the dimension.

This gorgeous flamingo is from the Doodlebug - Fun In the Sun cut file collection which you can find at the links below. However I did alter the file a little as I wanted to put the title of my layout 'Flamingo' down the shape of the neck.

Flamingo - Fun in the Sun (Lori Whitlock)
Flamingo - Fun in the Sun (Silhouette)

And just look at that pink eye, it almost looks real - well it's actually from the Shaped Sprinkles (eye candy) in this year's Booville collection. I kid you not!

I didn't hold back in mixing and matching collections on this layout with a combination of Spring Things, Booville, Fun In the Sun, Milk & Cookies plus a touch of Petite Prints card stock. I will always find room on my layouts for anything transparent like these sweet clouds and sun from the Spring Things Odds & Ends pack.

Melinda Spinks

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Booville Collection: Halloween Scrapbook Pages by Mendi

Hello Doodlebugs!  It's Mendi here today with three fun layouts using Doodlebug's newest collection for Halloween called Booville!  Every year I fall more head over heals in love with the latest Halloween line and this year is no different.  I was so excited by the addition of the color pink that I couldn't resist scrapbooking several pages using photos I've been holding onto for years.

For my first page I isolated the purple, green and aqua papers from the collection to match these photos of my oldest daughter.  She dressed up as a classic comic book character so I created a simple grid design to ground my focal point images and cute stickers.

This collection includes some super cute eye sprinkles which look cute all on their own, but even cuter when layered over critter stickers and doodle pops like I did for the little bat and frog.

For my next layout, I kept things simple.  Sometimes I have some pages where it's more about getting my pictures into albums for us to enjoy and not spending endless hours on my embellishments.  This was the case with these, but thanks to all the adorable papers and die-cuts in the collection my page can still be cute.

For my little patch of pumpkins I mixed the die-cuts from the odds and ends pack with two doodle pop pumpkins.  A custom title with the new Abigail alphabet stickers completed my page.

For my last page I was inspired by all the houses dressed up for Halloween in the border along the top of my layout.  I recreated the scene on a larger scale on the bottom of my page using the cute die-cut houses from the odds & ends pack.

I typed up my journaling on my computer and printed it out on vellum so that it could be fairly invisible on my page.  I then layered it with the cute trick or treating boy and girl and hand stitched a simple line to hang my spider sprinkle from.

All of these pages came together super quick and could be easily recreated in an evening.  I hope I've inspired you to pick up this adorable collection and get some of your favorite Halloween memories recorded too.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Booville Collection: Halloween Cards by Courtney

Isn't this collection ADORABLE!?!? No one does Halloween like Doodlebug. They make spiders and ghosts and all things spooky sooooooo cute! Courtney Lee from Court's Crafts here with a couple of cute and quick cards for Halloween fun!

Okay, are you READY for this!? I was moving houses... but then the move got delayed for over a month.. so we were couch-surfing with three children... and I had literally nothing to craft with... So I borrowed my friend's scissors and her scotch tape (I kid you not) and went to work! This was my own personal challenge and I had a blast (and a few frustrations of course). 

The card bases are from the create-a-card halloween assortment. Aren't they fun!? I had another one planned but couldn't quite complete it before I had to write this post. boo. (haha. get it!?)

I cut out the black with pumpkin panel from the 6x6 paper pad on the sheet with the small squares and awesome sayings (see sentiment as well). My biggest frustration during this process: not having foam dots. I wanted to pop this panel so much!

The pumpkins on the side and the black cat (how cute is that cat!!!??) came from the mini icons (LOVE). The gorgeous shiny candy corn is a shaped sprinkle and the dots came from the halloween treats sprinkles and the halloween assortment glitter sprinkles. 

For my second card I really wanted some doodle pops on there. But truthfully I started with those adorable spiders!!!! 

I wanted to get that acrylic spider web in there (I mean, seriously!!!) and I used rolled up scotch tape behind the spiders to stick it down (yep!). 

Then I added the spiders and drew spider web lines down to them. 

Lastly I created my little scene at the bottom with the adorable doodle-pop couple and their rainbow heart (from this and that) showing their love. swoon. haha. :) 

Thank you for hanging out with me (and the spiders) today! We would LOVE for you to share with us on our Facebook page what YOU have created with Booville!!!!

Booville Collection: Trick or Treat Mini Album & Box by Traci Penrod

Hi everyone!  Traci here, back to share my Booville project with you.  This is absolutely one of my favorite Doodlebug collections ever!  The colors!!!  I had so much fun with this little mini album and coordinating box.

I covered a 7 Gypsies box with different 12x12 papers, and used some chunky twine to add a little something extra around the edges.  I adhered a raised chipboard rectangle to the top of the box so that my twine would fit around the sides.  The Doodlepop Witch and Frog are so cute, and I paired them up with glitter sprinkles and some die cuts to make my lid complete!

Inside the top of the box lid, I added some card stock, pattern paper, and a cute 4x6 Trick or Treat card.

The little mini album inside was super easy.  I cut some 4x6 cards out of black chipboard and covered each side with adorable papers.  I punched two binding holes in each card before I added photo mats and embellishments, and then came the fun part!

Have you played with the new mini icon stickers yet?  They were originally introduced for planners (super cute idea), but I love using them in my mini albums too!  Those little houses are precious don't you think?  And the little Frankie and cars in the photos below?

I also used lots of DoodlePops in this mini.  I have a bad habit of hoarding my DoodlePops, so I had to make myself use some of them! 

That's it for me today!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have tons of "spooky" fun with this collection everyone!!

Booville Collection: Trick or Treat Layout by Caroli

Hello there, how are you peeps? Caroli here, and today I am so pleased to show you some layouts I made using the fabulous Booville Collection by Doodlebug Design.

I love Halloween, I love dressing my kids up and going out to trick or treating, and I have a lot of pics of past Halloweens that didn't scrap before because I was waiting for the right collection, and here it is!

My first project is this layout I made with pics of my little girl dressed as Monster High's Draculaura, few years ago. She was so excited about wearing a wig for the first time, we had a great time that day :)

My fave product from DD these days is Odd&Ends packages, so I wanted to use a lot of them on my layouts and in the middle of an embellies cluster I pu a round shaped pic, classic!

I love all the clear acetate shapes included on the package, there spider webs are perfect for placing under a pic here and there!

The colors and patterns of the papers in this collection are so bright and happy, I used a sunburst design so as to feature lots of them, this is a good way to include lots of patters without making the project too busy.

My second layout is about my little girl again, or should I say not so little anymore? This is from last year and as you can see, she picked a totally different custome, this time as Harley Quinn. I must say I had no idea who Harley Quinn was, so I googled and tried to improvise the custome as better as I could. 

Once again I used a lot of Odds&Ends and some Sprinkles as well, I love how the little round pic pop from the embellies block.

I am in love with the tiny acetate ghosts included on the Odds&Ends package, they are too cute to spook and I love the transparency effect over a photo

I created my tittle combining Teensy Alphas and a word I cut using my Silhouette Cameo using free font is Sacramento.

Last but not least, this is a layout I made with a pic of the first halloween of my little Mr. I made a tiny t-shirt for he to wear and we went out trick or treating in the stroller with his sister and some friends. 

I went for a simple design on this one, creating a big embellishment block below the pic. You can tell I kind of went nuts using all kind of sprinkles, the spider ones are my fave in this collection, they are boo-tiful! :)

I really enjoyed working with this collection, the colors are so pretty! I love that it has hot pink and teal colors, although they are not traditionally halloween colors, they look great along with other colors ❤

I still have few halloween pics I'll scrap with this pretty collection, I'll share what I make on my instagram and on my blog as well. I hope you got some inspiration from this post and now are printing Halloween pics :) Have a lovely day!