Ornamental Ideas Day 1

We are excited to share some "ornamental" ideas with you this week. We've given our design team the task of inspiring you with their ideas for holiday ornaments. Whether or not you use them to hang on your tree to as a beautiful accent on a gift, we hope to inspire you!

Bird Ornaments 
by Jing-Jing Nickel

Supply List: north pole: frames cardstock sticker, in a flurry, playful pines, santa's scarf, 6x6 paper pad; doodle twine: christmas; mini jewels: ladybug, lily white, limeade assortment; doodlepops: poinsettia, snowflake, wreath, flurry; other: Maya Road chipboard birds

Sweet Scene Ornament
by Kathy Martin

Supply List: North Pole Ornament; North Pole Collection: In a Flurry, Cute Cuts, Cardstock Stickers; Doodle Twine: Christmas; Mini Pearls: Christmas Assortment; Mini Pops: Tiny Pines, Snow Buddies

Pockets & Shadow Boxes
by Sherry Cartwright

I love, love, love handmade Christmas presents and ornaments and cards and gifts and ... love the heart, soul and love that go into each handcrafted item. I made these two ornaments to share on our tree this year.  I envision a second Santa ornament being made and each containing a letter from my kiddos.

Hop on over to my blog for more details about these ornaments.

Supply List:  north pole collection: christmas cheer cardstock, cardstock stickers and frames stickers; mini card, flocked/velvet cardstock, doodle twine, adhesive jewels and metallic glitter

Happy Mail Challenge 4: Twine

Welcome to Happy Mail Challenge 4: Tie some twine on your Happy Mail card and send it to someone you love (click here to read about Happy Mail). Come play with us and link up your own creations of incorporating TWINE into your Happy Mail over on BPC website. Here's some ideas on what you could create. 

Now you do not "have to" knit your twine like Melinda did, but WOW this is one way of incorporating twine on your Happy Mail!!

by Melinda Spinks

 Use it to accent around an opening to your card.

by Jing Jing Nickle

Sherry Cartwright created this fun holiday Happy Mail and told us, "I love sending and receiving something fun in the mail.  Bills or advertisements just don't cut it.  So, this year, I started sending some happy mail [a la Stacy Julian, Big Picture Classes and Doodlebug Design].   I used the Happy Mail challenge 4 -- tie it up with twine! as a starting point for this card.  I used white doodle twine and tied it in a simple bow.  Nothing fancy, but still delightful."

by Sherry Cartwright

Here's the card Monique created for this challenge. She made a Christmas card using the twine from the North Pole collection:

Go take the challenge and send some happy mail!

Bling that Thing....Layout Inspiration

Halloween Bling Layout

by Wendy Sue Anderson

When you have a house full of little boys, it seems the opportunities to "bling things up" are pretty rare (luckily I do have one daughter in the mix too)...so I take advantage of every opportunity to add a little bling when I can. That's why this project was extra fun - the Halloween Jewels and Halloween Pearls not only add bling, they add bits of brightly colored fun and interest! I added jewels randomly to my polka-dot background paper and I just love how it turned out. You'll find little pearls on each side of the "O" in my title and if you look closely you'll even notice the cute jack-o-lantern on the bottom has some pearly black eyes of his own! Have fun adding jewels and pearls to your next layout, especially if you normally shy away from the bling!

Supply List: haunted manor: night owls paper, witchy way paper, cob webs paper, gallery of ghouls paper, spooky type paper, cute cuts, icons stickers; halloween mini pearls, halloween jewels, beetle black doodle wine, tangerine teensy type, limeade fancy frills

Bling Christmas Layout

by Aphra Bolyer 

Now let's skip over Halloween and start thinking about the holidays....

Bling Christmas Layout

by Jing-Jing Nickel

Supply List: happy holidays: doodle-cut, cute cuts, winter wonderland, doodle-pops: snowman, mini doodle-pops: flurry, jewels: christmas assortment, north pole: 6x6 paper pad, icons cardstock stickers, cute cuts, jack & jill alphabet, rub-ons: beetle black

Spooky Ideas from Jing-Jing & Tiffany

Spooky Layout 
by Jing-Jing Nickel

Spooky supplies: Haunted manner: cob webs, spooky type, gallery of ghosts, going batty, punkin party, frames cardstock stickers, cute cuts monster mania asorted cut-outs Mini doodle-pops: spidies Jewels: beetle black assortment


Happy Halloween Tag
by Tiffany Hood

Supplies: Create-A-Card Slim Filagree-Beetle Black, Doodles Cardstock Stickers-Happy Birthday Multicolor, Monster Mania Cute Cuts, Scaredy Doodle Pops Sticker, Spinning Spiders Sugar Coated Double-Sided Cardstock, Doodle-Twine-Lilac

Christmas Card Inspiration

Holiday Cards 

by Tiffany Hood

 

I love the new North Pole collection!  The color palate is darling and the prints and characters are to die for!  I had fun mixing and matching the frames and inserts from the North Pole Frames Cardstock Stickers and embellishing with the new jewels and mini pearls and Mini-Pops stickers! 

Supply List: Create-A-Card Slim Sunburst Card-Ladybug, Create-A-Card A2 Stripe Card-Limeade, Create-A-Card Slim Sunburst Card-Limeade, Christmas Assortment Jewels, Christmas Assortment Mini Pearls, Christmas Doodle Twine, North Pole Frames Cardstock Stickers, North Pole 6x6 Paper Pad, Boutique Buttons-Ladybug, Boutique Buttons-Limeade, In A Flurry Double Sided Cardstock, North Pole Cute Cuts, Flurry Pops Mini-Pops Stickers

Merry Card
by Jing-Jing Nickel

Supply List: Create-a-card: square baroque assortment; doodles cardstock stickers: merry christmas lily white; doodle twine: christmas; mini doodle-pops: snow buddies; north pole: in a flurry, santa'sscarf, playful pine
 
Snowman Card
by Jing-Jing Nickel

 

Supply List: Create-a-card: slim filagree assortment; north pole: frames cardstock stickers, christmas cheer, festive frames, in a flurry; mini pearls: baby boy assortment 

North Pole Collection Wreath and Layout + Giveaway

north pole collection

Fun frosted trees and cheerful critters are just the start to our festive new collection, North Pole! A holiday destination that is just the ticket to a Christmas filled with glee & delight. With whimsical pine trees & playful reindeers, this assortment of holiday papers and accents is filled with more jolly spirit than you can imagine. In nostalgic shades of red, green and silver, this winter wonderland is sure to put some flurry into your holiday crafts and keepsakes.

Holiday Wreath
by Sherry Cartwright

This holiday, take your scrapbooking and papercrafting supplies off the page!   Use them for crafts, cards, gifts and home decor.   I used Doodlebug's awesomely cute North Pole collection to create this wreath, adding to it some staples ---- pearls, jewels and buttons.   

I traced a dinner plate, and a dessert plate inside of that circle, onto cardstock to make the base.  Cut it out.   Then it was ready decorate with handcut holly leaves of various sizes and using a variety of green papers, all folded in the center with the ScorPal.   I was sure to leave some still folded and gluing only the ends so that there was some dimension.   Then, decorate with all those cute doo-dads in your scrappy space.   

I created a very small snow scene by the bow, then added two mini doodlepops to pull it altogether.   

I'm ready to make another in a non-traditional color scheme. Falallalalalaallalalaaaaaaaa!

Supply List: patterned paper: north pole playful pines, holly-days and santa's scarf, santa's workshop little helpers, petite prints daisy-stripe; mini doodle-pops: flurry, festive flock; north pole card stock stickers; jewels - christmas assortment; mini pearls - christmas assortment; boutique buttons - ladybug; mini jewels - ladybug

List Making Layout

By Jing-Jing Nickel

Supply List: north pole: santa's scarf, christmas cheer, in a flurry, jolly lollipop, festive frames, playful pines; frames cardstock stickers; boutique buttons: ladybug assortment; teensy type cardstock stickers: ladybug; santa's workshop fancy frills; cardstock stickers: tiny pines

Would you like to win this fun Essentials kit?? 

How to Enter to Win: 

Share the link to this fun post from today on your Facebook, or Twitter or Pin the projects and leave a comment for each thing you did. We'll pick a lucky winner on Sunday, September 24th at 11:59pm. Winner will be announced on Monday.

Day 3: More Scor-Pal Inspiration

We have been having so much fun this week featuring the amazing products from Scor-Pal and their designers too!!

Have you been over to their blog yet?? If not, you should jump over there and look at today's and the past couple of days. They've been creating amazing projects with Doodlebug products and both blogs are giving you the chance to win.

Remember we're giving away a full size Scor-Pal and also a Scor-Buddy. Each of those will be combined with some Doodlebug products. All you need to do it leave a comment here on our blog.


Bonus entry if you go leave a comment on Scor-pal's Facebook Page letting them know why you like their tools or which of the projects you've seen on either blog that inspires you. Leave a comment once you've done that.

Now for today's inspiration....
We are so lucky to have projects from three of our Design Team girls Aphra, Jing-Jing and Tiffany.

Happy Birthday Gate-Fold Card

by Aphra Bolyer

Visit Aphra's blog today to get the pattern for the flip flops and she share show she created the fun embossed pattern behind the title.

Supply List: Bumblebee Petite Prints Cardstock; Hello Spring Patterned Paper; Limeade Boutique Buttons; Bumblebee Doodletwine; Multicolor You're Invited Doodles Cardstock Stickers.

Dude Card 

by Tiffany Hood

The Scor-Pal was a lot of fun to use! Here I made a multi-dimensional card base by cutting and scoring a regular piece of 12" x 4.5" cardstock. Then I embellished it with a scored rosette with scored tails. I love how this tool adds so much dimension and interest to any project. I'll have a full step-by-step photo tutorial over on my blog showing how I made the card base and the rosette.

Supply List: Boys Only Puzzling Pieces cardstock, Boys Only Geared Up cardstock, Boys Only Jam Session cardstock, Boys Only Superstar cardstock, Boys Only Skater Stripe cardstock, Boys Only Cute Cuts die cuts, Teensy Type cardstock stickers in Limeade

Happy Birthday Gate-Fold Card
by Jing-Jink Nickel

Supply List: doodles - happy birthday - beetle black; Petite prints - cupcake daisy-stripe; cake & ice cream: surprise party, gift wrapped, fancy frills, cute cuts; Jewels: tangerine

Tuesday Tutorial: Cute Cuts

by Jing-Jing Nickel

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Summer is in full swing!  What are some of your favorite activities during the summer season to do, to photograph and to scrap?  For me, the constant every summer is strawberry picking at various local farms.  I take and print endless number of photos.  I am not exaggerating by saying that I have enough such photos printed to last a lifetime from just one season!  

One of my favorite product by Doodlebug is the cute cuts that come with every collection. I typically use them for journaling spots on layouts and the focal point of a card's sentiment. I thought that I would try punching out a bunch of the die-cuts and make a layout using mostly just with them.  I took a few pictures along the way so you can see how I layered them.  

After most of the big elements have been adhered onto the layout, then I embellished with stickers and journaling. Notice I fit in a strawberry sticker in the journaling as well.  Thank you so much for checking out this post, now let's take more summer photos!  

Supplies:

sweet cakes: cherry cherries

cake &icecream doodlecut

doodle-pops: berry sweet

icons: sweet cakes

colorwheel: cute cuts

Jack&jill alphabet rubon: limeade