Ornamental Ideas Day 2

Here's a few more ornamental ideas from our design team...

Reindeer Ornaments
by Wendy Sue Anderson

When we were first married someone gave us a dated holiday ornament as a wedding gift.  It's always one of my favorite ornaments to hang on our tree each year.  I thought it would be fun to create a set of ornaments that would be cute to commemorate a "first Christmas together."  This idea could easily be adapted to baby's first Christmas, or just a dated ornament.  Or just a cute addition to any tree - date or not!
 

Suppy List: North pole icon stickers, north pole 6x6 paper pad, teensy type cardstock stickers (ladybug), doodle twine (christmas)


Loopy Christmas Ornament
by Stephanie Buice

Supply List: Mini Pearls:Christmas assortment, Doublesided Cardstock:North Pole, doodletwine: Christmas assortment, Cute Cuts:North Pole


Holiday Rosette
by Aphra Bolyer

Supply List: North Pole Santa's Scarf Cardstock, North Pole Playful Pines Cardstock, North Pole 6x6 Paper Pad, North Pole Cardstock Sticker Icons, North Pole Jewels, North Pole Mini Pearls, Christmas Doodletwine.

Note: Aphra also used the Cricut Expression and Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge to make the rosette.

Tuesday Tutorial: 3D Pumpkin Thanks Card

by Aphra Bolyer

Happy Fall Y'All!! For today's tutorial, I thought I would show you how to make a cute 3D pumpkin, which is just perfect for a Thanks card or a Thanksgiving placecard or any of your Fall projects. 

First, gather together your supplies. I wasn't exactly sure which papers that I would use, so I just grabbed all the papers and stickers that I thought would work well for a Thanksgiving card.

Now for the instructions.

1. Use your circle cutter or die cutting machine to cut out four 2.5" circles. Then cut out a 1.5" circle out of the center of each.

2. Chalk the edges of the circles. After they dry, use your scoring tool to score the center of the circles from top to bottom.

3. Fold the circles in half and attach them together, except for the last two sides.

4. Use your quilling tool to twist two 5/16" thick strips of green paper.

5. Add a 4.25" by 4.25" piece of rust colored cardstock to a brown square baroque card.
6. Add a 4 1/8" by 4 1/8" piece of Haunted Manor Gallery of Ghouls paper on top.
7. Add a 3 6/16" by 3 6/16" white cardstock.
8. Cut a brown stem and place leaf stickers from Thanksgiving Headlines around brown stem.
9. Add 3D pumpkin and curly vines.
10. Cut and notch a 3/4" by 3" strip of green cardstock. Add Bubblegum Teensy Type Cardstock Stickers and tuck behind leaf sticker.

Hope you enjoyed!
Aphra

Supply List: Brown Square Baroque Card, Haunted Manor Gallery of Ghouls cardstock paper, Thanksgiving Headlines sticker, Bubblegum Teensy Type Cardstock Stickers, Tangerine Petite Prints.

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

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

Doodles Layout Sketch and Fun Stamps

This great Doodles Layout Sketch was created by our own Monique and we're thrilled to combine it with the awesome Doodlebug Stamps from Hampton Arts. 

Smile
by Monique Liedtke

My youngest loves to imitate his father, so here he's reading his dad's magazine, wearing his reading glasses and his shoes. Don't you just have to smile when you see this? For this page I used lots of the new stamps: Flower Garden, Home Sweet Home, Party Time, Journal Shapes & Thankful. LOVE them all!!

Supplies: Boys Only collection; Doodlebug/Hampton Arts Stamps: Flower Garden, Home Sweet Home, Party Time, Journal Shapes & Thankful; Doodlebug/Hampton Arts Ink Pads: Limeade, Tangerine and Swimming Pool; Doodle Twine; Boutique Button and Fancy Frills.


Hello Summer
by Aphra Bolyer

Supplies: Boys Only Patterned Cardstock, Boy Assortment Mini Pearls, Boy Assortment Star Brads, Boy Assortment Boutique Buttons, Boy Assortment Doodle Twine, Teensy Type Cardstock Stickers Swimming Pool, Doodlebug Borders Rubber Cling Stamps (Hampton Arts), Doodlebug Home Sweet Home Rubber Cling Stamps (Hampton Arts), Doodlebug Journal Shapes Rubber Cling Stamps (Hampton Arts), Doodlebug Swimming Pool Pigment Ink Pad (ColorBox).

Father's Day Card Ideas

Dad Star Card

by Stephanie Buice

Supply List: Doodlebug/Hampton Arts Stamps(Borders and Simply Sweet alphabet), Doodlebug ink (Swimming pool), 6x6 paper pad (Boys only), Doodlebug Double Sided Cardstock (boys only collection), Star Brads (Boy Stars), Doodle Twine (blue jean), Boutique Buttons (Boy Assortment), Doodle Brads (Swimming Pool).

Dad Rocks Card

by Aphra Bolyer

Supply List:  Boys Only Patterned Paper, Cardstock Stickers, and Mini Pearls; Curly Alphabet Clear Stamps; Swimming Pool Stamp Pad.

It's For You Dad

by Jessy Christopher

Supply List: Snips & Snails collection- (paper: rubber duckies, twinkle twinkle, snips & snails, card stock stickers), teensy type stickers, Doodlebug / Hampton Art stamp, Pigment Ink Stamp, mini jewels, paper frills. 

Mother's Day Gifts + Doodles Card Sketch

We have DOUBLE the inspiration for you today (and tomorrow). We'll be featuring two things...First, Our fun Doodles Card Sketch by Jessy and some card creations using the sketch. Give it a try and show us on our Facebook page!! 

Second, our Design Team thought it would be fun to share some Mother's Day Create-A-Card designs, plus a fun gift idea that goes with the card. Once you view their card, simply jump over to their blogs and see their gift idea up close. So let's get started with our Doodles Card Sketch...

Doodles Card Sketch by Jessy Christopher

Monique's Doodle Card Sketch

by Monique Liedtke

I used a "Create-A-Card" from the "Slim Sunburst Assortment" and turned it into a small mini album with photos of my 3 kids as a present for (Grand) Mother's Day. As this card is folded twice it's just perfect for this purpose! I just love all the glitter cardstock stickers of little birds and butterflies that come with this collection!!

Other materials used: Patterned Paper: Hello Spring Collection & Petite Prints; Cardstock Stickers: Hello Spring; Cardstock Alphabet Stickers: Hopscotch (Bubblegum).

Stephanie's Doodle Card Sketch

by Stephanie Buice

Supply List: Create-A-Card (slim filagree assortment), Cute Cuts (colorwheel collection),6x6 paper pad (snips & snails), Alphabet Rub-ons (Jack & Jill), Fancy Frills Cardstock Stickers (cake & ice cream), Double Sided cardstock (colorwheel pocke full o'posies), Icons Cardstock Stickers (colorwheel collection) Cling Mounted rubber Stamps (Party Time)

Tiffany's Doodle's Card Sketch

by Tiffany Hood

My mom is a big-time seamstress and cook. I think Nifty Notions was made just for her :) The darling little red pincushion reminds me of when I was little and she taught me how to sew. Check out my blog to see my cooking inspired gift idea.

Supply List: Nifty Notions icons cardstock stickers, Hello Spring mini pearls, Nifty Notions fancy frills cardstock stickers, NIfty Notions sew plaid cardstock, Nifty Notions cross stitch cardstock, Nifty Notions boutique brads, Candy Dots cardstock in bumblebee

Mother's Day Cards + Gift Ideas

Mom with Love

by Sherry Cartwright

To create card "pocket", I turned the create-a-card base inside out and upside down [whew!]. I stitched each side to seal the sides, then decorated with stamped tag and paper ribbon.

Flower pokes were made with stickers on skewers backed with patterned paper. Perfect for a potted plant or flower!

Supply List: Create-a-card - polka dot - swimming pool; patterned paper - Petite Prints - limeade; stickers - Colorwheel; sugar-coated brads; pearls - Boys Only; rhinestones; sentiment stamps - sentiments - Hampton Art; label stamp - thankful - Hampton Art; alpha stickers - simply sweet sugar-coated - swimming pool

Mother's Day Spring Card + Gift Card

by Aphra Bolyer

My Mother's Day card had a little surprise inside. By trimming off the upper part of the third flap of a Square Baroque Create A Card and then adhering the edges to the inside of the card, I was able to create a place to tuck in a gift card. Quick and easy!

Supply List: Square Baroque Create A Card, Hello Spring 6 x 6 Pad, Colorwheel Cute Cuts, Hello Spring Icon Stickers, Hello Spring Mini Pearls.