12 Days of Christmas - Day 7 with Kandis

by Kandis Smith

I'm always needing little tags--especially around Christmas time! They are perfect for any gift, goodie bag, or plate of treats. I created these three for some plates I'll be bringing to my neighbors this year--I always like to add a little creative touch to them!

Tags are the easiest to make! You can use some pre-made tags from the office supply store or make your own. I created these with my Silhouette using a tag shape. It was fast and easy--plus the Doodlebug paper comes double sided so you can use either one!

I used the North Pole collection on all of these. The best part is that the collection has it all--diecuts, stickers, letter stickers, pop ups, patterned paper, twine, etc! Everything you need to make a ton of tags!

This is just the beginning for me--I need to make a bunch more! So grab out your collection and get to work--I promise it wont take long!

Tradition Layouts and Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Doodlebug Design. We are thankful for our blog followers, customers and retail partners and hope you enjoy time today surrounded by people you love!

We thought it would be fun to share some layouts focused on traditions since this time of year we focus on many traditions with our families.


Upholding The Tradition

by Melinda Spinks

One of the most memorable traditions I remember whilst growing up were the games of backyard football and cricket. It was almost always played when the cousins came over for Christmas or family get-togethers and was a very 'serious' competition! Well not really, but it was allot of fun and one of the rare times when the adults would stop working and just play! I decided to really focus on the colours of the photographs and create a whimsical style page to run with the theme of fun and frivolity and I'm just loving 'brads' at the moment which added that extra touch of whimsy.

Supply List: Petite Prints - Daisy Stripe (Bumblebee); Petite Prints - Dot Grid (Ladybug, Limeade, Tangerine); Fancy Frills Cardstock Stickers (Bumblebee, Lilywhite); Hopscotch Cardstock Stickers (Lilywhite); Jack and Jill Alphabet Rubons (Beetleblack); Doodle Twine (Halloween Assortment); Expressions Rubons (Playful); Chunky Brads (Bumblebee, Ladybug, Limeade, Tangerine); Mini Brads (Bumblebee, Ladybug, Limeade, Tangerine).

St. Maarten Tradition
by Monique Liedtke

Monique created a layout about the "St. Maarten" tradition they have in The Netherlands. It's a bit similar to Halloween: in the evening of November 11children carrying lanternsring the bells of neighbouring housessing a song and ask for sweets. For this page she used the Halloween collection "Haunted Manor".

Supply List: patterned paperDoodle twinejewelsframes cardstock stickerscute cuts all from the Halloween collection "Haunted Manor"Teensy Type (beetle black) and Fancy Frills (tangerine).

Dear Santa Letter

by Kandis Smith

Supply List: North Pole Santa's Scarf; North Pole Playful Pines; North Pole In A Flurry; LadyBug Shin-Dig letters; North Pole Party Banner stickers; North Pole Icons; Flurry Mini Doodle Pops; North Pole Doodle twine; Limeade Jewels  Assortment

Blessings that Count Layout Inspiration

Blessings Framed Layout
by Wendy Sue Anderson

Supply List: headlines: adventurous, thanksgiving, fall; expressions: thanksgiving; doodle twine: bon bon, swimming pool, tangerine, bumblebee; sugar & spice 6x6 pad; haunted manor 6x6 pad, boys only 6x6 pad; teensy type: tangerine; fancy frills bumblebee, tangerine, swimming pool, bon bon.


Blessed Layout
by Jessy Christopher

 

Supply List: hello spring (essentials kit, spring mini pearls, fancy frills sugar-coated cardstock stickers, 6x6 paper pad), doodle twine (bon bon), shin-dig cardstock stickers (tangerine), doodle-pops cardstock sticker (butterfly)

Blessings Count Layout
by Kandis Smith

Supply List: Petite Prints Collection; Thanksgiving Expressions Rub on; Bon Appetit Fancy Frills; Boutique buttons Tangerine Assortment; Bon Bon Candy Shoppe letter stickers; other: machine stitching, photos.

Travel Ideas with Doodlebug

On the Road Again.....
And if you're in the Minneapolis/Mall of America area this weekend, be sure to stop by Scrapfest and say HI to Cynthea and the crew at the Doodlebug booth....now that's something to scrapbook about!! 

So we had a few customer request that we challenge our Design Team to come up with some "travel" related ideas to share on the blog. We are excited to share with you those ideas that our team was able to create without a "travel" specific collection to work with. They cut, pasted and worked up ideas from the collections of product released over this past year. 

And be sure to come back by the blog tomorrow to see a couple amazing layouts! 

Vacation Card
by Kandis Smith

Supply List: Braddies Fishies; Expressions Vacation Rubon; Jewels Swimming Pool Assortment; Boys Only Puzzling Pieces paper; Boys Only Skater Stripe paper; Boys Only Superstar paper; other: white cardstock, machine stitching

Bon Voyage

by Jessy Christopher

Supply List: Petite Prints (bumblebee daisy-stripe), Teensy Type card stock stickers (bon-bon), Snips & Snails (cardstock stickers, fancy frills cardstock stickers)

Boo-Tiful Layouts Featuring Haunted Manor

These fun layouts make me want to dress my (now teenagers) up in their favorite childhood memories so I can capture the fun and amazing memories like the ones you'll see below. We're still hunting for more winners of the new Haunted Manor Collection...scroll down to find out how you can enter today.

2011 Halloween 

by Kandis Smith

Supply Lists: Doodle Twine Halloween assortment, Teensy Type Beetle black, Mini Doodle pops spidies, Haunted Manor Cob Webs, Haunted Manor Going Batty, Icons Haunted Manor, Mini Pearls Halloween assortment, Haunted Manor Cute Cuts

Halloween Party
by Monique Liedtke

For years now I've been wanting to scrap this photo of my daughters birthday party, but never found the right paper or embellishments .... until now! This Halloween line from Doodlebug is so extensive! All papers are double sided, there are so many designs to choose from and so many embellishments and matching stickers! I'm really happy how this turned out! Btw in this photo my daughter is celebrating her 7th birthday, right now she's busy planning her 16th!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Haunted Manor, Mini Doodle-Pops (Wise Guys), Doodle Twine (Halloween), Cardstock Stickers "Icons" and "Party Banner" (Haunted Manor), Buttons and the 6x6 Paper Pad (Haunted Manor).

Argh & Arriba

by Sherry Cartwright

Supply List: patterned paper, 6x6: going batty, cob webs, night owls, spooky type, spook-a-lot, tombstones, funny bones, witchy way; cardstock stickers: haunted manor frames, haunted manor, party banner alphabet, fancy frills alphabet; haunted manor cute cuts; mini doodle-pops:  ghosties, spidies; doodle twine, beetle bug; brads: spidies braddies, halloween assortment, halloween boutique brads, spookytown boutique brads, bat ties brad dies; rhinestones: halloween jewels; pearls:  halloweeen mini pearls 

GIVEAWAY: 
We'd love it if you would pin your favorite layout from today. Then let us know you did. If you aren't on Pinterest, then share the link to today's post on your Facebook, blog or email. Come back and tell us you did that and you'll be entered to win. Winners will be selected and announced on Monday, August 27th. 

A Week Featuring Scor-Pal & Doodlebug Designs

We are so excited to be featuring one of our favorite tools here on the Doodlebug Design blog. It's the Scor-pal scoring tool. We challenged our design team to see what they create to inspire you featuring this great product. And to make it even more fun, you'll have a few chances to win some Scor-Pal products and Doodlebug Product this week.

Today we're featuring designs from two of our team members, Wendy Sue Anderson and Kandis Smith. Be sure to check out their blogs too for more inspiring ideas and a tutorial from Wendy. 

Scor-Pal Star Treat Box 

by Wendy Sue Anderson

I love making these little gift bags with my favorite scrapbooking papers and embellishments – using the ScorPal board makes it so easy!  I also used the ScorPal to create these little 3-d star embellishments (much like the ones I made earlier this month when I created my 4^th of July star banner using my ScorePal – only these stars are made on a much smaller scale.)  If you are interested in seeing how to create this little gift bag and the star embellishments, please visit my blog today! 

 

Supply List: Snips & Snails Monkey Business, Snips & Snails Twinkle Twinkle, Snips & Snails Cheery O’s, Snips & Snails Rubber Duckies, Snips & Snails Cute Cuts, Snips & Snails Cardstock Stickers, Snips & Snails Fancy Frills Cardstock Stickers, Bon Bon Teensy Type Stickers, Baby Boy Shaped Brads, Bumblebee Doodle Twine

Scor-Pal Gift Box & Card Set

by Kandis Smith

Supply List: SCOR PAL, COLORWHEEL ICONS, COLORWHEEL FANCY FRILLS, COLORWHEEL COLLECTION PATTERNED PAPERS, BEETLE BLACK MINI JEWELS, LIMEADE DOODLE TWINE, BUBBLEGUM BOUTIQUE BUTTONS, BEETLE BLACK TINSEY TYPE

Scor-Pal & Doodlebug Giveaway

We'll be giving away both a full size Scor-Pal Tool, combined with Doodlebug papers to create with. And we'll be giving away my personal favorite, a Scor-Buddy Tool and more Doodlebug papers to another winner. We'll be sharing new ways to enter to win each day, so be sure to come back each day (maybe even more prizes later this week too...but it's a surprise). 

How To Enter: 

1. Visit the Scor-Pal Blog and follow them on either their blog, Facebook or Pinterest. Return back here and leave a comment. 

2. Take a minute to jump over to Wendy Sue's blog and Kandis's blog and follow them or leave a comment. Return to our blog and leave a comment that you did. 

Winners will be announced on Friday, morning so you have until Friday at 12:01am MST. 

Inspired by Pinterest: Kandis's Paper Bow

Our own Lori Allred hosts a weekly show over on My Craft Channel each week. In each episode she searches around Pinterest for inspiring ideas and brings them to life. So she challenged Kandis Smith from our team to find something that inspired her on Pinterest and create from that. So here's what Kandis created. 

Credits: Pinterest Link

Supply List: Limeade chenille cardstock; Cupcake Teensy Type; Cupcake Boutique buttons; Surprise Party; Hampton Arts and Doodlebug Stamps

If you'd like to catch Inspired by Pinterest on My Craft Channel, click here.

Doodlebug Fabric: Fabric Purse by Kandis

by Kandis Smith

http://www.mycreativetreasury.blogspot.com

I'm a purse fanatic--although I can't afford the really nice brands, I like to have a variety of styles and colors in my wardrobe. I've made a couple purses in the past and was surprised at how easy they are to make! This purse took me 2 hours from start to finish! Can you believe that? When I saw these new classic fabrics from Doodlebug, I instantly saw this purse in my mind. It will go with any outfit in my closet! 

 I added a little Grey Doodlebug Button as my closure. 

 And I used the grey fabric for my lining. You can see the little pocket inside of the purse. 

This is the pattern I used to create my bag: 

Supplies: Beetle Black Boutique Buttons and Doodlebug Fabrics

Note: Doodlebug Fabrics are licensed through Riley Blake, who distribute them to great craft and fabric stores around the world. For more information about these great fabric, please visit the Riley Blake website.  

Check out the great 

Doodlebug Fabric Designs 

here on Riley Blake

...warning, they're irresistible!! 

Tuesday Tutorial: Alphabet Card by Kandis

We are so excited for this week, because we've challenged our Design Team to create projects around the many Doodlebug alphabets. You will be amazed at the creative ideas these girls are going to start sharing with you. We're going to start off the week with a fun Tutorial from Kandis....

by Kandis Smith

1) Pull out pink card from the Slim Filagree assortment.

2) Grab your NEW Doodlebug Designs and Hampton Art's alphabet stamps!

3) Take out  your stamp sheet and don't remove any of them. Ink the stamps right on the clear sheet.

4) Stamp onto your card. (I placed a piece of copy paper between my card so that I wouldn't get ink on the bottom part of my card.)

5) Take out your Sugar and Spice Cute Cuts and pick your diecuts. I chose the cute elephant tag and the little green brackets.

6) Grab some Doodle Twine! 

7) Adhere your bracket diecuts to your card. Add a strip of Sugar and Spice Blankie paper in between brackets for more color.

8) Wrap Doodle Twine around card and tie on tag. Add a little Sugar and Spice button to the top of your bow.

9) You are finished!! :)

Supply List: Sugar and Spice Cute Cuts; Sugar and Spice Button Boutique; Create a Card Slim Filagree Assortment; Doodlebug Alphabet stamps; Doodlebug Bubblegum ink pad; Sugar and Spice Blankie paper; 
Doodle Twine Bright Assortment

More Mother's Day Cards + Gift Ideas

Our team has loved create inspiration for you to copy for Mother's Day or any occasion this week. We hope you take time to craft a little something for a mother in your life. 

Mother's Day Card, Gift Sack & Book Marker Gift Set

by Ro Phillipsen

Supply List: lily white sugar coated cardstock, cupcake chenille cardstock, swimming pool daydream cardstock, candy dots sugar coated cardstoc, swimming pool simply sweet cadstock stickers, hello spring icons cardstock stickers, swimming pool jewels, baby boy mini pearl, swimming pool alphabet rub-ons, swimming pool buttons, candy shoppe cadstock stickers, swimming pool A6 paisley card, swimming pool A6 envelope, spring bouquet hello spring collection, baby o's sugar & spice collection.

You File Folder Card (Doodle Sketch)

by Elizabeth Carney

My mom passed away 3 years ago, but my aunt plays a special role in my life so every Mother's Day I send her a card to let her know just how much she means to me!

Supply List: Hello Spring Spring Bouquet papers, Candy Dots Gray papers, Sugar & Spice Blankie papers, Doodle Twine Baby Girl Assortment, Flower Brads Spring Flowers and Baby Girl Flowers, Hopscotch Bubblegum cardstock stickers, Mini Jewels Lily White assortment, Mini Pearly Spring assortment, Create-A-Card Square Grid assortment, Snips & Snails Cute Cuts, Sugar & Spice Cute Cuts. 

Mom Card (Doodle Sketch)

by Wendy Sue Anderson

Supply List: welcome home doodle-cut paper, ladybug dot-grid paper, swimming pool daisy-stripe paper, welcome home fancy frills stickers, hello spring icons stickers, lily white shin-dig stickers, baby girl mini pearls, baby boy mini pearls, boy mini pearls, spring boutique buttons

Wall Hanging + Card for Mother's Day

by Kathy Martin

Supply List: Hello Spring Collection; Rainbow Jellies; Cute Cuts; Easter Parade Card Stock Stickers; Mini Pearls; Doodle Twine - Halloween Assortment; Sugar Coated Card Stock Stickers; Create a Card – Square Baroque


Gift Box + Card
by Kandis Smith

I always try to come up with something fun and unique for mother's day. Mothers always appreciate all the effort that goes into a handmade gift. I found these fantastic heart shaped box magnets at the craft store and thought they would be so fun to decorate and fill with little notes from the grandchildren. I decorated them using the Hello Spring line because I always think of spring when I think of mother's day! I know my mom is going to love them!

Supply List: Hello Spring Icons; Hello Spring May Flowers; Hello Spring Color Dots; Hello Spring Baby Butterflies; White Lily Jewels; Doodle Twine Cupcake, Limeade, and Bubblegum; I Love you Multicolor Doodles

Home Decor Piece + Card (Doodle Sketch)
by Jessy Christopher