Tuesday Tutorial: Go Green!

by Elizabeth Carney

Hey there! If you are like me, you try to do something small for your kids on every single holiday. While we can't claim that we have any Irish in us, it sure is fun to celebrate the day, we think! Since Alyssa is older now, I have opted for doing something fun every morning for her for breakfast. That means that during the "fun" holiday times I can dress up her breakfast a lot by decorating and having fun making the ordinary breakfast day into something spectacular! Lucky for me, she is really into this kind of stuff still!

The thing is, I like easy. I am not a technical scrapper nor do I try to be. If its cute, fun, and easy then I am all over it!  Doing these breakfast parties aren't something new and innovative either, but I hope that you'll find some inspiration in them that you can also create with ease on any given holiday, big or small!

Supply List: Doodlebug Monster Mania Tricky Tweed papers, Doodlebug Sweet Pea sugar coated cardstock, Doodlebug Limeade Assortment Mini Jewels, Doodle Twine Primary Assortment, Doodlebug Limeade Paper Frills, Doodlebug Lily White Candy Shoppe cardstock stickers, Doodlebug Limeade Sugar Coated Brads, Doodlebug Limeade Assortment Boutique Buttons, Doodle Twine Beatle Black, Doodlebug Lily White Simply Sweet cardstock stickers. 

What you'll need: 
Cardstock
Pattern Paper
Themed accents for holiday
Twine
Brads
Letter stickers
Candy
Coins
Small jar/paint can
Marker
Jewels
Any other items you desire.

The first thing I did was use this clover pattern. I picked this up at JoAnn's. They are supposed to be used for making pins but I bought them to use a pattern. I just flipped them over and traced them. You can save them for later use to trace or for the holiday too.

 

As I cut those all up, I decorated each of them.

Once those were decorated I just added the gold coins in my paint pail I picked up at Michael's.

I added the clover to the side and top of the pail with twine and then added the Jewels to the pail as well. I wanted to keep the pail pretty simple since I wanted Alyssa to see the gold coins. I made a game out of these coins and am telling her that she can redeem these coins to get out of doing chores {as a special treat and they can only be used 2x a month}.

Next up, I decorated the SRM Stickers Tubes with Starlight Mints {which fit perfectly in the tube if you take the wrapper off!} with the clovers, twine, and jewels.

For the finished project I also made a small card.

I added a few buttons to the card for texture and color {since green is Alyssa's favorite color!}. Here's a close up of the entire project again!

I've been doing breakfast parties as I call them for Alyssa for years! It doesn't take much time or effort to do something like this for her and it makes her day!

Tuesday Tutorial: Sweet Owls by Jessy Christopher

Hi there! It's Jessy here and today I'd like to show you how I created those sweet owls on my layout. 

Here we go...

 These are the papers that we will be using : Hugs & Kisses and Baby Cakes.

1. First get a round object to trace out a circle. Here I used the outer and inner of a masking tape.

2. Cut the circles and "flower-pot"shape for the bodies.

3. Glue the "flower-pot" shape onto the circle.



4. Adhere some glue on either side of the shape. Fold it in.

5. Apply glue at the top and fold it down.



6. Cut a triangle and paste it at the top of the fold.

7. Cut or punch 2 circles for the eyes larger than the mini jewels. Cut another smaller triangle for the nose and you have it, a sweet owl :)

Here's another close up for the owls...

Supply List: Sweet Cakes collection - baby cakes, hugs & kisses, cheery cherries, valentine twine, sweet cakes (cut outs), valentines (doodle twine), bubblegum & bettle (mini jewels), sweet cake cardstock stickers (icons & frills), cupcake (paper frills)

Visit Jessy's Cute Blog today!!

Doodlebug's Tell it Tuesday: Thank You Card

We thought it would be fun to share with you our version of "Tell it Tuesday" here on the the Doodlebug blog. We're going to tell you how we made up one of our darling projects, what products were used and any designer tips you might need to know. 

We are excited to share with you this fun, bright "Thank You Card".  There's not much in the way of directions on this card, so just refer to the photo to see how easily it comes together with the right products!

#2969 A2 Stripe Card Asssortment 

You only need to pull out the "tangerine" card from 

the set or purchase it separately for only $.75 each.

#2983 Brights Doodle Twine Assortment 

Includes 60 yards of six delicious colors (10 yards each) that retail for only $6.99. 

 #3030 Posie Patch  Doodle-Pops

These darling 3D stickers retail for only $1.50 each and are the perfect 

accent for your cards or any paper crafting project. 

#3131 Multicolor Thank You Doodles Cardstock Stickers

The perfect sentiment for your hand-made card creations and retail for only $.99.

#2764 Little Ladies Braddies

These fun colorful ladybug brads are the perfect 

finishing touch for this card and retail for only $2.99 for a package. 

 Look for our Create-A-Card display in your local scrapbook or fine craft retailer. These wonderful stands hold all our fun stickers and twine that coordinate perfectly together!