Mini Thank You Cards by Wendy

Hi Doodlebug fans, it's Wendy Sue, here with a little (literally) idea to share with you today!  


With the last day of school just around the corner, I am finding my days are filled with field trips and talent shows and class parties, and concerts, and all sorts of activities (in addition to the AP tests and finals for my older kiddos).  I thought I'd get a jump start on those "last day of school teacher gifts" we all love to put together for the teachers of our younger children.  I wanted to make fun cards for my 3 boys' teachers and decided I wanted to do a smaller size, rather than the traditional card size (mostly because of the size of the particular "gift" I want to attach the cards to).  I found that cutting the create-a-card card bases in half vertically would result in the perfect size for the mini cards!

I let my boys help me pick out the embellishments and colors for their teachers...it was cute how thoughtful they were about it, choosing just the perfect sticker for their teacher.  I'll have them write a little personal note inside the card...because what's cuter than a child's handwritten note?  Nothing, that's what!  In addition to the doodle-pops, I added some baker's twine and these brand spanking new letter stickers - "teensy type" which were the perfect size for the mini cards!

I hope you're enjoying the last days of the school year wherever you are - hopefully these mini card ideas will help you when you're brainstorming plans for those last day of school treats and gifts!

Supply List: Create-A-Card A2 Polka-dot cards (swimming pool and bubblegum); Snips & Snails Cute Cuts; Sugar & Spice Cute Cuts; Teensy Type cardstock stickers (swimming pool, bubblegum, and limeade); doodle-pops cardstock stickers (paradise, pretty posie, kaleidoscope); Doodle twine (swimming pool and bubblegum); Thank You doodles cardstock stickers (lily white)

Tuesday Tutorial: Skinny Mini Notepads

I was actually inspired to create these fun skinny mini notebooks when I happened upon this Pin on Pinterest. My curiosity got the best of me and after reading Kerry's blog and check out her Skinny Notebooks, I decided I had to create some Skinny Notebooks too with the fun papers in the Snips & Snails Collection. So off to Walmart, purchased me some of those fun 5" x 8" notebooks and then a quick stop by our local copy shop to have them cut these in half.

Blog Credit: Kerry's Paper Crafts

Step 1 - Cut your cover paper to 5 11/16" x 8 1/4". The image below I'm showing you the inside of the paper, the owl print is on the other side.

Step 2 - Score your paper in at 2 3/4" and 2 15/16" and fold.

Step 3 - Adhere one of your cut down notepads to the right side with a good strong adhesive. I like my Bazzill Marathon Runner or Terrifically Tacky Tape. 

 Step 4 - You'll spend most of your time embellishing the front cover. I decided for this one I would create a band. Start buy cutting a 1 x 6 1/2" strip of paper. I then wrapped the band around the notebook and adhered in place...it will naturally score itself. If you prefer then use your scoring tool to create a more finished list.

Step 5 - Punch out one of the darling die cuts that coordinate and adhere over band using foam tape for added dimension. 

Step 6 - Embellish center of die cut using stickers and buttons. 

Feel free to pop over to my blog for more crafty inspirational ideas. Thanks for checking out this quick and easy tutorial featuring the Snips & Snails Collection by Doodlebug.

Lori Allred

allreddesign.net

A to Z Alphabet Projects - Day 2

Snips & Snails Card

by Tiffany Hood

 

Supply List: Boutique Buttons-Baby Boy Assortment, Mini Pearls-Baby Boy Assortment, Star Brads- Baby Boy Stars, Baby Boy Doodletwine, Snips & Snails Icons cardstock stickers, Snips & Snails Cute Cuts die cuts, Monkey Business cardstock, Alphababies (baby boy) cardstock, Jack & Jill cardstock stickers-blue jean, Hopscotch cardstock stickers-limeade, Hopscotch cardstock stickers- bubble blue, Simply Sweet cardstock stickers- lily white, Hopscotch cardstock stickers- swimming pool, Shin-Dig cardstock stickers- bon bon

Subway Art Layout

by Sherry Cartwright

I was inspired by the popular "subway art" seen around the internet lately. Instead of white letters, though, I used black letters.

Supply List: together : Colorwheel cute cuts; family : Shin Dig sugar coated alphabet stickers - beetle black; momma : Jack and Jill alphabet rub-ons - beetle black; Kai : Hopscotch alphabet stickers - swimming pool; love you : Flower Garden stamps; blessed : alphabet stickers - beetle black; 4 : Jack and Jill alphabet stickers - beetle black; Keona : Candy Shoppe alphabet stickers - beetle black; dad : Simply Sweet alphabet stickers - beetle black; always : Headlines sticker; Cartwright : Simply Sweet mini rub-ons - beetle black; patterned paper : Boys Only Cool Camo; doodle twine : beetle black; paper frills : beetle black; rhinestones : beetle black; boutique button : beetle black ; brads : beetle black

You Make Me Happy
by Ro Philippsen 


"You can have many starting points to create a scrapbooking page: with a sketch may be, may be inspired by a photo or a story to tell, may just want extravazar your artistic vein, finally, there are many ways to get a layout . Today I want to tell you, a very interesting way, which is to start a scrapbooking page with the title, and make it the central point of the page. I wanted to enjoy the many alphabet stickers from Doodlebug I have, and they are so beautiful, so I chose a title very long and also quite significant. Then I did an amazing mix of different alphabets Doodlebug, and then I can start my page with my title and add the rest of the elements after." - Thanks Ro

Supply List: boutique buttons-spring assortments, mini pearl-spring assortments, cardstock stikers-hello spring, sugar&spice cute cuts-die cuts, hello spring-springtime stripe, sugar&spice baby bloomers, hello spring-may flowers, swimming pool fancy frills, limeade fancy frills, bubblegum fancy frills, bon bon Hopscotch alphabet cardstock stickers, bubblegum Simply sweet alphabet cardstock stickers, beetle black teensy type alphabet cardstock stickers, swimming pool shin-dig alphabet cardstock stickers, cupcake shin-dig alphabet cardstock stickers.

You Are My Type & I <heart> You Cards

by Jing-Jing Nickel

In this card, the yellow background is in fact a whole 1/3 sheet of the Teensy Type Cardstock stickers in Bumblebee.  After cutting this rectangle out of the sticker sheet, I peeled the sticker backing away very carefully and held my breath as I laid it down onto the cardbase.  I only had a few misbehaving stickers that needed to be arranged. 

 

Supply List: Boutique brads: Love assortment; doodle twine: valentines assortment; Create-a-card slim sunburst assortment; teensy type cardstock stickers in ladybug and bumblebee

Sticking with the theme of the week quite literally, here is an A-to-Z card that conveys the love sentiment!  Again, I just love how Doodlebug's products sticke with these basic doodle colors and working across years of product lines is made simple!

Supply List: Fancy fills cardstock stickers in ladybug; teensy type cardstock stickers in ladybug and limeade; Sweet cakes: icons cardstock stickers, 6x6 paper pad; create-a-card A2 polka dot assortment