Mix & Match Week Begins!!

Welcome to our first Doodlebug Mix & Match Week! We are going to mix up the product and show you how perfectly it matches. Our team text extra care to make sure that product you bought last year still coordinates with products you bought yesterday. We're going to show you how to take a great mix of product throughout this week and inspire you to match our creativity!!

Let's get started by showing off one of my favorite projects from our Design Team that was sent to us from Tiffany Hood...be sure to comment if you love what she created!!

Happy Together by Tiffany Hood

http://www.rhinestonesandribbon.blogspot.com

This layout was a ton of fun to make.  I wanted to do something to showcase Doodlebug's beautiful core colors.  For this layout I used products from the Welcome Home, Santa’s Workshop, Colorwheel, Nifty Notions, Cake and Ice Cream, and Mother Nature collections as well as products from Doodlebug’s core collections of buttons, brads, and word stickers. I love how everything from every collection coordinates!

For this layout I used products from the Welcome Home, Santa’s Workshop, Colorwheel, Nifty Notions, Cake and Ice Cream, and Mother Nature collections as well as products from Doodlebug’s core collections of buttons, brads, and word stickers.  

Supply List: Boutique buttons, boutique brads, brads, chunky brads, sugar coated brads, and crushed velvet brads in ladybug, bubblegum, cupcake, tangerine, bumblebee, limeade, swimming pool, and lilac.  Nifty Notions Collection, Cake and Ice Cream Collection, and Bumblebee assortment mini jewels.  Colorwheel Collection icons cardstock stickers, Mother Nature Collection icons cardstock stickers, Happy Birthday multicolor Doodles cardstock stickers, Together Headlines cardstock stickers, Maple Doodle-Pops cardstock sticker, Welcome Home Collection Doodle Cut cardstock, Santa’s Workshop 4x6 cut-outs cardstock, petite prints swimming pool daisy-stripe cardstock

Birthday Celebration by Kathy + Giveaway

Hi! Doodlebug design team member Kathy Martin here taking over the Doodlebug blog today! Isn't that cool? Since this doesn't happen very often I thought we should celebrate! You know, have some fun, throw a party! What do you think? Are you game?

To have a party we'll need some brightly colored balloons and confetti. What else? Oh yea, we have to have a cake or cupcakes! How about party hats? Pictures will be a lot more fun if we all wear party hats, don't you think?

What's that? What about presents? Now your talking! We should have presents! What's a party without presents? I wonder if the folks at Doodlebug would mind me giving away presents? Do you think they would be okay with that? Maybe if I have just one cool giveaway, they wouldn't mind? So, what should I giveaway? That's a tough one because there are so many great Doodlebug products!

Oh, I know what the giveaway should be! Since this is a party, I'll giveaway a Birthday Celebration pack! Your choice of a boy or girl theme. I think that's pretty awesome, don't you?

Check out more of the Birthday Celebration Collection on the Doodlebug website.

I recently made a scrapbook page with this line. Would you like to see it?

With all these bright colors, balloons, and an assortment of stickers, this collection is perfect for all celebrations, don't you think? You can create cards for graduations, or make invitations, and so much more!

I really enjoyed creating this page of my son's 10th birthday! These balloons begged for some Doodle Twine to make a bouquet with! And I just had to top off some of the confetti with some brightly colored mini jewels!

To create my title, I layered one of the die cuts with a present and party hat. To give them pop, I  attached some adhesive foam tape underneath. As you can see, everything you need for your celebration projects is included in this pack!

GIVEAWAY 
What do you think of this collection? Would you like to win it? Alright! All you have to do is leave a comment here on my blog and tell me what kind of celebration you would use this line for. Also...leave a comment here on the Doodlebug blog letting them know what you like most about this collection.

Comments for this giveaway will be left open through Sunday. Monday I will randomly choose the winner and make that announcement on my blog. Please only one comment per person. Remember, you have to make comments on both my blog and the Doodlebug blog.

Thanks for coming to the party! I hope you had a good time! Good luck with the giveaway!

Kathy :)

Winners, Winner and More Winners

We finally had time to figure out the winners from our past month's worth of giveaways and we're excited to start shipping out these yummy boxes of goodness. The only winners that will have to wait are the winners of our CHA collections...they won't ship until March 5th.

Nancy's post - Nancy's Sweet Giveaway

Jing-Jing post - Sweet Cakes Mailbox Giveaway

Elizabeth's post - Sweet Way to Repurpose Packaging Giveaway

CHA Release - Hello Spring Giveaway

CHA Release - Snips & Snails Giveaway

CHA Release - Sugar & Spice Giveaway

CHA Release - Boys Only Giveaway

Stephanie hosted a blog post Surprise Party - Doodlebug Prize Package Winner

Ro's blog Post Tribute to Valentines - Sweet Cakes Collection Winner

Jessy's Blog Post from Monday, Feb. 13 - Doodlebug Prize Package Winner

Jing-Jing's Post yesterday, Feb. 15th - Sweet Cakes Collection Winner

To Claim Your Prize:
Please email us your shipping information by Friday at 10:00am MST, February 17th to doodlebugdesign.blog@gmail.com.

Sweet Heart Layout by Jing-Jing Nickel

As a mother of girls, I feel that I have an advantage in the Valentines papers department.  There's no shortage of pink, fushcia, red colors in my children's wardrobe, so I can use these fun Valentine papers in non-Valentine layouts.  Here in this layout, I'm simply inspired by the color of her t-shirt and chose the sweet love collection to scrap these photos.  I have to say that I just love the cardstock diecut papers from Doodlebug. The cute cuts are so easy to use and so extremely versatile!  I just pop them out of the sheet and re-arrange the pieces until I find the look that I like.  Do you know they are also double-sided?  Like I said, it's a super duper versatile and adorable product.  

Supplies: Sweet love collection: Icons, fancy frills, cute cuts, doodle-cut, sweethearts; Petite prints: cupcake daisy-stripe; Boutique brads: bubblegum assortment



GIVEAWAY
If you love what you see, please leave a comment here and head over to my blog http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.comto leave another comment and you will be entered to win the Sweet Love collection!  Good luck!
 

Tuesday Tutorial: Mini Valentine's Cards with Envelope

by Kandis Smith

http://www.mycreativetreasury.blogspot.com

1.) Print off envelope pattern from: http://melstampz.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-mini-long-note-card-envelope.html. Cut out.

2.) Trace onto patterned paper and cut out envelope and liner.

3.) Score envelope and liner on fold lines.

4.) Fold together and adhere shut.

5.) Cut a little 2.5" x 4.25" notecard and write a little message on it. Stick it inside your envelope for a cute little Valentine.

6.) Tie twine through two Limeade buttons.

7.) Adhere buttons--one on envelope flap and another towards the middle of the envelope.

8.) Loop twine in a figure eight around buttons to secure shut.

9.) Diecut a frame from Sugar Coated paper and adhere to front of envelope. 

10.) Add stickers of your choice.

 

Supplies:
Sweet Cakes Candy Hearts, Heart to Heart, Valentine Twine, and Petite Prints Limeade Dots/grid papers, Valentines's Assortment of Doodle twine, Limade Boutique Buttons, Sweet cakes Icons

Happy Valentines!

Love You Layout by Jessy + Giveaway

by Jessy Christopher

http://www.teacherjessy.blogspot.com

Valentine's Day is around the corner and I was inspired to create a layout for my lil nephew, Constantine. He is such a cute little thing. For this layout, I have mixed a little of everything from 2 different collection just to give you an idea how to play around with the Dooddlebug collection. I love how it turned out to be - fun & cheery. The flower embellies are perfect for boys too!

Supply List: Bon Appetit : Apron Strings paper, Cardstock stickers (fancy frills), Cute Cuts, Petite Prints: Bumblebee Daisy Stripe paper, Sweet Love: Cardstock Stickers (icon), Doodle Twine Tangerine, Mini Jewels Lily White assortment

GIVEAWAY

We love our design team members and we hope you do too! We'd like to have you jump over to Jessy's blog and leave a comment for her OR follower her blog and come back and comment that you did this. We'll pick a winner by tomorrow at 11:59pm and announce it before the end of this week. You would be the lucky winner of a fun box of Doodlebug goodies!! 

We're Still Inspiring You!

Birthday Party 

by Aphra Bolyer

This layout was all about the embellishments for me.  First, I used the Fancy Frills stickers to create a striped patterned paper beside my photos.  Then, I added a tag with some floating balloons next to the photos.  The twine was just perfect to make the balloons appear to be floating.  I added a couple more to my title area.  And then to finish it off, I added a group of die cuts and stickers to the bottom right of my photo block. 

Supply List:  Birthday Cakes Patterned Paper; Birthday Celebrations Cute Cuts; Birthday Celebrations Icon Stickers; Birthday Celebrations Fancy Frills; Petite Prints; Doodle Twine Bubble Blue; Doodle Twine Ladybug; Doodle Twine Tangerine; Doodle Twine Limeade; Doodle Twine Swimming Pool.

Love Bugs Layout

by Tiffany Hood

Supply List: Ladybug garden: daisy days cardstock, ladybug garden cardstock, all in a row cardstock, ladybug garden doodle-cuts cardstock, ladybug garden cute-cuts, ladybug garden boutique brads, ladybug garden sugar coated cardstock stickers, ladybug garden fancy frills stickers, petite prints tangerine daisy stripe cardstock, doodle twine primary assortment, doodle twine limeade, doodle twine bubblegum, boutique buttons ladybug, boutique buttons tangerine, boutique buttons bumblebee, boutique buttons limeade, hopscotch cardstock letter stickers in bon bon. 

Cards with Paper Frills

by Elizabeth Carney

Supply List: Paper Frills Ladybug, Headlines cardstock stickers love and Forth of July, Create-A-Card Slim Sunburst, Create-A-Card Paisley.