Doodle Pantry Quirky Skunk

We have new releases at Doodle Pantry today!

Here's what happening at the store -

You can get 5 great sets in this month’s digi grab bag for 50% OFF Aug. 5-19  
 You can get the newly released Rounded Wishes set for FREE with any purchase… no time limit!! 
ALL products in the “school” category are 40% OFF Aug. 5-28 (excluding templates) –*scroll clear down to see how you can get the newly released School Sheep and digi paper FREE!!

Starting today we have  a new Doodle Pantry Challenge!!  All you have to do is use ANY Doodle Pantry image and you will be emailed the new sets, School Sheep & School Time Papers!!  Everyone who plays wins!!

For my sample card today I used Doodle Pantry's Quirky Skunk digital stamp set, I think she's really cute!  I made my card in a rather unusual way for me this time and thought I'd go through some of the process with you, just for fun.

I first printed my two sheets of digital papers that come in this set, then went to my dies for a shaped card.  I cut out the Stampin' Up! Taken With Teal panel using the largest Cheery Lynn Designs French Flair scalloped die then cut out the striped Doodle Pantry digital paper with the French Flair regular die so I could layer them.  I wanted a strip of my Doodle Pantry polka dotted digital paper on there too so I cut a strip to fit.  I have a photo of how I did that below.

I taped my strip of paper face down on the cutting blades of my regular French Flair die to keep it in place.

There's the other side up for you before I ran it through the Grand Calibur.

I next decided how big of a circle my card would accommodate and used two of my Spellbinders circles to cut it out.  Then I could work on figuring out how large or small I wanted to print my Quirky Skunk.  In keeping with the scalloped theme I picked out my Spellbinders Eyelet Squares to see if one might fit inside my circle and it did and also a regular Spellbinders Square, it started coming together for me.

This photo is of my card in the process of being worked on, nothing is fastened down just laid out but coming to life.

I thought brads in the corner holes of the Eyelet Square die would be fun and I was pretty sure I could match the colors.  I then added black organdy ribbon and tied a bow using a couple of my Copic markers for a "bow easy" and for a finishing touch I used part of a Fanciful Flourish die made by Cheery Lynn Designs.

Be sure to make your next stop Doodle Pantry so you can see all the fun new digital stamp sets Laurie has for you and all the wonderful sample cards our design team has made!

Thanks for visiting my blog today -

Challenges:

Frosted Designs - Circles
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations - A Shaped Card
Come and Get It Challenge - Anything Goes
Stampin' Sister's In Christ - All Creatures Great & Small
Fuzzy Wuzzy - Shaped Card w/ Animal

This one of a kind handmade any occasion card is colored by hand using Copic markers, measuring 6 1/4" X 4 3/4".  I left it blank inside for you to write an encouraging note & comes with a white envelope.

$5.00

USPS Shipping $2.35

Copic Cloud Tutorial

Hello blog friends!  I'm going to be sharing my very first video tutorial with you today!  I'm not sure whether to be excited about that or not...  it went pretty well after several tries and I know that I will improve with practice.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and will give a it a try.  Once more a link to Bev's fabulous template -

I did make a card with my cute Bug A Boo Stamps Ava image.  She's colored with Copic markers YG67, YG63, YG61, Y38, Y18, Y19, T5, T3, T2, E00, E000 E0000, B21, B23, B24, E70, E71, E74, E77, BV000, BV0000, R20, R14, R12, R11.

 I cut her out with a Spellbinders rectangle die and matted her with the matching scalloped rectangle die.  The layout is a recent sketch from Our Craft Lounge that I thought would be fun to try.  

Truth be told I struggled with this card, getting it together was difficult for me today.  I used a Cheery Lynn Designs Butterfly die along with the angel wings, for a little sparkle I added Stickles Stardust by brushing it onto the butterfly.

The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Inside Out Birthday stamp set.  The patterned paper is Basic Grey Marrakech and I lined the envelope using my Papertrey Ink envelope liner die.  

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

Challenges:
Paper Sundaes - Clouds & Sky
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Birthday card $5.00

USPS Shipping $2.35

Birthday greeting inside:

"May this birthday

be just the beginning

of a year

filled with happy memories"

Happy Birthday Butterfly Card $5.00

USPS shipping $2.35

One of a kind handmade birthday card with matching lined envelope.  I can add a birthday greeting of your choice to the inside.  

This card measures 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"