Xyron and Doodlebug Blog Week

This week the Xyron Design Team has been having a great time hopping with the Doodlebug team.  Be sure to hop over to the Xyron blog, as well as the Doodlebug blog to see lots of amazing projects and maybe even a giveaway.

I worked with the Home for the Holidays collection - which is so bright and cheerful! But I think my favorite things in this collection are the Mini Bows. Don't you just love that big paper bow?  I inked the edges a little and assemble it with the Xyron 1/2" High Tack Tape.  I thought that  the sketch this week at Mojo Monday, would be the perfect layout to use with these papers and embellishments.

Supplies

Xyron Mega Runner

Xyron 1/2" High Tack Tape

Xyron/ Teresa Collins Foam Adhesives

Doodlebug Home For the Holidays Paper Collection

Doodlebug Home for the Holidays Mini Bows

Doodlebug Jewels - Christmas

Doodlebug Fancy Frills Cardstock Stickers

Doodlebug Doodles Quotes Cardstock Stickers

Doodlebug Icons Cardstock Stickers

Hip Hip Hooray

 

Hi! I hope you had a nice weekend.  It did not stop raining all weekend long here - so I thought a bright, cheerful card might do the trick to add a little sunshine.

 

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Kaisercraft: Patterned Papers

Hampton Art/ Outlines Stamps

 KI Memories Washi Tape

Doodlebug Twine

Copic Markers

Xyron Creatopia, Mega Runner

Clearsnap Ink

Scor-Pal and Doodlebug Design Week

 Today I will be sharing my project that was featured on the Scor-pal blog as part of this week's

 Scor-pal and Doodlebug blog week.
Of course, if you missed this project or any of the other great projects from the Scor-pal team you'll want to hop on over there and see what's been going on this week.
Be sure to leave comments on each post from this week for a chance to win some great prizes. Entry deadline in 8am Monday, July 30, so there's still time.

It's always a challenge for me to find fancy fold cards that I haven't made, and I happened to find the Double Dutch Fold card tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers.  I didn't change any of the measurements, so it will be easy for you to follow along from their tutorial. And the marks on the Scor-Pal make this a very easy card to put together.

Let's talk about the front of the card - For the focal point, I used the trees from the sheet of Hello Spring - Double Sided Cute Cuts. This already had the trees printed on it, but, I used the matching Sugar Coated Cardstock Stickers over the trees, to give it more dimension.  All of the color coordinated accesories in this collection are really fun!  I didn't want to overwhelm the card with too many pearls (did that really just come from my mouth?!!!) - so, I just added  matching Spring Mini Pearls to the glittery dots on my patterned paper.

  To keep my lower "gates" closed, I used the Hello Spring Shaped Brads on each side, and wrapped Doodle Twine Bright Assortment to tie them closed.

Now for the fun part of the card -the inside!

I stamped/paper pieced the house from Doodlebug Designs/ Hampton Art Home Sweet Home stamp set.   My flowers are the Spring Boutique Buttons with Doodle Twine for the stems.

When you open the gates, you find the sentiment.

The Cute Cuts had a banner - but it wasn't the sentiment I wanted to use.  So, after I removed the banner from the sheet, I used the punched out area for a template to draw the shape onto the blue polka dotted paper.  I stamped "welcome" from the You Said It Clear stamps set, repeatedly across the banner and then cut it out.  With an exacto knife, I cut away the original sentiment from the banner, and just left the pink and white frame.  I glued the two parts together and had the perfect sentiment for my card.

I hope my card has brightened your day!