Sending You Love Card

Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a fun Valentine's Day/ Love card.

I used Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blend: Grapefruit and Sparkle Blend: Awesomesauce for this card. I love fun pinks, yellows, happy face and flowers from these blends.

Sparkle Blend: Grapefruit

Sparkle Blend: Awesomesauce 

Here's the card I created. I placed one of the fun happy faces on the top, and a flower and tiny flat sequins on the hat of Winter Marcie.

Materials Used:

 Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blend: Grapefruit 

Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blend: Awesomesauce 

Lala Land Crafts Stamps: Winter Marcie

Clearly Besotted Stamps: Bah-Hum-Bug (sending you)

MFT Die: LOVE

Nuvo Alcohol Markers: 473, 475, 477

Distress Oxide Ink: Worn Lipstick

Prismacolor Color Pencils: Pink PC 929, 

Pink Rose PC 1018,  & Salmon Pink PC 1001

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens: White & Gold

Imagine Crafts: On Point Glue

Imagine Crafts: Tear It Tape

Spectrum Noir Markers: CR2, CR3, CR5,  CR6, 

IG3, IG4, IG5, IG6, IG7, LY2, LY3, GY2,

 MG1, TB2 & Blender

Recollections Brand 65lb Cardstock: White, Yellow & Pink

Recollections Brand 110lb Cardstock: Cream & White (card base)

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Love Ya, Puffins!

Hello! Alison here and I have a new shaker card to share with you that is great for many occasions, and it's perfect for a guy. Yup. A shaker that's good for a guy! I used the Celebrate Sparkle Blend from Doodles Paper Playground on it because it's all metallic, plus black. It's just perfect for the look I was going for.

I recently acquired the new Stud Puffin stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn and decided it would be fun to use them on a black and white card. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do exactly, so I started by coloring the puffins. I also knew I wanted to use the new Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift Tag Set, as my shaker element.

As thing started to come together, I knew I needed something in my background. Enter the Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe stencil. I inked it with VersaMark ink very carefully, using a back and forth motion with my blending brush, instead of circular. If I would have done a circular motion, I would have moved the delicate stripes, causing my image to lose it's cripsness. As it is, it isn't quite perfect, but I like it just the same. This would have been the perfect time to have Pixie Spray on hand, but alas, I don't own it. I kept the color concentrated in the middle and faded it as it went towards the outer edges.

Above, you can see how pretty the Celebrate Sparkle Blend is. You've got glitter sequins, large gold stars, striped sequins, and oil slick colors. It's quite elegant. I embossed my sentiment on an Avery Elle banner die with Detail Gold embossing powder from Stampendous. I also added some sparkle to the floating hearts above my shaker with a Sakura glitter pen.

Before I added my decorated panel to my card base, I inked the edges to solid black with VersaFine Clair Ink in Nocturne. I wanted a rich black so that it appeared that my card was actually black, but I wanted to maintain a white base.

I love how this card turned out. It's not girly or feminine, and it has just the right amount of sparkle and shine. I'll be back very soon with another project. Please be sure to visit the Doodles Paper Playground Blog to see more of what the team has been creating. Thanks so much for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!

Is it Spring Yet?

Hi Friends.  It's EK, and I am popping in today as a Guest Designer.  I am always so excited when I get to come play with the folks here at Doodles Paper Playground.

So yesterday we had our first snowfall of the season...school was closed early, and today all the kids are home on a Snow Day.  So I am happily asking...is it Spring Yet.  Now that the holidays are over, I am not gonna lie, I am ready to see green buds popping up everywhere.  Now I am perfectly aware that I have the long haul of winter still to endure, but I thought I could at least make a card today to celebrate spring.

To celebrate spring, I pulled out some Test Your Luck Green sequins mix to create a fun little clean and simple card.

Test Your Luck

I really like how this collection of green sparkle blend sequins easily transferred into fun little leaves to go with this Clearly Besotted Stamp set.

I colored the image in with my copic markers and then added a few dots of glitter pen.  I don't normally create clean and simple cards, but I really wanted the sequins to be the star today.

Are you over it yet, or just settling in for the fun?  Let us know in the comments below where you stand with winter.  Until then, Happy Crafting.