Happy Monday! I have another Doodle Pantry creation to share with you today – a simple birthday card featuring the Mini Rose Pot digital stamp set.

My husband requested a birthday card and prefers the clean and simple look, so I printed the roses and sentiment and then colored them with my Copic markers with a bit of sparkle sponged on using Pebbles shimmer chalks. The card base is from DCWV and inspired the purple throughout. For added interest I diecut both the image and the card with my nesties. 

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the current Stamptacular Sunday Challenge – the theme is fancy folds.  Laurie put together a darling and oh-so-creative card/gift container for the occasion – check it out on the Doodle Pantry blog. While we’re on the subject of challenges, there’s still time to join us for DPDC15 – deadline is August 18th. We’d love to have you come join us for either of these challenges.

We start preschool tomorrow – but this year Nadya is attending in the afternoons – we thought that might be easier with the baby coming. We’ll see how it goes.

Have a fabulous week!

MyGrafico is celebrating their 2nd birthday with a site-wide 25% off sale!  This means NOW is the perfect time to grab any of their cute digital products that you’ve been eying!

Have a FABULOUS day!

Nadya and I spent time in the craft room this morning – we have a birthday party this afternoon, so we created coordinating cards and packaging for little Ryan’s first birthday.

All in all we are both happy with the outcome.   I cut the bag topper using Make The Cut and my Cricut – a HUGE Thank You to Penny Duncan for creating the cutting file for me! Nadya selected the colors for the balloons and lettering. I also played with my Cri-Kits pens to draw the lettering outline before cutting the topper – fun, and EASY to use!

The little swirls are from a retired SU set  called Fresh Fillers and are stamped in SU Brilliant Blue. These toppers or bag skirts really are an easy way to dress up a gift bag!

Recipe:

• Stamps: SU Fresh Fillers
• Digital Cutting Files: Penny Duncan Creations
• Ink: SU Brilliant Blue; Cri-Kits Glitter Pens; Inkssentials White Gel Pen
• Paper: DCWV Textured White 12×12; Holiday Glitter and Textured Brights Mat Stacks
• Other: Tombow Mono Adhesive; Elmer’s Glue Dots; Ribbons; Make The Cut Software
• Tools: Fiskars Paper Trimmer; MS Crafts Score Board; Big Shot; Cricut

After we finished the bag, we started on the cards – I made one and so did Nadya.

We both used images from Dustin Pike – another of my favorite digi-stamp designers. For my coloring medium, I opted for my ”old school” SU markers; while Nadya selected her trusty Crayola fine-tip Pip Squeaks. She insisted we write to Ryan from Nadya on the front instead of on the inside of her card – she wanted to make sure he knew it was his.

Recipe:

• Stamps: Dustin Pike/Doodle Dragon Studios
• Ink: HP LaserJet;  SU and Crayola Markers; Inkssentials White Gel Pen 
• Paper: Georgia Pacific White; Red and Blue from my stash
• Other: Tombow Mono Adhesive; Elmer’s Glue Dots; Ribbons; Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies; Adhesive Pearls, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder; SU Small Dots Texture Plate; MS Crafts Border Punch
• Tools: Fiskars Paper Trimmer; MS Crafts Score Board; Big Shot; Photoshop

Have a restful day! Check back tomorrow as I actually SCRAPPED!