LAND THAT I LOVE PATRIOTIC DÉCOR | with Wanda

Hey Doodlebug Friends! It's almost 4th of July, and time to decorate for your festivities! I love a good patriotic craft project and I'm here today to share what I made for this year's party - using the awesome Land That I love Paper Collection! Red, White and Blue never ever goes out of style. This project will translate to any party theme by changing which paper collection you use. These festive papers are so bright, and I adore the embellishments that come in this collection - especially that little eagle with the Uncle Sam hat!

These are called fans, rosettes, or medallions and they're super easy to make. I used a die to make mine but it's very easy to make with some simple tools - a paper cutter and a Scoring Board! I made five rosettes and the a garland to match.

 For this rosette, I layered two rosettes! I glued them together with liquid glue and then embellished them with cardstock stickers and Doodle Pops. The Land That I Love stickers are perfect for this project! If you're doing these by hand start by cutting a 12x12 piece of paper into 4 6x6 squares. Use your Scoring Board and score and fold each square back and forth accordian style at 1/2 inch intervals. Once your smaller fans are folded, glue then together. I used eight pieces, or two 12x 12 papers for each one. To make them larger or smaller, simply cut off part of the pieces before gluing them together!

 It's easy to be festive! Just decorate with your garland and rosettes, get some festive straws and plates at the craft store....and start celebrating!

 Here is a close up of those gorgeous Land That I Love papers! 

 I used stickers and Odds & Ends to decorate the centers of the rosettes.

 

 To make the garland, I used Doodlebug Chunky twine and glued the paper pieces from the Odds & Ends pack onto the twine. I added some mini jewels into the center of all of them for a bit of sparkle.

That's it for today! I am wishing you a happy 4th of July and a fun Summer season! See you back here real soon! 

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Land That I Love Collection
Cardstock Stickers
Odds & Ends
12x12 and 6x6 Papers
Doodle Pops Sammy
Mini Jewels
Chunky Twine

OTHER SUPPLIES

Scoring Board
Sizzix Medallion Die
Circle Dies
Liquid Glue

WINTER WONDERLAND GARLAND | with Shellye

Happy New Year, Doodlebugs! 

Now that the Christmas decorations are down, it's time to focus on all things snowflakes, snow people, yetis, and winter!  Today I'm sharing an ornament and bunted garland that I crafted for one of my small trees:
The fabulous thing about this project is that you can use any shape of chipboard (think mini album pages, a sign from the dollar store, etc.) and then cover with a cute swatch of patterned paper from the Winter Wonderland Collection.

I designed different scenes for the fronts of each ornament.  Think die-cut shapes and then layer on die-cuts, journal cards, stickers and doodle-pops of course!

In finishing the ornaments, I used a fine point glue pen to attach chunky twine around the perimeter. Finally, I punched two holes along the tops and added ribbon for a hanger.

The bunted garland was super simple to make! I took a length of chunky twine and approximately seventy-five 1.5" circles which were folded in half and wrapped around the twine.

I filled in the rest of the tree with some large glittery snowflakes and my Winter Wonderland tree is all set!

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Winter Wonderland 6X6 Paper Pad

Winter Wonderland Chit Chat Die Cuts

Frosty Assorted Buttons

Lilac Chunky Twine

Winter Glitter Sprinkles

Doodle Pops

12 Days of Christmas - Day 8 with Wendy

Hello there, Doodlebug friends!  It’s Wendy Sue here today – sharing a fun little holiday project.  I created this fun glittery snowflake garland using lots of colorful doodlebug supplies.  It was quick and easy – and would have been a great project to do with the kids!

I started by cutting out the snowflake shapes (from white cardstock) with my Silhouette Cameo, but if you don’t have one you could certainly cut them out by hand.  Next, I applied liquid glue with a sponge brush, then sprinkled sugar coating glitter to cover each snowflake.  After each snowflake was dry, I flipped it over and did the back (this step is optional and I probably didn’t need to do it since the back is against the door – but if you were putting it in a window or some other spot where the back was visible, you’d definitely want to cover the back.)

After the glue was dried and the glitter was all cleaned up (I know, who am I kidding…glitter is never completely cleaned up!), I started embellishing the centers of some of my flakes.  Some of them have sweet little snowflake braddies added.  Other have slightly larger, and oh so fun, doodle-pops in the center.

After the embellishments were added, I glued them all to a long piece of doodle twine with a hot glue gun.

…and hung the finished garland on the door.  Now I’m loving how it looks as we add holiday cards to the door, one by one.

One of my favorite things about this banner is that it will remain on this door throughout January, since it’s not necessarily a “holiday"/christmas” ornament – but a colorful WINTER decoration instead!!
Hope your winter is full of glitter and bright colors too!
Supplies:  cardstock: lily white; sugar coated glitter (metallic assortment & glitter assortment); boutique brads (holiday assortment); braddies (frosty flakes); doodle-pops (snowman, mr. penguin, snowflake)