Doodle Garden | VeryBelle

Time for a new challenge over at Crafting From The Heart! We are lucky to be sponsored by The Doodle Garden and Bugaboo this week and, as always, it’s Anything Goes! Sadly, The Doodle Garden closed last month, but you can still win the lovely images we used for our DT makes!

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I used Flight Lesson for my card – it’s such a sweet little image! I coloured it with ProMarkers with a very slight touch of Wink Of Stella on the wings and hairclip. I made the background with some Distress Inks and a water spritzer – I was a little heavy handed with the DI, so I needed the water to lighten things up a bit!

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Don’t forget to head over to Crafting From The Heart to have a peek at the other DT makes.

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It’s time for a new challenge over at Kitty Bee’s Aloha Friday! Our theme for this challenge is “Scraps” – we want to see at least three different scraps used in your project. Our sponsor was Doodle Garden – the first time I’ve used one of their images, but definitely not the last; they’re so cute and very easy to work with!

On to my card then…. I chose to use Three Cheers for my project – I was looking for an image that would be ideal for paper piecing as I find this is the easiest way to use up the small odds and ends of papers that I can’t bear to throw away! As soon as I saw this cute little girl, I could see her dress paper pieced, along with a matching bow….not to mention the flag!!

I coloured the image with Pro-Markers, then “dressed” her with the dress and bow that I had cut from a scrap of patterned paper from the Hip Hip Hooray Stack by American Crafts – in fact, all the patterned papers on the card are from the same stack, which is my absolute favourite because of the bright, juicy summer colours. I also used scraps for the flowery stripes across the background, the flag and the sentiment.

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I based the layout on the current sketch and twist challenge over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. I chose to use the middle row (sentiment, designer paper, flower). The frame and stripes have been popped up on 3D pads to create a little distance between the patterned background and the flowery stripes – might have caused a few migraines otherwise 😉 Unfortunately, I’ve just realised that our challenge goes live after the closing date, so I won’t be able to enter 😦 Never mind, I’m sure I’ll find a couple of other challenges to link up to!!

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