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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Not one...but TWO great cards from Graphic 45....oh and I did I mention the instructions are FREE!

 Free Printable Project Sheet!

Get inspired with a free printable project sheet included in this newsletter! Featuring two card styles, a Pop-Up Window Card featuring Merry & Bright and a Z-Fold Card using the delightful Autumn Greetings collection. This project sheet is perfect for all of your handmade holiday cards this year.


New Arrivals to Spark Your Creativity!

As the seasons change, it's the perfect time to dive into new creative projects! We’re thrilled to introduce our latest paper collections—Autumn Greetings and Merry & Bright. These beautiful collections capture the magic of fall festivities and the coziness of the holiday season, perfect for crafting everything from cards to scrapbook pages and home decor.




DOWNLOAD the instructions here....








SHOP both these lines here.....





Monday, July 29, 2024

SHOP HOP 2024




Tri-State Paper Crafting Shop Hop—Save the Dates!

Looking for a road trip this spring? TWELVE paper crafting stores in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana invite you to join in a fun-filled paper crafting shop hop! From Friday, August 2,  2024 through Sunday, September 1, 2024, road trip to these unique paper crafting shops, win some great prizes, and explore the midwest!

Participating is as easy as just hitting the road!  At your first store, ask for a passport. Collect stamps along the way, then submit your completed passport (NINE stores or more will get you entered in the Shop Hop Prize Drawings!) to your final shop for your chance to win one of 4 TOP fantastic prizes from your favorite crafting stores!

Stores will be offering great deals in-store, along with take & makes just for you. Invite your crafting friends to join you on the road, and get ready to make new memories together!


For more updates, follow The Tri State Paper Crafting Shop Hop on Facebook  We can’t wait to see all 





Tuesday, June 13, 2023

FREE Simple Stories Color Vibe Swatch Book

 Do you LOVE Color Vibe by Simple Stories as much as we do? 

If so- checkout this FREE Swatch book we have for you! It's a great way to EASILY MATCH your Color Vibe papers to ANY project!!


BELOW are pictures....but here is a link to download them for FREE so you can easily print them!


                                        CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD...


ENJOY!!

Hannah










Thursday, June 1, 2023

Kiwi Lane Summer Sale!!

 


Make a Splash into Scrapbooking this Summer!

Feeling the urge to scrapbook your summer memories? 

Here are some of our favorite Summer sets to help you make a splash

 on completing beautiful pages with ease. 

Finishing your summer scrapbook pages will be as fun as when you

 were making those sunny memories!


SHOP our KIWI LANE STORE...HERE!!! --> SHOP!


Here are a "few" of the items in the SALE!







Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Grab some FREE Embroidery Patterns!



If you love to stitch, you'll love these adorable free patterns for the Embroidery Hoop Lawn Cuts. Lawn Fawn Designer Chari Moss created these cute patterns, and she's sharing the PDFs with you! 








THANK YOU LAWN FAWN!!



 

Monday, October 24, 2022

Sunburst Layout

 


What a FUN layout. 
Shawn used her Cricut or Silhouette Machine to design the sunburst background and then used one of our favorite summer lines...Seaside Summer from Doodlebug Designs to create this Layout!

Shop the Products here!


Thursday, July 14, 2022

Leslie's Top Five Favorite Products

    Here at The Doodlebug, we have a great variety of products to fill your crafting needs! Though all of the products we have in our store are truly wonderful, some of our staff have a few favorites of their own. Here are Leslie's!


Leslie's Top 5 Products 


    I know Doodlebug is a crafting store, but I wanna put a small reminder out there that we also have art products as well! It's a smaller selection of what we have, but these can always be used for crafting too! Some of these products I do own myself and have used before. 






    First up is the Strathmore Drawing Pad! I have went through many sketchbooks through out the years, but Strathmore is my favorite brand when is comes to sketchbooks! Since this is a drawing pad, this is best used with only dry mediums such as graphite, charcoal, and colored pencils (if you are okay with a little texture in your drawing!). Pens are okay too, but keep in mind that liquid mediums can tear up the paper if used to much, and will probably bleed through! The paper and the paper's texture is just perfect for dry mediums. I definitely recommend this drawing pad! 





     Next up is the Studio 71 Sketching Pencils! Graphite (pencils) is my favorite type of medium when I draw traditionally. The pack comes with 12 sketching pencils that start with 5H to 6B. So when a pencil ends with H is means the degree of  "hardness" of the pencil. When it ends with a B it means the degree of "blackness" of the pencil. So a 5H swatches to a lighter shade, while a 6B swatches to a darker shade. If you ever wondered why there was a "2B" on every standardized pencil now you know why! Plus, this pack would be great with the Strathmore Drawing Pad! 



    Next is the Prismacolor Colored Pencils! In packs like this they always come in a set of 12 and they come in certain shades of color. This pack specifically is the soft core colored pencils by Morgan Davidson who is a great artist!  The colors here are the same kind of colors you would get in a normal pack of 12 from Prismacolor, but what makes this pack different is that the colors come a little bit "softer". On the picture it shows all the colors being used as an example, which is great! Prismacolor is one of my favorite brands for colored pencils. I own plenty! 




    Next up is a tool I'm pretty sure every artist has in they're own collection, I know I do. Pencil Blending Stumps by Spectrum Noir! If you are using dry mediums and your wanting what your working on to look a little more airbrushed this is the perfect tool to use. I know there was a time I wanted everything I created to look blended with no texture, and these do the trick! These are best used with pencil (graphite) for a lot softer touch, and if your wanting to smudge with your colored pencils here and there these are great to use too. 






    Last but not least, this is one of my favorite products of all time! The Copic Ciao Markers! These markers are VERY popular in the art community. Not only are they great for Illustration, they're pretty much great for anything like, wood, leather, fabric, plastics, and more! The marker has two sides, a medium broad tip, and a brush like tip on the other end. These markers are alcohol
-based markers, but don't worry they don't smell bad! They have a very low odor. These markers don't fade over time, and are water resistant! Plus, they come in a variety of colors!