Heffy Friends Blog Hop + 2023 Holiday Card Series #15

Hey friends, welcome to the Heffy Friends Blog Hop, where we are celebrating our love of Heffy Doodle! We are going to have some amazing inspiration for you today, and an awesome giveaway too! I'll get to all that in just a moment, but first, let me tell you about this card!

One of the things I love to do is to stretch my stamps and use them in unexpected ways. That's exactly what I did for this card, using the adorable Wrapped with Love stamp set, and taking it from a birthday theme to a Christmas one by combining it with a little sprig of holly and a sentiment from Fireside Dreams. Wrapping gifts is something I love to do around the holidays, and my piles always end up looking as precarious as this one! I also used lots of strips of festive patterned paper to tie in the gift wrap theme. It's a great way to use up those scraps, while really packing a punch with those fun prints.

If you've been following the hop in order, then this is your last stop. If not, you can go back to the Heffy Doodle blog to start at the beginning, or use the links at the end of this post to visit any guest creator along the way. Be sure to leave those comments by December 22nd for a chance to win a £25 gift voucher. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced on the Heffy Doodle blog on December 23rd.

This card is also Day 15 of my 2023 Holiday Card Series! If you'd like to watch see how this card came together, you can click below to watch the video tutorial. And if you've missed any of the other cards in this series and would like to go check them out you can find the entire playlist here. I really hope you enjoy!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to visit the other stops, if you haven't already. Happy hopping!

Heffy Doodle blog

Koren

Brenda

Lidya

Christy {You are here}

Heffy Friends Blog Hop

 

Hello and welcome to the Heffy Friends Inspiration Blog Hop! Today we're here to share some inspiration using the brand new Heffy Doodle Release. As if that weren't enticement enough, there is also a £50 gift voucher up for grabs! All you have to do to enter is hop along and comment at each stop by May 20th at 11:59pm EST. The winner will be announced on the Heffy Doodle Blog on May 21st at 10am EST.

For my card, I featured the cute koalas from Koality Hugs. I colored them with my Copic markers and trimmed them out with the matching dies. For the background, I used the Vertical Vines Stencil on a piece of Bristol, and blended on Distress Oxide Inks. I'll have all the shades I used clearly shown in the video tutorial, and also linked in the description bar on YouTube. I also used Distress Oxides to color in the Leafy Laurel Circle.

To build my card, I added a piece of patterned paper from the Man Cave 6x6 pad to the front of my card base. Then I added the stenciled background. The Leafy Laurel Circle I popped up with foam tape, and then added my images. I finished the card with a stamped sentiment and some Stardust Stickles.

To see how this card came together, click below or watch on YouTube. If you enjoy it, please make sure to like the video and subscribe to my channel! I really appreciate your support and I post new videos every Monday and Friday, plus occasional bonus videos like this one.

And now it's time to continue the hop! A list of all participants is below.

Heffy Doodle Blog

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Angelica Conrad

Koren Wiskman

Alberto Gava

Christiana Reuling <--- you are here

Ashlee McGregor

Hey Gull Friend Card

Hello friends! Happy Monday! Today I wanted to squeeze in another summery card before the fall season begins. Even though fall is still almost a month away, once school starts, it always feels more like fall to me. But with this card, I'm hanging onto warmer temps, sea spray, and days at the beach. I combined the Heffy Doodle sets You Go Gull and A Little Shellfish. I colored them with Copics and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For my background, I blended Distress Oxide Ink onto Bristol Smooth Surface Cardstock in the colors Blueprint Sketch, and Tumbled Glass, with splatters of both, plus Chipped Sapphire. I trimmed that down with the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables and popped it up with foam tape over some Sunny Studio Summer Splash patterned paper, that I cut down with the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables and adhered to my Mermaid card base. As a finishing touch, I added three Clear Droplets and an Everyday Sentiment Banner.

If you'd like to see how this card came together, click below or watch on YouTube. And don't forget to like and subscribe! It means the world. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hot Diggity Dog Card

Hey friends! Today I'm bringing you a fun card using some new stamps from Heffy Doodle. I combined images from Hot Diggity Dog and Who Let the Dogs Out. I stamped them in Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink and colored with Copics, then trimmed them out with the matching dies.

To create by background elements, I blended Distress Oxides onto Bristol Smooth Surface using the new Pink & Main Ergonomic Blending Brushes. I love the soft look they give! I used Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn for the ground, and trimmed them down with the MFT Grassy Hills Die-namics. For the sky I used Tumbled Glass and the Lawn Fawn Cloudy Stencil, and trimmed that down with the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables.

I also cut the Lawn Fawn Picket Fence Border out of white cardstock. I stamped my sentiment on one of the grassy borders with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and assembled my scene.

I trimmed down two pieces of Simple Stories Summer Farmhouse patterned paper with the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables and adhered those to my Cilantro card base. Then I popped up my focal panel with foam tape to give it some dimension and complete the card. I also stamped on the inside with Noble Fir.

To see how this card came together, click below or watch on my YouTube channel. And don't forget to like and subscribe! It is such a huge help, and I appreciate it so much. Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

A Card Full of Hugs

Happy Monday, friends! Today I'm excited to share a fun card featuring Heffy Doodle stamps! They were so kind to contact me and ask if I might like to play with some of their products. Who could say no to so much cuteness?

My card features the adorable Yappy Happy Mail. These pups are so sweet, and I just had to color this one to look like my dog, Zadie.

I trimmed my images out with the matching dies and created a background for them using the MFT Cloud and Drifts & Hills Stencils and Tumbled Glass and Bundled Sage Distress Ink.

I used a postage edge die to trim out my panel and popped it up with foam tape over a red cardstock panel. To embellish the card base, I took all the envelopes, hearts, and paw prints images and stamped them around the edge with Lawn Fawn Deep Sea Ink. I added a two-part sentiment, using the Heffy Doodle Sending die cut from the same red cardstock as the middle panel.

I finished off the inside with some additional stamping which you can check out in the video. Click the YouTube icon to watch it there in HD, and don't forget to like and subscribe! It means the world!

Thanks so much for stopping by!