Dude Time Doodles November Inspirational Challenge

This week's Dude Time Doodles challenge is an inspiration challenge: Make a card inspired by the image on the right. You can interpret it any way you'd like: Thanksgiving, color theme, leaves, gratitude, turkeys, whatever! Here's the official scoop:

1. Use the photo / color inspiration and the Dude and Dudette creations to get your mojo moving.

2. You are not required to use BDD images. Although it would make us really really happy and giggle a lot if you did!

3. You can use humor, innuendo, be a little naughty, sarcastic. As long as your project is masculine.

4. Be sure to use the InLinkz in the Dude Time Doodles post to submit your creation.

This month, we have an awesome new sponsor.

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Graphicat Designs is Proud to sponsor Dude Time Doodles, a fellow stamp company with images that match our sarcastic ways at Graphicat!

The winner will receive a Sushi Stamp Set from Graphicat Designs, pictured here:

Isn't that such an awesome prize?! Hop over to Dude Time Doodles and check out the gorgeous cards by the Design Team; then take that inspiration and join the challenge!

I decided to make a Thanksgiving card with Bountiful Blessings. I knew I wanted to layer the image, but couldn't decide on the card design. So I asked my Creative Consultant (my fab husband) for some direction, and he suggested "dimension & texture". So I made a simple framed card, using a template I made for a FlowerSoft/Dimensional card back in August.


I separated the image into 4 layers, with texture on each. There's FlowerSoft on the feather, Glossy Accents on the eyes, apple, and ham (I love that I can honestly say that I glazed the ham!), glitter glue on the stein & buckle, flocking on the pumpkin & squash, and I machine-embossed the football. Each layer is popped up with foam pop-dots.

I only have two Thanksgiving sentiment stamps: one in English and one in Spanish. I chose the latter, from from Dilo En Español Stamps, and stamped it with StazOn onto a pretty, preprinted acetate sheet Mom sent me. I backed the acetate with vellum, and popped the whole thing with foam tape.


The inside was built with the scraps from cutting the front frames, and I enlarged some of the main image for embellishments.

Even though this is a GDT card, I'm entering into the Texture Challenge at Lily Pad Cards. Be sure to check out all the wonderful DT cards for this challenge at Dude Time Doodles, and I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps: Bountiful Blessings from Dude Time Doodles, Que Siga La Fiesta set from Dilo En Español Stamps

Tools: Fiskars papercutter, Cricut, SCAL, HP printer & ink, Sizzix Texture Boutique & embossing plate, Martha Stewart detail scissors & border punch, ZipDry glue, ZIG glue pen

Paper: Recollections, Hammermill

Embellishments: Copic markers, Pretty Petites ribbon, FlowerSoft, Stampendous flocking, Recollections pop dots & foam tape strips, Glossy Accents

Dude Time Doodles May New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Dude Time Doodles New Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Charlene's fabulous blog. Your next stop is all things Anne-made.

The Design Team is featuring three fantastic new DTD images, and one of the Dudettes - or Dude - will be named our MYSTERY HOST at the end of the hop and one lucky person who comments on that blog will win a free Dude Time Doodles image of their choice; So be sure to comment on each blog. You have a whole week to hop (through next Tuesday).

I used Sagremor the Foolhardy by Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs, along with a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, to make this royally nerdy card:

I have a very special place in my heart for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as it's one of the movies my husband introduced me to when he was "courting" me way back when. This is the kind of class-specific joke that I love, and after conferring with the Dude Time Hollow brain trust we decided that it's not really cursing, it's just an archaic use of a word!

I used several techniques for this card, so here's a little tutorial-ish list:

1. Crenelated Castle Wall Top: Cut the dotted strip from the Sizzix Sizzlits Dots & Scallops Decorative Strip Die with your die cut machine. Using your paper trimmer (or scissors, depending how straight you can cut!), cut the strip in half horizontally. Ta-da, easy crenellation!





Castle Wall embossing plate

2. Castle Wall embossing plate: I followed the tutorial by Carolina Girl. (I totally get a kick out of the fact that I made this with cardboard from a Tsingtao beer six-pack box!)


3. Small banners: Fold a strip in half, keeping it in place with a binder clip (don't crease the fold!), and cut a triangular notch in the bottom. Glue it together, leaving about a quarter of an inch at the top unglued. Cut small notches on the top to make hanging strips. Outline the banner with a gold pen (I used a Sakura gel pen for the main part and a thin Elmer's pen for the tops). String the banners; here I used a gold thread-covered elastic ribbon that came with a box of chocolates my husband bought me for Mother's Day ... he's a pretty awesome guy, isn't he?!) 
• I adhered the ribbon to the card with a thin line of ZipDry silicon glue, plus a gold brad on each end for extra support.


4. Message banner with faux gold stitching: Gold-embossed using the Cross Stitch stamp from SP Stamps Stitchery Doo set. See my tips for making such a banner in my tutorial.  


5. Paper choices:
• 12x6 blue cardstock, folded twice at 4 inches. I used my papercutter to cut the slight incline before folding.
• Textured gray cardstock for wall top
• Flat gray cardstock for walls: After embossing the pieces, I sprayed it with a matte coating to bring out the dimension. Then, I gently ran a silver ink pad over it, and then used a damp wet-wipe to blend it. Easy, and the result looks like I knew what I was doing, ha!
• 100lb Bright White cardstock (Hammermill): This prints beautifully in my little HP inkjet, but I know that a lot of people get it stuck in their printers. I like it best for Copic coloring, and it prints & stamps so well that it's my all-around favorite white too. Be sure to dry it with your heat tool after printing though; it definitely needs extra setting before coloring.


6. Lacey "grass": Wrights seam binding, adhered with a strip of double-sided tape and a touch of ZipDry on each end.

Hope this inspires you in some small way! Your next stop on the Dude Time Doodles New Release Blog Hop is Anne. Have fun with the rest of the hop, and be sure to check out this week's "Heroes" challenge at Stampin with the Dragon, sponsored by Dude Time Doodles.

Thank you for visiting!

Musically inclined

Dawn left a a lovely comment on my card for for the Link Up for Pink, and she also suggested I submit it into this week's Think Pink Dude Time Doodles challenge. What a compliment, thank you! I ended up making a different card for the challenge, with Marlooney images. I love Marlene's humor & her hilarious freebies, and once the freebie time ends her images are available at the Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs shop.

I decided to make a set of cards, with my Dude Time Doodles card matched with one for the Make Us Laugh challenge at Cards for Men. Both cards are based on the Week 127 sketch at Sketch Saturdays. For the In Stitches challenge at Sweet Stamping, I added hand-stitching on the mats and machine-stitching on the backgrounds.

Here's the card for Cards for Men:

Inspiration:

Cards for Men Challenge #21: Make Us Laugh plus DT call

Sketch Saturday Week #127

Sweet Stamping: In Stitches

Here's the card for Dude Time Doodles:

Inspiration:

Dude Time Doodles Challenge: Think Pink

Sketch Saturday Week #127

Sweet Stamping: In Stitches

Supplies for both:

Digi stamps: Marlooney (thank you!), Fonts for WordArt: Platinum Hub Caps Solid & Folkard

Paper: DCWV, Paper Pizazz, Hammermill, Core'dinations, Recollections, China Blue Eyes Linen Finish Card Stock from Mark's Finest Papers

Tools: Fiskars papercutter, HP printer & ink, InDesign, MS detailing scissors, Marvy heat tool & punches, sewing machine

Other: tulle from WalMart, ZipDry glue, Simplicity thread, Scotch foam tape, baker's twine from Pink Paislee & stash

Copics: YG03, YG63, YG67, BG10, E11, YR00, E17, E000, RV04, RV02, 100


Update: My card made the Top 3 for the Think Pink Dude Time Doodles Challenge. Thank you!

Celebrating freedom with Dude Time Doodles

Welcome to my stop on the Dude Time Doodles June New Release Blog Hop! Your next stop is Charlene's fabulous blog.

I used Silly Sam by Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs to make a card perfect for this year's celebrations:

The Design Team is featuring a total of three fantastic new DTD images, and one of the Dudettes - or Dude - will be named our MYSTERY HOST at the end of the hop and one lucky person who comments on that blog will win a free Dude Time Doodles image of their choice; So be sure to comment on each blog. You have a whole week to hop (through next Tuesday).

This is my last post as a member of the Dude Time Doodles team ... With the new season, I felt like I needed a change, so from now on I'll just be using their fun images as a fan! Many, many thanks to Boni, Tammy, and all at Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs for always supporting my creativity. 

Thank you for visiting, and enjoy hopping. Next stop: Charlene!  

Dude Time Doodles December Inspirational Challenge

This week is the Dude Time Doodles December Inspirational Challenge, and we want to see projects featuring, in some way, your Favorite Christmas Movie.

Our Design Team did a super job showcasing how to incorporate Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles into this theme, and we can't wait to see what you come up with.

My favorite Christmas movie, no contest, is the original, animated The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I used a quote from the end of the poem by Dr. Suess [ref.]: "Maybe Christmas ... doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas - perhaps - means a little bit more!" And paired it with a funny sentiment on the inside: "Hope that's true, because all you're gettin' is this card!"

On the front, the frame is a digi stamp from Create with TLC, and the rest are from Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles. I printed them onto Shrinky Dink plastic, shrunk them in my toaster oven, and then colored the tree & presents with gel pens. You can't see it in the photo, but I stamped a flourish in clear embossing powder on the sentiment piece, after I printed it. The image on the inside is by Marlooney, available from Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles. I love that little guy!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Hooked on Crafts Challenge #14: Christmas
The Crazy Challenge #98: Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #51: Anything Goes
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge Week 86: Make a Christmas Card

Stamps: O Christmas Tree, Santa's Balls & Presents! from Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles, Frame digi stamp by Create with TLC, Fiskars sentiment stamp

Paper: Studio G, Hammermill, Recollections, Shrinky Dink plastic
Tools: Fiskars papercutter & finger knife, Marvy heat tool, acrylic block, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign, Martha Stewart scissors, ZipDry glue, toaster oven
Supplies: Sakura & Elmer's gel pens, Copic markers

Dude Time Doodles Birthday Challenge

This week at Dude Time Doodles, we're focusing on BIRTHDAYS! I used one of my favorite images, Cletus:

I quoted "Birthday" by the Beatles for the sentiment, and used the LD Music font to give it a musical feel. I could only find one video of someone playing this song on a banjo, but I think it would sound great!

For the background, I used a Fiskars texture plate to emboss the music-note pattern and distress it with TH Marigold ink.

I used Birthday Candles by Daisy Doodles, and colored all the images with Copics. Well, I actually colored the tiny candles on the inside (left) with colored pencils.

Hope you'll join us at Dude Time Doodles: make a fun Male Birthday card, link up, and you could win three Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs images your choice. You're going to love the DT inspiration too!

Inspiration/Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week 154: Card for a Man or Boy
Crafty Creations Challenge #170: Male Birthday Card

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 50: (right)

Dude Time Doodles: Birthdays

Little Claire Monthly Challenge # 21 'Male Theme'

Mad for Markers May Challenge: One For The Boys/ Use Masculine Colors

Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #126: For the Boys

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #48: Masculine with Ribbon or Trim

Dude Time Doodles November Holidays Challenge

I'm so excited to be a guest designer for the month of November at Dude Time Doodles! They are such a fun and talented group.

This week's challenge at Dude Time Doodles is
November's Special Days (pick one):

• World Hello Day (Nov. 21)
• U.S. Thanksgiving (Nov. 24)
• Stay at Home Because You are Well (Nov. 30)

Hope you'll join us!

I chose Thanksgiving, so that I could use Ted Tightend & Paul Pilgrim from Dude Time Doodles. I made a "Pigskin Time" sentiment to play on the traditional ham & football so many of us enjoy on that day!

I made a horizontal Notch Swing Card (my vertical notch swing card & SVG templates available here), so that images can take turns being in front! I paper-pieced them, and used Copics to add details. I added some football-like hand-stitching. It's really very simple, and looks so good! The patterned papers are embossed Black Magic Core'dinations; one is a light yellow + black, and the other is light brown + black. The interior paper is a DP I had in my stash...those swirls are kinda pig-tail-y, right?!

And the back:

Stamps: Ted Tightend & Paul Pilgrim from Dude Time Doodles, front sentiment generated with Chinchilla font, interior sentiment stamp from Fiskars, leaf stamps from stash
Tools: Fiskars papercutter, Cricut, SCAL, HP printer & ink, Tim Holtz paper distresser, sandpaper, Sizzix Texture Boutique & embossing plate, Cuttlebug embossing plate, awl, needle, Marvy heat tool, Martha Stewart detail scissors
Paper: Core'dinations, Recollections, Hammermill
Embellishments: Copic markers, Offray ribbon, Recollections brads, ZING embossing powder, nameplate from stash

Cooking It Up with Katie Challenge, sponsored by Dude Time Doodles

Dude Time Doodles is sponsoring the current, Anything Goes challenge at Cooking It Up with Katie Challenge (Nov. 30 - Jan. 5), and I just had to make a card for the occasion using Hanukkah Harry!

I made a flap card. Here it is closed:

Isn't he just something else?! I paper pieced him using, in part, Core'dinations cardstocks. Love this stuff...his coat is from their Whitewash collections, white to blue. I machine-embossed & sanded it to reveal this lovely pattern. His at & pants are Core'dinations too, black-to-brown from their Black Magic collection. I printed the image, flipped, onto the light side of the paper and then sorta scraped the detail lines onto the black side. Worked great, very easy!
The card opens:

The sentiments & image on the inside are all from Dude Time Doodles too. I made a piercing template for the little hand-sewn Stars of David, and although they were a bit time-consuming, they were totally worth it. So cute!

For the back, I used two Hanukkah stamps from a Stampin' Up! set. It's difficult to see in this photo, but the Star of David is stamped & clear heat-embossed on both the back of the card (light blue) and the back of the message card.

Don't forget to visit Cooking It Up with Katie to see all the lovely creations. I heard a "rumor" that NanaConnie is going to be featuring Dude Time Doodles cards all through December, so be sure to check out her blog too!

Stamps: Hanukkah Harry, Menorah and Hanukkah Sentiments from Dude Time Doodles, Jewish Holidays stamp set from Stampin' Up!
Tools: Fiskars papercutter & deckle scissors, HP printer & ink, sandpaper, Sizzix Texture Boutique & embossing plate, awl, needle, Marvy heat tool & punch, Martha Stewart detail scissors, Provocraft corner punch
Paper: Core'dinations Whitewash, Hammermill, Recollections, Mark's Finest
Embellishments: Copic markers, Recollections embossing powder & adhesive gemstones, variegated floss, Versamark & Memento inks, Copic markers for edging, Sakura gel pens

Dude Time Doodles April New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Dude Time Doodles New Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Dawn's fabulous blog. Your next stop is McCrafty's Cards.

The Design Team is featuring four fantastic new DTD images, and one of the Dudettes - or Dude - will be named our MYSTERY HOST at the end of the hop and one lucky person who comments on that blog will win a free Dude Time Doodles image of their choice; So be sure to comment on each blog. You have a whole week to hop (through next Tuesday).

I used John MacinNo by Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs, and used the font Funky Fresh to make an appropriate sentiment with a Grawlix!

I made the tennis balls using yellow flocking. I used the Just Sayin' stamp set from Rogue Redhead Designs (RRD) and masking to create the broken nets.

(rotated 90° counter-clockwise)

Inspiration/Challenges:

Fetch-a-Sketch Challenge 22: Sketch (right)
Ribbon Carousel Challenge #50: Anything Goes + spooled item (ribbon)

Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 104: Stitching

Your next stop on the Dude Time Doodles New Release Blog Hop is the great McCrafty. 

Update: I was this month's Mystery Host, and the random winner from my comments was #13, Bonnie. Congratulations!

Thank you for visiting!

Dude Time Doodles First Wednesday Challenge: Holiday Spirit!

Dude Time Doodles is kicking off December with a theme challenge: December Holidays, or, more specifically, we want you to Show Us Your Holiday Spirit!

Our sponsor this week is Glitterbabe, and the lucky winner will receive 2 free images from her store...*3* if the winning participant uses a Glitterbabe image. Can't see what you will create.

I become such a kid again during the holidays, which means I'm also prone to a certain amount of mischief-making. So here's my take on showing a little Christmas Spirit:

The framed pictures are Santi Beaches, Duck Snowball Warrior by Dude Time Doodles, which I printed onto Shrinky Dink plastic, colored, and shrunk in my toaster oven. I made the Christmasy scene with O Christmas Tree & Down the Stairs, and generated "Santa's Work Shop" for the little door.

Both Mooning Elf & the Christmas Cheek sentiment (below) are by Marlooney & are sold at the Bonibleaux Designs store.

Challenges:
Dude Time Doodles: Show us your Holiday Spirit for December

Come & Get It Challenges: Anything Christmas
Here Come the Boys Challenge #16: For the Man/Men in your Life
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle: Holiday Card

Bonibleaux Designs digi stamps:

O Christmas Tree, Down the Stairs, Santi Beaches, Duck Snowball Warrior by Dude Time Doodles

Mooning Elf, Christmas Cheek sentiment by Marlooney

Paper: K&Co., Hammermill, Recollections, Shrinky Dink plastic
Tools: Fiskars papercutter & finger knife, toaster oven, acrylic block, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign, Martha Stewart scissors, ZipDry glue
Supplies: Sakura & Elmer's gel pens, Copic markers

Dude Time Doodles Inspirational Challenge: All about Cowboys!

This week at Dude Time Doodles Challenges we're All about Cowboys!

Hmm, I wonder if Dude Time Hollow has cattle drives, or perhaps the more adrenaline-inducing version of Running with the Bulls. Hey, you gotta get the buggers across town one way or the other, so you might as well have a coupla drinks and watch the young 'uns get some exercise while doing it! That sounds jes fine to Deputy Dave; so's long as no one musses his snakeskin boots!

I was really inspired by the Challenge photo (left), but anything with cowboys will do. Wait till you see the fun and wildly creative projects the Design Team came up with!

We're being sponsored this week by PaperTemptress, and one lucky winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to their store.

So kick up yer heels and join us at Dude Time Doodles this week!

The star badge and sentiment are also from Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs; I merged and sized everything in InDesign. I added a little Tea Dye distress ink to the pieces, which I cut out with scissors & a craft knife. Both woodgrain DPs were in my stash.

I wanted Deputy Dave to dance a little, so I cut him apart and attached the arm and leg section with brads so that they jiggle.

Look at 'im go!

I traced his hat onto felt (which I'd backed with cardstock) and added the black lines with a Copic. I'm particularity excited about his boots: I used a glossy, basketball-pattern embossed DP and colored it with Olive green (thanks to my husband for helping me choose the right color).

He's colored with Copics; I made the plaid on his shirt, and used the colorless blender to add texture to his jeans.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Crafting When We Can Challenge #14: One for the Boys

i{heart}2stamp March Challenge: Sketch
Love to Create Challenge #7: Anything Goes
Paper Playtime Ch# 70: For The Guys & Include A Sentiment

Tuesday Throwdown #90: Spring Cleaning (I've been hoarded these woodgrain DPs for...oh dear, 4 or 5 years?! Waiting for the perfect project! I've also had the paper I used for the boots for over a year.)

Manly Sports at Dude Time Doodles

Happy Wednesday! This week's challenge theme at Dude Time Doodles is Sports. Wait till you see the gorgeous projects my DT teamies have come up with for this one!

I've noticed lots of "for a Man/Boy" challenges going on right now, so this is a great time to make some of those tricky male cards. So grab one of the great sports-themed images from Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs, check out the current challenges on Feline Playful, and join us this week at DTD!

I used Youth Football, Football and Pennant by DTD/BDD to create this bright Boy card. I colored the digis with Copics; What can I say, the Green Bay Packers has one of my favorite color schemes, so my football cards always have a lot of Packer pride (much to the joy of my family in Wisconsin)! I used the Chalkduster typeface to make the sentiment. I curled up the pennant after coloring it, and sprayed it with a matte coating to keep its shape.

The background is cut/embossed with a Spellbinders die in my BigShot, and I added all the stitching with a black Copic microliner. The clouds are from the Lucky Day stamp set by SP & Company. I still don't have a good greenery stamp, so I cut the shapes from scrap rubber and stamped them in green. I added some dimension with my microliner.

The yellow background paper is Bazzill Prismatics Cardstock that I bought online from Artist Supply Source. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, and the baker's twine is from the Twinery, via CYDI. I had so much fun making this, as I'm sure you can tell! Looking forward to seeing your sports-themed projects for men!

Inspiration/Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge: Anything Goes (+ GDT call)

Crafty Catz Challenge #130: Anything Goes

Daisy Doodles Challenge #58: One for the Boys

Daring Cardmakers: The Sportsman
Dude Time Doodles Challenge: Sports

Fairy Tale Challenge #40: Green + Yellow

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations Challenge: It's a boy thing!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 157: Sketch (right)

That Craft Place: One for the Boys

Update: Two years after I made this card, my cousin met a fellow Green Bay Packers fan & they created the sweetest little new fan! I sent them this card to celebrate this special birth.

Thank you for visiting!

Dude TIme Doodles March Freebie/Guest Designer Challenge

I know you love seeing our Dude Time Doodles cards every week, and I know you especially love it when we have a freebie challenge! This month's freebie is a real cutie, and you could win the enviable prize of joining the Design Team as Guest Designer for the month of April, just by making a card for a man or boy!

One doesn't really think "cute" when one thinks of cards for men, but the men of Dude Time Hollow are a tough yet sensitive bunch, and a little "cute" goes a long way in this wicked world!

I combined Forever Friends (the DTD freebie) with the Just Be Happy digi sentiment by Create with TLC to create the scene; I printed it twice and popped up the images.

This is an easel card; I used Putt Putt Hearts from Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs for the inside popped portion.

I hope you'll be inspired by this great image and join us this week (and maybe all next month!) at Dude Time Doodles.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion Challenge #101: Easel card
Digital Tuesday Challenge #151: Think Spring
Everybody-Art-Challenge #184: Easel card
Sweet Stamps Challenge #57: Spring
Touch Twin Marker Challenge #13: Spring