Digi Choosday Project | 3 Cards with Polkadoodles Lily Ladybug Love

Hi crafty friends! I’m back with not one, not two - but three cutesy cards featuring the cutest Lily Ladybug stamps from Polkadoodles!

The first two cards were made for this week’s Digi Choosday inspiration, and I loved them so much I ended up making a bonus card just for fun! 

If you’re a fan of sweet bugs, cute girl characters, vibrant reds, and fun textures, you’ll enjoy these projects. Now, let’s get into it!

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Card 1: “You’re My Lucky Bug #1”

This card is bold, cheerful, and layered with love! I paired the sweet Polkadoodles Daisy Lily Ladybug digi with a clean red-black-and-white combo and a floral stenciled background.

Materials:

• Red card stock

• White cardstock

• Stencil: Simple Stories - Branch and Butterfly

• Distress Oxide – Black Soot

• Blending brush

• Ohuhu Alcohol Markers

• Digi Stamp: Polkadoodles’ Daisy Lily Ladybug

Instructions:

1. Cut red cardstock to 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” and another to 3 1/4” x 4 1/4”.

2. Cut white cardstock to 4” x 5 1/4” and 3” x 4”.

3. Place stencil over the 4” x 5 1/4” white cardstock and blend in Distress Oxide using a blending brush.

4. Remove the stencil and let dry.

5. Adhere the stenciled panel to the larger red panel.

6. Use foam tape to adhere the smaller red panel on top.

7. Glue the remaining white panel (3” x 4”) on top of that.

8. Print, cut, and color your ladybug digi stamp.

9. Adhere the digi stamp with foam tape.

10. Cut white cardstock to 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”, score at 4 1/4” to create your card base.

11. Glue the entire decorated front onto the card base.

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Card 2: “4-ever My Little Lovebug”

This card has a romantic twist with embossed texture and a polka-dotted interior using embossing powder. I love how the inside adds a pop of color to the outside of the card!

Materials:

• Red cardstock

• Black cardstock

• White cardstock

• Embossing powder

• Ink pad

• Blending brush

• Heat gun

• Ohuhu Alcohol Markers

• Sizzix Big Shot

• Stencil: Echo Park Designer Stencil – Let’s Party

• Embossing Folder: Park Lane Floral Embossing Folder

• Digi Stamp: Polkadoodles’ Daisy Lily Ladybug

Instructions:

1. Cut black cardstock to 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”, score and fold at 4 1/4”. Trim 1” off the front flap.

2. Cut red cardstock to 4” x 5 1/4”.

3. Cut two white cardstock panels to 2 3/4” x 5 1/4”.

4. Place stencil over the 1-inch edge of the red cardstock.

5. Blend ink over the stencil using a blending brush.

6. Add embossing powder over the inked area, tap off excess, and heat set.

7. Glue the red panel to the inside of your card.

8. Adhere one white panel over the red on the inside.

9. Emboss the other white panel using the floral embossing folder.

10. Glue the embossed panel to the front flap of the card.

11. Print and cut your ladybug digi stamp.

12. Color with markers.

13. Adhere with foam tape, making sure not to tape the overhang onto the card inside.

14. Add your sentiment!

    
    

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Bonus Card: Just for Fun!

After making the two cards for my Polkadoodles DT post, I had extra ladybug inspiration buzzing in my brain… so here’s Card No. 3!

Materials:

• Red, black, and white cardstock

• Stencil

• Aleene’s Glitter Snow

• Palette knife

• Embossing folder

• Ohuhu Alcohol Markers

• Sizzix Big Shot

• Digi Stamp: Polkadoodles’ Fun Lily Ladybug

Instructions:

1. Cut red cardstock to 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”, score and fold at 4 1/4”. Trim 1” off the front flap.

2. Cut a red panel to 3” x 4”.

3. Cut black cardstock to 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”.

4. Cut white cardstock to 4” x 5 1/8” and another to 3” x 3 7/8”.

5. Glue black cardstock to the inside of the card.

6. Adhere the 4” x 5 1/8” white panel over the black.

7. On the black cardstock, apply Aleene’s Glitter Snow through a stencil using a palette knife. Let dry.

8. Emboss the smaller white panel.

9. Adhere the stenciled black panel to the card front.

10. Glue the red 3” x 4” panel to the center of the front flap (no glue on the overhanging part!).

11. Attach the embossed white panel over it.

12. Print, cut, and color your ladybug digi.

13. Adhere it to the card.

    
    

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That’s it for today’s bug-tastic post! 

I hope you’re inspired to get inky and make your own ladybug cards. These Polkadoodles digi stamps are just too cute not to play with.

Don’t forget to join this week’s Digi Choosday Challenge over at Polkadoodles for fun themes, fab prizes, and loads of crafty inspiration! You can enter your makes and shop digi stamps too.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Ana 

@my.cat.and.crafts | My Cat and Crafts