It's a YEAR END sale and 4 new PRODUCTS

Good morning!
Today we have released FOUR of our January products early in conjunction with our END OF YEAR sale!

FIRST, about our sale:
50% off all digital images from Dec 29 thru Jan 2!!
Just enter RINGITIN in the coupon field at the bottom of your shop cart, and then click SUBMIT to see the discount apply.

NOTE: There will be two different free w/purchase products offered, but the first one is free with a purchase from Dec 29 thru Dec 31, and then the second one is free with a purchase from Jan 1 thru Jan 24.  Shop both sale periods in order to get both products free with another purchase!



Here are the 4 products released today!

 Flaming Hot Ants available in COLOR PLUS and OUTLINES ONLY.

Vintage Phone

Previous release Caterpillar Hug COLOR plus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Here is the FREE w/purchase from Dec 29-31 ONLY!!

Check back on January 1st for our challenge and the featured product for playing, as well as the remaining releases to finish out our sale!Here's a peek at what will be the DPDC19 featured image just for playing with us...

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Mini hanging ornaments

Hello!

Wow, it's been a long time since I got to sit down and create something AND post about it! 

I made a set of 12 days of Christmas ornaments for the kids to hang on the tree, using the 12 days of Christmas color set HERE.  They get to hang one per day until Christmas Eve, as sort of a countdown to Christmas.  They think it is fun, and helps to keep them from asking a million times "How many more days until Christmas?", LOL!

(Bwaaahahaha!    I just now noticed in the photo above, there is a cardinal ornament hanging hind-ways facing the camera above the partridge ornament... whoops!    Didn't mean to abuse the cardinal ornament!  LOL)

Here's the whole set.

I printed the 12 days images at about 7/8" to 1" tall, with the PNG circular sentiments at about 1-1/4" size over each corresponding image.  I punched them out with a 1-3/8" circle.

In coordinating colors of CS, I punched the Su scallop circle punch for the backs.
For the front frames, I punched a 1-3/8" circle and then punched the scallop circle centered over it to create the frame.

Before laying the image circle down on the scallop circle back, I adhered the cord loop with beads hanging from the bottom and the circle went overtop to hold it all together.
Then I used dimensionals to put the frame overtop.

I used the beads to act as "anchors" to help the ornaments hang right.  Without the "weights", they would twist and turn and hang sideways and stick out straight because they were so light.
I added pearls and gems on the frames and then stickles on the images for some shiny accenting.

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Thank you for visiting today!!  I hope you are having a safe and fun week. However you celebrate this season, I wish you a safe and blessed time with family!And a Merry Christmas to all those rejoicing in it!

December's Top Notch Artist

Hello!!  It's time to announce our Top Notch Artist for December!!
Please help us congratulate...
 Rhonda Miller

Congratulations, Rhonda!  We love seeing your creations in the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenges...thanks so much for sharing your creativity with us!

Take a look at some of Rhonda's creations using Doodle Pantry sets. 
You can also find lots more eye candy at her Blog, Rhonda's Place to Share. 

Every Top Notch Artist gets a new release digi set of their choice.
Rhonda created this fabulous Flip Tag Book using
12 Days of Christmas set:

Be sure to check out Rhonda's blog for more pics and deets of this project!

And here's Rhonda's beautiful Christmas card using:

Winter Song Birdies 

and here's a cute "Back to School" card using:

School Sheep 

Congrats again Rhonda for being this month's

Top Notch Artist!!  *Ü*

How do we choose our Top Notch Artists?
We keep a keen eye on our challenge participants and the members of our CDAC Doodle Pantry Group, and we hand select artists whom have shown us some fabulous work using Doodle Pantry images.

How often will we be selecting Top Notch Artists?
Twice each month!  All Top Notch artists are notified by email approximately 1-2 weeks prior to the posting date.

What does the Top notch Artist receive?
The selected artist receives ONE Doodle Pantry product of their choice free, has a few of their projects using Doodle Pantry images displayed on this blog, and gets to display the badge below in their blog sidebar.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see the Top Notch Artist!  Keep making cards and playing along with our challenges here at Doodle Pantry and our CDAC group, and you may be the next Top Notch Artist!

Don't forget... we've just released lots of new digi sets!!  You can view our latest releases in the shop HERE.

Happy Creating!!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Today we're sponsoring Stamptacular Sunday Challenge and the theme is Christmas Glitz, lots of glitz. Glenda used Doodle Pantry's Birdie Christmas and added glitter to her hat.

I used Doodle Pantry's Snow Birdie and added stickles, lots and lots of stickles, lol!

Hop on over to Stamptacular Sunday and give the challenge a try, you could win and if not at least you have another Christmas card. You can never have too many Christmas cards!

The Scrapbooking Queen sponsorship

Today we're sponsoring The Scrapbooking Queen Royal Challenge and their theme is Christmas! What could be better than Christmas AND my favourite ants getting into trouble. These little guys are stealing cookies from Santa, oh no!

Glenda did a card with the adorable little pre-coloured birdies, so cute. Hop on over to the Scrapbooking Queen have fun and create.
Just as a reminder the shop is OPEN, however there will be NO new release on December 1 and NO DPDC challenge on December 5. We're on vacation but all the digital products in the shop are 30% off! Take a look at the shop and have a great holiday!

Winners of the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #18

Winners of the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #18 

I would like to thank everyone who participated in the November  challenge  (DPDC#18),  we had some really awesome entries, you are a  most talented bunch of crafters!  Two winners have been chosen and everyone should have received their  complementary 'Wishbone Ants' free stamp set .



The two winners and recipients of the $15.00  gift coupon to spend at' Doodle Pantry .com'  as chosen by Random.Org are:
 Random Integer Generator


Here are your random numbers:

8
14

Timestamp: 2011-11-25 14:48:19 UTC

Congratulation to  Lawren F - AHobbyholic and Kimberly

                                          

Congratulations ladies!!  I have e-mailed you about your prize. If you have not received the e-mail please check your spam and junk folders.
Thanks again to all who played and we hope to see you back on Dec. 5th for the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #19

Update:  'Break Time' for the holidays!!! Our team will be taking some time off this December and there will be no new challenge or release this month :0) Time to relax and have  fun!
 

Craft Your Passion Sponsorship

Today we're sponsoring Craft Your Passion and their challenge is a photo inspiration. I took the colours (fall colours) as my inspiration.

Glenda took her inspiration from the leaves, colours and fall theme.

I hope Glenda and I have inspired you to hop on over to Craft Your Passion and give the challenge a try, perhaps you could win!

November's Top Notch Artist

Hello!!  It's time to announce November's Top Notch Artist!! 
SO please congratulate ...
 Shirley Hotop

Congratulations, Shirley!  We love seeing your creations in the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenges...thanks so much for sharing your creativity with us!

We'd love to highlight a few of Shirley's creations using Doodle Pantry sets.  You can also find lots more eye candy at her Blog, Glittered Paws. 

Every Top Notch Artist gets a new release digi set of their choice. 
Shirley created this fabulous stage card using
Pilgrim Sheep COLOR Plus:

Here's Shirley's yummy treat holder using:
Candy Corn Ants and Treat Dish Card Template

And a cute Noteholder using:

School Time Sheep COLOR Plus and School Time Digi Paper

Shirley's USA turtle card using:
Patriotic Turtle COLOR Plus

and one more for today, this cutie uses:

 Quirky Cat

Congrats again Shirley for being this month's

Top Notch Artist!!  *Ü*

How do we choose our Top Notch Artists?
We keep a keen eye on our challenge participants and the members of our CDAC Doodle Pantry Group, and we hand select artists whom have shown us some fabulous work using Doodle Pantry images.

How often will we be selecting Top Notch Artists?
Twice each month!  All Top Notch artists are notified by email approximately 1-2 weeks prior to the posting date.

What does the Top notch Artist receive?
The selected artist receives ONE Doodle Pantry product of their choice free, has a few of their projects using Doodle Pantry images displayed on this blog, and gets to display the badge below in their blog sidebar.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see the Top Notch Artist!  Keep making cards and playing along with our challenges here at Doodle Pantry and our CDAC group, and you may be the next Top Notch Artist!

Don't forget... we've just released lots of new digi sets!!  You can view our latest releases in the shop HERE.

Happy Creating!!

Our blog hop winners!!

Winners from the blog hop are announced here.
THANK YOU to the entire Creative Team who shared their creative works and time to present our 12 days of Christmas image set, and to all those who took the time to view and comment and enter our hop.  We hope you were inspired to go to your craft areas and create some holiday cheer!
 
I have not notified any winners by email yet.  If you see this post before you receive the email from me, winners may go ahead and send me an email from the same email you used in your entry (so that I can verify you).  My email is laurie at doodlepantry dot com.

For the $10 coupon prizes, Random.org chose linky entries    2,   11,   15,   20,  and  21

......who are........

SiskiyouSue,    Peggy T.,     IKE,     -Anne-,    and   Riette  And the TWO BONUS $15 coupon winners are chosen from the following blogs: Cat Spicer from commenting on Vicki's blogandSandy from Lorianna's blog

12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

Today we start our 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop!

This blog hop is to present to you our Design Team's ideas using the new 12 Days of Christmas image set shown below, so that you can see the many possibilities for it.
We hope you'll follow along our blog roll list below and then come back to enter your name in the linky at the bottom!

12 Days of Christmas COLOR plus

12 Days of Christmas outlines only

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TIME DEADLINE:

• We start today and will close the linky at 9 pm eastern time on Nov 8.
• Winners announced on Nov 9.

HOW DO YOU ENTER and
HOW MANY PRIZES WILL WE HAVE?:

• Just enter your name, email, (and blog link optional) in the linky at the bottom of this post.
• If we have 59 linky entries or less, we will use random.org to select 5 winners for a $10 coupon prize from the entries in the linky.
• If we have more than 59 entries in the linky, we will have random.org choose 8 winners for a $10 coupon prize!!

BONUS PRIZES:

And to top all that off, we will be selecting TWO BONUS commenters from all the comments left on two of our Design Teams blogs to win a $15 coupon prize...... no one knows which blog from our blog roll list I will randomly choose a winner from, so just comment on them all to increase your chances at winning a bonus prize!

BLOG ROLL LIST:

1. Doodle Pantry Blog HERE (enter linky at bottom)
2. Dawn
3. Lorie A
4. Sarah T
5. Kristine
6. Karen
7. Patti P
8. Elizabeth
9. Kathy
10. Lori Z
11. Jan
12. Donna
13. Pat D
14. Amy
15. Vicki D
16. Glenda
17. Sharon
18. Sarah N

ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN ONE OF OUR $10 COUPON PRIZES HERE:





 

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Thanks for visiting us today and GOOD LUCK!!

Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 18

DOODLE PANTRY DIGITAL CHALLENGE

Tag/Keyword: DPDC18
THEME: Use a Doodle Pantry image
(NOT just a sentiment)

Feel free to browse the freebie page HERE.  There are some "free with purchase" and some that are totally free downloads.

We hope you can play along with us!
NE CHALLENGE DEADLINE DATE/TIME IS THE 24th at 8:00 pm CENTRAL TIME
(which is 9:00 pm EASTERN TIME on the 24th) Winners posted on 25th

FEATURED PRODUCT Wishbone Ants
This product is NOT yet available at the shop, but you can get it by playing along with us this month!!
All participants who place their post link in the blue frog linky, and who have created a project that follows the theme/rules, will be emailed this set for FREE.

(Participants emailed on 10th, 15th, 20th and 24th)

SCROLL DOWN FOR SOME INSPIRATION PROJECTS USING THIS FEATURED SET
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(PLEASE ONLY ADD BLOG, CDAC, or SCS LINKS. THANK YOU)



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We hope you will be inspired to play along with us this week!
Here are some of the DT creations to help get your creative juices flowing!
by Pat

 by Guest Allison

by  Karen

 by Donna

 by Georgia

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ABOUT WINNERS

There will be 2 winners chosen from all the entries to win a $15 gift coupon to spend at doodlepantry.com.
AND everyone who enters the linky with a qualifying project post will receive the Wishbone Ants for free!

Other challenge guidelines below:

1. It is expected that you will create something NEW and follow the challenges theme. Make something paper crafty with Doodle Pantry images!
2. Post your creation on your blog or online public gallery in which a comment can be left.  Post MUST be dated within the time frame of the challenge.  Please, no past creations, create something new!  
3. The linky widget may state that a URL is not required, but IT IS REQUIRED. You MUST LINK YOUR POST of your project/card
4. Challenges are open for almost 3 weeks (ends at 8:00 pm CST on the 24th) and winners posted on the 25th.
5. Only enter once per each challenge
6. Keywords or tags for the challenge are DPDC and the number of the challenge, no spaces.

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We hope you have been inspired today, and we hope you can join us.  Thanks so much for stopping by and we wish you a wonderful week!

New releases today!

Good morning!
We have some new products released today.   I will quickly run them by you here and the official newsletter will be sent later today in the evening.

First, keep in mind we are having a blog hop on Nov 5-8, to show you all the possibilities of the 12 Days of Christmas product!!  I hope you'll join us, as we will have LOTS of prizes and it will be EASY to enter your chance.  

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PREVIEW!!!   This set Wishbone Ants, is not available for sale until November 25.  This product will be given as our complimentary gift for playing the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 18 that starts on the 5th.  You can get it free by playing in our challenge, or you can wait until Nov 25 to buy it.

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AT THE SHOP!
Cute Quail - Free with purchase from Nov 1-24

Christmas Wreath

12 Days of Christmas COLOR plus
Also available in OUTLINES ONLY

Pilgrim Sheep COLOR plus
Also available in OUTLINES ONLY

Quirky Donkey

Quirky Armadillo

Bluebonnets

Texas

TEXAS bundle includes Texas set, Quirky Armadillo, and Bluebonnets and is $1.00 off!

COLOR Pirate Birdie includes outlines too.

COLOR Sledding ants includes outlines too.

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I made a couple cards using the Texas pre-color images and bluebonnets.

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Thanks for visiting us to see the new releases!!    I hope you are inspired to create!