*NEW* Doodlebug - January & February releases

The Lots of Love card kit is cute, but $30 to make 8 cards is too expensive for me. I am sure I have enough in my stash to make 8 Valentine cards.

Doodlebug is cute, but basically unusable for me. I do like the Day to Day and calendar kits though. I think a lot of people are looking for stuff like that and there just isn't a lot to choose from.

I found two sheets of the lots of love paper at my LSS. I made Valentine’s Day cards out of it for the swap!

I thought this too.  Not for me, but still very useable for many.

I posted about these number stickers on the PL and DD threads since it's so hard to find number stickers with enough 1s and 2s to work for dates on daily projects. I would've loved these basic date stickers for my PL. calendar number stickers

The Valentine's card kit isn't very good value for anyone who already makes cards IMO - I got the pack of 100+ die cuts and 6x6 pad last Feb and probably made at least 40 cards with it - but I think it would be a nice beginner's project kit, especially as a gift.

I can almost always use a Doodlebug collection for cards. My formula is usually to buy the odds & ends image die cut pack and a 6x6 paper pad and a few full sheets of a paper with a good b-side, usually a tone or tone or some hearts. I have some of their cardstock and petite prints and can usually stretch that ~$20 purchase into 30-50 finished cards to give, sell and donate. It's not my style for scrapping but I love it for cards.

I am currently chilling though, so I tried not to look at the gnomes and rainbows. That's the Db "season" I buy the least often even though it's adorable. I only plan to buy some paper to use up die cuts I have (currently mostly Xmas, so no hurry). Even as I type this my brain is trying to justify how cute those gnomes would be for Cards for Cubs donations! argh!

Nothing I really want or could use. The card kit as other mentioned is pricey. I've gotten one for free before and it was super nice to use as a scrapbooker, not a card maker, but I wouldn't spend that much on the kit.

Jo, I found your post really interesting and helpful. TFS! I have a few random Doodlebug die cut packs because Scrapbook.com gave them out as freebies. LOVE the idea to get a 6x6 pad along with a few sheets of 12x12 and use the whole lot of it for card making. I agree with you that Doodlebug stuff makes awesome cards.

Come to think of it, one of the die cut packs I have, I think was last year's Valentine's Day collection (maybe). If it wasn't, it is Valentine-ish, with lots of pink, red and hearts. I love it, but I had totally forgotten about it -- it's buried deep in my stash somewhere. I need to dig it out and take another look at it. 

St Patrick's Day cards, maybe?

Thanks This is what I did with (most of) the Lots of Love die cuts and paper pad. Btw because Db keeps their color scheme consistent year to year this year's Valentine collection will coordinate with last year's (and every year's) die cuts.

http://instagram.com/p/CafmL04P-Rm

I love DB and haven't ordered from them in like 10 years. They are so cutsey.

I need to do an album for my son, so I am tempted!

The Day by Day could be a fun thing to incorporate into Project Life....

Thanks. The consistent color scheme thing makes their collections look very similar year after year which a lot of people don’t like but it’s the best for mixing and matching.

Those calendar pages seem like something I should buy because I might need them later (HA the 'get it before it's gone' mentality of scrapbook buying). The new 'Over The Rainbow' is really cute, but don't know if I would actually use that much of it. I love Doodlebug and have so much I have bought because it's so cute but I haven't used it yet, so I am really trying to slow down the buying train.