Christmas doggie love!

Hi everyone!  It's Mary J here with a Christmas card using one of my all time favourite animals - a dog!  I love the Whimsie Doodles animals - very cute and this Winter Dog is one of the cutest!

Oh I love him!  I used K & Company papers, A candy cane Cuttlebug embossing folder, a Lil' Inker Designs sentiment and a Paper Smooches bone die.

You can buy this little guy on his own or in the Christmas December Collection with 12 other cute and fabulous digis.  I've got the set so you'll be seeing more from this collection over the coming weeks.

Thanks for visiting and don't forget we have a DT call on at the moment - I hope you'll apply!

Woo hoo!

I was super chuffed to see that one of my cards for Lili of the Valley made it as the focal point on this month's edition of Simply Cards and Papercrafts #128!  Check this out...

My mum is going to be so proud when she sees this - it's almost like I'm a celebrity when I get in a mag, lol!  And here are all of the cards that are featured in this edition...

Using Penguin Pals...

These two using Ice Christmas...

These two using Frosty Fun...

This one using Snow Flurries...

And lastly this card also using Snow Flurries made it onto their blog as a bonus card...

I love these penguins!  And I also used papers from the new Festive Trimmings pad and sentiments from the Christmas Wishes stamp set.

Whew, that was a lot of cards I made in less than a week!  But it was well worth it to see them published!  I'm going to enter these into Squirrel's The Great Penguin Challenge 2014.

Now I'm off to bed to get a good rest for another busy, busy week at work!

Day 1 of the SugarPea Designs September release sweet sneaks!

Yep, there's a new SugarPea Designs release and it's another fabulous one!  We have four days of sweet sneaks for you and they will all be available to purchase from the store from Friday!  So, first up is this super sweet set called Teacher's Pet.  Here is my take on it...

Isn't he one of the cutest bears you've ever seen?!  I love him!  I wanted to colour him in a lighter brown but I've run out of my Copic E31 so he's a bit dark!  Ho hum, still as cute as can be!  I hand cut the apple card (it's about 13cm x 13cm) and used some October Afternoon papers.

Would you like to WIN this stamp set?! Hop along and visit with the SugarPeas and guests, leaving some comment love along the way! One lucky person will be randomly selected to win it!

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Jennifer	Wendy	Jenny	Tracy
Anita	Simonne	Stacey	Lesley

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Our fabulous September release will be available in the SugarPea Designs Online Shoppe at 6:00 AM EST this Friday!

I'll be back tomorrow with day 2 of the sweet sneaks!

Have a SUPER birthday

Hi everyone!  Here is a birthday card I've made for my brother-in-law using the super cool SugarPea Designs My Hero stamp set...

I'm going to get so much use out of this set - the sentiments are so versatile and I love the font too.  So perfect for those men in our lives!  I used my Embossalicious cloud embossing folder (again!) and some My Minds Eye papers.  The skyline is a My Favorite Things border die.

I'm off to do a little more crafting before I go off to bed so hopefully I will be sharing my Lili of the Valley DT card with you tomorrow.  Nighty night!

Penguins are so cute!

There's a new SugarPea Designs challenge starting today and the theme is Anything Goes!  So here is my DT make using one of my all time favourite sets Rice Rice Baby...

I can't stop using this little fella - he is so cute and so fab to colour in too (read that as "quick"!!).  I used a Sizzix triangle embossing folder for the background and some Digital Design Essentials stripey with a touch of red and orange.

You can use any stamp you like for these challenges but if you win and use a SugarPea Designs set, we'll top your voucher up to $15!  Check out the deets and more gorgeous DT inspiration over at the blog.

Thanks for visiting and I'll be back on Friday with my DT make for La-La Land Crafts - ttfn!

Ready. Set. Blow!

Happy Sunday everyone!  I'm determined to enjoy today and not let thoughts of work tomorrow get me down!  Last week was so busy and next week looks like to be another packed out week of work, work, work!  But I managed to squeeze in a little crafting and created this birthday card using the fabulous Blow Me Away set by SugarPea Designs...

Super sweet set, don't you think?  And I totally love the font of the sentiments in this set too.  I used papers from the Lili of the Valley Up, Up and Away pad and some little die cut balloons to finish it off.

Okay, I'm off to do a little gardening this morning (groan) and as it's raining this afternoon I'm going to do lots of crafting (yay!).  Ta ta for now!

You're so ador-a-bull

Hi everyone!  Doesn't it feel great to be Saturday?  It's been another long week at work - so much to do, so little time!  I hope next week should be calmer so I can do some blog visiting and - more importantly - more crafting!  But I did I find some time to quickly knock up this card using the fab SugarPea Designs Hug-A-Bull set...

I kept this pretty simple as you can see - just a strip of stripey Digital Design Essentials paper, using my dies to frame this adorable image and topped off with a little button.  That's it!

Well I think the weather is starting to turn already - raining all day today here in the South East of England and only 21 degs :(  At least I won't be able to do any gardening today so there's a silver lining!  Ta ta for now and see you again soon!

You're swell

It's day three of the SugarPea Designs July sweet sneaks and today we have another gorgeous set to show you. You're going to love this one - here's my DT take with it...

I really love this beautiful girl called Seaside Wishes from the Sugar Snap collection.  Would you like to WIN this stamp set?! Hop along and visit with the SugarPeas and guests, leaving some comment love along the way! One lucky person will be randomly selected to win this stamp set!

Simonne	Tracy	Tracy
Lisa	Anita	Jenny
Jen	Kim	Lesley
Mary	Stacey	Sarah
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Good luck if you join the hop!  I'll be back later with my Whimsy Stamps guest designer post - ttfn!