One in a minion

I'm here today to share my DT inspiration for Alicia Bel this week and I chose Minion Girl...

I actually made this for my niece - she loves Despicable Me almost as much as me!  Alicia's take on it is so cool - I love her little outfit  with a touch of sexy!  I used Doodlebug polka dot paper, a Paper Smooches border die and Memory Box and My Favorite Things alpha dies.

You can see more gorgeous inspiration over at the blog here.  That is it from me today - see you again soon!

Polaroid love!

It's time for a new SugarPea Designs sketch challenge and I really loved using this one.  Here's my take on it...

I used to love my old polaroid - what fun we had as teenagers taking photos at parties!  For my card I  used the SugarCuts Polaroid dies, a couple of hearts from the SugarCuts Heart Journal Card and added the smile stamp from the Wanderlust stamp set.  

Check out the rest of the DT sketch inspiration over at the blog here.  I hope you're inspired to join in - you don't have to use SPD goodies either but if you do you could win a $15 Gift Certificate to the store and if you don't you could win one worth $10!

Hope your birthday's picture perfect

Hi all.  I'm sorry I haven't been around for a while nor even visiting you, but we had a personal tragedy which has left us reeling somewhat.  I'll do a separate post on that as I didn't want to make this post a downer!  I managed to make a card last night to distract myself and came up with this using some of the new SugarPea Designs goodies...

I love this stamp set called Picture Perfect - she is a beautiful gal!  I also used the SugarCuts Polaroid dies and added the smile stamp from the Wanderlust stamp set.

There's also an offer going on over at the store today - free postage for you lucky USA guys!

Thank you too all of my visitors, especially my regular ones.  I promise I will be back soon!

Day 1 of sweet peeks of the SugarPea Designs March release!

It's time for SugarPea Designs new release for March and you're gonna love it.  I know that because I do!  Today we are showing new SugarCuts Die set called Polaroid Journal Card and a new stamp set called Wanderlust.  Here's what I created with them...

Cool sets, huh?!  I knew I had to make a retro card with the goodies and I loved how it turned out.  

Would you like to win this set?  Well just join the hop and leave a comment on this post and on each of the talented SugarPea Designers shown below and you could WIN!  We will chose one lucky person to WIN the Wanderlust stamp set from the comments left here and on the DT Blogs!  All winners during our March Product Release will be announced on Sunday, March 15th.

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Our entire March Product Release will be available for purchase in the SugarPea Designs Store on Friday, March 13th at 6:00 PM EST!

Okay, I gotta go now, but I'll be back tomorrow with....guess what...day two of the sweet peeks!

You're sweet!

There's a new challenge over at the Alicia Bel blog today and the theme is Candy Treats.  Perfect to get those Easter cards done for next month, but I actually went for a birthday card instead using the very cute Gretel...

Ack!  She is so so adorable!  I love her little pigtails!  I matched her up with NitWit Collection papers called One Birdie Lane and the border and speech bubble borders are Lawn Fawn.  And do you like the sentiment?  Great font, I think - it's from the SugarPea Designs Classroom Cupids stamp set.

You can get more Candy Treat inspiration over at the Alicia Bel blog.  Thanks for visiting and I'll see you again soon - ta ta for now!

Alical Bel inspiration time!

(Please scroll down for my very last La-La Land Crafts DT post!)

The Alicia Bel design team is giving you some inspiration from the fabulous digi stamps available in the store.  I decided to use the fabulously fun Super Chica...

We all know a Super Chica, don't we?!  I love this image and thought she'd be perfect for a girlfriend achieving just like Superwoman would!I used My Favorite Things sun ray die and alpha dies and I hand cut the yellow "pow" piece (I have no idea what to call it, lol!).

I got out my Promarkers to colour this lady in so I could enter it into this week's Passion For Promarkers challenge and I chose S for Super!

You can see more gorgeous inspiration over at the blog here.  That really is it from me today - see you again soon!

What a nice surprise!

I had completely forgotten that I had completed a magazine commission last November for Lili of the Valley and it was being published this month so what a nice surprise I had when I saw it on the shop shelf today with one of my cards making the front page!

Yep, that's my girlie card on the front - I am sure Christine will be very proud of me using so much pink!  Here's a peek at the cards I made...

I used papers from the Country Meadow and Snow Princess pads and you can find all of the girl stamps in this section here.  I used my new Polychromos pencils and lots of My Favorite Things dies.

I'm off now to do all of my post holiday ironing and later going for a family dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll be back on Tuesday with my SugarPea Designs DT post.  Ta ta!

Ready for Spring?

The theme over at La-La Land Crafts blog this week is Ready for Spring.  And as we all know, Spring means showers!  So here is my DT take on it...

LLLC goodies used:

Paper Doll Marci - Spring Showers stamp set

Stitched Sun and Clouds dies

Copics used:

Face: E000, E00, E21, R02, R05

Hair: E31, E33, E35

Outfit: Y11, YR31, Y26, BG10, BG72, R83, R89

Yep, those macs are needed to keep the rain off!  I love making shaker cards although the sequins get really static and stick to me - which I find very annoying!  But, hey, I love how this one turned out so it was worth it!  I used papers by My Minds Eye.

I'm entering my card into the Little Red Wagon challenge for Round and Round We Go.

Check out the rest of the DT creations over at the blog here!  I will be back later with my Alicia Bel DT post - ta ta for now!

Floating hearts and beautiful butterfly

Hi everyone!  In case anyone had wondered if I had disappeared, I am just back from a two week holiday to Thailand.  Glad to see my scheduled posts worked while I was away.  We'v had a rubbish return though - first off we went to pick up our car from the long stay car park at the airport and found that the suspension had broken so we had to wait around for hours for a tow truck.  We didn't get home until 3am!  And then we went to pick up the dogs from the kennels in the morning and our poor Poppy has been unwell - really listless and not eating so I'm very worried about her.  And then to top it all off, went through our mail and found that someone had cloned my credit card and went on a £3k spending spree!  Our punishment for having a fantastic holiday!

But anyway, back to my card for today!  Bit of a soppy title for this post, but it's exactly how I'm describing my card using some of those gorgeous Docrafts goodies!  See what you think...

The Docraft goodies I used were:

Blue Daisy paper collection (free download here)

Xcut Heart Nesting Dies set

Xcut Falling Hearts embossing folder

Xcut Butterflies A5 die set, 

Xcut Kushgrip Craft Knife

Papermania Monochrome Adhesive Stones 

I usually add a sentiment to my cards but I didn't think I'd need one for this card as it could be used for many different occasions.  Perhaps I'll stick on a sentiment on it when I decide to use it!  I think I'm going to give this one either to my mum or my mother-in-law.

Okay, I gotta go now.  If you like any of the goodies, you can find a Docraft stockist here.  I'll be back tomorrow with my Alicia Bel and La-La Land Crafts DT posts - see you then!

Green hair - really?!

The theme over at the La-La Land Crafts blog this week is funky hair colours.  Here is my DT take on it...

La-La Land Craft goodies used:

Mermaid Marci
Berry Flourish die

Copics used:

Face: E000, E00, E21, R20, R02, R05

Hair: YG000, G20, G21, G24

Outfit: R00, R02, R05, Y11, Y15, BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78

It felt really weird not using normal hair colour but I think it came out ok!  The papers are by My Minds Eye and I used some little pearls for interest.

I will be back later with my Alicia Bel DT post - see you then!