Summer wedding baby style!!!

Afternoon peeps!!

Its that time of month again for the funkette's to do our 'Forgotten Funkies' showcase!!! 

Today's showcase is centered all around the gorgeously funky and zingy 'Summer Wedding' download. Just look at these stunning papers, they really pack a summery punch and the matching alpha's are just gorgeous..... so they are most definitely too good to be forgotten!!!

I don't mind sharing with you all that this card nearly didn't get made. I lost my funk with some going's on yesterday but after a day with my gorgeous babies I felt crafty again and decided to go baby with my make! I got this super cute little baby dresser step card from the Silhouette store a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't resist using it with these papers, they were just right for a little bit of cuteness!! 

Don't forget to pop in on my gorgeous funkette teamie's over on the Get Funky and Craft blog!

And the reason for getting my happy back....these pickles...love them to bits...

aren't they gorgeous...though I may be biased of course.... ;)

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Dancing with stars Tilda for Divas by Design......

Stamp- Dancing with stars Tilda.

paper- Bo Bunny Double dot Bashful.

Dies- Die- Namics Blueprints 9.

Promarkers..

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Blues- Midnight blue, denim blue,pastel blue,cool aqua.
Tonne of blender pen!!

Morning all!!

well this little make for the new Divas by Design challenge today nearly didn't make it!! yesterday was a bit of a doozey for me as while trying to help someone else out with an image of hers that had been stolen, the very same thing had happened to me :( ....and several..not 1 or 2 ...but several of my Tiddly Inkers teamies. The person who did it had even left parts of our watermarks on the images she had stolen...grrrrrr. And I only stumbled upon this lady by trying to help someone else out! ack!! So last night I was sad :( it took me until 9pm and a tonne of kind words and messages from friends to cheer me up and I finally felt a squidge crafty again so along came my creation for the new challenge, which is a totally rocking one.....

Use any Magnolia stamp!

ooooooooooh perfection!!!!!

we are sponsored by Magnalicious this week too!!

I absolutely adore my magnolia stamps. I do not have nearly as many as I neeeeeeeeeeeed! romfl! but to me they are just magical. I don't know what it is about them but I just love them! my first stamp I ever bought was a magnolia stamp and I told myself I couldn't buy one until I had learnt how to colour...now....don't laugh...this was the first magnolia stamp I bought and coloured all those years ago!! oh dear...can't believe I am sharing this...all the way from 2009 when I first started colouring using whisper pens!!!

te he he he!! 

Anyways, today I am feeling better about the whole images stolen thing. There were enough of us cross for the lady to remove our work from both her facebook crafting page and her personal page too so thats all done and dusted. I am always surprised by how icky some crafty people are so don't forget peeps, watermark up! put your watermark right over the focal point of your card, so if its a stamp, splodge that watermark over the stamped image!!

Oh and while I am on my high horse, just pop into your pinterest boards and delete every uncoloured/ unwatermarked image you may of pinned from an artist to colour up...thats just wrong too. If you want it, go buy it from their shop.

Huge hugs and squishes

Lou xxxx

Passion for Promarkers challenge 249...Pearls and Pins...

Stamp- Blossom from LOTV.

pin- Inkido heart pin .

mini fir cones- from Mo's stash of walking treasures....!!!

Promarkers...

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Blues- Midnight blue, denim blue,pastel blue,cool aqua.
Greens- Olive greaan and pear green.
Tonne of blender pen!!

I'm Back!! he he he!!!! 

Here I am with my 2nd post for the day for the new challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog! The theme this week was chosen by our gorgeous Maria and its......

Pearls and Pins!

Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.  Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers).

We are sponsored this week by – A Day For Daisies – who are generously offering one lucky winner a $12.00 gift card to spend in their online store. 

I used the super adorable LOTV stamp, Blossom. I absolutely love her! I coloured her up and then nestied her out!! 

Pearls was easy, splodged some self adhesive ones from my stash on and then......pins....(...pins?!!! omg...small scream from Lou..never use them...luckily saved from argghhhhhness by the gorgeous Tracy at Dies to Die for and her inkido heart pins stock..phew!!!!!) you can just see it nestled into the little fir cones and flower splodge in the bottom left of the card. I glued some teeny beads to the sharp end of it to hide the ouchy bit!! daft Lou.....!!!!!

Right, I am off to try and make orange curd now to make some jaffa cake inspired choccy cupcakes for Mo and Scott!...it could turn out badly but its worth a go!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 134......Pastels...

Image- Bathing Beauty from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its....

Pastels!!

( so think pastel colours on your papers and tiddlies!!)

I went CAS and made a card for a dear friend who is having a squidge of a tough time at the moment :( she always calls me her lifesaver so I had to squeesh that sentiment in there somehow!! he he he!!!

I printed Bathing Beauty straight onto my card blank and then gave her a good old colour on some pastels blues and yellows along with her pinky skin tones. I love how it came out. Sometimes a little bit of simples says it just perfectly without all the Lou froo-froo!!

I'll be back in a little while with my Passion for Promarkers new challenge make!

huge hugs Lou xx

A wedding explosion......

Stamp- I Do from LOTV.

Papers- DCWV Nana's nursery 12x12 boy stack.

Dies- Memory box Precious Hearts.

Impression Obsession Heart Stems.

La La Land Heart Border.

Evening peeps!!

I have been pootling along making a little wedding exploding box this weekend! There are lots of piccies for this one but it was quite tricky as I am a pants photo taker!!!

Its just beautiful! Inside all the little pockets are some cards that I printed some lovely wedding quotes on. Its quite big but oh did I love making it!! it just fits a 12x12 piece of cardstock for the final layer of box in the piccy below.Less Lou waffles...more piccies!!!...

 This is how the box looks all closed up. I didn't want to overdo the top so just popped the name of the couple and the date on with some nesty squares and a couple of precious hearts.

 ..and this is how it goes when you take the lid off! sooo cute!!! the little hearts stems are made with soft acetate and I glued the hearts and dunked them in glamour dust, they just float and sparkle! I strengthened where they adhere to the box with some teeny punched flowers, the smaller size precious hearts die cuts went on this layer too.

 Please excuse the classy yellow elastic band!! My hands are too chunky to hold this together for a piccy!!! the bigger size precious hearts die cuts went on this layer.

 Some punched martha stewart scalloped hearts went on this layer, with some La La Land hearts banners popping onto the last layer.

And thats me for today!!!! The little guy had oodles of fun playing outside with his little buddies this afternoon.  am very lucky because they all take his repetition,funny ways and loudness in their stride and play like most children play despite Mo having to run in to us quite a lot when he is worried about something!! ( he finds it hard to play but loves to try so hard bless him, but needs a lot of reassurance from the sidelines on things people say/do that make him worry!!) He was out like a light in our bed tonight...and did the hugest fart just as I was taking this picture!!!!! it was sooo funny! He was fast asleep!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Flutterby to say Hi...

Stamp- Flutterby to say Hi clear stamp set.

Hi everyone!!!

I am on a bit of a go slow today!! I have had this blog post in draft for 2 days!! Lazy Lou!! but I am getting my butt into gear now and getting it posted because its fab friday for the Tiddly Inkers and I want to play along with the ooooh so cute challenge over on the papertake weekly challenge blog :) :)

This is one of my absolute fav Tiddly Inks stamps ever, she really is just so cute! and I just had to have another go at the light colouring and blender pen with my promarkers again, I am loving the effect you get from it.

I was also in one of those ooooh I never use that colour moods so whipped out the darker blue mulberry paper and of course my Die- Namics Blueprints!! you can so never get enough of those!! a good old 'pow' of magnolia papers and I was happy!!!

This little cutie will be winging her way out to australia for Scott's Grandma's 90th birthday in a couple of weeks...need to make a card box for it or my little butterfly is going to get squishened on the way!!!

Right off to eat peanut butter and choccy fudge and count down the time until we go fetch Mo! half term starts at 3:30pm and I just cannot wait. I absolutely LOVE having my little guy at home with me. 

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Full of beans....

Hi everyone!!!

I checked with Da Boss because I wanted to share one of the fabulous new releases coming up soon.

This on is another fabby coffee cup to add to the I'm a mug for you coffee cup digital stamps over on the shop. I love theses cups! they are just fab. I made the base for this card with my silhouette software and then coloured the stamp up with my promarkers.

I added a squidge of twine, also available in the Funky Hand shop!!

The DT have had their hands on these for a long time now but you will have to wait just a squeeeeeze longer...but hey..if you beg Anice enough they might come quicker :) :)

Little Mo is home with me today because he is not so full of beans!!! he has the cutest croaky little voice and snotty nose! I am not sure if it is hayfever or a cold but he is also soooo white and icky looking I thought I would keep him home for a rest day. We have managed a little stroll around the block but that left him pooped out so maybe thats enough for today!!

I forgot to share his haircut piccy over here though!! I must admit to mass sobbing when his lovely long locks came off but he does look so handsome and grown up!! here he is looking cool on his electric motorbike!!

Thank you for popping in,

huge hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers special Anniversary challenge!! ..use die cuts....

Stamp- Midsummers Night from LOTV.

Papers- Prima Fairy Flora.

Dies- Die-Namics Rolled Daisy.

Die- Namics mini Royal Roses.

Magnolia Heart Swirl branch.

Floral Oval Nestabilitie.

Ribbon- May Arts crochet velvet centre-Rose.

Promarkers...

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Blues- Midnight blue, denim blue,pastel blue,cool aqua.
Yellows- mustard, pastel yellow.
Tonne of blender pen!!

Morning everyone!!

ooooh I am so excited to share my bloggy post with you all today! I am uber proud to be on the Passion for Promarkers DT, and my teamies totally rock!! and its a very special day today because we have a very special challenge for you this week!!

It's our 5th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 5 years since Gina and Denise started their little blog to share their love of all things Letraset.  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of....

use your die-cuts

 although please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.  As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go.....

Letraset are offering one lucky winner a pack of 12 Promarkers - Set 1

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $10.00 worth of digi papers

DigiStamp Boutique are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

Polkadoodles are offering one lucky winner 2 digis from their Work & Play range:

                                                           receptionist:                                    office:

                                                        

Little Claire designs are offering one lucky winner a beautiful Silhouette Elephants clear stamp

Angel Crafts are offering one lucky winner – prize to be confirmed

Phewsh!!! thats a lot of really cool prizes!!!!

so for my make I just had to get colouring with one of my new stamps from the new fairy range. I am super lucky as my Aunty gave me some pennies to take with me on the open day so I could get some bits and I bought the whole 10 new gorgeous fairies, I just love them. I coloured up Midsummer night for this one. I am being brave and popping her over on the Fairies challenge over on the LOTV idea's to inspire blog too! go me!!

I chose some really midsummer nights dreamy type papers so that I could get that early evening feel to my card, I wanted magical for a magical celebration!!! I stamped her up and cut her out with my floral oval nestie,I snipped around the edge of the stitching and then stitched pink and silver metallic thread through the little holes by hand.

I wanted her to look watercoloury so I used a few lines of colour from my promarkers and a whole tonne of my blender pen and I LOVE how she came out!!

Then it was a case of layer up and fru fru Lou style!!! I added a squidge of personal impressions puff white to the edges of my swirly heart branch just to make it umpfy!!! and a couple of pearly stamens...which are kinda tricky to see in the photo!! but it all looks so sweet together!!! and it has some sparkly glitz which doesn't show up too well either but looks cute!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

What's Cooking?......................

Stamp- What's cooking? 

Papers- Daisy Bucket Perfect Harmony- Callie.
Stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink.
Coloured with promarkers.
edges of paper inked with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink pad.

Good morning everyone!

I hope you have all had lovely weekends. I had some crafty time making a little box for my niece's birthday. My brother and sister and I have a £5 gift rule for the children in our family as we are all a little short on pennies.

Harriet loves making cupcakes so I decided to make a little box we can pop £5 and some cake sprinkles in little plastic bags into.

The box itself is from the Silhouette store so if you have a silhouette machine, you can find it HERE. 

And one of my all time favourite Mo Manning by Stamping Bella stamps, Whats Cooking? was just absolutely posatootly perfect for this job!! I stamped her out 3 times, once on my colouring paper and then once on either side of the paper I had left over from making the box. I stamped her on each side so I could have a different colour dress and apron. These Daisy Bucket papers are just fantastic, they are so pretty and they cut perfectly on my cameo machine, its always sooo good to find a paper that will cut great on your machines!!! I gave the edges a gentle inking with my Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink pad.

She really is just the cutest!! I didn't use her little sentiment as I had already worked on cutting Harriet's name to go along the curved line of the box in my Silhouette software.

Right, well I am still at work just now and will be doing a tonne of sleeping when I get back from the school run so I will pop in on you all later!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Divas by Design challenge...Anything but a card...

Morning everyone!!
Its time for a new challenge over on the Divas by Design challenge blog and this week its a super fun one. Its....

Anything but a card.

we are sponsored by Craft Bag this week.

oooooh I loved this! I love to get away from the cards and make a bit of something different and this time I decided to go for altering a little woooden heart that I bought from The Range with a little bit of help from my Tilda with bee stamp and the magnolia wall.

I just added a little bit of gauze and a little epoxy tag to finish it off! so cute!! you should pop into the blog and see what my uber clever teamies did! they are just so clever! I loved watching the makes come in!!!

Have a wonderful wednesday everyone! thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 133...Head in the clouds....

 Stamp- Ellie says Bye.

Die- Memory Box puffy cloud.

Morning everyone!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its a theme of.......

head in the clouds!

so all you need to do is grab your fav Tiddly Inks image or stamp

and think clouds in your creation!

I just had to go with the Ellie says Bye clear stamp set, well, balloons are perfect for getting you in the clouds right?!!! I also decided to go smashy on this one as I just got stumped and a smash page is fabulous for those stumped days because you can just splodge stuff on and it unfuzzles your head!!

Here's a closer piccy. I love doing smash pages but I suck at the taking pictures of them part!!!

 The journalling I did in word being as my handwriting is pretty sucky too!! I do spend a lot of time with my head way up there in the clouds and I don't think thats a bad thing sometimes. Positivity makes you float so much higher than all the bad stuff so I don't mind being up there at all!!!
Here's a better piccy of my journalling...

I had some cloud washy tape too so had to splodge that in there somewhere!

Right, off to get on with my day!! thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Funky Hand new release...Faded Beauty................

Papers- Fading Beauty from Funky Hand.

Image- Happy Happy Birthday CD rom.

Afternoon peeps!

Me again! this time its with the gorgeous new download from Funky Hand. Its called 'Faded Beauty' and its just delicious! its a mix of all my fav paper patterns with a stunning distressed finish and oooooh I LOVE it!!

I am so practicing my CAS at the minute and these papers make it so easy because they are just a fabulous focal point, all I needed to do was add a couple of digi's from the Funky Hand papercraft factory cd's and a little colour and I was done!

I also took myself out of my square card comfort zone!!!

Papers- Fading beauty from Funky Hand.

Image- Dreams Come True cd rom.

You will find more gorgeous makes from the rest of the Funkette's in the gallery over on the Faded Beauty page in the Funky Hand store.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Philly Phil.....

Image- Philly Phil from saturated Canary.

Papers- Echo Park Birthday Boy.

Morning peeps!

I am quite excited this morning for 2 reasons!! firstly I am off on my little LOTV road trip to see my gorgeous budettes! I love LOTV day because I get to see 6 of them all at once!! maybe more!!! happy days!! and secondly because its time for our first challenge over on our new Saturated Canary Stamps Facebook page!!! wohooooooo!!!! 

And its me starting everyone off with an easy little Lou sketchy....

You can embellish away as you wish BUT we need to see the original sketch in there!!

(The prize will be 2 images of your choice from the current images available in our shop.)

All you need to do is make a NEW creation ( no back linking to older makes please peeps) using your Saturated Canary digi's or LDRS Saturated Canary stamps and then add your blog posts about it or just a photo IN THE COMMENTS ON THIS POST over on our Facebook page.

I just had to use Philly Phil for mine! he is so cute and teamed up with some colours to match the delicious papers he just made me smile!! so go on then!! get out your SC's and get playing along! we are waiting for your entry over here on our Facebook page.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Wryn -Sunny Day....

Image- Wryn Sunny Day from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Daisy Bucket playful Petals Mady.

Die- Die-namics Pierced Traditional Tag STAX.

Morning everyone!!

Its time for a fabulous friday over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and I just couldn't help but colour up this super super new cutie from Christy,Wryn Sunny Day, she is just so sweet. I merged all the stamps you get in the pack together to make a little scene and loved colouring her up, she is such a fun and cheery little thing you end up smiling the whole way through your colouring!!

I had treated myself to some little giftbags so I popped some delicious Daisy Bucket paper on it and then popped her on over the top, only adding a little twine bow and a tag to it.

For my next card I placed my ' I can do CAS' head on!! he he he he!! and I merged 2 of the images from the pack together!! I made her all teeny so she can 'Grow a little love' !! go Lou!!!

So, what are your plans today? I have some furry peeps to walk and then my gorgeous big sis is coming for a bit whilst her partner sorts out the mess that the estate agents are making of letting/selling her house. Her current tenant has absolutely trashed the beautiful little terraced house and then the estate agents took photos of it in its trashed state and put them on its selling page!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! it breaks Sam's heart to see the house in that state ( plus it is full of poo memories for her!) so she is coming to me :) 

Have a wonderful day everyone!
huge hugs Lou xxx