Loopy Lou's Loopy Thoughts!

Wicked Wednesday ATC - fairy tales/ nursery rhymes.

2012-01-26T20:27:00.000Z

Image- Queen of Hearts from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's.

Paper- Nitwits FBQ Bear Necessities

Promarkers- blush, soft peach & peach

Chestnut, cinnamon & walnut

Antique pink,cocktail pink & pastel pink

Sandstone, caramel & burnt sienna

Pastel blue,denim blue,china blue & midnight blue

Evening Peeps!!

I have had a busy but lovely day at work today. Little Mo was tired out and fell asleep snoring as soon as we had had our bath so I pootled out to my crafty room and decided to get my ATC done for this weeks Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge. Its fairytales/nursery rhymes this week and I just had to use the gorgeous Queen of Hearts to do mine. I used to love this nursery rhyme when I was little, I was always bemused as to why the Queen was doing her own baking! I could never picture a Queen baking tarts!! lol !!

I was going to colour her red and then I decided I wanted to match her into the nitwits paper I had merged her onto. I cut my kraft card to 2.5"x3.5" and then trimmed my patterned paper with her on so a lovely edge of kraft would show. I am really enjoying a weekly pootle into ATC land so huge thank you's to Jenn and her fabby team for getting me going on them again! xxx

Here's a piccy so you can read the rhyme a bit better but I know you all know it off by heart really!!

Well that's me for today. I am going to snuggle up on the settee and watch Van Helsing now (mmmmm....Hugh Jackman.....) with Scott (....who is probably thinking mmmmm...kate beckinsale and Lady vampyres...!!) and have a lovely cuppa!!

thankyou for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Alice in wonderland!

2012-01-25T15:43:00.001Z

Images....Alice time for tea

Mad about you Madhatter

Papers.... Grunge Checker board

keys from Key paper set

Alice quote from good old google search!

Afternoon Peeps!!!

How are you all today? I am good! I have had a very productive morning!!

I cleaned out my craft desk ( 2 bags of rubbish later I was able to see the surface....3 bags later and there appeared my 8ft craft desk!!!) got 2 loads of washing done, sent a couple of emails, and made 3 cards!! go me!!!!

The card I am sharing today is the card I finished off this morning. I needed the glossy accents to dry on my "painting the roses red" roses (..Ha see ya'll are going to sing that all night now aren't you????!!) I loved that bit, they are my fav bit of the card along with the cute little 'made out of a cocktail stick' paintbrush!!

Here's a close up of their wet look red paintyness...:) love it!!!!

I am popping this card over on the challenge on papertake weekly this week which is Happy highlights. I just love how glossy accents changes the look of things, these roses still look drippy wet!!

The teacup on my card is a long gone freebie that Christy from Tiddly Inks gave us a while ago. I just cut a little slit and tucked the tag in, cute! I printed the grunge checkerboard paper straight onto my base and then everything else went on top of it.

This card is for my friend at work, I hope she likes it!!!

Well, I need to get Mo's tea in the oven now before I go fetch him from lego club, he always comes home sooo hungry when he's been at an afterschool club!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

My earliest childhood memory....

2012-01-24T12:21:00.003Z

Image- Wryn and Wren- to tweet from Tiddly Inks

Morning peeps!!

How is everyone this cold, grey and wet morning?!!! great I hope!!! I am frozen!! I am sat in my jeans, top and fleecey jumper with the heating on and my wheaty bag which either means its freezing cold or I am getting a cold, I am hopeful of it being the weather as i just don't fancy a cold this week!!! :)

Anywhoo!! onto my little creation for today!! (....grrrr which I started last night but the base coat of paint on the journal page refused to dry.....cue lou and her heat gun this morning....8 mins of drying whilst singing along to Sheryl Crow........sorted!!! lol!!)

My poor little art journal has been shouting me from under the pile of papers and mess on my craft desk for a couple of weeks now and I just has to pull it out and get busy last night.

My earliest childhood memory is that of a huge need to want to hold a small, wild bird! I was so obsessed with them because my grandad had nursed a robin back to health from a broken leg and it regularly came back to be fed. When Christy, from Tiddly Inks, released Wryn and Wren I couldn't believe it and I was pulled to her straight away. I wanted a bright and cheery page so coloured her in to match my papers. The tree is a little extra pressie that Tracy from Dies to Die for had tucked in my envelope when she posted my order before christmas. I love it and have been holding onto it for a special something and this page was it!!!

I added a couple of hearts and I wanted to stamp the word 'memories ' on it so I could journal underneath. Now I wanted a shadow underneath and had to think about how to do it for a few mins! 3 mins and a scratched head later and I had got it! my stamp is a clear one so I inked it up with brown ink and gave it a good squish down onto the hearts which squooshed it out. Then I stamped gently over the top with some black ink on the stamp! yey!!

I typed out my journalling (..man my handwriting is so icky, you don't all need to be tortured by that!!)in word and then distressed it a bit with some tea dye before roughing up the edges and doing it again!!

The journalling bit incase ya'll want to read it!!

I have to say I love this page!! I am popping it in over on the CES challenge blogs Anything but a card challenge.
now onto my Sheryl Crow song. This is one of my favourite songs by Sheryl. I know everyone has different thoughts on a songs meaning but this song for me reminds me of how I can sometimes get with my prayers. I feel that sometimes I forget about the big picture and only turn to God for a chat when I am struggling, I am going to sort that out this year! I start my Alpha course next Tuesday night. Mo on the other hand is more switched on than his mum, he says "goodnight and thank you for a lovely day" to God every night and I never have to remind him or tell him what to say, he puts me to shame! last night he asked God to keep the dog we are hoping to bring home from the rescue kennels on Saturday lovely and warm because it was a cold night, awwww!! she is a yellow lab and adorable so keep your fingers crossed for us!!

Here's the song by Sheryl Crow if you want to listen, we don't need to get the same message from it but it is a beautiful song all the same....

Thankyou for popping in on me, huge hugs Lou xxxxxxx

Do you need some Saturated Canary love?...:)

2012-01-23T20:23:00.002Z

Image- Valentine from Krista Smith at Saturated Canary.

Hello peeps!!
Isn't she just the cutest?!!! Now if you are in love with her as much as I am you need to womble on over to

Krista's Blog

and see just what you need to do to have this gorgeous little FREEBIE...yes FREEBIE :) for your Saturated Canary collection!! (.....lou says collection because I know ya'll have sooo many more than one already..!!!)
I loved colouring her up last night, she is just way too cute!! here's a close up so you can see the sparkle in her hair....

I so want glittery highlights for my hair (...lou wonders if sakura pens would stay in her hair......) :)

Recipe:

promarkers: blush,soft peach,peach-skin

antique pink, cocktail pink-dress &trousers

pastel blue,denim blue,china blue,midnight blue- dress and headband

sandstone,caramel and cocoa- dress & shoes

caramel,coca,walnut- hair

almond,tan- dove

sakura starburst bling to hair,dress ruffles and the dove

Papers- MME freebie pad

MS heart punch

( my friend Karens b'day pressie,it needed testing....) :)

pearls and dmc thread.

tea dye DI

Challenges I am entering with this little cutie...

Cupcake craft challenges- All you need is love

I love promarkers- Anything Goes

I have had the best day today. Mo and I had his breakfast buddy,Sophia, this morning and we all made cupcakes together (...there are definite plus points to being early risers!!!),dropped them off at nursery/school then I had a few hours with my mum and we went out for lunch, I had a play in my craft room before I went to fetch little Mo and have just had a lovely day really!!

Sending you all some love to!!! don't forget to pop over to Krista's blog and leave her some love too!! and if you pop over to the challenge blog the awesome new GDT members have been posted! squeee they are all fabulous!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!
Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

A little bit of love....:)

2012-01-21T21:16:00.001Z

Papers- Funky Kraft Stash from Funky Hand

Good evening peeps!!!

its a bit of a late one from me today as I have been indulging in my gorgeous son and hubby today and we spent the day at the zoo.

Mo absolutely loved it as he got to spend 10 minutes sat on a bench staring at this guy......

and the best thing is that when Scott took this photograph the gorilla was sat right up to his window staring back at me and Mo sat on the bench. It made Mo's day as the gorilla's are his favourite at the moment.

Anywhoo, onto my gorgeous and CAS card!!!

I made this card with my papers from the Funky Kraft Stash download and the word 'love' is spelt out with the alphabits from Steam Funk. I love the huge dots on this one, they are gorgeous.All I needed to do was add a nice big bow with my pink raffia and the job was done!!

I am popping this little card in the challenge over on Simply Create too, which is love is in the air.

I have had a funny end to the week and felt a bit low so a day out with my guys was so very much needed and it has reminded me just how blessed I am to have them in my life.

Thankyou for popping in on me. Do you know how much you cheer me up everyday? I hope so, sending you huge (((HUGS))) just incase you don't!

I am off to listen to The Gael again now, its my fav song from my fav film, The Last Of The Mohicans (mmmmm Daniel Day-Lewis..) and it never fails to make me cry! so if you have tissues at hand, click the pink link and come cry with me!!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Wicked Wednesday ATC -Dress forms/Dresses

2012-01-20T06:00:00.001Z

Morning peeps!!

Last week I was sooper bad Lou and didn't get round to getting my underwater ATC finished for the Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge blogs challenge so when this week challenge of Dress Forms/Dresses came up I just had to make amends by doing 2!!!! :)

The little thick stickery things came free on a card making mag I bought a long while ago and the papers are snippets left in my Funky Hand paper folder (.....errr Craft The Year Away i think......!!) Jules will be most proud of me!!!

I covered my little ATC cards with them and the added a little MS lace punched red core card (...also from my scraps box of all sorts of things...Jules will be doubley proud of me!!!) to one and some teeny flowers from the same red core on the other. I added the stickery things and on one I used some of my Funky Hand Steam Funk alphabits to spell out 'bake' in a kinda grungey way!!! Love it!!!

So I think thats me for today!!
I love fridays. I know I only work 2 days but I get so excited for the weekend to begin so I can have some quality time with my little Mo and hubby!! we always have pj morning on a saturday and its fab to just slomp around and veg out!! I can't wait!

Little Mo has been busy this morning already....

He, he he!! Just look at that early morning scruffy hair!!! (oh.. and the mess..but hey what else is baking all about for little peeps!!)
The choccy fairycakes are in the oven and should be ready to ice before we go to school!! yey!!!!! I love this little guy soooo much!
Off to clean up a bit!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 9- Die cuts/Punches..

2012-01-19T15:00:00.083Z

Image-The Force from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Funky Kraft Stash from Funky Hand

Copic sketch pens- W1,W3 and W7

pastel blue promarker for light sabre

I am pinching myself as I write this little post because I still can't believe I am on the Saturated Canary DT!! I just want to say a quick thank you to Krista for wanting me to play with her gorgeous images, huge mahoosive hugs hun xxxxxx

Anywhoo, get on with it Lou!!! (lou takes deep first sc challenge post breath and ......) this weeks challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog is...

Die cuts / Punches.

I had lots of fun with this challenge and I really enjoyed making my creations!! They are both 8x8 cards giving me plenty of room to play around with nestie shapes, Lord T's weathered clock die and some Funky Hand papers!!

For my little force card I fancied a mono theme!!

I used my circle nestie and scalloped circle nestie, my cuttlebug love language die for the heart and sewed it on with a kiss!! the heartblocks embossing folder and the stars embossing folder.

My little force guy is coloured in just 3 copics (...mainly because I only have 12 copics..!!!) with a hint of pastel blue promarker on the light sabre.

The sentiment I made in word and added another die cut of the little hearts but popped them out for dimension.

Then onto Enjoy The Rain. Oooooh I love the mystery with this chick! she is awesome.

Image- Enjoy the Rain from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Copic sketch- B37 and B39

promarkers- blush,soft peach,peach,

cocktail pink and antique pink.

I love the quote on this one, its from Henry Wadsworth Longbottom and I thought it matched her so nicely. The spoltchy paper is one of my favs because it looks just like splotches of rain, and the pink polka dots were to match her skirt (...yup I have that colour the image hen find the papers thing going on this week!!!)

The leafy fronds are my MS punch, both in blue core card and a sparkly vellum and the punched border is MS cherish edger. I hand stitched that with some blue embroidery thread.

I couldn't help adding some pearls to this one.Omgoodness I just love both of these images sooooo much!!!

All you need to do to join in the challenge is arm yourself with any Krista Smith Saturated canary digi or simply sassy stamp and get die cutting and punching!!!

Oh.....and why do I love that cute little The Force sooooo much...well here's a little reason why.......my own little mini Jedi!!! Mo-bi Wan Kenobi....!!

and here he is with Yoda!! (...and CP-3o but dopey mummy zoomed in on the cuteness and forgot to take another of the whole lot...ooops!!)

So thats me for today!!

More (((hugs))) for Krista and her gorgeous DT for having me xxxxxxx

Thankyou for popping in on me

Hugs Lou xxxx

oooh a big Juicy Tag!!!

2012-01-18T10:44:00.002Z

Papers and sentiment- Steam Funk from Funky Hand.

Morning everyone!!!

I have been sat at my pooter getting not a lot done since I dropped Little Mo off at school this morning!! so I thought I would do something productive and share my big, juicy tag with you!!

I bought these huge tags last year from the pound shop ( well, I say huge... they are about 6" x 3.5" which is huge to me !!!) they kind of sat in the pile of mess on my craft room table until a couple of weeks ago when I made a christmassy one and thought to myself , hey I should do some more of these ....then I forgot!!! (..yup, I am that useless!!!)

So when I found them again the other day I just had to use my yummy new Steam Funk papers, I love them so much because they have one of my fav colour combo's of all time, browns and creams! ( mmmmm cookies and ice cream....!!) and thus making them delicious to create with!! I also remembered that I have an awesome rolled roses file in my MTC that I hadn't used on a long time so I cut some out with my trusty cricut.

While it was working hard cutting rolly roses I covered one of the big tags in a sheet of yumminess. If you look closely at the papers they have awesome little crafty words all over them!! I love it!!! I punched out some butterflies and leafy fronds and started off the glue gun on heating up (....not to self....making a cuppa and getting some dinner whilst forgetting the glue gun is heating up is not the best idea ever.....however it does leave a really hot toasty smell in your cold craft room which is quite warming........)

I layered up my little butterflies a bit with 3 layers so they looked all fluttery! they have crochet wool for antennae's to match the strings through the tag!!

The sentiment I inked around the edge and then screwed up (...and trod on it........just to make sure it was squooshed...) then I unrolled it and inked it again. It my favourite way to distress something.

Then it was just a case of splodging it all on the tag which was awesome fun and I love how it came out. Here's another piccy from a slightly different angle...

So I guess my big and juicy tag is me for today!!! I am popping off now to spend some time with the fur babies from my old nannying job!! I love them as much as the children and today they need a quick run out while their parents are at work and the children are at school so I get to have furry cuddles today!!

Challenges I am popping this tag into...

Truly Scrumptious challenge blogs -something forgotten - the big tags from staples buy....last year!!!!
(ladies, I tried to leave a comment on your gorgeous DT creations but it wouldn't let me so if you pop in on me, I loved them xxx)

MMCS challenge blogs- Fav colour combo - browns and creams !! I love browns and blues too...:)

Have a fab day peeps!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 78- Colour challenge!

2012-01-17T06:00:00.002Z

Image- Grow a Little Love Wryn.

Morning Peeps!!

Yey!! its time for another Tiddly Inks challenge over on the challenge blog! and I am excited about this one because let me tell you when I heard it was a colour challenge I kinda hid my head!! but the colours were so easy to play with that I just fell in love right away!!! I got one of the gorgeous new Wryn's to help me out on this one, she is so cute I couldn't resist!! squeeeee!!!

So onto the colours......

All you need to do is have these colours prominent on your card so you can muddle some others in there too if you need to!!

I coloured my little Wryn up to match the colours, here's my promarkers list incase it helps anyone out!

Skin- blush, soft peach and peach.

Hair- apricot, ginger and burnt orange.

Dress- buttercup, tulip yellow and gold

Shoes- denim blue, china blue and midnight blue

Heart flowers- pear green and olive green

Plant pot- terracotta and henna

My little hearts I cut on my cricut and threaded some blue thread through and the little tags are from my SU teeny tags stamp set punched out with my jewellery tag punch. The scalloped border is my SU scallop punch. The faux stitching is my orange glaze pen and it look so pretty IRL as it is a little raised.

I have to say I loved making this card! I even found some yummy paper that held a few of the colours for the challenge too!!

Please don't forget to head over to the challenge blog and have a peeky at what all the tiddly inkers have been making, they will knock your socks off!!

And before I go and get the kettle on for my morning cuppa I have to thank each and every one of you again for the awesome blog hop, it was so much fun seeing all Christy's digi's in action and I absolutely loved it, huge hugs to you all for joining in and making my day and your fabulous comments too which will cheer me up everytime I look at them xxxxx

Hugs Lou xxx

March calendar page and my Tiddly Inks blog hop winner!!

2012-01-16T09:58:00.000Z

Image- Somebunny Loves You Wryn

Morning Peeps!!

Its a very frosty but beautifully sunny day out there today and we even had to resort to Little Mo's big winter coat today as it was -2 as we left the house!!!! brrrrrrr!!!

I have my march calendar page to share with you today. Sitting ever so cute at the top of my calendar is one of Christy's gorgeous new releases, Somebunny Loves You Wryn isn't she just adorable??!!! I love her!!

I made my calendar page up in word again and added Wryn in .png format to the top of the calendar, I love doing it this way because then she looks like she is just sitting there so naturally. If you use the .jpg one it leaves a white space around her.

I coloured her in and then masked her up to stamp on my heart chains stamp along the top and distress ink my egdes.

Here's a little close up of Wryn in her cuteness....

And now onto the exciting bit!

Firstly I have to thank each and every one of you for all your beautiful comments. I have never had so much love sent my way and I have to tell you I have read them all at least 20 times since friday/saturday so thank you so very much for making me feel this warm and happy inside, it means so much xxxxx

The winner of my little blog hop prize from the friends of life tiddly inks blog hop.......now, mr blogger was being bit of a noodle that day so I got a few double comments and I have also taken out my gorgeous tiddly inkers teamies comments too so that left me with 46 comments. I could never pick one on my own so Mr Random picker helped me...

I was doubley excited when I counted down the list of comments to find number 25 as this is what Lisa had to say when she popped in on me....

Yey!!! I am so excited for you Lisa!! please email me using the email linky in my sidebar and I will get your little New Wings Wryn to you!! she is too cute so if anyone new is peeking in here's a piccy of her ....she's linked to her home in the shop too if you neeeeeeeeed her :)

Right then, time for a cuppa and a bloggy catch up now! I am going to get the kettle on, get some dried fruit to nibble on (...lost 3lb on the diet this week so most cheery with self!!!) and see what everybody has been up to in bloggy land!!

Huge huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Love Letters...

2012-01-15T22:18:00.000Z

Image-Love Letters from Saturated Canary Digi's

Evening peeps!!

I have just popped in out of my crafty little garage to share this little cutie with you. She is another one of Krista's awesome new release's called Love Letters.

I managed to get her made at many different points today!!! he he he!! bit of colouring, play with mo, bit of die cutting, more playing with mo, stamp around the edge, watch a film with mo ( we watched zookeeper and it was lovely!!) cook tea, bath mo, snuggle mo to sleep ( i love love love it when he wants to be snuggled to sleep!!) quick hello with scott on my way out to crafty garage then finally finish her off!!!! but I have had the most awesome day!!

I used some of my My Minds Eye papers for this one and a bit of yummy pink raffia I bought before christmas.

I hope you all had super sundays too!! I am going to pootle back out to my crafty garage now and carry on with my march calendar page, then I might go to bed!!! :)

Thankyou for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Get Funky -January Blues....:)

2012-01-15T08:32:00.000Z

Morning peeps!!

Its that time of month again for a lovely new challenge over on Get Funky and its me driving the funky train this month!!!

I have decided on a nice and easy theme this month of

January Blues.

so in more detail..

Its an anything goes month but you must use BLUE!!

Don't worry if you have nothing blue and funky because our super boss lady has made a wonderful

FREEBIE

for you all to grab to join in.

Before I show you my project I just want to make sure you all checked out the

NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP HERE.

It has been so much fun creating with the gorgeous new downloads so if you haven't been yet, please click on the red linked writing above to start!!

Right onto my project for the January Blues challenge we are having this month!! A couple of months ago Anice shared a link with us on Smash books and ooooooh I wanted one so bad!!! so I just had to make a funky one!!

I bought a plain chipboard album and set to work making this........

My inspiration page...

a page for quotes and sentiments i pick up along the way...

my wish list page....

my notes bit, which at the moment is my fav promarker combo's..

and of course, every girls dream...a page for my hotties...gerrard butler, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jnr, sparkly Edward, Jacob....oh and dear hibby too of course...:)

and the back of the book...

I am going to have so much fun filling smash book in!!The papers are from the Happy Happy Birthday Papercraft factory cd rom and I love them, they look kind of 3D in real life.

Right then, cuppa and bottom into gear (.......ok, so its only tracksuit gear for plodding out to my crafty garage!!!) Mo wants to have a play on Nick Jnr so I can sit and craft next to him!!!

Thankyou for popping on on me
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Elphie....

2012-01-14T21:01:00.001Z

Image- Elphie from Saturated Canary Digi's

Its me again!!!! he he he!! 3 posts in one day?????!!!! its just been such an amazingly exciting day for me with 2 hops and release days from the DT's I am on!!!

Now, I don't mean to enable you all....but....quick get your purses and run over to Krista's Saturated Canary Digi's shop as the new digi's are popping up in the shop as I type!!!!

This little super cutie is Elphie and I am in love with her!!! she's just devine isn't she!! its those cute little 'ooops did I do that ?' eyes that I fell in love with!! and I decided she totally needed bluey green sparkley hair too, I don't know why but she just called out for it!!

Here's a little list of my promarkers just incase you feel the need for bluey green sparkley hair too....:)

Hair- Pastel green and soft green with some highlights of Turquoise At you copic spica in.

Skin- blush, soft peach and peach

Top- pastel beige, khaki

skirt & tights- sandstone, cocoa and burnt sienna

broom- vanilla, sandstone and cocoa

eyes- soft green.

The stamp around the edges of her nestie circle is from my SU tiny tags stamp set, I really like this stamp. It has kind of sat neglected in the cd case since I got it but I think it is going to get some useage over the next few days!!!! :)

I am popping Elphie off into the Papertake weekly's Die cut special challenge.

Right, must womble off as i have desk full of cute little SC's screaming "colour me!!"

Thankyou for popping in on me !!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Funky Hand new release blog hop.....

2012-01-14T09:00:00.001Z

Morning peeps!!!

Its Funky Hand new release blog hop time and I am so excited because I know you crafty peeps out there are going to absolutely adore what our Anice has been busy creating!! so before I waffle away too much if you are hopping with us for the chance to win the new downloads you should of come to me via the gorgeous Jules,

if you didn't you need to pop back to the start here on

Anice's Funky Hand Thoughts Blog

And without further waffling, 2 new awesome Funky Hand downloads!!! whoop whoop !! Here they are.....

Each piccy is linked to its home over on the Funky Hand shop.I absolutely adore these downloads! they came to live with the Funkette's early this week and we have all been snuggling into them ever since!!! I have sooo many uses earmarked for these gorgeous papers already!!!

And here's a couple of my creations using these little beauties!!!

Firstly using Steam Punk...

and then onto Funky Kraft Stash...

See!!! I told you they were dreamy delicious papers didn't I?!!!!!! I looooove them!!!

Now, if you didn't already get it my letter for the hop is 'R'. Now you have my letter don't forget to leave a comment before you pop on over to a very gorgeous

Jenny

to see what she has for you!!!

Thank you for hopping in on me!!!! :)

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Lou is feeling the force!!! Saturated Canary Digi's DT style!! :)

2012-01-14T07:51:00.001Z

Image- Force from Saturated Canary digi's

(due for release today I think, squeee!!)

Morning peeps!!

Now I have had the most awesome week and I have some super exciting news to share with you all. By now you must of all gathered that I LOVE Krista Smith's images. I got the most exciting email early this week from Krista Smith of Saturated Canary digi's (....I actually had to read it twice, rub my eyes then read it a whole tonne more before I realised it was actually real and for me!!!!!!) and I am now on the Saturated Canary design team!!!!

OMGOODNESSSSSS!! me a little canary??!! So I am so excited, humbled and completely honoured all in one!! Thank you Krista and huge happy birthday hugs to you too hun xxxxxxxx

For my card today I used one of the awesome new digi's Krista has gong in the shop over the weekend, isn't he gorgeous?!! and anyone who has a star wars obsessed family like I do totally needs this digi!! Force also has a gorgeous little lady friend too so if you are feeling the love force you will need to get them both to make an awesome valentine card for your other half (...Lou hopes scott isn't reading this or he may just grab the jist of what his valentines card is this year......:)

I coloured my cute little guy up in promarkers and then teamed him up with my 'just chillin' we r memory makers papers.His little light saber actually sparkles but man I could not get a good piccy of that, 8 piccies later and this was the best I could do....

You can just about make out the sparkle.....lol!!!!

I truly feel blessed this week, I have the best balance at work I have had in a very long time, an awesome and supportive husband,son and stepson and great friends,3 awesome DT's . Can life really be any better than that?!

I will be back in a couple of hours for the Funky Hand blog hop so for now I am going to go and get a cuppa, snuggle up on the settee in my pj's with my little Mo and just soak up the love in my house today!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Friends are the Flowers of Life blog hop!!

2012-01-13T18:00:00.001Z

Image- New Wings Wryn from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!

Welcome to Tiddly Inks' first blog hop of the year!!

We are celebrating the many friends that make our world a more lovely place and are so glad you are here as one of them. We are trying to keep this simple, so the blog hop is based on the Challenge Blog home page. Instead of directly you to the next page, we suggest you keep the challenge blog open and create a new window for the hopping around (click Control when you click on each link and it will open a new window).

After you visit with me today, just click HERE to return you to the main list (and that is where the prizes are listed...hint!) Have fun playing along with everyone! The Tiddly Inkers have been busy making some absolutely gorgeous creations so hop along and drool at them like I did!!! :)

My make today is a get well card. There is nothing that cheers me up more when I am sick than cards from people! they just lift my spirits and my day and its amazing how much better you feel when you know people are wishing you well.

I coloured her up with my promarkers and made a yummy card base from my MME papers then added some extra stamps ( magnolia swirl and kelly pannicci stitching is always good!!!), lace and made a little heart embelly on my cricut using my george cart.

So, how do you fancy winning your own Get Well Wishes Wryn? Here she is...

Christy has donated a gorgeous little Wryn for me to give to one lucky commenter on my blog. All you need to do is leave a comment this post and I will pick a winner at the end of the hop!

And don't forget for the chance to win a Tiddly Inks $10 voucher get hopping!! Start HERE.

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks blog hop details!

2012-01-12T07:20:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!
So that all you Tiddly Inking peeps are ready and prepared for the hop tomorrow I wanted to share Christy's post so you can get your gorgeous creations ready in time!! so here we go......

Theme: Friends are the Flowers of Life: Use any Tiddly Inks digital image to create a card or project and participate in the blog hop

How to Participate:
This is actually a 4-step process:

One, you have to make the card in advance using a Tiddly Inks image, preferably with friends or flowers as the theme, but it is open to any TI image. Just have fun! :)

Two, post your photo and information on your own personal blog on January 13 before 12 PM CST--and at least by 5:45 PM CST---so you can meet the 6-hour window to enter the blog hop. The title of your post should be "Friends are the Flowers of Life - Tiddly Inks Blog Hop".

Three, once your blog post is live, visit the Tiddly Inks challenge blog (our enrollment list will be open for 6 hours--see times below) and link your blog hop post at the bottom of the "Flowers" Blog Hop post (there will be an Inlinkz list) in order to be qualified for the prizes. There is no need to sign up in advance---just have a post ready to link.

Four, the enrollment time will close at 6:00 PM (and hopefully we have about 30 to 40 people who linked) and then we hop around and view their cards---and your card---from the list on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog. Sounds like fun, right? Last time we had a hundred-plus people coming around and commenting and it was fun!! :)

Dates:
6:00 PM CST on Friday January 13 to 6:00 PM CST on Saturday January 14

The blog hop will run until January 14 at 6:00 PM. We will have a wrap-up "party" on January 14 in the Tiddly Inks PCP group from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM CST. Stop in and chat with us in the comment section at the bottom of the page. Between 6 PM and 10 PM CST, one lucky PCP commenter will be randomly selected to receive the next 2 Tiddly Inks stamps before anyone else (free of charge).

Prizes: Two blogger participants selected from the Tiddly Inks Inlinkz list will be announced on January 15 and highlighted on the TI challenge blog. Each will receive a $10 gift voucher.

There will also be random prizes throughout the DT blogs, so be sure to comment and visit each one. :)

My february calendar page and Tiddly Inks blog hop!!

2012-01-11T06:53:00.003Z

Image- Grow a little love Wryn from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!

I am up bright and early with some exciting news this morning!! If you check out the little Wryn box at the top left of my sidebar you will notice that the first Tiddly Blog hop of the year is amost here!! squeeeeeeee!! That means of course a few Tiddly Goodies and lots of mouth watering yumminess from the Tiddly Inkers!! yey!!!!! and whats even more exciting is that you get to join in too by creating some of your own Tiddly creations and linking in!!! Love it!! don't worry if you don't own any Tiddly Inks images yet as Christy has some free ones here in the store. Get started on your creations now though as they need to be ready to link in.
If you pop on over to Christy's Blog she has more details and is having a little early give away and you can grab that gorgeous blog hop blinkie for your own blogs too!! I am just so into Wryn I could plaster her all over!!! :)

And so onto my creation for today!! this is my february calendar page. I made it in word again, this time using Grow a little love Wryn. She is too cute and perfect for february as she has that beautiful heart plant so she is good for valentines day!!!!!

Here's a little close up of cuteness.....:)

I coloured her up with my promarkers and then distressed and stamped around the edges of my page. I am absolutely loving making my own calendar page and cannot wait to get started on March!!

I am entering this little sweetie into a few challenges, they are:

CES- Anything Goes.

Top Tip Tuesday Anything Goes - my top tip....I wanted my gorgeous Little Wryn to pop over the top of my calendar pages so when I added her picture I chose the 'in front of text' in the picture formatting. This way she just seems to come more alive popping over the top of the box. png's work best as they don't leave any white space

Anything Goes- Anything Goes challenge.

Ok thats me for this morning!! Little Mo and I have a breakfast date with Sophia and then I need to drop them off at school / nursery before I go to the dentists ( ack....my mind is already thinking of suitable excuses instead of having to ring them saying I am terrified and can't go...!) then the most exciting part of my day is a cuppa with one of my oldest and favourite friends, Leah. I can't wait!! we have some catching up to get done!!

Have a fabulous day everyone and don't forget to pop over to Christy's blog for the chance to win a Wryn!!! :)

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary - CAS

2012-01-09T17:54:00.000Z

Image- Crafty Ragamuffin from Saturated Canary digi's

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand.

Hello again peeps!!

2 creations in one day??!!

This one is for the challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog which is CAS.(....gulp!! CAS is not my strong point...I have a layers addiction..!!)

I coloured up my beautiful Crafty Ragamuffin to match the paper and added a little blue in there for contrast.

The paper is from Funky Hand's Funky little christmas, it is paper number 8 and its fab!! its kraft and funk all in one for me and I love the stitched running down through it.

A bit of distressing to the edges with some Frayed Burlap and a little LOTV stamped sentiment and it was done!!

Well, I had better get off really, I have one tired little man to get to bed and then I am going to finish off watching 'New Moon' ( i put it on during my funk this afternoon, I cannot tell you how much a sparkly Edward and half naked Jacob helps your mood lift...:)

Thank you for popping in on me again today!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Wicked Wednesday ATC -60's!

2012-01-09T09:35:00.001Z

Image- Bloom Q from Tiddly Inks

Morning peeps!!
Its a quiet one here. Mo is at school so I have just been pootling about getting my laundry in the washing machine and thinking about what I fancy doing for the rest of my day!

To help me get going I decided to get my ATC done for the challenge over on Wicked Wednesdays. Its a super fun 60's theme this week! yeah baby yeah!!! and I decided to make a calendar for my purse with my entry.
I covered my ATC ( ...simple plain scraps of cardstock cut at 2.5 x 3.5 " ) with a scrap left from my BG two scoops 6x6 pad and coloured up my digi from Tiddly Inks. She is such a cute hippy looking chick with her hair flower and groovy top! I popped her on and then printed out my calendar. It was a gorgeous freebie from Very Merry Vintage.
I just cut each month out and the sewed some thread through so that once it was stuck down, each month can be ripped off easily as it ends. I just had to doodle a little peace sign on there too!!

I love these little ATC's. They are a perfect way to ease yourself into the crafting day and use up some scraps of paper.I quite often end up using my ATC's as a little card topper! they look so cute on a card.

Right then, cuppa, bloggy womble then crafty day!! wohoooo!!
have a fab day peeps
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Winter Fun !!

2012-01-08T14:42:00.000Z

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its been a lovely morning again here in our little house!!

The weather was pants and Mo fancied going to funfarm ( for my friends over the pond, funfarm is a mahoosive soft play adventure play area!) we got there for opening time and 2 hours later we had one very chilled, hot and tired little man!! we popped to get some shoping on our way home and Scott is watching the football so Mo and I are crafty pootling!!

I had a 3 challenges that I wanted to join in with so I decided to make a card that would include all 3!! they are...

Deconstrucing jen's - awesome sketch to follow

Chrimbo Crackers -black and white challenge

BBTB2 -winter woodland skate challenge

I got my base already a la Jen's sketch. I embossed the top layer of white with my snow flurry embossing folder. I cut my skates and sentiment from my Winter woodland cart. The little swoosh behind them is from my storybook cart, its the fancy corner from the 'w'.

Here's a little side view so you can almost see the skates pooped up a little!!

I also doodled some dots on here and there with my black pen.

Now for the giggles.....do you have any idea how long it took me to get a piccy of a black and white card???!!! omgoodness!!! so 14 piccies later and I thought these 2 were ok!!!!

So I think thats me for today. I am going to spend the rest of my afternoon just tidying things a little while Mo is busy here next to me, he is being a huge help stealing all the little bits he fancies and popping them into his little cake slice shaped box I made a while ago ( which he also stole!! it is good for soldiers, buttons,leafs and stones and I am surprised it has survived this long!!!!)

I might even ink up my lurvely new gorjuss snowman stamp that Mo helped me to choose yesterday! ( I am determined to get a good run on cards this year as I was daftly behind again last year!!)

Have a fabby rest of your sunday peeps!

huge hugs Lou xxx

En's Grey, white and red colour challenge.

2012-01-07T16:37:00.001Z

Image- sprocket the steampunk aviator from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary digi's.

promarkers- cool grey 1,2,3,4,5.

cardinal red, crimson and burgundy.

Afternoon peeps!

I have to admit to having a fantastically lazy day today!! we pootled over to Horncastle to spend the last of my chrimble pennies in Clare's shop (...which might I add is extremely easy to do because it is full of yummy stuff!!!) Mo got himself some glow in the dark fimo which he is very excited about using!

Then we got some yummo fruit and vegetables from the fruit and veg shop next door which I love and a fruit croissant (mmmmm, yeah, it had to go wrong somewhere...!!!) from the cake shop. ( no worries...had it with a cuppa so all calories melted now.......)

Anywhoo, onto my card for the day!!!! My gorgeous crafting buddy Enfys is starting a monthly challenge over on her blog Going Buggy and this month she has set a colour challenge of Grey, white and red. Oh goodness, that was a challenge and after 3 more cups of tea and pasta and vegetables for lunch, Mr. Mojo finally knocked at the door with an idea!

I coloured up my little Sprocket with my promarkers ( colours under my card piccy) I decided to use her as most of my grey and then dipped into my scraps box for a couple of metallic grey scraps from my colorbok 12x12 pad.Its a lovely pad with dark greys,ligt greys and pearly coloured cardstock in. Here's a sprocket close up!! the sakura starburst just doesn't want to show up but its dotted around her and looks lovely IRL!

I had to put my new TH weathered clock die into action too and the hands made a great charm. I cut the clock in white and then coloured it in with my cool grey 2 promarker, the darker shading is my cool grey 4, my promarkers are just perfect for sneaking in those little die cut areas! I did the same with the hands and then tied them on with some red rafia.

A little bit of embossing and general Lou fiddling and adding on later and my card was done!! I really enjoyed having a little play with this one as its a colour combo I don't use much, thank you En xxxxxxx

The little sentiment and heart are from Technique Tuesday and I love them, the white cogs are from my SU sense of time set which I totally adore!!!

So what are you all up to tonight? Scott and I are going to snuggle up and watch 'Troll Hunter' when Mo goes to bed. I am in a big film mode at nght at the moment, I think its the dark, chilly nights but its sooo much fun. Last week I did all my Vin Diesel films, we finished off with 'Pitch Black' last night ( couldn't resist watching 'Riddick' first even though 'pitch black' should of been the first!!!) I am so thankful for a hubby that likes staying in and watching films, it gives us some real nice times together and I love that.

Right must go and look at what I can do for tea now!! Thank you for popping in on me

Huge hugs Lou xxx

New Begginings engagement.

2012-01-05T08:00:00.000Z

Image- You and me from Tiddly inks

Challenges I am entering..

simon says stamp- new something

MMCS- something new

Alphabet challenge x for xtra special

Morning Peeps!!

Its an extra windy one here today so I hope the little people don't get blown away when we play outside today as I am back to work today!!!

My card today is a bit of a special card, one of 2 I need to make following all the fabby chrimbles engagements my friends have had!!! Anyone who knows me will know that I absolutely love weddings and babies and think that they are 2 of the most special new begginings any 2 people can share. I just love that feeling of new and special.

This card is for Amy and Dane and I just had to use my Tiddly Inks You and Me image as Amy has the most gorgeous red hair you have ever seen, I absolutely love it! and I wanted some kind of shabby chic looking papers so went for my Laura Ashley ones.

They are all onto a kraft card base whivch looks so lovely with the little embossed heart and I popped their names and the date they got engaged ( christmas day!!) on the little tags, they are made with my SU Jewellery Tag punch. I put some embroidery thread through them and then then through the little heart.

Of course, magnolia swirlage was needed!!!!! and then I added some yummy pearl maker pearls around a few of the edges. there is also some sakura starburst pen dotted around the couple and some red at you spica highlights in Amy's hair!! I surrounded them with some frayed burlap and faded jeans distress inks too. I hope they like it!!

Well, Mo is exploring a huge tin of buttons my mum gave him yesterday, he has been sat there for ages holding them up to the light and flipping them over, putting his favourites aside in his paddington bear treasure box! who needs toys eh?!!!!

Right better stop waffling and get ready for work!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

My January calendar page.

2012-01-04T08:00:00.003Z

Image- New Nest Wryn from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!

I couldn't resist entering a few challenges this morning..
papertake weeklys anything goes week , they are also having a 'new' theme extra if you like and the
Allsorts Challenge blog- new Begginings .

I just had to share my January calendar page with you. I just couldn't find a calendar I fancied for this year, I looked everywhere but nothing was grabbing me and when I got my new Wryn's from Christy I knew they would be just perfect for me to do my own thing and make my own calendar!! yey me!!!

I made the January page in word on my computer and then I added Wryn to the top. I placed her so that her little feet just come over the top, she looks so cute that way. Then I printed it out onto some of my yummy promarker cardstock.

** teeny edit- I have had a couple of emails from people asking for the word doc for just the calendar dates. If you would like it too please email me but be aware there will be NO WRYN on it, she is available for purchase HERE it will just be the calendar blank. The font will be comic sans and you can highlight all the page and then change to font for whatever you fancy on yours.**

On the back there are 2 little magnets. I bought them from yellow moon for Mo ages ago but they are just perfect for the back of this as it sitting nicely on my fridge side now!!

Here's a close up of Wryn, she is just so seriously adorable. I have to admit to being completely hooked on her.

promarkers:-

skin- blush, soft peach and peach.

Hair- sandstone, cinanmmon and cocoa.

Dress and bird- cool grey 2,3,4,

Top and shoes- antique pink and coral

Tree- cocoa and sandstone

Leaves- olive green,pear green

I stamped my fav magnolia swirl around the edges in frayed burlap distress ink and then rubbed faded jeans over the top to make it all smoosh together.

So I guess thats me for today. My little Mo goes back to school today and I am dreading it. I absolutely adore having him home and he is less than keen to go back today but I am sure he will love catching up with his friends, I will be lost at home without my buddy though!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 77- Celebration!! and a new release!!! Squeeeeeeee!

2012-01-03T06:00:00.058Z

Image- Wryn from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!

Oh I cannot tell you how excited I have been about this weeks..

Tiddly Inks Celebration challenge- anything to do with a celebration!

I have been soooooo desperate to share this little cutie with you all!!! she is of course one of the gorgeous new Wryn and Friend's from Christy and I am totally addicted to them!!! If you click on this piccy below it will take you right to them in the What's New section of the Tiddly Inks shop.

And if you go Here to Christy's blog she will tell you a bit more about them. Christy is also having a 36 hour 30% off sale so you need to go and see how to get some bargains too!!

My little Wryn is coloured in with promarkers to match the yummy DP's I used from my stash..I think they are memory makers...or American crafts.....not sure but love them!!!! lol!!!

The little celebrate sentiment circle is from LOTV and stamped in spiced marmalade DI. A bit of ribbon and a cute heart charm tied on with embroidery thread and my cute little Wryn was done!!

She is snuggled in an envelope now ready for my friend at work who is celebrating a special birthday tomorrow.

So, I am off on Aunty Duty today so will have a little houseful and a lovely man coming to look at our boiler which sounds as if it is a steam train at the moment...actually it goes between a steam train and what Mo says is "giants walking up the side of the house wall sounds" so hopefully they can sort it out!!

Have a fabby day peeps and don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and see what the other Tiddly Inkers have been up to, they are too good to miss so do go. This week we welcome Hannah and Wendy into our little team too so don't miss their cards.

Right off to search out Mo who was last seen digging at the bottom of his lego box for a red light saber...those things are soooo teeny lego size!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Wicked wednesdays Atc challenge- New Year!

2011-12-31T23:11:00.000Z

Evening Peeps!!

well, I tried going to bed but we seem to be living in the middle of a firework display tonight! they have been going off continually since 7:30pm so I gave up and went out to do some crafting!!
I wasn't in the mood for anything projects too big, feeling kinda lazy tonight!! but then I remembered I have been a bad Lou and not gotten an ATC into Jenn's Wicked Wednesday ATC challenges yet so that was my mission!!! an ATC for my lovely Jenn!!!

Its a new years theme....perfick!!!!! and I had forgotten just how delicious making ATC's is!! Luckily I managed to find my pile of printed Ellie's from SC digi's and trimmed her down to the right size (3.5x2.5 inches) She was just right to sit inside that, phew!!I even dug out my copics for a grungey kind of look and added the year 2012 to the balloons (...in my less than nice handwriting,grrrr!!)

I embossed the edges of my ATC in my cuttlebug with my tiny bubbles embossing folder and gave them a good old distressing treatment with Faded Jeans DI, then I found dome yummy little swirls in my SU tiny tags stamp set and splonked them along the edges with some Frayed Burlap DI.

mmmmmm, this photo actually looks a bit pants so I will take a new one tomorrow, I think I have actually got a great big greasy mark on my lense from taking piccies of Mo yesterday so I really need to clean that up too!!!

happy New Year All!!! off to get a cuppa and a biscuit now before I try and nod off asleep!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Time Flies !!!

2011-12-31T06:23:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!

Before I go on much further I want to wish you all a super fab and very happy new year. I have had such a year of ups and downs but mostly ups and I wanted to thank each and every one of you for being my "ups"!!
You comments and encouragement cheer me up so very much and wombling along to your blogs inspires me each and every day. So huge huge hugs go out to you all xxxxxxx

This holiday has been very much family time. I haven't been out much and I have loved every minute. I have managed to spend some time with most of my family which has been wonderful and yesterday scott, mo and I had a wonderful day, followed by a fantastic night for scott, Ryan and I. Mo was so sleepy he had gone to bed before ryan arrived so scott, ryan and I vegged out on the settee and watched the Fast Five (..,,yeah again but you know you can never get too much of vin deisel....:) !!)

The clock above is the clock that we made for our parents, scott's nana and grandad and scott's sister and BIL. You would not believe how many photo's of our squidgy boys we needed to take for this clock!!!!

I had decided that I wanted the boys to be looking at each other from 2 of the windows and then together in the last one. Its a shadowbox clock so sorry about the shadows in the photo I took, they look really cute nestled in their boxes!!! I think in all we had 100 pictures of Ryan, 200+ of Mo and the just 8 of them together as they always get a good piccy together straight away!!!

I have some crafting planned for today and trying to catch up with my BF on skype!! Have a fabby new year!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Papertake weekly sketch!!

2011-12-29T22:50:00.000Z

Images- Skateboarder and Ellie's Birthday from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Hello Peeps!!!

I have had the most awesome day today. We arranged to meet scott's mum and dad at pizza express for a family meal today so we pootled out to Newark. I had a quick look in next where I got myself a gorgeous top with swallows on, love it!! The meal was fabulous and yummy and Little Mo had a super time with nannie and Grandad Prickly (...Mo named him that because of his beard when he was just 1.5 yrs old and it has stuck ever since!!! I love Mo-ism's!!! they are cute!!)

Mo was falling asleep on the way home so we popped him straight in the bath to wake him up a little and watched Planet 51, he loved it and it kept him going until he asked if he could please go to bed!!!!! bless him.

Once mini man was snuggly asleep scott and I watched The Fast and the Furious 5 ( mmmmm..Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson...) then I had an itching to go craft!! I have been doing a lot of late night crafting recently!! lol !!!!

I bought these 2 gorgeous new images from Krista on christmas eve and have only just had chance to get a bit of a play with them after seeing Dawny P's yummo sketch challenge over on Papertake Weekly this week. I had to join in with the challenge because I always get addicted to a Dawny P sketch!! ( thankyou Dawny xxxxx)

Mo loved Skateboarder and Mummy loved Ellie so we got both!!!!! :)

Here's Ellie a bit closer up....

and here's the little skateboarder dude!! oh I love him so much. This one is going to be for Ryan's birthday in march. He loves his skateboard and his skooter so I think he will love this.....if Mo doesn't find it first!!!

Right, I am off to bed now as the dreaded monthlies have well and truly kicked in now and I am feeling sore!!! grrrrr monthlies!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

SC christmas/winter challenge!

2011-12-28T23:26:00.001Z

Image- Thank you from Saturated Canary

Hello Peeps!!!

Hope you are all fab this evening. I fell asleep watching Charlie and the chocolate factory after putting Mo in bed so I woke up just in time for Grey's Anatomy (......mmmmmmmm, mark and Derek......) and after being traumatised by the death of terry's hubby and general awesome Grey's Anatomy-ness I decided I needed to go craft some!!!

I also realised I haven't entered the christmas/winter challenge over on the SC challenge blog and needed to remedy that first!! so I hit my little folder of Krista loveliness and picked out Thank you as she is oh so cute!!! I didn't fancy making a card so I decided to go for a big juicy tag instead, this one is 5.5" high and around 3" wide and I love this size.

I used some of my good old papermania papers ( i am going to be so sad when these have all gone as I have been eeking them out for 3 chrimbles now!!!) some forest moss distress ink and of course the awesome magnolia swirl stamp!! I love this stamp, Lou made me buy it a couple of years ago (.....Ok, so Lou didn't push me down the stamp aisle...she just sat there making totally awesome stuff with it and I had to go get it!!!!) Oh my goodness, a couple of years ago??? oh my I really need to go see Lou and Chris do their thang again soon!!! Time has run away with me a bit recently.

A bit of bling splonked on at the top edge and bottom edge and a really cute tag for next years stash is all ready to go!! go me!!!!

It felt really nice to do a quick make (....then google Grey's Anatomy to make sure that Mer and Alex are OK in the next episode.....!!) and it cheered me up so much ( thank you Krista, mwah mwah xxxxxx)

Right, going to try and get back to sleep now as a squidgy little Mo-ster will be getting up in around 6 hours!! I am so sure I remember the days of sleeping past 5:30am.........................:)

Huge hugglies and thank you for popping in on me!

Lou xxxxxxx

Pirate Captain Ginger!!

2011-12-28T08:25:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!

he he he he!! I know its not paper related but I so had to share my pirate gingerbread man I made last week while I was on Aunty duty!!!! ( on it again today so wonder what the little peeps will fancy doing today?!)

We made a whole batch of gingerbread, cut them out, cooked them and then let it cool. Once they were cool I set the children free with icing pens and sprinkles of many different varieties!! but of course the temptation to do one myself got too great and I had to get making one myself. I asked Mo what I should make and he said a pirate...gulp!! but in the end he turned out real cute!!........then Mo ate him!!!! so pleased I got a piccy first before his quick and swift departure!!!!!

Right better get my self dressed and ready to go pick up Jake and Boo.

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Get Funky - Thank you challenge!!

2011-12-27T09:00:00.002Z

Morning Peeps!!

Now before I carry on and waffle away to you a little about my makes for our very own Anice's Thank you challenge over on Get Funky, I have 2 very special words to say.......or scream......:)

Its a perfect time then to get your hands on some Funky goodies!!! I loooove a sale!!!

So onto my makes! My little card you can see at the top was such a CAS make but I think its so cute! I have a 3x3 card obsession at the minute! and the matching wine bottle tag came about because I thought the bottle would look fab with a bit of decoration!!! the yummy thick coloured rafia was a range find just before christmas and I love it. the zingy green and peach tie in so nicely with the freebie paper.

Don't worry if you don't have any Funky Hand downloads yet because Anice has made an awesome Funky 15th Freebie and it is available here it's gorgeous!!! I used it on all of my makes and I think its fair to say I may be addicted to it!!!!! I adore the variation of letters and bright, warm funky springy colours so don't miss it and if you do grab it, don't forget to share what you make with it in our challenge this month over on Get Funky. If you need a bit of inspiration some of the funkette's have already got their thank you thang on so go see what they made!!

I have already been pootling about in my crafty garage over christmas. Daddy and Mo were busy doing boy stuff so I pootled on out and have been playing with paper!!!! they are top secret makes at the minute but I will be sharing them in the new year!!!

Right then, its off for a cuppa and a good old bloggy womble for me now!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Paper star ornament!!

2011-12-26T08:06:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine boxing day?! I am still full to the brim of yesterday's yummy food!!

Yesterday while Little Mo and Daddy were doing ' boys stuff ' investigating Mo's new golf clubs and bag I decided to have a little bloggy womble and play with paper!!
I just had to have a good play with the gorgeous funky freebie Anice made for this months Get Funky Thank you challenge, its my day to post on the challenge blog with some other makes tomorrow but I just had to share this little decoration today.

The tutorial for this paper star decoration is here on Dawn's Stamping blog. I love Dawn, she is so cheery and bubbly and makes really superb tutorial video's (...tutorials have to be easy to follow for a noodle brain like me!!!)
I love the surprise of this little paper star and the way it starts off as a teeny 1.5 inch square when its all folded up!! I love it!!

I used a scrap of paper from my Funky hand paper folder to make the little 1.5" cover and one of the stamps in my SU pennants stamp set. I love this for a christmas present thank you! everyone still has their tree's up so it will be a lovely add on to my mum's tree later when we give it to her!! and because it is made with such a bright, cheery paper she can hang it anywhere once the tree comes down.

It doesn't stay that teeny of course!! it pops out into this beautiful decoration below.....

I added a little epoxy button to my organza ribbon. It is what slides up and down to hold the star teeny and then formed, go peek at Dawn's video and have a go yourself because they totally rock!! very relaxing for a boxing day make too!!! and of course if you use the funky freebie you can come play along in the challenge with us over on Get Funky!!!

Cuppa and sausage bap time for me now!!!! I will be back tomorrow with my Get Funky makes!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

2011-12-25T06:20:00.001Z

He he he he!!! took this piccy of Mo at my mums yesterday so what better way to wish you all a merry christmas??!!!

huge hugs and love for a very special day for you all,

Love Lou ...and Mo!!!

The last christmas card !!

2011-12-24T09:38:00.001Z

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine christmas eve? I am so excited for chrimbles and have a very excited little mo this morning!! I have a stinky head cold but nothing that a few fererro rochers and cups of tea won't cure ;) !!

We are just about organised, Mo and I decorated the cake this morning and we have done to nip to tesco for veg for dinner tomorrow and were the only people in our village's tesco express so it was all done in 10 mins!! yey!!!!

So onto the very last chrimbley card I will be making this year!!! I am popping it over in the challenge on papertake weekly- Last Christmas card of the year- in celebration!!!! lol !!

I don't think I have ever been as behind with cards as I have been this year!! I always promise myself I will be more organised with them but seem to get worse instead of better!!! he he he he!!!!

Anywhoo!! I finally inked up the little LOTV stamp I bought in november and coloured it up with my promarkers:

reds- cardinal red and crimson

greens- pear grean and olive green

browns- sandstone, caramel and pastel beige.

so I am popping it in the challenge over on I love promarkers which is Anything Goes.

And here's a piccy of Mo's cake decorating!! I made some snowflakes with one of Mo's playdough cutters and we added them to the corners and centre!! that stunning looking thing in the middle is a fountain candle and omg they are fab!! (...it was only right to test run one to see what they are like and you should of hear Mo's excited little gigglies as it went!!)

I want to wish you all a very very merry christmas and I am sending huge cyber hugs to you all from me and Little Mo

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Mo and Mummy post!!

2011-12-20T16:44:00.001Z

Hello Peeps!

I love the holidays. I am absolutely loving a few days with my little man at home with me and having some Mummy and Mo time.

Today we had a party to go to for 2 of Mo's little friends. Mo asked me to make them notepads for their presents and he would do the cards so we have been working on them for a couple of days. I chose the miniworld sitting tilda because she is just gorgeous. The papers are from my DCWV nana's nursery girl stack and the stickers are from my stash. (Sorry about the piccy too! it was all a bit of a rush by the time we took piccies so I only took one and didn't realise it was a bit blurry until now!!!)
Mo chose 2 bic 4 colour pens for the girls too to go with their notepads so I added a bit of ribbon and bling and their initials shrinkied onto those but I forgot to take piccies of them!!!

There were a few little frightened tears this morning about going to the party but he still wanted to go and it was the most wonderful party with a fabulous entertainer called Mr. Shiney, he was just amazing and the children loved him!

Anyway, onto the good bit....Here are Mo's cards...... front...

and back.....

He headed straight for the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand to make his cards. I love how he did it, it was actually a rather fab idea and I was so proud of him for working it all out :)

He decided he wanted..in his words...

"to write on the back of his card like in the shops and have the front on all in one go Mummy"

So he got one of our christmas cards and opened it up on the table. Then after looking at it for a couple of minutes he plonked 2 patterns from the Birthday Girls colourway onto the workspace, shrunk them so he could fit 2 on one page and added a few digi's to the front..cute!!

Then ( and I have to admit I thought this next bit was magical bless him!!) he opened the writer part of the workspace and used the label writing to write 'made by morgan 2011' I asked him why he wrote Morgan instead of Mo and he said thats what the twins call him so he wanted to do that for them (...awwwww!!) he dragged in onto both cards and left it where he wanted it to be at the bottom, then he added one of the coloured birthday cake digi's onto the back too. I love these cards!!

Just as we were getting changed into party clothes Mo decided he needed a little notepad for Ruby too ( the twins little sister) as she might be sad of not getting one (...arghhhhhh, 10 minute make was quickly put together and a little pencil too, but no time to take piccies of that one!!!)

Well that's all from me and my little squidger today. We are going to snuggle up and watch a film now whilst our slow cooker cooks our tea (...after planning chicken casserole Mo decided a sausage casserole would be nicer!!!)

Thankyou for popping in on me, huge hugs

Lou xxxx

Rudolph boto chrimbles!!

2011-12-19T06:23:00.000Z

Image - Robot Holidays from Tiddly Inks.

Paper - Twelve Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!!!

How are you all this frosty, chilly morning? Little Mo and I are up, dressed and ready for breakfast with Sophia, then when we have dropped her off to her nursery we are off to fetch my niece and nephew, Mo is soooooo excited!! he loves having them here and has got a lovely little party lunch all planned out along with some crafty bits he wants to do so it will be such a lovely day.

I have a little 3x3 card to share again today. I love this card so much, Rudolph Boto is the cutest and the texty paper from Funky Hand looks so awesome behind him. I added a squidgey little martha drippy goo border for snow and added a little bling to his nose. At 3x3 these cards were seriously cute and I nearly hid them in a draw to keep!!!!! :) :) ....though Mo found them and stole one!!!!

So what are you all up to today? Somewhere in between all the running around after my little peeps today I need to finish off 2 altered notebooks that Mo ordered for his little friends tomorrow and make some family christmas cards (...yup...I still haven't done them.....!!)

Have a fabby day peeps and thankyou for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Allsorts Blue and Brown challenge

2011-12-18T08:28:00.001Z

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand

gardeners twine

glamour dust

hearts cut on my cricut

snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder

blue bling!!

The challenge over on allsorts challenge blog for the next 2 weeks is Blue and Brown. I love blue and brown and one of my favourite Funky Hand downloads has blue and brown in such a perfect mix that I just had to use that to make chrimble cards for all my friends at work.
I am also popping it in the cupcake craft challenge blogs--dont look at light challenge .

I printed out 2 of the papers from my download. The texted paper is brown with blue and black merry christmas written all over it and I love it! the paper on the heart is brown with a snowflake design on it, I embossed the hearts with my cuttlebug snowflakes folder just to add a bit of umpf!!

I added a sprinkling of glamour dust around the edges of my merry chrsitmas paper and then adhered it to my card. The twine around the centre is just gardeners twine from the garden centre. its quite a thick one because I like to 'fluff' the ends of my knots a bit!!!(...he he he! makes them all frayed and fuzzy like me!!!!!!)

I popped the finished hearts out on foam and added a little blue blingy gem to the top corner of them. These cards are so cute because they are just tiddly 3x3 size!

Right off to get on with some notebooks Little Mo has requested for his 2 friends at school for their birthday on tuesday. He is trying to get himself brave enough to go to the party so please keep your fingers crossed for him that he manages it as he gets so nervous about parties bless him!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!

huge sunday hugs Lou xxxx

Tilda mini wreath hanging decoration.

2011-12-17T16:47:00.000Z

Hello Peeps!!
I promise I haven't disappeared!! I have been soaking up some time with my Little Mo and I have been loving it!! I can't wait to have some days now without the hustle bustle of the school run!!

So, today I wanted to share a little hanging decoration I have made. The challenge over on the TOMIC blog this week is christmas decoration so it seemed like a perfick time to share this little cutie!! I went for the traditional chrimble colours for this one and used some pine branches that I bought from the range (...could I find anymore after making 10 little wreaths??....noooooooo!! grrrr!!)

I used my hot glue gun for attaching some cute teeny jinlgy bells and tilda herself along with the sentiment at the top and I love these little hanging decorations, they are so christmassy and cheery.

Mo's cousins's are coming for the day on monday and he is soooo excited! he bought some party food today so they can have a little party lunch!! cute!!

Right off to bath my little squidger now as he is so tired from a busy couple of days that he is nodding off on the settee as I type!! its a hard life being 7 you know!!!!!! romfl !!!!

Huge hugs and thankyou for popping in on me
Lou xxxx

Birthday Boy Mo!!!

2011-12-16T08:28:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!

Its Mo's Birthday!!!

Our little baby is 7 years old today!! I can't believe how quickly the time has zoomed away!!

Super quicky post from me this morning as we have had a fun filled morning of opening pressies and making birthday badges for this super cute little guy!!! but I had to share a quick piccy of the birthday boy!!

His fabby badge was made with my plantin cart on my cricut and a good old bit of bling!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 76- White Christmas!

2011-12-13T06:00:00.058Z

Image-Baby Boy from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

Its Tiddly tuesday time so the Tiddly Inkers are up and ready to get you started on another challenge over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog. This week we want to see....

A white christmas!!

So think white chrimbles, get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and create away!!! If you need some inspiration the Tiddly inkers have completely filled a post with gorgeous idea's for you so pop on over to the challenge blog to have a peek!!

I just had to use the new babies in the store!! awwwww I love them!! I cut my card base using my trusty cricut and the New Arrivals cart, then I embossed the card in my cuttlebug using the stars and swiss dots folder. I love how it came out and you can see the little dots through the window and along the scalloped side.
I added a bit of bling and sparkle to the word baby with some fine glitter and I also covered my LOTV sentiment stamp in glitter too!! gotta love bling!!!

I am popping this in the challenge over on the Simply Create Too challenge blogs Embossing Challenge. and the Chrimbo Crackers challenge blogs embossing challenge
and then both of these little cuties into the Alphabet challenge blogs w is for white christmas
Now onto my next little white christmas creation using the super squishably cute new Baby Girl image!! I love these little babies!!! :) I cut the heart shape out of some chipboard and covered it with the paper, gave it a good trim and rub with a file and then added some embossing powder to the edge and added some pom pom ribbon, love this effect!! I added a little tree charm and some bling too. Its simple and too cute!!

Image-Baby Girl from Tiddly Inks

My papers on this little hanger are from the Wish in white free download from Lisete. If you haven't ever been to her blog then you really need to, she is awesome!! I love the way the candy canes come up on the paper. I added "Baby's First Christmas" in word on my computer. The big snowflake come in my order from tracy at dies to die for, I don't know which one it is but its lurvely!! I embossed it with the same powder as the edges of the heart.

So thats me for today peeps!! I have a marathon of card making planned for today...along with lots of cups of boiled water with lemon as its sooo cold!!!

huge Tiddly Tuesday hugs
Lou xxxx

pastely chrimbles!!!

2011-12-07T13:27:00.000Z

Papers- 12 Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Image- Digi from Heather Ellis.

Afternoon Peeps!

I have had a busy morning catching up with some orders that I had for some 8x8 chrimbles cards.

I have to say I am loving the 8x8 size, oodles of fun to play around with layouts and images.

The papers are deliciously pastelly and I went for pastel blues and pinks with my promarkers to colour in these gorgeous little Heather Ellis pure innocence digi stamps.

I added some distressing to the edges to pop the papers out a bit. They are all from the latest Funky Hand Papercraft factory cd rom, 12 Crafters Crafting and I love it. you can go from traditional colours to something a bit more pastelly to something completely funky all with the touch of one button, yey!!!!
I just had to add some puffy stuff to her bobbles and a bit of snow around the bottom too, I couldn't resist!!!
The ribbon is Funky Hand too, from the september song ribbon pack.
A little bit of SU bannerage and they were done, so much fun though!!

I am popping these 2 in for the following challenges.......

Papertake weekly challenge blogs- Anything Goes with a dangly option!! ( dangly tree charms on Grace and Risa's cards)
Totally Papercrafts- Let it snow
Cutie Pie- Pastel christmas colours.

Off to see Mo in his christmas play now!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 75- Ooooh La La!!

2011-12-06T06:00:00.038Z

Image- Santa's Helper from Tiddly Inks

papers- past freebie from Bearly Mine.

Morning peeps!!!

Its that Tiddly Time of week again where us Tiddly Inking gals challenge you to a bit of something to make with your tiddlies and this week the challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog is.......

Something sexy to warm you up for christmas !!!!

so create a card/project that warms you up!!! anything from

a lovely cuppa to something sexy!!

Oh my!! I had so much fun making this card!! I was giggling away to myself as I pootled away making it and giggled even more when I took the photograph of it!! its so cheeky!!

A bit of colouring with my promarkers,distressing,bling and pom- pom ribbon and he was done!!! Scott has already stolen this card for me and asked if he needs to pay for it!! cheeky monkey!!!

I had my scrumptious little monkey at home with me all day yesterday as he was sick on sunday, but he was fine yesterday. A little snuggly but I think that was just because we had the day to ourselves!! it was fab.

Oh!! and whats new in the shop today you ask?!! well its a little crafty Sugar and a Crafty Spice!! Here's what I did with Crafty Angel...

Cancer is one of the biggest fights anyone person can have. I made this in october so I am so pleased I can share it with you all now!! and here's Crafty Devil.....

Back to school for Mo today though and dentists for me :( again!! only the hygienist today for a polish though so shouldn't be too bad......gulp!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and see what the fab girls on the DT have been making to warm you all up then get your tiddly inks images out and join in with the fun!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Door hanging santa letters!!

2011-12-04T15:36:00.000Z

Papers and digi stamps - Twelve crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Door hanger template- Craft the Year Away from Funky Hand.

Afternoon Peeps!!

A bit of a quicky from me today!! we have had another lovely day today. A very relaxed and lazy one really. We popped to B&Q to get some red chipped bark for Mo's little garden bench planter so we can pop his little christmas lights in, its raining here today but I will try and get a piccy tomorrow as it looks lovely. This afternoon we have been to the christmas market in the village where Mo goes to school. It was lovely.

Then a teeny bit of quicky crafting for me! Mo wanted to make some gifts for his friends for the end of term as it is his birthday on the last day of term. I thought it would be nice to make some door hangers using my Funky Hand papercraft factory cd roms because Mo is really good at using those. He chose the papers and I had a lovely idea to turn them into santa letter door hangers, just to help santa remember what the children asked for when he gets to their bedroom!!!! I had to giggle though as Mo won't write a letter to santa, he says he is just happy with whatever he gets (....which is supercute and makes it easy to get him gifts!! he says christmas is about family and baby jesus not presents!!! he has been like that since he was a toddler!! cute!!)

Firstly I opened up Craft the Year Away and chose the door hanger template. Then to use it with the papers on Twelve Crafters Crafting I simply changed edition. (..you can do that by clicking on the change edition button under the colourway titles to use the templates with any of the last 3 papercraft factories.)

I did the typing for the letter bit using the workspace.

All that was left to do then was print, cut and tie a little ribbon around them. I didn't want to do too much else to them as Mo wants to take in some sweets to give out too. we have made 30 of these this afternoon and he wants little sour cream containers for the sweets so that's next weekend's job!!

Right off to snuggle up with a film now!! Harry Potter 1 today!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Mo's pink grapefruit christmas tree decorations tutorial!!!

2011-12-03T16:29:00.002Z

Afternoon peeps!!!
Today we have a bloggy post from the squishably cute Little mo!!!! it is all about his tree decorations made with pink grapefruit.
Its in Little Mo's words but mummy gets to type because she is quickerer.
All you need to do is slice up a pink grapefruit in slices of about 1cm thick (...get Mummy or another growed up person to do this as its a bit tricky for small peeps!!) then dry every circle and give it a squish with the tea towel to get some of the juice out. You can use oranges too can't you mummy.

Then put it on the kitchen radiator for a few days (...mummy note... we have a double radiator and Mo loves to watch the drying out process which takes a couple of days on our radiator, he likes to see how it has changed everyday but you can put the slices on a grill tray in the oven at 110 degrees c for 3 hrs and it dries out that way too)

Buy some of them tree hangy thingies, my mummy buys them in the garden centre, don't you mummy? the one with the cool decorations and movey rudolph ( was going to leave that bit out but its too cute!!)
and you push one end through a little bell that jingles and then push your grapefruit on it too, see here's mine on its hangy thing with my little red bell

Then get some nice ribbon and tie a knot in it up from the bell bit.
I hanged mine on my christmas tree but sometimes I like them on my door and on my radiator and even in my car near my window on that thing mummy holds onto when daddy is driving.........( mummy note...pmsl laughing at this point!!!)

This is what it looks like in my tree

He he he he!! Mummy is back to write her bit now. How cute was that?!! it was too funny to write it all down ready this afternoon but he decided he didn't want to do a 'video tube' as he has a cough and might spoil it!!!
He absolutely loves making these those so if your little peeps need a bit of something to do then have a go at this one, Mo would love to see them if anyone else makes some.

I hope its ok with the Allsorts challenge blog girls for me to pop mo over in their going in circles challenge too.

Back with a me post tomorrow!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little Hopper- Tiddly Inks new release's !

2011-12-01T06:00:00.044Z

Image- Little Hopper from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

I am so excited today because it is time for some super super cute new releases from Christy over in the Tiddly Inks shop. And even more exciting... awesome 30% off sale in the shop too, so click on this banner of Christy's gorgeous makes to be magically pinged to the shop!!!

When these little cuties arrived in my email inbox on Tuesday I actually squealed!! Oh they are just awesome!

For my card I just had to use Little Hopper because he is the one that Mo absolutely adored! and because of that I just had to use him for Mo's birthday card (...sob sob...my little squidger is going to be 7 soon :( where did the time go?!!)

The challenge over on the papertake weekly challenge blog is a delicious sketch by the equally delicious Dawny P. I do so love a Dawny sketch so I just had to work along to it. I think this sketch is going to get some serious use from me as it is just so lovely to work with. thankyou's Dawny! xx

The papers are MME wild asparagus and they go so perfick with the image! too cute!! and the little buggies are some that have been in my stash for sooooo long!! but they seemed just right for a cute little toady card!!

Promarkers for this one were...

skin- blush, soft peach and peach.

Toady suit- pear green,olive green,sunflower and gold.

Christy also made up some cute sentiments for these little guys and inside Mo's birthday card it says " You are toadally awesome" but dopey head me didn't take a piccy of the inside!! I will take one later if I remember!!

So if you want to see some more creations from the Tiddly Inkers pop on over here to the Tiddly Inks blog to drool over every bodies yummo makes and then go here to the shop to pick up your little somethings! sqeeeeee they are all too cute!!!

Right then, off to work for me today!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Snow Family !!

2011-11-30T17:14:00.001Z

Afternoon Peeps!!!
I am running late with my bloggy post today because I have been super lucky to have my little squidgy Mo-ster at home with me all day today. The teachers at his school have been supporting the public sector strike today so I got an extra snuggle day.
We have had the best day as we have spent it with my mum. Mum and I had haircuts then we popped to Asda and on to the garden centre for Mo to see all the christmas decorations, he loved it...and so did I!! have got my eye on some super cute decorations for the tree this year so I can't wait. I really really fancy having a real tree this year so I need to work on Scott for that one!!! :) I saw the cutest ever pom pom tree tinsel that Mo would absolutely love so I will have to work hard ;) !!!

Anywhoo!! onto my card!! My mum's friend has ordered 6 cards this year and this is the first one I have got done out of the order!! its a biggy!! its an 8x8 inch card. I am new to 8x8 cards but oh my I am loving them!!

I was completely inspired for this card by the Allsorts challenge blog peeps, they rock!! so I am entering this card into their Pennants/ Bunting challenge.
I am also popping it over in the I love Promarkers challenge blogs snowmen and snowflakes challenge. The Helz cuppleditch paper has the cutest snowflakes all over it, I love it! its from the Festive Treats 12x12 stack (....just to enable you of course....:) )
Promarkers used- snowmen- pastel blue to outline the snow peeps inside, burnt orange and ginger noses, boys have cool grey 3,4 and 5 on their hats and the girlies have antique pink and pastel pink hats. The boys have poppy,cardinal red, pear green and olive green on their scarves and the girls have pastel blue, denim blue, antique pink and pastel pink on theirs.

I absolutely love my new SU pennants punch set and stamps and on an 8x8 card it is just perfect for getting that hanging bunting effect and the image to fit together perfectly and not get sqooshed in. I popped my snow family out on some foam tape and added a papermania sentiment stamp punched out with my SU oval punch set (.....Lou reads the post back and realises she is addicted to SU stuff.......!!!)

The snow peeps are an old freebie from JellyPark. It was just one super cute little snowman but he told me he was lonely, needs must so he got resized and flipped a few times to make a cute snow family!!!

Right, I had better go and get the yummy chicken and sausage casserole my mum made us this morning dished up and eaten and then once my gorgeous little man has gone to bed tonight I need to get some more crafting done!!

Huge squishy Hugs!
Lou xxx

Advent calendar fun!!

2011-11-29T14:25:00.000Z

Good Afternoon Peeps!!!

I am sorry I have been a bit quiet this week, I have really been struggling with a nasty virus. I thought I was better for a couple of days and then it came back with double doozey strength so today I am feeling a bit tender but a bit more me too!! he he he!!! :)

I have been locked away in my little crafty garage this morning finishing off my advent calendar for my brothers children. I haven't really seen them since the summer holidays so I wanted to send them a little fun advent.

I used some favour boxes I had left over still from my wedding a few years ago as the boxes and cut some petal envelopes from my walk in my garden cart on my cricut for the doors. The little tags are made with the SU jewellery tag punch and the little handles on the doors are gold coloured split pins.

Here's a few of the doors open of the ones I have already managed to fill up........

I have promised myself not to put sweets in all of them.....:) so there are some festive jingley bells and wooden decorations for the tree too. I just have some more bits to make to pop in and then it will be ready to go. Tonight I am going to work on Mo's advent....I better get it done quick!!!!

I am entering my advent in a few challenges they are.....
craft your passion challenge- Tis the season!
totally papercrafts challenge-christmas!
simply create too challenge-all about christmas

Right then, thats me for today. Off to fetch my little squidgy Mo. I was told this morning as I kissed him goodbye at the school gate we are watching Cars 2 together tonight! sounds perfect to me on a cold windy day, snuggles on the settee, pefick!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Owl always love you!!

2011-11-27T19:21:00.000Z

Image- retired free image from Christy at Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!

I am actually feeling a little better tonight....well, who wouldn't after 2 max strength flu relief tablets, some buttercup syrup, a good rub of a 4Head stick and a cuppa?!!!! :) :) :)

I made this card a couple of weeks ago and haven't gotten round to sharing it yet so thought I would tonight! the image isn't available anymore, it was a gorgeous freebie from Christy last christmas but I adore it. I was asked to make an anniversary card and I always find owls so romantic as most owls mate for life, I love that.

I really didn't have to add too much to the card apart from some gorgeous Funky Hand paper from the I do wordbook download, distressing, some martha stewart doily lace punching, gorgeous thread, a heart charm and some cool writing on my pooter with hearts that are part of the letters, super cute!!! Then the sentiment was punched out with my SU oval punch set, another fav of mine!!...oh and of course the much needed magnolia swirly stamp!!

Now my BF says she has fallen in love with a different magnolia swirl but I just know she will come back round to this one soon!! :)

This little card is going in for a couple of challenges today, they are....

sweet stampin challenge blogs- punches/dies

my mums craft shop challenge blog - things with wings

Right, off to watch masterchef australia now! I love it!! we are a little behind in the UK and I know who wins but I still love every episode! then celebrity get me out of here, I absolutely love Ant and Dec, they make me laugh soooo much!!!!

thank you for popping in on me again!!

huge hugs

Lou xxxx

Get Funky- Christmas 'v' Non- Christmas!!

2011-11-26T08:51:00.000Z

Morning Peeps!!!

I hope you all got yourself some fabulous funky bargains in the birthday sale yesterday!!

This morning its time for me to share my christmassy 'v' non- christmassy makes for our lovely Jackie's Challenge over on Get Funky- to make a traditional christmas something and a non- christmas something!!

The funkettes have all been using the latest Funky Hand craft CD Twelve Crafters Crafting for both cards.

For my first make I used the awesome Funky Freebie Anice made, co-ordinating with the vintage christmas colour way on the cd, I absolutely love it! those little trees are way too cute!! I teamed them up with a little gingerbread man and some hearts using some funky scraps from my stash of scraps and a little poem I found on google written in the workspace on 12 cc.

Then it was onto my nono- christmassy make!! I just had to use the pillowbox template from the workspace too, It is fabulous. You can resize it if you want but I just have to tell you that the size it goes on to fit an A4 piece of paper is fabulous, I made my mum one the other day for her friends new baby and we fitted a cute little onesie in it!!

I used Angel on the Tree colourway for this one, the parcels are one of the digi's from the workspace and the text is done in the writer part of the workspace and it my very favourite text on there! it makes the coolest ever labels!!!

If you don't own any Funky Hand products yet don't worry as Anice always include a Funky Freebie paper on the website www.funkyhand.com each month especially so you can join in.

I have been a bit poorly this week :( ( don't tell my BF'cos I have been telling her it was just a tickly cough and I was fine!!) but last night I took some tablets ( am not a lover of cold relief type tablets as they knock me out a bit!!) and attempted to make myself look alive and I had a super night with my BF at the ladies night. I was so super excited to see all Fi's bits flying off the table into peoples bags. She is so very clever and had filled the table with all sorts of gorgeousness, I so wish I had taken a photo now because it looked so pretty.

Today I am resting up a bit and trying to get better!! I have so much to catch up on because I just haven't been up to doing much since tuesday!! tine to get the Lou mojo going again!! :) :)

Have a fabby day everyone

Hugs Lou xxx

43% birthday sale at Funky Hand!!

2011-11-25T06:32:00.002Z

Morning peeps!!!! I am so super excited this morning because...

Anice is having a one day 43% sale to celebrate her Birthday.

Its on for 24 hours only ending at 00.00 (GMT) 25th November, without further waffling I want to say Happy Birthday gorgeous boss lady :)!! and if you want to say Happy Birthday to Da Boss too leave her some love on her blog!!

Everything FUNKY HAND is included in the sale - so why are you still here reading??!!! Go and get yourself some fabulous deals!! Shipping from Funky Hand is FREE with any £10.00 and over purchase - WORLDWIDE.

Right then, now I have enabled you all I am off to try to eat some toast and have a cuppa!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Autumn Baby Jake!

2011-11-23T06:27:00.001Z

Image- Baby jake from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Morning Peeps!!

Now, try not to giggle at me too much but did you ever make something and think you would really rather keep it yourself?!!! yup that would be me with this cute little pillow box!!!

The challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog is autumn colours and one of my mum's friends had a baby boy last week so instead of a card I made this cute pillowbox, (..which is actually big enough to nicely fold a cute little onesie into!!)

I used ginger and honeycomb promarkers to get that lovely autumnal orange onesie on Jake and then sandstone, caramel and cocoa for his cutie little hat and boots. He is just so squidgey cute, I want to squidge those little chunky knees!!!!

I made the pillow box using a template from Funky Hand's new 12 crafters crafting papercraft factory and using the workspace I opened the template and then swapped to the craft the year away one to get that gorgeous autumnal spotty pattern.

Little Mo has a breakfast date with his BF Sophia again this morning (...which is great as he has been asking for her every morning since she came last week!!!!!) so we are just waiting for her to arrive now! Mo has been up and down to the window like a yo-yo!! He says " its best to look out the window every 5 mins because that makes her get here quickerer" .......she lives right next door!!!

Here's another piccy of baby Jake from a different angle!!

I added some rafia, stamped leaves and an orange rose for decoration and then a little SU stamped tag, cute!!!

Have a fabby day peeps!! once I have dropped the little peeps off at school and nursery I am going to have a few hours making some more bits for the ladies evening on friday, I am sooooooo nervous about it but at least I get a whole night with my BF!!!!!!
Thankyou for popping in on me!!
Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 74- Anything Goes for 2 weeks!!!

2011-11-22T06:00:00.002Z

Image- Hedgie Hugg from Tiddly Inks

Paper and easel card template- Twelve crafters crafting from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine Tiddly Tuesday?!! :) Yep!! its Tiddly Tuesday again over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and that means more challenge fun from the Tiddly Inkers and new images in the shop!! yey !!!!!

So what do the Tiddly Inkers want from you this week????? well, we have been enjoying the Anything Goes month so very much and seeing all your awesome creations that Christy thought we should be spoiled by your talents for another 2 WEEKS !!!! I am so very excited about this because it has been awesome to see so many new faces and be wowed by your cards/projects. Thank you so much to each and every one of you for playing along with us and giving us so much inspiration.

For my card this week I wanted to use Hedgie Hugg. I love this image and I wanted to get started on my personal christmas cards. I printed out the easel card from my Twelve Crafters Crafting cd rom and a couple of the papers to make the hearts with. Now, this was the first time I had used the easel card template and OMGosh!! what a compete joy it was to make, I printed on both sides of it and I love how it came out. I cut some hearts out with the papers I printed out on my cricut and added a bit of rafia. It made such a perfect platform for my image.

When I coloured my cute little Hedgie Hugg I kept to the colours of the card and she looks so sweet all festive!! cute cute cute!!!! I popped glossy accents on her hearts and left a nice white shadow around her when I cut her out so she popped out from the card.

Now enough about my card and onto the awesome new image in the shop!!! Please meet Genius......

Isn't he just squishably cute?! he even comes with an extra little mouse and sign so if you love him as much as I do, just click on him to be magically pinged to his little place in the Tiddly Inks shop. When I showed him to Little Mo he was so excited and has now decided that he needs to get some mouses to go in his school trouser pockets....!!!

So thats me for today. Little Mo and I have dental appointments this morning...ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHH, oh my I sooo don't do dentists but I am a model mummy and don't show Mo my fear. I have to be really careful as Mo has black extrinsic tooth stain,the staining on his teeth is black instead of yellowy like most children so he has to go to the dentists regularly to get them cleaned. His new teeth are coming through yellowy so hopefully it is just happening to his milk teeth and will go when they have all gone, fingers crossed!!!

Have a great day peeps!! huge hugs Lou xxx

Baby Tilda

2011-11-20T13:45:00.002Z

stamp- baby tilda stamped in rich coca memento ink.

Papers - Funky Hand Craft The Year Away

(Evening in June colourway)

Hello peeps!!!

How are you all this super foggy sunday?!!! We are having another lazy day here! the fog is not enthusing us with wanting to venture out as its really cold too!!

I had a baby card order from my mum last night so I decided to get busy with that this morning. I didn't fancy using just pink and wanted a summery zing to it to cheer me up from the foggy outside so I went for the Evening In June colourway on my Funky Hand Craft The Year away papercraft factory.

I stamped the baby on watercolour paper and she came out so cute and coloured her in then stamped her again her again on some scraps of the pink paper I used to paper pieced her little bow, frilly pants and slippers to match the pink paper.

I punched out some teeny martha stewart butterflies and layered them up a little, sparklying up the edges. They looked so sweet!

The pennants are from my SU pennants set, I stamped the little stitches on and then punched them out with the punch.

I really struggled to get a piccy today so I am sorry for the fuzzy wuzziness of it.

Right I am off to get my sunday tea cooked now as we were up early and out tummy clocks are messed up!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

My little wally !!

2011-11-19T08:35:00.000Z

Morning peeps!!

Phew!! its been a busy couple of days!!! it has been children in need all the way this week and I have loved it!! Mo needed to go dressed up as his favourite book/ cartoon character and he chose Where's wally

( waldo for my friends over the pond!) so I had to get to work on a hat, stripey top and a walking stick for him. It was so much fun.

Here's my little wally....

Cute!!!! I made his top by using one of his vests!! I made the stripes by masking the white off with selotape and then using fired brick distress ink to make the red stripes!!

I made his little hat with a dishcloth!! I sewed up the edge and the tied some string around the top. The very top bit I snipped little shreds into to make it look like a bobble and then I dipped the bobble and the bottom of the hat into some red food colouring! Here it is...

His walking stick was just parcel wrapping covered in seloptape and shaped around with a little bit of clear plastic to hold the curved handle shape.

Mo had a super day and was even allowed to wear his costume for his tennis lesson which he thought was super!! then to top it all off he chose a few cakes from the cake sale we were having at the nursery where I work! he had a pudsey biscuit last night for pudding and tghis morning he had " a melly cake" ( a cake made by my friend Mel's mum!!) for his breakfast!!! There are someleft which I am sure he will munch through over the weekend! but its haircut day today so I had better get a wriggle on and get him to the hairdressers then hopefully a squidge of crafting for me today.

Before I go, my BF is teaching her first cricut class over at Jo's shop, Let's Create, so I want to send her huge huge (((hugs))) and good luck wishes. Fi's blog is here if you fancy leaving her some good luck comments, I know she would really appreciate them. She is so kind and caring so she will have them all buggy by the time she has finished her class today.

Have a fab day peeps, I will be back with some creations later I hope!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Gorjuss chrimbles!!

2011-11-16T13:29:00.000Z

Afternoon Peeps!!!

I have had a busy morning pootling around everyone so I had to wait until now with my trusty cuppa in hand to bloggy my little sparkly card yet not a card!!! I made it last night for 2 challenges, they are...

Papertake Weekly's When a card is not a card challenge

Chrimbo Crackers- Make it sparkle

So, above is a piccy of my card not yet a card! Its in the shape of a gift tag and it was from the fabulous Adela. You can find it HERE in Adela's yummy shop!

I had total fun with this one!! and even used my stamp that I bought from Clare in the summer holidays!! didn't take me long to ink this one up then.....:)

Here is a half opened "oooh what is it" side view!!!

and here it is all opened (....including the fake £5 I googled and printed out to pop in it.....Lou's mind thikns oooooh fab super cheap chrimbles...it looks so real!!!!)

I added lots of glittery sparkle to it using diamond stickles around the layer of patterened paper, sakura starburst pen for the teeny stars on her dress and a good old sprinkling of silver metallic thread stitched into the punched border piece and fluffed out behind the sentiment circle.

I am loving the non traditional colours on my patterned papers. They are (...of course :) ) Funky Hand papers from the Angel On The Tree colourway of the new Twelve Crafters Crafting papercraft factory, I love it!! (last night I was working on a bit of something with the Vintage Christmas colourway but you will have to wait until next week for that one!!!)

Right then, I am off for a bloggy/facebook catch up before I go and fetch Little Mo and pop in on my mum!

Huge hugs, thank you for popping in on me!!

Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 73- Anything Goes!!! Goes On!!!

2011-11-15T06:21:00.001Z

Image- Tiny Dancer from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- FBQ Bear Necessities from Nitwit Collections.

Morning Peeps!!!

Yey!! its that Tiddly time of week again and I have to say I am loving the creations that you guys are sharing with us Tiddly Inkers for our Anything Goes month over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog!! I can't believe you have all been hiding your talents!!!

My little make this week is a blessing for me as I was convinced Mr. Mojo had taken a trip away without telling me and wasn't coming back anytime soon!! of course, all I had to do really was open the Tiddly Inks file on my pooter, stuffed full of Tiddly goodness and he came running back to me faster than lightening!!!

I printed out my Tiny dancer (...she's so sqooshably cute!!!!) and then I made myself a card base in PSP. I also printed out an extra star and made one of the buttons extra big to mount her on, along with the little journalling rectangle that I stamped happy birthday onto.

The reason I wanted to add all these little extra shapes was to join in with the fabby sketch challenge over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog, here is the sketch, if you click on it you will be magically pinged to the blog...

A little bit of bling for her tu-tu and some little pearls and she was done!! yey!! go Lou !!!

So, have fun creating a bit of anything for our challenge this week, but you must remember to use a Tiddly Inks image to be in with a chance to win the prize.

Please pop on over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and see what the Tiddly Inkers have been up to because man they have me in awe every week!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx

My gorgeous hubby's birthday!

2011-11-14T07:51:00.001Z

Papers and present- Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!

Its my amazing husband's birthday today and I thought I would share the card I made for him last night (...yes, I know it was leaving it a bit fine but mr mojo is only coming in bursts at the minute!)

Luckily I had a little idea bubbling in my little fuzzy head so I picked a few papers from the Just for Men colourway on my Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand and got busy!!

I even paper pieced my little mini tilda stamp! I stamped her in memento rich cocoa on some of the patterned paper and a scrap of my normal colouring paper then cut out the bits I wanted to piece onto her like her bow, dress and socks.

I made the pressie all patterned by popping it onto the spotty paper I wanted before I printed it out in the workspace, I love that workspace!! I coloured in the bow and popped it out on some foam. Tilda is popped out too.

And now.... the little guys make for Daddy!!!

Mo wanted to make a "card and present in one please Mummy" and he knew exactly what he wanted to do which was fab!!!

He chose the Craft The Year Away papercraft factory and the "wordbook making bit" for his. I love the way he describes what he wants, it makes me giggle :)

He wouldn't let me help other than to push the big bite down to make the holes!! ( he isn't keen on the big bite as he squished his hand under the handle once!!) He cut them out all by himself and only needed me to line them up for him to get them all the right length.

I love that he added those little MS punched butterflies. He said " I need to use his punch from clare's shop" .....I don't mind the fact that that was about the only thing I bought from Clare's a couple of weeks ago for me.... :) and he glued them on "all flyey floaty" cute!!

Then he added some pictures of him and daddy doing things they love to do together.

This page is daddy in goal and mo kicking the football. I adore that he added those little swooshy lines from the ball going fast!!! I also love that Mo is not afraid to write down his feelings, I think that is so important for little boys to be able to do that.

This page is daddy and mo one of their bike rides. Mo has a little tag bike that goes on Scott's bike when we go to clumber or out for long bike rides.

This is daddy and mo washing the car!!!

And then Mo had to try out my new SU pennant punch to make a flag!! he had seen it in my SU catalogue and thought it would be fab for a best daddy flag!! attached to a cocktail stick!!

Mo has a lot more mojo than me at the minute!!! but this wordbook present is just so adorable and special for daddy. I love that there are wobblies in his cutting and sticking because it is all done by him. He loved tying the knots in the string through the holes as he always struggles a bit with knots and got these ones first time, clever chap.
So thats us for today!!! Mo is off to school and super excited as we are picking his best friend, Sophia, up from nursery on our way home for a play. She lives next door and he adores her!! he thinks she is cute and loves looking after her!! Scott and I are off together today and we might go out for a birthday lunch at damon's, yummo!!!
Huge hugs and thank you's for bearing with me on a proud mummy post!!!!
Lou xxxxx

Snowman for Allsorts!

2011-11-12T11:13:00.002Z

Image- Something Warm from Tiddly Inks bargain basement

Papers- Rainbow Stripey Stripes

Morning Peeps.

First I need to say sorry for not being a good bloggy peep this week. It has been a hard week for us and we are missing our dog Zac so much in so many ways. He has left such a huge hole bless him and we are all a bit lost and wombling around the house in a muddle.

I got an email from Krista this morning to say I had got in the top 3 over on saturated canary challenge blog and it had my top 3 blinky attached which cheered me up so much, thankyou team ST!!!xxxxx

So this morning I have been trying to keep myself busy with a few challenges. They are....

allsorts challenge blog which is Black, White and one other. I have to say that is sooooo much harder than you think!!!!!!

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Traditions challenge - I love snowmen and alwys associate them with chrimbley traditions, they are just so much fun to make and even more special when you can make them on christmas day, oh I hope there is snow on christmas day!

I had an order to make a 10 pack of chrimble cards for one of my mum's friends who loves Newcastle United.

So, my colour choices were Black, White and blue ( .....I hope this is OK as there is a teeny squidge of colour to compliment for his nose and holly...)

I just had to use my Funky Hand Rainbow Stripey Stripes download for the Black and white stripes and the snowman is one of my fav's from Tiddly Inks, warm wishes.

If you look really closely you will see the Newcastle United logo just on the front of my little snowman's snuggly hot mug of cocoa!!! I snuck it in using photoshop and I think its a super way of sneaking something personal into a card because its really subtle, the reason I chose the blue as my one other for allsorts is because of the blue in the logo!

Today we are just going to pop to B&Q and pick up a little tree to plant for Zac. Scott and I are a little concerned as Little Mo got upset on thursday night when it was too foggy to see his Zac star so we think a little tree in his little garden bench planter in the front garden will be better, Little Mo thinks its a super idea so he can sit and chat with Zac so thats lovely.

Have a fab day peeps! see you all on my bloggy womble tonight.....might take me a while as when I clicked my reader on this morning I have 423 posts to catch up on........:)

Huge hugs and thankyou so much for all your lovely emails and support this week xxxxxx

Lou xxxx

Surfing the Yule Tide!!!

2011-11-09T10:28:00.001Z

Papers and images- Twelve Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!

I am a bit late in blogland this morning as Little Mo and I were so snuggled up comfy watching our Anice do her Funky thing over on C&C that we almost forgot to go to school!! ooops ! :)

But don't worry if you missed Anice's 8am slot if you were still in beed because she is back on again at 1pm to show the new Twelve Crafters Crafting and some great deals on the other papercraft factory cd roms too!!!

I wanted to share this manly little card I made using the Angel on the Tree colourway from Twelve Crafters Crafting. Man cards are soooo hard but these little penguin dudes are way too perfect for the job!! and I decided they looked like they were surfing!!

Within the fabby domain that is the workspace on the program I added my own little sentiment by writing a bit at the top with the writer and then adding the Yule Tide digi stamp!! Love it!!!!

I printed them out and mounted them onto a couple of different papers from the cd rom and then popped them up on a bit of foam tape for added poppingoutness!!!!!!! and added a cut out sprig of holly from the coloured digi stamps in the workspace.

I made a matching inside for the card by using the merry christmas sentiment digi and the uncoloured penguins. I love how it came out and finished the inside of my card (....mmmm please excuse the shadow of my camera bumping off the white inside!!!)

I am entering this cutie in a couple of challenges....

Papertake weekly- 1st Christmas cards of the year
Cards for Men- Its nearly christmas
Tip Top tuesdays- anything goes christmas

Don't forget to tune in to C&C at 1pm and see Anice demo the new Twelve Crafters Crafting cd rom, at the weekend Little Mo will be sharing some of his makes from using it. I cannot say enough how fab these papercraft factory cd roms are for mini sized crafty peeps. he is just 6 years old and has so much fun making things using them. He has made a lovely start on his christmas cards for his friends and thinks its fabulous that he can "pooter write" the names of his little friends on the front!! too cute!! and fabulous as they are so personal. So if you want a crafty program for you little peeps head straight for Funky Hand.

Now I am off out to my crafty garage, bit cold here so have saved my tumble drying to do while I am out there!!! it warms my little crafty garage up a treat!!
Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 72- Anything Goes continued!

2011-11-08T07:00:00.003Z

Image- Snowman's Friends

Morning Peeps.

Its Tiddly Tuesday time again and us Tiddly Inkers are in full flow with our anything goes challenge month over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog.

I went for a whimsical christmas tag for my creation this week. I printed out my snowman and sentiment

( ..the sentiment comes with the snowman and I love it!) Then I ran my tag through my cuttlebug with a TH embossing folder and rubbed on some faded jeans distress ink.

I ripped up some of my glittery speckled vellum and added one layer to my tag, then my little snowman and then another ripped vellum layer over the bottom of him.

Next job was a good old bit of hand stitching with some blue metallic thread all round the edges. I also stitched the sentiment on!!

I added a blue eyelet to the tag hole and then popped some thread through it, then stuck on some snowflakes here and there!

So get your tiddly thang on and come and join in the tiddly inking fun using any tiddly inks or one of christy's stamping bella's.

***** EDITED IN TO SAY*****

Thank you so very much for all your lovely messages about our beautiful dog,Zac.

Last night we each lit a candle and wrote some little messages for Zac to help little Mo understand it all.

I think it helped a great deal but waking up to a house without Zac in has been extremely hard this morning.

Love you Zaccy xxxxxx

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Night Night sleep tight Zac xxxx

2011-11-07T16:35:00.000Z

Zac Daubney 1994-2011.

Hello Peeps.

Today my post is for my beautiful dog, Zac.

I am a little bit numb and so very very sad. Today our gorgeous Zac went to sleep. It was such a very very hard decision but his back legs had gone and he was struggling. Scott and I have been putting off loosing him because we love him so very dearly but after a year of our beautiful Zac struggling and going so very thin we had to say good night to him. He has been the most wonderful friend anyone could wish for and when I can stop crying I am sure I will be able to remember those times properly but for now, it just hurts.

The vet was so wonderful and caring and I cuddled him up tight to me as he went off to sleep. Scott and I are totally heartbroken and it is all sinking in for Little Mo at the moment. I have scheduled my Tiddly Tuesday blog post for tomorrow as I am just too upset to do too much tonight and need a night to let it all sink in properly. I am so sorry if I miss all your lovely creations for a couple of days while I sort myself out.

It is the hardest thing and I miss him so very much already.

Hugs Lou xxxx

HMS Grandad!

2011-11-05T08:17:00.000Z

Morning peeps!!

I had an awesome day at work yesterday and then went out to our local restaurant for a 2 for £10 tea with Scott and Little Mo, it was Mo's idea (...and a totally awesome one too may I add!!!) Mo's meal was free as children eat free so it was lovely not to cook and have some family time.

Then when we got home we had a bath and Mo and I fell asleep......until 6 am this morning!!! poor Scott!! (..though he probably enjoyed a night of peace and quiet!!!!)

This little cute sailor Tilda card was an order from another friend at work (...got to love my friends at work because they all keep me going on making things!) She needed a birthday card for her Grandad and he likes sailing boats.....out came Tilda and my FBQ Aye Aye captain from nitwits!!!

I am going to pop this little cutie in for the Just magnolia challenge blogs special monthly anything goes challenge

Now we are off for a little drive on our little car as I have run out of one of my fav colour promarkers. Its saturday so we are going to treat ourselves to a yummy cake too!! Luckily my friend Clare has a gorgeous shop in Horncastle...right next to a yummo bakery!!! yey!!!!!

see you all later!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Anniversary card with a difference!!

2011-11-04T06:00:00.004Z

Image- Best of friends from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Fbq bear necessaties from Nitwit collections.

Sentiment stamp from LOTV.

Morning peeps!!

I had a bit of a last minute card order yesterday from a friend at work who needed an anniversary card for his girlfriend. She is a vet so he wanted something animally and nice with a rose on it somewhere and thats all I could squeeze out of him so this is what I came up with...!!!

I used my Best of friends image from Christy's shop. How could I resist a pair of loved up pets???!!! and I added the sentiment stamp so David can fill in all the special dates and stuff before he takes it to his girlfriend.

I coloured the dog and kitty up to match the papers and then had a good old dig around for some pink roses to match (...yup there's mess everywhere now but they look sooooo pretty!!!)

Off to work for little ole me again today so cuppa in hand I am off to do pack up for me and Mo.

Have a fabby day peeps!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

New Home!

2011-11-03T06:30:00.033Z

Image-Winnie,a roadtripping ragamuffin from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Morning peeps!!
I had an order for a new home card for a friend at work that I decided to play with last night. It is for my friend's BF so it had to be something special and they have been on lots of caravan and camping hols together so it just had to be winnie from krista's shop!!!!

I wanted it to fit in with the saturated canary challenge blogs easy as 1,2,3 challenge too so there is 1 winnie, 2 dp's- yummo patterned paper....memory makers or american crafts I think.. and blue bazzil on a kraft card base and 3 embellies- 1 gorgeous key charm and 2 homemade flowers!!

The little sentiment is an LOTV stamp from the clear verses sheet, I love it.

I am trying to be really good and follow a 3 colour rule when making my cards at the minute!! its just to challenge myself but I am quite liking the way they are turning out!!! I am also very much liking my photo's of my makes at the moment. I have had an awesome tutor! she is my gorgeous and lovely Pops and has been an absolute star telling me how to sort them out, love yah ooodles Pops xxxxx I have a long way to go to get them as good as hers but I will get there eventually!!!

So what are you all up to today? I am off to work in a couple of hours but for now I am snuggled up next to Mo on the settee with my cuppa and pooter. I love the dark mornings for these snuggling opportunities!!! we stay in our pj's until 30 mins before school and I love it. Mo loves an easy, nothing to make him feel panicky morning and its really lovely starting the day with snuggles, they make me feel all warm inside. I love that when I come home late on a thursday and friday Mo shouts "mummy" as soon as he hears me in the door and comes running from wherever he is for a cuddle, I am so thankful for that.
Have a super day peeps!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Monochromatic yet colourful....

2011-11-02T09:41:00.000Z

Morning peeps!!
I have had this wedding card order sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now. It was on a post it note (...I have the bestest order forms you know!!!!) and I have been waiting for the man who ordered it to get back to me with a colourscheme. I still hadn't heard anything yesterday so I went with a gold and white mono theme.

Out came the vellum. Yup I know its a monkey to stick but I have a creatopia so no problems there!! you just cut what you want, run it through the creatopia and it sticks down beautifully with no adhesive showing through at all!! I love it!!! The flowers are stuck on with glossy accents.

The little seedy gems were stuck in using glossy accents too. I love those super teeny ones along the punched edge, and the gold and glittery vellum went through my SU boho flower punch like a dream. The teeny flowers and leaf fronds are papermania and the bigger frond is martha of course!!! You can just about see the blingy brilliance on this piccy on the brides dress, I dabbed some glossy accents over those too just to make them pop.

Mum rang last night to give me some more details and phew!! the invite has gold on it so yey Lou !!!

I am entering this little cutie in a few challenges....
whimsy challenge-monochromatic
Papertake weekly- Anything goes plus added bling if you fancy!! - added bling in my little flowers and versamark brilliance to paint with on her dress and flowers.
Truly scrumptious challenges-Bingo - I have used gems, flowers and die cuts.

The cute little tags are my SU jewellery tag punch, I love it. I printed the names and date onto my vellum then punched them out and sewed them to the bow.

So I think thats me for today!! I have the inside of this card to finish off and then on with a baby card and a grandad card, phew!! me busy!!! not too bad though as Mo slept in until 6am and I have a packet of party rings to nibble with my cuppa!!! yey!!!

Huge hugs
Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 71- Anything Goes!!

2011-11-01T07:00:00.039Z

Image- lilli-claire warm wishes

papers from the Yummy Paper Set

Morning peeps!!!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again and its the start of november too!! (my where is this year off to??!!!!) and with you all in full flow christmas creating, the chief of Tiddliness has declared an Anything Goes month!!

So over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog our challenge this week is anything you fancy making with a Tiddly Inks image!!

I chose the gorjuss Lilli Claire warm wishes, she is such a dream to play around with. I merged her in png format with the christmassy paper in the yummy paper set.

Once that was printed I coloured her up all christmassy with my promarkers, I used some woodware fluffy stuff for her fluffy bits!!!!

Then I added some glittery white heat embossing to the edges...which of course were zapped through my distrezz it all first (....Lou wonders how on earth she managed without this gorgeous little pink machine!!!) I love how it came out!

So what will you create for the challenge??? if you need some inspiration go here to the challenge blog and see what my super talented Tiddly Inking friends have been making before you start.

And there's a new girl in the shop too, she is way too cute and I love her big yummy cake......

If you click on her, you will be taken right to where she is in the shop!!

Off to work for me this morning so I had better get myself into gear really!! I am still excited after a fab couple of hours of spookiness and fun for halloween last night. Here we are.......

From left to right its- Scott, me, Little Mo, Jake and Lily.

(mmmmmm sneaky big sis got out of the photo by taking it....!)

We had oodles of fun and it was so warm we were all able to go out exactly as we were dressed in this piccy which was fab as Little Mo didn't want to cover up his ghostiness!! ( he had his thermal long sleeve vest and tights on under his mummy made ghosty suit!! snuggly warm!!)

Have an awesome day!! Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Skull Cave!! Happy Halloween!!

2011-10-31T14:29:00.001Z

Afternoon peeps!!
This morning there was a little bit of a disaster here in our house!! Little Mo and I went out to fetch the jack sparrow pumpkin and shock horror....it had gone horribly mouldy!! arghhhhhhhh!!!!
So off went Little Mo to school and I had to remedy the Jack disaster!! I decided to go for a skull cave scene this time so that there was a skull behind Jack and master gibbs!! too much fun!!!!!

I kept the bit I chopped off to scoop out the pumpkin and turned it into a creepy rope walk into the cave.
Lights off for the dark piccy!!!

Inside skull cave there is a bit of marshmallow toasting going on!!!

Then I spent the rest of the morning decorating the spooky walk Scott and I made yesterday. I am not quite finished yet, just a couple of lights to pop out there and the pumpkins on the lawn but I think Mo will love it!

The pot is where our little skeleton with a sensor in is going to sit, he wriggles like a windchime when walked past! its a school night though so it will all be coming down at 6:30pm and hopefully Mo won't get woken up every 5 mins by people coming to the door!!
Scott will be at work until 5pm so I am hoping he will make it home in time to walk around with us! glo sticks are at the ready!!!
Mo is going to be a little ghosty tonight, he only wanted a sheet on so I made him a little suit out of a pillowcase! he is going to pop his thermals on under that and its quite warm here today, grey but warm, though there were a few sprinkkles of rain when I took the piccy of the door......
Anywhoo, better go get Mo from school!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Tee's the season !!!!

2011-10-30T16:13:00.002Z

Hello peeps!!
Its been a full on busy day here in the house of Daubney as we have been getting bits ready for halloween tomorrow! I can't wait, I love halloween!!!

I wanted to remind you that you still have a few hours left to join in with the first ever Funky Hand DT Blog hop.
Please pop over to Anice's blog for all the details on how to get going, you have until 12 o'clock tonight to be in with the chance to win the awesome new Twelve crafters crafting cd rom!!!

So my little share today is a christmas card for one of my friends! ( I am not all to sure if she reads my blog or not so I think it will be safe on here!!! ) I used the vintage christmas colourway for this one and had lots of fun making it!!!!!

It is...of course... a card for a couple who love golfing so the bauble had to be a golf ball!! and the sentiment I wrote in the workspace on Twelve crafters crafting!! Love it!!!

I am also entering this little Tee's the season card over in the challenge over on our lovely Ruth's new challenge blog, Chrimbo Crackers-Its anything goes this week so a nice easy one!!

Don't forget to go hopping!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Funky Hand's twelve Crafters Crafting Blog Hop!!!

2011-10-29T09:00:00.080+01:00

Papers and Digi's from Twelve Crafters Crafting !!!
Available for Pre-Order Today!!!

Morning Peeps!!

I am soooooo excited to have you all here for Funky Hand's first ever blog hop!!!!!! now, before I start, if you have come straight to my blog, you need to go back to the start over on

Anice's Funky Hand Thoughts blog.

She has been busy making a little video to help you all through the hop!! If you have come to me from Anice's blog you are on the right track!!!

I was so excited when the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd came through my letterbox. It is jam packed full of the most beautiful christmas papers and templates and a whole tonne of awesome christmas digi's and sentiments, playing with all of those in the workspace with the added yumminess of the writer and omgosh!! its like christmas coming early!!

I have been working with the Angel on The Tree colourway. Its devine. It is full of lovely purples and greys and I loved it because of its super funkiness. I love exploring new christmassy colours that are a step away from the normal traditional ones.

There are 4 different papers on this card,I wanted it full of layers to showcase some of the yummy papers there are on the cd. The snowflake paper is one of the digi stamps that I repeated a few times in the workspace to make myself another little paper to add to it!!! And just how cute is that little snowman???!! I rolled him around my thumb to make him pop out a bit.I added a bit of metallic thread and a little chrimble tree charm to finish it off!!

Did ya'll guess what my letter is yet....... its a D

So now I have waffled to you,the next person to hop on over to is.........

Jackie

Now, before you go on over, don't forget to leave the all important comment on my blog, and the rest of the hop teams blog's, to be in with a chance to win the awesome new Twelve Crafters crafting papercraft factory cd.

Good Luck!! and hugs

Lou xxxx

LOTV girlie christening card.

2011-10-28T07:23:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps!!!

I hope you are all looking forward to a fabby friday as you wake up this morning, I know I am. I can't wait for the weekend as Little Mo and I have 12 pumpkins left to carve and a few halloweeny bits to make ready for trick or treaters on monday!!! Scott is going to get the decorations down on sunday morning so we might even get those put up sunday afternoon. I LOVE halloween!! This year Little Mo and I are going to be ghosties!!

Anywhoooo onto my card! one of my friends from work ordered a christening card for a baby girl , I had to get to work on it last night (.... as I had half forgotten about it until I found the post it note in my bag in the morning and then Gabby reminded me at dinner....!!) but disaster was averted when I got out to my crafty room last night!! phew!!

I am entering this little cutie into a couple of challenges......

CES Challenge blogs - New Beginnings - I love christenings, bringing new little ones in to the world and sharing them with everyone is so special. I can't wait for another Olivia piccy from Emma!! she's sooo cute.

and the

charisma cardz challenge blogs-anything goes

The papers are from nitwit collections FBQ Bear Necessities kit. I love it!!!

So thats me for today!!! I need to go cut a couple of bits out on my cricut now before I go to work so I'll be bacl later to check in on you all!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

1st Funky Hand Blog Hop- coming this saturday!!

2011-10-27T22:30:00.006+01:00

Hello Peeps!!!! Just a quicky post from me tonight as I just had to share something exciting with you all!!!!

The Funky Hand Design Team are having our very first BLOG HOP this weekend to celebrate the launch of the new Christmas themed craft CD ROM ......

Twelve Crafters Crafting

It will be officially released on the 5th of Nov, BUT is going to be available to pre order at Funky Hand from this weekend!!

If you join in the fun with our blog hop you could be in with a chance of winning a fabby prize!

The hop will be starting over on Anice's Blog-Funky Hand Thoughts

Saturday 29th October at 9am until 12 midnight Sunday 30th.

The Funky Peeps have been super busy making all sorts of christmassy gorgeousness for you to feast your eyes upon as you hop around so make a date in your crafting diary for a funky blog hop!!

Off to bed now, so tired my eyes are walking up the wooden hill to bed without me!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Gothica

2011-10-26T16:14:00.001+01:00

Images- Gothica from Saturated Canary digi's.

Afternoon peeps!!!

**This is my 2nd post for today so please go here if you are looking for my Get Funky post **

Well, its been a bit of a mooching day today. The car we thought was fixed when Scott picked up from the garage wasn't fixed at all by the time he had got to the petrol station and noticed the line of oil that had followed him there.........

So I have cheered myself up by sitting in my crafty room with mo ( who was very extremely busy looking for bruno mars songs on youtube......) and I have indulged myself in making a card following a few challenges. There's nothing like a challenge to cheer you up!!!!

They are....

Mojo Monday challenge blogs sketch

Saturated canary challenge blogs Stitching challenge. - I love stitching by hand, it relaxes me so much which I needed today.....:).....little edit ...ooops missed the end of the challenge :) :) !!!

Totally Papercrafts challenge blogs Layer upon layer challenge.

I love promarkers challenge blogs Tags challenge.

I used my Gothica digi I bought a couple of weeks ago and hadn't had chance to play with yet. Mo thinks she looks funky!!

I decided she needed some cogs and pretty paper to make a bit of a shabby chic kinda card!!! The little cog stamp is from my sense of time SU stamp set. The little tag is an epoxy one I got in a memory makers stash from TKMaxx ages ago, I love them!!!

Oh and before I forget here is a quick piccy of Little Mo and his cousin Lily-Boo yesterday!! I love this piccy!!!

Mo looked after Lily-Boo so well!! he kept asking if she was OK and helping her to do everything, it was sooooo cute! I wish I had videoed some for cuteness!!!

Have a fabby night peeps!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxxx

Trick or Treat, smell my feet- Autumn Get Funky.

2011-10-26T08:00:00.000+01:00

Papers- Craft The Year away from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!!
Here I am this morning with my little make for....

Amanda's Autumn Challenge on the Get Funky Challenge blog.

I decided to get my monthly scrap page done with this challenge and had a lot of help from my little Harry Potter wizard, Mo !!!!

I used some a delicious selection of papers from the Orange October colour way on the Craft The Year Away papercraft factory, armed with the sketch from our very own gorgeous Kathy for the placement of everything of my page.

Then in came the help from little mo! he wrote his favourite halloween chant on the layout with a white gel pen! If you can't read it, it says "Trick or Treat, smell my feet" he also wrote the year on the piccy on the gravestone! I doodled some stitches (........which Mo decided looked like "scribbley boney stitches" !!!!).
There is some very nice pretend spider web around Mo and I added a nice big plastic spider to a nestified circle of a bit of paper that was left from the background of the page.

So, there is still plenty of time for you to join in with our Autumn fun.The rules are super easy, Your project can be anything but remember......

YOU MUST INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE FUNKY HAND PRODUCT.

Don't worry if you don't own any Funky Hand cd's or downloads yet as Anice has made us a fabulous Funky Freebie for you to join in with. I can't wait to see what you all make!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 70- Silvery Blues.

2011-10-25T06:00:00.011+01:00

Image- Harmony at home from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!

Its Tuesday morning and I love Tuesdays because it means its time for a super fun new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog!! and this week we are changing the seasons a bit with a fun colour challenge.

You can create any kind of project you'd like but just remember to use any variation of the colours below and a Tiddly Inks image.

If you don't have any Tiddly images yet, you are missing out on some awesome and fun digi images! but don't worry because Christy has a few cute little freebies HERE and HERE for you to get and join in with the fun.

I fancied getting a bit christmassy for my creation and used Harmony At Home. I adore this little street of houses, I think the text on them is absolutely magical. I used silver mirri card for my card base. The starry night sky I made in my paintshop. I used a gradient background and chose a palette of dark blue, light blue and a silvery grey. My little street of houses is popped out on foam and then mounted onto light blue and black card, then onto the card base.

Its really hard to make out in the photo but I coloured all the hearts in with a denim blue promarker and the actual doors with a starburst sakura pen, then glossy accents on. They look so cute!!

Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't help you find the gorgeous new Tiddlies over in the shop :) so this week we have.......

Christmas wishes

Christmas mantle.

All you need to do is click on the piccy and it will take you straight to their little homes in the Tiddly Inks shop!! I am sooo helpful for you right?!!!!!! :) :) Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to see my awesome tiddly teamies creations to get you going!!

So thats me for today!! Little Mo and i have some company today as our Lily-Boo is coming to play with us for the day. My big sis and her hubby are off on their once yearly child free day for my sisters birthday treat!! Her birthday is on sunday so I hope they have a wonderful day.

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Have a quacking first christmas!!

2011-10-24T10:53:00.003+01:00

Image- Danny's Duck from Tiddly Inks

Morning peeps!!!

Its a beautiful sunny day here ( ....thought there is a whiffy farm air smell in the air too which is not so nice!!!) and I had lots of plans for making this morning....then I turned on my google reader and saw the new challenge over on the cupcake challenge blog- Denim and Lace !!! needless to say I just had to have a play with my new little Danny's Duck from Tiddly Inks. His super cute little starry romper suit is made with some star paper that christy had as a feebie a long time ago.

I also decided that I would go for real denim!! I had a pair of gorgeous thin jeans that I wore and wore (...right up until they wore out and my pants were showing!!! ) I gave them a good trim and ran the square through my creatopia with the fabric cart in and then stuck them onto the front of my card, I think its lovely. Its a very touchy feely kinda card!!! I love the beige and blue lace together.

I made the sentiment in word and added it to a nestied bit of jeans!! then I coloured some white plastic snowflakes with my denim blue promarker to match the rest of the card. I added tea dye distress ink to all my edges and the ground for Danny and his super cute duck to walk along too.

So thats me for today!! Hope you all have fabby days planned!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Sunday Pumpkin Fun!!!

2011-10-23T12:35:00.001+01:00

Hello Peeps!!!

Sunday is funday in our little house and Little Mo and I decided we needed to make another pumpkin today!!

I fancied trying something a bit different so we decided to make a scene in a pumpkin!!!

We scooped out all the pumpkin goop inside (...then Little Mo deserted me and went outside to play with some wood Daddy was sawing up for him....) and then I got busy with some twigs and a candle for a camp fire and then Scott raided Little Mo's lego box for some lego men!! he came back with a whole bunch of them but I picked out Jack Sparrow and Master Gibbs as Mo loves his pirates films!!

Here they are toasting their marshmallows!!

I added a spooky web and spider around the 'cave' entrance and I have to admit that this pumpkin has had us all giggling since I finished it!!

I think my favourite day of the week at the moment is a sunday, when we are all at home together just goofing around!!! as I type this Little Mo and Daddy are playing Rock Band together on the PS3! lots more giggling of course!!! this sort of day makes me feel all warm and gooey and so, so very thankful for my family.

I have also been making a few cards but you can't peek at them yet!! They are from the new Funky Hand Papercraft factory, Twelve Crafters Crafting. But to cheer you all up don't forget Anice is having a sale on EVERYTHING FUNKY HAND BRANDED over in the Funky Hand shop, click the little piccy below if you fancy a fantastic deal with Free postage on orders over £10, WORLD WIDE :) :) :)

Right then, off to go play now!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me :)

Lou xxxxxx

LOTV challenge.

2011-10-20T07:14:00.001+01:00

Morning peeps!!!

Its been a bit quiet in Lou bloggy land this week as I have been at work a lot this week!! I got a card order in on tuesday though that needed to be ready for friday so I had to motor on with that one quick!!!

I was so pleased when I opened up my blog reader this morning and saw the LOTV challenge for this week as I had gotten a good row of the bingo to be able to join in with their new challenge.

I chose the Distressing, Flowers and Paper piecing row (mmmmm, when I look I could of gone for the Gems, Charms and Embossing row with my homemade 40 charm tag and my pearly bling on the corner!!) Its a 40th birthday card. I heat embossed my little fairy with some fine gold embossing powder so she would match the raised effect of the paper. The little rose was white so I coloured it up with matching promarkers that I used on my little fairy ( burnt orange and ginger) and then added a little bit of bling. The fronds are of course martha stewart, I ran my ball embosser over them to pop them up a bit and then pieced them around the corner of my image.

Here's a piccy of the fairy a little closer up, I love the gold heat embossed outline.

Last night Little Mo and I started the great pumpkin carving fun that we have every year! Its big thing in our house. My mum gets pumpkins from her friend so we always have at least 10. Mo made a start on his last night!! He draws on the pumpkin with a pen/pencil and then I cut out the drawing ( making sure I add 'sticks' to the bits that he draws like eyes and noses!!) This one is "a ghosty in a starry sky". I actually adore how he describes things and I love the fact that he loves something as simple as pumpkin carving.

Mo is one of those children that will never go down the spooky aisle in the super market or go into a shop with lots of halloween stuff in the window though he loves our spooky walk on halloween night!! bless him!!

Anyway here is Little Mo pumpkin one.....

"A ghosty in a starry sky"

Too cute!!

Mo is going to his first school disco tonight, he is a bit worried about it but he still wants to have a go at going!! I hope he manages it becuase there is no school tomorrow so he can relax after having a late night as the disco doesn't finish until 7:15pm !!!

Right, off for another busy day at work, Little Mo pack up to make and a load of washing to get on.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 69- Halloween is coming!!

2011-10-18T06:00:00.011+01:00

Image- Batty from Tiddly inks

Papers from the fabulous Mel over on Mel stampz
(if you haven't been to Mel's blog you are missing an absolute place of wonderment, I quite often go there to drool!!! she's soooo clever!!)

Morning peeps!!!

Its tuesday again and that means more Tiddly Inks fun over on the the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its one of my absolute fav times of the year!!! this week we want to see your ....

Halloween creations!!!!

I used Batty for my cute yet spooky halloween box. My BF and me spent an awesome morning together a while ago making these little boxes and I just knew a little black,spooky one would be lurvely for this halloween tiddly challenge!! If you fancy having a play at making one of these super cute little boxes the tutorial is here over on Silvie's blog.

Here's a bit of a closer peeky at Batty, I think she's fab!!

And here's my little boxey all open.....The spiders inside it crawled off to quick for me to catch them with my camera........!!!

I love those big black gems on the handle, I got them in a RAK from my lovely friend Kat a few years ago and I love them!!
Oh and the gorgeous "Eat, drink and be scary" word art is from Binty's blog.

Now, while I remember, I have been for a nosey nosey around in the whats new section over on the Tiddly Inks shop and found 2 new and super cute images!!!!!! Click on the piccies to take you straight to their cosy little nest in the shop!!!

and this one too...

awwwwww aren't they both just the cutest ever???!!!

Right, off to work for me!!!! don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and check out the awesome creations from my Tiddly Inking teamies!!!!

Huge hugs and happy tiddly tuesday!!

Lou xxxx

Happy Winter!!!

2011-10-16T11:37:00.003+01:00

Image- A winter ragamuffin from Saturated canary digi's.

Papers- Dreams come true from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

I am wombling in late this morning with my bloggy post as we have had a lovely bike ride down to my mum's house to drop off her birthdays cards and present. We stopped off for a quick play at the park on the way home and now I have a pan of pasta cooking so 5 mins to say hi to you all !!!!!!

This card is for a couple of challenges. I used my gorgeous new Winter Ragamuffin from Krista's shop. I am still in some new christmas colours experimenting mode so printed out these delicious papers from Funky Hand, I love love love the swirly one, its so cool!! Oh I nearly forgot!! this is no teeny card, its a whopping 8x8 inches!!

The challenges I am entering are....

The Deconstructed Sketch challenge 23- its a really lovely one peeps so go look and have a go. I am sure Jenn will comment on your cards as soon as she can pick herself up off the floor because I remembered to join in 2 weeks in a row!!!!! :)

and of course...

saturated canary challenge blogs stitching challenge.- you can hopefully see the little runs of false stitching I did with my promarker pen around the layers of paper!! if you can't see it peeps please let me know (....any excuse to colour in another SC digi is good with me :) !!!)

Now it wouldn't be a me post without a little bit of Little Mo handiwork squished in it too so here is Mo's birthday card for nannie!! How cute is that create a critter sheep?????

as you can see, he rather liked to flower sequins in my sequin box, the sheep needed lots apparently....!!! :)

all the papers are funky hand. I know this piccy doesn't look fab but little mo wouldn't let me help him take it and said

" I have to do it by my ownself mummy or I won't be learning it"

so I couldn't argue with that really!!!

Right as much as I would love to waffle on I had better go sort the pasta as 2 hungry males keep asking me when lunch will be cooked!!! I have baking planned for this afternoon too so no doubt they will be back when they smell the banana bread and choccy fudge loaf!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxx