Pressie card for my big sis following enfys's instructions!!

Good morning peeps!!!!!!

The sun is shining and it is friday!!!yey!!! I love the sunshine, it lifts my spirits right up to see sunshine when I open the curtains.

This card is one completely inspired by some amazing cards that enfys made for a magazine called papercraft inspirations, en is amazing, she never fails to amaze me with her ideas for cards.

This particular card is for my big sis sam. A hot chocolate supplies card came into my head when I saw en's cards so this is what I came up with. I thought the cow was so cute when I saw it I had to choose that little sachet!! I popped some marshmallows in a little clear bag (...I couldn't help but nibble a few as I was sorting the into a pretty little pattern...!! lol!!) and made the top of the bag on my computer. I used one of lily-boo's really cute little betty's to make the circle, I didn't want to colour it in as it looked so cute as it was. I made it in word and inserted the picture into it. The sentiment inside is part of a poem I found. A bit of spotty ribbon and a little heart brad for the front of the card and hey presto!! one hot choc gift card for my lovely big sis!! Thankyou en for the fantastic inspiration you gave me, check out en's blog with this link..

http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/

and Lily-boo's boutique with this one..

http://www.lily-boosboutique.blogspot.com/

Party Penguin!!!!

Good morning peeps!!!!!!

Well exam season has been on us here in the UK and 2 of the children I used to nanny for have just finished A- levels and G.C.S.E.'S so I made them this little penguin card last week to share, ( they are brother and sister so sharing is ok!!!)

I used one of the cute Lily-boo's boutique penguins in a circle for the front and ran a bit of silver pearlescent card through my cuttlebug with spots and dots to get a kind of funky mat behind the penguin. I popped a bit of ribbon over the little join in the embossing and inked the edges with charcoal. The sentiments I did on my computer.I popped some 3d gloss on the little guy but it is sort of hard to see in the picture. He is kind of cute don't you think?!

I got the most amazing birthday gift from my friend at work yesterday, it is a punch that makes a 3d butterfly, it is soooo cool!!! I practised on a free catalogue that came through the door last week and it looks very pretty now!!! lol!!!! I will make a card with it when i get a chance but my mojo has taken a bit of a knock with my lovelt holiday finishing and getting back into the working week routine!! so i am off to go and find it now!!

Thankyou for popping in!!!

Polkadoodle's challenge 3!!!!

Here is my attempt at the 3rd polka doodle challenge.

I used my new download FBQ- some assembly required and the little extras one you can get from http://www.nitwitcollections.com/ .

I love these papers, they are sooo cute. I used 3 of the papers and then the heart embellie that comes in the extras bit for the front. It is just a simple tag pocket card so doesn't stand up but I love it. I used some of mo's fiskars shape cutting scissors to get the decorative edge, ( I was thinking it looked like a saw...!!!) I made the flower using one of the little bttons that comes in the extras kit and some scraps of ribbon to make the petals.

You will probably notice that the last picture doesn't have the cute flower buttony thing on it....thats because i didn't see the flower bit (......until my lovely friend kate told me i had missed it!!lol!! thankyou kate xxxxx)

The picture is a little bit pants because it is a bit of a grey and gloomy day here in lincoln today :(

Right I have to go and pop some really, really cute new girls on sams blog now (for those that don't know it is http://www.lily-boosboutique.blogspot.com/) I know I am always saying that I am a little biased but i can't wait to get a chance to get my hands on these cuties!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in!!!!

Gorgeous award from eileen and ooooh, I found a new place to shop!!!!!

Oh I love this card!!! itis just soooo cute!!!

I got my normal armful of card mags last month and there was a piece in one of them about nitwits collections, heres the site address but be warned if you go there it will take you hours to get out!!!! I still haven't looked at all of them
http://www.nitwitcollections.com/

Anyway, after a bit of deciding I chose the FQB - Bear Necessities Collection, omg!! it is just so nice.I made this card for harriet using it and my new IQ smooth paper ( as suggested in the mag too) from staples and I am so pleased with the result of the paper, it was definately worth getting. I chose the thickest paper, i think it is 160gsm and it really does make a difference tothe printing, i didn't even need to use best photo like i normally do, i just hit print and it came ot so pretty. So my enabling for today is to get yourself over to nitwits!!!! my next download when i have done some begging with scott is the 'some assembly required' collection!!!!!!!

I also got this gorgeous award from eileen today too, she made it herself and i think it is beautiful, thankyou so much eileen, you made my day xxxxxxx

Home from my holiday and a first go at ATC's!!!

Hellloooo!!!! we came home a little early today!!! we have had such a lovely time and have 2 days of holiday left so we are going to take mo to the safari park tomorrow. On the way home scott took us to springfields s I could spend some of my birthday pennies on some A3 paper and then to Alicraft to get a couple more tilda's with what little pennies I had left!!!! lol!!!!
Anyway, I made these 2 little ATC cards for my happy mail friend michelle. It is the first time I have tried them, I made the purple one first then michelle sent me a really sweet book with them in and mine felt a bit pants so I made the tilda one. They both have little tags, michelle loves gardening hence the little gardening bear on the purple one and I just love the way that you can get a sitting tilda to sit on a ribbon so I had to do her!!!
Well I am just catching up on my 'The Guardian's I missed while i was away and then I am going out into my lovely little crafty garage that I have missed ooodles since I have been away. I also have to ring my big sis and see how many reams of paper she has gotten through while I have been away and see if she is coming to play on friday night!!!!!
thankyou for popping in xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Polkadoodle challenge 2 and Loving my holiday!!!

hellllo from my caravan!!!!!!!
scott and mo are having a holiday snoozle so i have got my polkadoodle challenge card done!!!! the weather is gorgeous again, mo and i were on the beach at 6:45am!!!!! and we have been to norfolk lavendar for a cream tea, going back for dinner when the boys wake up!!!!! so heres my polkadoodle card, the picture isn't great as its too bright if i take it outside and not quite bright enough if i take it inside!!!!
I am a little bit sad as in my rush to pack i left the gorgeous polkadoodle butterflies i had printed out to go with it in the printer!!! so i had to go for a pearlescent happy birthday instead!!! the stamps are some papermania ones i got free on my do-crafts mag. The ribbon was going to match the butterflies to a tee but hey ho!!! it still looks cute!!!! I am currently sat on the decking outside the caravan under a curtain so i can see my laptop as the reception is a little dodgy and worse inside!!!
Don't forget to click on my polkadoodle blinkie to take you to the site to check out this weeks sketch!!!!
see you soon !!!xxxxxxxx

Whoop-whoop!! doing the happy dance!! I got 1st place in the first ever polkadoodle challenge!!!!

Omg!!!! I still cannot believe I won this challenge, there were so many awesome entries so I am really proud of myself!!! I have never used a card sketch before and I loved it, I can't wait to start this weeks challenge!!If you click the polkadoodle picture at the top of the right hand column it should take you straight to the blog so go now!!!!!!!!Thankyou for popping in xxxxxx

wedding tag card!!

Hellllooooo!!!!!!!

yey!!! I have finished the last card that was in abit of a line and I will be able to have some playtime for me!!!!

This wedding card is for a lady who used to work with me who is getting married abroad, as always there are lots of us to sign it so this card has 10 tags in all. It isn't very big as I didnt know if they would be taking it with them and didn't want it to take up lots of room!!!!! I wanted to achieve classy, uncluttered blingyness for this card as Jodie, who is the one getting married, loves bling!!!! and is quite young too so I didn't fancy anything too fussy.

The glittery bit on the front is embossed with the heart blocks cuttlebug folder but it is so hard to see due to all the bloing. I cut the little vellum pockets at 4" from my tbbm cart and the tags at 2.25". The cardbase is one that I have saved in my CDS and I use it a lot.

The 'love doves' (!!!!) are from the wedding solutions cart and I popped a blingy heart on the shadow too, Jodie loves a bit of bling!!!!!!

The sentiment I did on my computer and the little heart brads are from my stash of embellies!!!!!!

As always, I had to ink the edges of everything....!!!!!!!

Thankyou for peeking!!!!

hugs,

Lou xxxxx

Yey!!!! finished my book and I love it!!!!

I have been busy today!!!

Firstly I went for a bike ride to check out biking to work on thursday as scott is going to the golf open and will need the car, I only work 10 mins car drive away but have to take little mo on the bike with me so thought I would try and find a quieter route than the normal busy one, I wombled down some farm tracks to get there, they were quite hilly, a lovely bike ride but not all that suitable for mo on his little bike seat in front o me so we will be oging the normal way!!! lol!!! as for mo, he has the tummy lergy everyone seems to be getting at the moment and has had a pretty ykky afternoon, bless him.

So I got on with the book I needed to make for sam to give her friend for her birthday. I decided I wanted it to kind of match the card I made for her so got my storybook cart back out and cut the robin in the tree out on my B&Q special wallpaper ( chose the browny leather effect one to match the parcel paper!!) and used my birds and swirls folder again.

Then I cut two covers from a cereal box (...good ole kelloggs!!!) and covered them with parcel paper, I inked the edges :) I made a couple of triangular pockets to stick on the inside of the covers and then popped them in my BIA on the 'cover' setting for punching. I got out some white paper I have had for ages ( it is 6.25" x 8.75") and rounded 2 of the edges and popped that in the BIA on the 'inner pages' setting. For every 10 pages of white I made a parcel paper pocket page ( there are 2 of those pages which make 2 pockets each, you can never have too many pockets!!!!!!) and binded it all together with a 3/4" o wire.

I wrapped a bit of terracotta organza around the middle so it went over the paper but under the tree (....my attempt to be design-ery!!!!!) and used 6 of my very lovely new card candy, these ones were out of the 'choclate drops' packet and are a metallicy kind of chocolatey colour, mmmm they are so sweet, love them.

Then I cut a bit of brown,thin leathery lace stuff to tie the book together, I left it long as it is a book for sketches and it may get full so I wanted the lace to be long enough to tie it when it has been used a bit!!!

So I am very pleased with myself for this one as I was a little worried I wouldn't be able to get it done nicely enough. If I get time I want to tryand make a matching pen witha bit of the patterned paper I have left.

I am quite chuffed as my layout used 1 full piece of the same paper and then some little cuts on another piece of the same paper and I have got the birthday card and this book done using the bits lft from my layout ( Lou is pleased with self for being thrifty!!!!! lol !!!!!)

Thankyou for popping in, I am off to bed now to catch some zzzzzz's!!!! xxxxx

My card for the new blog Polkadoodles challenge!!

There is a great new blog called Polkadoodles and they are having their first challenge, it looked so nice I thought I would have a go at it. The design teams cards are so pretty, go and check it out and see the card sketch, heres a link http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/

I had a birthday card to make so I decided to have a bash at the challenge at the same time!!

For mine I got out my storybook cart, there is just so much on this one cart I love it!! I cut out the scalloped circle in 2 sizes to get the shadow, ran the smaller of the 2 through my cuttlebug with my new birds and swirls folder my big sis got me and inked it brown, then i inked the bigger scallop and popped some brown dots around the edge. I foam squared them together and opped them on my base ( also inked...you know how i love to ink!!!!)
Then I cut the bird on the branch and cut the robin to go on top ( that took a bit of playing around to cut one a size that would go nicely but I found it !!!) I inked all the edges brown and inked the leaves green.I went over the wing and eye with a brown whisper pen and then glazed the little robin to make him pop up a little, he is such a cutie.
I popped a bit of ribbon across and made my sentiment in word ( inside just says '....its your birthday') and inked th edges of that too (.....Lou wonders if she needs to join inkers anonymous?!!lol!!)
The little bird in the circle is just a punched circle I popped through my cuttlebug with the birds and swirls folder again, strategically placing it to get the little bird in the middle!!!!!!!....errrr...inked again!!!
As for the corner, I actually cheated a little bit . I wanted to use all my scraps left from my layout as the thin cardstock I used was just so pretty and I just had enough left to do the card so I cut 2 sqaures, (one patterned and one plain) cut them in half diagonally and stuck them on, I popped a basic grey brad through the plain piece that tied in the colours.
I think it turned out cute, I just have a sketch book left to make to finish off the birthday order from big sis for the person she asked for the card tonight and the present will be done.
Thankyou for popping by, hope you are all enjoying the weekend xxxx http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/