practising my pro-marking!!!!!!!

Helllooooo!!!! I have been locked away in m crafty garage trying to make this card for a couple of days, I don't know why but it was a major mojo lapse!!!
The card is at the bottom, please excuse the kind of birds eye view of it!! I used some gloss black card for the 1st card mat so whenever I tried to take a picture the flash kept bouncing off it!!! grrrr!!

I got my promarkers out and coloured in my miss anya image sent to me by one of my friends in an image swap, I think she is so sassy. I popped a little bit of glitter on her to bling her up a bit and some glossy accents on her bag so it looked leathery!!! I couldn't get it to show up in the picture though!!lol!!! I highlighted her bag a bit too with my white gel pen. Here she is....

Thankyou for popping in on me!!!!!

busy busy day yesterday!!!!

well i had a super day yesterday, me and mo had a pj day and did lots of playing and i got to craft a bit too!!!! i started off thinking i was going to get anything done and rolled out 3 cards then my mojo took a coffee break and came back with avengance just before i went to bed!!!!!

The first 3 cards are for challenges over on the FCTSC board, if you haven't ever been, click on the link and go, there are all sorts of forums for everything crafty and they have challenge bits too!!!!! I have only recently managed to get myself posting again rather than lurking butit really is great there.

Anyway, here are the cards!!! card 1 and 2 are for the sketch challenge set by stephanie.

Card number 1 is a 50th birthday card for scott's aunty, I used my stamped image sent to me by my lovely friend enfys, (i love this stamp, might have to add it to my list of needs!!!) I coloured the bottle in with a metallic green marker and the label of the bottle in gold and wrote a little 50 on it, hard to see in the piccy but the bubbles are stickled and glazed and the mirror is glazed too.

Card number 2 is just the one that popped into my head when I saw stephanie's sketch!!! the little skully paper is from funky hand and the co-ordinations card is embossed with tiny hearts with the tops sanded off!!! ( my big sis coloured this tilda when we were playing the other night in my crafty garage!!!)
Card number 3 is for anne's challenge, i used another bit of funky paper and my new rockstar stamp set along with a guitar from indie art cut in mirri card!! oh boy this one did not want to let me take a picture of it at all!!!! i embossed the black with spots and dots so it kind of looked like a speaker!!
Card number4 is one I made with a green challenge in mind!!!!!! his wings are stickled and the water is glazed but it was hard to get a piccy of that too!! well i can be hopeful that a green challenge is coming along!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in, I am off to sort my little mo out for school. He is having his first hot lunch today so hopefully he will enjoy that. It is the first time i will be dropping him off without scott there to keep me going!!! It is so hard dropping him of at school and walking away but he still seems very excited so thats good. Have a great monday everybody xxxxx

another birthday boy!!!!

Well its definately birthday time for our family at the moment!!!! i have made so many birthday cards recently bt i don't mind, i love it!!!!Today is my oldest nephews birthday. I used a lily-boo's circle boys for this one as Devon enjoys his foootball. I covered a couple more beermats with some blue paper, I needed the card to be sturdy as I wanted to attach 5 one pound coins onto it!! ( they are hidden under the little football stamps on vellum!!) I coloured the little footballer with my new promarkers ( i am still playing!!!) and then added some litle wooden letter stickersfrom the stash!!!!!I cannot believe Devon is 11, it doesn't seem that long since he was playing at aunty Lou's on a saturday zooming around my house in his baby walker!!!!

oh no, in my rush to get this on my blog i didn't realise i had forgotten to write about the challenge i have entered this card in!!!! I made this one with the allsorts challenge blog latest challenge in mind. This time it is for a boys birthday/male birthday,pop over and take part yourself everbody!!! Just right for me as I feel like i have been making boys cards for ages!!!!!
Thankyou for dropping by!! xxx

Eeky sneaky peeky reveal!!

Here it is!!!!!!
There are spooky goings on over on lily-boo's boutique!!! The halloweenies are out and getting ready to collect candy!!! they are just soooo cute, you have to click the link and go peek!!!
The lily-boo's DT have been busy creating too and there are some awesome ideas for these cute little guys!!

I chose to make a cute little book with mine and promptly covered 2 unsuspecting beer mats with spooky paper!!! I printed and coloured my spooky little chick in halloweeny colours and I tried to make her skin look spooky too!! the little skull is glazed with glossy accents and looks great in the fesh but in the awful light that the cloudy rainy weather is giving us here i couldn't for the life of me get a good piccy!!! I printed outa sentiment and cut them out with my stampin up oval punches ( my fav purchase from my awesome stampin up lady!!) Then i cut a few pages for the book from with my dreamkutz and popped them in my BIA and hey presto!!!

There will be about 10 of these books made by the time i have finished to go in the little trick or treat bags for the little ghouls and ghosties that will be going trick or treating with Mo.

I have been MIA and a little bit busy!!!

Hello everyone!!!

well i have had a whirlwind few days getting my little man ready for school. He had a lovely first day and I think he enjoyed himself. He was a little unsure when all the parents were in the classroom dropping their children off and huddled himself onto the playdough table with his head to one side but when we went to fetch him he was waving at the window to us with a smile!! He said " i went into the hall mummy and the children sitting at the back were maffif!!" ( maffif means massive!!!) so i think he has had his first assembly!!!

So i bought myself some promarkers on special offer from hobbycraft at the weekend and here is my first attempt at using them, it is mo's leaving nursery thankyou card for his teachers!! i think i love promarkers!!

Then I had a christenening card from a friend at work so out came the nitwits FBQ bear necessities I bought a while ago. I still love these!! i used my wild card for the card base, love that cart!!!! well i guess i had better get ready for work now!!!

thankyou for popping in xxxx

Eeeky sneaky peeky!!!!

Well.....what more can I say!!!!! heres a sneaky peek of something coming soon to a Lily-boo's boutique near you!!!!!

I have had the most wonderful day just wombling around with my boys!! I love days where you just womble around with your favourite people all day with no real need to rush or do anything in particular!!

I popped to my sisters to drop off my gorgeous nephews birthday book and take a peek at charlie ( her new puppy) and omg he is just the cutest little thing!! he was fast asleep in his basket and awwwwwwwww!!! mo absolutely loved him to bits!!! we are returning for more cuddles tomorrow!!!

right, i am off for a snuggle with my lovely dh and watch a bit of tv!!!!

Ooohhh!! new challenge blog!!!

I am such a mix of excited and nervous!!!

I have spent the last couple of weeks playing around making a challenge blog for Lily-boo's boutique and tonight it is up and running!! yey!!!!

This is the card I made (using Sams super cute freebie that is on the challenge blog!!).

The challenge was to make a new home card using a recipe from the kitchen of Enfys!! the recipe was 2 ribbons,3 flowers and 4 brads.

Here's what I came up with using a wiper card tutorial that I found on splitcoast stampers site.

The freebie image is so cute ( thanks Sam!!!). I coloured it using my copic ciao's and mounted it on a cuttlebugged birds and swirls (...bought for me by my big sis!!) background that I had inked over. I added my 3 paper roses and used 4 heart brads to attch the house to the card. My 2 ribbons are a little hard to see, one is a pale blue organza and the other is a pale blue thin satin ribbon on top of the organza one.

Here is a link to the challenge site Lily-boo too!! please pop over and take part!!! have a noseyat the DT's cards, they are amazing.

This is the second swiper card I have made, the first one I will post tomorrow, it was my happy mail to my lovely friend michelle.

Thankyou for popping in, I am off to get a cuppa now!!

My grandad's birthday card!!

Hello everyone!!!! happy sunday!! it has been a gorgeous day here today. We took mo to a new park and spent ages there, there was a litttle climbing wall and rope nests and stepping logs through the woods, it was just lovely. Though the poor little man managed to get ahuge splinter in his foot at home on the decking and oh boy did he cry when we tried to get it out!!! poor thing!!!

Friday was my grandad's birthday so I had to save posting my card on here until over this weekend incase he took a peek at it!!! For this one I used one of the gorgeous boys circles over on Lily-boo's boutique.

I coloured him with my copics and popped some 3d glaze on the bull rush heads,water and the fishes to pop them out a little.

I made the background in my word programme on my computer and made some of the words bold so they stood out a little more from the rest and a little seperate sentiment to pop on top too.

I folded one corner over and added a little heart brad and bit of ribbon to finish it off and with the scraps I had left I made the inside match. I really like this one as my grandad loves fishing so the image seemed just perfect!! the only problem is my older son Ryan saw it and heis really getting into fishing now and has asked me to make hima little book with my BIA with the same image so he can record what fish he catches!!!!!! ( i have to say it is a mighty fine idea!!!!)

Right, I have happy mail to make now and oh by has it gone all dark outside all of a sudden....rain on its way me thiks!!!! at least its the end of the day!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in!!!

Get funky challenge card!

Hello !!! Happy saturday everyone!!!!
I have had one of those weeks this week!! first i got stung by a wasp on my right buttock and oh boy did it go yukky!!! it was hard, very swollen and very sore for a couple of days!! now it is just sore!!!
than just when I really didn't want it to my mojo took a few days holiday without giving me notice!!! (lol!!!! I hate it when that happens!!!!!)
Luckily this morning I woke up with a little thought in my head and this is how it came out!!!! This is for 2 challenges!!! Firstly it is for the excting new Get Funky challenge. Anice gave us a gorgeous sketch to follow so pop over there to have a peek at it (...if I had popped the sketch here you wouldn't of wombled over for a peek now would you!!!! lol!!!!) I needed to se at least one funky hand paper but I decided on 2 and whipped out my salt and peper download ( oooh, its scrummy and YES you do need it!!!) I cut my oval with one of the papers in the collection and then paper pieced tilda's bow,t-shirt and shoes with the other piece which as super cute skulls and crossbones on it. decided to keep to a black and white theme for halloween and coloured ilda with my copic ciao warm grey's. The 2nd challenge it is for is the UK crafters thread where we needed to use swirls ( hence the pretty swirls in the background!!) a bit of black inking, silver ribbon for bling with my computer written sentiment on a stampin up oval and whehey job done!!!!!
Here is a close up of tilda so you can see how cute the paper is.

Right now I've finished waffling on for tonight so quick, click thatlink and get on over to Get funky

Thankyou for dropping by!!!

(((Hugs )))

Lou xxxx

Sneaky peek-a-boo reveal!!!!!

Morning everybody!!! it is such a beautiful day here, the sun is out and the family daubney are getting ready to go the our local nature park for a walk with the furry one and tea and cake ( which of course is a necessity!!!)
So here is my sneaky peek-a-boo revealed!!

Isn't the image just so cute!! Find them here at the boutique I love my little SK8R dude!!!!

I decided I wanted to make something a bit different with my image this time and with my nephew Jake's birthday coming up I decided I just had to make him a sketch book ( no surprises here that Jake has inherited some doodling genes from Sam!!!!) He is like a mini version of me and sam combined ( mwhaw haw haw...we have taught him well!!!!!!)

I coloured in my boy with my copic ciao's and trimmed around him. Then I made me a book with my BIA, the pages are just A4 plain paper trimmed down a little, the super cool blue spotty paper is actually a wallpaper sample from my local DIY store!!!!!! I love wallpaper samples, the little blue dots on it are flocked and soooo nice to rub!!!!!!! lol!!!

I attahched a little sketching pop a point pencil with a rubber on to the inside so everything he need to sketch away in in the book!!

I used my george cart to cut some circles and my all mixed up cart to cut his name in normal and shadow settings in some cool silver mirricard. I inked the edges with a dark blue ink ( hard to see in the piccy but because of the pearlescent wallpaper the piccy kept bouncing back on the camera!!!lol!!!) and then I stuck my little boy and circles in a diagonal acroos the front of the book. I couldn't resist a few silver card candy faux brads, they are just so yummy and a bit of blue metallicy thread tied around the binding.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's creations with this collection, they are awesome!!

right then I am off to get my walking boots on!!!!

Thankyou for dropping in on me xxxxxx