Lili of the valley summer feel challenge!!

Morning peeps!!!!

Lili of the valley challenge blog were looking for a card with a summer theme and being as I have 20 or so summer birthdays to prepare for I thought this card would be perfect!!!!

I used this cute little crab from Lily-boo's under the sea digi set, it has such cute summery under the sea pictures with oval frames around them, I love it, I have to admit I was stuck between using the crab or the mermaid but I decided on the crab as I could make him a snappy birthday sentiment on my computer!!!! I coloured up my digi with my promarkers.

( coral for the crab and leaf green and honeycombe for the fishies, leaf green and holly on the greeny weed and pastel blue for the water, buttercup and sandstone for the sand)

When he had dried, I covered the crab in some glossy accents to make him pop out a bit!!!

I decided on a step card so I could put some waves on it and cuttlebug embossed a bit of card for behind the oval with my tiny bubbles folder.

I used my martha loop punch for the 'waves' and rubbed a bit of blue ink on them then went over the top with a bit of frayed burlap distress ink so it didn't look to shiny.

I used a bit of my garden twine to wrap around as i thought it looked a bit like fishermans rope and it gave me a sea feeling!!

I popped a couple of eyelets into my crabby oval and popped some twine through there too.

Well Little Mo is terribly excited about going to Longleat today (......hence the early morning posting on my blog as he got up at about 4:30am this morning......) I must admit I am rather excited myself but ever so slightly worried about the gorilla island and sea lion bit as you have to get on a boat to see them, I do not do boats, not even a little squidge, I am terrified of them, its the water thing for me, so that might have to be a mummy cup of tea moment!!!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me.

Big hugs,

Lou xxxxxxx

Gribbit!!!!!! my yummy magnolia frog prince stamp!!!

Oh my goodness me!!! this stamp is just too cute!!!!he came in my magnolia spring club stamps and he is just fab!!!

I made this last night, I coloured him up with leaf green and a bit of pastel biege for his tummy and shading and a gold at you spica for his crown I felt he needed a bit of bling on his crown too so he is the best prince in the pond!!!!! lol!!!!

The heart shaped love words are a magnolia stamp too.

The super yummy paper is my minds eye wild asparagus paper and it went perfectly with my froggies greeness!!!!!! a bit of martha, distress inks and a heart shaped charm on a bit of garden twine and he was done!!!!

On the inside I popped a good for a kiss anytime ticket stamp with a little bit more twine on.

Well, I have had a morning so far of being entertained by Mo who has taken a liking to Justin Bieber and is doing me a show of the Baby Baby song, it is soooo cute!!!!!! might have to get him the album!!!!!

Right, cup of tea and then work for me!!!

big hugs Lou xxxxxx

Shaped card fun and Get Funky's may challenge!!

Oooooh I do love shaped card, they are soooo much fun to do, which is super as the challenge this month that Enfys has set over on the Get Funky challenge blog is shaped cards.

Here is my little angel sitting on a star shaped card!!! The angel is one of the new releases from Lily-Boo's boutique that I coloured up yesterday, I embossed her moon a bit to make it look a bit more 'moony'!!!.

I made the cardbase and topper in design studio, (it's two of the stars from george and basic shapes with another for the topper) and cut them on some gorgeous blue patterned paper rom the blue magic section on my funky hand 'Dreams come true' CD.

Behind the topper is a piece of sticky silver glitter vinyl and I popped a little gem in the midle of each star.

For the little stars and the sentiment over the top of the card I used a little crescent shape of acetate and the little stars that came out of the hols in my topper, I cut a slightly bigger one for my 'for you' sentiment.

I wanted to keep the inside quite simple after the bling of the outside so just popped 'happy birthday' in there.

This second card is my super cute little pirate guy I also coloured yesterday (and Mo has taken a shine to this card!! don't think it will make it into an envelope for anyone!!) he isn't for the Get Funky challenge but I couldn't leave him out!!!!Again I used my design studio ( figured I'd better give it some use now Fi has set up a cricut club for us here in Lincoln, I don't want to look to rusty at class!!! romfl!!!)

I welded together 2 of the palm tree's on the island on the pirate boy key of paper dolls dress up. For some texture on the leaves and sand I gave the a squizz through my cuttlebug and inked them up, the trunk I used some of my wood effect cardstock from my jolly to the kanban factory!! ( I tell you that £20 box is endless and the cardstock cuts like butter with a cricut).

So thats the fruits of my labour for today!!!!! I am going to have a lovey hot cup of tea and a couple of oreo biccies now and then I might go out to play in my crafty garage again.

Here is our 'Mo-ism' of the day - "mummy and daddy , i know that you have to fall of your bike to learn how to ride but my leggie's are all bruisey and I am not doing anymore bruisey-ing today so I am going to leave it for a couple of days!!"

He just makes me laugh so much you can't help but hug him!!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, hugs Lou xxxxxx

A day of colouring!

Hello peeps!! I've been busy colouring these cuties today!!!

Guess who watched avatar again last night?!!! lol !!

I am just about warmed up now after watching ryan play football this morning, it was sooooo cold and windy!!!!!!

I treated myself to a bit of colouring this morning before we went! I picked out one the new angels from lily-boo's boutique and one of the litle pirates. I fancied experimenting on my angels with some of my promarker colours that I hadn't used. I think they came out cute.

I had some more time with little Mo practising the bike with no stabilizers thing!!! it is coming on but slowly, he is such a sensitve scared little man but we will keep trying!!!!
Right of for a cuppa and then out to my crafty garage to put these cuties into action!!!

Lily-boo too May challenge- shaped cards!!

AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! I just love this new little digi , he is in the new set Sam has on Lily-Boo's boutique!!!

I am very lucky to have such a creative chick as a big sister!!!!

The challenge over on Lily-Boo too's challenge blog this month is SHAPED CARDS. Lucky me, I had my trusty wild card cart for my cricut on hand!!! The tough part to that was choosing which card shape to use!!!!

I loved the sentiment on this one though, it fitted so nicely with the huge hug that this little doggy was giving his bone!!!

I embossed the cardstock behind him with a fiskars texture plate in my cuttlebug and chalked it gently with brown, the little pawprints on the edge of the card are a punch i bought ages ago in a little stationary set.

My super cute little dog is coloured with my promarkers ( sandstone for his body, pastel pink for the bottom of his paws and pastel beige for a bit of shadowing).

Please pop over and join in with the challenge on Lily-Boo Too, you can help me to see if the new linky works for posting your creations!! We are always looking for a simple and easy way for you to link your amazing creations and think ( with the help of Tami!!) we have found a way!! ( mind you, it took me half an hour to get the thing to post properly!!! Lou hangs her head in shame at her computer iliterate self!!!!!!)

I am entering this cute little guy in the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft - Don't be Square

CRAFT - Shaped card

Meljens Designs - Shaped card

Pennys Challenges - Shaped Card

Right then, ASDA's is calling me ( actually the fridge ad the cupboards in the Daubney household are calling ASDA's).

Thankyou for poppig in on me, have a super duper saturday!!!!

Little Mo with wings!!

Morning peeps!!! Its a lovely morning here, it rained overnight but it is quite bright and cheery this morning.

Over on the UK crafters thread Kerry and Kate gave us a wings cricut cut and material (optional) challenge. I had an idea in my head quite quickly for a layout usig a photo of little Mo that scott had played with in photoshop. He had so much fun jumping from one wooden platform t the next and scott snapped this fab picture of him mid- flight!!!!
I used the winds from indie art and stuck them onto the base photo, then I used another photo to cute Mo out. I popped the top layer up on foam squares so he is standing out from the page.
The 'explore' is from my home accents cart and the 'let your dreams take flight' is all mixed up.
The material is some sacking my mum gave me in a bag of material last week, there were all sorts of goodies in it!!!!

The buttons are basic grey, sam and I had lots of fun arranging them last night!!!!

Here's a close up of little Mo flying! its so hard to take a picture and get the dimension to pop out!!!
I am so looking forward to the long weekend, I have got some yummy new digi's from Lily-boo's boutique to play with so, they are so fab ( Jo, you will love one of the new sets hun! xx) I am really excited about them, will try and post you a sneaky peek over the weekend.

And Lily-boo's boutique is sponsoring passion for promarkers weekend workshop too!!!! honestly I dont think my weekend could get any better!!!!

Right I had better get myself going as we have to drop off our poor car at the garage for a new clutch and gearbox (ouch!!!) before we drop the little guy off at school.

Thank you for popping in on me xxxxxxx

beautiful sunshine and a baby card!!!

Oh the sunshine is pretty today here, it makes me feel so cheery to see the sunshine in a morning and wake up to the birds singing.

I am just waiting for some glue to dry on a project I am doing for the UK crafters thread before I can so the next bit so thought I would take some time out from watching the glue dry to post this cute little card I made last night!!!

Its the giraffe from the new arrival cart, one of my friends was making him at cricut club a couple of weeks ago and he looked so sweet, I had to give him a go.

I popped him on a middle step card and used martha to pretty it up. I used a little baby sentiment on the front and a little heart charm, so cute!!!!!!!

I am in for a lonely night tonight as scott is in london in a meeting for the day and won't be back until 9:30pm ish so I might get some more made!!!

Thankyou for popping in, my little blog seems to off been a bit lonely lately and I love peoples comments, it inspires me to make more!!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Sarah Kay again!!!!!!

Happy sunday peeps!!!!

I forgot to post this Sarah Kay cardwhile we were having our swirls cut challenge on the cricut MB, she will fit nicely into the challenge still going on over on andrea's blog!!!

I really wish I had taken a piccy of this card standing up before it started its travels over to australia but hey ho!!!!!!

Its a btgrey and rainy here today but its ok as Mo is catching up with a few episodes of special agents oso and i am playing with the new dogs digi set from lily-boo's boutique, its so cute!!!

thankyou for popping in on me!!

hugs lou xxxxxx

another sarah kay with a bit of experimenting!!

hello peeps!!

I am still in the fog of uni work but I had to feed my poor little lonely blog so I am going to post another one of my sarah kay creations tonight!!!! she's another one for my friend andrea's sarah kay challenge, please go and check out her blog as she has her first set of digi stamps on there now (......and they are swit-swoo!!!!!)

I made this one using my 'rose's garden' sarah kay stamp.

I love this stamp and have made a few cards with her, she is so sweet.

I played around a bit with this one as I was feeling experimental!!!! I made some peel off flowers again , embossed them and blinged them up with some ambery coloured gems.

For Rose I stamped her in black ink and then cut her with a scalloped oval nestie, then I got my crafty notions bronze coloured spray out and gave her and the flowers a good squirt!!! she looks so much prettier in the flesh than she does on my blog!!

The top bit of base paper I cuttlebugged embossed, the bottom bit is from my do crafts goody bag i got a while ago, it had the yummiest sunshine papers in it. A bit of thin organza ribbon and it was job done!!!

Right back to the books!! hugs to you all!!!

My little edwin tag card!

This is the other card I made at crciut club yesterday, I am still having fun with the tag from the plantin schoolbook cart and my lovely friend denise gave me this bit of paper left over from her project and lent me a yummy punch ( i am not sure what it was but it was so cool) and my card just came together!!!

I coloured edwin up with my promarkers and embossed his litle face and arms then ripped a bit of the scrap paper and popped it on his tag and sat edwin on the top of it!!! lots of chalking around the edges ( you know i just have to chalk!!!) and then popped edwins tag on top of the shadow sized tag. Then that went on top of the paper and punched strip.

The buttons were from my stash and the string is some crochet cotton I bought last week because i needed some natural looking string!!!!

So easy but really,really cute!!!!
thank you for popping in on me xxxxx