Distressing a gorjuss birthday!!

 Morning peeps!!

Yey, I am pleased to report a fab nights sleep with no daft fireworks going off!! wohooooo!!!!

This mornings Lou share is a card I made for a dear friends birthday. She lurves gorjuss girls so I had to use my 'I found my family in a book' stamp that I bought from Clare's shop, Cloud 9, at the sincerely yours papercraft show back in may.

There is ooodles of distressing on this one!!!!! The card blank was a kind of cookie colour and the image was stamped onto white, mased over and then a good old splodging of tea stain and walnut distress inks added!!
Same on my book page, which I punched down the egde of and the card base too.

Now her hair I have to thank Rosie for her fabby tutorial on.I worried about red hair until I saw hers!!! thank you rosie xx

I love how my little gorjuss girl came out. I had so much fun making this one.

To tie in the blues and the book page I made some more yummy mini flowers with my SU boho flowers punch and a bit of crafty notions spray ( very messy but totally oodles of fun!!!) the centres in these little flowers are punched Lou faux brads!! mmmm, not sure the sparkliness is showing up on the flowers :( and I added a few little blue pearls in the top left corner.

I added a squidge of hemp twine, and a couple of knots and the card was done.

I am entering this card in the Charisma Cardz challenge blogs distressing challenge.


Well, I am going to put the kettle on and have a cuppa and a jammy ring, anyone want one??!! thank you for popping in on me.

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Cuddly Buddly -anything goes challenge.

 Image- Cold Days from Lilyboo Designs.

Papers- Tea's Up and Funky Little Christmas from Funky hand.

Morning peeps!!!

urgh, I am a teensy bit grumpy and sleepy this morning. At 1am this morning one of our lovely nieghbours decided it was time to get very noisy and let off some fireworks. Letting them go up into the sky and waking everyone up was not enough so they let some go off down the road too, one even went under someone's car before exploding so I am very thankful it was just a little rocket. Luckily Mo slept through it all but Scott and I are both zombies this morning!!! Anywhoo, enough grumbling from the grouchy one, time to cheer myself up with a bloggy post!!!

The challenge over on Cuddly Buddly's let keep creating digi challenges this week is anything goes so I thought I would share a few more of the cards I have been making with my big sister's Cold Days digi (which is available in the Cuddly Buddly shop!!) 
I absolutely love christmas, its my favourite time of the year. I think when you work with little children like I do it keeps it all alive, so I am going to enter these little creations in the Craft your passion challenge blogs Favourite season challenge.

I am so determined not to be in a mega rush making all my chrimbo cards a week before christmas so am quite chuffed with myself for getting a little stasheroo going!!!!

 Papers from DCWV stash, can't remember what they were called...

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand

pink bazzil.

I have really enjoyed playing around with different colours for her but my fav has to be the first one with the blues and browns in that gorgeous Funky Hand papers with a juicy bit of bling on the heart!

I think thats me for this morning. We are off to the park for mo to run off some oompf this morning. They are having a skateboard ramp event today so Mo is looking forward to that. In his words " he is quite interested in doing that", oh he makes me giggle with the way he says things!!!! romfl!!!

Off to get myself dressed and sorted!! Have a fabulous sunday and thank you so much for coming back to see what I have been creating.

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Aida's off to university!!!

Image- Aida- Gonna Miss you from Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!!

Well, I have had a busy but fab day so far!! we were up bright and early ready to help my BF put some stones around her crafty palace. We worked hard and got it all done and it looks super now. Then we came home for showers and went off to do the shopping, came home, had lunch and then I have had a play with my new Aida image from Tiddly Inks and in a couple of minutes we are going out on our bikes. Phew!!!!

So onto Aida!! isn't she gorgeous??!!!

I decided she is just perfect for all those chicks going off on their university/ gap year adventures around now so that it was I based my card around and it came out cute. I kept the same colour scheme throughout and of course had to add some pearls in there too!!!

Here's another angle piccy so you can see the gold clasps and nails in her suitcase!!

You can get Aida Here at the Tiddly Inks store ( oh and watch out for another post soon as there is a boy too!!! He is called Aidan  and is perfect for those boys taking the same journey to university/gap years!!).


Have a fabulous rest of your saturday!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

CES Water it challenge!!

Hiyah peeps!!!!

Happy friday!!!
This is my little challenge card for the CES challlenge blogs Water it challenge. I made top 3 at CES last week and I was so super chuffed, thank you girls xxxxx

Now no giggling ( ...and if Ma and Pops are reading this bloggy post....no, I didn't forget Aunty Diane's card....really.... ;)  ) But first, i forgetted to makey the card and then I nearly forgetted to enter in over on the challenge blog too!!!! argghhhhh!!! daft me!!!
The little RNLI flag is because she loves the RNLI!! and who doesn't if we are honest, they do an awesome job keeping us all safe when in trouble on the water.

It must be the school holidays that are mushing my brain!! I am actually getting to the point where I can't remember which day it is but I shouldn't complain as I am absolutely loving my time off with my little guy. Today we have done bowling and a yummy lunch and Mo went off to the park with daddy this afternoon so I could make an attack on the ironing pile that has been overtaking Ryan's bed since he went on hols on tuesday!!!!!

right best go linky this is before the challenge ends!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx

Mo's digital pencil too Anything but a card challenge.

  Hello again peeps!!! I am a 2 posts in one day gal today!!!!

When I saw the  Anything but a card challenge over on Mo's digital challenge blog I had to have a go at entering with a little box bag I have been working on today!!!
Little Mo and Boo came home from the play area kinda comatose so I have been having a little make whilst they veg out!!! (Lucky me, think I will go to the play area daily from now on!!!!) 
I found a completely awesome tutorial for this box over on qbeesquest's blog last week.


I had an order for a Dad birthday card that was a bit special and this is what I have come up with. ( said special dad likes golfing!!) Out came my mo's digital pencil Big Guy Golfing, a total must when you know lots of golfy people!!!!

Here's a view from the side.... yup, I know you are thinking where the heck is the Big Guy????!


I even made a cute mini golf ball for the opening part which is hiding a bit of velcro.

 ....and this is how it opens up to reveal my little surprise inside!!! I added a golf ball!!!!

Its a golf ball inside!!! hence needing the velcro fastening for a good strong close when the bag is all tucked up.

There is a fantastic verse about how Dad's were created. It is my all time fav and my dad's are probably fed up of getting it!!! but its so lovely. Here's a linky to the verse (especially for Ali who needed it xxxxxxx)
I made the golf ball holdery bit out of a loo roll and covered it in matching dp to the rest of my box.
I included a tag to write on too for any personal greeting.

I really really enjoyed making this one so Thank you to mo's DT for giving me the push with all their fabulous creations over on the challenge blog, go check them out yourself as they are fab!!

Thank you for popping in on me!! hugs Lou xxxx

New Tiddly inks Vampires- ooohhhhh!!

Image-Vamp Me  from Tiddly Inks.

 Morning peeps!!!

Now, most of you know I love Twilight ( roll on november.....) so when Christy sent out the new Vampire Tiddly Inks Images I literally squeeled and set to work straight away ( ......then had to stop for a couple of hours after Little Mo gave himself a hair cut to get some hair for the 'First lock of hair' pocket in his baby book that was empty.....)


I absolutely love the new images and got to work making a couple of fun cards with them. The first one above uses Vamp me   and the coffin and gravestone from the Vampire extra pack. I just had to make a coffin shape card with the coffin!!!! Now, my boy vampire on this one actually sparkles like Edward from Twilight   ( mmmmmmmmm..Edward....) but could I get it to show in the photo.......No :) !!!

And then onto my second card which uses Forever and some of the word art from the Vampire extra pack. I flipped the word art onto its side and merged it with the image. The ribbon is from my lovely friend Clare's shop, Cloud nine in Horncastle and I love it, gotta go get more!!! and the text paper is just a page from one of my old books that I have beaten up a bit and added black soot distress ink to. The flower is a scrunched up scalloped circle flower made with more book, 8 layers with a gorgeous basic grey brad in, love it.

Image- Forever from Tiddly Inks.

Now, I couldn't have a Tiddly post without sharing the birthday card I made for a dear friend to give to her OH for his birthday. She is moving and had packed up all of her crafty stuff (omg...I am so feeling the withdrawal for her!! having it all and not being able to make would be absolute torture for me!!)

I merged all the wizards  ( Christy made one with glasses and one without in one download, awesome!!) and wizardette together for this one and I love love love it!!! I made the little wand in the top left out a matchstick and the little snake in the bottom left is cut on my cricut.

Image- Wizard and Wizardette from Tiddly Inks.

 It needed red and blue and harry potter theme so I think I got it all in!!! I even squeezed in a romantic love heart!!! there is glossy accents on Harry's glasses and Hermionie's magical bubbles!!

Well, that's me for today I think!! not sure I can squish any crafting in today, busy me!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me, your comments really inspire me to keep going and sharing.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Cuddly Buddly challenge 6- Faux or real stitching.

Image- Cold Day from Lilyboo designs.

Morning peeps!!!!

Urgh, we have woken up to rain and grey skies this morning :( but to cheer myself up I have been busy creating a little card to enter in the Cuddly Buddly's lets keep creating challenge blogs Real or Faux stitching challenge.

I love stitching, it is one of the things I find really relaxes me. I used to cross stitch all the time before I was bitten by the paper crafting bug so a bit of running stitch seemed to be in order for my card.

My martha stewart cherish edger is always a fabulous one for stitching. It looks beautiful without the stitching too so its an all round winner of a punch really!!!

My little girly image is from my big sisters new wintery ones and I totally adore her. She is called Cold Days and is a complete bargain at 99p!!! I sized her up so I could fit 6 of her on one A4 size piece of digi smooth cardstock. I haven't finished colouring them all up yet but here's a little close up of her!!! she is just so sweet with her windswept hair and bobbly hat. And of course she needed fluffy wuffy snow to stand in....

The papers are all from my old stash of papermania ones.This little 6x6 pad is slowly fading to nothing now but I love it!! I will be so sad when it is all gone!! I punched out one of the little circles from the merry christmas sheet and embossed it to get my little sentiment button. I love it! 

So, thats me for this morning!!! Don't forget to pop on over to the Cuddly Buddly blog as there is still time to enter this weeks challenge using a Cuddly Buddly digi. I am determined to enter earlier next week!! it always seems to be wednesday before I get myself organised!!

Have a fabulous day!!

Hugs Lou xxx

Fetch a sketch challenge 4.

This is my 2nd post for the day so if you are looking for my Tiddly Tuesday post, it is HERE!!

I was having big bloggy problems last night ( after a totally huge snooze of 4 hours long...ooops!!) so I decided to get busy on my challenge card entry for the Fetch a sketch challenge blog. 


Here is the current sketch, if you click on it you will be magically pootled over to the fetch a sketch challenge blog....

I turned the sketch on its side and enlisted the help of a wintery edwin to help me get another christmas card make ticked off my list!!! I even did some real stitching on it with some metallic thread ( very threaputic when Mr Blogger won't work for you!!) and a bit of puffy wuffy snow for him to walk on too!!!

The gorgeous flowery black paper is from my Dreams Come True cd from Funky Hand. It is the 3rd paper in on the darkness lifts colourway and I love it.

So thats me for today!!!
huge hugs Lou xx

Tiddly Inks challenge 61- Thank you teacher!

Image- Teachers Change The World from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!! Its Tiddly Tuesday again and we all know what that means!!!!!!! fabby new images in the shop and a fun new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and not forgetting ofcourse that there is always something exciting over on Christy's personal blog for you too!!!

This week our challenge is .....

Thank you Teacher.

and us little Tiddly Inkers were set the challenge on creating a little gift/creation/card for a teacher. We all know they do a totally awesome job looking after our little peeps so they need a thank you now and again!!

Well, I am a nursery nurse and I am on holiday with little Mo at the moment but when I go back to work in september I will gain a new group of little peeps who will be my keyworkers. I like to keep all the info I need on them in a little notepad so I can refer to it all easily and thus my little creation is a gift for me!! yey!!!

I coloured up my chosen image, Teachers change the world, all me style!! and added my name to the little chalkboard. Everyone at work calls me Mrs. D and I love it!! its a nickname that even the parents and children call me and it makes me feel at home when I am at work which is so nice.

Here's a little close up of the image.....

I also added some glossy accents to the big yummy apple in the bottom left corner and made a rosette out of my little sentiment by nestifying it and adding a paper ribbon to the bottom!! cute!!
My notepad is a pukka pad so it has a really handy plastic front that will protect my little altered front page a treat.

The alphabet paper was a download from the papercraft inspirations blog, I just printed it out on some cream linen paper.

 This was a super fun make and I am thinking of doing a few more notepads now (ya'll know what I am like once I get addicted to something!!!)

Right must pootle off and have a quick look around bloggy land before I go and pick up Lily and Jake for another day of playing!!

Thank you for popping in on me. Daft as itsounds, little comments and visits from peeps make my day.

Huge Tiddly Tuesday hugs
Lou xxx

Basic grey -sizzling summer.

Morning peeps!!

How are you all this super monday morning I am fab. I am so enjoying my holiday time with Mo and spending some qaulity time together.

Last night when he had gone to bed I had some time to make a little tent card for the Basic Grey challenge blogs Sizzling Summer challenge.  and Papertake weeklys Anything goes challenge.

There's nothing cuter in summer than seeing the little peeps enjoying it so I just had to ink up my new little tilda baby in her cute fuzzy bunny slippers and pop her in a lovely magnolia summer garden scene!!!

I used papers from my Basic Grey Sugared pad again ( yes, Lou, Fleur and Louise, I am totally blaming you guys for making me use my stroke only papers!!!!!! xx) I paper pieced the bunny slippers and frilly pants so that they matched the papers (How fab is the flamingo and giraffe paper!??)

I punched the edge of the top piece of paper with my martha stewart punch and then nestied out the shape for the cut out bit.

I made myself some teeny weeny but totally cute flowers for around a couple of the corners and tied in some brown by inking the edges and a bit of brown organza ribbon around the top.

Now, its actually quite hard to take a piccy of a tent card!! It took me no less than 16 attempts to get these 2 pictures!! ROMFL!!!

So thats little ole me for today!!!!

In a couple of hours I am taking Mo and my niece and nephew out to the opening of our new asda's ( which is quite daft as it is open already but has had a bit of a shuffle around and a pharmacy put in therefore needs an opening celebration.....) and there are going to be people dressed up as star wars characters. Well, how excited is Mo?.............
This excited!!!!!

Mo-bi Wan Kenobi !!!

(Yup...they are white pj's but I am sure no-one will notice....!!)

Lol!!! he's too funny!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me and May the force be with you!!!!! :)

Hugs Lou xxx