Happy Birthday!!!!!!

Images and papers- Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand

Morning peeps!!!

Hope you are all having a great Saturday so far. In our house we are having an excellent one. Mo slept in until 6:45am and then the postman bought him a super super exciting present from a very dear friend of ours.....I have had a little Indian running around my house ever since!!!!

This is the best  piccy I could get for now as he is having so much fun running around shooting his arrows at cowboys!!!

My cute little Indian Mo is going to a party in a couple of hours for one of his little friends at school. I cannot believe they are all on their way to turning 7 now, it doesn't seem so long ago they were all 4 and off on an adventure to school!!! anyway, Mo was supposed to be helping mummy with making a card but had cowboys to get so I had to do it on my own!!!

I chose  the Brithday Boy colourway from my Happy Happy birthday papercraft factory, the little monster digi stamp and a few of the characters in the alphabet. Like Mo, Rhys's name is a bit of a rarity when it comes to finding a name card so my workspace on Happy Happy Birthday was just perfick for this card. 

I added the alpha's first and then popped my little monster slightly over the R. I used the writer for the happy birthday text, the text used is called kontrapunkt and I love it for boys. I printed it all out and then added a bit of september song ribbon and a few card candies.

And here's inside...you have to imagine the white rolled up paper tucked in the slit is a £5 note.....Scott is currently off on a mission to the post office and is bringing me one back to swap the paper for!!!!

I am entering this cute little card in the following challenges.....

The scs challenge blogs Inspired by a song challenge...happy Birthday to you for the song!!

totally gorjuss's challenge its a man thing- this one's for a boy which fits too!!

Ok, better get my butt into gear and get my Little Indian in some party clothes!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Owlette!

 Image- Owlette from Tiddly inks

Morning peeps!!!

How is everyone this morning? great I hope? I am just having a nice cup of tea and a bloggy womble before I go to get pack ups done for work and school for me and mo!!

I also have this little card to share that I made a little while ago for the  Tiddly inks steampunk releases. I can't believe I forgot to post here in my bloggy, derrrrrr!!!!

This classy chick is Owlette. I love her cute little owl. I used my SU sense of time set to help me decorate it and the steampunk paper I just found when googling one day, I love it though I can't remember where I got it from!!!!

 I just love that cog stamp in the SU sense of time set, it is fab and I used frayed burlap distress ink to stamp it and I love how it comes out.

Right then, time to get a bit of a move on asI have another 9-5:30pm day at work. It was great going back to work yesterday and the day went so quickly. I am really pleased with how my new work hours will be as I get the best of both worlds, time at home and to be around for Mo and then time for me at work which I love. Scott is always home on a friday due to working long hours mon-thurs so its all good really!!


Anyway, off time for me!!! Huge friday hugs 
Lou xxxx

OMG!!! Frizzy Jynx!!!!!!

 Image- Frizzy Jynx from Saturated Canary.

Hello again peeps!!!

i did try to keep to the one post today but then....well...I just had to go shopping over in Krista's Saturated Canary etsy shop too........

Now I am completely blaming my purchase on my Tiddly Inks teamie Emma who showed me the linky to the shop on facebook!!!!!! Bad Emma!!!

So yesterday,I went for a pootle in the shop and saw Frizzy Jynx who totally and utterly reminds me of my cheeky little niece, Boo, who wouldn't give me a kiss on saturday when I saw her and stuck her tongue out instead!!!  

Total trauma when I poped to the shop to get her today and couldn't see her.....argghhhhh. One email to Krista later and she was back in the shop, (Thank you soooo much Krista) waiting for me to buy her!!! SOLD- one Jynx to Lou!!! but seriously OMG, who could resist her??? she's fab!! Krista designs for sugar nellie but Saturated Canary is her own digi shop and its fabulous so you definitely neeeeeeeeed to go!!!

After pressing the send and recieve button a zillion times in the space of 5 mins ('cos ya'll know that makes the email come quicker right.....?? lol!!!) There she was.......(with a friend Neavah to keep her company of course.......) ready for some printer treatment!!!

A few chrimbly coloured promarkers later and she was done...oh and bling too, a girl needs bling......

The gorgeius dp's are nice and patchwork patterend so this little cute card will fit in perfectly with the passion for promarkers challenge blogs patchwork theme this week. The promarkers I used for Frizzy jynx are...
blush,soft peach,peach, burgundy,berry and crimson,olive green and pear green, tan caramel,cocoa and burnt sienna and pastel biege to shade around her, phew !! big listy!! and for the I love promarkers challenge blog there is a fab metal christmas tree charm too!!!

And so she is my christmas card to my cheeky niece. We love christmas in our family so I decided to go with a happy winter sentiment then I can give it to Boo super early!!!!!

This piccy below is to show off the sparkle in her hair.......

I had fun with my yummy distrezz it all with this one and ripped a bit of the paper to add a lurvely christmas tree charm.

I promise I am going to bed now so I won't post anymore tonight!! lol!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

Book Boxy thing!!!!!!

Papers and images from Happy Happy Birthday

 papercraft factory from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!

I saw a box just like this on my lovely friend Chris's blog a week ago and just had to have a try at it so I googled and found a tutorial HERE and have had a really fun time making it. When I first saw the tutorial I thought it looked a bit technical for me but once I had (....made 3 really big messes, romfl!!!....) had a little go at it....:) I got the hang of it and have made 2!!!!

So this one is todays and I am entering it in a couple of challenges. The challenges are...

Simon says stamp multifold card challenge...this was a lot of folding!!!!! 

MMCS challenge blogs Layer it up challenge.

Truly scrumptious challenge blogs Decorate the inside of your card.

So here's a side view of boxy......

And here is the inside.........

Oh I had so much fun making this!!!

I used the Birthday Boy colourway from the happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory, (which is due out in 5 more sleeps!!! wohooo!!) and a few of the awesome digi stamps and hobo font from the workspace. Then with the help of a bit of foam I popped out my beer mug inside the box.

There is also a bit of martha embossed zig zag punch with some hand stitching in.

So I think thats me for today unless I feel a bit makey tonight!!!! Off to make oneself a quick cuppa before I go and fetch Mo from school, he went pootling in the gates all happy again today so thats 3 days with no tears!! woohoooo, go Mo!!!!

Huge hugs and thank you for peeking!!!

Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 64- say goodbye to summer, Hello Fall!!

Image- Send Me A Sign Bugg from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!

Yup, its that fabby time of the week again when us Tiddly Inkers let loose another challenge on you over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this weeks is a lot of fun, I loved it. This week we want to see your .....

Say Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall creations.

The Tiddly Inks DT have rocked this challenge as always so don't forget to click on the linky and go see what the others have made.

I absolutely love Autumn, I love the colours, the crunchy leaves and the cooler weather (....mmmmm Lou thinks about this and realises there hasn't really been a very hot summer here in the UK to say goodbye to....) so for my cards I chose my Craft The Year Away from funky Hand and the 'orange october' colourway to get some cute little cards made.

These little cards are 4x4 cards and I love them. I printed out all my papers on one sheet of A4 paper using the workspace on the papercraft factory programme to resize all the bits of paper onto the one sheet ( I totally love that feature, it saves soooo much paper!!!)

Then all I needed to do was nestie up my super super cute little Tiddly Inks peeps and colour them in in some delicious autumnal colours with my promarkers. I used burnt orange and ginger for their little dresses and I love those 2 together.

I wrote on the little send me a sign bugg's sign in photoshop so it came out all ready for colouring! yey photoshop!! 

And here's the little Harvest Avenger enjoying her fallen leaves, oooh I love crunchy leaves!!!

Image- Harvest Avenger from Tiddly Inks Bargain Basement.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Little Mo had a super day at school yesterday. I am so proud of him because despite feeling a bit wobbly but brave he went into the playground and huggled a little friend who was crying.I didn't know about this until the mum came up to me and said how lovely mo had been because he had cuddled her son and told him he would be OK, awwwwwww. They have  school fire alarm practice every monday at 3pm and Mo's friend has never liked it, he always worries about it on a monday and quite often gets upset so for Mo to give him a huggle made me so so very proud, he is such a special little boy.

Awwww, gushy mummy moment over, off for a cuppa and a bloggy womble!!

thank you for popping in on me, I love the little comments people leave me, it makes me smile so much

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Fetch A Sketch challenge 6 and a sneaky peeky!!

Afternoon peeps!!

I am feeling a bit losted today as my little sidekick has gone back to school today :(.

I have to say though he was very very brave. He had big juicy teary eyes when I gave him a kiss but didn't cry and pootled off into the school gates, what a good lad. (.....then mummy walked to the car as quick as she could and had a good blubber all the way home!!!)

I have to admit, the first few days back at school are hard on both of us. Mo- because he still doesn't adore school yet, I am hoping he will be more settled this year and Me- because I really do love having the little fellow around, he is such a little character.

Anywhoo, enough emotional mummy waffle  and onto the creative stuff and explanation of my tissue creation!!!! ( if you want to make one of these super little mini tissue pack holders, the instructions are on the very talented Catherine's blog!)

I used the new addition to the  Funky Hand papercraft factory cd family, Happy Happy Birthday,  one of its digi stamps and its 'How Old' colourway to make my little entry for The Fetch A Sketch challenge blogs challenge this week.

I added a few little gems onto the digi stamp and wrote get well soon using the writer in the workspace.

Happy Happy birthday is due to be out on release for sale on the 10th September with our very own Head Funkette, Anice, spoiling you with some live demo's on Create and Craft on the 15th September at 9am and 4pm.

If you click on this lurvely picture of the cd you will be magically transported ( ...by the cute ickle fairy of course.....) to the Funky Hand shop where the silky tones of Ianwill talk you through the fabbiness of the cd. There's also a selection of very gorgeous samples from us Funkettes on there too, just look to the bottom of the Happy Happy birthday page for the gallery!! Love it!!!

Well, I guess thats me all done for today. I am going to have another hot drink and then get ready to go and fetch my little man.

Thank you for popping in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

CES Raise your glasses!!

Image- Happy New Year Lily Bean from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

I loved the challenge over on CES this week, its called Raise your glasses and after seeing Emma's card I had to have a bit of a go at it this morning!!
Armed with the lovely Happy new year Lily Bean tiddly inks image, isn't she gorgeous? (I don't actually drink that much apart from the occasional glass of whisky once in a blue moon but if I did like wine I think I would definitely hug the glass!!!!! romfl!!!)


The yummy looking red wine glass is covered in glossy accents and looks quite cool IRL!!

I love the bubbly and swirly paper from my Funky Hand Dreams Come True papercraft factory! Bubbles for the wine (mmmm...yes Lou knows that red wine is normally not bubbly.....!) and the swooshy one and a swooshy sentiment for the way you feel when you've drunk a little too much of the wine!!! he he he he!!!!!

So I think thats me for today!! Mo and I are just playing in the crafty garage for a while now, he is playing on horrible histories on the cbbc website, he giggles soooo much at the songs and I am having lots of fun playing with my new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand. Not long to wait now peeps until it is released but if you want a sneaky peek at all the yumminess us Funkettes have made so far they are up in the Funky Hand shop, so GO HERE for peekage!!!! the creations are in the slide show at the bottom of the page, but be warned, you will NEED it !!! its an awesome cd and has got the Funkettes hooked!!!

Have a fabby sunday, gotta get the chicken in the oven now, chicken salad for lunch, yummo!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Allsorts- Green and Blue.

Image- The Engineer from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Promarkers-blush, soft peach,pear green,olive green,denim blue

pastel blue, sandstone, cocoa,caramel.cool grey 2,3,4,pastel beige.

Morning peeps!!!

Its a lovely breezy sunny day here in Lincoln today and I am up and with it enough to get a card posted for the Allsorts challenge blogs Green and Blue challenge!!

This card is my Grandad's birthday card. He loves steam trains so I just had to use Mo Manning's 'The Engineer', he's fab isn't he??!!

I teamed him up with some papers from my dreams come true papercraft factory cd, using the Blue Magic colourway, its one of my fav's and totally perfick for those men in your life!!!!!! 

Lol!!! I have never realised how many promarkers I use each time until I try to note them all down for you!!!! the sky is faded jeans distress ink and the grass is forest moss distress ink.

Right, off to big sis's house now to drop of birthday cards and pennies for my nephews as they are off into town to spend them!!!

Have a fabulous day everyone!! 

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

I'm Back!!!!

Image- Minnie's christmas lights from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

 (promarkers used on minnie: blush, soft peach,peach, olive green, pear green, cardinal red, berry, sunflower, gold, pastel blue and cool aqua)

Morning peeps!!

 I am back!!!!!!! I am a bit dopey but other than that ( ....Lou thinks about that sentence and realises thats pretty much normal Lou!!!!) and this morning I have managed to make a little card!! woohoooooo!!!

 I am hoping to get back into the swing of my christmas cards so enrolled the help of my new gorgeous little Minnie from Tiddly Inks and my Funky Hand craft the year away cd to help me get my mojo energy back!!

  ( linkies to goodies under the card piccy)

I went for a z fold with a little bit of martha punching included in there too so I have given all my card making muscles a work out today!!!!

So I am going to enter a couple of challenges with this little cutie to cheer myself up!! the challenges are:

I love promarkers -anything goes.

 Charismacardz - anything goes

We have to go get school shoes for Little Mo now but thats the only job we are doing today as I am finding myself falling back to sleep every couple of hours!!!!!! the pain is a lot less now but I am feeling rather wiped out!! I go back to work next thursday so a good few days rest and I should be back to my normal self, the thing is, I don't do poorly so I am finding it a bit frustrating to be so dopey!!!

Thats me for today!!!!

Huge hugs and thank you's for all your lovely get well wishes

Lou xxxxxxx

Sorry for being bloggy absent

Hello peeps, I am home from my hospital mini break ! after some intensive begging, docs still convinced i have appendicitus, he gave me a special little letter that will let me back into hospital if i need to but he thinks it is rumbling and could return soon, please hope for me that is doesnt because i kid you not, it hurt soooo bad.


I am feeling sore but pleased to be home. not feeling up to chattering tonight or bloggy wombling tonight but will catch up with you all soon.
Thankyou so much for all the lovely little messages i have had from peeps that knew I was there.


I only had 3 email adresses on my phone who I could email as it was all a bit of a rush going in, apologies to those 3 peeps who got morphine waffled messages!!

xxx