My spooky journal page!!

 Images- Batty, Tree's and moon from the twisted Tree set, 

Kids and Teachers quotes , Spider web and heart that I think was a freebie once..

oh and a cute little mo....sadly he is not for sale...!! :)

Morning peeps!!!

Over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog we are having a special Tiddly Inks 2 week journalling challenge. I have really been trying hard getting to do a page a week at least in my new little art journal and on sunday Mo and I were pootling about mixing paint for fun, he had been doing it at school and wanted to show me how to make orange. It was so much fun!
So I 'borrowed' some of his orange before he used it all and got him to squeeze in some of my gold shimmery acrylic paint, oh wow!! he thought that was magic!!!
And I splodged it on my journal pages with great gusto!! Love a bit of mess!!!! Then I had to leave it to dry.....
And here's Batty doing her spooky thang in her spooky twisty tree wood!!!!

 And here is my super cute little Harry Potter on our doorstep last halloween (...please excuse the crackle glaze refusing to have its piccy taken over Mo, it looks lovely IRL but I just can't get a good piccy of it, grrrrrrrrr!!)We absolutely love halloween in our house and decorate outside the house every year. We go for a spooky walk and trick or treat with friends and then Mo spends the rest of the night looking out the window for trick or treaters to give sweets too, he loves it.

I love the little quote Christy popped in the kids and teachers quote pack and I just had to include it on the page. It is so true and just lovely.

My relationship with journal pages is getting a bit better now as I keep trying!! this one has also got my fav magnolia swirl stamp on it and an Ugly Bug spider web in black and clear embossing, oh I wish you could see the orange glimmery paint as well as I can while it is sat on the table here nest to me in the sunshine, it looks gorgeous!!!!!

Right must go and get a little man for school and then when I get back I am going to greet my ironing pile with a huge smile........as I wave at it when I walk past it to my craft room :) :) :) lol !!!!

Huge Hugs Lou xxxx

Basic grey challenge 53- pink and brown colour combo.

 Basic Grey papers- Sultry paper pack- peony and russet brown.

 border sticker- from my Sultry pack too!

Morning peeps!!!!!

Well, my Lou (who might I add has some extremely yummy bloggy-versary candy on her blog) and Fleur have been at it again this weekend...pushing me into my paper cupboard in the stroke only section....and making me use my BG papers!!!!! :) :) romfl!!!!!!!

So I just had to dip in there ans get out one of my very stroke only packs, Sultry, to join in with the colour combo challenge on the Basic Grey challenge blog, its Pink and Brown.

My mums birthday is coming up in october so I decided to give make a box for my mums pressie to go in. The tutorial for it is by a lady called Maria bell, here's a linky to the tutorial.

I had to use this little Tilda that has been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks, I stamped her ages ago and had got her out for a christmas card but she sooooo fitted the colours so had to be used for this box instead!!!

 I nestifyed a scrap I had left from the peony paper to make a little oval for tilda to sit on and stamped the magnolia swirl on it. I had a few more teeny bits of the peony and russet brown left so using my PM mini punches I made some super sweet folwers to sit on the ends of the swirls. The centres are made with my pearl maker pen, its the krystal effects one and I love it!! 

And here's inside.....

Its shamefully empty at the minute but I am hoping to fill it on payday!!! :)

So that me for today peeps, off to take little mo to school and pop in on my mum then home for crafty time!! yey!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Minnie's gift christmas card!!

Image- Minnie's gift from Tiddly Inks.

sentiment- magnolia stamps.

Afternoon peeps!!

I am a bit late popping in today as I have been indulging in some scrummy Little Mo time!! Now he is out stalking the ice cream man so I have got 5 mins to share the cutest Minnie card with you!!

I used some papers I got free with a crafty mag for this one and then had some relaxing time blanket stitching around the edge of the mats!!

Minnie has some glossy accents on her glasses as Mo said she needed some glass in her glasses!!!

.............small break in bloggy post while Lou scoffs the icecream with flake Mo just bought me from the icecream man,aawwwwwww bless him........................

I am popping Minnie in the challenge over on Winter Wonderland Challenge blog which is Girlie Christmas.

OK, I'm back!!! here are the little cakes we made this morning...decorated by my little dessert chef, chef Mo...

They are very yummy because Mo,Ryan and I had to test a lovely warm one one they came out out of the oven this morning!!!!

Right then, I had better get myself organised and get the chicken  roasting for tea, Scott has requested some roast tates so I need to peel and 'hedgehog' the tates and sort out the roast veggies too. For a surprise Mo and I dipped some fresh strawberries in chocolate this morning so a yummy pudding too!!!!

Here they are....

mmmmmmm, yummo!!!

have a fabby sunday everyone

Huge hugs 

Lou xxxxx

DCM how many candles challenge.

 Image and papers- Happy Happy Birthday

from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!! I am back with another post, 2 in one day again??!!!!

I just had to join in with the DCM's challenge this week. The host is my lovely funkyhand teamie Kathy and she has set the challenge of How Many Candles? all you need to do is have at least one candle on your card, eezy peezy!!! quick go make something and join in!!

And their sponsor this week is none other than our Funky Boss Anice!!! and the most exciting bit is that the prize is the yummy new Happy Happy Birthday cd!!! ooooooohhhhh!!!! now ya'll know I love it!!!!

I used the cake image ( I chose to use the coloured one) and some papers from the birthday girl colourway.The sentiment is from Happy Happy birthday too, so how cool that everything all got printed off and splodged onto a card Lou style!! lol!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the DCM blog and look at the DT's gorgeous cards to get you inspired for your make!!!

hugs Lou xxxx

Smile!!!

 Wordbook- from Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!

How are you all this fine friday? ( Lou looks out of window and thinks......ermmmm weather not fine, weather blooming awful!!!) but I am oh so happy in my heart today that it doesn't matter whats happening with the weather!!

So were you all watchinng C&C with Anice yesterday?? isn't she clever and super fab??!!! We had to record it in the Daubney household as we were all at work/school but can you imagine Little Mo's excitement when he saw himself on tv in this little wordbook??? (....oh yeah and can you imagine how shocked Scott was to see himself on tv too, I might of forgotten to tell him his piccy was in the front!!!!) Oh Mo was so chuffed!!! 

I have to say I was super happy because all the funkette's are just the fabbest bunch of creator's you have ever seen and the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory is just the best. 

So using the surprise colourway on Happy Happy Birthday I made this smile wordbook full of my fav smiles from my nutty family!!!

Here's mamma and pappa cheeeeeeese......

 Thing one and Thing 2 with their cheeky cheeeeeeese's......

 Gorgeous Thing 1 piccy taken by Aunty Leah which we love............

 And one of my favourite quotes ever by Mother Teresa....

I hand stitched the word smile but its a bit tricky to see in the piccy!!!


Then last night I got a text with the most awesome news I have had since Little Mo got his achievers award certificate ( ...which might I add he is getting in achievers assembly today, proud mummy!!!). I got a message from a very special lady telling me that her and her very special man had got engaged. I was so happy (.....yup you guessed it...I cried!!!) So a week of complete loveliness here and I feel like I am smiling from the inside out.


I hope you enjoyed my cheeeeesy post!!! I am off to work now and wil be back to pop in on everybody tonight when I get home!!  then I have a very special peeps engagement card to make.


HUGE hugs!!
Lou xxxxxx

LOTV wedding

Stamp- Wedding Couple from LOTV

Sentiment- A5 verses from LOTV

Papers- Craft the year away from Funky Hand

(November rain colourway)

Morning peeps!!

its a work morning for me so I am just popping in quick to share with you one of the wedding cards I made yesterday. This one is for my mum to give my great cousin for his wedding on saturday, it doesn't seem 5 minutes since he was a poorly little baby with a hole in his heart so I am so so pleased to of made this card for his wedding day.

I used purple because mum's invite had a purple ribbon on it so I was kinda guessing on the colourscheme a bit but I am super lucky to have my Funky Hand papercraft factory programmes with a zillion scrumptious papers in to turn to!!  I used Craft the Year Away for this one and I love the little flowery paper, too cute.

A little bit of nestifying and martha-ing and I was done really, then I decided I wanted to add some personalisation so I typed out Greg and sarah's names and the date of the wedding on my pooter, printed them out and then punched them with my SU tiny tags punch. I attached them with some stitching thread and tied a teeny bow and then I was finished........until I decided I needed a little bit of bling on there too ( well, I did say i wanted to make it special !!!) so I added some lilac gems around the lacey circle nestie. Then...wohooooo!! it was done!!!


I am so super super excited too as little Mo has won the achiever of the week award at school and is going to get a little certificate in assembly on friday. Anyone who knows me will know this is so so special for Mo as he finds school really rather scary but this year he seems to of just settled right into it, phew!! I am so very proud of him.

Anyway, I had better get my butt into gear and go to work but before I do I just want to remind you to turn on the TV at 9am and 4pm, on the C&C channel  (Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813) and watch our Anice strutting her funky stuff as she demo's the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory. 

It is totally delicious with some extremely yummy templates so you won't want to miss it.

Have a great day!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Teddy first birthday!

Morning Peeps!!
Happy Hump Day!!

Now , don't all fall over at once but I used my cricut!!!!!! romfl!!!! might even have to use it some more later (.....and definately will be using it all day saturday at cricut club so good job I had a practice!!!!)

I was in a button pressing mood and had a 1st birthday card to make so out came my create a critter cart (which is so totally cute!!!).
I loved having a bit of a lazy make! cut, stick, done!! lol!!!! and I added a little flower to the teddy and her balloon. I used a scrap of funky Hand paper to make the flowers and her dress with, good girl Lou!!!!

Right off to tackle the worlds biggest laundry pile, the wind was so fab yesterday I got 2 huge loads dry but now I have to face the consequences!!!! :) :) then I have 3 wedding cards to make! and all before I go and fetch my precious little boy from school!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Another rainy day and a very proud mummy moment!!!

Image- Rainy Day from Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Happy Happy Birthday- Birthday boy colourway

from Funky Hand

***This is my 2nd post for today so please scroll down or go HERE for my Tidlly Inks challenge post***

Hiyah peeps!!

I had some me time today which was lovely so I decided to have a play with my other Rainy Day from Saturated Canary digi's that was left from my playtime yesterday!!!!! (well, she did look kinda lonely sat there on her own!!!)

My printer has decided that anything with yellow in will not be printed without looking all weird so I am down to my dark colours only!! and being as I only have a couple of red, a couple of blue and greys (warm and cool) in my copics box I decided they should have an outing for a change!!

Rainy Day was lots of fun to colour today and then I distressed the edges and decided to do some hand stitching too.

I chose the splotty paper from my Happy Happy birthday cd because I decided it makes a neat rain splot background!! then I printed out the dark blue lineny looking one and pulled in some red paper from my stash to match my colouring.

Then the postman came and I had the best surprise ever, it was a postcard from Little mo's headteacher and it said...

I did what every proud mummy would do and cried!!!! I am so unbelievably proud of him. 

Right off to get a snuggle from Mo, then its bathtime!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly inks challenge 65- special 2 week Art Journalling challenge.

Image- Aida from Tiddly inks.

Paper- Key paper ( retired freebie from Christy)

Morning Peeps!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again and so its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly inks challenge blog.

And this week it is a super one, we want you to join us over the next two weeks with a special journal page---or project (featuring a Tiddly Inks image, hopefully). We thought the extended time would be helpful if art journaling is new to you.

And for me, art journalling was totally new(....yup.....I panicked totally when I got the email for this challenge from our Christy!!!!) so after much scouring of google ( don't worry, Christy has found some excellent linkies over on the challenge blog for you to peeky at!!) I took the plunge and decided to do a page on my utter confusion of where to start!!!!

Aida represents a very confounded Lou and the string is my loopy mind trying to work out where to go!! lol!!! anyhoo a bit of scrunching up paper, distressing and heat embossing copper powder and I was a bit happier about my new learning curve!!! and I can happily report I am busy with page 2 already!! yey lou!!!!

Well, thats me for today then!!! I am going to take little Mo to school ad then pop in on my mum, then its home for some crafty goodness!!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxx

Sprocket the steampunk aviator!!

Image- sprocket the steampunk aviator from Saturated canary digi's.

Hello peeps!!

I am popping in late today because I have had a fabby day of crafting with my BF. we had a good play in MTC and making some really cute boxes, I had such a nice day.

I picked Mo up and came home to a power cut....argggghhhhhhhhhh!!! so a quicky hob tea for us tonight (....after dopey here remembered you need to light the gas with a match as the electric clicky button won't work in a power cut.....) and Mo is just playing out the front now. It is so windy!!

Todays share from me is Sprocket, another of my new digi's from Saturated Canary. I coloured her up last night and was in blue and pink mode!! hence the super funky blue blingy hair and lippy she is sporting!!! I am sporting blue fingers from my distress inks...am sure BF thinks I don't bathe at night......!!)

I really didn't need to add too much to this little chick, just an embossed background, scrumpled up bit of lace and a super yummy piece of paper from my stash that I stamped cogs all over!! The cogs and sentiment are from my SU sense of time stamp set, love it and use it oodles!


I am popping this over in the Simon says stamp and show some steampunk challenge. I am very much still a learner when it comes to putting some steampunk together so I was blown away with their DT's creations!!!

Right off to see what Mo is doing now as he has taken his bike, helmet on head and is just carting his big brothers skateboard ramp out through the gate....evil kenevil watch out!!!!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx