Saturated Canary challenge 15- April Showers

Image- Duck, Duck Goose  from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's.

Afternoon Peeps!!

I hope you are all having an awesome week! Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog and this time we want to see.......

April Showers!

Ok, so I can't help but think of the bambi song....

Ha!! now I got ya'll singing it!! :)


Anywhoo!! I just had to use Duck, Duck Goose for my card. I have had her sat in my pile of 'really need to play with that one's for a couple of weeks now. I decided on a get well card theme for mine, with an under the weather kinda thought in my head :)


I got the websters pages papers on a crafty mag a couple of weeks ago and I lurve them!!! I coloured her up to match  them and then had some fun making flowers and embellies. The gorgeous big pinky coloured paper is from Funky Hand's craft the year away cd and I love how it goes so perfick with the websters pages paper. They were only 6x6" size and this card is 7.5x7.5" so I needed something good to pop underneath! My papercraft factories are perfect for this job because the papers come in sooo many different colourways and you can always find one to match what you are using! love it!!


The umbrella is from my create a critter cart and its gorgeous! I cut it in normal and shadow to give it a bit of umpf and added some doodly stitches to it.


Of course, Lord Tim had to feature too and he came in the form of some lurvely tattered floral flowers and a little lace border :) I even pretended he had invented a tattered florals on the edge die....yup glue and paper piecing and there you go Tim...we need a tattered florals on the edge die purlease!!!! :)


There's a teensy bit of lace under the border piece and it looks so pretty IRL but doesn't want to show itself too well in the piccy!! 
I made my sentiment in word and then printed it out onto a good old mini tag from staples!! oooh I love stationary so much!!
And of course there was a little pile of pens involved in the making of this card :) here it is...

So what do you need to do to join in with us over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog??! 
You must use either a Saturated Canary Digi or a Simply Sassy rubber stamp. Also, please leave a link to the blog *post* featuring your challenge card:). This challenge is open until Wednesday, April 25th @ 12:00pm EST. 
And don't forget to pop in on the challenge blog to see what my awesomely gorgeous teamies have been making to get you all going!!


Thank you for popping in on me today :)
huge hugs Lou xxx

Diamonds..ooh yes please!!

Image- Racy Roxie from Kenny K 

sentiment from TLC

Papers- Steampunk pack and Gothic girls pack.

Morning Peeps!!
How are ya'll this morning? good I hope. Before I pop off to work I thought I would get a couple of bloggy posts done so I have this one for now and then this afternoon I will be back with my Saturated Canary DT card for this week as its tine for a new challenge!! yey!!!


So onto this card!! the Kenny K krafty Girls wanted to see Diamonds for their challenge this week and who can resist a bit of the bling?!!!!
I printed out Roxie and gave her a little bit of a mono colour to match her up to my Tiddly Inks grungey text and chequerboard papers.
The lurvely swooshy swirly she is sitting on is from my cricut wedding solutions cart, its a lovely big card too at 7.5x7.5". I blinged the swoosh up with some diamond glitter and added 4 little diamonds to the swoosh ends! bling baby bling!!!


Now taking a photo of bling drove me crackers!! it did not want to show up so  took a piccy of her laying flat...which is quite nice because you can see the dimension of her popped up and the sparkles!! and here is the best one I could get of it stood up!!...which I know is pants!!! :)

Here's a little pile of promarkers for you!!!

And now I really have to go get ready for work!! Please don't forget to pop back in on me later too for the new Saturated Canary challenge!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Diva's by Design challenge- Charmed.

Image- Zombie Boy from Krista Smith's saturated canary Digi's.

Morning Peeps!!

Today I am having a special treat as I am playing along with the DT over on the Diva's By Design challenge blog. Their challenge this week is being sponsored by the gorgeous Krista Smith and her awesome Saturated Canary digi's :)

This weeks challenge is called ... Charmed

so use charms on your projects!! easy peasy and who doesn't love a charm??!!!

I know I do!! there is just something about their little metal cuteness that I adore. My friend Clare has a craft shop and she has them in little bags on the top near the till and I just have to get 1 or 2 (...or more....:) ) bags whenever I pop in on her!! I just LOVE them!!

So my card for today has the awesome little zombie boy image on it!! this card is for my nephew, Jake. He is going to be 12 this year and he LOVES horror films, goofy ones, scary ones, you name it he loves it! he gets it from my big sister because she is exactly the same!! Last week when I had Jake and Boo for the school hols the children spent a long time drawing lots of different zombies in some excercise books I had bought for them so I am so excited about giving Jake this card! I might even have to give him it early :) !!!

I printed my zombie out and then nestied him all wonky with a deckled rectangle nestie. Once I had lovingly and carefully coloured him in.....I then screwed him up and stomped on him a bit to distress him (poor guy!!) then I rubbed some antique linen distress ink all over him and inked the edges in a darker brown ink eye. I added some glossy accents to his orange eye once I had finished squishing him!!! He also got some blender pen make your face all mottley' treatment! Here's a close up...

He,he,he!! Little Mo looked at him when I was done and said

" hey mumma, that zombie isn't a full zombie yet 'cos he has one normal blue eye, but he is going to be a full one soon because you can see he has THE ORANGE EYE"

now, that THE ORANGE EYE bit had to be capitals because that was the moment little Mo put his head to the side, stuck out his tongue and in his best zombie voice said "THE ORANGE EYE" it was soooo funny I nearly spat my juice out laughing!!!

I used Jen's sketch to make this card. If you haven't popped in on her blog, Deconstructing Jen, you really should!! I am always totally late using the sketches but I do love them so!!! I am so going to try and do the next one on time Jen :) xxxx

I attached my little skully charm using some cross stitch thread. I have a tonne of this thread that I love, I used to cross stitch all the time! but moved over into cardmaking and now the thread is my own little stash of twine!!! I also tied some teeny knots and added them to the little circles on the side of the image mats. 

Here is my little pile of promarkers used.....

Please don't forget to pop in on the awesome Diva's by Design DT and see what they have been creating to inspire you all along your way!!

Thank you for popping in on me today

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 84- Photo Inspiration

Image- Wryn Pick Up Sticks from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!

Its that Tiddly Tuesday time of the week again and time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog today I have a layout to share with you.

We have a '2' theme going for a little photo inspiration with a '2' ish theme because Tiddly Inks is turning 2. Here is the photo....

I decided to go with the bottom left of the umbrella and use the orangey and yellow colours along with Wryn- Pick up Sticks! she is just gorgeous! and her sentiments are just awesome.


I chose some paper with the right colours on it and some scraps of orangey handmade papers that would match the colours on the umbrella. I coloured Wryn up in some oranges and browns and I also tried to get a bit of blue in on her top too from the left of the umbrella!
I love photo inspiration because it just inpsires you to use different colour combo's in exciting ways!
Please don't forget to pop in on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see  the other awesome Tiddly Inkers take on this piccy.

By now, anyone who pops in on my blog will know that I don't do photos of me!!! This picture of me and scott was taken on mothers day when we went to Twycross zoo with Mo. Scott took it when we were in one  of the huts along the Borneo Longhouse Aviary walk so we were in a little wooden walkway. So Little Mo and I went stick hunting so I could use some real sticks to go onto my layout 

(...note to anyone doing this with their little boy...they will bring a whole tree...or 3 back home with them....!! the council had recently been trimming the branches and there were loads of them down on the ground...now they are in my garden!!!)

Here is a close up of my journalling.....

and here is a better piccy of my gorgeous little Wryn all coloured up, I absolutely adore her

and a close up of the sentiment too. I coloured up the 'stick' letters and added crackle accents to them. 

I love this layout because in our 10 years together I only have 3 photo's of Scott and I apart from our wedding ones!!!! and he is just such a special guy. I am a very lucky gal and the 2 of us make the best team.

Right then, that me for today!!! off for a cuppa and some snuggly time with Mo before we head off to the zoo for the day. Scott is giving the fluffy princess a good walk before we go and Mo and I are just waiting for Ryan to arrive.

thank you for popping in on me and please don't forget to pop in on the other gorgeous Tiddly Inking gals too over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

huge hugs Lou xxx

If you can't beat them....SMASH them :)

Image- Zombie Girl from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Steampunk pack and Gothic girls pack.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Well today's plans went pants up when the dreaded monthlies arrived for me :( I have endometriosis so its a very painful and traumatic few days. However, this morning after taking 30 mins to get out of bed and get some painkillers I decided it was time to get even!! 

If you can't beat it ....SMASH IT!!!

So I plodded out to my crafty garage with Mo and my hot wheaty bag and set to work!! 

Lots of grungy stamps,distress inks and some journalling later and here it is!!! My monthlies journal page!!

 I hope I don't offend anyone by smashing and sharing this, its just that it is such a big part of my life. When you have endometriosis it doesn't just end with the monthlies coming, you get back ache a lot and feel icky a lot before it actually comes :( I am still working in the doc's to give me a hysterectomy but they want to exhaust all other avenues first (...which includes me!!! I would rather just get it over and done with!!!)

And heres my gorgeous zombie girl!!!...which is probably just what I look like at the minute after 2 500mg co-codamols!!...which I also had to include on my pages of pain!!!!

I inked them a bit so they fitted it with the grungy colours!!

Its a bit tricky to see but my little zombie chick has a kind of mottled effect going on! I coloured her up and then dotted my blender pen over her and her kitty to get them a bit more zombiefied!! she is also edged in green copic spica pen which sparkls a treat, will try and get a piccy of it later and add it on!

The font for my journalling is called 'Lefty Monster' and I got it from dafont for free! (...though my own handwriting is so monstrous it probably would of fit in quite well!!) I printed out the words I was feeling, inked them and then mounted them onto black card.

I am actually amazed at how much better I feel for getting some of my feelings down onto a page I can reflect on ...well, that and the fact that 2 lots of painkillers help a whole tonne :) :) and ripping round the edges of the paper was fun. I loved tying knots in the thread and adding a little tag to point out my painkillers!! 

And here's my little mountain of pens used!!!

and yup!! they are sitting on my rather starting to look ever so wrinkly paged art/smashing journal !!!!!

 I am entering this page into a couple of challenges too...
Bunny Zoes - Ribbon or Twine - I hope you can see my twine around the journalling part and tablets xx
Anything Goes- Anything Goes challenge !! theres certainly a bit of anything goes on this page!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me! off to watch Lord of the Rings with Mo now. 

huge hugs Lou xxx

Spring LOTV wedding anniversary!!

Stamp- Love Grows from LOTV

Hello again Peeps!!


We had an awesome day of family togetherness today and it was fabulous. Mo went to bed super happy and that feeling is magic when you are an owner of little peeps! 
This morning we took Holly out for a walk so we could deliver this card to one of my gorgeous friends from work who lives in our village. It is her first wedding anniversary tomorrow and I just had to use this little LOTV stamp because as soon as the nice weather started a couple of weeks ago Sarah and Jack got busy on sorting out their garden and putting up a little summerhouse too!!


This stamp was just perfect for the glorious spring/summer weather we were having and its all romantical for an annivesary with the little  couple working together on the little heart tree :) 
her little dress is coloured red because sarah has one that is red with white spots that she lurves and some red shoes that are her fav!!! yey!!! I try to stick to around 3 main colours when I am colouring ( though judging by less than little pile of pens below I am not sure how well I managed that today!!!)


Here's a better piccy of the little sweethearts!!!

I nestied out a little circle window and popped it up on foam so that the little stamped circle was set back into the window. I absolutely love my new big shot for helping me to do this, I think it is definitely my new favourite tool! I am so pleased I got it!!!


I also stamped my LOTV circular special day  stamp and added in the date for their first anniversary. I think your first anniversary is so special as that first year just flies by, I think its 'paper' for the gift too so its a good job I made a card!!! lol!! 


Oh and off course a Lord Timmie tattered florals flower was extremely needed on this card!! :) (...mmmm I don't think there is really ever a time when Lord timmie is not required in some way on one of my cards....)!!! and a sizzix swooshy thing behind the special day stamp.
Here's another piccy from a different angle so you can see my Lord Timmie flower better :)

And I added a little heart button too, I love that button! it came in my do crafts bouffle button bag and its too cute!! the centre of the flower came from the same bag too. It has all sorts of gorgeous buttons in.

The papers are the nitwits papers called Crab Apple Too  that Fleury made me buy....:)

Here's my not so small  'promarker pens used' in an elastic band piccy !!! I do love this idea!!!

Challenges I am entering with this card are...
Passion for promarkers-weather theme.. sunny spring days for gardening are the best :)
Simon says- use your favourite tool definitely my big shot at the moment!
Papertake weekly- Anything goes love an anything goes week!!


Tomorrow we have another kinda lazy day planned, though we do need to pop and get some new toy storage for the garden as Mo's little toy shed has broken and his toys are getting wet. He loves being out in the garden so we are going to look for some kinda storage bench he can sit on too. 


Hope you had a great day everyone and thank you so much for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Happy Easter to all xxxx

Good Morning Peeps!


I have so very much to be thankful for this easter. I have an awesome husband and son, I have an awesome family and friends.


I am very blessed to have a son who loves doing anything to do with animals/natural play. I love that about him. I love that I have a garden full of huge tree branches he has dragged home to make dens and play with his little plastic soldiers on, I love that he rescued an old tyre too and I giggled so much as he and daddy rolled it home for half a mile down the field path!! I love that he came home from Christopher's with a pocketful of sheep wool that is treasure because some is purple ( ...from the marking spray!)


I am sending my love to you all today with this little piccy of Mo feeding lambrini the lamb her milk! He had the biggest grin on his face all the way through, he really loved feeding that lamb! 
We had such a lovely time with my god father yesterday looking at all the little lambs and sheep and Mo loved it. He was a little nervous to feed the horses but so very happy about feeding one lamb and getting to hold another one ( ..which we didn't get a piccy of as daddy had to get the lamb when 2 cheeky mummy sheep escaped from one pen and the baby lamb from another!! Mo LOVED that!!!) 


Mo's favourite lamb of all was this cheeky little one that Scott spotted tucked up quite happily in a basket in one of the stables!! When Mo saw it he loved it and this little lamby was the last thing on his mind as he fell asleep. He said to me as he was dropping off to sleep...

“mumma please tell Krista about the face thingy so Philly can see it tonight because its his daytime when its my sleepytime, I think Philly will like the lamby in a basket one best”

the 'face thingy' is my facebook!! but this cute little lamb was way too cute not to share with all of you guys too!!!

I love having a hubby who takes fabby pictures for our little man to remember things he has done and I am just so blessed that I can enjoy all of these beautiful journeys with my family.


On that note, if you all have a little time today, please could you pop in in Adie's blog. Adie  is one of our parents from the nursery where I work. His gorgeous daughter has since left our nursery to go to big girl school but Adie began a battle with MND at the same time and his blog is a huge inspiration to me and how they are all coping with the changes is awesome. Please pop in and wish him happy easter for me because I know he would love to know you have peeked in on him.

Have an awesome easter everyone, I am off to set out an egg hunt for Mo now...we will be doing this all day because he loves it!! we put clues in plastic eggs, one clue leads to the next and his giggles at finding them are so amazing we don't mind how many times we do it!! choccies will be nibbled and we will all be together having fun, what could be better?!

Huge chocolatey hugs Lou xxxxx

Release day 5...awwwwwwwww :(

Morning Peeps!!


Its release day 5 of the fabulous Tiddly Inks celebration and before there is anymore Lou waffle I just need to thank you all so very much for you fabulous comments and visits over the last few days. I cannot explain to you just how much you have made my week and I am sending huge mahoosive cyber hugs to each and every one of you, you guys rock xxxxxxxx


so today we have .......     Wryn- Fairy Friends

Isn't she the cutest with her little toadstool?!!! I teamed her up really simply with some nitwits papers called Crab Apple Too (...my gorgeous friend Fleury made me buy them....;)  )


I merged her onto them and then coloured her up and added a penny black sentiment stamp to the bottom. I love the way the papers and the image go together on this one, its just so cute.


Today we are off to bottle feed a lamb at my godfathers house and Mo can't wait!! we were trying to keep it a secret as last time we planned to go I got a tummy bug and he was so sad we couldn't go but the little monkey worked out we were going when he asked what we were doing tomorrow as he went to bed last night!! but it will be a fabulous day all the same!! I even have one named after me this year so I am quite excited to go too :)
I will try and get some piccies to share with you all!!!


Don't forget to pop on over to Christy's blog for some more inspiration and see what is going on over there today :)
huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

A couple of Canaries!!!!

 Image- Sports Guy from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's.

Hello Peeps!!

This is my 2nd post of the day so if you are popping in for my Tiddly Inks post its here

So this morning we had a big PJ morning!! it was awesome!! Mo played basketball in his PJ's and coat and I crafted, super duper start to the day!!! we popped out to do some food shopping and then had a great play at the park so all in all its been a really GOOD FRIDAY!!!

Last night I made Little Mo's easter card from me and Scott. He is super into his new basketball hoop at the moment and he is getting quite good at it too!! whenever he gets a basket he runs into the house to find us to give him a High 5!! its too cute!! when he has a good run all you here is giggles and "high 5 mamma!!" as he comes running towards me, I love it!! I knew that little sports guy image would be just perfect for Mo!!

I coloured his little strip up in Mo's favourite colours, blue and brown, and gave him Mo coloured hair and eyes.

The basketball is just an orange circle that I drew some lines on with a black promarker and then ran through my big shot with my tiny bubbles embossing folder.

And then this morning I had some crafty time and made this card below with the special digi Krista drew for Tiets Club. She is just sooooo dreamy!! I love her. I love the way she is just sitting and letting time flow by.

The papers are MME, the stamps in the corner are my lurvely new LOTV grunge corners and the flowers are Tim Holtz tattered florals. The promarker colours I used on this one are.....

he he he he!! see I keep seeing people do this on their blogs and think to myself "oooh thats an awesome idea!!" so this morning I just kept an elastic band by me side and every pen I used I popped into the elastic band, then took a piccy of them before I cleared away!!!.......didn't think about doing it last night for Mo's card though...:) but I will definitely be doing it from now on.


Right! tea is beeping away in the oven now so I had better go serve up my 2 hungry guys!!
roast chicken, yummo :)


Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Release Day 4.....Squeeeeee!!! :)

Morning Peeps!!!
Its release day 4 over of the Tiddly Inks celebrations and oooooooh I think you are going to love Christy's new outdoorsy Wryn!!! (....I know for a fact I have a very happy little Mo as he asked Christy for a Wryn picking up sticks and Wryn with a fox when she first started doing Wryn's so you should of seen his little face when I printed this one out!!)


The Tiddly Inkers have been busy making some gorgeous samples for you to peek at too so don't forget to pop on over to Christy's blog where you can find Larissa's frame too, its awesome!!

Meet Wryn - Pick Up Sticks (sentiments included)

And Christy even doodled her up the most gorgeous tent to go keep warm in!!!

Mo and I went little stick collecting for a couple of projects I wanted to make with Wryn pick up sticks!! (..well, actually I came home with a handful of sticks and Mo came home dragging some huge branches that had been trimmed off the trees.........) ahhhh the joys of having little boys and a field with trees right next to your house.... :)  :)

I feel like I have been saying it all week but ooooooooooh I so love this Wryn!!!!! I used some of my stroke only papers and my distressed stripes embossing folder to make my card look nice and natural. The bundle of sticks is all stuck together with some hot glue before being tied on with some twine and I used the 'I love you' sentiment for the front, then inside it has the 'Lets stick together' sentiment, perfect!!!

So thats me for today!! Its good friday and Mo has planned us a PJ Day!! wohooooo!! he has the best ideas ;)

Have a great day everyone and don't forget to pop over to Christy's blog for freebies and fun!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx