Cool Britannia!!!

Image- Wryn Beach Babe from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Craft The Year away from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!!

Phew it was a hot one yesterday!! I missed my crafty time last night because dopey one here fell asleep after Mo read me a story...romfl!!! ( yes, I am that dopey!! woke up in Mo's bed where we had both been fast asleep for 1 hr 30 mins....!!!) so I have been busy in my little crafty garage this morning making this little Wryn ( I adore her, she is most definitely a new fav!!!!) into another jubilee themed card. Luckily the girls over on the passion for promarkers blog had an inspiration photo up this morning so that kicked my colour choices into action!!

The little flag is actually cut from a sheet of wrapping paper that my mum bought me last week! it had little different sized flags all over it and they are all different patterns!! I just added a little spotty ribbon and a little starfish charm then printed out the sentiment on my pooter.

Luckily today it is a little cooler. Little Mo's reaction to his suncream is much better after a few days on piriton so I won't get to see him at lunch time for a snuggle top up today!! I have a whole bed full of ironing after the awesome drying day we had yesterday but I have shut the door on that!! romfl!!!! and I am going to have a spot of lunch and get some card orders finished.....well.....try....!!!!

Here's a little bundle of promarkers used for you.....

.....yeah ok so I admit it...I took the photo of the pens, skipped inside happily to load them on and then realised that I had taken the photo with the pens upside down...love photoshop rotate button....:) :)

So this little cutie is going to pop in on a couple of challenges today, they are....

Passion for promarkers- photo inspiration.

Fahionista challenge blogs- Simply Summer

Thank you for popping in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Starting my royal jubilee makes...

Image- Wave the flag from Lilyboo designs

Papers-FBQ- Tour of London from nitwits.

I'm back!!!! 2 posts in one day!! romfl!!!

well, I am blaming those awesome peeps over on the Cuddly Buddly facebook page!!! they keep making all these awesome jubilee makes with the Lilyboo Designs digi stamps so I just had to get a little play in!!!(...though one must admit to totally loving having time to play around with my big sisters digi's today :) !!!)

I have had to squeeze this card in in between popping back to see my little Mo at school and give him some more piriton syrup, poor little pickle, he is all sore and itchy still but said he was having a nice day still!! bless him!!! we are off to nannie's after school for a picnic in the huge tent she has in the garden so that will cheer him up lots.

And then there is my gorgeous bloggy pal Debs....well she led me astray into the nitwits shop with her gorgeous cards using the papers on her blog...( yeah yeah..I admit it...its not hard to enable Lou!!!! romfl!!) Though I do just love these papers so much! and that paint chip is just perfect.

I added a little bot of blingyness to her dress and flag too and her boots are all glossy accented to make them shine, too cute!!!!

The olympic torch will be pootling right through our village on the 27th June which is very exciting. Mo has bought his flag ready for going to watch it!! he is also having a fabulous Jubilee week at school this week and on friday they are dressing in red,white and blue. he has made himself a t-shirt but I will wait to share that until his cute little self is modelling it on friday morning!! 

Well, its back to my little crafty room for another quick play, I have a couple more boo's printed out as Mo wants to give his teacher a jubilee card too!

There are a couple of challenges I want  to share her in to, they are.....

Cupcake craft challenges- Royalty

craft your days away- Red, White and Blue

charisma cards- no flowers allowed

thank you for popping back in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Fetch A Sketch challenge 25....

Papers- Craft the Year Away from FunkyHand

Image-Pirate Boy in a box from Jelly Park

Morning Peeps!!! its that Fetch A Sketch time of week again over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog and our gorgeous Ruth is your hostess for this challenge and here is the sketch:

Remember that you can flip the sketch, rotate the sketch, resize it and make any type of project you like with it - as long as we can see the original sketch in your creation we'll be happy!


There are 2 fabilicous sponsors for two lucky winners this fortnight - Jellypark are offering 2 digi's and Funky Hand is offering a download.  You can peek in at Jelly Park digi's and Funky Hand papers and more offered by our sponsors this month by clicking on their banners below:

And a little inside piccy of my card with the whipper snapper skully stamp......

too cute!!!! ....though Mo has pretty much stolen this card already! he is all about pirates!!! I loved the Pirate in a box digi! he was great to colour too!!


Right...off to sort out my little pirate for school now. He had a bad reaction to his suncream over the weekend so he is a bit itchy and sore still so piriton is on order!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Designed to colour challenge card..

Morning Peeps!
I have woken up to another yummy sunny day and I can't wait for the weekend!! roll on 5:30pm tonight when I finish work for the weekend!! 


My little card today is one that I have been playing with this week. I wanted to join in with the first challenge over on the Designed to colour blog but have had so much to do this month, then I saw the Passion for promarkers -Birthday challenge and the I love promarkers-Use die cuts challenge so I decided to do a 3 in 1 card to fit all 3 challenges!!! 
I stamped my stamp,its a Sarah Kay one and then nestied her out with my oval nesties, then I nestied the next size down on my card base and then using the papers  'Crab Apple too' from nitwits, I nestied the larger size again for my card papers. I love how that little bit of die cutting made such a lovely scene through the window!!...hard to photgraph it though!!!


I made the flowers with my little 1" scalloped circle punch, they are really teeny but so super cute, you can just about see the liquid pearls in the centres. I also added a few punched butterflies and leafy fronds to my swirly branches.
This card is really sweet because when you open it you see all of her.


Here is my little pile of pens.....

....yeah OK,  so the pile is not as little as I thought!!! romfl!!! but I have to say those 4 little flexmarkers (...which is the only 4 I have so far.....) are just awesome, I love them so I will be popping some more colours on my wish list I think.


I think thats me done for today. Tonight Scott is taking Ryan to his football/soccer presentation evening so my friend Hayley is coming and we are going to have a scrap page night. I have found a nice little sketch for us to follow so it should be fun. I have a tonne more cards to get made too and wooohoooooo!! its the sincerely yours show in Lincoln on sunday. I am going with my mum and my big sister...who has new digi's out that are sooooo cute....they are here if you fancy peekyage . I have a pile of them printed out and ready for playing with this weekend as Scott and Mo are heading off to the driving range in the morning and then home in time for a christening in the afternoon,phew its all go!!!!
Thank you for popping in on me.
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary Challenge 18....

Image- Sketchie from Saturated Canary

Afternoon Peeps!!

So I will be at work when this little sketchie fairy wings her way to you all out there in blog land!! Its that Saturated Canary Challenge blog time of the week again!! wohoooooo!!! and this week our little team of gorgeous birds want to see.....

Bookmarks

I had soooo much fun making this bookmark. I love to read, when I start a book I dissappear off into my own little world of calm and imagination and then pop out at the end!! My poor hubby dispairs when I ask for books because I go through them like water (...thus he has suggested I need a kindle.....!!) but there is just something magical about books. I inherited a thirst for reading from my mum, and Mo inherited it from me!!! (..thank goodness for libraries with fab children's sections!!!) but its a good thing to read so I am happy for us all to have that bookworm bug!!!


I love making bookmarks, my BF showed me how to make corner ones once a great whoosh of them followed but recently I have been making bigger ones. This is because Mo likes to keep a track of how much he has read, (it comes from school giving him a reading record book I think) so I started cutting big tags out and attaching lined notepaper on the back for him to write his read 'from' and 'to' pages.


But this little cutie is a make I did just for me. I have been so busy with makes for people that I needed some 'ME' time!! :) I cut a tim holtz vintage tag, covered it with an old book page (..this one is from my 'Rococco' book by Adrianna Trigiani,oh I so love her books, have read them all at least twice). I added some tead dye distress ink and some magnolia swirly stamp, lace,string,sizzix swirls and then got busy on Sketchie!!


I am going to  pop this little cutie in for a couple of challenges..
 Cupcakes Book Lover challenge.
Ruby's Rainbow- things with wings.
Going Buggy challenge- things with wings.
(will linky them all in when I get home from work tonight!!)


So don't forget to pop over to the Saturated Canary challenge blog and see what my awesomely gorgeous teamies have come up with and then get busy on a bookmark!!!


Thank you so much for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 87- Flowers

Image- Welcome Baby

Morning Peeps!!!!
yey!! its that Tiddlying time of week agaon!! wohoooo Tiddly Tuesday!!! 
and  over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we have a new challenge for you this week and its an awesome one! the tiddly inkers want to see ...

Flowers!!!!!

told you it was a yummy one!! who doesn't love adding flowers?! I know I do!!! he he he!!! so much so that I had 2 makes for this challenge..well, flowers and sparklies..who could resist!!!!
So my first make uses one of Christy's coloured arts, Welcome Baby and I love it. This one is a journal for mamma's to be out there to write some lovely pregnancy thoughts in before baby arrives. I tore around the edges and added some spray varnish, some teeny beads and a little spray of flowers, some bought, some homemade!! the little plaque and epoxy 'Family' sticker are from my stash.
For my next card i used a few tiddly items!!!!

Image-Be Bold, Be You!

Papers- both past freebies from Christy!!

Yup, she got mono and sparkly treatment!!!! and I used my copics on her too...my whole 3 greys!!!! go me!!! the 'wish big' is from my SU pennants set.

And even more exciting......a NEW WRYN!! squeeeeeeeee!!! 

Wryn Beach Babe

right in time for it warming up too!!!!! I love her. She just made me smile so much so I had to make a 'Happy Day' kinda card!! and here she is....

isn't she perfect?! I merged her with one of Christy's sandcastles. Lots of glazey pen on the shells and her bikini but can I get them to show up in a photo...noooooo!! roll on sunny days please!!! then I can get back to outside piccy taking!!
I am entering her over on the simon says stamp and show Summer challenge!!


Well, that me for today!! Please pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see what my yummilicious teamies have been making to inspire you all then grab your tiddly inks images and pens and come play with us!!!!
Thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs and squeezes
Lou xxxx

Birthday Fishes!!!!

Papers- EchoPark -Splash.

Stamp - Woodware Forbes and friends

Morning Peeps!!

Hope you are all having a great monday! when this post pops up I will be happily wombling over a field with the fluffy princess bounding along chasing birds in front of (....at the side me, behind me...in fact all over the field....!!) 

Its midway extra time for us over on the FAS challenge blog and this week we played with some more yummy papers! I even got my trusty Forbes and friends stamp set out for this one!! The sentiment I made on my pooter in word. The little fish is actually rather sparkly IRL ...as is the thread around his little lacey circle nestie!!!

So here's a reminder of the sketch too....

You can flip it around on its side, Jenny did that and it looks so cute!!!! so pop on over to the challenge blog and see what my yummy teamies made this week and get joining in!! there's still a week left so get off your pooter and get making!!! :)

Thank you for popping in on me this morning!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Mr Fix It...

Image- Mr Fix it from Mo's digital pencil

Papers- FBQ some assembly required from Nitwit Collections

Afternoon Peeps!!!

I hope you are all having a fabulous sunday. I have had a wonderful day so far. I baked flapjack and some mint crisp, had a wonderful long walk along the viking way with Mo, Scott and Holly, came home and cooked homemade scone base pizza for lunch,made 2 cards and finished off a tag guest book for a christening.

Phew!!

So this is one of the cards I made and ooooooh it was so much fun...is it wrong to crush on an image?!!! he he he he!!!!!!

Mo is just so good at drawing those men!! I love them!!!

I decided on lots of yummy layers of nitwits papers. I have had this set for a couple of years now and use it tonnes, its especially needed around this time of year too with fathers day creeping up!!! this card however is a birthday one for my friend to give to her fiancé. I love the heart too, that comes with the Lil bits add on pack you can get for the some assembly required, its called Lil bits- some assembly required.The sentiment on it is just so lovely.

I used some gorgeous screw brads that I have had in my stash for years too, they are very gorgeous but I am running out of them now....mmmm...need to look for some more of those!!!

Scott got me an awesome new programme for playing around with my photo's of my creations,its called Adobe Lightroom and he has been giving me some little tutorials on it over the past few nights (mmm...by tutorials I mean he says a lot of big words and slides lots of slidery things around on a screen with his mouse and I am sitting there , I go ooooh and ahhhh and hope I am saying yes in the right places and then hey presto..out pops a yummo piccy!!!!) which is fab as my skills of photo taking are somewhat pants!!!! I am going to enjoy learning how to use it though because the wise one says...if i don't try it myself I will never learn!!! (....I am still hopeful though that if I look confused enough he will do it for me ......!!)

And here is a pile of pens I used. 

So I have more stuff to be getting on with now...there might be a yummilicious new Tiddly Inks image on my desk waiting for me right now....but ya'll will have to wait and see I guess!!! he he he he!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

All new mummies glow..!!

Image- New Baby from Saturated Canary.

Morning Peeps!!

oh I bet ya'll thought I had plomped off the planet with no posts since monday didn't you.... :)

Its been a bit of a funny week here really and my Aunty Audrey went to join my Uncle Dave in heaven on thursday evening. She was very old and ready to go but it is still very sad. I am comforted though that she will be happy with Uncle Dave again now.

BUT!!!! I just had to share with you that....OOOOOOOOOOOh the new Saturated Canary Shop is open and ready for you to use!!! yey! super yey!!!!! :) :) :) and this morning I just had to test it out for myself by buying one of the new releases that has quietly snuggled itself into the shop!! how gorgeous is it!!! I love it!!

Now before you go check out the shop you must pop on over to Krista's Blog where she has a discount code for this weekend to celebrate the new shop opening and an explanation on how to use the code.

I can't tell you how exciting it was to purchase my digi's from the new shop and be colouring them within 5 mins!! wohooooo! and I am also so super pleased because now they come straight away I know Krista will have more time to herself as she won't have to pootle through a zillion emails of purchases!!! yey!!!

Anywhoo onto my card!!! we all know that new mamma's sparkle, I have a particularly sparklie new mamma friend myself at the moment and wow is she awesome!! she is doing so well, she is am awesome new mamma and looks gorgeous.

I took a non- sparkly showing piccy for you too!!

 Here's a piccy of my promarkers used too. The papers are nitwits.

Challenges I am joining in with with this awesome mamma are....
I love promarkers- Anything goes
Truly scrumptious- Anything goes

Right then!! off to take little Mo for his golf lesson now and then home for a play day!!
Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

FAS Challenge 24......

Papers- Echo Park Little Girl.

Morning Peeps!!

Well, how excited am I this morning!!!!!! and the reason for that excitement is.......

Ruth and Jenny have asked me to join their DT over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog!!!

So this is like my little début after the girls let me loose on their fabulous sketches!!! and this is the sketch that they let me loose on....

I loved playing with this sketch and the Echo Park Litte Girl papers are just gorgeous!! for more details on the challenge and to see Ruth and jenny's gorgeous cards please pop on over to the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog!!
Huge Hugs Lou xxxx