Just one won't hurt....:)

Just one more won't hurt easel card box printable by Helen Plant from Cuddly Buddly

Morning Peeps!!!

Its a beautiful sunny more here and Mo and his breakfast buddy are having lots of fun playing in the garden with action man and the paddling pool!!! so I thought I would get my Cuddly Buddly DT post of the week done while they are busy!!

yesterday I just couldn't resist having a play with this beautiful template by helen, its just adorable!!! and it was so lovely to make too. Everything you need comes in the download, all I added was the tim holtz vintage lace border, some raffia, some strips of acetate for my little stars to sit on and a little red jingley bell for the drawer pull.

There's a few piccies because I took 23 trying to get a good piccy of it!!! easel cards are hard at the best of times and the air was a little shade of blue in my craft room trying to get a good one for you I can tell you!!! romfl!!!!

I added a few dots of starburst stickles, berry red and marsh green promarker around the bear to add some chrimbley sparkle!!

Here's a little side view to try and show the layers of the decoupaged little bear and pressie's topper

 Its such a wonderful little template!! too cute and perfect for popping a special chrimbles pressie in. I was going to fill it with giant choccy buttons....only I ate them during the making so I filled it with some lovely red tissue paper instead...:) :)


Off to make some pack up for Mo now and sneak in a cuppa!!
thank you for popping in to see me!! 
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 89- Think Pink!!

Image- Little Squeaker from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Shabby Saturday from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!

wohooooo!! I am back!!!! oh boy have I felt rough! thank you so very much for all my lovely messages while I have been poorly. I picked up a huge lot on sunday and had an awesome fathers day with these 2 gorgeous guys...

..now these guys are enough to cheer any mamma up! I won some tickets to a wings and wheels airshow just down the road from our home and had an absolutely awesome day. I had to pop some tissue in my sore ear after about 10 mins outside but once it was in and the painkillers kicked in I was good to go again!! Mo loved watching the planes and even won a new cuddly dog too so it couldn't of been a better day for him!!!

Anywhoo!! onto this weeks Tiddly Inks challenge!! this week the Tiddly Inkers want to see some.....

 Pink!!

Oooooh!! I loved making this card so much. I absolutely adore the Baby Inks department in the Tiddly Inks shop and the Little Somethings Christy drew a while ago and I knew this Little Squeaker would be just perfect for a christening card I needed to make. I teamed her up with some yummy papers from Funky Hand called Shabby Saturday. they are just delicious together aren't they!! 

The texture on her little suit was done with my trusty bit of old denim ( the thick type) and my blender pen, I love the effect of cuddliness it gives.

And ooooooooh!! my new favourite die, Die-namics Mini Royal Rose from Dies to Die for!! I love this die sooo much!!! it might get worn out soon!! romfl!!! the roses on this card are made with the larger size of the 2 dies and ooooh!! just ooohhhh!!!

And even more exciting than my new die is......New Wryns!!! oooh we love new Wryns and Christy has spoilt us with 2 new Wryn's this week!! squeeee!!!

and to help you with enabling (...because I am sooo good at that!!!) theres a SALE!!

Click on the piccy for some more details!!! I do so like to be helpful...:)


I had a little play with Wryn Summertime lolli yesterday and I love her!!.....dang...I love them all!!! romfl!!!

Papers- Wishes and Kisses  from Funky Hand

Funky Freebie from Funky Hand

Right, time for a cuppa now me thinks!! Mo's little breakfast buddy will be here soon so I'd better get dressed too!! lol!!!

please don't forget to pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see what my gorgeous Tiddly Inking teamies have been creating, they will knock your socks off!!

thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Lack of bloggyness...

Morning Peeps,
Just a quicky to apologise for my lack of bloggyness but I have an icky ear infection plus the joys of the runny tummy that antibiotics give you so my mojo has kinda run away. Trying to pop in on you all but its taking me forever commenting on bloggy's and facebook on my phone in bed!!
Hoping to feel a bit better soon and mornings are always the worst when you are poorly anyway so might fell a bit more umpfhy later!!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Baby Booties...

Image- Barbara-Anne Williams- Booties

Papers- Bits of Ivory Wee Ones Seaside

Sentiment- Barbara-Anne Williams- Wee Ones Ticket Sentiments

Morning Peeps!!

I am wombling into bloggy land with my Cuddly buddly DT card for the week!! and oooh its so cute!! I love these little booties and this card is for a special little gelfling. He is the new arrival of one of my oldest and most fabulous friends and he is soooooo cute! I have yet to meet him because he has been  so busy meeting all of his new family and friends but I will get to snuggley soon!!!

I was spoilt for choice on my little womble to Barbara- Anne's section of the shop,but I eventually decided on these little booties,the ticket sentiments and the yummy seaside colour papers ( all linkies above!!)

I coloured up the little booties with my promarkers and gave them some texture using a trick Da boss from Saturated Canary taught me!! here's a linky to the post where Krista explained how she did it. I used my promarkers so just swap out the copic blender for the promarker blender if you are a promarker chick like me!!! I wanted a real gentle texture on these soft little booties so I pressed down real gently. I added some white gel pen dots to the bows too to bring in the dots on the blue backing papers.

I made the dummy real teeny so I could make it into a charm for the bow, I LOVE how it came out! I sewed it on with some thread and then ran the thread along my fingernail to make it ruffle, a bit like you do scissor blade on paper or curling ribbon (...Lou imagines self as cat woman with razor sharp nails...and a leather catsuit...and the figure to go with it......!!!)

Right, Mo's brekkie buddy will be here soon and I need to get dressed!! cuppa here I come!!

Thank you for popping in on me 

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxx

Look, I made you a spice rack!!

Image- Look I made you a spice rack from Lilyboo Designs

Papers- A patchwork of papers- Blue from Cuddly Buddly

Sentiment- Kims 12 Round greetings from Cuddly Buddly

Morning Peeps!!
How are we all today? me, I am holding out for good weather as it is little mo's sports day (....mo however is holding out for rain as he doesn't enjoy sports day at all, he doesn't like all the grown ups that come to watch and he gets all nervous! he asked if just me and daddy could go!! lol!!)


So my card today is a bit of a man card!! perfect for those daddies,grandads and uncles out there!! and it took me ages to decide which super cute little stamp to use too!! there were too many yummy ones over in the Lilyboo Designs page over at Cuddly buddly!!!


I had some of kims yummy papers left over from my little bear card last week so I put them to good use and layered them up, adding some faux stitching inspired by Debs post on her blog yesterday!! 


So this little guy is going in for a few challenges.....
Cutie pie challenge blogs- real or faux stitching
Passion for promarkers- lots of layers
Cupcake craft challenge blogs- Red,white and blue 


and heres a pile-o-pens!!

I am off to play for a couple of hours in my craft room before I got to sports day, we have the dentists today too (....ack, I don't do dentists!!) and I have some yummy new Dienamics dies to play with!! (...already had a little play this morning, was mucho funno!!! made a little headband for mo's breakfast buddy, sophia!! who,of course, picked pink felt for her roses!!) she had to wear it for nursery so I had to quickly take a piccy as we went to the car!! romfl!! well, a girl neeeeds her headband!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!! 

huge hugs Lou xxx

FAS challenge 26....

Image- Tourist from Saturated Canary digi's.

Morning peeps!!

Its time for a new sketch over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog this morning and its  my favourite theme this week too!!! its an Anything Goes couple of weeks so all you need to do is follow the sketch and have fun!!!

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! if you click on the piccy it will take you straight to the challenge blog where you can see Ruth and Jenny's gorgeous creations too.

For my make I decided to go for a little make in my SMASH book, ya'll know I lurve my SMASH book!!!! so I used the sketch for making the centre piece on my right hand page. here's a piccy of the pages together...

I used my nesties to cut her out with and the sketch was so much fun to work with.I have never really thought of using a sketch for a SMASH page but this one just worked so neat!!
Here's a piccy of my left hand side page..

I made myself a little camera out of some corrugated card, punching a heart out for the lense because I love photographs. This page isn't finished yet as I have a few more of those clear epoxy dome stickers left and its way too addicting making little badges with piccies of my family!!!(..oh and please excuse the top left corner as my camera slipped just as it was taking the piccy!!!so the badges up there came out a little blurry!!).
I added some butterflies too. Now you might laugh at them but they do have a significance. I am sure I am not the only person out there who gets a fluttery excited feeling when looking through photographs, my favs are the really old ones that my grandad keeps in a box at his house. I must of been through that box at least a zillion times in my 35 years of being alive and it never gets boring! there is always a picture I missed or can't remember or a picture that makes me happy...or sad!! so the butterflies are for the fluttery,free feeling you get when you open the box and start looking through.

So don't forget to come play along with us!!! we love seeing how you all take on the sketches!

Thank you for popping in on me 

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Fathers day with Edwin!!

Morning Peeps!!

Its almost and Mo and I are wide awake bunnies already!!! ...though I would rather be asleep, icky monthlies are dictating otherwise so we have snuggled up to watch a movie on the settee with a big blanket, it is actually one of my favourite things to do over the weekend so I thought I would do a quick bloggy post while we are snuggled here!!!

I love my magnolia stamps and really enjoyed a quick edwin make, he's just so cute and perfect for those dad's out there too!! I coloured him up with my promarkers...didn't remember to take a piccy of them though, derrrr Lou !!!

The text is actually a pretty awesome stamp I bought from my local garden centre's craft shop and I love it. It just has the perfect Dad description on it.

The papers are MME from my scraps box. Its a simple but really cute card!!!

Challenges I am popping Edwin in are...

Just Magnolia- Fathers Day

TOMIC- Anything Goes...

SSSC challenge blog- Happy Fathers day

Ok, I am going to get back to snugglies with Mo now!!

thank you for popping in on me!

hugs Lou xxxx

Faerie baby...

Image- from- 3 baby fairies from Mo Manning

Morning Peeps!!


Oh how I love saturdays!! We have had a lovely morning walking Holly around hartsholme park (....and bathing her after she decided to go for a dip in possibly the dirtiest part of the entire lake........) Mo had a super time playing at the park and now we are back home and vegging out.


I wanted to share the little card I made for my niece, Harriet, whose birthday was on wednesday. I absolutely adore the little faerie baby digi's I bought from Mo's digital pencil a couple of weeks ago, they are just way too cute and you kinda want to squeesh their little toes and cheeks as you are colouring them up!! they are just gorgeous!!


I decided to go for a bit of a mono colouring session with her and I love how she came out, I used my new cherish memory box border too and ooooooh its fabulous! love it!! I think its going to get a lot of use!!!
I added a little bit of sparkle with my sakura starburst pen and then some clouds in the background with my faded jeans distress ink and a sponge. I made the little pearls in the top right match by colouring them with my aubergine promarker, I love doing that and don't often buy coloured pearls anymore because its so lovely to make them match using my promarkers!
The papers are from my DCWV Nannas nursery boy stack... weird as they are purples..!!!


Here's my little pile-o-pens!!....

Challenges I am popping this little cutie into are....
Mo's digital challenge blogs- anything goes (with a mo image)
I love promarkers- for a little girl

I am so super excited today because I won the new Die-namics notched border from the gorgeous Tracy over on Dies To Die for in her Friday freebie post on the Dies to die for  facebook page!! she is so kind to give away such awesome gifts and I can't wait to have a play with it!!! I didn't find out until we had got back from our walk this morning as Scott and I had a film night last night which comes with a 'no pooters- time together' rule for us!! We watched a few episodes from our 'Game of thrones' dvd set ..mmmmmm..Sean Bean..........
Right off to feed my guys!!!
huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me!!
Lou xxxxx

Get Well Soon......

Image papers and sentiment from Wishes& Kisses by Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!!

I am popping in quick to share a bit of a Funky Hand make this morning. Its this uber cute little get well card this morning. I just love this little monster, he...or she..is so adorable!!

It is a digi stamp from the new Wishes&Kisses cd from Funky Hand. I coloured monster up using blush, sunkissed pink and coral promarkers and then added some big juicy sakura glaze pen and doodled some 'poorly' dots all over my monster!!! Mo says they make it look like monster has chicken pox!!!  I just enjoyed having a good doodle with my glaze pen!!! the little bandage has a little edging of pastel blue promarkers just to give it a little shadowing. I felt the need for some cute googly eyes too!!

I also love the little hot water bottle get well soon sentiment!! oh its so cute!! I literally tied it on using a bit of twine.

The colours on this card are all from the 'You're Engaged' colourway and I have to say it is fast becoming my favourite on the cd. I am not that great at colourmatching so I love the way I can print out any papers from the same collection and get them to muddle together perfectly!! LOVE IT!!! 

This poorly little monster is off to play in a  couple of challenges today, they are....

Papertake Weekly -Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts-Doodle on it

So I had better get my butt into action as its a work day for me :( I am not feeling 100% today and I can't decided whether its hayfever or a stinking cold on the way so doping self up with piriton seems like the best way forward this morning!!!! Mo has a daddy day so they will no doubt have lots of fun!!!

Have a great day everyone and thankyou for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx 

Saturated Canary Challenge 19- Anything Goes!!

Image- Double Take from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Afternoon Peeps!!!
When you read this I will be hard at work running around with little people!!!
Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week it is one that will be everyone's favourite as its one of my absolute favourite...

Anything Goes!!

I love an anything goes kinda challenge!! I have been loving playing with Tags recently and thus decided I needed to do a tag!!
But...man are these tags a monkey to take a picture of!!!! I think I need a taking a picture of a decorated tag tutorial!!! they are tricky!!!
Anywhoo here is a close up of Double Take, isn't she just gorgeous. I love that she could be a bride, or a bridesmaid ,or a prom queen...she's just gorgeous.

I hand stitched her little tulle skirt on. She look so much nicer IRL!! she has little glazed glitter dots in her hair and on her dress. I was in a blue hair mood too. I would so love blue hair like this but I have black hair...granted it has a lot of white in and is actually purpley colour at the moment but my dream hair colour is blue, I just love it!!


The challenge over on Cupcake Crafts Challenge which is Tags and over on Ruby's Rainbow which is Tags. This post is a scheduled one so I'll pop in and join the challenge when I get home!!!


Thank you for popping on me, and don't forget to pop in on my other gorgeous Teamies over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog.


Huge hugs Lou xxxx