No character stamps and embossing and a bit of exciting news....

Stamp-Welcome to a lovely new home from Dies to die for

Morning Peeps!!

Last night I was having a read of my google reader and the challenge from the TOMIC challenge blog caught my eye and I just had to join in!

Their challenge this week is No character stamps and embossing. it sounded like such a good one as I have loads of the gorgeous little scene type magnolia's that I always want to put a character with.

I decided on this one, 'Welcome to a  lovely new home', isn't it sweet? and I stamped it on an old book page before colouring it up with my promarkers.

Then I cut it out with my lacey circle nesties. 

The next thing on my list for the challenge was the embossing. I chose to do use my brick embossing folder on some kraft paper. I gently coloured the edges of my bricks with my sandstone promarker to make them pop out even more.

Now I totally love my new swirl with flower leaf Doo Hickey die, its gorgeous. I cut it and distress inked the leaf with a teeny bit of faded jeans and forest moss, then the swirl with forest moss. I then placed it so that it kinda snuggled the house stamp and added a couple of flowers from my stash to the leaf cuts on each side.

Then I popped on a few teeny punched flowers to the little loops on my nesty, added a punched heart where the swirls crossed and a little computer generated sentiment that I punched out with my SU Jewellery tag (...yup, I use it a lot!! its one of my favs!!).

And the exciting news........:) :) :) :)

Tracy over at Dies to Die For emailed me a couple of weeks ago and asked me to join her DT!!! I am so excited and its twice as nice as I get lots of bits from Dies to Die For because Tracy always has an awesome stock of the MFT Die-namics which I lurve!!  Her DT are all awesomely talented so I hope I can match up to their talents soon!!! 

Right, Off to work for me today! Mo and his breakfast buddy, Sophia, are just watching a little bit of TV so I need to rustle them up and get them ready then jump in my yummy new car and get going!!

Have an awesome day peeps

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 26- All the B's.

Hello Peeps its me again!!!
2 posts in one day?!!! yep! I am back to share my Saturated Canary challenge blog make with you as the new challenge has started today. Krista is off to Disney(...I so wanna go too!!!) so the challenge is up now, which is cool because you get an extra day to play!! he he he!!!

Bev is our challenge mistress this week (...Lou has visions of Bev clad in black leather cracking the whip ....romfl!!) and she has chosen a theme of ...

All the B's

so you need to use at least 2 things beginning with a B to play along

and You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp .

I just had to use a boy so I headed straight for the little guy Krista drew for charity.If you click on the cute little piccy below it will take you to the post on Krista's blog all about these 2 very special little digi's that Krista has created for charity to raise money for  

St Jude's Children's Research Hospital .

So for my B's I went for ...Boy, Brown, Blue and Bunting!! its soooo easy!! I love it!! and if  you need a few moments drooling, go over to the challenge blog now and see what the rest of my gorgeous canary teamies have been making, they are fabulous.

My bunting was made with my SU Jewellery Tag punch and the sentiment is from my SU pennants set, along with the little stars I stamped on them and the image.

Well its time for as snuggle on the sofa and to eat some of my packet of maltesers that Scott has just brought home for me from the shop, yummy!!! A very tired after his school trip to 'Horrible Histories' Mo can be heard making littl mini snoring sounds which is too cute and I have had to resort to fluffy pj's and put the heating on tonight because it is soooo cold! I think summer has gone now :(

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping back in!!

Lou xxxxx

Little Big Tree ....

Image- Little Big Tree by Kim

Papers- Quilted Holly by Kim
Sentiment- Christmas Sentiments by Barbara Anne Williams

Hello Peeps!

Hope you are all having a fabby wednesday. Little Mo has gone off to watch 'Horrible Histories' with his class on a school trip so I have had a bit of a  play with my Cuddly Buddly DT make.

I chose this cute little image by Kim called 'Little Big Tree' and some of Kim's delicious christmas papers,  'Quilted Holly'.

It is such a pretty selection of papers, if you click on the piccy below it will take you straight to the shop :) ( I am sooooo helpful!! he he he!!!!)

I coloured up my image to match the colours of the pink papers and then added a bit of blingy snow.

On the inside I shrunk her some so that she could sit down at the bottom on the right. I shifted her size and position using my psp program on the print layout setting.

Before I forget I have had a few questions emailed to me that I need to get answered so I'll do that now!! ( sorry to all the peeps it has taken me a week to answer to xx)

Charms...
I get my charms from all over the place...I think I am addicted to them!! mostly they come from my friend Clare's craft shop, Cloud 9 in Horncastle or 'The Works' shop.

How much I sell my cards for..
£2 for a 5x5 size, £4 for the 8x8 ones, plus postage. Contact me if you want to buy one :) he he he!!

What do I do with my cards when I have finished making them...
I stamp my personalised stamp on the back, get the right envelope to go with them and then bag them up and price them. They then go into a big plastic box that I sometimes take to work to sell or my mum and her friends take the box to the pub to sell them there!!!

What programe do you use for printing your digi's.....
Corel Paint shop pro x.

I think that's it!!! I am going to grab a cuppa and put the heating on!! I cannot believe how cold it is today!!!
Thank you for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly-ing on a tuesday!!

Image- Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly Inks

Printable quote from Kimberly at ' This Kalil Life'

Morning peeps!!
I hope you are all having a fab morning. I am so excited today because my awesome mum bought me a new car and I picked it up yesterday!!! ( when I say new, its actually 10 years old but to me that is mega new!!!) so today I will be having a little explore around in that and a good test drive once I have dropped little Mo off to school.
Mo also slept in until 6:30am this morning!! that's 2 days in a row now but this morning gets special mention as I am sure the extra 1hr30 mins in bed has helped to shake off a bit of the cold of doom and my runny nose is almost gone, I figure if he sleeps in again tomorrow my sore throat will go too!!! romfl!!

So this morning when I popped my google reader on Kimberly from This Kalil Life had made an awesome bright and cheery quote from the Dalai Lama which I absolutely loved. I just had to print it out right away and make myself a cheery little poster for my wall and there is no Tiddly cheerier than Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly Inks. I absolutely adore her, she just makes me want to smile every time I colour her up!!!

Right then, I best get me a bit more organised and get Mo off to school so I can pop a cd in and do some driving around in my new car, brum brum!! romfl!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me today! Have an awesome day everyone
Huge hugs Lou xxx

FAS challenge 32 midway...

Phew!! how did we get to midway challenge already?!! Here's a reminder of this fortnight's 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!

And just to remind you all....Ladybug Crafts Ink  and Kerry is generously offering the winner of this challenge a £10 voucher to spend in the store! 

We had such an exciting weekend with twycross zoo on saturday and snugglies with Poppy on sunday that I thought I wouldn't even get a make done for the midway post but then a little quicky card idea just popped up into my head and I went for those supper yummy dies!!

Yes, its that delicious Die-namics Layered Rose from Dies to Die for. I decided it would make a totally delicious poppy and got my rememberance day card for my dad pete done. He was a sgt major in the army so I like to give him a little card on remembrance day, get me so organised!!

Right, best get myself moving! I have a tonne of cleaning up to do before I can get myself out to my craft room to do some craftying!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Happy Bee Day!!!

Image- Happy Bee Day from Tiddly Inks

Hello Peeps!!!

Hope you are all having a fabby day. I woke up with the cold from doom and have a really sore throat, grrrrrrr!! still its been a lovely day.

We took Mo out to a dog show where there were doing agility which he adored watching and we had a quick womble around the garden centre and he bought yet more books for his ever growing book collection. His fav one so far is his new bible stories book.

So I made this card a few weeks ago when the super cute new images and stamps came out over in the Tiddly Inks store. She is Happy Bee Day and she is just so cute!! The sentiment comes with her too.

I coloured her up using my promarkers.....

skin- blush, sunnkissed pink and coral

hair- vanilla, sandstone and caramel

yellows- pastel yellow,mustard and gold

browns- cocoa,caramel and walnut

 I am entering with the Allsorts challenge blog- Layers with her. There are 6 layers in to this little cutie.

And I am so happy today because today we went to go spend a little while having snugglies with our gorgeous new fluffy princess!! she's soooo cute!!! she's a little dark chocolate lab and we have called her Poppy. Here's a little piccy...

Her head is a little bit blurry because she kept running off to play with Scott's trainer laces!! Mo is so excited he "thinks he might pop"!! romfl!!! it was a joy to see him playing with all the puppies that were there, there were 7 and he was in his element snuggling with them all!!

Poppy is just 4 weeks old tomorrow so we have 4 more weeks of waiting before she is ready to come home for permanent snuggleage but we are busy puppy proofing in preparation for her arrival!!!

It has been so hard without Holly and we are just such doggy peeps that we had to add another member to our family. We can't wait to bring her home.

Right best go and get myself a couple of paracetemol and try and get rid of my lergy!!

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly and Funky all in one day!!

Image- Wryn Hanging Around from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!
I thought I would have a Tiddly Inks make and Funky Hand make all in one day today!! so I have made a quicky card to share with you all this morning. This one took me just half an hour because my gorgeous little Wryn was already coloured up and I got cheaty and stamped my stitches!! he he he!!!

And those delicious papers are from Funky Hand's Shabby Saturday download, which is one of my absolute favs ever,its gorgeous. If you click on the piccy below it will take you straight to the shop and the Shabby Saturday download page. It is such a yummy set.

All it needed then was a bit of raffia and some gorgeous SU pennant punch and stamp set to finish it off. Simples but sooooooo cute!!

Right off to work for me today so I guess I had better get myself some lunch made and get Mo moving as he is in "I think I should stay home today mummy" mode!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

A little Winter fairy and I'll bring the mistletoe..

 Image- A winter Fairy from Lilyboo designs

Kim’s digi papers – Quilted Holly.

Kim’s digi stamp- Twelve Christmas Greetings.

Morning Peeps!

How are you all this morning? I am very excited because I can finally share with you a couple of makes from my big sisters new digi releases that I made a couple of weeks ago. You can see all her New releases here at just 99p each they are a total must for your christmas digi needs!! Bargain!!

So the top card uses the little winter fairy, she is so sweet.I had to add a little blingyness with my copic spicas too, I love the way they shine and how yummy is that paper too?! I added a little bit of twine, bling and one of the kim's digi circle stamps.

And oooooh I so love this little cutie below! I felt the need for some funky hair on this one so she got some festive green hair! I just had to use the 'Merry Kissmass' sentiment to go with her and her sprig of mistletoe.

Image- I'll bring the Mistletoe from Lilyboo Designs

Kim’s digi papers – Quilted Holly.

Kim’s digi stamp- Twelve Christmas Greetings.

So its off back to work for me today. Yesterday was a complete disaster as the car failed its MOT on monday morning so I have been carless since then. Yesterday it went to be fixed ( new catalytic converter required..) I dropped Mo off at school and dropped the car down to scott who took it to the garage and there were some problems attaching the exhaust due to threaded bolts from the one before so when I came home the exhaust promptly fell off....arghhhhhhhh!!! I had 1 hr before I needed to go fetch Mo who goes to school a couple of villages away...!! Luckily my dad came to my rescue and took me to get Mo whilst scott's dad fetched him from work and brought him home to get the car and followed him up to the garage incase he needed any help on the way ( he had to stop twice and push the exhaust back on before he got to the garage!!) but its all fixed now!!

It never rains but it pours!!! lol!!

Thank you for popping in on me today

Huge hugs Lou xxx

The Big guy golfing....

Image-  Big Guy Golfing from Mo's Digital Pencil

Papers- Sugar and Spice vintage Impressions from Barbara anne williams

Afternoon Peeps!
I am back with a 2nd post of the day!! I just had to share this card with you because I really enjoyed a bit of colouring and sticking down layers of paper!! I was bloggy wombling this morning and found 2 challenges that just got me thinking I fancy a make!

This digi from Mo Manning is one of my most used digi's!! I must of made at least 10 cards with this guy since I got him! oh the joys of having a golf crazy dad, son and hubby!!!

I even found a super cute little golf tee charm in my charm pot to pop on it!!

Challenges I am entering with this Big Guy Golfing...
DP2- Lovely Layers

Papertake weekly- Anything Goes

Right back to the little peeps and the last day of school hols!! We have just got back from a lunch out with my mum and we are all full up of lunch and totally sleepy!! the sun has come out and its fairly warm so the walk home was a bit of a struggle for them!!!

Thank you for popping back in on me!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Daisy Day - the new Funky Hand release xx

 Morning Peeps!

There is a gorgeous new download out over in the Funky Hand shop, its called Daisy Day, and I just wanted to share a few of the creations I have made with it. I love it. Its bright,cheerful and zingy and I can't wait to get making some more cards with it when  my mojo kicks back in proper styley!! 

Ya'lll know how much I love halloween and the stripey paper and orange polka dots comboo above is screaming out halloween to me...oooh might even have to try a halloweeny card today now!! he he he!!!

Next I used the soft pink tones to make a get well card and used the dandelion digi from the Wishes and Kisses cd rom. 

 Then I had a play with a tag and some of the flower print papers, making a 'daisy' with my lord tim rosette die...

So, click on this piccy to see more gorgeous creations from my funkette teamies and get yourself a gorgeous all rounder Daisy Day download!!

Its the last day of the school holidays here :( so I will be on Aunty Duty squeezing out my last day for a while with my squidgy little peeps, not much planned for today though we will hopefully be making some cake pops!! yummy!!! 
huge hugs Lou xxxx