Super Striker...

Stamp- Super Striker from LOTV.

Morning Peeps!!!

How are you all this morning? great I hope. I am off to work today so thought I would squeeze in a post before I go!!!

I made this card a couple of weeks ago and forgot all about posting it! Its sooooo hard to make a card for a 13 yr old! no froo froo or little peep images allowed as its that first teen year!! romfl!!! Luckily Hugo loves his football so I could finally ink up my LOTV Super Striker for the first time!!!

I popped him on some foam and the papers are We R Memeory Keepers teen angst, they are old papers but soooooo cool! especially for teenagers!!!

The name and numbers are cut with my Tom Holtz Chip Block strip die and then given a good old coat of crackle accents.

Right off to sort myself with something for lunch...not sure what as we are experiencing after christmas no pennies no food at the moment!! he he he!!!

Thank you for popping in on me

Huge hugs Lou xxx

A beary cute post today :)

Image- Daisy Bear from LilyBoo Designs.

Papers- Huge funky Love wordbook from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are all having or have planned a truly wonderful wednesday, I know I have! I was so lost when the little guy went back to school yesterday that I only got one card made in the morning and then walked around with the dog for the afternoon!! so I made myself a plan for today...drop Mo off at school, walk Poppy on the field near school, come home and craft until lunch, have lunch then craft some more, walk Poppy when I pick up Mo.....kerching! happiness!!!!

And I am very excited to share  a little make with one of my gorgeous big sister Sam's new digi's. This is Daisy Bear and awwwwwww he is so cutey patootie!!! ooooh and before I waffle on much more about it, got to let you now about the digi sale over at Cuddly Buddly.....

YEY!!! so onto Lou wafflies about Daisy Bear!!!! so this is my Mum's mothers day card...yep, I know I made it early but this year I so want to be on top of things as everything seemed a last minute rush with cards for my family, this year I am stepping up the pace and getting theirs to the top of my list and pootling through them. I am quite enjoying it too!

I coloured him up with my promarkers and then added a squidge of texture to him with my blender pen rubbed on an off cut of denim and then pressed onto his gorgeous furriness!!! then it was just a case of teaming the little guy up with some of my fav Funky Hand papers. I always have a tonne of this Huge Funky Love paper printed out! I LOVE it! and this cute little guy is going to go sit in the Inky Chicks first ever challenge which is Anything Goes.

so, do you want to see a couple more of Sam's new releases in action?..... squeeee! ok then!!!  I was going to do them in seperate posts but they are all just so cute I can't wait....

this is Love Bug Bear....

using the same papers and texture on the bear but a little pink mono tone bear, awwww!!
and here is Bunny Bear...

These papers are from the Shabby Saturday download and Craft the year away cd rom, and I had a little bit of help from a Little Mo on this one! he wrote 'Happy Easter' for me.

When I coloured this little bunny bear I coloured him up and then dotted all over him with my blender pen to get him all fluffy bunny feeling!! he's sooo cute!!

Right, time for a cuppa and a womble in on you all. Its been kinda quiet in bloggyland with commenting so I am off to leave some love incase you all pop in on me!!! he he he!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 101...anything goes!!

Stamp- Warm Winter Wishes clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog , its Anything Goes, a nice easy one to get you all going with your tiddly crafting for the new year!!! and even more exciting is the new releases in the Tiddly Inks shop from Christy for today! they are gorgeous!!! I used the gorgeous new Skater Wryn clear stamp set on my card for today. All the cute little stamps I used on my card are from the same set! I adore them all!! and the sentiments are gorgeous. I chose the 'skating by to say hi' one.

I am popping this little lady in the challenge over on the allsorts challenge blog too, their CAS challenge is what got me into stamping straight onto the card!!! I have to admit I am no good at CAS whatsoever!! the fear of stamoing straight onto my card took me 5 mins to get over and then I had to work up the courage to colour straight on there too!! and then to top it all off there is that ever growing urge to stick some embellies and ribbon on! oh my! I salute all CAS card makers because this was so tough!!!

So now for the new releases......may I just squeeeeeeee!!! digi stamps and clear ones!!! 

digi stamps.....

                                  

clear stamps....

you guys are spoilt for choice!!! 

and digi's....

Right, I have to get myself moving! Its the start of school term today (...much to Little Mo's dissappointment!!!) so we are back on for breakfast buddy duty with Mo's little friend Sophia and I need me a nice cuppa to get me woken up!!

have an awesome day and thank you for popping in on me

Hugs Lou xxxx

Tatiana Ketto.......

 Stamp- Stamping Bella Tatiana Ketto.

Papers- Persnickety by Lily bee Designs.

Bazzill cardstock- Rosey.

Corners-  Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B  .

Numbers- Tim Holtz alterations Chip Block die strip.

Border strip- Memory Box Cherish border.

Morning all!!

Hope you are all waking up to a great monday. Its my turn to share over on the DTDF blog this morning  and I decided to go and have a good old rummage through my stamp draw  (...yeah, ok ...one of my stamp draws...!!) to find some hidden treasures that I haven't used in a while!!

I came up with Tatiana Ketto. She was one of my first ever Stamping Bella buys and I love her. she just has a litte something about her that makes me smile whenever I colour her up and she is so easy to colour. Her hair is 2 tone with a slight hint of pink and it looks yummy!!

Here's a bling shot.....

The 40 has a good old covering of glossy accents on and it looks so cool!! The Lily Bee designs Persnickety papers just went so well with the colours I had chosen and who can resist a Memory Box border?.......not me!!! I love them!!! The Cherish border is easily one of my favourites.

Right! got to go! its my little Mo's last day of the school holidays and we are having a Mo and Mummy day. So far Mo has planned playing on Moshi Monsters while I craft so that sounds fab to me!! I love this little guy so much! he has everything covered!! he he he!!

Oh and did I get my craft desk tidy you ask?...well I got it to this...

and then we decided to do a bit of gardening as the weather was not rainy and quite warm! foggy but I feel fab for getting the garden tidied up a bit and I was going a little stir crazy with tidying......

Thank you for peeking in! have an awesome day

Huge hugs Lou xx

Does your desk look like mine?!! he he he!!!

Morning Peeps!!!

so as much as I would love to be crafting today I have a little mission and my mission is my craft desk!!!!!! so the piccy above is what it looked like 3 hours or so ago..... sigh..... and this is what it looks like now....

sigh deeper...!!! lol!!!! 

I have stopped for a cup of tea....about an hour ago......and will return to it soon.....once one has eaten copious amounts of yummy christmas danish butter biscuits from one of my gorgeous little peeps at work......

So it will hopefully be tidy by the end of this afternoon and then I can  make something.....by which time I will not actually know where anything is because it is tidy and whatever I need is not under the huge pile to the left or right of my 1ft crafting square space left under huge pile of stuff..........

Have an awesome sunday everyone, its gorgeous here. A getting really foggy now but the sun wass popping through earlier but so much like spring its weird!!! the birds are singing beautiful tunes and its not too cold either!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

One Little Word...

Morning Peeps!!!
No make from me today! just a word!!
This year I will be beginning my first Project Life journey and I wanted to join in with the One Little Word project too. I am really excited about having something to focus in on and bought my self the digi Becky Higgins Celementine kit from Jessica Sprague.com to get me started.Then all I needed to do was choose a word....

So it has taken me almost a week to narrow down my word for 2013! I am not feeling too bad about it though because I saw my gorgeous buddy Carissa's post this morning and she had a huge list to decide on hers.
Me? I had 2 words on my list..Family and Breathe. I have been lamenting between the 2 because they are both gorgeous subjects to choose but my final choice was easy because of the moments with my family or in my life that make me Breathe, hence my one little word for 2013 is....

BREATHE.

and my reasoning? well,its easy really. 

To breathe is to live and there are moments in my life that take my breath away, moments that I love and will remember forever,then there are the moments that make me so sad I feel like I can't breath like when I read about the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook school. There are also those moments where I have to remember to breath to forget about it or stop myself from saying something negative...:) but all of these moments shape my life and thoughts so I think its a good word to choose.

So how I am going to remember to think on my word... I decided to have one little journal card in my project life layout a week devoted to my word so I can keep track on any of my thoughts or events that have happened that took my breath away ( ...or made me need to hold it and count to 10.......!!!!!) that way when I look back next year I can hold all of those moments dear and see how they shaped my 2013.

Right got to go, cooking the furball princess some chicken breast for her kong toy and need to umpf myself into making some lunch for work too!!
Have a fabulous friday everyone
huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge- Inspired by a song....

 Image- Pearl from Saturated Canary.

Papers- Pink Paislee Prairie Hill.

Bazill Basics savannah.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated canary challenge blog and this time its our Vicky holding the reins!! she chose...

Inspired by a song

So naturally I just had to go for 'Under the Sea' from the film 'The Little mermaid'. I love that film. It is one of my big sisters favs so I always think of her when Mo watches it.

And super yey for me!! I got to use some of the teeny weeny shells and seaweed that Mo and I collected from the beach last summer.

I just kinda splodged everything on in a mess and used some medical gauze for the first time too so its a card of firsts....but it looks so cute, I really love this!!!

so pop on over to the challenge blog and see what awesomeness my gorgeous canary teamies have been creating...let me just say...SWOOOOOOOOON!!! you don't want to miss any of them!! and loads of cool songs too.

See you all when I get home from work :)
huge hugs Lou xxxxx

New Tiddly Inks clear stamps release.....

Stamp- My I Love You from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!!

I am so excited this morning because the release day for Christy's gorgeous new clear stamps is here and oh my gosh!!!! you will love them all....I know this because I did!! he he he he!!!!

So, the gorgeous little My I Love You stamp got Lou colourage first :) I just adore this stamp, because it is stunning and because it reminds me of my little Mo. A while ago he asked Christy for a Wryn with a fox and she drew him the awesome digital stamp Wryn and Mo so you can imagine how over the moon Mo was to see this stamp.Hence to say this card will be Mo's valentines card from me and daddy!!

The papers on this card were also made by Christy but I can't see them in the shop so you might need to beg her to release those in time for your valentines day makes :)

Next up we have a little make with 'Annabelle Birthday Wishes'....

For some reason I seem to have lines across my paper in this piccy and the camera really picked them up!! they are not on the paper when you buy it though so it must of been an ack day for my printer!! (lou wishes she had noticed dang lines before now...!!!) The paper is from the Yummy Paper set in the store. She's just so sweet! I loved colouring her up.

And there's also 'Cloud 9' in clear stamp for you too...

Along with another 2 gorgeous sets... 'Happy Mail' and 'Too Cute To Spook'......

                             

Now the Tiddly Inkers have all been busy over christmas making some stunning samples to get you inspired and oh my gosh they rock so don't forget to peek in on the Tiddly Inks blog and see whats over there!!

Right, I have to get my butt into gear, its back to work for me today :( sad face because I feel really poo with this terrible bug still and poor little Mo is still really sick :( we went to visit my Grandad yesterday and he got all the way there fine and then he was really, really sick as he got out of the car, this bug just doesn't seem to want to leave him alone :( He didn't let it bother him though and soaked up some Grandad time....

I LOVE this picture.

So Mo gets a daddy day today and then snuggles with mummy tonight!

I will be back with a scheduled post for the new Saturated Canary challenge this afternoon.

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Have a monstrously good new year!!!

Morning All! 

I am popping in this morning with a cute but quick new year card. I LOVE this little monster guy, he is just so cute and I just wanted him bursting out of the card to wish you all a happy new year!! 

He is of course one of the fabulous little digi's from the Colour Me Happy cd rom. All the papers and digi's on this card are also from this cd and the new year sentiment on the front was made with the writer on the workspace, I LOVE this font too! its so cool and goes perfectly with a little monster dude!!!

Here's another view of him through his little torn window....

 And here he is inside!! I used the scroll digi and then using the writer I typed up my sentiment and sized it to fit in the scroll! fab!!

Then I coloured the monster and the scroll up with my promarkers and added some white gel pen ditty dots here and there for a bit of umpf!!!

 So, How did I cut this little guy out? with a good old nestie! 

I coloured him up and trimmed the insert to fit inside my card and then glued him in. Then all you need to do is pop a circle shaped nestie over the top of your little monster guy with the cutting side facing upwards, (I pop a little squidge of blue tack underneath it so that it won't wobble whilst cutting), I do it like this because then I can see really clearly where it is going to cut and which little parts of my monster dude are going to be showing.

Then close your card and pop it through your cutting machine. When you take it out you should have a lovely little monster dude staring at you through a circle window!!!

Now, to get the ripped circle effect on the front all you need to do is trim down your chosen paper for the front and then carefully place it inside your card and close the card. You should be able to see a circle of your patterned paper through the little window. Using a pencil draw around the edge of the circle onto your paper and then take it out of the card. Poke your pencil through the centre of the circle and then tear back the paper up to your pencil line. I love to make little triangle shapes with my tears.

I also always print on both sides of my paper when printing out digi papers, that way when you rip it you will have a different paper on the torn bits. All the papers in Anice's colourways are designed to work with each other so you never need worry about the 2nd pattern looking out of place. Its a bit tricky to see in the photo's but the 2nd paper is a bluey grey colour with little cirlces and squiggly lines in!!

I am popping my little monster cuteness in the  Papertake weekly challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge and the Passion for Promarkers blogs New beginnings challenge.

Promarkers used...
Greens- Olive green,pear green and Holly.
Reds- Poppy and crimson.

Well, that's me for today!! we are off to my Grandad's to sort out his new tv!

Have an awesome day peeps!

hugs Lou xxxx

Gorjuss Bear Skin.....

Stamp-Bear Skin

Papers- Persnickety by Lily bee Designs

Lace- Crochet velvet centre Ivory/Rose

Stamp-Bear Skin

Papers- Persnickety by Lily bee Designs

Lace- Crochet velvet centre Ivory/Rose

Morning everyone!!

I hope you are all having a fabulous monday and are looking forward to new year? I don't celebrate new year so I will be tucked up all sleepy in bed when the new year comes in!!

It's my turn to  DT post over on the Dies to Die For blog his morning I have another Gorjuss girl to share with you all. They are still on sale in the dies to die for shop and this little Bear skin is just £5, I absolutely adore her. She is a kling mounted rubber stamp so she stamps like a dream.

I kept my colours simple (...because they were the ones still sat in my pencil case from working away friday night!! ) so the whole image is coloured on soft brown and pink promarkers.

The colours of my stamped Gorjuss matched beautifully with some of the papers from Lily bee Designs Persnickety paper pad....almost to gorgeous to use but they went so well I made myself use them instead of stroke them!! romfl!!! and oh my!! that May Arts crocheted velvet centre ribbon....swoooooon! I love it!! 

Well that's it from me today folks!! I am not up to much of anything today as Mo and I are still desperately trying to shake off this weird chesty cough bug, its awful. I seem to be winning as I have picked up a little today but poor little Mo is coughing his little head off and sporting a wonderful green runny nose, poor chap. We might have to take a little trip to the drop in centre this morning and see if he needs some antibiotics to help him along.

Have a wonderful new year! and I will see you in 2013!!! Its so hard to believe another year has whizzed by!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxxx