Die- Namics Blue Prints 2.....perfick for man cards :)

 Papers and embellies- Crate paper Toy Box collection kit.
Bazzill Basics Ivy.

Die- Die-namics Blueprints 2.

Morning Peeps!

Oh my my my is all I can say!!!! he he he!! Last week saw the release of the new Di Namics Blue Prints 2 set and as soon as I knew I was on the pooter to Da Boss throwing some pennies her way so that it arrived to live at my house asap!!!! and of course with Tracy being fabulous it did just that!!!

Which is perfect as I had a Thank you card to make for my Grandad who paid for us to have our central heating flushed. My grandad loves planes so naturally I had to head for that awesome Toybox collection kit!! ( I hope you aren't all bored of it,its just so good and a good old boy card in between all these gorgeous girly ones is so much fun!!)

The dies in this Die- Namics set just absolutely rock! and I even used one of the sketches you can find HERE to make it, thank you MFT!! 

I splodged a few of the die cuts and stickers from the kit on and then added the plane popped up on some foam to the top. I love that little tag die soooo much!!!! its so cute!!!!

So today see's tears in our house...from Mo and me!! lol!! its that dreaded first day back at school and even at this early hour we have had 2 meltdowns :( one at getting dressed and the other at the general schooliness of the day :( I feel so sorry for my little guy when he gets this sad so its snuggles and Willow (...sigh...yes again do I have to sit through another session of young Val Kilmer....swoooooon!!!!!) Since Scott bought him it on saturday we have watched it 4 times!! but its such a good film, a real children's film is so nice to watch.

And here's my little guy feeling happier. I took this piccy last wednesday when I was fiddling with my photoshop elements texture tool!! I love this little squidger so much!!!

He he he!! it doesn't hide those dirty little "Mumma I've been gardening" fingers!!! boy did I have to scrub those clean!! but he had so much fun weeding with his little friend and they even earnt a dairy milk choccy bar from one of my neighbours for doing his garden so they were happy!!!

Off to do some snuggling!! Have an awesome day everyone!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxx

Hello Chicka!!!!

 Stamps- For the birds clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Leaves from Grow Old Friends clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Afternoon Peeps!!!

So this morning I was sat thinking...mmmm...no-one liked my fabulous friday Tiddly Inks post :(.....then I took Mo to golf and had some facebook time, a bit of lunch, exciting post and then thought sob sob...no-one liked my Tiddly Inks fabulous friday post...so I went to check it was on my blog and....nope!! bad blogger strikes again and it is still sat in scheduled!! pmsl!!!!! soooo...here it is!!!!

oooh I had so much fun with my clear shrinkies and Tiddly Inks stamps last night! I am so excited to show you my fab friday post as its a little leap into something different!!....shrinkie's rings!!!!!! My friend posted a link to this tut on a facebook page a couple of weeks ago and I loved it so I had to give it a go!!!

I cut my shrinkie sheet at 1"wide and rounded the corners with my punch (it can be quite sharp if you don't!!) and then got to playing birdie!!!

I stamped the sentiment in the center first and then added a couple of the cute little birdies, LOVE them!!! then I went around the edges with the leaf stamp from the Grow old friends set.

I gave them a light colour with some pencils and that was the job done. Out came my heat gun and I loved watching ti curl up!! I wrapped it around a marker pen I had hanging around that I had slipped my ring onto to see if it was the right size.

Here's a side view...

Here's the back with the little openening part....

 and here's daftly excited me with the ring on my little chunky fingy!!!....

It's soooooo cute!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 41- Anything Goes!!

Stamps- Suspenders and Wallflower.

Love sentiment from my SU Teeny tags set.

Papers- MME Lucky In Love.

Dies- Die- Namics Monarch border.

Twine-Blue divine twine.

Coloured with Flexmarkers- 

Nutmeg, Champagne, Antique white.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week its a nice and easy one of....

Anything Goes!!

I made a card for Scott this week. He has been an absolute superstar while I have been hobbling around like an old lady with my hip. 

And if ever there was a smash card I think this is it!!! I think I threw a bit of everything onto it!! I LOVE the gorgeous MME papers and the little memo card was sent to me from Krista in a little packet of goodies. The hearts were lying on my desktop from a card I made last week.

I was having a use minimal amount of colour day too!! he he he! I wanted a kinda classic sepia tone on my stamps so I stuck to just the 3  flexmarker colours, Nutmeg, Champagne, Antique white. I doodled some dots in the background too.

They are mounted on a plane old record card and I just stamped love on the tab to jazz it up a little!!

Smashing on a card!! who knew?!!!! lol!!

My hip is hideously sore. I am still no further into knowing exactly what is wrong with it. My xrays have been sent to the consultant but not reported on yet :( booooooo so I am wobbling on! work is a toughy as I am so sore but hopefully the girls at work won't think me lazy for needing to stop and sit down quite a bit....nursery nursing and hideously sore hip are not the best mix!!

Anywhoo, don't forget to pop in on my teamies over on the challenge blog and see what gorgeousness they have cooked up to inspire you...

And the challenge rules are super easy too so please remember to follow them...

You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

and follow the theme of the challenge.

and please remember you can only enter once.

And please turn off your word verification and turn on comment moderation, you

just need to  need to go to Customise > Settings > Comments > then scroll down to where it says comment moderation and select always (it won't stop anybody commenting but they won't show on your blog till you approve them). Then you scroll down to show word verification for comments? and select No 

Our DT don't want to miss any entries but word verification is becoming

increasingly hard and we have a whole lot of gorgeous makes we don't want to

miss out on leaving the love for :)

Thank you xxx

Thanks.....

Stamp- TGF Blush Thanks.

Dies- Joy Crafts swirl no 2

Die namics Mini Royal roses.

Ribbon- Grey Velvet.

Morning everyone!!

Hope you are all having a great thursday! I am needed to pop and do a post over on the DTDF inspiration blog as our Thursday girl Michelle has the icky flu :( get well soon hunny xxx

So I made a quick thank you card with a few little bits!! 

This is a 3x3 card blank and I stamped straight onto it. Then I added the luscious velvet ribbon and cut a little swirl and royal rose in kraft card scraps I had left on my desk.

Its such a cute little thank you card and the stamp works so beautifully. I'll be back later with my Saturated Canary challenge post, off to hobble to work now :( I am so sore but just about to have my co-codamol so if you are up in the clouds I will see you there in about 30mins!!! romfl!!! they give me the strangest feeling,its a bit like that warm and daft drunk feeling! poor girls at work having to put up with me all floaty and daft!!! but as long as they take the edge off the pain I am happy!!

thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xx

If you can't walk with them, think of them and craft!!!

Stamp- TGF Furever.

Dies- Joy crafts swirl no 2.

Papers- Affection Too from Nitwits.

Morning Peeps!!

I think I am just teetering on morning but if I don't waffle too much I might get it done before the clock ticks round to 12pm!!

So today I should be on my grumbly dogs walk with my little Poppy (who isn't grumbly at all but instead helps the other dogs to get over their black dog fear aggression worries!) and I am so sad I couldn't go because naughty hip is being an absolute toad :( so instead I got my crafty thing on thinking of all my gorgeous doggy peeps and their furbabies and made a card instead!!

The TGF Furever stamp set is just perfect for the job too!! I stamped the cute girl and her little dog up and coloured the with my promarkers and then added a few bones to the background with the mini bone stamp in the set, tooooo cute!!!

I cut them out with a lacey circle and added some raffia through the loops tying it in a pretty bow at the side.

Now to answer an email question I got last week....

how do I get my flowers to match in with the colours on my stamps?...

answer... I buy mostly white or cream flowers and then colour them in with my promarkers!! the flowers above are coloured with sunkissed pink and sandstone promarkers to match her skin and hair!!!

ok, I am going to rush off now. Mo is getting his hair cut soon and I need to get him some lunch before we go!! he has decided he would like a big boy haircut so we'll see what that means when we get there!! he he he!!!!

I am entering this cutie into the challenge over on the cupcake challenge blog which is Raining cats and dogs. and the Top Tip Tuesdays boys and girls come out to play challenge ( entry 2) with a top tip of my flower colouring!!

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Helicopter Fun!!!

 Papers and embellies- Crate paper Toy Box collection kit.

Die- Die-namics Blueprints 1.

Morning peeps!!

I hope you are having an awesome Monday!! its my turn to post my DT creation over on the DTDF Inspiration blog so I thought I would share it in here too!!

Oh wow was this card fun to make!!! he he he he!!! I just had to get my little mits back on that Toybox collection kit again, the die cuts and stickers alone are enough to get you wanting to play with it and then ooooh gorgeous boy papers ahoy!! can you tell I love it?!!!

I cut the card base with my Die-Namics blue prints 1 and Kraft card, then using a few more of the dies I cut some of the papers to get it looking all combatty!! I chose a couple of the yummy stickers and then popped the little helicopter up on some foam...( gorgeous little soldiers standing near the card do not come in the kit but they were way too fun to leave out of a piccy!! he he he!!)

I matched the inside up too with some more paper with the scalloped rectangle in the Blue prints set and a little soldier die cut from the sheet in the Toybox collection..

Thank you so much for popping in on me!!
Hugs Lou xx

Poppy Tilda....swoon!!!

Stamp- Poppy Tilda from Sir Stampalot

Papers- Affection too from Nitwits

Coloured with promarkers

Morning peeps!!!!

How are you all on this gorgeous sunny sunday? fabulous I hope.

So yesterday my naughty hip was being really naughty and I ended up not being walky enough to go to Ferry Meadows with Scott, Mo and Poppy but it wasn't all bad because instead of dropping me off for a quick visit to Sir Stampalot to spend some time watching my gorgeous friend Fleury demo away on her first demo, they left me whilst they went off to explore with Poppy so I got to watch Fleur for longer!! she was just fabulous as always.

She was using this stunning Tilda and of course I just had to buy her!! (he he he....told Scott Fleury made me do it.....!!!) she is just gorgeous!!  After a good couple of hours drooling over Fleur's card, that was just delicious, naughty hip got really bad so Scott and Mo came to fetch me and we went to have a cheeky McD's before coming home.

I treated myself to some new Nitwits papers especially to go with Tilda and printed them out....then Scott, Me and Mo all fell asleep at 7:30pm and didn't wake up until 5:55am this morning!!!! Lazy monkeys!!

So making of card didn't happen until this morning. I have to say I enjoyed every minute of pootling away at this card, its so special when you can be inspired by gorgeous friends. 

Here's a pile of promarkers used.....

Just a few then!! romfl!!!!

On Mo's agenda this morning was 'making a robot', so Daddy raided his bits box and Mo and Mummy got gluey with the glue gun!! He is kinda cute!! bye bye coffee machine!!!

And now they are in here....

...while I get some bloggy time!!!!!...oh and Mo is scoffing plums!!!

so I am entering this little cutie in a few challenges.....
Top Tip Tuesdays- Girls and boys come out to play challenge.

Papertake weekly-Anything Goes challenge. ( I used Kraft for my layering and leafy fronds and dawny's sketch 42,its one of my absolute favs!!)

I love promarkers- What's your favourite colour challenge. Pink and brown are my absolurte fav colour combo ever!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Passion For Promarkers challenge...Fantasy...

Stamp- On Tiptoe from LOTV.

Promarkers...

Skin- blush,sunkissed pink and coral

Hair- Vanilla,putty and caramel.

Dress- Satin, spice and burnt orange.

Grass- pear green and olive green.

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

But this one I am sooooo excited about because its my first DT post for the Passion For Promarkers blog!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I am still pinching myself as I can't believe it so I hope my colouring does my awesome teamies proud!!

Our challenge has been chosen by the lovely Cathy and is.....

 Fantasy....

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous LETRASET  with the very lucky winner recieving a new promarkers collectors set.

 

so naturally I just had to hit my LOTV's!! I love this fairy On Tiptoe stamp. She was one of my first ever LOTV buys and ooooh I love her so much!! 

I coloured her up with my promarkers and added a little clear star sakura pen blinginess over the top. I used a whole tonne of yummy flowers and dies from my stash because this card was a 60th birthday card for my friends very special mummy (who I still refuse to believe is 60?!!!) 

Right then,its a cuppa for me!! the sun is shining away which is awesome so I have got a load of washing in ready to go out on the line and I need to go take some tablets as I have a super stinky head cold again.....could be something to do with paddling in the sea on sunday with mo and Poppy....sigh!! but it was so much fun!!!!!

The sand was so high on the promenade from the storms blowing it up that we had to climb up it for Scott to take a quick piccy!!! I am actually stood up leaning forwards on this picture!! Mo and Poppy climbed up it!!

Have an awesome day peeps and don't forget to get those promarkers out and join in with our fantasy challenge!

Huge excited hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly inks challenge 107- Distress,Emboss or stitch....

Image- A retired little Something from Tiddly Inks.

(sob, sob, I so think Da Boss should put him back in the shop!!)

Morning Peeps!!!

its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its......

Distress, Emboss, Stitch

So all you need to do to join in with us this week is get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and show us a bit of distressing, stitching, or embossing.  You can use all three or one of the three, it's up to you!  so here's some idea's from the gorgeous Tiddly Inkers to get you started.

For my card I used one of my fav images ever. This little somethings Monkey is just the cutest and perfect for so many things but he is also retired...sigh...sob sob!!!! I didn't realise until my card was all done but I still had to share him because he is way too gorgeous not to!!

I used my distressed stripes embossing folder to emboss my kraft paper and then added a bit of cotton medical gauze and ribbon, I distressed all the edges with my distezz-it-all ( I LOVE this littlr pink machine!! I use it tonnes, its so satisfying to hear it chewing away those edges,mwah ha ha ha ha!!!) and then added a good old splodge of vintage photo distress ink too.

Little monkey is coloured up with my promarkers... 
Fur- sandstone,cocoa and burnt sienna
skin- blush, sunkissed pink,coral
vine- pear green and olive green

and he has some texture on him done with the good old promarker blender on a scrap of denim trick! I popped him out on some foam so he really does look as if he is swinging by, awwwwwww he is so darn cute!!!

His little monkey cuteness is off to sit in the challenge over on the cupcakes challenge blog which is Get Your Kraft on!!

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping in on me, its a very exciting day for me today as I will be back with another post soo!! Its my first DT post for the Passion for Promarkers DT!! squeeeeeeee!! I am so excited about it because its just such a dream come true, I hope I do you all justice with my colouring!!!

Right time for a cuppa and bloggy womble!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Ryder Cole......

Stamp- Ryder Cole.

Papers and embellies- Crate paper Toy Box collection kit.

Die- Die-namics notched border.

coloured with promarkers.

Morning everyone!! I hope you are all having an awesome monday, here in the UK it is bank holiday so we are having a lazy little morning in our house!! Mo,Scott and I are planning on vegging in pj's and watching Rise of the Guardians and Poppy has a very chewy appointment with her new treat ball from Fern and Zara! she loves it!!

Its my day to do my DT post for the Dies to Die For inspiration blog this morning and I was in the mood for a guy card this week and had this awesome Ryder Cole stamp and oh my gosh delicious Crate paper Toy Box kit to play with (ooooh you need this kit!!!) after stroking the papers for 10 mins and apologizing to them profusely I finally cut them up to make my card base.

Man cards = simples for me!! so a couple of stickers from the sticker sheet in the kit just finished the card off. The edging on my image mat is just from the off cut of my notched border die, but Mo and I deemed it cool and spikey looking so decided it would make a good edge!!! it does look cool!!

Now a warning from one crafter to another.......when googling images to see how peeps do the eyes on this awesome stamp do make sure you put 'Kenny K Ryder Cole' in images...just putting 'Ryder Cole' is not a good option.....sigh.....!!!!

And tonight..woohooooooo!! new series of Game of Thrones!!!!! can't wait, totally love this show, I want to be Daenerys Targaryen when I grow up!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me, I do love little visitors!!!

Hugs Lou xx