Get funky halloweeny!!!!!

Hello peeps!!!

well I have a day off with little Mo today. We went out for breakfast and now he is doodling next to me so I am sneaking in a quick post of my halloween card for the get funky october challenge.

I had to wait to do it until scott had rescued my lovely salt and pepper download from anice's funky hand shop.

I decided to use one of the lily-boo's boutique halloweenie girls for it too!! she is so cute! I kept her mostly black and white with just a little pale yellow colour on her stars. I saw an easel card on my lovely friend max's blog and had to give one a go!!

I printed out a piece of paper from my salt and pepper download straight onto a 5x5 card and did my easel folds.The background of the picture bit is cuttlebug embossed on some screwed up and flattented orange cardstock and the little skull holding up the easel is cut out from another piece of the salt and pepper paper I had in my stash of left overs!!! and the little sentiment boo is made up of the little alpha's in the set too. and glued onto a circle of acetate.

I cut my black satin ribbon so it looked a bit jaggedy ont the edges, Mo says it looks like a bat!!!! lol!!!

I will be lucky if I manage to hold onto this card for very long as Mo already has his little eyes on it!!!!!

well that is if he is still talking to me as it is flu jab time again!!! lol!!! in around 20 minutes a very disgruntled Mo will be having his flu jab for his asthma, I feel sorry for him but it helps him to keep out the germies so he has to get it done!! poor chap. I am taking a lolly to soften the blow!!!

see you all soon xxxxxx

wooo-hoooo!!!! i am up and running again!!!

Well a dreaded virus attacked my laptop and stripped it of it log ins so i have spent the last 2 weeks sitting patiently whilst scott loaded everything back on. Luckily he managed to save everything that was in my files by taking out the hard drive!!!!!
I was so worried I had lost everything I haven't been feeling particularly crafty so haven't been up to much really.

I did however have to have a play with a side step card tutorial!! I made one for my happy mail friend mich ( not taken a piccy of that one yet!!) one for dad to give to mum for her birthday and mo and i made one together for the lollipop lady who helps us to cross the road. I love his little pictures and he used his wally roller to make tracks for the car!!! I had to tell him how to spell thankyou but he is only 4!!!!!!!! I am super duper pleased he loves to craft with me, its so nice.
heres mine....


I heat embossed my tilda with copper powder and ran my vellums through my cuttlebug, the scallop is my gorgeous stampin up oval punches and the little flowers are from my stash!!! And here is mo's.......

Awwwwww!!!!!!! so cute!!! look at his little pictures!!! Awwwwwwww!!!!!right, loads to do and catch up with!!!!!

Thank you for popping in!!!!

oooh quick run to enfys's blog, she has yummy candy!!!

Oh my, you have to go to enfys's blog and enter for the chance to win her blog candy, it is amazing. She has one lot for europe and UK and one lot for canada/USA. Here's a piccy of the UK one

looks very appetising to me!!!! lol!!!!

Dinosaur birthday!!!!

Well its sunday again!!!!! I just don't know where my week has gone !!!
I went t a partylite candle party, the candles smelt soooo good. I didn't get any though as I only had a few pennies so I chose a giraffe safari tealight holder. When it is lit you pop it intoa domed holder and when the candle flickers it looks like the giraffeis walking. Mo will love it.
Then yesterday it was Mo's friends party in a big ondoor play area, he had a fabulous time and was pooped out by the end of the party. His little friend Molly loves dinosaurs and minibeasts and things like that. I had been talking to her mum so knew she would be having a dinosaur cake so I decided to crack out my basic grey archaic paper.

My basic grey archaic collection is one of those paper packs that I have and lovingly stroke the packet every once in a while because I like it soooooo much!!!!! but it was just right for Molly so I opened the packet and put it to use!!!
I cut my cardstock so it was 5.5" x 5.5" and inked the edges brown. I made a base mat with the checked paper and popped a circle cut with my george cart and squished through my cuttlebug with the tiny bubbles folder and inked it with the brown too.
I cut a 1" strip from the sqaure patterned paper and tied a bit of brown organza ribbon around it. I threaded some through one of my matching basic grey archaic buttons and used a big glue dot to stick it to the card. I used some of the alphabet stickers from the pack to spell out molly on the circle and then popped out the little dinosaur sticker. I popped him onto some cardstock left over from the card first and then cut around him to make him a bit stronger. I popped some foam squares on the back of him to pop him out a bit. Mo loved it!!!!

Right, I must get on as I have a bit of laundry to sort out before I can go out to my garage and have a play!!! I have a little book to finish and a wedding card to do as well as a challenge card which I am very excited about!!!!

thankyou for popping in xxxxxx

Christmas baubles!!!

Hello peeps!!!! well the weekend flew by.I had a super weekend, we took little Mo to legoland on saturday and he loved it. He spent a really long time walking around the little model villages! he was amazed by it all. On my way home I hand delivered a happy mail to my friend michelle who lives right near legoland, I have never seen her in person and couldn't stay as we had a 3 hr journey ahead of us to get home but it was so nice to surprise her!!!

Then on sunday my brother and his wife came with my niece and my nephews. Mo is very close to all of his cousins,both my brothers and my sisters children are his "bestest friends"!!!! and always loves to see them.

Then I had a small disaster with my stickles!!! it was so funny because I had had an email from one of my lovely friends saying she had had a problem with her stickles drying!! I decided I needed to use them on my DT card for the gorgeous new bauble collection over on lily-boo's boutique, I wanted to use him in the snowflakes challenge we were having over on the UK crafters thread on the cricut mb.

I popped them on the snowman and left them to dry, 3 hours later they still weren't dry.......4 hours later and yey they were dry .....but they had made the eyes on my snowman run and they had turned a sort of browny colour!!! my snowman looked as if he had been drinking too many snowballs at the christmas party!!!! so hence to say, I had to start again!! Here is the finished effort!!! lol!!!!

So this time I stuck with my promarkers and my shimmer chalks!!!! they are a little bit hard to see in the picture but I popped some versamark all over the bauble when I had finished colouring it and the sky and snowman are all shimmery. I cuttlebigged some co-ordinations blue card with snowflakes on the base mat and swiss dots on the stripe where I popped my spotty ribbon. I inked the edges with a silver cats eye chalk and then foam dotted my bauble on. I made a little bow from the ribbon and popped it on the top of the bauble so it looked tied onto the ribbon.

I have got loads of cards to do this week so I had better get started tonight!!

Don't forget to click on the link and nosey at the bauble collection, its gorgeous!!! The DT have been really busy with them and I need to update the inspirations blog tonight too!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxxxxx

Autumn card for 2 challenges.

Hello again!!!

This is my card for the new challenge blog my lovely frind Jane has set up, it looks like it is going to be a lot of fun. The autumn theme Jane gave fitted perfectly with the colurs that Tanya put in for the colour challenge over on FCTSC so the 2 came together perfectly.

The verse is so lovely and went very nicely with me birds and swirls embossing folder!!!
I used my new stampin up scallop punch and layered them up with foam dots under each layer and then inked up the edges with some rusty coloured mteallic ink but it looks goldy in the picture!!!!
off to get my tea now , put little mo to bed and then I will get time to have a good blog womble!!!
((hugs))
Lou xx

lily-boo too sketch challenge card!

Over on lily-boo too challenge blog Jane has drawn the most amazing sketch, I loved working with it. I used the freebie iage that Sam had drawn and I was in a christmassy mood so ere is what I came up with. I really do have to say a big thank you to jane as it is great to have such a big mojo starter for a sketch!!! things have been so hectic in the daubney household recently my mojo has been taking a bit of a knock!!!! heres the sketch:

And here's my card!!

I coloured her with christmassy colours with my pro-markers and shimmer chalked her skin and wings. I highlighted her hair with a gold gel pen and coloured the heart gold and popped a layer of glossy accents over it. A litte bit of highlighting and I called her done. I love this fairy, she is so pretty.

So quick, pop over to Lily-boo too and join in with the fun,check out the DT's gorgeous creations, I am honoured to have such a great team behind me.We would love everyone to join in with the challenge, the prize is 2 fabulous lily-boo image downloads.

Also we have some very exciting news over on Lily-boo's boutique, we have a new DT member. Her name is Victoria and she has already been busy withher crafty fingers and has made a card for the october challenge!! Please join us in welcoming her to the boo brigade, just click on her name to check out her fabulous blog and creations.

Right i must get ready for work, its so hardon these dark mornings!! but its past half week so we are on the way to the weekend now!!!!

((((hugs)))))

lou xxxx

poor little blog!!

Oh my poor little blog. I have been poorly this week with some sort of yukky fluey thing ( thankfully not swine flu!! lol!!) but I felt awful!!! cold,sore throat,dizzy,sick (the list goes on but is boring!! lol!!!) and oh boy did it make me cranky ( ...lou hangs head in shame and apologises to her poor workmates who spent all week with me being ill and cranky!!!)
So here is what I have been up to in dribs and drabs whenever i felt like it!! lol!!!
There were also a couple more but I have to keep them behind for a little while!!

colour challenge #7 and sketch wednesday #21 over on fctsc.

card sketch wednesday#22 over on fctsc.

card sketch wednesday #23 over on fctsc

happy mail for my lovely friend michelle!! we have been doing happy mails for nearly 2 years now!!!! time flies!!
Well, I have got an appointment with a rather large pile of ironing!! but that ok because I actually do love ironing!! its the fresh warm smell and the getting thr creases out that I love!!! I know,Iknow I am crazy !!
Thankyou for popping in!!!

Yippeee!! the mojo returneth!!!

Hello everybody!!! Happy sunday!!

oh the weekend is over too quickly this weekend!!!! I lost my mojo this week, I was desperate to get my challenge piece for the UK crafters thread done but it just wasn't happening....... until this morning!!! I came out to my crafty garage armed with custard creams and a cup of fruity tea!! my theory is that it doesn't matter how many custard creams I ate because the hot fruity tea melted the calories (....yep...i know this is very delusional but it makes me feel better!!!) Anywho, I had to find my craft worktop first(...ask my big sis, i am the messiest crafter in the entire world!!!! she normally has to doodle in a 3cm sqaure spot at the end of my worktop!!!)

2 custard creams later I could see some of the beech effect laminate popping through......

3 custard creams later and Mo had run off with my scraps and was producing a beautiful piece of artwork for his friend Claudia with it......

6 custard creams later and I had found my desk and my poor mojo flat under the mess that was on it so I duly gave my mojo the kiss of life and set to work!!!! lol!!!

I got out a piece of my favourite 12x12 thin cardstock. This is one of the first presents from my lovey DH when I first got my cricut, I saw it on ebay and by the time I had come home that night he had bought me it awwww he is fab.

Please bear in mind this is only my 4th scrap page!! I have a lot to learn!!

I stamped and heat embossed it with black sparkly powder and my fab inkadinkado rock star stamp (i am still in love with this set!!)

Next I cut out my piccy of rockin Mo and rounded the corners with my corner chomper( omg, once you have one of these you want to round everything!!) inked up the edges and popped a bit of black boyish bling on it. I cut 2 "tattoo's" out in shadow with silver mirri card and then black in normal, then I did the rock n roll banner the same way. I stuck them together and popped them all on the page with a bit of black satin ribbon at the bottom. Now that bit was easy!!!! tough I can never geta good piccy of my efforts when there is mirri card involved!! it really does look cool in the flesh!!!

The bit that takes me ages is that gorgeous guitar, I love it and I am addicted to it at the minute but I just have to string it!!!! I cut it shadow with the mirri card then blackout in black then the fret plate in silver then a normal cut in black, (this gives me all the bits i need to make it layer up and look cool!!!) then I got out my needle and thread and some red-ish colour thread to match my 12x12 page. This is the bit that takes me a while. I always thread 3 strings, then glue then and then do the other 3, (I find it gets to fiddlyif I do it any other way and 3 is half -way there...plus it was time for a custard cream and cup of tea break!!) then I did the other 3!!! a bit of the black ribbon and a bit of silvery organza and hey presto I was done!!! I put a bit of clear drying glue over the strings on the fret board rectangley bits, when it dries it looks really cool but as I sit here it is still wet and a bit white still so not looking too fab yet!!!

Then me and the Mo-ster went to the big field near our house to play with his huge frisbee, los of fun and giggles but we had to come back as I forgot to take his inhaler in my rush to play and he needed it, (luckily the field is really close to home, he just can't run around sometimes without it,especially on warm polleny grass just been cut days!!!!!) We had ice cream,picnic tea and cuddles and he read me his first school book with words in before he fell asleep!!

My amazing DH has gone out to get us tea....mmmm pizza ( yeo the diet is well and truly out of the window today!! lol!!!) so I am going for now. Mo is wheezing away on the monitor but not disturbed by it so he must be in a deep sleep ( well until 5am that is!!!)

Here he is in his big boy uniform,awwwwwww!!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxx

oooh I like this one a lot!

Happy sunday everyone!!!!!!!!

well, mo and I have had a very productive morning doing my entry for septembers get funky challenge!!!!! Mo has been a superstar for me!!! I chose my papers to do my card for the challenge from my Funky Daze cd ( I love this cd, it has sooo much on it!!!) I headed for the 'Son day' part of the cd and printed 2 out. All the papers from each section co-ordinate so it is super easy to get some that go together really well.

Once I had print them out I decide what to do with them!!! I just get an idea and go with it and this is what happened with this one!!! and didn't my little boy model do a fab job for me!! Here he is on the inside of the card!!!

and here's the outside!!!

it is scott's birthday in novemeber so I am super early prepared this year!! Thanks Anice and the get funky gang!!!!!

The font for the sentiment is called 'Jokerman' (I think i got it from dafont.com) and it went together just right with my rockstar stamp set from inkadinkado.

I am chuffed to bits with this card as scott loves his guitar hero game!!!! I am going to use the same photograph for my UK crafters thread challenge but will have to do that this afternoon as mo's meatballs and spaghetti are calling to be cooked!!!!

thankyou for popping in!!!! xx