The most super day!!!

Hello everyone!!!

I have had the most super day!! I went to my first ever crafty club!! yey me!!! Anyone who knows me personally will know I have a bit of a nervous thing and struggle to get myself to go for things but my amazing DH Scott told me that I needed to do some things for me so when ali said they were having a crafty club I signed up!!!
Today we made tag books. I have made mini tag books before and other kinds of tag books bt i have never really embellied up the pages so this was a new thing for me!!! I love new things, they keep up my inspiration for all things crafty!!!
This one os for some very dear friends of mine who have just had their first baby boy. He is the star of the book on the first page!! The book itself was made with a 12x12 piece of card stock, (i broke into my stroke it only basic grey for this one!!!) and used my forever friend baby paper.
The tags were cut on my cricut from TBBM, in shadow and then normal to get the little decorated paper on. The gorgeous bear is from nitwits and the ribbon I got from a shop in the UK called 'Boyes' (its a bit of everything kind of shop!!)
The stamps are my very lovely present from andrea, thank you andrea, they are gorgeous xxxxxxxx

Here’s the front of the tag book.

 

The first and second page,Tags in!!

Tags out!! awww!!

The third and fourth page,Tags in!!

Tags out!!

I couldn’t leave the back cover out!!

A close up of the star of the book!!  awwwwwww!!!

 

Thank you for popping in xxx

Get Funky’s November challenge entry!!!

Well it wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t almost late for a challenge but I have been rushed off my feet with one thing and another this past couple of weeks!!  and tonight our network has crashed so I am writing this in my live writer and can hopefully post it in the morning!!

I wanted to get my get funky “ autumn woodland” challenge done so I finally got to have a play with my get funky seasons cd-rom and omg is it cool!!!

I popped straight down to the Autumn section and had a sneaky peek at the chocolate drinks bit and I just thought I would have a nosey at  the extras, well how chuffed was I when this cute little bag  popped up on my screen and then on the next page the super cute tags!!! Inspiration hit me straight away ( always does with one of Anice’s cd’s!!!!!) and I had some cute pictures of Mo,Me and Scott walking at our local nature park a couple of years ago. I printed all the bits out and then resized the photo’s to fit on the tags.

 

I glued 2 tags together for each page and inked the edges to hide my pants cutting skills!!! ( sadly this is what happens when one owns a cricut!! romfl!!!) I inked the edges of the pictures too and then bound them all together popping the autumn page on for the cover of the tag album. I popped a brad on with some yummy dotty ribbon on.I made my bag and inked its edges too to make it look cute and stuffed it with some organza and taffeta in autumny red and gold colours. I popped some more dotty ribbon on and made a quick little circle tab with my punch and wrote ‘Autumn 2007’ on it. Check out the cheesy family on this tag!!!!  I love this photo, its one of my favourites!!

Mo will love this little album in a bag, he loves anything quirky and I will definitely be making a few more of these!

Thank you for popping by, see you soon xxxxx

hellooooo!! Happy sunday!!

hello peeps!!

I have had a fab day wombling around with Scott and mo. The weather was awful this afternoon so we spent the afternoon playing board games, mo loves board games!!!!

Well I have super happy news, after being sad for a few weeks after my much loved local craft shop closed, Andrea has got herself a blog!!! yey Andrea!!! please click on the link and go for a nosey at her fab slide show, Andrea is the one who makes the gorgeous ugly bug stamps that mo loves ( and me too, i pinch them all the time!!!) here is a card a put on my blog a little while ago, this is scatty the spider, he's a cutie isn't he!! so click on the link and go follow her, she makes gorgeous cards and the whole family is super talented crafty....must be in the genes!!!!!!

this is the other card i made this weekend for Scott's mum and dad's golden anniversary. Mo calls them nannie and grandad prickly as Scott's dad has a goatie and moustache that prickles mo when he kisses them goodbye!!! so it had to be some loved up penny black hedgehogs for the image!!! i got this image in a stamp swap so i don't know what its called but i love it!!!

right i am off back out to my crafty garage to get on with my autumny piece for get funky's november challenge so I will see you soon

thank you for popping in xxxxxxxx

Hellllooooo!!! i'm still here!!!

Hello peeps!!!! well my uni assignment has zapped my crafting time for the last couple of weeks but I got it all finished up on friday and sent into cyberspace to be marked!!!! I was so nervous about it, dh had to press the send button!!!!!

So today I finally got some crafting time in!!!!! yey!!!!! on the to-do list today was a birthday card for my little nephew Rufus and a wedding card for my mums friend and I actually managed to get them both done!! ( a miracle for me but i think I was having withdrawal symptoms so the ideas just flowed!!!!)here is Rufus's card!! I was in a cyber mood so I used my paintshop and nitwits collection for him,it turned out soooo cute!! bit hard to see in the picture but the little bear is all layered up and then button is glazed to look real with a bit of doodled stitching around the edges of the coloured mats, inside matches but I forgot to get a piccy of that!!

And here is my Mr and Mrs card!! all done in my CDS ( which took 20 mins to update its bloomin firmware with 2 updates when I wanted to cut!!!!!! )I used base camp, george and nasic shapes and wedding solutions. Its a big card too at 11" high!!!!! (.....Lou suddenly thinks envelope??!!......)lol!!Yesterday we spent pampering scott for his birthday and spending some quality family time together. We took the boys to the cinema to watch beverly hills chihuhua ( bargain fun at £5 for all 4 of us to go!!)

This afternoon we had so much fun hatching our little Eyepet together!! oh he is so much fun, we called him Freddie and the boys love him!!

Tommorow I have the day off so scott and I are going out for lunch together while Mo is at school, this doesn't happen very often for us so as you can imagine I am really excited!!!! I wish you all knew Scott, he is just the most amazing person and I feel blessed to have him in my life.

So I will see you all soon, I am off to blog womble now!

Thank you for popping in on me xxxxx

oooh,oooh,oooh!!!I won the get funky october challenge!!!!

Oh I can't believe it!!!! I won the get funky challenge blogs october challenge!!!!
I am so chuffed as I was worried I wouldn't get a card done in time but I did and entered it and I won!!!!
We have had such a busy day popping out for a drive and playing with Mo but I will have to settle down tonight and try to whittle down my funkyhand wish list!!!! I love all of anice's cd's and trying to decide which ones is sooooo hard, luckily my amazing dh has given me some pennies to add to my prize ( he is so fab!) so I an get a couple of the things I have been waiting for since last month!! It was what we call a 5 weeker at work which means we have to wait 5 weeks for our wages bt its lovely when they come!!!! Lol!!!
Right must get on and thinking about what I will do for the next get funky challenge which is Autumn Woodland. I think I might be in a layout mood this time!! lol!!
hugs
lou xx

november challenge over on lily-boo too!!!!

Hello everyone!!!!! i am having a lovely sunday so far. I only had to get up with mo for his inhalers 3 times last night ( which is lovely as it has been 14 or 15 times for the last few nights!!!) I shouldn't complain though because I had the bestest black baggy eyes for our trick or treating last night!!! We had so much fun.

So its challenge time again over on Lily-boo too!! and I am really excited about this months challenge as it is one of my favourite colours. One of our fabby DT members chose.......

PURPLE

so heres the challenge!!!!!

A purple card!!

any occassion,any design you fancy and any image!!

its that easy and as always the prize up for grabs is 2 fabby lily-boo's boutique collections!!

And here is my card for the challenge!!!

I used a present from the lily-boo's boutique celebrations collection and one of the coloured fairies. I drew around it on sssome purple cardstock, folded the card in half and cut around the present shape for the base then I coloured the parcel with my copics and then printed out another to get the bow which I popped through my cuttlebug with the tiny bubbles embossing folder.

I printed out my little fairy 3 times and layered her up but its hard to see in the piccy, then I popped some stickles on her dress to glam her up.

The for you stamp is a tiny studio g one that I got in a RAK, I love it as it is perfect for this card!!!

Please join in with the fun at lily-boo too!! and you must go and check out the DT's cards, they are awesome.

Right, time for a cuppa and a millionare's shortbread biscuit!!! yummy!!!

see you all soon xxxxxxxxx

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