Gribbit!!!!!! my yummy magnolia frog prince stamp!!!

Oh my goodness me!!! this stamp is just too cute!!!!he came in my magnolia spring club stamps and he is just fab!!!

I made this last night, I coloured him up with leaf green and a bit of pastel biege for his tummy and shading and a gold at you spica for his crown I felt he needed a bit of bling on his crown too so he is the best prince in the pond!!!!! lol!!!!

The heart shaped love words are a magnolia stamp too.

The super yummy paper is my minds eye wild asparagus paper and it went perfectly with my froggies greeness!!!!!! a bit of martha, distress inks and a heart shaped charm on a bit of garden twine and he was done!!!!

On the inside I popped a good for a kiss anytime ticket stamp with a little bit more twine on.

Well, I have had a morning so far of being entertained by Mo who has taken a liking to Justin Bieber and is doing me a show of the Baby Baby song, it is soooo cute!!!!!! might have to get him the album!!!!!

Right, cup of tea and then work for me!!!

big hugs Lou xxxxxx

Shaped card fun and Get Funky's may challenge!!

Oooooh I do love shaped card, they are soooo much fun to do, which is super as the challenge this month that Enfys has set over on the Get Funky challenge blog is shaped cards.

Here is my little angel sitting on a star shaped card!!! The angel is one of the new releases from Lily-Boo's boutique that I coloured up yesterday, I embossed her moon a bit to make it look a bit more 'moony'!!!.

I made the cardbase and topper in design studio, (it's two of the stars from george and basic shapes with another for the topper) and cut them on some gorgeous blue patterned paper rom the blue magic section on my funky hand 'Dreams come true' CD.

Behind the topper is a piece of sticky silver glitter vinyl and I popped a little gem in the midle of each star.

For the little stars and the sentiment over the top of the card I used a little crescent shape of acetate and the little stars that came out of the hols in my topper, I cut a slightly bigger one for my 'for you' sentiment.

I wanted to keep the inside quite simple after the bling of the outside so just popped 'happy birthday' in there.

This second card is my super cute little pirate guy I also coloured yesterday (and Mo has taken a shine to this card!! don't think it will make it into an envelope for anyone!!) he isn't for the Get Funky challenge but I couldn't leave him out!!!!Again I used my design studio ( figured I'd better give it some use now Fi has set up a cricut club for us here in Lincoln, I don't want to look to rusty at class!!! romfl!!!)

I welded together 2 of the palm tree's on the island on the pirate boy key of paper dolls dress up. For some texture on the leaves and sand I gave the a squizz through my cuttlebug and inked them up, the trunk I used some of my wood effect cardstock from my jolly to the kanban factory!! ( I tell you that £20 box is endless and the cardstock cuts like butter with a cricut).

So thats the fruits of my labour for today!!!!! I am going to have a lovey hot cup of tea and a couple of oreo biccies now and then I might go out to play in my crafty garage again.

Here is our 'Mo-ism' of the day - "mummy and daddy , i know that you have to fall of your bike to learn how to ride but my leggie's are all bruisey and I am not doing anymore bruisey-ing today so I am going to leave it for a couple of days!!"

He just makes me laugh so much you can't help but hug him!!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, hugs Lou xxxxxx

A day of colouring!

Hello peeps!! I've been busy colouring these cuties today!!!

Guess who watched avatar again last night?!!! lol !!

I am just about warmed up now after watching ryan play football this morning, it was sooooo cold and windy!!!!!!

I treated myself to a bit of colouring this morning before we went! I picked out one the new angels from lily-boo's boutique and one of the litle pirates. I fancied experimenting on my angels with some of my promarker colours that I hadn't used. I think they came out cute.

I had some more time with little Mo practising the bike with no stabilizers thing!!! it is coming on but slowly, he is such a sensitve scared little man but we will keep trying!!!!
Right of for a cuppa and then out to my crafty garage to put these cuties into action!!!

Lily-boo too May challenge- shaped cards!!

AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! I just love this new little digi , he is in the new set Sam has on Lily-Boo's boutique!!!

I am very lucky to have such a creative chick as a big sister!!!!

The challenge over on Lily-Boo too's challenge blog this month is SHAPED CARDS. Lucky me, I had my trusty wild card cart for my cricut on hand!!! The tough part to that was choosing which card shape to use!!!!

I loved the sentiment on this one though, it fitted so nicely with the huge hug that this little doggy was giving his bone!!!

I embossed the cardstock behind him with a fiskars texture plate in my cuttlebug and chalked it gently with brown, the little pawprints on the edge of the card are a punch i bought ages ago in a little stationary set.

My super cute little dog is coloured with my promarkers ( sandstone for his body, pastel pink for the bottom of his paws and pastel beige for a bit of shadowing).

Please pop over and join in with the challenge on Lily-Boo Too, you can help me to see if the new linky works for posting your creations!! We are always looking for a simple and easy way for you to link your amazing creations and think ( with the help of Tami!!) we have found a way!! ( mind you, it took me half an hour to get the thing to post properly!!! Lou hangs her head in shame at her computer iliterate self!!!!!!)

I am entering this cute little guy in the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft - Don't be Square

CRAFT - Shaped card

Meljens Designs - Shaped card

Pennys Challenges - Shaped Card

Right then, ASDA's is calling me ( actually the fridge ad the cupboards in the Daubney household are calling ASDA's).

Thankyou for poppig in on me, have a super duper saturday!!!!

Little Mo with wings!!

Morning peeps!!! Its a lovely morning here, it rained overnight but it is quite bright and cheery this morning.

Over on the UK crafters thread Kerry and Kate gave us a wings cricut cut and material (optional) challenge. I had an idea in my head quite quickly for a layout usig a photo of little Mo that scott had played with in photoshop. He had so much fun jumping from one wooden platform t the next and scott snapped this fab picture of him mid- flight!!!!
I used the winds from indie art and stuck them onto the base photo, then I used another photo to cute Mo out. I popped the top layer up on foam squares so he is standing out from the page.
The 'explore' is from my home accents cart and the 'let your dreams take flight' is all mixed up.
The material is some sacking my mum gave me in a bag of material last week, there were all sorts of goodies in it!!!!

The buttons are basic grey, sam and I had lots of fun arranging them last night!!!!

Here's a close up of little Mo flying! its so hard to take a picture and get the dimension to pop out!!!
I am so looking forward to the long weekend, I have got some yummy new digi's from Lily-boo's boutique to play with so, they are so fab ( Jo, you will love one of the new sets hun! xx) I am really excited about them, will try and post you a sneaky peek over the weekend.

And Lily-boo's boutique is sponsoring passion for promarkers weekend workshop too!!!! honestly I dont think my weekend could get any better!!!!

Right I had better get myself going as we have to drop off our poor car at the garage for a new clutch and gearbox (ouch!!!) before we drop the little guy off at school.

Thank you for popping in on me xxxxxxx

beautiful sunshine and a baby card!!!

Oh the sunshine is pretty today here, it makes me feel so cheery to see the sunshine in a morning and wake up to the birds singing.

I am just waiting for some glue to dry on a project I am doing for the UK crafters thread before I can so the next bit so thought I would take some time out from watching the glue dry to post this cute little card I made last night!!!

Its the giraffe from the new arrival cart, one of my friends was making him at cricut club a couple of weeks ago and he looked so sweet, I had to give him a go.

I popped him on a middle step card and used martha to pretty it up. I used a little baby sentiment on the front and a little heart charm, so cute!!!!!!!

I am in for a lonely night tonight as scott is in london in a meeting for the day and won't be back until 9:30pm ish so I might get some more made!!!

Thankyou for popping in, my little blog seems to off been a bit lonely lately and I love peoples comments, it inspires me to make more!!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Sarah Kay again!!!!!!

Happy sunday peeps!!!!

I forgot to post this Sarah Kay cardwhile we were having our swirls cut challenge on the cricut MB, she will fit nicely into the challenge still going on over on andrea's blog!!!

I really wish I had taken a piccy of this card standing up before it started its travels over to australia but hey ho!!!!!!

Its a btgrey and rainy here today but its ok as Mo is catching up with a few episodes of special agents oso and i am playing with the new dogs digi set from lily-boo's boutique, its so cute!!!

thankyou for popping in on me!!

hugs lou xxxxxx

another sarah kay with a bit of experimenting!!

hello peeps!!

I am still in the fog of uni work but I had to feed my poor little lonely blog so I am going to post another one of my sarah kay creations tonight!!!! she's another one for my friend andrea's sarah kay challenge, please go and check out her blog as she has her first set of digi stamps on there now (......and they are swit-swoo!!!!!)

I made this one using my 'rose's garden' sarah kay stamp.

I love this stamp and have made a few cards with her, she is so sweet.

I played around a bit with this one as I was feeling experimental!!!! I made some peel off flowers again , embossed them and blinged them up with some ambery coloured gems.

For Rose I stamped her in black ink and then cut her with a scalloped oval nestie, then I got my crafty notions bronze coloured spray out and gave her and the flowers a good squirt!!! she looks so much prettier in the flesh than she does on my blog!!

The top bit of base paper I cuttlebugged embossed, the bottom bit is from my do crafts goody bag i got a while ago, it had the yummiest sunshine papers in it. A bit of thin organza ribbon and it was job done!!!

Right back to the books!! hugs to you all!!!

My little edwin tag card!

This is the other card I made at crciut club yesterday, I am still having fun with the tag from the plantin schoolbook cart and my lovely friend denise gave me this bit of paper left over from her project and lent me a yummy punch ( i am not sure what it was but it was so cool) and my card just came together!!!

I coloured edwin up with my promarkers and embossed his litle face and arms then ripped a bit of the scrap paper and popped it on his tag and sat edwin on the top of it!!! lots of chalking around the edges ( you know i just have to chalk!!!) and then popped edwins tag on top of the shadow sized tag. Then that went on top of the paper and punched strip.

The buttons were from my stash and the string is some crochet cotton I bought last week because i needed some natural looking string!!!!

So easy but really,really cute!!!!
thank you for popping in on me xxxxx

BBTB2 challenge.

Hello peeps!!!!

I have crawled out from beneath the pile of books and paper and other uni work stresses to post my little card for the challenge over on BBTB2.

The prize this time is a gift certificate for magnolia stamps ( oooohhhhh my fav!!!) so out came a cute little tilda sent to me in a swap a while ago.

I made this card as a thank you for a very special friend who took a lot of time and effort to set up a little cricut group for us bug lovers in our little town of Lincoln . It was the first one today and I think they were 12 of us there. It was so much fun and I had the best day. Lots of laughs and giggles and exploration of carts ( Denise found a yummy leave background I will have to try soon on wild card).

Fi loves pink so I had to pop some pink in there and wanted her to match the colouring of the rose.

The cricut cut is all off the doily card button on the wild card cart. I used the circle left from the frame and embossed it to use as a background.

I used my promarkers to colour tilda and embossed just her face and hands so they were 3Dand Fi 's (the special friend!!) chalks to colour up the bits. I used the friend embossing folder for the circle ( also Fi's!!!) and I used another special friends (thankyou denise xx) martha stewart punch for the inside and popped the phrase o top of it with some more silicone!

The funniest thing is, despite me knowing it was going to be a cricut day, I got in my normal what to take flap and didn't take my cricut so had to borrow Fi's cricut too!!I popped up the frame, rose and tilda with some silicone, I love the way they stand out a little.

Right, I must get back to my uni work now, I am struggling with this assignment but hoping to get it finshed soon, if you don't see me again by monday please come and rescue me from under the pile of screwed up paper, I will be the small person ,rocking to and fro biting her nails!!!!! romfl!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxxxxxx