Sir Stampalot-October Autumnal challenge.

Hello Peeps!!!!

This is my gorgeous new stamp, Raven, I got her after my awesome card class at clare's shop last week. She was the last one and another lady had picked her up. Bless her, she must of seen the desperation in my eyes as after 5 mins she asked me if I would like her as she wasn't too sure she would use her an awful lot. Oh wow, yes please!!!! what a wonderful thing for her to do though so first big huge thanks to that lady. I don't know her name but what a lovely thought, Thank you xxxx Secondly big thanks to clare who taught the class and we made a card very similar to this one.

So anyway, Raven was just absolutely perfect for the Sir Stampalots challenge blog Autumnal theme this month.

I coloured her up all autumny with my promarkers and then added the button ( little flower centre) and the bow to make it all fit in nicley.

I also got my martha out and had a good old punching session with it!! The flowers were plain white so they got promarker treatment too!!! lol!!!

All my gorgeous autunmy papers are from my funky seasons cd from funky hand, it is one of my absolute favourites and wil be coming back into use later for my christmas cards!!!

Right must go fetch the gorgeous little Mo from school. He received a wonderful surprise in the post from the very lovely Jules yesterday and he was just so excited!! Thank you Jules, he loved it!! I will try and blog the piccies later!!!!

Hugs

Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 25- Anything Halloween!!

Good Morning peeps!!!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday again and there is an exciting challenge on this week for halloween lovers like me!!!!!!

Over on Tiddly Inks, we are big fans of all things spooky so this week in preparation for the halloween celebrations our theme is

Anything Halloween.

So, print out your fav Tidldlies and create something spooky, then link it in over on the challenge blog using the linky tool!!

As always Christy has made an awesome freebie that is up on the Tiddly Inks PCP page. Just pop on over there and ask if you want to join,we are such a friendly bunch!!

So for my halloween contribution this week I used one of my fav's, Batty.

I printed her out on one of the circles that my BF Fi let me cut out with her nesties on saturday at cricut club ( yup, I was the stood for 20 mins cranking the handle on her big shot and stroking her nestie collection!!!! lol !!) I coloured Batty up and distressed the edges of her circle with some co-ordinating colours!!! There is a little sparkle in her hair but I am not sure it shows up!!

A bit of martha goo oozing out behind her with some yummy autumnal ribbon my mummy bought me last weekend ( she's fab, she gets me little packets of ribbon all the time on her travels and I lurve ribbon!!)

This creation used.....

Batty from Tiddly Inks.

Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch.

Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap and Spiced Marmalade Distress inks.

Sentiment- made on my computer using Harrington font and an SU oval punch.

Scalloped circle and circle nestie from BF ( if you haven't got a Fi you really should get one.....!!!!!lol!!!!)

Promarkers- Skin- pastel beige and dusky pink. Hair- terracotta and buttercup, with a bit of orange at you spica pen glitz!! Clothes- apricot, ginger,burnt orange and pear green. Tights- pear green and burnt orange. Shading around the edges is cool grey 1.

Ribbon from my mummy!!

Right I am off to check out the new images in the shop with Mo who loves Tiddly Tuesday shopping!!

Be back later!!

Huggies

Lou xxxxx

a bit more spooky dookie!!!!

Hello peeps!!!
Mo has gone off on a bike ride with Daddy and the dog so I am having 5 mins of peace with a cuppa to blog my spooky dookie card of the day!!!! lol!!!
I am loving these papers!!!! they are just way too cute!! I needed a little help from my cricut and paper dolls cart again today for a web and spidey!!
I am desperate to try my distressing brushes but they are stil sitting in their packet shouting at me!! so I used my cut and foam for this one!!!
The sun is so nice here today, I have got 2 loads of washing done this morning!! yey!!! ooooh think of the ironing tonight!!
OK, must go as I have another card on the boil waiting for me to play with it and Fi has just text me to tell me how to sort out my distressing brushes after I have used a colour so I am off to play!!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx
p.s. This creation used the Spooky Dookie download from Funky hand.

Spookie Dooky from funky hand!!

I have had the best day today! It was cricut club here in little old Lincoln, organized by the wonderful Fi and there is nothing more magical than a room full of crafters and that lovely beeping sound going round the room as we all turn on, followed by the low buzzing of busy cutting machines!! I love it!!

And even more exciting, I had the new Spookie Dooky halloween download from Funky hand to play with too!!!

Anyone who knows me will know that I lurve halloween!! and I squealed with delight when Anice told us she was doing a halloween download and oh my goodness how awesome is it?!! It has 20 backing papers, 4 alphabits collections and spooky halloween toppers.

The funky hand girlies have all been busy with it and I got my chance to play today!!

First up was my little BOO! card. I loved making this card!

I cut one of the little bats out of a scrap of my orange batty paper and added him to the moon for an extra bit of spookiness!!

Then I had a scrap page kind of feeling!!! I have had this cute little piccy of Mo and Ryan since Mo's first halloween when we dressed him up as a little spider!! He looked so cute!! Mo being Mo slept the entire time we were trick or treating but he did get a lot of comments about being cute!!!

I added some extra pumpkins (with googley eyes!!) , fence and spooky webs from the paper doll dress up cart

(and my awesome friends had to help me a little with web placement!!! i just couldn't make up my mind at all, see that tells how often i manage to scrap!!!)

I just love funky halloween papers and Anice did an awesome job on this set getting the funky into halloween!!!! so get on over to funky hand to get your copy of the download and see what the rest of the DT have been creating with it.

This creation used....

Spookie Dooky download from funky hand.

Paper doll dress up cricut cart.

Tin Holtz frayed burlap distress ink.

Sakura pen ( can't remember the colour, sorry xx)

Off out to play a bit more now!! hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Hugs

Lou xxxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 24- Create an ATC or ACEO!

Tiddly Inks challenge 24?! already?! wow!! but they are just so much fun you can't resist them really!!!!

So this week was so much fun because Christy gave the DT a little ATC (or ACEO) challenge. I can tell you these little guys are just so addictive!! you make one then you get an idea for another and another......lol!!!! so I have 5 in total but I am sharing these 2 today and saving the rest for later in the week (....by which time they may of sat in my craft room and had more added to them!!!! lol!!!) so here's a few more details about the challenge this week...

We are creating ATC cards (some call them ACEOs). These little works of art are 2.5 x 3.5 inches and soooo cute. :)You have until next Monday night at 10 PM CST to link your ATC over on the challenge blog.

Here's a couple of closer piccies of my little cuties!!!

For this one I used Higglety. I think she is just way too cute!! I had a little play with her broom and a bit of rafia to give her some real sticks in her broom!!!! The backing paper on this one is Gossmere Paper, also from Tiddly Inks!! Higglety's little pet spider is all glossy , with a bit of martha's drippy goo to finish off in the backgound.

For this one I used the squishably cute Franko Boto ( now Franko Boto is actually Mo's Tiddly from one of his Tiddly Tuesdays shopping so don't tell him I borrowed him!!!) His little green heart is lovely and spica glitter green but its hard to see!! I love his little sentiment, I found them on a womble one day from the very talented Amanda. (check out her blog as she has the most awesome stuff on there.) I cuttlebugged his green paper and martha'd it with drippy goo again ( yup, i love the drippy goo punch!!). I added a bit of fine green glitter around the edge of this one sent to me by a very special friend ( you know who you are!! xxxxxxxxxxx)

The Tiddly Inkers have made the most awesome little ATC's so go over to the challenge blog and check them out.

And over on the Tiddly Inks PCP group Christy has put this week's freebie stamp , Ellie, on. She is so cute and all ready to go off trick or treating so go join the group and check her out!!!

These cutie creations used....

Higglety from Tiddly Inks.

Gossmere Paper from Tiddly Inks.

Franko Boto from Tiddly Inks.

Haunted Halloween labels from Amanda's blog.

Martha stewart fine glitter.

Martha stwart drippy goo punch.

Rafia.

Promarkers: skin on Higglety- vanilla and pastel pink. Dress and Patches- honeycomb.Hat/cloak- cool grey 2 and 3. Patches-grass. shoes- cool grey 4.

Frank boto-Skin- leaf green .Top/stripes- Amethyst. Stripes -honeycomb.

black sakura glaze pen for Higglety's polka dot dress and patches.

glossy accents for spidey!!!

I have a bunny rabbit to move now to make some space for the cavity wall insulating workmen today ( oh I am so pleased I have 4 hours at work to escape the noise today!!!!) so I had better get a move on!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me, I love visitors and comments. They really cheer up my day.

Hugs Lou xxxx

World cardmaking day!

Morning peeps!! I might have a few posts today!! I am treating myself to trying to make some cards today.

This one is for my gorgeous hubby Scott. Its a wordbbok kind of card featuring some old christmas photo's of my gorgeous little guys (....yup they have one of those mum's that dress them up and take piccies, poor boys they will be scarred for life!!! romfl!!!) but they do look sooooo cute!!! I love the one of Mo on his first christmas, he was 9 days old and everytime we picked him up his trousers fell off and his jumper went past his skinny knees!! awwww!!!

I used the fabulous All I want for christmas wordbook download from funkyhand for this one, I love it because it co-ordinates all the papers for me without me stressing for half a day if I used the right colours!!! lol!!!

I'll leave you with a few more piccies of the pages!!!

Ok, off out in the rain to walk to my little craft room now!! I will emerge later with some more cards!! what else could I possibly do on world cardmaking day?!!!

hugs Lou xxxxx

Cards from Clare's class.

Hello peeps!! Happy Saturday!!!
On thursday night I was extremely lucky and had a girly night with some of my bestest crafting buddies!! we had a little road trip out to Clare's lovely craft shop, Cloud9, in Horncastle for a class on using acetate in your card making.
Oh my, we had so much fun!!! there was only us 4 and Clare ( which is great because my nerves had kicked in nicely!!) lots of giggling involved and everyone made the most beautiful cards.
I loved both of the designs. Clare had kindly slaved for hours cutting all the little bits we needed to make our cards so really all I did was colour in an assemble using Clare's ready made cards of gorgeousness as a guide!!!!
I really enjoyed doing this Tilda mermaid one as I have these stamps and had never thought of using them in this way, Thank you Clare!!! Next week we are doing 'autumnal and earthy' so I can't wait for that.
You can find Fi's gorgeous take's on the same design here, Fi is much more cleverer than me when it comes to glitter so you can see on Fi's how the weeds were actually supposed to look!!!!
We haven't managed to get Pauline and Margaret to start a blog yet but we do try, Fi and I!!!! They both make the most beautiful cards. And if you fancy noseying in on Clare's blog, it is here.

We have spent most of the day listening to the motorbikes playing on RAF Waddington today, they are having a Help for Heroes fundraising day and racing big ducatti's around the base!! its very noisy!!!! brings back my childhood memories of spending days at Cadwell when my Aunty Patty and Uncle Charlie owned it. So much fun!!!
Well, sweet and sour chicken needs to be made for tea and mo is getting awful sleepy after a lovely bike ride whilst we walked the dog so I must get a wriggle on!!!
Huge hugs and big thanks to Clare, Fi, Margaret and Pauline for such a fabulous time on thursday night.
Lou xxxxxx

Get Funky- Take 5!!!

Good morning everybody!!!!!!

I cannot believe it is the first of october already!!! omgosh where did the month of september go? but on a much more positve note, its the 1st october today which means its time to Get Funky!!

Lythan set us the challenge of......

Take 5.

so you can make whatever you like, be it a scrap page, card, wall hanging or anything you feel inspired to make as long as you use 5 different funkyhand papers on it. The DT have come up with some absolute corkers again so please pop over to the challenge blog for more details and have a peek at what they have been making.

So here is a full picture of my Take 5 creation!!!

I decided to use some of the gorgeous papers from the All I Want For Christmas download to make little Mo some crackers for our christmas tree.

I made the pattern for these little cuties in my cricut design studio. They are just big enough to fit in a mini little kinder bar, (which is about the only chocolate Mo will eat apart from choccy buttons!!).

I wrapped a little bit of tinsel thread around the edges to sparkle them up. I just know Mo will have so much fun popping these on the tree, plus they don't bang (which is good as he doesn't like the noise of cracker snaps!!!)

So get on with making some funky creations peeps and remember to leave a comment linking them over on the Get Funky challenge blog, I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Hugs Lou xxxx

Feeling a little bit christmassy!!!!

Morning peeps!!!

I wanted to share my edwin snow card with you all this morning. I made it with my cricut DS and a bit of cuttlebugging.I got my edwin from a stamp swap and I am so sorry I don't know what he is called but isn't he cute?!

I am so excited today because I am pootling off tonight with my BF Fi and 2 other very lovely ladies for a card making class. We will be exploring using acetate on our cards and I can't wait. I love learning about new things and its even nicer when I can go with friends as I am such a wuss at going out of the house!!!!!!

Last night I went to watch Eat, Love, Pray and it was absolutely fabulous, I loved it!!

Well, finally a sunny morning here too!! yey!!!!

This creation used....

promarkers- Skin-vanilla and pastel pink. Top and lantern- sandstone. Trousers- denim blue. Hair- sandstone and buttercup.

Cricut DS.

White linen card.

Swiss dots cuttlebug folder.

Blue chalk.

Vellum for snowy ground.

Antique linen Tim Holtz distress ink.

Got to dash....again!!! Thankyou for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxx

Baby sleeptight!!!

Morning everybody!!!

I was asked to make a baby card and this one is just too cute not to share!!! I used the cute little baby sleeptight, awwwwww!! you can just about see the little bit of sparkle on her face and on her stars under the glossy accents.

Here's the finished card!!!!

The paper on the inside mathces the outside but I forgot to take a piccy of the inside!!! lol!!!

Its dull, dreary and raining here again, yuk!!!!! I hope it clears up a bit for the weekend. I am soooo ready for the weekend already!!!!!

This creation used....

Sleeptight baby inks from Tiddly Inks.

Nitwits FBQ bear necessities download.

Tattered rose distress ink.

Promarkers: skin- vanilla and pastel pink. Babygrow- coral. Blanket- pastel pink. Moon- pastel biege and satin. Stars- pastel pink. Shading- cool grey 1.

A litte sparkle from my clear copic at you spica pen.

Glossy accents on the stars.

Martha stewart doily hearts punch.

Right in a rush for work as usual so must dash!!!

Hugs Lou xxx