My BF's birfday!!!!!

I know I know!! 2 posts in one day ( please scroll down  or click here for my Tiddly Tuesdays post) but this one just can't be missed!!!!
Today is my BF's birthday. She is such a super person that I wanted to dedicate one post just for her.
Now she is such a fabulous person that she is BF for a lot of other people too and I am just happy to have her in my life. When I am struggling she pokes me with a stick to get me going again and I am very thankful for her.
Happy Birthday Fi xxxxx

Onto some blurb about my cute little card then!! Another of my awesome fiends has sent her new 'Good Friend' Stampin Up stamp set home to live with me for a month (maybe she will forget she lent me it.......:) )
Its so cute isn't it? they are the new cling ones and they are super, came in a little like dvd case and they are so easy to use, stamp like a dream too ( yup, i really hope she forgets she lent me them........lol!!!)
 Right, I really must get my bottom into gear now!
Don't forget about the magnolia blog candy in my sidebar, you have until friday and if you are at any of the shows this year please search out the Alicraft stall as that is Ali and Iian who have donated the yummy candy.
Huge Hugs
Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 36- Kiss me, you fool !!

Morning peeps!!

wow Tiddly Tuesday is upon us again and the challenge from the Tiddly Inkers over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog this week is......

Kiss Me, You Fool!!

All you need to do is  include a kiss in sentiment or character using your Tiddly Inks images and enter them over on the challenge blog using the cute froggy before 10pm CST on Monday 7th February.

I had great fun with mine!! I found these lips in my MTC gallery and I want to thank the person who did them! they are super.

I coloured up my image- the beautiful Bloom Q  and set her aside whilst I sprayed my luscious lips with some crafty notions champagne spray (........not as easy as it sounds....shake bottle...try to spray...no worky....take apart...try again...spray self...oooh I look all sparkly...funny until I realise it won't come off.....put top back on....spray lips!!!! all to the amusement of Mo who nearly fell of daddy's computer chair laughing!!!!!) and dried them with my heat gun.



I popped the lips onto some black card and then drew around them to make my base card!! wohooo!! Lip shaped card!!!!

Then add one cute Bloom Q  and a little inkadinkadoo ticket stamped on file folder and cut out and hey presto!!!! card done!!!



Bloom Q Luscious lips recipe!

Image- Bloom Q from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- skin vanilla and soft peach.

jeans- pastel blue and denim blue.

top- berry red,crimson,cool grey 2 and 3.

sentiment stamp-Inkadinkadoo.

Black cardstock and re Bazill card.

So thats me for this morning. I might post again later depending on how awake I feel!!! lol :)

Have a tiddly tuesday!!

Hugs

Lou xxxxx

Totally gorjuss- As you like it!

Morning peeps!!

The challenge over on the Totally Gorgeous blog this week is As you like it.
At the moment I am totally into my yummy new party princess gorjuss girl, My brand new and fantastic papers on my Craft The Year Away cd , kraft card and making little rolled roses with my cut file from Penny!!!!!! so this card is full of As I like it!!!!

Aren't those papers just delicious? I printed one side of my paper pink and one side yellow so I could easily flip bits around and so that when I made my little flowers they had colour on the inside and outside. The little fronds I cut from my krafty looking card which is actually a file folder!!! lol!!

Party Princess recipe!

Image- Party Princess sugar nellie.

Promarkers- skin-vanilla and soft peach. Dress- coral and antique pink

Hair and teddy- caramel and cocoa . tights- coral and sandstone.

Papers- Craft the year away papercraft factory from Funky Hand.

Penny Black sentiment stamp.

Martha Stewart branch punch.

Well then, it must be time for another cup of tea and get on with another card I have brewing before I go to work!!! lol!!!

huge Monday hugs and thank you for popping in on me!!

Hugs

Lou xxxx

The sneaky peeky reveal!!!!! romfl!!!!

Morning peeps!!!

Oh I am on cloud 9 today!! I had a super duper day at cricut club yesterday and today its finally time for the release of Anice's new cd , Craft The Year Away over on Funky Hand!!!!!!!

Anice will be on Create & Craft television this morning at 10am demoing Craft The Year Away in all its yummiliciousness!!!!!!!!! and I just know you are definitely going to NEED this one. It has a super magic new gadget that will compliment any other Funky Hand papercraft factory cd you have had already....but I am not going to tell you about those!! he he he!!! you will have to watch Anice at 10am!!!

Little Mo and I will be ready and waiting with our nibbles to watch "the Funky Lady" or "Neesy" depending on what Mo is feeling like calling Anice today!!!

So here is the full view of my egg-stra special card!!! how super cute is the digi stamp?!!! This card was an absolute joy to make and so much fun. I used the April Fool colourway for it and its so cheery.

Egg-stra special card recipe.

digi stamp and papers - Craft the Year Away from Funky Hand.

3d rose svg from Penny Duncan.

Leafy frond from my cricut Storybook cart.

Chalk inks.

I will be back throughout the week with some more Craft TheYear Away creations!! and Craft The Year Away will be available on Create & Craft from 10am this morning and then on Funky Hand from 1pm this afternoon so get your crafty spendies ready!! and don't forget to watch Anice demoing!

Right off to sort myself out with some nibbles and get comfortable on the settee with my little man!!!

Huge hugs
Lou xxxxxx

Magnolia Blog Candy!!

Candy supplied by Alicraft.

Morning peeps!!

Oooooh I am so excited for 2 reasons today!!!

The first one is that it is cricut club day for me today!!!!! yey!!! I can't wait! and the 2nd reason is very very exciting!!!!!

My friends Ali, Iian and Andrea have given me some yummy Magnolia blog candy to give away on my blog! Oh it is so lovely, just check out the picture. Ali has been super and put together a little candy including:

8 magnolia stamps, 8 magnolia papers,6 sticky gems packs and two packs of crystals

(....Lou thinks carefully about this and wonders why she is sharing it.......romfl!!!!!)

So what do I need to do to enter for this yummy candy you ask? Well, its easy!

just make a card for any occassion using a magnolia stamp and link it using my little inlinkz at the end of this post. You have until Saturday 5th February at 11:59pm GMT to enter your magnolia creation.

The winner will be drawn using the Inlinkz draw winner tool and posted on my blog at 6am on Sunday 6th February.

You can enter for this candy no matter where you are in the world!!!!

Ali and Iian have an online shop which you can find HERE and I know there are some exciting bits coming in for february but if you are quick you can still catch january's offer which is any 4 crafty individuals 6x6 books for £12 and any two paperartsy large stamps for £24.

February's offer is going to be Distress crackle paints- any 3 for £9 and for any one stampers anonymous studio 490 cling mount stamps you buy you will get 3 distress stickles free1!

Andrea has her own blog (click on her name to visit over there, I know she and Ali have been busy creating recently)

So, thats my post for this morning anyway!! I might be back later with some cricut club made yumminess but mostly I am just looking forward to chilling with all my cricutty friends and having fun!!!
Have a super saturday peeps and get busy with those magnolia cards!!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Cute robot valentine and new Tiddly Inks releases!!

Morning peeps!!!!
Yey!! its friday!!! oh I love fridays!!! its that when you've finished work for the day and its the weekend feeling that I love, its so calming and relaxing!! I am super looking forward to the weekend because it is cricut club and I get to spend all of saturday with my BF and friends just giggling and creating! its so much fun

Now onto my super cute valentines card (Lou apologises for the picture and thinks the sun will never return to lincolnshire...!!) I couldn't help but colour up the super cute Dr.Love boto from Tiddly Inks last night. He is so lovely. I don't know what it is with me and robots but I just love them, I think it is all the boys in my house!!!!!
The yummy papers are from Funky Hands Colour Me Happy. I think they go fa with the little bot!!!
And....oooohhhh!!! Christy has all these lovely new releases over in the shop too!! Aren't they just fabulous? I love them all!!!

Dr.Love boto card recipe!!

Image- Dr.Love Boto rom Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- cool grey 2,3 and 4, berry red

and cardinal red, outlined with cool grey 1.

Papers- Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand.

Its freezing cold here again today, -1, Brrrrrrr!! so I am wrapping up warm and off out to face the day!!
Have a fabulously inky friday and thank you for popping in on me!
Hugs Lou xxxx

A hug in an envelope.

Morning peeps!!

How is everyone today? good I hope.

Little Mo is much better and of to school today. He has missed his fabby teacher so will be pleased to see her today. She is so lovely.

This little gorjuss party princess card is one I made for a person I recently met online. She is having a really sad time at the moment and I wanted to send her a little bit of something.

It is so hard when you don't know someone very well to make a choice on an image so I went for this gorjuss girl. She is so sweet and makes me smile so I am hoping it will do the same for Mandy.

I stamped her in rich cocoa memento ink and I am so pleased with how soft she came out.

The punched border was lovely to play with as I added a little bit of blue stitching  to tie in the colours on the paper.

Her dress and teddy's dress is paper pieced to match the backing paper ( which was a lovely bargain from T K Maxx, a huge pack of it for £9.00 in their sale!!) I think it is memory makers as it matches a little 6x6 book I have had for a while.

I made the sentiment on my computer. I punched it out and added a little heart charm.

Sorry about the picture, the days are so gloomy here still with not a lot of sun peeking through so this one was the best I could get before I mailed it off!!

A hug in an envelope recipe!

Image- Party princess Gorjuss Girl by Sugar Nellie.

Promarkers- vanilla and soft peach- skin,

pastel beige and antique pink-tights.

gold -crown and pastel pink heart on it.

Hair- buttercup, sandstone and pastel yellow.

teddy- sandstone.

pastel beige to outline image.

Papers- Memory makers and file folder!

Martha Stewart cherish punch.

SU oval punch set.

Frayed burlap distress ink.

Anita's tiny gems on crowns.

Heart charm from clare's shop- cloud9.

Also don't forget to check out Kathy's circley challenge piece over on the Get Funky Challenge blog today. I am really enjoying seeing everyone's entires popping up over there!!

Right then, I had better get myself moving and get ready for work!!! have a wonderful day peeps!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Ooooh a little sneaky peeky!!!!!

Ooooooh!!! I am daftly excited!!This is my teensy weensy sneaky peek of  one of the cards I have made using the fabby new Craft The Year Away papercraft factory from Funky Hand up for release in just 5 days time!

Whats even more exciting is that you can listen to the silky tones of our very own Funky Man, Ian, as he walks you through a demo of Craft The Year Away and its total yumminess!!!

It really is cool  and I have done nothing but play with it since it came! I haven't even scraped the surface of what it can do yet!! and what could be even more exciting than that you ask, well.........

Anice will be showcasing the brand new Papercraft Factory on Create & Craft tv on Sunday 30th January at 10am and it will be up for sale over on the Funky Hand shop at 1pm on sunday 30th January.

The little paper rose on my card was made in my yummy new Make The Cut using a cut file by Penny Duncan. They are so addictive!! If you go to Penny's blog she is awesome at them and she sells made ones in her etsy store.
 I will be back on sunday to show you all of this card, or you could tune into C&Cfor 10am to see what Anice has been busy creating ready for her demo's.
Have a fab day peeps, I am off to work today after having a day at home yesterday with little Mo, one upset tummy and a load of bleach to clean up later he is much brighter today but staying at home with Daddy to make sure he is fully recovered.
Thank you for popping in on me!!
Hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 35- Quote me!

Morning peeps!

Well, another week has whizzed by and its Tiddly Tuesday again!!!

This week over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we are having a 'Quote Me' theme. So all you need to do is think of your favourite quote, grab your Tiddly Inks image and get busy on a project to enter over on the challenge blog using the magical froggy linky tool!! Be sure to have your entry in by 10pm CST on Monday 31st January.

Onto my little boo bunny creation! as you know we lost our gorgeous little black dwarf rabbit simba on saturday.Little mo has been pretty upset since then and is missing simba terribly so I decided to make him little card to cheer him up.

Mo bought the Bunny Boo Adventures set a long while ago with his tiddly pennies and I have not got round to playing with it yet but the timing was perfect as I have a favourite pet quote by Colette that is so true. It goes...

" our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet"

Now I am sure Colette wrote it about a cat but I think it rings true for any pet with four little paws.

I printed both Bunny Boo and my gorgeous polka dot paper from Funky Hand's Dreams Come True papercraft factory onto some very pretty pearlescent paper. It looks so pretty IRL but I couldn't get it to show up in the piccy.It kind of sparkles like Edward Cullen in the sun (mmmmmmm..Edward..........!!)

I coloured up Bunny Boo and then went to work on my card base.

Now it might look like Kraft card but it is actually good old recycled file folders. They are lovely and thin and just like Kraft card but oodles easier to find and probably cheaper too!! lol!!!

And on the note of bargains Christy is having an awesome sale over on Tiddly Inks too so get over there quick to get some fabby bargains for your Tiddly Inks challenge cards!!!



Click here to be transported to the sale!!!!



Anyhoo, as much as I would love to sit here and womble around blogs all day I have to go to work :( so I will be back later to go bloggy wombing!! oh and a card recipe before I forget.....

Bye bye bunny card recipe.

Image - Bunny Boo adventures  from Tiddly Inks.

Spotty paper- Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Promarkers- cool grey 2,3,4. -bunny boo. pastel beige- moon

burnt orange-carrot, pastel pink-ears, powder blue pastel blue-blanket.

gold and pastel yellow-star.

Sentiment- computer generated.

Martha Stewart- doily lace edge punch.

Frayed burlap distress ink.

Organza ribbon from my stash.

Right then, sorted now!!! Have a fabulous day everyone

Hugs Lou xxxxx

A little bit of love!!!

Morning peeps!
Hope you have all woken up to a fabulous monday! Little mo and I didn't wake up until 5:50am so we had a little bit of a lie in, poor daddy though was in a bit of a rush as if the mummy and mo alarm doesn't go off he doesn't wake up either!! lol !!

I made this gorgeous little card last night whilst having a play with my A child's year cart. I had half forgotten how fabulous this cart was! if you haven't got it I think you definitely need it!!!

Now don't forget that Anice will be  putting her piece of circley inspiration up on the Get Funky Challenge blog today and it might even use some bits from the new cd due out soon!!!! Mo and I spend hours of fun just watching the countdown timer go down over on the shop!!! he thinks its fab!!!!

Well, I am off to finish a little more ironing and get ready for work. The weekend seemed to fly by with everything going on!!

Have a fabulous monday
Hugs Lou xxxxxx