I just can't stop square dancing!!!!!!

Image- Inky Critters from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Frozen Lake- Funky Seasons from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps! me again and yes, I am addicted to the sketch!!!!!! and yes I know its a christmas card but you can never start too early!!!

Here is the sketch in question....(if you click on it, it will take you straight over to Kathy's sketch blog, where you too can become addicted!!!!!!! romfl!!!!)

The gorgeous little christmas characters are the inky critters for christmas from Tiddly Inks and the totally delicious papers are from Funky Hands Funky Seasons cd. ( linkies under card piccy!!)

I have had a lovely day because sports day went ahead as planned and it was lovely. It is just an hour of little races but it was lovely to see and Mo even got a 3rd place ticket on the bat and ball race (....errrrr, have to confess....he held the ball onto the bat a little....all the way down the track!!!) and he was really brave until half way through when his asthma started to niggle him a bit. It was nice to be sat the other side of the track and see him ask his teacher if he could go get his inhaler, daft as it sounds it helps me to see that he knows when he needs it without reminders from me. The school PTA did strawberries and cream which were delicious and we were able to bring mo home a little early as the children whose parents were there were able to go home if they wanted to.

Right I am off for a cuppa now!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Cooking up a funky recipe!!!

Papers from Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

Well, its the 13th June which means you still have today and tomorrow to cook something up with Kathy's recipe over on Get Funky!!!

Here is Kathy's delicious recipe.....

5 Flowers
Use 3 different papers

2 Buttons

1 Ribbon (cut up or in one strip whatever you prefer)

and a sprinkling of Gems or pearls

Yummo right?!!!
For my card I headed for my Dreams Come True papercraft factory and chose 2 gorgeous papers and teamed them up with the special May challenge Freebie FunkyKraft paper download Anice has over in the shop!! so come and get cooking with us over on the Get Funky challenge blog, the only thing we ask you to remember is to use at least one Funky Hand product on your challenge entries!!! easy peesy!!!

I punched the little flowers and branches and made my own big buttons using my cirlce punch and ribbon hole punch. I inked the edges to make them look a bit more buttony!!!!

Don't forget to pop over to Get Funky and check out the rest of the funkettes cooking!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

LOTV's anything goes challenge..

Image- LOTV Pride and Joy.

LOTV circle sentiment

Hello Peeps!!

Well, I have had a totally awesome morning with my BF at the Stamp magic show in Doncaster, ( I am pleased to report it was totally fab and I handed over 12 stamps worth of pennies to Laila at the LOTV stall!!!!!!)

I got some more fabby card...for stamping the new LOTV haul on.....and some cards and envelopes and card bags.

And now I am back in bloggy land with my trusty cup of tea next to me to post my entry for the LOTV challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge. Its their 100th challenge already!! wow, where did that time go?!!

I inked up my cute little Pride and Joy teddy, he is such an all round fabby one for the boys, which is great as I always find man cards tricky!!! if you look closely you can just about see the glossy accents on his goggles and the water.

I used my sentiment cirlce stamp, also form LOTV (....of course!!!) and wrote June (in my awful handwriting!) and circled the birthday date of this little cuties recipient on it to.

Oh and incase Fi is peeking at this post, both are stamped with Memento rich cocoa which gives the image a much softer and warmer feel before you splodge your colour on!!

The papers and lace are from my stash and the little teeny brad looking thingies are faux brads made using my hole punch. I love them and if you haven't made them yourself already, here is a little video for you I made a while ago...( now I am not saying its very good at all but it is a really neat way to make teeny faux brads out of any little scraps of paper you have lying left on your craft desk when you want it all to co-ordinate wsith your card!!!)

I am also going to pop this is for the secret crafters challenge blogs Male card challenge.

Hugs Lou xx

The Sketch File- June sketch!!

 Me again peeps!! sorry but the weather is so pants I have been making a few bits!!

Firstly I need to apologise to Kathy's hubby who has probably just had to run up to her craft room and pick her up of the floor or wipe the coffee that she spat over her pooter because I have actually managed to do the sketch over on The Sketch File this month!!!!!!

The sketch for June was far to yummy not to do straight away and if you are an inchy fan you need to get those stamps out and get making (.....yes Miss Fi I am talking to you....!!!) Here is the sketch to get you going then just go oveer to the sketch file and add your creation into their linky tool!!!!

Isn't it fab?!

For mine I used my Inkadinkadoo Dogs Life clear stamps. I decided to use the 3 different coloured squares in the sketch as 3 different image sqaures and off I went. I added a little paw print charm I bought from Clare's shop, Cloud nine crafts in Horncastle, a little while ago to finish it off. And the paper is from Nitwits Tailwags set .

So thats me for the minute....but it does keep raining........so there might be something else later.....!!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Little Mo funky post!!

Awwwwwww!!! how cute is it??!!!!

Morning peeps!!! its a Little Mo blog post today!!!!

Now if I had one suggestion of a crafting cd for little people, it would have to be Funky Hands Craft The Year Away papercraft factory. When I said to Mo this morning that we needed to get on with Grandad's birthday card, he took himself out into the crafty room on daddy's big boy pooter. He knows just where to find the programme because he knows the papercraft factory icon. Naturally, Mummy felt the need to click away and get some piccies!! he always amazes me with his navigation of this programme!! it really is a superb one for little peeps to play with.

The drag and drop makes the work space part of the programme so easy for Mo, he loves to place things and \i was super proud of the robot in front of the heart, he has mummy's crafty gene's me thinks!!

 This always makes me giggle, he loves to watch it come out of the printer...

 proud a punch with his little design all printed out...

 Time to get busy..."mummy you have to ink the edges like neese does"...

 ..."and inky the card too"....

 oOOh mummy's ATG....watch out for little peeps and the ATG though as you can never have enough sticky stuff on your paper..oh and you must stick your tongue out to help you concentrate too...

 "splonking" his robot piece on the front, I don't know where he got the word from but its quite funny when he is making! " i will just splonk it on here mummy"

 The very delicate putting on the pom pom for the antennae job....

 Applying "the zig zaggy makered bit" he nabbed from my fathers day card making scraps...

So, sorry for all the piccies but proud mummy moments= a zillion piccies in our house!!!! plus they are too cute not to share!!!!!

And of course with summer hols fast approaching here in the UK, if you are thinking of a crafty purchase for your children, definitely make it the Craft The Year Away cd from Funky Hand.

 Oh and on monday we had the extremely exciting wobbler number 2 come out...

It has left a mahooosive gap now it has joined the space left from wobbler number 1!!

He still hasn't got used to the tooth falling out thing and there was still a good 3 minutes of him going green, panicking and then he was excited for the tooth fairy!! she bought one gold coin for wobbler number 2.Mummy thought she would be clever and try and find a whimsical little fairy writing for the note from the fairy on her computer, I was most chuffed when I found one and happily typed out my little letter in teeny weeny size....only for mo to wake up and shout down to me and daddy...

 " wow, mummy, the tooth fairy has a laptop 'cos she wrote me a letter on it this time..."

 oh well!!!!! back to a handwritten one next time peeps!!!

Its a mummy and mo day here today. Daddy and Ryan have gone off for a football tournament. Mo is all chesty, think its hayfever and asthma not playing nicely so we are hamma beading, card making and just having fun today. And then I have one sleep until I get to go the the Stamp magic show!!!! woooohoooooooo!!!
Have a great saturday everyone!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Home tweet home!

 Image- Home Tweet Home from mo's digital Pencil.

Magnolia swirl stamp.

Papermania mini flower punches.

Hello peeps!!!
I hope you have all had a fabby thursday. I am feeling a squidge green today but daft as it sounds I always feel better when I just get on with things instead of mooching at home!!!!

I made this cute card for a friend who has just moved into a fabby new house, new home, new beginnings.
The challenge over on do it with digi's is Animals so I thought these 2 little loved up birds from Mo Manning  would fit in quite nicely with that. I coloured my digi up with my promarkers... sandstone, caramel, cocoa for the browns. Buttercup and pastel yellow on the birds tummies with pastel blue and denim blue on their wings and heads. Cute!!!! outlined in pastel biege for a change!

I think this card is soooo sweet! Those little birds are gorgeous. I popped some crackle glaze on the little sign, it looks a little smudgy but it did look really cute. I wrapped the rafia around my little paper peicing picky uppy tooly thing and spritzed it gently to get it to curl like twigs and I love how it came out.

On sunday I am off to doncaster to the stamp magic show. I can't wait, have been saving hard and kept back a few of my birthday pennies especially!! anyone else going?

Oh oh oh and I was super duper chuffed to get a top 3 on the LOTV challenge blog with my cute little christening card...and yep....most of my pennies are earmarked for their stand on sunday!!!!!! you can never have enough LOTV's!!!!!

Right then, off to mooch about felling rough a bit more and get an early night!! friday tomorrow, wooohoooo!!
Thank you for popping in on me! I love visitors!!!!
Hugs Lou xxxx

TiddlyInks challenge 53- Going Goth!!

Image- Wicked Fun from Tiddly Inks.

Paper- Gossmere paper ( skulls)

and Grunge checkerboard from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment- from Jessica's  Blog.

Morning peeps!!

Yes its Tiddly Tuesday again and so its time for another exciting challenge from our awesome team of Tiddly Inkers and this week it is complete fun!!!

For the month of June, over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog, we will be exploring our Tiddly crafting with some fun twists and our theme for this week is ........

Fun 'dark' creations!!!

We would love for you to join in but please remember to use a Tiddly Inks image.!!!!! There are a bunch of gorgeous gothic pin up girls here, perfic for our goth challenge and in the whats new section there is the most awesome new little goth chick you have ever seen!!!!!!

I used a tonne of tiddly on my card since I lurve Christy's gothy stuff!!!! I used Wicked Fun for my image, she's so sassy and cheeky and the sentiment is from Jessica's blog, she is a wizard with gothic bits. I cut up a few of the skulls from Gossmeres paper and plonked them down at the bottom on some foam squares, the ribbon is just scruncied up on some double sided tape. Oh this card was fun and the sentiment is very true to me!!!!!! :)

 (The linkies for all the bits I have used are under the card picture up there ^ !!)

So go and check out the rest of the Tiddly Inkers creations over on the challenge blog and get inspired to get Tiddlying!!!!  I look forward to seeing what you create!!

Tiddly Tuesday hugs!!!!

Lou xx

christening cards for 2 challenges!! LOTV and Truly Scrumptious

 Morning peeps!!

I am back down to earth with a bump today as after a week of playing and enjoying little peeps at home, its back to work :(. Its not all bad though as I work in an awesome place and have missed my friends at work.

So a quick bloggy post before I go make the little peeps at work some playdough!!

These 2 cute little cards were made for a friend to give her niece and nephew on their very special christening day yesterday. Rubi is older than Jack so she needed a bit of a bigger girls card and my gorguss princess was perfect with her cuteness and teddy and Jack got one of my fav LOTV stamps!!

I am entering Jack's card in the LOTV challenge blogs Punch it up challenge. A bit of nestie-ing, martha and SU oval punchage are just perfect for their challenge!!!!!

And Rubi's card......

...should fit in just nicely with the Truly Scrumptious challenge blogs Summer sparkle challenge with the bling on her crown and those gorgeous summery papers from my 'stroke only' cupboard!!!!!!!

Well, thats me for this morning!!
Have a great day peeps and I will catch up with all your blogginess later when I get home!!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx

Paul Texting.....4 cards worth!!! romfl!!!

 Hello again peeps!!!
Another day of 2 posts!! I am blaming it on the children not wanting me much today though I did have to play referee for a bit when a zillion of them descended on my postage stamp sized garden!!!
(My little princesses' are in this post HERE if you are peeking for them!!!)

So this morning I treated myself to Mo Mannings 'Paul Texting', OMGosh, I love him!!! I have had so much fun creating a few cards with him today. He is just perfect for my nephews and I have even had to scrap the card I had already made for my nephew Warren, whose birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and make him a new one with Paul!!!
This is Warren's new birthday card.....

 My little Mo has asked for this one.....

...and this one I made using Jen's first sketch from her fabulous new Deconstructed Sketches challenge blog!!

(......yep, its the first weeks sketch but I am slow and trying hard to catch up!!!! romfl!!!)



The papers are from my stash and most of them are We are memory keepers ones, I love them, got them cheap in TK Maxx, they are called 'teenage angst' very old ones but awesome patterns!! They came in little packs of 10 papers. Some had embellies in and some had stamps, some had both, like this one! the foil border strip on Warren's card and the stamps on the bottom of  this last one were in the pack too, all for £1.00!!! bargain! but that was ages ago !!!!! the crafty bits in TK Maxx are not so good now :(

Right off to nom my pizza now!! promise not to post anymore tonight!!! lol!!

huge hugs lou xxxx

By royal decree...enjoy your birthday!!!

 Morning peeps!!!

Its a beautiful sunny day here today, so nice to see the sun and it is actually rather hot shining on my legs through the patio doors!!!!

Last night ( ...after falling asleep with mo and waking up at 9pm....!!) I decided to have some crafty fun in my crafty garage! I have 2 gorgeous nieces, Harriet and Lily, who both have their birthdays coming up really soon.

A little while ago I promised Harriet I would make her a purple princess card  and my super sweet little princess from Tiddly Inks ( her name is By Royal Decree)so Harriet's is the purple one. And Lily-boo's is the red one....

I made the sentiment in word so that it would be teeny enough to fit in my SU oval punch!! aren't they sweet?!!
Just perfect for my little princess's!!
So I had a fabulous birthday yesterday. I got spoilt with beautiful handmade cards. Unfortunately we didn't make it to the zoo, Little Mo is still a bit off it so we didn't want to walk him around the zoo all day in case it made him worse so Scott drove us to ikea for a bit of shopping instead. I knew what I wanted, 2 magnetic rails, one for my kitchen knives and one for my nesties!! here it is in working order......

cool!!! I wanted it because I am always forgetting which awesome nestie shapes I have and I just know I will use them oodles more now they are out on display, I am going to buy another strip soon as there are a couple more nestie sets I NEED!!!!!!!

I am on Aunty duty again today but only have 3 peeps in the house today, its funny though as the 3 I have today, 3 including Mo are missing their partners in crime, Ryan and Kenz who have gone somewhere else today and keep asking for them!!!! its so lovely how they all get on. So far today we have bathed the dog, hung out the washing and are just vegging a bit now!!

Have a great day peeps! huge hugs Lou xxxx