Kathy's waffle sketch file challenge- July.

Hello peeps!! me again!! romfl!!

Well, you can actually blame Kathy because she put her new July sketch on over on Kathy's waffle sketch file and I just had to go make something!!!!! this one is only a quicky but cute!!

Here's the sketch in question, (if you click on it it will magically transport you to the sketch file challenge blog....)

Isn't it fab! pop over there a la linky and see what Ktahy and her crew have made so far with it.

The little mousey's are from my penny black critter party transparent set. My little flower is actually one that was left over from something else I had been making earlier but I will post that one another day, don't want to max you out with too much Lou stuff in one day!!!!

Right I am off to wallow in my hayfever now and attempt sleeping with scratchy eyes and the blocked nose from hell!! my throat is sore too ( yup, i am feeling sorry for myself, I actually thought I had some sort of fluey bug this morning but now i am sure it is just more hayfever, ack!)

hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 56- Bad to the Bone!!

Image- Lilli Lolita from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Down to your bones from Tiddly Inks.

         Toasting Properly from Tiddly Inks.

         Ty's splatter paper from Tiddly Inks Basement.

Morning peeps!!

After a weeks break due to shop changeover the Tiddly Inkers are back!!! and we are ..........

BAD TO THE BONE!

So this week we need you to grab your Tiddly Inks images and use skulls and attitude on your creations this week. Now I don't need to tell you that the Tiddly Inkers have rocked this challenge so pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and have a peek at some skully gorgeousness!!

For my card I used the fabulous Lilli Lolita. I love her to pieces, she is such fun to colour. I made my background paper in my PSP programe by using 3 of Christy's awesome papers ( all the linkies you need to find them are under my piccy) .

I added a bit of faux stitching and then cut out on of the skully cupcakes from the paper and added a strip of black martha stewart drippy goo punched paper over the top. I embossed a little oval with my tim holtz ledger embossing folder and added a bit of white chalk ink to it. Then I just had to cut out a skully cupcake from the leftover paper , they are too yummy not to use!!!! I stamped happy birthday on it and added a couple of holes so I could turn it into a rbbon slider.

A few yummy pearls and Lilli Lolita was ready to be to-skully Bad to the Bone!!!

Now, whilst I am on a Tiddly Tuesday poat I just have to share some extremely excitng news!!! Christy from Tiddly Inks and Zoe from Make it crafty have been busying away for a few months now getting some steampunk images ready and OMGoodness, they are awesome!!!

If you click on this little steampunky picture here it will take you right to the place where you need to be to get all the info for the upcoming release on the 14th July. I can't wait!!!

And when you pop over there you will find details on a chance to win 5 images by the very lovely Christy herself so quick, go now!!!!

Don't forget to pop over to theTiddly Inks store and see What's New ( i know for a fact there is at least one gorgeous new little image in there....) 

And..... if you are looking for a Tiddly bargain, pop over to the new Tiddly Inks Bargain Basement site. there are oodles of tiddlies at reduced prices over there and for those who need an extra incentive, all orders over $15 in the Basement are still 20% off for the next week only.

Ok thats me for today, I am off to get ready for work and get a rather reluctant Little Mo ready for school. He has worked out this morning that he has just 14 more days left with his treasured teacher, Mrs. Kay. whilst he really likes his new teacher and is looking forward to being in her class, he is absolutely devastated that Mrs. Kay is retiring. Poor chap. Luckily she will still be popping into school to help with choir and guitar group but that hasn't stopped tears and worrying from my little guy :(

see you all later when I come bloggy wombling!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Airshow celebration scrap page!!

 Afternoon Peeps!!!
Its a really gorgeous day here in our village. The airshow is on and my Grandad is here to watch it with Mo and Scott (...though Mo keeps scooting into the craft room with me whenever there is anything remotely loud going up!!!!!) and I have taken the opportunity of Grandad being here to get some piccies of him with Mo. Mo loves him to bits so its super nice for Mo too as its always a bit of a celebration when Grandad comes here (...it only happens once a year!! romfl!!!!) Mo and I made a yummy chocolate cake especially and Mo has been running back and forth from Grandad and Daddy with picnic food and drinks!! bless him!!
Whilst they are all sat watching the show, next to the field that runs along the side of our house, I have been busy making my June scrap page. Now this one will not be going in my scrap book as I have tied a little twine through it and popped it into my Grandad's car for a surprise for him!! I am not going to tell him it is there but he should find it when he gets home and picks his jumper up!!

Just in the bottom right hand corner I have stamped my new LOTV boy with his little aeroplane and really gently coloured him up with my promarkers.

 I used my LOTV vintage postcard stamp to add a bit of fun around the edges of the page and just over the edges of the photographs at the top.
I cut a label out on my cricut and Mo wanted to decorate that so he wrote waddington airshow 2011 and added a little green heart.

He also wrote ' I love you Grandad ' down in the left hand bottom corner so I really carefully stamped over it with the postcard stamp to make it look as if he had written on the postcard!! then I stamped a few of my SU sense of time clocks around the page and distressed all around the edges with some tea dye distress ink.

I used one of theLOTV sentiment cirlcles to write the month and date on and popped that in the middle of the photographs. The little embossed stars piece of card looks really cool IRL.
When I had finished fiddling around with it, I slid it into a scrapbook page protector and added 2 eyelets and some twine so Grandad can hang it up when he gets home. I hope he likes it.

I am entering this in the LOTV challenge blogs celebrate challenge.

and here is the yummy cake Mo and I made....it didn't last very long!!!! It had chocolate and coffee icing! yum!!!

 ....and here is my little bowl licker!!!!

Right then, thats me for today!!! I have still got to clean up the messy end of my craft table from yesterday!! maybe later.....
Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

oooh Look what my awesome hubby has made me!!

 Well, it started off with me saying " Baby, I would really love some pen storage above my workspace" at which point gorgeous hubby wet himself laughing and said " what work space?" mmmmm point taken, it was a bit messy so I promptly moved it all.....down the other end of my desk!!!!

Then off he popped with Mo down to the shed and they came back with some MDF, Yey!!! and off he set to work with all manner of manly gadgety things, isn't he fab??!!!

here it is going up ready for measuring and........yes thats some of the mess on the right handside of the photo...  :) and this is what he was making.....



here it is!!!!!!



isn't it fab??!!! I am so excited!!  I have lost 2 pens recently, I think I threw them away by accident whilst my desk was so messy so I am so excited to have a lovely space to keep them now. I don't have the whole set of promarkers but he did me some extra holes incase I get anymore. I am going to spend some time tonight putting the colour names on and some little stickers to match my pen ends and of course some time will be spent spoiling gorgeous hubby for my awesome pen storage.

hugs Lou xxxxx

Let the christmas cards making begin!!! :)

 Image- Inky Critters for christmas from Tiddly Inks Bargain Basement.

Papers- Funky Seasons from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

Its a gorgeous sunny day here, all ready for fabby viewing of the airshow.....and I am making christmas cards!!! romfl!!!

Last year I was the hieght of total and utter unorganised for christmas so I am kicking myself up the butt and getting on with it this year!!!

Of course I had the cutest ever critters from the Tiddly Inks bargain basement to work with!! I love these guys! I printed them out, coloured them up and then cute them up to make my own arrangement from Kathy's sketch over on the sketch file challenge blog.

I am entering these 2 little cuties in the creative craft world challenge blogs Christmas in June challenge.

I have been working through my stash of papers and this one below used one of my papermania ones...

So thats me for today!!
We are going to my mum's later for an airshow day BBQ so that should be fun, we will have to walk as the traffic in our village gets super crazy on airshow weekend. I have had a quick look out of the window to see the roads and at the minute they are ok, cars are starting to trek down to the car parks but they are moving nicely......hoping it stays that way all day as last year got a little crazy!!!!

Have a great saturday everyone!!
Hugs Lou xxxx

Bunny Zoe's- Fairies and Truly Scrumptious-Things with Wings.

Stamp- mini tilda fairy.

Papers- Funky Hand's Colour Me Happy.

 Hello Peeps!!

After several attempts to blog this little cutie for the Truly Scrumptious challenge blogs Things with wings challenge and Bunny Zoe's challenge blogs Fairies challenge this morning and giving up I have finally managed to get it to post tonight!!!!

I promise its not just a black box with magnolia swirls stamped on it!!....... it opens up to show this little magnolia mini fairy!!! she is mounted on acetate and bounces magically as if she is flying...cute!!! so here is a piccy of the open box...

 I made the flowers with my SU boho flower punch and filled the centres with some yummy seed beeds. The fronds are of course, martha!! The big 'bubbles' are some clear beads. The bottom of the box I covered with silver mirri card so that the whole bottom and sides reflect on each other.

The paper is ....yep you guessed it....from Funky Hand!!! I just love those swooshy swirls. Heres a close up of inside the box, sorry the pictures aren't great, its surprisingly hard to take piccies of fairies in boxes!!!!

So tonight I  am watching a rather vintage Tron with Scott ready for watching the new one tomorrow night, I have to admit we are having a few giggles at the SFX!! when I was little they were awesome but when you compare them to what we have now its mind boggling how they do it!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Fetch a sketch challenge 1.

Image- Penny Black transparent Wonderful Day set.

Paper from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!!!! wow its been a scorcher today!! hot,hot.hot!! and do you know what else is hot??!! the new Fetch A Sketch challenge blog!!!

It has been lovingly cultivated and dreamed up by my lovely Funkette team mates Ruth and Jenny and I have so been looking forward to it.

I got home at 1:15pm and was so sleepy but a good old cup of coffee and mooch around bloggy land woke me up a bit and I got started on my card. The sketch is fab so pop over to the challenge blog and get have a go at it. 

The gingham paper is of course Funky Hand, which might I add is one of the sponsors this week, and the little bit of flowery paper I stamped myself using 2 of the flowers in my Penny Black stamp set. The adhesive lace is from my stash.

I got that far then went to fetch Mo from school, had tea, had a shower and....yep you guessed it...fell asleep!!! so I got up around 20 mins ago to finish it off!!

Do you ever forget about your old colouring methods??! Well, I do and whille I was looking for the adhesive lace this afternoon I found my old faithful earth tone chalks and brights set so I decided I would colour my stamp in with them, I had actually forgotten how easy and cute the finished result is with chalks!! love it!!!

(mmmmm...confession time...mr. hedgie on the left there has a bit of a darker tummy...never lick the melted double decker chocolate off your finger then blend tummies with the damp yet delicious as it was finger......!!!)

So thats my little entry for the fabby first sketch over on the new Fetch a Sketch challenge blog!! I am also popping it in the challenge over on Penny Black at allsorts.

I am off to indulge in a lovely cold shandy now before I get busy out in my little crafty room again. I would love it to rain tonight to freshen the air up but it just keeps doing teeny showers.

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Just my cup of tea!! new download from Funky Hand.

 Hello peeps!! so lovely of you to pop in on me for some afternoon tea!!!!!!

This is, of course, a bit of a celebration post for the fab and funky new 'Tea's Up' download from Funky Hand. I love,love,love it.
My first card just had to have a bit of Betty on it!! she is from the Love 'n' That Betty stamps set. I swapped her heart choccies out for one of the great toppers included in the download.

so, here is a quick piccy of some of the yumminess you will get in your Tea's Up download. (click the piccy to be taken straight to it!!) It has some seriously cool grungy tea stained papers in it too which I lurve!! so cool and for £3.49 its just my cup of tea pricewise too!!!! :)

 And onto a bit of a funny birthday card!!! I promise its a clean teabag!! I distressed it with antique linen distress inks and it came out great!!! The tag is from my SU tiny tags set and all I did was sew it through the teabag on a bit of thread!!!

 You can just about make out some of the tea splats on the flowery paper.
...and once I had used one teabag, I graduated onto a teaspoon and teabag!! I still think the next card I make with these awesome papers will have a real teacup on!!!!!

Don't you just love that kettle paper?? I do!!!

Oh.... I just had to add this one in too......

ROMFL!!!! I just couldn't resist!!!!! thanks go to McD's for the stirrer, Twycross zoo cafe for the sugar sticks and my tea caddy for the teabag!!!!!! :) :) This awesome tea cup file came from Paulo's blog and here is a link. If you haven't looked at his blog before you should because it is jaw dropping awesome!!!

We have had a lovely day at Twycross zoo again, we got there early and had a lovely womble and left at 1:30pm when it got a bit too warm for wombling around!!! We got some cute piccies of thing 1 and thing 2....ooops sorry, I mean the boys............so I will post a couple when Scott does whatever he does on the big gadget boy pooter later!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

LOTV challenge 102- a sketch.

Morning peeps!!

Well,we were up early at the house of daubney today thanks to someone's car alarm going off.....repeatedly so I gave up trying to go back to sleep and decided to get busy doing some making instead.

When I turned on my google reader the new LOTV challenge was up and it was a yummy sketch by Donalda so that was what I decided to work on first!! Pop over there to see the sketch and their DT's awesome cards, I love them all!! I am also entering this cutie in the I love promarkers challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge. I used blush, soft peach, buttercup, sandstone,caramel, dusky pink, pear green, olive green and ivory to shadow. And the Sweet Stampin challenge blogs Things with Wings challenge.

I decided my new little pom pom fairy was going to get her first inking for this one!! I bought her at the stamp magic show, (along with 11 other  LOTV friends to keep her company...!!!!) and I love how this card turned out. The sketch is so nice to work with so I can see a few more popping out yet!!!!

I stamped her with memento rich cocoa onto a fabric doily and then coloured her with promarkers. They bled a little on the material but I have decided they added to the sketchy look of the cute little fairy. You can just about pick out the sparkle on her pom poms and wings but its still a little overcast here so taking a piccy is tricky!!!!

So don't forget to pop over to the LOTV challenge blog and look at the sketch, I am not putting a piccy on here or you wouldn't go for a visit now would you!!!!!! :)

Off to work/school for me and Little Mo, who has lost another tooth this morning!!! oh my goodness, he has such a huuuuge gap now with all 4 front teeth gone, I must admit he looks kinda cute though and the lisp he has gained is so sweet!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 55- Sugar and spice with a twist!!

Image- Toasting Properly from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment from Create with TLC.

Papers from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday again!!! That means fabby new images for the shop and a new challenge from us Tiddly Inkers over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog!! this week our challenge is....

SUGAR AND SPICE.

 So what is Sugar and Spice? well, this week our challenge this week is to make a sarcastic or humorous card. using one of your Tiddly Inks Images. If you need a little inspiration, pop over to the Tiddly inks challenge blog and see what the other Tiddly Inkers have been creating, they are so awesome. Love y'all girls xxxxx

For my card I used the gorgeous gothic Toasting Properly. The gothic characters over on Tiddly Inks are my fav gothic characters out there, they are fabulous and I decided that my toasting properly was having a good old glass of champagne!! ( of course it had to be gothicly coloured burgundy champagne...I know it doesn't exist but it looks great and I would love some!!!!)

The I love bubbles sentiment from create with TLC was just perfect for this one!! Love it!!

So go grab your fav Tiddly Inks images and make us something sugary and spicey to look at!! can't wait to see your creations!

Hugs Lou xxxx