Stars and boys!!!

Morning Peeps!!!

Not much occured in the crafty life of Lou yesterday!! I just felt like vegging out a bit but this morning I havehad time to make a card for a recent order and yey for me I saw a few challenges on my google reader that I can pop it in for!!!!

I used my oldie but extremely goodie Magnolia Edwin celebrates stamp. I really do love this stamp, he comes in for so many things and today he is a 21st birthday party boy!!
I made the sentiment in word and gave the beer bottle a good splodge of glossy accents (...its just about dry now...!!!)

 so heres the challenges I am going to enter with him in his party mood....

Cupcake craft challenge blogs wish upon a star challenge
Sentimental sundays challenge blogs Men in your life challenge
Sweet Stampin challenge blogs One for the boys challenge

Right, off to have a cuppa and make pack ups for school/work. Mo slept in again this morning, he is so tired bless him, I think he is just ready for the school hols that start on friday. Today we are going to visit his class as they are having an open afternoon at school so I am really looking forward to seeing what they have all been up to this term.

Have a fab monday peeps and thank you for popping in on me
Hugs Lou xxxx

Cute birthday!!

Image-Pure Innocence 004 from Heather Ellis.

Papers from my MME stash.

SU tiny tags punch.

Computer printed sentiment ( i can't write that small!!!)

Morning Peeps!!!

well last nights camping in the lounge went well and Little Mo woke up a very happy little chap!! today we are just being a bit lazy around the house. Mo wants to finish off his present for his teacher and I want  to get a couple of cards finished for one of the girls at work who has asked for a few cards.

I made this little cutie for Scott's sister's birthday, she is so sweet I just had to pop her on my blog!!!

She is one of Heather Ellis's digi's and if you click on the link under the piccy there are sooo many other total cutie pies on there.

I am going to pop her in for a few challenges this morning as I am feeling organised!!!

Totally Papercrafts Girly Girls challenge.

Simon say stamp- anything goes.

Allsorts challenge - free and easy.

Thank you for popping in on me and have a super sunday!! hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks - Tanker Fairy Flies.

Image- Tanker Fairy Flies.

papers from my stash.

Hello peeps!!

Thank crunchie its friday!!! I have had a really nice day today though, great morning at work followed by a lovely couple of hours with my BF before picking a very tired little Mo up from school!!!

I have had lots of fun creating with the new releases in the Tiddly Inks store. This one I made a few weeks ago now when Christy first sent the images to us to play with with. I love Tanker, she is fabulous. I coloured her up in blues and browns,its one of my fav combo's!!

The little clock is on a lot of my cards at the moment, I love it! Its from the awesomely talented Penny Duncan's blog and I cut it using MTC and my cricut. The card design is from her blog too, ahhh she spoils us so with yumminess!!! Thanks Penny!!!

The little coggy hearts and sentiment are a Technique Tuesdays stamp set and the little postcards are LOTV.

I really am super enjoying these new images so watch out for more popping up on my blog over the next couple of weeks!!!

Off to enjoy our friday night treat tea, its chippy night!! yey!!!!!

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

woooohooooo! Tiddly Inks/Make It Crafty steampunk release and I Spy game!

 OOOOMMMMGosh!!! I am super excited because today I get to share with you a few of the things I have made with the new images that Christy ( Tiddly Inks) and Zoe (Make It Crafty) have been super busy preparing for a good few months now and oh my, aren't they just so awesome?!!!!

I have been totally in love with these since they made their way into my inbox!!! and I have been soooooo desperate to show you all!!! and I also have to confess that before I got all these to work with I had never ever done any form of steampunk card!!!!! I have to admit to having a big gulp when I knew they were coming and thinking oh oh, I won't be able to do it right!

Now for oodles more info,sneak peeks and and a chance to win some awesome prizes playing the I Spy game made especially for the release, please go to the release page here. 

I have had so much fun with them and I know loads of you will fall in love with them too!!

PLUS 15% OFF NEW RELEASE IMAGES FOR A WEEK!!Start Mix n’ Matching with Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty straight away as you grab the super bargain of 15% OFF!!
Just enter the coupon code MIXNMATCH at checkout.

Now, this last one using the gorgeous mermaid and marine house is actually another of my little scene boxes and it was sooo hard to get a good picture of this one but in IRL it is so cute!!



Well, thats me for today!! now quick go to the digital stamping page and get a looksey at all of the awesome new images available and what the awesome DT's have come up with, I can't wait to see what everybody has been making with them.

Right off to work for me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly inks challenge 57- Reel me in!!

Image- You and me from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!!

Its that Tiddly tuesday time of the week again!!!!!!! and over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog this week, we Tiddly Inkers would like to put you into action on a movie inspired card!!

So our challenge this week is...

Reel Me In.

Christy loves movies so she chose our theme this week. All you need to do to join in with the fun is pick your favourite film and make it into a movie inspired card/project using your Tiddly Inks images.

I chose to do The Time Travelers wife....

OOOh I love this film. I picked one of my favourite lines from my novel of it to use as my sentiment. This film never fails to make me weep buckets!!!!!!

I used You and Me for my card and a grungy clock from Penny Duncan's blog for the clock, how cool is it??!!!

Can't wait to see what you all come up with and don't forget....there are just 2 more sleeps until the super exciting steampunk Tiddly Inks/Make it crafty collaboration!!! OMG you will love them all!!

Here's a link to a bit more info and Christy has added a freebie over there too so get yourself over there quick! if you click on the picture below it will take you straight there...



Right I am off to see what my other gorgeous Tiddly Inks teamies have been making, they never fail to make me think I need to try harder, romfl!!!!!!!!

huge Tiddly Tuesday hugs Lou xxxx

Fetch a sketch challenge 2.

Image- You Rock from Tiddly Inks bragain basement.

Papers- from Funky Hand Tea's up download.

Hello!! I'm back!!!
oh I am running so late with everything today. I just had to have a super quick make before tea tonight when I saw the new sketch over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog today, its another totally yummy one and I can see it getting a lot more use over the next week, thank you girls!!!!!

I used one of my many fabulous Tiddly Ink images, my yummy Tea's up papers from Funky Hand ( Jules!!! I used  scraps!! wooohooooo!!!!!! :)  ) and a little 'rock' from my gravel down the side of the house specially selected by a rather cute little Mo!!!! I glued the 'rock' into a word made sentiment circle! cute!!!!

Right, now get yourself over to Fetch A Sketch and join in with the fun!!!! I am off to bed!!!!
huge hugs
Lou xxxx

Getting funky and sketchy!!!

Hellloooo!! ok this is a teeny bit late in getting posted as dippy here forgot to schedule on her own blog!! LOL!! I remebered the challenge blog post though so all is good :) :)
Its my turn to post the little roboty card I made using the fab sketch from da boss!!!! if you haven't already seen the original post from our very own Anice here it is......

Its a great sketch to work with and there are oodles of possibilities which the funkettes have been busy posting throughout the month.

You still have a few more days to get busy with one to join in with the fun and don't forget that if you don't own any funky hand papers yet, Anice makes a Funky Freebie each month so you can use that and be in with the chance to win yourself a download to play with for next months challenge!!! :)

So onto my little cutie pie robot! I used the Craft the Year Away papercraft factory and its November Rain colour way for most of my card, and sneaked in a little bit of the fabulous cog paper from the Funky Seasons cd.

The little teeny cog at the bottom of the flap is holding down a cute little surprise down there....

Awwww and here he is on a cute little springy thingy so he just pops out at ya when you open the flap. (Needless to say, Little mo loved this card and promptly stole it!!!!!)

I made the 'Have a robotastic birthday' paper ribbon in the workspace part in Craft The Year Away, its so cool, and I love that you stll don't have to worry about what colours to useas Anice co-ordinated them too when she did all the designing, she is sooooo smart!!! I added a bit of black ink to everything and hey presto!!!
So, please come and join in the fun this month, we love to see your creations. All you need to do is get busy with your funky hand papers or the freebie I mentioned earlier and then add your take on Anice's sketch.

Right, now I am off to run to my crafty room and take a piccy of the card I have made for the new sketch over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog...back in a bit.... :)
hugs Lou xxxx

Cuddly Buddly digi challenge 2- flowers and lace.

Image- Oval mixed bouquet from Lilyboo Designs at cuddly buddly.

Papers- Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!! only me!!!

I have had a lovely day trying to keep Little Mo fairly still so that his poorly neck can heal. He has pulled a muscle and disrupted a lymph node so he has been very sore bless him ( Lou thanks the lord for the invention of junior disprol.....)

My little card tonight is my go at the Cuddly Buddly challenge blogs digi challenge 2 -Flowers and Lace (....I missed the first one because dopey here used a retired digi but didn't realise until she had made the card and went to look for linky, derrrrrr!!) so better luck this time Lou!!!

Naturally I had to use one of my big sis's fabby flowery images, they are too cute and super easy to colour up all pretty!! Her little section over on Cuddly Buddly is Lilyboo Designs. Sam does a bit of allsorts so its well worth a quick visit!!!

I fancied another go at The Sketch File challenge blogs July ovally nice sketch too and this time I turned it up on its side for a bit of a change (ooooh get me all adventurous!!!!) I was also determined to use up some of my overflowing scraps box and managed to get all of this 5x5 card done in bits in my box so  am super chuffed!!!

I didn't have any red or black lace which I really wanted so I had to use my martha stewart punch instead but I am still pleased with that lacey look!! I added a cute little wooden ladybird too. The little flower was white but I coloured it with my black promarker and added a cute red flowery button and bit of black thread.

Right, I am off to get some sleep incase Mo wakes up sore in the night again, hopefully tomorrow it will start to ease up. The very lovely 2 doctors he had looking after him in A&E at 4:30am yesterday morning said it would get worse before it got better so I am figurung after 2 days of poo it should get better?...... :) fingers crossed!!

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



Stamping stitches!!

Morning peeps!!

We had rain last night so its a lovely clear and crisp morning here today, phew! yesterday was so muggy!!

This is my little share for this morning and there are a couple of challenges I would like to pop it in for too.
The challenges are:
 Paper Sundaes Faux or real stitching.
Simon says stamp A stitch in time.
A spoonful of sugar Sewing.

Now, my sewing on this project is Faux stitching. It is a stamp set that my very fab friends Fleur and Lou enabled me to find...and buy!! around a year ago and I have to tell you I would not be without this set, it is awesome and I use it all the time.
It is from the Kelly Panacci range of Hampton stamps and is called  SC0370 Kelly's Borders. There are 11 different borders in it and the wibbly stitching is my fav.

The photograph is of my amazing Nana on her wedding day and I adore this photograph. I printed it out onto canvas.  (mmm...confession time....Scott printed it out as I wasn't sure on the settings to use for the camvas in my printer...!!) trimmed it up a little with my scissors and then pulled the threads out a bit to get the frayed edge. Then using white SU craft ink I stamped the white stitching stamp on it.

I had to stain the lace a bit as it was rather white!! so it got a good old distress inks antique linen treatment!! A bit more 'stitching' was stamped onto the patterned paper with versafine sepia ink and the flowers I made with my SU boho flowers punch and a mini papermania one for the teensy stamen bit in the centres. The fronds are martha of course!!!! :)
I made myself a swirl of bling to match with my anita's mini gems and then mounted it all onto some gorgeous thin chipboard sent to me by an absoultely awesome friend in america.

It is 6.5" square and I am going to turn it into a wall hanging for my Grandad. It is their wedding anniversary next month but sadly my Nana is no longer with us so I hope he likes it and it doesn't make him sad. I am going to make my mum one later too.

So I guess thats me for now!! might be back later if I feel awakwe enough to do some crafting tonight (mmmm...doubtful as the dreaded hayfever kept me snuffling and itching my eyes most of the night!!)

Thank you for popping in on me huge hugs Lou xxxx

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