Basic grey -sizzling summer.

Morning peeps!!

How are you all this super monday morning I am fab. I am so enjoying my holiday time with Mo and spending some qaulity time together.

Last night when he had gone to bed I had some time to make a little tent card for the Basic Grey challenge blogs Sizzling Summer challenge.  and Papertake weeklys Anything goes challenge.

There's nothing cuter in summer than seeing the little peeps enjoying it so I just had to ink up my new little tilda baby in her cute fuzzy bunny slippers and pop her in a lovely magnolia summer garden scene!!!

I used papers from my Basic Grey Sugared pad again ( yes, Lou, Fleur and Louise, I am totally blaming you guys for making me use my stroke only papers!!!!!! xx) I paper pieced the bunny slippers and frilly pants so that they matched the papers (How fab is the flamingo and giraffe paper!??)

I punched the edge of the top piece of paper with my martha stewart punch and then nestied out the shape for the cut out bit.

I made myself some teeny weeny but totally cute flowers for around a couple of the corners and tied in some brown by inking the edges and a bit of brown organza ribbon around the top.

Now, its actually quite hard to take a piccy of a tent card!! It took me no less than 16 attempts to get these 2 pictures!! ROMFL!!!

So thats little ole me for today!!!!

In a couple of hours I am taking Mo and my niece and nephew out to the opening of our new asda's ( which is quite daft as it is open already but has had a bit of a shuffle around and a pharmacy put in therefore needs an opening celebration.....) and there are going to be people dressed up as star wars characters. Well, how excited is Mo?.............
This excited!!!!!

Mo-bi Wan Kenobi !!!

(Yup...they are white pj's but I am sure no-one will notice....!!)

Lol!!! he's too funny!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me and May the force be with you!!!!! :)

Hugs Lou xxx

Allsorts challenge- Red card.

Hello peeps!!
A bit of a late one from me today as I have been having fun with the boys today!!! They have been skateboarding!! Ryan bought Mo one of his old decks and some wheels and they have been practising all afternoon, Mo's first time on a big skateboard but he loved it!!!
I made him wear his bike helmet!!!

And so onto my red creation for the Allsorts challenge blogs Red challenge!!
I had an anniversary card order to fill and felt like getting my funk on with my Funky Hand papers!! this card using papers from Dreams come True ( for the gorguss bottom bit)  and Craft the year away ( for the cool splattery looking top bit).

I cut a heart on my cricut, stamped my magnolia love stamp on it with fired brick distress ink and then distress inked it a bit more with tattered rose and fired brick. Then I covered it with some really pretty vellum and added a couple of SU tiny tags to it. I used the flourish stamp and made a sentiment on my pooter for the other!!

The bit of vellum across the centre is actually really pretty IRL as it is crimpled and shiny and matt, (same on the heart too but doesn't show up in the piccy ,grrrrrrrr.) and I just had to have a bit more of a play with my new pearl maker pen thing, I love it!!!

We have the most mahoosive black cloud over our village tonight so I am thinking big rain soon, yey!! no plant watering needed tonight!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, I do love a visit!!!!

hugs Lou xxxx

CES- feeling the blues.

Afternoon peeps!!!

I was having my bloggy womble this morning and realised I hadn't played along at a challenge I fancied this week which was the CES challenge blogs feeling the blues challenge. and the My Mums craft shop Monochromatic challenge.

I wanted to make my big sister a present to cheer her up because she has had a poop week at work. This little mini- kleenex box I saw on my friend Catherine's blog and I just had to try it because it looked so cute. Thank you catherine,  am addicted!! got another one on the go too hun!!!

I bought my little bumble bee gorjuss girl last week from Funky Kits and was so excited when she arrived.

I stamped her in Faded Jeans distress ink and then heat embossed it. I coloured her up with promarkers in cool greys and duck egg and pastel blue to keep her all monochromatic and matching her to my papers. I think she looks really cute.

I made the little flowers out of an old book page and spritzed it with some crafty notions spray and added some pearl maker pen to the centres while it was wet, the colour of the spray bleeds into the pearl and it looks so pretty.

well, thats me for today  think!!! I am off to see what the little peeps are up to!!!

Thank you for peeking in!! huge hugs Lou xxx

LOTV challenge 108- Roses.

Morning Peeps!!

Last night was a late one here in our house, it was just too hot to sleep so Scott got on with his gadget boy pooter stuff and I got busy with a card for this weeks LOTV challenge which is roses.

I was so sad to read of Heather from their DT being unwell, so before I go any further with my post I want to send Heather some huge get well wishes xxxxx

And onto my little card to enter the challenge with. I used 2 stamps from LOTV for this one, one from the sentiment verses sheet and the cute little wedding couple, awwww!! I even tried to make myself some teen tiny roses to egdethe sentiment but I am not sure they came out very 'rosy' so my roses will have to be the brides gorgeous little posy, which got coloured up and then a good old splodge of glossy accents added to it!!! I used a sketch that was on the challenge blog a few weeks back but I love it and have been using it quite a bit!!!!

Today its just me and Little Mo. We are going to go to the library and meet Daddy for lunch. Its forcast rain here today (...oooh yes please!! the air is so muggy!!) so it will be a lazy day all round I think!!!

Have a lovely day and thank you for popping in on me!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Pudding Girl!!

Image- Pudding Girl from Lilyboo Designs at Cuddly Buddly.

Morning Peeps!!

I am pleased to report that I am feeling much better today, phew!! Tea stayed where it should last night so I managed to do a little crafting before bed which was lovely.

There are a couple of challenges that I have been desperate to join in with this week and this little pudding girl is just for them. The challenges are:

 Cuddly Buddly's Let's keep creating digi challenges Petals and Pearls.

Totally Gorjuss challenge blogs Christmas in July.

Cuddly Buddly's lets keep creating challenges are quite a new challenge blog but fabulous as I have quite a few digi's from there and its lovely to be given a push to get using them, they even have lots of freebies for those who don't have any to choose from but with all the designers they have over there now, its a struggle to pop in and not buy a cutie!!! Here's a link to all the digi's at Cuddly Buddly if you need enabling!!!

I had an idea for this card from the minute I saw Pudding Girl in the Cuddly Buddly shop!! I love her to bits!!! she got printed out and coloured up with my promarkers before a bit of nestie-ing treatment!!

and because I was feeling better I decided to stick with my christmassy idea and dug out my little poinsetta flower dimension stickers from a goody bag I got a long time ago. They fluff up beautifully and look so pretty around the edge of my little circle.

The pearls are from a lovely green set of different sized adhesive pearls from papermania ( they are from my stash of oldie but goodie stash too!!).

The papers are some old papermania ones too but I love them.

And that me done for today!! I have some little peeps to go fetch now and a busy day ahead then a few more cards to make!!

Have a great day hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 60- We are gel-ling!!!

Image- Catch My Heart from Tiddly Inks.

 Morning peeps!!!

Its time for another fabby challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and the DT have been having great fun with this one!!!
This weeks challenge is....

Gel-ling !!!

This week we are asking you to make a gel window on your project---it can represent water or other creative ideas, as you will see below, like crystal balls. Our very own Meredith made an awesome tutorial HERE if anyone is wondering what on earth to do!!!

 Little Mo and Dady were most disgruntled when I pinched their hair gel and squished it into a little bag and then added some blue crafty notion glitzy spray!!!! Mo was even more puzzled when I added a few hearts to the bag too!!!
But by the time I had nestied a little card, layered up the inside and printed out the sweet little Catch My Heart tiddly he had clicked as to what I was doing and was rather impressed at my " squishy card"!!!

It was a bit hard to take a picture of the shimmery blue gel though as the camera kept bouncing off the plastic bag but it looks cute. It is just 4x4 size.


Now I must aologise to all my bloggy friends for not popping in much this week. I have been really sick with a tummy bug ( ...shared by the lovely little mo!!..) and have not had the energy to do much at all. Last night I slept from 6pm until 10:30pm, got up went to the loo and then fell back to sleep!! I feel a little less jelly like this morning but rough so hoping to feel much better and back to my bloggy self really soon.

Don't forget to pop in on my awesome Tiddly peeps on the challenge blog and see what they have been making for the challenge to get you all inspired to go!!! we are joined by the extremely talented Lucianna for a while too so go and welcome her in for us as she is fab!!!

Huge Tiddly Tuesday Hugs!!
Lou xxx

The big guy golfs by the sea!!!!!!

Image- Mo Manning's Big Guy Golfing.

Magnolia port hole stamp ( cant remember its name!!)

Morning peeps!!!

How many of you love making cards and then get that order ( from your dad...) and say, " Yes of course I can do that Dad" when he gives you your little list of needs for it ( which was... name: kipper. Likes:golf, spent a lot of time at sea and he is retiring from being a DHL truck driver...)

Well, beads of sweat formed on my top lip for around an hour ovwer this one...and then it just all plopped together onto a card and I was quite pleased with myself!!!

I think I remembered everything for it!! I made the sentiment myself in word and googled 'kipper' to get the little kipper picture on it. I did try writing the name kipper but the fish was way more fun so I chse him!!

Lots of distress inking on the background ( ...very theraputic when you are not exactly sure where you are going with the making of the card...!!) I masked the magnolia stamp up before distressing away!!

The big guy is coloured up and popped out with some silicone on top.

And here is inside the card.....

I just had to get the lorry in there somewhere!!!!

The pages on the right are actually 10 pages and I had to sew them in as Dad needed 100 people to be able to sign it!!!!! phew!!!!

Promarkers used-

pastel blue, powder blue and denim blue- shirt and sky
sandstone,caramel and cocoa- trousers, shoes,socks,hat,boat,porthole.
pear green and olive green- jumper and grass.
cocoa,cooly grey 3 and 4- golfclub.
pastel biege- ball
ivory- clouds.
Challenges I would love to enter with this card are....
Totally papercrafts- one for the boys challenge.
I love promarkers- Anything goes challenge.
Allsorts- Free and Easy challenge.

Its such a fun card. Right I had better get my butyt into gear and get dressed. Little mo is actually more organised than me this morning and is dressed already!!
Have a great day peeps!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Basic Grey challenge 49- sketch.

Basic Grey papers- Two Scoops.

Gorjuss girl- Bear Hugs from Funky Kits.

Hello again peeps!!

( this is my second post of the day so if you are looking for my Tiddly tuesday post, its HERE.)

Well, we were all set to take the boys to Twin Lakes today. They love it there and have been excited since yesterday!! we set off, picnic in car and singing along to the stereo then.......

BANG

One exploded down the side completely back box on our exhaust :( pants. " very dissapointed boys later we were on our way home in a drag sounding car ( no joke, I thought my ears were going to explode too it was so loud!)

Scott went off to the garage after dropping us off at home to get it fixed and I walked to the tradtional sweetie shop in our village to cheer the boys up with a bag of sweets each, they were even too sad to want to stop off at the park to play on the way home, poor chaps.

Nannie and grandad to the rescue with tea out at the pub and they were their normal cheery selfs when they went to bed tonight, one at 6pm and the other 20 mins ago ( mahoosive thanks go to nannie and grandad at this point!!!)

And so onto my challenge card!!!

whilst Ryan took himself off to mooch woth friends and little mo relived the car bang story several times to his little friend Elliot I got chance to make my card for the Basic grey Challenge blogs sketch challenge. The sketch is very pretty and super to work with, and the Totally Gorgeous challenge blogs Punch or Die challenge.

I inked up my 'bought then sat in the draw for a while' Bear Hugs gorjuss girl I bought from Funky Kits a while ago,ooooh she is too cute!!!! love her.

She got a cheery old colouring with some bright and happy colours and then nestified!!!

The papers are from my very stroke only Basic Grey two scoops 6x6 pad ( the green on the fronds is from my equally stroke only Sugared pad!!!). I popped the panels through my cuttlebug for the distressed stripes look and sanded them off a bit to whitewash look them!! (...yes, I could of inked them with white but it felt good distressing stuff after the car incident!!!)

I made the flowers with my SU boho flowers punch and the scraps left from my card base,( jules will be most proud of me using up scrappy bits again!!) a few seedy beads, lots of fun, love how they came out.

Anywhoo, thats me done with posting for today I am off for a cuppa and an early night now, sooo sleepy!!

Might have to investigate the Funky Kits shop a bit more with my cuppa though as the gorjuss's are a bit reduced I notice.....   :)  ( ...not that I would want to lead anybody astray and enable you at all....lol!!)

Thank you for popping in on me, a little visit is always most cheering!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 59- Tag or Ticket me!!!

Image- Come in cuteness from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday again which means its time for another fun challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week it is a super fun one, its....

Tag or Ticket me!!!

All you need to do is grab your fav Tiddly Inks images and incorporate them onto a creation using a Tag or Ticket, easy peesy!!!....and might I note very addicting too!!!! :)

I made 2 (....Lou adds...so far as there are 2 more in production at the moment!!!!) I bought some tags from The Works on monday, they were so nice and jumbo size and just slipped into my shopping basket......:)

I embossed, distress inked and crafty notions sprayed my little Come in cuteness one and for the red one below, I just added my pre-coloured Heart Home and ripped around the edges of the image and the tag. I stuck it on and then covered the whole tag in crackle glaze (...note to self...crackle glaze does not like having its picture taken and no matter how much you scream at it, it still won't show up well in the picture.....)

Here is my Happy New Home tag......



Image- Heart Home from Tiddly Inks Bargain Basement.

The Happy New Home sentiment I made in my Funky Hand Craft The Year Away papercraft factory with one of the fonts in the writer part, isn't it fab???!!

I stamped over the crackle glaze with my magnolia swirl and some jet black staz-on.

Oh oh!!! look...another one just crept in on me....

Image- Lilli Lolita from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Down to my bones mega pack from Tiddly Inks.

Told you I was getting addicted!!!! romfl!!!!

So thats me in a nutshell for today! Pop over to the challenge blog and see what my other fantabulous teamies have been creating this week and join in the fun yourselves!!!! and also don't forget to pop into the Tiddly Inks shop and see what yumminess Christy has been creating away at in the form of new images!!!!!

Happy Tiddly Tuesday hugs

Lou xxxx

Cuddly Buddly challenge 4- Add a charm.

 Hello Peeps!!! I'm back again with another post!!! 2 in one day! wahooooo!!!

thats good going for the school holidays!!! so this time I am back with my entry for Cuddly Buddly's challenge blog's Add A Charm challenge.

Ok, before I waffle much more here is some enabling info...... :)

Papers- Freebie from Cuddly Buddly.

Image- Snowman Corner from Lilyboo designs.

Box-Peek-boo case from AR Designs.

I cut my super cute peek- a - boo case and inked the edges with some forest moss distress ink, then I cut some of the gorgeous holly paper up to cover the little box in. It is the cutest paper isn't it? love it.

I cut a little cirle window in the paper with my nesties and attached some acetate to the back of it before sticking the paper on.

I used the snowman corner from Lilyboo designs and coloured it up with some glitter chalks and the forest moss distress ink again. I added the sentiment to it in paintshop.

Some martha stewart fronds and some red card candy were definately needed to keep the holly theme going so I shaped them around the window after sticking on my snowman corner.

I decorated the drawer the same and filled it with some natural rafia and whats inside the drawer......

 ......Snowman Soup of course!!!!!!! mmmmmm. don't tell my boys I stole their last spoonfuls of drinking choccy to make this though, they might get me at bedtime!!!! I used some mini marshmallows and white choclate stars for yumminess!!!

And just in case you couldn't see it, my little christmas tree charm is sitting there on the handle of the case. This one I got in a pack of 6 from The Works last year. I love them. I tied it on with a bit of thin red organza ribbon.

So, how easy is an add a charm challenge? super easy so please go and join in with the Cuddly Buddly DT. If you don't have any Cuddly Buddly products to include on your make there are a whole stack of FREEBIES HERE you can go and use to join in,I know they would love to have you!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!
Hugs Lou xxxx