LOTV girlie christening card.

Morning peeps!!!

I hope you are all looking forward to a fabby friday as you wake up this morning, I know I am. I can't wait for the weekend as Little Mo and I have 12 pumpkins left to carve and a few halloweeny bits to make ready for trick or treaters on monday!!! Scott is going to get the decorations down on sunday morning so we might even get those put up sunday afternoon. I LOVE halloween!! This year Little Mo and I are going to be ghosties!!

Anywhoooo onto my card!  one of my friends from work ordered a christening card for a baby girl , I had to get to work on it last night (.... as I had half forgotten about it until I found the post it note in my bag in the morning and then Gabby reminded me at dinner....!!) but disaster was averted when I got out to my crafty room last night!! phew!!

I am entering this little cutie into a couple of challenges......

CES Challenge blogs - New Beginnings - I love christenings, bringing new little ones in to the world and sharing them with everyone is so special. I can't wait for another Olivia piccy from Emma!! she's sooo cute.

and the

charisma cardz challenge blogs-anything goes 


The papers are from nitwit collections FBQ Bear Necessities kit. I love it!!!

So thats me for today!!! I need to go cut a couple of bits out on my cricut now before I go to work so I'll be bacl later to check in on you all!! 

Huge hugs Lou xxx

1st Funky Hand Blog Hop- coming this saturday!!

Hello Peeps!!!! Just a quicky post from me tonight as I just had to share something exciting with you  all!!!!

The Funky Hand Design Team are having our very first BLOG HOP this weekend to celebrate the launch of the new Christmas themed craft CD ROM ......

 Twelve Crafters Crafting

It will be officially released on the 5th of Nov, BUT  is going to be available to pre order at Funky Hand from this weekend!! 

 If you join in the fun with our blog hop you could be in with a chance of winning a fabby prize! 

The hop will be starting over on Anice's Blog-Funky Hand Thoughts 

on

 Saturday 29th October at 9am until 12 midnight Sunday 30th. 

The Funky Peeps have been super busy making all sorts of christmassy gorgeousness for you to feast your eyes upon as you hop around so make a date in your crafting diary for a funky blog hop!!

Off to bed now, so tired my eyes are walking up the wooden hill to bed without me!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

  

Gothica

Images- Gothica from Saturated Canary digi's.

Afternoon peeps!!!

**This is my 2nd post for today so please go here if you are looking for my Get Funky post **

Well, its been a bit of a mooching day today. The car we thought was fixed when Scott picked up from the garage wasn't fixed at all by the time he had got to the petrol station and noticed the line of oil that had followed him there.........

So I have cheered myself up by sitting in my crafty room with mo ( who was very extremely busy looking for bruno mars songs on youtube......) and I have indulged myself in making a card following a few challenges. There's nothing like a challenge to cheer you up!!!! 

They are....

 Mojo Monday challenge blogs sketch

 Saturated canary challenge blogs Stitching challenge. - I love stitching by hand, it relaxes me so much which I needed today.....:).....little edit ...ooops missed the end of the challenge :) :) !!!

Totally Papercrafts challenge blogs Layer upon layer challenge.

I love promarkers challenge blogs Tags challenge.

I used my Gothica digi I bought a couple of weeks ago and hadn't had chance to play with yet. Mo thinks she looks funky!! 

I decided she needed some cogs and pretty paper to make a bit of a shabby chic kinda card!!! The little cog stamp is from my sense of time SU stamp set. The little tag is an epoxy one I got in a memory makers stash from TKMaxx ages ago, I love them!!!

Oh and before I forget here is a quick piccy of Little Mo and his cousin Lily-Boo yesterday!! I love this piccy!!!

Mo looked after Lily-Boo so well!! he kept asking if she was OK and helping her to do everything, it was sooooo cute! I wish I had videoed some for cuteness!!! 

Have a fabby night peeps!!

Huge hugs 

Lou xxxxxx

Trick or Treat, smell my feet- Autumn Get Funky.

Papers- Craft The Year away from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!!
Here I am this morning with my little make for....

 Amanda's Autumn Challenge on the Get Funky Challenge blog.

I decided to get my monthly scrap page done with this challenge and had a lot of help from my little Harry Potter wizard, Mo !!!!

I used some a delicious selection of papers from the Orange October colour way on the Craft The Year Away papercraft factory, armed with the sketch from our very own gorgeous Kathy for the placement of everything of my page.

Then in came the help from little mo! he wrote his favourite halloween chant on the layout with a white gel pen! If you can't read it, it says "Trick or Treat, smell my feet" he also wrote the year on the piccy on the gravestone! I doodled some stitches (........which Mo decided looked like "scribbley boney stitches" !!!!).
There is some very nice pretend spider web around Mo and I added a nice big plastic spider to a nestified circle of a bit of paper that was left from the background of the page.

So, there is still plenty of time for you to join in with our Autumn fun.The rules are super easy, Your project can be anything but remember......

YOU MUST INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE FUNKY HAND PRODUCT.

Don't worry if you don't own any Funky Hand cd's or downloads yet as Anice has made us a fabulous Funky Freebie for you to join in with. I can't wait to see what you all make!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 70- Silvery Blues.

Image-  Harmony at home from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!

Its Tuesday morning and I love Tuesdays because it means its time for a super fun new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog!! and this week we are changing the seasons a bit with a fun colour challenge.

You can create any kind of project you'd like but just remember to use any variation of the colours below and a Tiddly Inks image.

If you don't have any Tiddly images yet, you are missing out on some awesome and fun digi images! but don't worry because Christy has a few cute little freebies HERE and HERE for you to get and join in with the fun.

I fancied getting a bit christmassy for my creation and used Harmony At Home. I adore this little street of houses, I think the text on them is absolutely magical. I used silver mirri card for my card base. The starry night sky I made in my paintshop. I used a gradient background and chose a palette of dark blue, light blue and a silvery grey. My little street of houses is popped out on foam and then mounted onto light blue and black card, then onto the card base.

Its really hard to make out in the photo but I coloured all the hearts in with a denim blue promarker and the actual doors with a starburst sakura pen, then glossy accents on. They look so cute!!

Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't help you find the gorgeous new Tiddlies over in the shop :) so this week we have.......

Christmas wishes

Christmas mantle.

All you need to do is click on the piccy and it will take you straight to their little homes in the Tiddly Inks shop!!  I am sooo helpful for you right?!!!!!!  :) :) Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to see my awesome tiddly teamies creations to get you going!!

So thats me for today!! Little Mo and i have some company today as our Lily-Boo is coming to play with us for the day. My big sis and her hubby are off on their once yearly child free day for my sisters birthday treat!! Her birthday is on sunday so I hope they have a wonderful day.

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Have a quacking first christmas!!

Image- Danny's Duck from Tiddly Inks

Morning peeps!!!

Its a beautiful sunny day here ( ....thought there is a whiffy farm air smell in the air too which is not so nice!!!) and I had lots of plans for making this morning....then I turned on my google reader and saw the new challenge over on the cupcake challenge blog- Denim and Lace !!!  needless to say I just had to have a play with my new little Danny's Duck from Tiddly Inks. His super cute little starry romper suit is made with some star paper that christy had as a feebie a long time ago.

I also decided that I would go for real denim!! I had a pair of gorgeous thin jeans that I wore and wore (...right up until they wore out and my pants were showing!!! ) I gave them a good trim and ran the square through my creatopia with the fabric cart in and then stuck them onto the front of my card, I think its lovely. Its a very touchy feely kinda card!!! I love the beige and blue lace together.

I made the sentiment in word and added it to a nestied bit of jeans!! then I coloured some white plastic snowflakes with my denim blue promarker to match the rest of the card. I added tea dye distress ink to all my edges and the ground for Danny and his super cute duck to walk along too.

So thats me for today!!  Hope you all have fabby days planned!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Sunday Pumpkin Fun!!!

Hello Peeps!!!

Sunday is funday in our little house and Little Mo and I decided we needed to make another pumpkin today!!

I fancied trying something a bit different so we decided to make a scene in a pumpkin!!!

We scooped out all the pumpkin goop inside (...then Little Mo deserted me and went outside to play with some wood Daddy was sawing up for him....) and then I got busy with some twigs and a candle for a camp fire and then Scott raided Little Mo's lego box for some lego men!! he came back with a whole bunch of them but I picked out Jack Sparrow and Master Gibbs as Mo loves his pirates films!!

Here they are toasting their marshmallows!!

I added a spooky web and spider around the 'cave' entrance and I  have to admit that this pumpkin has had us all giggling since I finished it!!

I think my favourite day of the week at the moment is a sunday, when we are all at home together just goofing around!!! as I type this Little Mo and Daddy are playing Rock Band together on the PS3! lots more giggling of course!!! this sort of day makes me feel all warm and gooey and so, so very thankful for my family.

I have also been making a few cards but you can't peek at them yet!! They are from the new Funky Hand Papercraft factory, Twelve Crafters Crafting. But to  cheer you all up don't forget Anice is having a sale on EVERYTHING FUNKY HAND BRANDED over in the Funky Hand shop, click the little piccy below if you fancy a fantastic deal with Free postage on orders over £10, WORLD WIDE :)  :)  :)

Right then, off to go play now!! 

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me :)

Lou xxxxxx

LOTV challenge.

Morning peeps!!!

Its been a bit quiet in Lou bloggy land this week as I have been at work a lot this week!! I got a card order in on tuesday though that needed to be ready for friday so I had to motor on with that one quick!!!

I was so pleased when I opened up my blog reader this morning and saw the LOTV challenge for this  week as I had gotten a good row of the bingo to be able to join in with their new challenge.

I chose the Distressing, Flowers and Paper piecing row (mmmmm, when I look I could of gone for the Gems, Charms and Embossing row with my homemade 40 charm tag and my pearly bling on the corner!!) Its a 40th birthday card. I heat embossed my little fairy with some fine gold embossing powder so she would match the raised effect of the paper. The little rose was white so I coloured it up with matching promarkers that I used on my little fairy ( burnt orange and ginger) and then added a little bit of bling. The fronds are of course martha stewart, I ran my ball embosser over them to pop them up a bit and then pieced them around the corner of my image.

Here's a piccy of the fairy a little closer up, I love the gold heat embossed outline.

Last night Little Mo and I started the great pumpkin carving fun that we have every year! Its big thing in our house. My mum gets pumpkins from her friend so we always have at least 10. Mo made a start on his last night!! He draws on the pumpkin with a pen/pencil and then I cut out the drawing ( making sure I add 'sticks' to the bits that he draws like eyes and noses!!) This one is "a ghosty in a starry sky". I actually adore how he describes things and I love the fact that he loves something as simple as pumpkin carving.

Mo is one of those children that will never go down the spooky aisle in the super market or go into a shop with lots of halloween stuff in the window though he loves our spooky walk on halloween night!! bless him!!

Anyway here is Little Mo pumpkin one.....

"A ghosty in a starry sky"

Too cute!!

Mo is going to his first school disco tonight, he is a bit worried about it but he still wants to have a go at going!! I hope he manages it becuase there is no school tomorrow so he can relax after having a late night as the disco doesn't finish until 7:15pm !!!

Right, off for another busy day at work, Little Mo pack up to make and a load of washing to get on. 

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 69- Halloween is coming!!

Image- Batty from Tiddly inks

Papers from the fabulous Mel over on Mel stampz
(if you haven't been to Mel's blog you are missing an absolute place of wonderment, I quite often go there to drool!!! she's soooo clever!!)

Morning peeps!!!

Its tuesday again and that means more Tiddly Inks fun over on the the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its one of my absolute fav times of the year!!! this week we want to see your ....

Halloween creations!!!!

I used Batty for my cute yet spooky halloween box. My BF and me spent an awesome morning together a while ago making these little boxes and I just knew a little black,spooky one would be lurvely for this halloween tiddly challenge!! If you fancy having a play at making one of these super cute little boxes the tutorial is here over on Silvie's blog.

Here's a bit of a closer peeky at Batty, I think she's fab!!

And here's my little boxey all open.....The spiders inside it crawled off to quick for me to catch them with my camera........!!!

I love those big black gems on the handle, I got them in a RAK from my  lovely friend Kat a few years ago and I love them!!
Oh and the gorgeous "Eat, drink and be scary" word art is from Binty's blog.

Now, while I remember, I have been for a nosey nosey around in the whats new section over on the Tiddly Inks shop and found 2 new and super cute images!!!!!!  Click on the piccies to take you  straight to their cosy little nest in the shop!!!

and this one too...

awwwwww aren't they both just the cutest ever???!!!

Right, off to work for me!!!! don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and check out the awesome creations from my Tiddly Inking teamies!!!!

Huge hugs and happy tiddly tuesday!!

Lou xxxx

Happy Winter!!!

Image- A winter ragamuffin from Saturated canary digi's.

Papers- Dreams come true from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!! 

I am wombling in late this morning with my bloggy post as we have had a lovely bike ride down to my mum's house to drop off her birthdays cards and present. We stopped off for a quick play at the park on the way home and now I have a pan of pasta cooking so 5 mins to say hi to you all !!!!!!

This card is for a couple of challenges. I used my gorgeous new Winter Ragamuffin from Krista's shop. I am still in some new christmas colours experimenting mode so printed out these delicious papers from Funky Hand, I love love love the swirly one, its so cool!! Oh I nearly forgot!! this is no teeny card, its a whopping 8x8 inches!!

The challenges I am entering are....

The Deconstructed Sketch challenge 23- its a really lovely one peeps so go look and have a go. I am sure Jenn will comment on your cards as soon as she can pick herself up off the floor because I remembered to join in 2 weeks in a row!!!!! :)

and of course...

saturated canary challenge blogs stitching challenge.- you can hopefully see the little runs of false stitching I did with my promarker pen around the layers of paper!! if you can't see it peeps please let me know (....any excuse to colour in another SC digi is good with me :) !!!)

Now it wouldn't be a me post without a little bit of Little Mo handiwork squished in it too so here is Mo's birthday card for nannie!! How cute is that create a critter sheep????? 

as you can see, he rather liked to flower sequins in my sequin box, the sheep needed lots apparently....!!! :)

all the papers are funky hand. I know this piccy doesn't look fab but little mo wouldn't let me help him take it and said

  " I have to do it by my ownself mummy or I won't be learning it"

so I couldn't argue with that really!!!

Right as much as I would love to waffle on I had better go sort the pasta as 2 hungry males keep asking me when lunch will be cooked!!! I have baking planned for this afternoon too so no doubt they will be back when they smell the banana bread and choccy fudge loaf!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxx