Night Night sleep tight Zac xxxx

Zac Daubney 1994-2011.

Hello Peeps.

Today my post is for my beautiful dog, Zac.

I am a little bit numb and so very very sad. Today our gorgeous Zac went to sleep. It was such a very very hard decision but his back legs had gone and he was struggling. Scott and I have been putting off loosing him because we love him so very dearly but after a year of our beautiful Zac struggling and going so very thin we had to say good night to him. He has been the most wonderful friend anyone could wish for and when I can stop crying I am sure I will be able to remember those times properly but for now, it just hurts.

The vet was so wonderful and caring and I cuddled him up tight to me as he went off to sleep. Scott and I are totally heartbroken and it is all sinking in for Little Mo at the moment. I have scheduled my Tiddly Tuesday blog post for tomorrow as I am just too upset to do too much tonight and need a night to let it all sink in properly. I am so sorry if I miss all your lovely creations for a couple of days while I sort myself out.

It is the hardest thing and I miss him so very much already.

Hugs Lou xxxx

HMS Grandad!

Morning peeps!!

I had an awesome day at work yesterday and then went out to our local restaurant for a 2 for £10 tea with Scott and Little Mo, it was Mo's idea (...and a totally awesome one too may I add!!!) Mo's meal was free as children eat free so it was lovely not to cook and have some family time.

Then when we got home we had a bath and Mo and I fell asleep......until 6 am this morning!!! poor Scott!! (..though he probably enjoyed a night of peace and quiet!!!!)

This little cute sailor Tilda card was an order from another friend at work (...got to love my friends at work because they all keep me going on making things!) She needed a birthday card for her Grandad and he likes sailing boats.....out came Tilda and my FBQ Aye Aye captain from nitwits!!!

I am going to pop this little cutie in for the Just magnolia challenge blogs special monthly anything goes challenge

Now we are off for a little drive on our little car as I have run out of one of my fav colour promarkers. Its saturday so we are going to treat ourselves to a yummy cake too!! Luckily my friend Clare has a gorgeous shop in Horncastle...right next to a yummo bakery!!! yey!!!!! 

see you all later!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Anniversary card with a difference!!

Image- Best of friends from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Fbq bear necessaties from Nitwit collections.

Sentiment stamp from LOTV.

Morning peeps!!

I had a bit of a last minute card order yesterday from a friend at work who needed an anniversary card for his girlfriend. She is a vet so he wanted something animally and nice with a rose on it somewhere and thats all I could squeeze out of him so this is what I came up with...!!!

I used my Best of friends image from Christy's shop. How could I resist a pair of loved up pets???!!! and I added the sentiment stamp so David can fill in all the special dates and stuff before he takes it to his girlfriend.

I coloured the dog and kitty up to match the papers and then had a good old dig around for some pink roses to match (...yup there's mess everywhere now but they look sooooo pretty!!!)

Off to work for little ole me again today so cuppa in hand I am off to do pack up for me and Mo.

Have a fabby day peeps!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

New Home!

Image-Winnie,a roadtripping ragamuffin from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Morning peeps!!
I had an order for a new home card for a friend at work that I decided to play with last night. It is for my friend's BF so it had to be something special and they have been on lots of caravan and camping hols together so it just had to be winnie from krista's shop!!!!

I wanted it to fit in with the saturated canary challenge blogs easy as 1,2,3 challenge too so there is 1 winnie, 2 dp's- yummo patterned paper....memory makers or american crafts I think.. and blue bazzil on a kraft card base and 3 embellies- 1 gorgeous key charm and 2 homemade flowers!!

The little sentiment is an LOTV stamp from the clear verses sheet, I love it.

I am trying to be really good and follow a 3 colour rule when making my cards at the minute!! its just to challenge myself but I am quite liking the way they are turning out!!! I am also very much liking my photo's of my makes at the moment. I have had an awesome tutor! she is my gorgeous and lovely Pops and has been an absolute star telling me how to sort them out, love yah ooodles Pops xxxxx I have a long way to go to get them as good as hers but I will get there eventually!!!

So what are you all up to today? I am off to work in a couple of hours but for now I am snuggled up next to Mo on the settee with my cuppa and pooter. I love the dark mornings for these snuggling opportunities!!! we stay in our pj's until 30 mins before school and I love it. Mo loves an easy, nothing to make him feel panicky morning and its really lovely starting the day with snuggles, they make me feel all warm inside. I love that when I come home late on a thursday and friday Mo shouts "mummy" as soon as he hears me in the door and comes running from wherever he is for a cuddle, I am so thankful for that.
Have a super day peeps!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Monochromatic yet colourful....

Morning peeps!!
I have had this wedding card order sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now. It was on a post it note (...I have the bestest order forms you know!!!!) and I have been waiting for the man who ordered it to get back to me with a colourscheme. I still hadn't heard anything yesterday so I went with a gold and white mono theme.

Out came the vellum. Yup I know its a monkey to stick but I have a creatopia so no problems there!! you just cut what you want, run it through the creatopia and it sticks down beautifully with no adhesive showing through at all!! I love it!!! The flowers are stuck on with glossy accents.

The little seedy gems were stuck in using glossy accents too. I love those super teeny ones along the punched edge, and the gold and glittery vellum went through my SU boho flower punch like a dream. The teeny flowers and leaf fronds are papermania and the bigger frond is martha of course!!! You can just about see the blingy brilliance on this piccy on the brides dress, I dabbed some glossy accents over those too just to make them pop.

Mum rang last night to give me some more details and phew!! the invite has gold on it so yey Lou !!!

I am entering this little cutie in a few challenges....
whimsy challenge-monochromatic
Papertake weekly- Anything goes plus added bling if you fancy!!  - added bling in my little flowers and versamark brilliance to paint with on her dress and flowers.
Truly scrumptious challenges-Bingo - I have used gems, flowers and die cuts.

The cute little tags are my SU jewellery tag punch, I love it. I printed the names and date onto my vellum then punched them out and sewed them to the bow.

So I think thats me for today!! I have the inside of this card to finish off and then on with a baby card and a grandad card, phew!! me busy!!! not too bad though as Mo slept in until 6am and I have a packet of party rings to nibble with my cuppa!!! yey!!!

Huge hugs
Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 71- Anything Goes!!

Image- lilli-claire warm wishes

 papers from the Yummy Paper Set

Morning peeps!!!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again and its the start of november too!! (my where is this year off to??!!!!) and with you all in full flow christmas creating, the chief of Tiddliness has declared an Anything Goes month!!

So over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog our challenge this week is anything you fancy making with a Tiddly Inks image!!

I chose the gorjuss Lilli Claire warm wishes, she is such a dream to play around with. I merged her in png format with the christmassy paper in the yummy paper set.

Once that was printed I coloured her up all christmassy with my promarkers, I used some woodware fluffy stuff for her fluffy bits!!!!

Then I added some glittery white heat embossing to the edges...which of course were zapped through my distrezz it all first (....Lou wonders how on earth she managed without this gorgeous little pink machine!!!) I love how it came out!

So what will you create for the challenge??? if you need some inspiration go here to the challenge blog and see what my super talented Tiddly Inking friends have been making before you start.


And there's a new girl in the shop too, she is way too cute and I love her big yummy cake......

If you click on her, you will be taken right to where she is in the shop!! 

Off to work for me this morning so I had better get myself into gear really!! I am still excited after a fab couple of hours of spookiness and fun for halloween last night. Here we are.......

From left to right its- Scott, me, Little Mo, Jake and Lily. 

(mmmmmm sneaky big sis got out of the photo by taking it....!)

We had oodles of fun and it was so warm we were all able to go out exactly as we were dressed in this piccy which was fab as Little Mo didn't want to cover up his ghostiness!! ( he had his thermal long sleeve vest and tights on under his mummy made ghosty suit!! snuggly warm!!)

Have an awesome day!! Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Skull Cave!! Happy Halloween!!

 Afternoon peeps!!
This morning there was a little bit of a disaster here in our house!! Little Mo and I went out to fetch the jack sparrow pumpkin and shock horror....it had gone horribly mouldy!! arghhhhhhhh!!!!
So off went Little Mo to school and I had to remedy the Jack disaster!! I decided to go for a skull cave scene this time so that there was a skull behind Jack and master gibbs!! too much fun!!!!!

I kept the bit I chopped off to scoop out the pumpkin and turned it into a creepy rope walk into the cave.
Lights off for the dark piccy!!!

 Inside skull cave there is a bit of marshmallow toasting going on!!!

Then I spent the rest of the morning decorating the spooky walk Scott and I made yesterday. I am not quite finished yet, just a couple of lights to pop out there and the pumpkins on the lawn but I think Mo will love it!

The pot is where our little skeleton with a sensor in is going to sit, he wriggles like a windchime when walked past! its a school night though so it will all be coming down at 6:30pm and hopefully Mo won't get woken up every 5 mins by people coming to the door!!
Scott will be at work until 5pm so I am hoping he will make it home in time to walk around with us! glo sticks are at the ready!!!
Mo is going to be a little ghosty tonight, he only wanted a sheet on so I made him a little suit out of a pillowcase! he is going to pop his thermals on under that and its quite warm here today, grey but warm, though there were a few sprinkkles of rain when I took the piccy of the door......
Anywhoo, better go get Mo from school!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Tee's the season !!!!

Hello peeps!!
Its been a full on busy day here in the house of Daubney as we have been getting bits ready for halloween tomorrow! I can't wait, I love halloween!!!

I wanted to remind you that you still have a few hours left to join in with the first ever Funky Hand DT Blog hop.
Please pop over to Anice's blog for all the details on how to get going, you have until 12 o'clock tonight to be in with the chance to win the awesome new Twelve crafters crafting cd rom!!!

So my little share today is a christmas card for one of my friends! ( I am not all to sure if she reads my blog or not so I think it will be safe on here!!! ) I used the vintage christmas colourway for this one and had lots of fun making it!!!!!

It is...of course... a card for a couple who love golfing so the bauble had to be a golf ball!! and the sentiment I wrote in the workspace on Twelve crafters crafting!! Love it!!!

I am also entering this little Tee's the season card over in the challenge over on our lovely Ruth's new challenge blog, Chrimbo Crackers-Its anything goes this week so a nice easy one!!

Don't forget to go hopping!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Funky Hand's twelve Crafters Crafting Blog Hop!!!

Papers and Digi's from Twelve Crafters Crafting !!!
Available for Pre-Order Today!!!

Morning Peeps!!

I am soooooo excited to have you all here for Funky Hand's first ever blog hop!!!!!! now, before I start, if you have come straight to my blog, you need to go back to the start over on

  Anice's Funky Hand Thoughts blog.

She has been busy making a little video to help you all through the hop!! If you have come to me from Anice's blog you are on the right track!!!

I was so excited when the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd came through my letterbox. It is jam packed full of the most beautiful christmas papers and templates and a whole tonne of awesome christmas digi's and sentiments, playing with all of those in the workspace with the added yumminess of the writer and omgosh!! its like christmas coming early!!

I have been working with the Angel on The Tree colourway. Its devine. It is full of lovely purples and greys and I loved it because of its super funkiness. I love exploring new christmassy colours that are a step away from the normal traditional ones.

There are 4 different papers on this card,I wanted it full of layers to showcase some of the yummy papers there are on the cd. The snowflake paper is one of the digi stamps that I repeated a few times in the workspace to make myself another little paper to add to it!!! And just how cute is that little snowman???!! I rolled him around my thumb to make him pop out a bit.I added a bit of metallic thread and a little chrimble tree charm to finish it off!!

Did ya'll guess what my letter is yet....... its a D

So now I have waffled to you,the next person to hop on over to is......... 

Jackie

Now, before you go on over, don't forget to leave the all important comment on my blog, and the rest of the hop teams blog's, to be in with a chance to win the awesome new Twelve Crafters crafting papercraft factory cd.

Good Luck!! and hugs

Lou xxxx

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