Rudolph boto chrimbles!!

Image - Robot Holidays from Tiddly Inks.

Paper - Twelve Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!!!

How are you all this frosty, chilly morning? Little Mo and I are up, dressed and ready for breakfast with Sophia, then when we have dropped her off to her nursery we are off to fetch my niece and nephew, Mo is soooooo excited!! he loves having them here and has got a lovely little party lunch all planned out along with some crafty bits he wants to do so it will be such a lovely day.

I have a little 3x3 card to share again today. I love this card so much, Rudolph Boto is the cutest and the texty paper from Funky Hand looks so awesome behind him. I added a squidgey little martha drippy goo border for snow and added a little bling to his nose. At 3x3 these cards were seriously cute and I nearly hid them in a draw to keep!!!!! :) :) ....though Mo found them and stole one!!!!

So what are you all up to today? Somewhere in between all the running around after my little peeps today I need to finish off 2 altered notebooks that Mo ordered for his little friends tomorrow and make some family christmas cards (...yup...I still haven't done them.....!!)

Have a fabby day peeps and thankyou for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Allsorts Blue and Brown challenge

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand

gardeners twine

glamour dust

hearts cut on my cricut

snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder

blue bling!!

The challenge over on allsorts challenge blog for the next 2 weeks is Blue and Brown. I love blue and brown and one of my favourite Funky Hand downloads has blue and brown in such a perfect mix that I just had to use that to make chrimble cards for all my friends at work.
I am also popping it in the cupcake craft challenge blogs--dont look at light challenge .

I printed out 2 of the papers from my download. The texted paper is brown with blue and black merry christmas written all over it and I love it! the paper on the heart is brown with a snowflake design on it, I embossed the hearts with my cuttlebug snowflakes folder just to add a bit of umpf!!

I added a sprinkling of glamour dust around the edges of my merry chrsitmas paper and then adhered it to my card. The twine around the centre is just gardeners twine from the garden centre. its quite a thick one because I like to 'fluff' the ends of my knots a bit!!!(...he he he! makes them all frayed and fuzzy like me!!!!!!)

I popped the finished hearts out on foam and added a little blue blingy gem to the top corner of them. These cards are so cute because they are just tiddly 3x3 size!

Right off to get on with some notebooks Little Mo has requested for his 2 friends at school for their birthday on tuesday. He is trying to get himself brave enough to go to the party so please keep your fingers crossed for him that he manages it as he gets so nervous about parties bless him!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!

huge sunday hugs Lou xxxx 

Tilda mini wreath hanging decoration.

Hello Peeps!!
I promise I haven't disappeared!! I have been soaking up some time with my Little Mo and I have been loving it!! I can't wait to have some days now without the hustle bustle of the school run!!

So, today I wanted to share a little hanging decoration I have made. The challenge over on the TOMIC blog this week is christmas decoration so it seemed like a perfick time to share this little cutie!! I went for the traditional chrimble colours for this one and used some pine branches that I bought from the range (...could I find anymore after making 10 little wreaths??....noooooooo!! grrrr!!)


I used my hot glue gun for attaching some cute teeny jinlgy bells and tilda herself along with the sentiment at the top and I love these little hanging decorations, they are so christmassy and cheery.

Mo's cousins's are coming for the day on monday and he is soooo excited! he bought some party food today so they can have a little party lunch!! cute!!

Right off to bath my little squidger now as he is so tired from a busy couple of days that he is nodding off on the settee as I type!! its a hard life being 7 you know!!!!!! romfl !!!!

Huge hugs and thankyou for popping in on me
Lou xxxx

Birthday Boy Mo!!!

Morning Peeps!!

Its Mo's Birthday!!!

Our little baby is 7 years old today!! I can't believe how quickly the time has zoomed away!!

Super quicky post from me this morning as we have had a fun filled morning of opening pressies and making birthday badges for this super cute little guy!!! but I had to share a quick piccy of the birthday boy!!

His fabby badge was made with my plantin cart on my cricut and a good old bit of bling!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 76- White Christmas!

Image-Baby Boy from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

Its Tiddly tuesday time so the Tiddly Inkers are up and ready to get you started on another challenge over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog. This week we want to see....

A white christmas!!

So think white chrimbles, get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and create away!!! If you need some inspiration  the Tiddly inkers have completely filled a post with gorgeous idea's for you so pop on over to the challenge blog to have a peek!!

I just had to use the new babies in the store!! awwwww I love them!! I cut my card base using my trusty cricut and the New Arrivals cart, then I embossed the card in my cuttlebug using the stars and swiss dots folder. I love how it came out and you can see the little dots through the window and along the scalloped side.
I added a bit of bling and sparkle to the word baby with some fine glitter and I also covered my LOTV sentiment stamp in glitter too!! gotta love bling!!!

I am popping this in the challenge over on the Simply Create Too challenge blogs Embossing Challenge. and the Chrimbo Crackers challenge blogs embossing challenge
and then both of these little cuties into the Alphabet challenge blogs w is for white christmas
Now onto my next little white christmas creation using the super squishably cute new Baby Girl image!! I love these little babies!!! :) I cut the heart shape out of some chipboard and covered it with the paper, gave it a good trim and rub with a file and then added some embossing powder to the edge and added some pom pom ribbon, love this effect!! I added a little tree charm and some bling  too. Its simple and too cute!!

Image-Baby Girl from Tiddly Inks

My papers on this little hanger are from the Wish in white free download from Lisete. If you haven't ever been to her blog then you really need to, she is awesome!! I love the way the candy canes come up on the paper. I added "Baby's First Christmas" in word on my computer. The big snowflake come in my order from tracy at dies to die for, I don't know which one it is but its lurvely!! I embossed it with the same powder as the edges of the heart.

So thats me for today peeps!! I have a marathon of card making planned for today...along with lots of cups of boiled water with lemon as its sooo cold!!!

huge Tiddly Tuesday hugs
Lou xxxx

pastely chrimbles!!!

 Papers- 12 Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Image- Digi from Heather Ellis.

Afternoon Peeps!

I have had a busy morning catching up with some orders that I had for some 8x8 chrimbles cards. 

I have to say I am loving the 8x8 size, oodles of fun to play around with layouts and images.

The papers are deliciously pastelly and I went for pastel blues and pinks with my promarkers to colour in these gorgeous little Heather Ellis pure innocence digi stamps.

I added some distressing to the edges to pop the papers out a bit. They are all from the latest Funky Hand Papercraft factory cd rom, 12 Crafters Crafting and I love it. you can go from traditional colours to something a bit more pastelly to something completely funky all with the touch of one button, yey!!!!
I just had to add some puffy stuff to her bobbles and a bit of snow around the bottom too, I couldn't resist!!!
The ribbon is Funky Hand too, from the september song ribbon pack.
A little bit of SU bannerage and they were done, so much fun though!!

I am popping these 2 in for the following challenges.......

Papertake weekly challenge blogs- Anything Goes with a dangly option!! ( dangly tree charms on Grace and Risa's cards)
Totally Papercrafts- Let it snow
Cutie Pie- Pastel christmas colours.

Off to see Mo in his christmas play now!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 75- Ooooh La La!!

Image- Santa's Helper from Tiddly Inks

papers- past freebie from Bearly Mine.

Morning peeps!!!

Its that Tiddly Time of week again where us Tiddly Inking gals challenge you to a bit of something to make with your tiddlies and this week the challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog is.......

Something sexy to warm you up for christmas !!!!

so create a card/project that warms you up!!! anything from

a lovely cuppa to something sexy!!

Oh my!! I had so much fun making this card!! I was giggling away to myself as I pootled away making it and giggled even more when I took the photograph of it!! its so cheeky!!

A bit of colouring with my promarkers,distressing,bling and pom- pom ribbon and he was done!!! Scott has already stolen this card for me and asked if he needs to pay for it!! cheeky monkey!!!

I had my scrumptious little monkey at home with me all day yesterday as he was sick on sunday, but he was fine yesterday. A little snuggly but I think that was just because we had the day to ourselves!! it was fab.

Oh!! and whats new in the shop today you ask?!! well its a little crafty Sugar and a Crafty Spice!! Here's what I did with Crafty Angel...

Cancer is one of the biggest fights anyone person can have. I made this in october so I am so pleased I can share it with you all now!! and here's Crafty Devil.....

Back to school for Mo today though and dentists for me :( again!! only the hygienist today for a polish though so shouldn't be too bad......gulp!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and see what the fab girls on the DT have been making to warm you all up then get your tiddly inks images out and join in with the fun!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Door hanging santa letters!!

Papers and digi stamps - Twelve crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Door hanger template- Craft the Year Away from Funky Hand.

Afternoon Peeps!!

A bit of a quicky from me today!! we have had another lovely day today. A very relaxed and lazy one really. We popped to B&Q to get some red chipped bark for Mo's little garden bench planter so we can pop his little christmas lights in, its raining here today but I will try and get a piccy tomorrow as it looks lovely. This afternoon we have been to the christmas market in the village where Mo goes to school. It was lovely.

Then a teeny bit of quicky crafting for me! Mo wanted to make some gifts for his friends for the end of term as it is his birthday on the last day of term. I thought it would be nice to make some door hangers using my Funky Hand papercraft factory cd roms because Mo is really good at using those. He chose the papers and I had a lovely idea to turn them into santa letter door hangers, just to help santa remember what the children asked for when he gets to their bedroom!!!! I had to giggle though as Mo won't write a letter to santa, he says he is just happy with whatever he gets (....which is supercute and makes it easy to get him gifts!! he says christmas is about family and baby jesus not presents!!! he has been like that since he was a toddler!! cute!!)

Firstly I opened up Craft the Year Away and chose the door hanger template. Then to use it with the papers on Twelve Crafters Crafting I simply changed edition. (..you can do that by clicking on the change edition button under the colourway titles to use the templates with any of the last 3 papercraft factories.)

I did the typing for the letter bit using the workspace.

All that was left to do then was print, cut and tie a little ribbon around them. I didn't want to do too much else to them as Mo wants to take in some sweets to give out too. we have made 30 of these this afternoon and he wants little sour cream containers for the sweets so that's next weekend's job!!

Right off to snuggle up with a film now!! Harry Potter 1 today!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Mo's pink grapefruit christmas tree decorations tutorial!!!

 Afternoon peeps!!!
Today we have a bloggy post from the squishably cute Little mo!!!! it is all about his tree decorations made with pink grapefruit.
Its in Little Mo's words but mummy gets to type because she is quickerer.
All you need to do is slice up a pink grapefruit in slices of about 1cm thick (...get Mummy or another growed up person to do this as its a bit tricky for small peeps!!) then dry every circle and give it a squish with the tea towel to get some of the juice out. You can use oranges too can't you mummy.

Then put it on the kitchen radiator for a few days (...mummy note... we have a double radiator and Mo loves to watch the drying out process which takes a couple of days on our radiator, he likes to see how it has changed everyday but you can put the slices on a grill tray in the oven at 110 degrees c for 3 hrs and it dries out that way too)

 Buy some of them tree hangy thingies, my mummy buys them in the garden centre, don't you mummy? the one with the cool decorations and movey rudolph ( was going to leave that bit out but its too cute!!)
and you push one end through a little bell that jingles and then push your grapefruit on it too, see here's mine on  its hangy thing with my little red bell

 Then get some nice ribbon and tie a knot in it up from the bell bit.
I hanged mine on my christmas tree but sometimes I like them on my door and on my radiator and even in my car near my window on that thing mummy holds onto when daddy is driving.........( mummy note...pmsl laughing at this point!!!)


This is what it looks like in my tree

He he he he!! Mummy is back to write her bit now. How cute was that?!! it was too funny to write it all down ready this afternoon but he decided he didn't want to do a 'video tube' as he has a cough and might spoil it!!!
He absolutely loves making these those so if your little peeps need a bit of something to do then have a go at this one, Mo would love to see them if anyone else makes some.

I hope its ok with the Allsorts challenge blog girls for me to pop mo over in their going in circles challenge too.

Back with a me post tomorrow!!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little Hopper- Tiddly Inks new release's !

Image- Little Hopper from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

I am so excited today because it is time for some super super cute new releases from Christy over in the Tiddly Inks shop. And even more exciting... awesome 30% off sale  in the shop too, so click on this banner of Christy's gorgeous makes to be magically pinged to the shop!!!

When these little cuties arrived in my email inbox on Tuesday I actually squealed!! Oh they are just awesome! 

For my card I just had to use Little Hopper because he is the one that Mo absolutely adored! and because of that I just had to use him for Mo's birthday card (...sob sob...my little squidger is going to be 7 soon :( where did the time go?!!)

The challenge over on the papertake weekly challenge blog is a delicious sketch by the equally delicious Dawny P. I do so love a Dawny sketch so I just had to work along to it. I think this sketch is going to get some serious use from me as it is just so lovely to work with. thankyou's Dawny! xx

The papers are MME wild asparagus and they go so perfick with the image! too cute!! and the little buggies are some that have been in  my stash for sooooo long!! but they seemed just right for a cute little toady card!!

Promarkers for this one were...

skin- blush, soft peach and peach.

Toady suit- pear green,olive green,sunflower and gold.

Christy also made up some cute sentiments for these little guys and inside Mo's birthday card it says " You are toadally awesome" but dopey head me didn't take a piccy of the inside!! I will take one later if I remember!!

So if you want to see some more creations from the Tiddly Inkers pop on over here to the Tiddly Inks blog to drool over every bodies yummo makes and then go here to the shop to pick up your little somethings!  sqeeeeee they are all too cute!!!

Right then, off to work for me today!! 

huge hugs Lou xxxx