Merry Christmas Everyone!!

He he he he!!! took this piccy of Mo at my mums yesterday so what better way to wish you all a merry christmas??!!!

huge hugs and love for a very special day for you all,

Love Lou ...and Mo!!!

The last christmas card !!

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine christmas eve? I am so excited for chrimbles and have a very excited little mo this morning!! I have a stinky head cold but nothing that a few fererro rochers and cups of tea won't cure ;) !!

We are just about organised, Mo and I decorated the cake this morning and we have done to nip to tesco for veg for dinner tomorrow and were the only people in our village's tesco express so it was all done in 10 mins!! yey!!!!

So onto the very last chrimbley card I will be making this year!!! I am popping it over in the challenge on papertake weekly- Last Christmas card of the year- in celebration!!!! lol !!

 I don't think I have ever been as behind with cards as I have been this year!! I always promise myself I will be more organised with them but seem to get worse instead of better!!! he he he he!!!!

Anywhoo!! I finally inked up the little LOTV stamp I bought in november and coloured it up with my promarkers:

reds- cardinal red and crimson

greens- pear grean and olive green

browns- sandstone, caramel and pastel beige.

so I am popping it in the challenge over on I love promarkers which is Anything Goes. 

And here's a piccy of Mo's cake decorating!! I made some snowflakes with one of Mo's playdough cutters and we added them to the corners and centre!! that stunning looking thing in the middle is a fountain candle and omg they are fab!! (...it was only right to test run one to see what they are like and you should of hear Mo's excited little gigglies as it went!!)

I want to wish you all a very very merry christmas and I am sending huge cyber hugs to you all from me and Little Mo

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Mo and Mummy post!!

Hello Peeps!

I love the holidays. I am absolutely loving a few days with my little man at home with me and having some Mummy and Mo time.

Today we had a party to go to for 2 of Mo's little friends. Mo asked me to make them notepads for their presents and he would do the cards so we have been working on them for a couple of days. I chose the miniworld sitting tilda because she is just gorgeous. The papers are from my DCWV nana's nursery girl stack and the stickers are from my stash. (Sorry about the piccy too! it was all a bit of a rush by  the time we took piccies so I only took one and didn't realise it was a bit blurry until now!!!)
Mo chose 2 bic 4 colour pens for the girls too to go with their notepads so I added a bit of ribbon and bling and their initials shrinkied onto those but I forgot to take piccies of them!!!

There were a few little frightened tears this morning about going to the party but he still wanted to go and it was the most wonderful party with a fabulous entertainer called Mr. Shiney, he was just amazing and the children loved him!

Anyway, onto the good bit....Here are Mo's cards...... front...

and back.....

He headed straight for the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand to make his cards. I love how he did it, it was actually a rather fab idea and I was so proud of him for working it all out :) 

He decided he wanted..in his words...

 "to write on the back of his card like in the shops and have the front on all in one go Mummy"

So he got one of our christmas cards and opened it up on the table. Then after looking at it for a couple of minutes he plonked 2 patterns from the Birthday Girls colourway onto the workspace, shrunk them so he could fit 2 on one page and added a few digi's to the front..cute!! 

Then ( and  I have to admit I thought this next bit was magical bless him!!) he opened the writer part of the workspace and used the label writing to write 'made by morgan 2011' I asked him why he wrote Morgan instead of Mo and he said thats what the twins call him so he wanted to do that for them (...awwwww!!) he dragged in onto both cards and left it where he wanted it to be at the bottom, then he added one of the coloured birthday cake digi's onto the back too. I love these cards!!

Just as we were getting changed into party clothes Mo decided he needed a little notepad for Ruby too ( the twins little sister) as she might be sad of not getting one (...arghhhhhh, 10 minute make was quickly put together and a little pencil too, but no time to take piccies of that one!!!)

Well that's all from me and my little squidger today. We are going to snuggle up and watch a film now whilst our slow cooker cooks our tea (...after planning chicken casserole Mo decided a sausage casserole would be nicer!!!)

Thankyou for popping in on me, huge hugs

Lou xxxx

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