Scott's valentine card!

Image- The Force, a galactic couple from Saturated Canary

Papers- Huge Funky Love wordbook download from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!!

How are you all this morning? I am good. I have walked the dog already as its a work day today so I sneaked out in the dark at 5am while Scott was still here to look after Mo and I have to tell you it was wonderful. It was surprisingly warm after all the freeeezing cold days we have had and listening to the dawn chorus as I walked along was magical.

Now valentines day has conme and gone I can share the card I made for Scott on my bloggy!! ( I did sneak it on to the SC facebook page a while ago because I know he doesn't peek in there!!)

I used The Force couple for this one, I adore them!! being star wars peeps here in our house they were a definite must!!! I kept their colours quite simple and used some absolutely gorgeous papers from Anice over on Funky Hand. They are from the Huge Funky Love wordbook download, its one of my absolute favs. You get all the alphabet to make into wordbooks and then these bonus A4 size papers too.

I was so pleased with the papers as I had some raffia that matched it perfectly.

Scott being the star wars fan he is absolutely loved this card so that was just such a lovely feeling and it is still sitting proud on our living room windowsill so I must of done good this year!!! :)

So challenges I would like to enter with this cutie are....

joanna sheen challenge blogs- love is in air challenge

fussy and fancy challenge blogs- with all my heart challenge

the sisterhood of crafters blogs- getting digi with it

So have any of you had any thoughts on what you are doing for lent yet? I have. I had an awesome night at church on tuesday and we covered prayers this week. Now, I am the first to admit that recently my prayers have been very selfish and asking for strength for myself, then plonking my requests for everything else at the end. So I am sorting that out now!! to help me along I am going to start a prayer journal. So what am I doing  for the next 40 days for lent.......

Negativity around me makes me feel really sad. There is so much to be happy for in my life that I just want to focus on that, ( it can sometimes be something as simple as a Little Mo smile on his way out the door after being upset at going back to school that makes my day so much better) I feel a sort of calm when I am thinking happy thoughts.

So for lent I have decided to simply decrease its presence in my life by thinking happy thoughts and keeping you all cosy in my heart. I am sending out happy lent cyber hugs for you all!!

I don't think a whole 40 days of positive thinking is going to be easy as I am sure there will be some days that test me but I am going at it with a hopeful heart!!! :)

Have a great day peeps!! and thank you for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Tuesday new Wryn releases....:)

Image- Watcha Doin? Wryn from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

How are ya'll today? :) :) I am one super happy little bunny because its Tiddly Tuesday and that means new images from Christy and this week there are ......

*THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...OH BOY OH BOY IT REALLY IS*

romfl!!! but seriously ....quick go get your purses because there are 2 gorgeous new Wryn's in the shop!!!

I used Watcha Doin? Wryn. I don't know what it is about these little Wryn's but I just love them to bit so I just had to make a mothers day card with her. I coloured her up with my promarkers, I love red hair!! and then highlighted her hair with some sakura starburst pen. I doodled a bit of the starburst pen on my butterflies too.

The big stamp shape is cut on my cricut from the marriage solutions cart and I added a good old bit of sparkle and some really cute little butterflies with my martha stewart punch. Then I just had to doodley some dots so I did black glaze pen ones and white glaze pen ones, I can't resist a doodle!! :)
Anywhoo enough Lou waffles you wanna see piccies of the new releases don't you??!! :)
(...now I am not saying you have to do it but...if you they will take you straight to the cosy little snug in the shop.....see peeps your mornings would be lonely without a little Lou enable-ment you know......)

So we have ...

               Watcha Doin? Wryn                                      and                    Wryn Birthday Girl

SQUUUUUEEEEEEEEE!!! aren't they both just gorgeous???!!!!

Today I don't have much planned at all. I am going to pop in and drop a newspaper off for my mum and say a quick hello and then come home to work on some cards. Yesterday I lost my mojo because my Little Mo went back to school. I always find that first day back soooo hard, Mo was very brave though and after lots of tears,some good snuggling and a snuggle in his pocket so I was with him all day, he went in ok.  I on the other hand felt pants and mooched around the house feeling low!! what am I like!!!!
Right, off to get a cuppa and have a good wombley over to see what you have all been creating in bloggy land!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

18th birthday bag...card!!!

Evening Peeps!!

I have had a fabulously fabulous saturday!! Little Mo slept in until 6:15am, then we got up and I went for a good old womble along the viking way (...very lucky to live on it!! huge walk in big open quiet fields) ...though in the wind it was a bit tricky!!! an hour later and a really bad hair day, I was home having a cuppa!!!

Then we went out for lunch with Scott's mum and Dad, had a little womble to the pound shop and came home to play. More Holly walking, Mo loves that he can throw a stick and she gets excited and fetches it!! (Our gorgeous old dog, Mr Zaky, would just look at him as if to say "uh huh Mo, you threw it..now you go fetch it boyo"!!! we still miss him sooo much)

Enough Lou waffleys!! I want to share my entry for the Lili's Little Fairies challenge blog now!!!! its too cute!!! I was asked to make an 18th birthday card for a girl who lurves Mulberry handbags. (...ok...so there was a small panic and quiet scream from me as I am not a girly girl and had nooooo idea what a Mulberry handbag was but good old google saveth me!!!!)

I decided to go with a bag fold and a good old google later I had a cute Mulberry logo clasp on it!! yey Lou!!! Its made from a 12x12 peice of kraft card and then I cut a lacey circle nestie for the flap!

And so onto the inside....

 A good old bit of cricut cutting, oval nestifying and stamping and inking and I had the inside finished with a little bit of sparkle and some teeny flowers. The little tag that is really hard to see had the date of Lucy's birth on it.
And here's my super cute little card!! it was only 4x4 and I actually struggled to give it up!! I loved it!!

There was oodles of fun to be had on this one!!! First I stamped up my little New Hat stamp. It is one of my oldest and favouritest LOTV stamps ever. I use it so much because she just makes me smile whenever I colour her. Anywhoo!! I stamped her up and then printed out the Mulberry handbag logo really teeny in the middle of a peice of paper, then I stuck my little stamped girly onto the paper with repo glue tape and popped her through the printer
(mmmmm...ok so it didn't quite go that easily...the first one I stamped and stuck on printed the tree upside down on her handbag...lou takes it out of printer..think you plonker to herself...carefully stamps another...repo glue tapes it over little teeny tree logo...prints again...DOH...stuck image on upside down and she is now sporting a tree...on her hat.....3rd time lucky...phew!!)
So after a little experimenting on where to put the tree logo.....:) :) I decided it looked fab on the handbag ;) lol!!
So I got out Lucy's fav colours, spring green/bluey,blue and brown and got colouring!! I absolutely love how the little bag came out, its so subtle and totally cute. I was itching to know if she had noticed it when she opened her card!!
I wanted to include a 'key for the door' for her 18th so out came a little brassy coloured key and some thread to attach it to and I added a few more flowres and branches to match the inside of the bag.
I had to add some little pearly gems to the flowers and the card too....I just can't not bling!!!
Here's another piccy of the card standing up in the bag!!!

So challenges I am entering with this little cutie are....
Lili's Little Fairies- Anything Goes
Allsorts challenge week 142- Anything Goes
Die-ing for a challaenge's 1st challenge- Anything Goes 

So thats little ole me for today!!! oh and while I am here..is anyone else really really struggling with the new word verification on blogger??...because I really really am and I know a few of my friends are too, so if you have your word verification on please consider turning it off and having approving comments before they go on to your bloggy  :)  purlease!!! xxx
Thank you for popping in on me.
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 11- Anything but square or rectangle.

Image- Baby Jake from Saturated Canary digi's

Papers and card template-Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Afternoon peeps!!!!

Its time for another challenge on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this challenge is a bit of a fun one,its...

Anything but square or rectangle

I decided to use Baby Jake, he's sooo squishably cute!! I adore him! and love colouring him in oranges and browns. I used ginger and honeycomb promarkers to get that lovely autumnal orange onesie on Jake and then sandstone, caramel and cocoa for his cutie little hat and boots. He really is such a joy to colour up,I always want to squidge those little chunky knees!!!!

My favourite card shape is square so this challenge did me good to step away from my little comfort zone!!

I fancied a bit of a different shaped card and used one of the templates on my Craft The Year Away cd rom from Funky Hand. All I had to do was pick a patterned paper and drag the template over it, print it and cut it out with scissors!! easy peasy!! the papers I chose were from the orange october colourway. Its one of my favourties and I use it all the time!! I love those big juicy dots of colour on the wobbler card. I made some faux buttons with some card candies and thread and added them to the wobbler base.

I found one of my big tags and stamped the word 'baby' over it a few times. I added a little of the spotty paper to the bottom of the tag and made a little 'Its a Boy' topper with my nesties. A little bit of raffia and bling and the tag was done!! I popped it onto the card with some foam tape to pop it out from the base.

Cute!!!

Please don't forget to pop over HERE to the Saturated Canary challenge blog and check out the other girls gorgeous creations too because they will make you  jaws drop!
huge hugs
Lou xxxxxx

Bunny Luv....

Image- Bunny Luv from Saturated Canary.

Paper- Freebie from Funky Hand

Evening Peeps!!! :)

Its been a busy but fun day and I got a bit of me time tonight whilst everyone else in my house is snoring!! it is a nice little song to listen to though!!...theres Holly with her woofy "I've been chasing sticks a lot today in the field" snore, then its Scott's low " I feel poorly" snore, then there is this little wheezy "gosh I'm pooped out after playing all day" snore floating down the stairs from Little Mo. Its actually very comforting!! I love my little sleepy house!!!!...then there's me tap tap tapping away on my keyboard!! :)

Anywhoo, I had some challenges I wanted to play along with today so I decided to print out my Bunny Luv from Krista's Saturated Canary shop  (she's on special offer for a limited time so quick go get her!!) and get busy to join in with them. In case you are all in a crafty joining in mood the challenges are....

Going Buggy's Lace and Butterflies challenge- I used my martha stewart butterfly punch and my sweet lovely lace doo hickey die.

I love promarkers nature challenge- I have butterflies and a bunny!!

promarkers I used were....

skin and hair- blush,sunkissed pink and coral.

ears- almond, blush and sunkissed pink

trousers,patches on top and eggy- antique pink,cocktail pink and pastel pink

trousers and top- pastel blue,denim blue and midnight blue

tail- almond and pastel biege

Passion for promarkers- Distressing.I love my little pink distrezz-it-all, if you haven't got one you neeeeeed one!! its fab for quickly distressing your papers.

mmmmmmm, I wonder if I am allowed to enter the Get Funky Challenge with it too as I used the funky freebie and butterflies would count for the Flying High theme....:) :)

My Bunny Luv actually has sparkling Sakura starburst pen all around her too, it looks so pretty IRL. I have tried to take a piccy for you of the sparklies! sparklies do not actually love having their picture taken,grrrrr!! here she is.....

Right thats me for tonight!! I am off to watch Masterchef now....I will no doubt have the nibbles within 10 minutes!!!

Thank you for popping in on me! Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 80- Sparkles!!

Image- Wryn- Spring Bling.

Morning peeps!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday and ooooh there are some more gorgeous new release Wryn's too so its an even more exciting Tiddly Tuesday!! :)
Over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we want to see.....

Sparkles !!

so think bling, gems, glamour dust,pearls,glitter and all thats sparkley on your creations this week!!! and please don't forget to use a Tiddly Inks image on your sparkley makes!!

I don't know about you guys but I am pretty hooked on these gorgeous little cuties! Wryn is just so addictive and totally adorable.

So this week Christy has released....

Wryn- Spring Bling.

I used this gorgeous little Wryn for my challenge make this week. I popped her on a base of yummy blingy and stitched mulberry papers and then added a little sentiment cut from my love language cuttlebug die! you can never have enough bling so I added some gems on there too!!! :)
Here's a close up of Wryn, she's so cute!!!

Wryn is coloured up with my promarkers. Here's a little list of colours..

Dress- poppy,ruby,cardinal red and burgundy with sakura starburst highlights.
Skin- blush,sunkissed pink and coral
Hair- vanilla,putty and caramel
Flowers- sunflower,gold and sakura starburst blinged, then glossy accented!

I cannot wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge, I love bling!! and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying popping over to all your blogs so thank you so very much for joining in with the Tiddly Inkers and inspiring us all so much.

Right, thats it for Lou waffles today, I am off to enjoy my little Mo, I love school holidays so much. We will be in our pj's until at least 9am!!!
Thankyou for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary New Releases...quick..go now!! :)

 Image- Murray from Saturated Canary Digi's by Krista Smith.

papers- Huge Funky Love from Funky Hand

Squeeeeeeee!! its new release day over in the Saturated Canary Digi's Shop and omgosh!! you do not want to miss out on these little cuties!! they are all way too cute! I love them all and have managed to get a couple made up into cards for you to see just how cute they are!!!!!

So above we have the super cute Murray! oh I love her so much! she is just perfect for starting those easter creations!! I coloured her in with my promarkers and chalked in the grass and some clouds behind her.

The gorgeous heart paper is from Funky Hands Huge Funky Love wordbook download.

I used my lurvely new magnolia doo hickey die, sweet lovely lace. ooooh I love it, its so cute. and the flowers are from my tattered florals lord tim die.

Now the stitches stamp around the edges and little corners are a punch are what  Lou made me buy on saturday.....:) :)

And down below here we have Beach Baby!!  she was so cute I decided to keep her CAS. I printed her straight onto my card base and added one of my Simple Sentiments from Pink Petticoat. I popped some sakura starburst on her all over the place!! I couldn't help myself because she looks so warm and lovely and I wanted a nice blingy sunshine effect.

The clouds are my finger and some blue chalk again!!!! I love the get messy!!! 

Image- Beach Baby from Saturated canary Digi's by Krista Smith.

I am popping both these little cuties in for the Free and easy challenge over on the Allsorts challenge blog.
and the Anything goes challenge over on the papertake weekly challenge blog

So, quick, stop reading my waffles and go get these little cuties in your basket over in the shop!!! there are so many other gorgeous ones in there too!! I will get a few more things made tomorrow as Mo has requested a hamma bead making session tomorrow so we can cosy up in my craft room and craft together!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

I love Sundays!!!

 papers- Huge Funky Love from Funky Hand

Craft the year away from Funky Hand

pink bazill bling

SU tracks roller

Hello Peeps!!

Oh boy do I love sundays. I have had the best day today. 

First we popped in on my mum and dad who live in my village, about a mile down the road from our house. Scott helped dad pop some wardrobes outside and then after a quick chat, Mo and Scott went home in the car and Holly and I plodded home across the viking way. It was gorgeous. The fields are still fill of snow and it was so quiet and peaceful. I had a big think on my way home and my thoughts just kept returning to how very lucky I am. I have an awesome husband and sons, a gorgeous dog and I have the most beautiful and talented crafty friends ( 2 of who I managed to get caught up with a little yesterday, Lou and Fleur, whilst watching Lou demo...omg she is insanely talented and such a wonderful person too....and very enabling so watch out :) :) !!)

(Oh and Lou, if you have popped in, the sweet lovely lace doo hickey die is a total must hun!!!! will be posting a creation later in the week!!!)

Anywhoo, we surprised Mo with a visit to the cinema this morning to watch Tin Tin and the secret of the unicorn, £5 for the 3 of us, bargain!! and it was just beautiful to watch Mo giggling away at the film!! it was super fun.

When we came home I got 30 mins to myself to make Mo's valentines card with a few scraps from my funky Hand scraps folder. I cut a little train on my cricut and filled the 2 hoppers with some hearts I cut from my love language cuttlebug die. The train track is my SU rolleraround tracks (yup, it is running out of ink but I figured it looked distressed ;) lol!!!)

Card finished and it was time to get on with a roast tea. Scott and Mo were busy playing Skylanders together on the PS3 so I decided to surprise them both by making heart shaped krispie cakes for pudding!!

I just made the krispie cake mix in the normal fashion (melted chocklit, butter,golden syrup and rice krispies) and then squdiged the mis good and tight into a heart shaped cookie cutter!! I pused them out gently and added a little gumy heart to each one whilst they were still gooey!! Mo loved them!! he said 

" mummy, they are so cute, you must really love me to give me chocolate"

romfl!! he is too funny!!!!

Now, while I remember Anice from Funky Hand has put a bit of exciting news over on the Funky Hand facebook page so make sure you pop in and like it for more information!!! :)

Right I am going to indulge myself in a nice deep hot bath now!! I hope you have all had fabby sundays too.

Google Follower news....

Morning Peeps!! 

I just want to let all my followers know about some changes to the google follower gadget that I just learnt from my gorgeous friend Debs.

To read more about it, please pop on over to Shelly's blog and read it here. 

I would be devastated if I lost any of you and couldn't come and sneaky in on your gorgeous creations so please click the little blue follow me bit on my new linky gadget on the top left of my sidebar so we can all stay in touch!! :) and don't forget to get your own too as the google one will be going real soon.

We are off to surprise Mo with a visit to the cinema now. Tin Tin is the kids club film so all 3 of us are off to the cinema for just £5 in total!! yey!!! bargain!!! I love surprising Mo with the cinema because he loves it!

Thank you so much, huge hugs Lou xxx

Heartfelt Love wryn..

Image-Heartfelt Love Wryn from Tiddly Inks

paper- Rainbow polka dots from Funky Hand

sentiment-from the I  ♥ You download at Funky Hand.

Promarkers- cool grey 1-5, black

ruby,crimson and cardinal red

sakura starburst pen

Its me again!!!!! told you I'd be back with another Wryn!! If you are looking for my Howdy Cowgirl Wryn's she's HERE!!


I used the sketch from Dawny P over on the papertake weekly blog so I could enter their challenge for this one. I am cutting it fine though!!! so it has had to be a post the piccy quick then come back to write the post job!!! I can never resist a Dawny sketch!!

So this is Hearfelt Love wryn and I think I may be in love!! I don't know what it is about these little wryn's but they are just so magical and cute!! I could colour them all day  because they just make me smile so much!!!

I decided to keep her mono. I do love mono, its so much fun to play with so she is a whole load of grey promarkers!! but she looks so darn cute!!! bit of a close up....

I had to add a teensy bit of bling to her dress and hearts and then some yummy pearls! love bling!!! and this is the song I was bopping along to as I made this card, its awesome

Ok, off to go finish up some ironing and get another load of washing on!! oooh its an exciting life I lead!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx