Viki the Viking....:)

 Image- Viki the Viking..

coming soon to a Krista Smith Saturated Canary Digi's near you!! :)

Evening Peeps!!!

How are you all this fine friday night/ morning depending on where you are in the world!!!

I have to share with you all that this week has been a really hard one emotionally for our little family and I have had some very sad days. Yesterday I needed me some girly time and I got out my art journal to soothe myself a bit.

This gorgeous little image is called Viki the Viking and she is one of the new releases coming up from Krista is just what I needed to perk me up. I was inspired by one of the passages from the bible we were unpacking in church on tuesday night. I knew what I wanted to do right away.

A good old splodging of frayed burlap DI and magnolia swirly stamping around my pages and then a bit of Tim Holtz vintage lace border down the centres, a weathered clock, some waco pearl pen and and that was the base to my pages. I also splotched some crafty notions spray over the top, it is actually a gorgeous shimmery bronzey colour in the light but it wouldn't show in the picces :(

I typed out my passage, The armour of God (ephsians 6: 13-17) and then snipped it all up! I inked the edges, popped some glue on and squooshed it all around the page. have you ever noticed how much it cheers you up just to squoosh things around with no real layout? (...its so funny though because once I had finished I noticed my little subconscious had been following its own pattern!!) 

Here's a close up of Viki....

Isn't she adorable???!!! she is a complete must peeps!!
the font I used is called Viking and is free from dafont, I love the way it fitted perfectly with my little Viki, perfick!!! 
Please excuse my piccies but I keep forgetting to charge my camera so have been using my old one and I just can't get the focus as good as my newer camera!!!


I want to enter this is for Papertake weekly- one for the girls. I really enjoyed making a girly page for my journal and it really did cheer me up a whole tonne ( thank you krista, love yah,mwah xxxx) and the 4 crafty chicks challenge -Girls Rule!...well if this little chick doesn't scream girl power I don't know what will!! :)


thankyou for peeking in on me, you don't know how much ya'll cheer me up with your comments in tough times
huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

Saturated Canary Challenge 13- Twine....

Image-Love Letters from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- HOTP Nostalgia.

promarkers- 

vanilla,putty,caramel-hair

blush,sunkissed pink,coral- skin

midnight blue,denim blue,pastel blue-jeans

sandstone,cocoa,burnt sienna-top

almond-sleeves,envelope

antique pink-heart

Afternoon Peeps!!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog and this week its all about..

Twine

Now, no giggling allowed but I am very behind the times and have not yet managed to buy myself any bakers twine...I don't know why!! I see it and I love it but I haven't actually treated myself to any yet!! I am soooooo slow!!!

So for my DT make I turned to my trusty gardeners jute twine!!! yup! here it is in all its finery......

I have had this ball of twine for over a year now! I use it tonnes and it is still going strong!! OK so I don't use it on the plants where I am supposed to and its probably not made with cardmaking/scrapbooking in mind but it makes such a cute addition to cards and I have a thing for natural stuff!!

Anywhoo, I printed out Krista's gorgeous Love Letters image because this card is for a friend to give to her mum for her birthday and I thought Love Letters was just perfect.

I coloured her up with my promarkers and then got out what is left of my gorgeous HOTP Nostalgia papers freebie ( I am so going to have to buy these papers because I just love, love, love them!!)

I carefully snipped around the flower and stitching on the topper shape and slid my little chick under it! I really like how that came out because it looks so pretty and like it should be there. I added a few flowers and a little pearly heart charm to the top right corner to balance it all out a bit and hey presto it was done.

I am entering a couple of challenges with this one...(though I will be linkying them in when I get home from work as this is a little scheduled post!!)

Going Buggy's -use something not intended for a card challenge

Cupcake Crafts- Going Dotty!

I ♥ promarkers- Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursdays- birthday/celebration


Don't forget to pop into the Saturated Canary challenge blog to drool over the rest of the gorgeous DT makes (....yup, I have to stroke the screen every time its a new challenge just to see if their awesome talents can rub off on me a bit!!!) I love poppping in and seeing what you all make.

Oh and start saving those pennies because there are some super cute new SC images on their way soon!!

Thank you for popping in on me :)

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 82- Best Friends...

Image- Close to my Heart Wryn, 

Papers-pink patch from the 

Gothic Girls Paper pack.
Promarkers...
Cool Grey 1,2,3,4,and 5 :)
blossom

Morning Peeps!!!

Wowzers its that Tiddly time of the week again!! phew it flew by sooo quickly this time! I absolutely loved all of your 'Use Fabric' creations from our last challenge! Tiddly Peeps...you rocked it :) and so I must help you into this fortnights challenge which is......

Best Friends Forever.

I was feeling monotone for this one and got out all my yummy cool grey promarkers!!! there is a teeny touch of blossom on the heart and the sneaker boots but other than that its grey all the way!!!!

The super sweet little pink patch is from the Tiddly Inks store too. I love it when Christy does a paper, she is so good at them and they are always a perfect match for the images too. This pink patch gives me both gothic and gorgeous so I love,love, love it! I did add a freebie .png heart from Create with TLC onto this one before I printed it out and then used a bigger one popped out with a heart brad in to embellish the card, with a nice pink and black flower on the other corner to balance it all out. I love how this all came together. A little few doodley dots around the corner of the black mat and it was all done.

Oh ...and while I am here...on Tiddly Tuesday....I feel I should warn you.........thats there's a totally adorable new Wryn image out :) :) :) see what would ya'll do without me....:)
So, please meet Wryn and Emmy....

Squeeeeeee!! aren't they just adorable??!! and totally fabulous for the BFF's out there!! though I must say this would make a totally awesome mothers day card for the mummy's out there with twins! so do ya'll need linkyage....I think you do....so click on this piccy and it will take you straight to Wryn and Emmy-BFF

I used my pink petticoat freebie papers from a card magazine and a few springy coloured promarkers. I also felt the need for bling!!! :)

So for some inspiration for the challenge for this next couple of weeks, please go visit my gorgeous teamies over on the challenge blog , they really are a million times better than me, I feel really rather pants everytime I look at their gorgeous cards compared to mine and then grab your fav Tiddly Inks images and get busy!! I can't wait to see your creations!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Pop's inspired pen storage and Mo surfing!!!

Morning Peeps!!
Its a quicky dash in for me this morning as Little Mo and I are waiting for his friend Sophia to arrive for breakfast!!!

I just had to share with you the new promarker pen holder Scott made me last night. My old one was absolutely gorgeous but totally full so I had lots of pens in a tub underneath so when my gorgeous friend Pop's shared a picture her new promarker storage box she had made with a fish egg filtery tray (...I bought 2 trays so I can make a little movey box too!!) the little cogs in my head started whurring as to how fab it would be to use one in my crafty room too to replace the overflowing one.

Poor Scott, we had such a busy day yesterday but he is just the most awesome person and it was done in 30 mins!!!!! we cut the tray in half using a hack saw blade (...woodcutter style with me holding one end and Scott holding the other!!!!), then he popped one piece straight onto the wall and then attached a thick strip of wood over the top. Then he attached the next piece over the top but up a little so that the pens slide in and have support so they don't wibble out whenever I pull a colour out!!

Please excuse the disasterous mess underneath...I will tidy that today.....:)

I am so pleased and mega,mega thanks go to Pop's for sharing her awesome box. Today I will be popping my gel pens and a the few copics I have in the bottom rows that are stuffed in a box under my craft desk, it will be so lovely to have them all out so I don't have to dig through the box!

Wowzers was yesterday a beautiful day!! it was so summery here that we bundled off to the beach! Mo wanted to do some surfing, which he got busy with as soon as we got there!!! he stripped off to his swimmers faster than lightening and was off in the waves before we got half way down the beach!! he loved it!!
Here he is waiting for the wave....:)

 There were hundreds of starfish washed up on the beach, due to the full moon and low tide. It was just so exciting for Mo! he loved looking at them all, though there were plenty of "eeeeuuuuuuw"s when there were huge ones!! he definitely prefred the little ones!! anywhoo, this is a piccy of our favourite one. Mo spent ages looking at this one because

"it's got too many starry bits"

LOL!!! when we got home and I popped the picture on my computer Mo jumped on my knee, hid his head and said....

"arggggghh, Mummy, theres an eye looking at us from the sand"

he he he he :) He was right to because a 2 shells with a poor starfish leg over them do look like an eye up there on the top right!!!

Well, its time for a cuppa and a play for us now as Sophia has just arrived so I will catch up with my bloggy dashboard later!!

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping in on little ole me :)

Lou xxxx

Flying High and Getting Funky!!!!

Paper- Freebie from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!

Its my turn to give you all some umpf to get your wings on and join in with Allison's Flying High Challenge.

Now I seriously loved this challenge!! its such a fun one and the Free Paper Anice designed is just awesome, who wouldn't fall head over heels in love with a cloudy sky paper??!! the piccy is linked to its home in the shop but be quick because once the challenge is up on the 14th March this little cutie will go!!

I have a friend who will is making the big journey of moving in with his partner and due to the move is getting a new job :( I will miss him but what an exciting time for him too so a cheery little card using Funky Hand paper cheered me up a bit!! )

I cut the Aeroplane on my cricut, added a little banner sentiment from Craft The Year Away.

The little alpha's I used to make my 'New Job' sentiment bubbles are from the awesome Steam Funk download. I punched them out with a little circle punch then embossed them, adding foam pads underneath to keep the poppy upness :)

So, what do you need to do to join in with us? ....

The rules on Get Funky are super easy... 

use at least one Funky Hand product on your entry! 

simples!! and you have until the 14th of March to play along so quick, go grab the freebie and get busy!!! I would love to see so more entries because I get so inspired by what you guys create.

Right, its off to the beach for us this morning! Mo has got his trunks on already and his surfboard is at the door waiting so I had better get a move on!!!

huge hugs and thank you's for popping in on me.

Lou xxx

Books and Bedhead.....

Image- Books and Bedhead -Krista Smith Saturated Canary Digi's

Evening Peeps!!

I thought I would have another go with a doily tonight and this is the result of my playing!!! :) I just couldn't resist printing out the stunning Books and Bedhead from Krista, I think she is completely adorable...and just incase you haven't played along yet, don't forget our challenge over on the Saturated Canary blog is 'Doilies'.

I have to say I am getting oodles of help in how to use these cool paper cakey things on a card from all the gorgeous entries we have had so far!!....I still have a long way to go though me thinks.

She is coloured up with promarkers and then I masked her to stamp the words on, I love this texty stamp, its awesome!! I distress inked the edges (...of everything :) !!!) with some teadye distress ink and added a little stitchy stamp to the edges of the pink paper.

The papers are some HOTP freebie ones from a crafty mag but ooooh I so need them, they are just my kinda papers!

I decided to add some little roses and fronds too, not sure why but they were sitting on my desk left over from another make and kinda spoke to me in a use me kinda voice.....:)

Right I must get my dopey little self to bed, I am so sleepy my eyes feel scratchy!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little Mo's daffodils.

 Daffodils- ©Little Mo! 

Evening Peeps!!!

So I wanted to share with you Little Mo's Daffodils. I have to tell you that Scott and I are so very,very proud of this little guy. He struggles with his nerves sooo much and last nights parents evening was just so lovely for us.

Mo decided this morning that he wanted to make my mum a get well card using his Daffodils writing so when I picked him up tonight and his normal teacher wasn't there he was a little worried he couldn't use it, so I asked the classroom TA and she was so lovely, she said yes right away and we sat on the bench in the sun waiting for her to finish her jobs. Mo was so excited. More proud mummy moments were to come when Mo's headteacher came to bring Mo's writing as it was still in her office from when he went to see her this afternoon to receive his Head Teachers Award and merit stickers (oh my, you should of seen his little beaming face when he came out the doors to me tonight with all his special stickers, magic!) She thought his Daffodils writing was very special.

Mo's class TA did us a few copies which was so very kind. We are so blessed and very lucky to have Mo going to such a beautiful and caring school team each day.

When we got home Mo got busy on his card for nannie, trimming, inking edges and best of all, using mummy's ATG gun!!! He put his little bit of writing on first, then he drew his daffodil stems in a green glaze pen. he made his little daffodils with my SU boho flowers punch and I  have to be honest and say I will be totally nabbing this idea!! they are very cute!!!!! I love the way his little mind chugs things through like 

"they can't be flat like squished dry ones mumma, they have to be standy uppy ones"

as he shaped the centres around my rubber tipped paper picker!!! CUTE!!!!

 So for those of you who are looking at it and wondering what some of it says, I will translate for you!!

'Daffodils dancing like ballerina's

twisting all day long nice

to see as yellow as the bright

sun heads like stars.

Daffodils swing around in the

nice breeze.

The daffodil stem is as green as 

a leaf'

Ok, so I am teary!! I am a very daft mummy but I am so super happy and blessed. And of course. Mo wanted me to take a piccy of the special stickers on his school tank top, the card and him for you all to see!!

Thank you so much for bearing with me and sharing in my joy of this special little guy. I love his smile so much.
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Lotv Football Crazy...another manly effort!!!

Stamp- LOTV Football Crazy

Papers- Nitwits Kickin it

Promarkers...

skin- blush, sunkissed pink,coral

top-ruby,crimson

shorts-satin,ruby 

hair- vanilla, sandstone,caramel

boot-cool grey 2,3 and 4

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all today? I am a very proud mummy today. Last night was Little Mo's parents evening and I was so nervous about it! we sat down in the hall to wait for our appointment and Mo's head teacher came to see us to say hello and how well Mo is doing this year!! that was lovely and then we went in to see his teacher and she said he is doing really really well too!! I cannot tell you how relieved I am as he still gets so nervous about going to school and change but I love knowing he is happy once he gets there. The only thing he needs to work on is his fine motor control when he is writing, he is left handed so his hand covers up what he has written and he struggles with that.
She showed us an absolutely beautiful poem Mo had written yesterday about daffodils. I am going to ask for a copy of it today so I can show you it because she was so very proud of it.

It was just such a special proud beaming mummy and daddy moment. We had gotten him a new scooter in the sales put away for easter (..mo isn't keen on easter eggs!) so we decided to give him that as a reward. He loves to be outside and he was so excited he was out as soon as he had opened it last night trying it out!!

Any whoo!! enough mummy waffles!! onto my cute card!! a friend at work asked me if I could make her a birthday card to give to her boyfriend (...I know!! get me!!another manly one!!!!!!) 
I loved kathy's new sketch over on the sketch file  and here it is, isn't it awesome? I love the layers...though I turned mine into hearts!! If you click on the piccy it will take you straight to the sketch file blog :)

I have 2 favourite parts on this card!! of course one of them has to be that cute, cute, cute little footballer and the other one is the little green field heart with the centre spot on it!! I love my new Big shot!!!! I had so much fun cutting the little hearts out!!
I dug out some 'manly' brown and white checked ribbon and tied a dinky little bow to snuggle the heart!! and a few doodled kisses in some of the hearts too.....:)

Challenges I am entering with this gorgeous little guy are......
I ♥ promarkers-Ribbons and bows
Kathy's sketch file- Tumbling sketch
Creative craft challenges- boys will be boys

Right, time for a cuppa and a Mo snuggle!
thank you for popping in on me!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Wryn- Eggcellent News... Tiddly Inks new release :)

Image- Wryn Eggcellent News from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!

Ooooooh I am so egg-cited because its Tiddly Tuesday and there is a super scrummy yummy new Wryn in the Tiddly Inks store, squeeeeeee she is just adorable and OMGosh I love her sooooo much!!!!

When Christy sent these through I leapt off my chair, I think I may need to start a W.A. group (Wryn's Anonymous........) because I am seriously addicted to Wryn, she is just soooo cute!!! So, as always I will help you to keep you pennies inside your purses by adding a little piccy linked to where Christy's gorgeous new Wryn is on the shop...........(mwah ha ha ha ha!!! :)..small evil laugh from Lou.....)

I have had a 'new leaf' paper pad in my cupboard that I have been using very sparingly recently but I just had to break out a piece of the glittery paper for this card. I haven't been so sparing in using my lurvely new Big Shot though!! its fab!!! and I used a whole tonne of punches on this one!! :) ahhh, theres nothing like the old fashioned way of crafting :)

I printed Wryn and coloured her up then cut her out with a circle nestie and stamped some little flowery fronds from my SU teeny tags set all around the edge of the circle.

I nestied a lacey circle and also cut out some Lord Timmie tattered flowers, the smallest one on the die, for the orange part of the flower, the kraft coloured middle is my SU Boho flowers punch and the teeny centre of the flower is my papermania mini!!! flower power or what!!! they just all go so awesome together!!

I know you have probably all dissapeared over to the shop now to get this gorgeous new little Wryn haven't you :) if you haven't and you are still reading ....why are you still here...go quick go!!!!! romfl!!!!!!

Challenges I am entering with her cuteness...
CES challenge blogs- Flower Frenzy.
Throwback thursdays- cricutless challenge
Craft your passion challenge blogs- anything goes 100th post celebration!

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

Little Mo's first card swap!!

Morning peeps!!


This mornings post is a bit more about the cute little guy than me!! its all about his first card swap, organised by Krista from Saturated Canary, over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog.


It was all so super exciting for Mo. He got to swap with Krista's son, Philly. I snapped a whole bunch of photo's of Mo making his card ( which he did all by himself and I love him sooo much for that! he was so proud of himself making a card for his buddy!) and pictures from last night when he recieved his parcel from Philly and I put them in a slide show for you all to see. I hope you enjoy it because it has all been so exciting for Mo!! ....hope it works as it took me all morning to upload!! :)


You need to click on Mo or  the "Little Mo's first card swap" title below the piccy for it to work (...and yup...I did notice after we took the piccies that Mo had put his tennis kit on inside out.....!!!) 

Little Mo's first card swap!