50th birthday card...

Evening Peeps!!
ooooh I am in by the skin of my teeth for a bloggy post tonight as we have just had such a wonderful day I almost forgot to post!

Please excuse the card piccy too because I took it with my phone. I made this card for a friend to give to her husband a couple of weeks ago for his 50th birthday. He loves being outdoors and does a lot of hiking and ski-ing in his spare time (...which isn't very much spare time so I know he really enjoys it when he does get chance to go).

I cut the 50 from some map paper and used it for the background too. The little forest along the bottom was cut from my plantin schoolbook cart. I did one larger than the other to make the forest look deep!!! :) and of course I just had to use a super duper LOTV boy to swing into outdoor action on the 50.

I added a little sentiment with my pooter and a little heart on twine along the bottom, its so hard to keep something manly!!!

Scott and I have just finished watching 'Wrath of the Titans', I really enjoyed it. Last night we watched 'Charlie St Cloud' and oh my gosh I adore that film, it was such a gorgeous film to watch and yup I cried like a big girls blouse almost all the way through it!!!!

Right cuppa and snoozles for me now I think!! the clock change didn't work too well for the furball princess who wanted her brekkie early and the small 7 yr old who wanted morning snuggles whilst mummy and daddy were still totally dopey this morning!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Little Mo bloggy post...

Hello Peeps!

well it isn't really a Lou bloggy post today,its a Little Mo bloggy post!!

I haven't got a make today because I have had a super lovely ride out to sir Stampalots to see Lou, Chris, Lousie and Fleury. The Sir Stampalot hotties wereon fire with gorgeous makes as always and clare rowlands was their Molly Blooming away with gorgeousness too!! It was so lovely to see them all and get my top up of hugs, they are all so clever. I had to leave before Fleur could make it over but sending her some cyber snugglies!!

On the way home we popped into my friend Andrea's gorgeous little craft shop in ruskington and Mo fell in love with this little house shelf. Andrea had made an awesome halloween one and he really rather fancied that for his half term making!! so mummy sacrificed her neeeeed for a 12x12 paper pad and Mo chose some goodies from the £1 basket to pop inside, he got busy on it as soon as we had walked through the door!!

 Making some blood with red food colouring and glossy accents...

mmmmmm, where shall I put these bits.....

Adding a bit of spidey web...

and this cute little guy is "pumpky" !! Mo made him out of fimo last week so he was very pleased pumpky has a new home to live in!!

 We have had so much fun with how far we got with it this afternoon but now I have a hungry and tired little man so I am going to make some nando's chicken wraps for tea, get him bathed and snuggle up so we can start again tomorrow!! he has already decided he needs a little bottle of frogs eyes so I have been sifting through some beads!!!

Thank you for popping in on my little man!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

On cloud 9.....

Morning Peeps!!
Well its friday and that is of course fabulous!!! :) so I am sharing a little bit of Tiddly Inking with you this morning!
This is the super cute new little Wryn that Christy released on monday,Wryn on cloud 9 , she is just so sweet.

I was in an autumny mood so I coloured her up in some yummy oranges and used the crab apple too papers from nitwits as they have this lovely kinda sepia toning to them which is just so pretty. The little flower is made with my Die-namics layered rose die and I followed the sketch from the MFT challenge...

and I am popping her over in the Autumn colours challenge over on the Allsorts challenge blog.

Right hi ho hi ho its off to work I go...and little Mo and Poppy get a daddy day because school is out today! Mo is so happy this morning as he was more than ready for a break. He and Scott have had rotten coughs and colds so I am guessing there will be a day of playing skylanders and vegging out for them while I am at work!!

Have a fabulous friday peeps!!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 29- Shaped Cards..

Afternoon Peeps!!

I hope you are all having an awesome day. Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated canary challenge blog and this time its a super fun challenge of ......

shaped cards.

So in a nutshell I had soooooooo much fun playing with the shape of my card!!! I just couldn't resist another spooky make so of course it was zombie time!!

I printed out and coloured in Roller Skating Zombie and then cut her out. Then I cut out 3 gravestones from my paper dolls cricut cart and spookied them up with some silver ink and white gel pen.

To hold the scene of gravestones together I cut a strip of black card at 2.5" x 8.5" and then folded it into 3. I arranged the gravestones and then cut around the edges of them. To hold it closed the medium gravestones slips behind the smallest ones.

Here's another piccy with it a little open.....

I added some spookable foggy/cobwebby yumminess and a big juicy spider to finish the scene off. Here's a little inside view of it open...

He, he, he, he!!! too much fun!! Now I have to tell you my little canary teamies totally rocked this challenge so don't forget to pop in on their stunning creations....I had to giggle a bit when I added mine to our post as there were all these stunningly beautiful cards and then along came Lou's zombie.....romfl!!!

I am popping this in the challenge over on Charisma cards which is don't be square.

So pop in and see what my awesome canary teamies have been making and join in with the fun but.....

You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

and follow the theme of the challenge.

Its a work day for me today so I will see you all for a bloggy womble when I have had my tea and a good deep bath tonight but for now I will leave you with a piccy of the furball princess in my craft room yesterday...

Awwwwww!!!....this crafting stuff is just way too exhausting for a furball princess!!

She is such a cutie! she has taken to begging me to pop her in Mo's chair next to me( she's not tall enough to get up there on her own yet!!) when I am crafting and then just fall asleep but I had to giggle at her yesterday because she tucked her little head right in between her paws and snuggled right down into the chair!! 

Have an awesome day peeps! thank you so much for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Fairytale notes....

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all today? I am fabulous!! Romfl!!! Scott did some puppy playing with the furball princess and small prince this morning so I could get a little making time in!!

I have been rushed off my feet entertaining and snuggling my little furball Poppy because she is just so delicious I can’t resist but I was majorly missing crafty time too so needed a little balance this morning!! He he he!!

And anyways Krista drew this gorgeous fairytale girly and I could not resist printing her out straight away and doing some colouring. She is a freebie until Wednesday when Krista will be popping her in the Saturated Canary store and I just adore her.

I printed 4 out and used the same little pile o pens to colour them all in. I love doing this occasionally because it challenges me a bit to use the same colours differently on a project and I love seeing how different they all turn out. I had fun playing with those gorgeous tassels on her top/ skirt colouring them in differently to get a different take on them. 

little pile o pens.....

I chose to use my mono one for this mornings crafty playtime and alter a little notebook.

The notebooks were 4 for £1 from the range a few months ago and they have just kinda sat on my shelf waiting for a bit of love (….ok..so that a small fib…they have been sat on my craft desk but its such a mess I didn’t find them until yesterday when I was having a small need a little space to craft tidy up…….:)

Anywho's, I cut her with a deckled edge nestie and then backed her onto some black card, then a bit of super yummy Salt And Pepper Funky Hand download paper later she was a gorgeous altered notebook!!

I also used Die-namics Mini Royal Roses and my Lord Tim Chip Block die, a Cheery Lynn exotic butterfly and a really good spray of crafters companion glitter spray. I love this stuff, she looks so sparkly and magical.Here's a more sparkly piccy....

 The black lace down the edge was a total bargain too, Scott bought me it from Boyes last monday, it was in the bargain basket and cost just 40p for a huge bundle.

Well, that's me for today!! Little Mo has a swimming lesson this morning and Poppy has some serious menacing to do.......he he he he!!! gotta love a puppy!!!

Have an awesome sunday everyone, thank you for popping in on me!
Huge hugs Lou xxx

My mummy's birthday card....

Morning Peeps!!

I am popping in to share my mummy's birthday card with you all this morning. 

I love,love,love my LOTV stamps and the fairies are just gorgeous. I had so much fun making this card, I always do when its for my mum, she is so easy to make cards for because she just loves anything.

Challenges I am entering..

I love promarkers- Anything Goes.
Lilli's little fairies- Anything Goes.

here's my little pile 'o' promarkers....

I am very impressed with how teeny this pile was!!! romfl!!!

and here's a list of stuff.....

Stamp- Never to old for cupcake from LOTV.

Papers- Crab apple too from Nitwits.

Flowers- Die-Namics layered rose.

Martha stewart frond punch.

Border- Tim Holtz vintage lace strip.

Cheery Lynn butterfly.

On her birthday Mo and I took her a cupcake with a candle in at 6:45am in the morning and    it was a lovely surprise for her.....only Mo didn't want to leave to go to school and got really upset in the car as he wanted to spend the day with nannie instead!!!

I am at work today but I am looking forward to a good old bloggy womble tonight so I can pop in on you all while I drink my cuppa and see what gorgeous yumminess you have all been creating!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary/Action wobble blog hop winner...

Evening peeps!!
Well, its tuesday night so its time for me to pick my winner of the $8 Saturated Canary store voucher from the blog hop and my winner, chosen by the lovely Mr. Random Generator is..........

Congratulations Rachel!!! Please contact me with your email addy so I can get your info sent off to the gorgeous Krista for your voucher.

Thank you so much to everyone for your lovely comments, it was a bit like christmas because I never normally get so many visitors so thank you so much for making my weekend and hello to any new following peeps too!! 

Hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 96- Halloween!!

Image-Frankboto from the Robot Holidays set 

Papers- Sugar n Spice paper set

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine Tiddlying Tuesday?!!! great I hope because its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and Christy has also got a super cute new Wryn image out today too.

So firsties...a new challenge!! yey!!! and you can guess how excited I was about this one because its a.... 

HALLOWEEN challenge

super yey!!! I had super fun making my little frankboto card. I used some of Christy's yummy papers, (she is so fabulous at papers, I love them, so go check them out in the store) and a good old splodging of spider web for good measure!! It covers the whole front of the card apart from the image and the sentiment!!

I am popping him over on Allsorts challenge blogs challenge - too cute to spook

And the new Wryn......awwww she's completely adorable so pop over to the store and check her out...quite literally ;) she's too cute not to add to your Wryn addiction!!! he he he he!!!

Right, I am off now to get a cuppa and let the furball princess out in the garden for a play. Its my mummy's birthday today so I am off to take her card and maybe take her out for a little ride out somewhere for a cup of tea.

Thank you for popping in on me, don't forget to pop in on my gorgeous tiddly teamies because its a post full of spooky delights today, I am in awe of all of those girls, I look kinda pants compared to their cards!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Ahoy there Tilda and a bookmark.....

 Morning Peeps!!

Well are you ready for some giggling? This little Tilda card is the card I made last night to share with everyone over on the Dies to Die for blog. I happily sat there making away and thoroughly enjoyed my little hour of crafting,its quite amazing how much of my time has been zapped up by the furball princess and obviously it is effecting my dopey little brain too because.......then realised I couldn't find the stamps in the shop....romfl!!! 
so I had to have another make for the blog and share Tilda over here on my blog!!!

And here's the bookmark too....

I have been having a little play with the Die-namics  bookmark stamp and die set and ooooh I am loving it!! this is the first make I have done so far but I can see a whole lot more coming this afternoon.

I cut the bookmark and then added the circle stamp and the book stamp to the top. I sewed a little MME merry and bright twine through the little book and glued it down to make its own mini bookmark.

I had a little scrap of MME Summer Splash paper that I stuck onto the bottom of the bookmark and then I stamped this gorgeous sentiment onto a bit of the kraft card and added a little twine under that too.

I stamped with black onyx versafine ink, I love how yummy and crisp it is on sentiments.

Sorry for the ever so pants picture but the light here this morning is terrible!! 

Did anyone else watch the space jump last night? we did!! we watched it live on youtube! it was absolutely amazing! Scott, Mo, Ryan and Ryan's friend Charlie all huddled around my laptop at the kitchen table and watched the last hour of the ascent and the jump. Mo was absolutely glued to it and to see him so excited and clapping with such excitement when the man landed his parachute was just such a joy. It was a late night for Mo but so worth it.

Thank you for popping in on me this morning

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Lift like a girl....

Afternoon Peeps!!

How are you all this fine sunday afternoon? I am good. I have had a wonderful day so far . Mo had his swimming lesson and then we went to my mums to help dad put a shed up in the garden. we had yummy bacon,egg and mushroom baps for lunch and I even got a squidge of crafting done when we got home, happy days :) :)

So I just had to play with Krista's new image Lift like a girl. I decided to make a little diet pack! I made a cute little front and then inside I made a little pocket for popping your fav diet recipe's or exercise idea's and then I made a few little cards to record any weight/inch losses and thoughts for that week. I think its kinda cute!! she is coloured up with promarkers.

I made the sentiment in word and then just punched it out.

 The cards are held in front of the pocket with 2 little card candies on foam dots.

So thats me for today. The chicken is roasting in the oven and Mo is playing with one of his little buddies upstairs so I am going to have a cuppa and a quick bloggy womble!!

thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxx