More on the new Tiddly Inks images!!

I almost forgot to share my other Tiddly makes with the new releases! I am so zombified at the moment!! lol!!!

And my make today uses  Emma- celebrate Joyfully, she is just so cute and fab for a million different uses but today she is a birthday girl!!! she is available in digi and clear stamp, this one is digi because I don't have the stamp.....yet :) :)

I cut Emma out with my Nestabilities Floral Ovals.And coloured her up with my promarkers...

skin- blush,sunkissed pink and coral

Boots- Coral and sunkissed pink

hair and dress- sandstone, cocoa and burnt sienna

Then I teamed her up with some of my stroke only basic Grey sugared papers!!! I sooo love these papers, my little  6x6 pad is looking kinda thin now.....more stroking less using required there!! and mounted her on some foam to pop her up a squidge.

The little roses around the side are my Die-namics Mini Royal Rose.I cut 2 large ones and 4 small ones and tried to roll the 4 small ones  so that there were 2 even smaller ones so they decreased in size around the frame. A bit of twine and a little heart slider with a bow and she is all done!!

The sentiment is from a freebie I got on a magazine ages ago but it just seemed to fit so nicely.

She is off to sit in the challenge over on the Charisma Cards blog which is Hearts and flowers!

Ok, Mo and I are off to drop Sophia off at breakfast club and get some more milk being as he has decided to start trying a bit more than water today and is asking for warm milk...well its a start!!

Have an awesome day

huge hugs Lou xxx

So,its friday already...

Photo copyright of Claire Spelling Photography.

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are all having a fabulous friday. Mine is going to be a funny one. I have a poorly little Mo at home with me still, last night was dreadful but he seems a little happier this morning, and then this afternoon it is time for me to say goodbye to a dear person at his memorial service.

James lit a huge fire in anyone he met and was such a beautiful person but very sadly he died in november in a car crash.Its been a huge loss for all of his friends and family, especially his fiancée Vicky, his parents and his brother Paul. He wouldn't of wanted people to be sad about his death because he was so full of positivity.His funeral was back in november in Devizes but many of us from here in Lincoln could not make it so we are saying our goodbyes today. If you knew James and can be there I am sure that Vicky and James family would love to have you there. The service is at 2pm at All Saints Church in Nettleham,Lincoln and then onto the Lincolnshire Poacher pub for 3pm to celebrate James.

The lady who took the photograph above is the uber talented Claire Spelling. It was very hard for JRFS to come up with a fitting tribute to James but along with the help of James's close family and friends they put together an awesome calendar to raise money for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance and James's memorial fund.

I am hoping to get mine soon, after all who wouldn't want to see a bit of James everyday?!

Ok, so thats me for today! 

I am off to get a cuppa and have a snuggle with Mo and then take the day as it comes today!

Have a wonderful day everyone

huge hugs Lou xxx

4-tee-th birthday!!!

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are all having a great day. I am home with a sick little Mo. He has a virus and gastroenteritis caused by all the icky stuff in his nasal tract going down into his tummy :( I feel so sad for him. He was up and down in pain and with high temp during the night but managed to sleep in until 6:30am...I however was on mummy worry mode and hardly slept a wink so I resemble something out of the waking dead this morning!! Mo hasn't eaten anything for the last 2 days so I have just made up some cupcakes and they are baking away, I figure I can tempt his with a plain little vanilla cupcake because he loves those!

Its a wierd feeling not being at work today though, its feels like I am a fraud because there is nothing wrong with me!! does anyone else ever feel bad like that when they have to call in work to say you can't go because your mini peeps are ill? 

So onto the card!!! My mum ordered " a big 40th birthday card with a cool golfer please" a couple of weeks ago, so out came the 8x8 cards, a bit of kenny K and some'man' papers!! romfl!! The little golf ball is made with my little circle punch and then embossed with my sizzix dots folder and rolled around a marble to get it 3D, the tee is just a bit of happy Lou snipping hoping it looks like a tee!!!

The image is Golfer from Kenny K , coloured up with my promarkers and then I distressed all around the edges with my vintage photo distress ink,its very manly!! lol!!!!

I am popping this over in the challenge on the Here Come the boys challenge blog. Its a bingo one and I chose....Patterend paper, distressing and image and the I love promarkers challenge blogs Anything goes challenge. the promarkers I used were...

skin- blush, sunkissed pink and coral.

Greens- pear green and olive green.

browns- sandstone, cocoa and burnt sienna.

shoes- pastel beige and khaki.

So I have one little boy all sickly and one little furball princess with a sore eye to take to the vets too, then I might get a little craftying done later!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks new releases....

Morning Peeps!

oh my I am late in bloggy land this morning. We have had another night of temps and sickness with little Mo so this morning my engine is running on espresso (...thank you gorgeous tassimo machine!) 

A very exciting day though because there are new Tiddly Inks characters in the store!! squeeee!! They are coming in clear stamp version too!! super yey!! I know I may be a squidge biased but oh my do I adore them.

So they 2 gorgeous new characters on my date night jar are Jake and Emma ( notice the coppers around the bottom of the jar? that kinda sums up our penny situation right now!!!)... and here they are...

aren't they just so sweet? and this is Celebrate joyfully..

she has yet to make it onto a something!! that's today's job if Mo manages to rest a little! and this one is Bloom beatifully.......

aren't they all just awesome? and even better, there is a sale going on too! well, we all love a sale now don't we? :)

You can find all the new listings in the What's New Section and until Jan 28, the shop will be on sale (yes, the whole shop) for 15% off. 

Enter this code during checkout: JAN15 

Expires Jan 29 at 12:00 AM

that's a lovely wednesday treat!!!

Right I must go. I am at the Drs with Mo at 10:10am and I need to de- sicky- smell the house and get bed linen and towel washed! oh the joys!!!!

Have a great day peeps!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Bella, Bronte and a birthday!!!

Image- Bella carrying the cake from Mo's digital pencil.

Evening peeps!!
Well its a 2 blog day for me!! lol!!! I got some time in my crafty garage today so I thought I would share one of my makes with you all before I go up to bed ( ...dreaded monthlies are zapping me of all Lou super powers tonight!! lol!!!)

I picked out all my fav papers ( MME wild aspargus) for this card and my fav promarkers to go with them.
pinks- antique pink and cocktail pink
browns- sandstone, cocoa and burnt sienna
skin- blush,sunkissed pink and coral

Challenges I am playing along in....
Papertake Weekly's Tie Up your loose ends.
Inky Chicks bingo- I chose Die cuts, Bow and Pearls.
Passion for Promarkers- fave colour combo.

I had an awesome day pootling out there today and when I came out of my little craft room my awesome new neighbours even more awesome mum was cutting down the tree's that have been blocking the light out of our garden for the last 7 years, I cannot tell you how much brighter it looks already.It really made my day. It was freeeeezing out there so I made her a lovely brew and had a little chat over the fence ( ...lou tottering on tippy toes on little mo's stool!!) but it was so nice to have a quick cuppa and chat outside.

Right off to bed for me! I've had 2 co-codamol and I am kinda floating on air a bit!!! romfl!!
Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 102- Wings!!!

Morning peeps!!

Its that Tiddly Time of week again where the Tiddly Inkers get their inky thang on over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and roll out another super fun challenge for you all!! and this week our theme is so much fun! this week its....

Wings

Your creation can use any Tiddly Inks image you'd like but just make sure there are wings on your creation.  You can use a Tiddly image with wings, embellishments with wings, or even ribbons with wings!  There are so many adorable images at Tiddly Inks that fit the bill too!  We have fairies and buggs, butterflies and birds galore!  Remember to link up before midnight on February 5th with your NEW creation using a Tiddly Inks image.  

ooooooh I cannot tell you how much fun I had making my card for this one!!! so first some linkies of which tiddly items I used...piccies are linked to the shoppe!!!! :)

I hadn't made a shaker card in soooo long I just had to get out one of my plastic domes and have a bit of fun.

I cut an aperture out to pop my dome through. I used a scalloped circle nestie to do that so it kinda looked like a flower around the edge of the dome. Then I popped a few flowers and beads in the dome and got to work on my stamp.

Ooooooooh I know I keep saying oooooooooh but christy's Tiddly Inks clear stamps are just the bomb! first they come in such a cute little pack with a sentiment and some coordinating bits that are super cute ( I so love the little bees and their flight path in this one!!!)

I coloured her up with my promarkers...

browns- burnt sienna, cocoa and sandstone

yellows- gold,mustard and canary

skin-coral, sunkissed pink and blush

and inked the edges with some tee dye distress ink ( my fav colour at the min and everything is edged with it!! lol!!)

Then I nestied her up and adhered her to the circle I cut to back my dome and then adhered that to the dome.

I cut a little tag using my cuttlebug tags die set and then stamped the 'Happy Bee-day' sentiment onto it and threaded a bit of string through.

I love this card,its sooooo cute!! and totally warming on a freezy day too!!! so thats it from little ole me today!! I am hoping to get out in my craft room today, yesterday was just too cold and I was a bit stressed with the weather and thoughts of driving but today  am ready for action again! fire up those promarkers!!!! (....and the heater for a good hour before I go in there!!! romfl!!!)

Don't forget to pop in on the challenge blog and see what my gorgeous teamies have made and don't forget to join in the fun you will need to use a Tiddly Inks digi or stamp!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

An oldie but a goodie!!!

Morning peeps!!

well this bloggy post is late due to the snow.....:) I tell you now, Torvill and Dean have nothing on me! My car is officially a giant ice skate and this morning I managed to almost crash the blooming thing not once but twice! by the time I got home I was a nervous wreck and a cuppa and half a bar of tesco value white chocolate was in order!  its beautiful out there but take care and keep safe when you are driving....its time like this when I am sooo pleased I moved to a village on top of a hill and Mo's gorgeous school is a few miles down the beautiful country roads......sigh!!! romfl!!!

Some of you might of seen this before but I wanted to share it for my post over on the Dies To Die For inspiration blog this morning as I feel like I have only been making cards for my DT posts recently and I wanted a bit of something different!! for those who haven't seen it yet, here's a few deets!!

I used my yummy Die-namics dies .. fish tail flags layers stax die-namics. The roses are made with my Die-namics Mini Royal Rose!! and one of the flowers on my Tim Holtz tattered florals for the leaves. I sat and hand stitched the pink and green felt together, I love stitching, its so relaxing and then I hot glued my roses together and added a little gem to the centre of each one.

I cut 'LILY' out with my Tim Holtz chip block alphabet strip die and attached that with hot glue too. I positioned the roses up at the top so that when it is in a book it won't slip down and loose the page!

and here is a piccy of what happens to your kitchen chair when your gorgeous furball princess is teething....

This only happens to my chair might I add, proving she really is mummy's princess....sigh!!! so you take her for a good walk in the snow to cheer her up and hey! who needs teething chews?!! all you need to do is.....Face Plant!!! mmmmm wooferly relief!!!

bless her!! its so hard to take a piccy on your phone in the snow but yup...her head is buried up to the middle of her back!!! and thats how she says for a minute then pops up all covered in snow!!

and here's a piccy of our gorgeous walk on our way to the field....

and on our way home...

I am avoiding any main roads on our walks until all the grit has gone due to all the reports I have been reading on animals dying from licking their paws after walking on gritted areas so please wash your precious paws when you get in if you have had a walk anywhere gritty peeps.

Right more tea needed!! go to brave that chilly craft room!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 35...theme..Movies!!

Image- DJ Love from Saturated Canary.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for another fun challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week Mindy has set it for us!! Mindy chose....

Movies!- create a card/project inspired by a movie!

So this one was a bit trickier than I thought!! lol!!! but in the end I just had to use the super cool new DJ Love image and go for a contemporary twist on the film 'The Sound Of Music'

Now you can use these guys apart but I LOVE them together, I love how he looks like he is hypnotised by the super cool DJ chick!!! I tried to colour it in so that he is standing in front of her DJ desk!!

Now a small confession....I thought she was wearing a cool one sleeve top with a cuff on the sleeve but after I had finished my card and added her to our DT blog I saw a card that the gorgeous Deb Glennie had made and realised it was a bare arm with a bangle........derrrrr Lou!!! but I kinda like that she has a cool one sleeved top on so I left it!!!

The papers are we r memory makers Teen Angst along with a few more bits from the same range I got in the pack! the little IPOD charm is actually one of the stamps in red staz on ink shrinkified. I think it turned out real cute! getting a piccy of the holographic border strip and my crackle glazed letters was a bit more tricky!!

Here is a little bling shot so you can get a better idea of her hair, it looks so much cooler IRL!! the dots around them are glaze pens and copic spica glitter pens but I couldn't get that to show up too much either, I am just pants at pictures!!!

 and here's another so you can see how the crackle glaze dried on the letters, it looks really cool!!

So, please pop in on the challenge blog and see what the rest of the awesome DT have made up to get you all inspired... I have seen them all, you don't want to miss them as there are some great movies to get you all going!!!
As usual for a thursday I am at work whilst this post is all scheduled up so I will be in to visit you all tonight when I get home!!

thank you for popping in on me, sometimes my little old blog is so quiet with comments that I swear I see a couple of tumble weeds drift across my screen so I hope at least a few people enjoy this post!! lol!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Honey in rubber?....ooooh yes please!!!

Stamp- Saturated Canary Honey from Little Darlings stamps.

Morning peeps!!

How are you all this wonderful wednesday?! great I hope. I am! we got a little lie in this morning as Mo did't wake up until 5:30am!!!

So my share this morning is another of the gorgeous CHA release saturated canary stamps and oooooooooh I love them all!!! I have been merrily working my way through their gorgeousness and only have a couple more to share with you but today its the turn of Honey.

I fancied something a but whimsical so I split some cross stitching thread up and glossy accented each strand all curly onto the dp, then I used my fav Memory Box butterfly delights border to cut some little butterflies out in kraft and my dp and glued them on, sooooooo cute! I love them....heck I love everything!!!!!! lol!!!!

the papers are from my websters pages paper pack I got free on a magazine a while ago, the are delicious. I ripped and inked up some kraft and added a couple of little corners and the job was done!

Yesterday was very exciting as Mo and I returned home from work to the news from Scott that Poppy had lost her first tooth!! awwww my baby is growing up!!  Mo was so excited! he asked us if the tooth fairy would come and bring Poppy a puppy markie for her little tooth ( that was actually quite big as it was a middle one!!!). Now I am one of those daft mummy's that loves to make everything just a little bit magical for her little boy so the the tooth fairy did come and we let Mo go down to Poppy first this morning! You should of heard his little giggle as he found this package and read the note...

I tell you there is nothing better than making this little guy happy :)

Right that's me for today! I am on doggy duty again at lunchtime and before that I have a 40th birthday man card....arghhhhhh... to make and a ladies birthday card! best get a wriggle on!!

Have a wonderful day everyone, thankyou so much for popping in on me and my crazy little world!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Happily Ever After on a Tiddly tuesday :)

Stamp- Happily Ever After clear stamp set from Tiddlyinks.

Papers-Websters Pages Botanicals.

Morning Everyone!!

How are you all this tremendous tuesday??!! fantastic I hope!! its a brrrrr cold one here this morning and we have been up and raring to go since the small human alarm clock went  off at 4:55am this morning.......so I have had plenty of time to make up a little valentines card ready for the season of love!!!! ooooh and while I am here, please pop in on Christy's Tiddly Inks blog because there are 2 super cute freebies over there for you!!

I ADORE this stamp set from Tiddly Inks...and even better its clear which makes masking off the image to work out where to stamp the hearts behind the gorgeous couple really easy.

I coloured this stamp a couple of weeks ago and it has just been sitting next to me on my desk making me think awwwwww since so I am super pleased it has made it to a card!!

To bring in the colour of her dress to the card  added a squidge of blue tutu trim. I LOVE this stuff!! its awesome!! and I don't waste any either! I trim it to just fit behind the scallop to the edge of the card on both sides!!

So, my RAK for today was a chilly one!! he he he!! Since I was up and wide awake I went out to de-frost my next door neighbours car as she had to go to work soon. (Her little girl, Sophia, is Mo's breakfast buddy!!). Here they are enjoying the snow last night when we got home from school....

yup, they threw those huge snowballs at each other right after I took the piccy!!!

So that's me for today peeps!!! I have a lot to do today as I am on doggy duty and pick up duty after school tonight so I am hoping to get in a little make or 2 in between things!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx