Diva's By Design challenge...photo inspiration!!

3D Happy Candy Cane tutorial  from Feelinspiffy.

Hi everyone!!! 

oooh I am late getting this typed up today!! I was just pootling around the house and thought...arghhh! didn't do my bloggy post yet!!! soooo, it's time for a new challenge over on the Divas By Design challenge blog and we are super lucky to be sponsored by the awesome Dies to Die for this week!

and this time we want you to use the following photo for inspiration for your creations.....

ooooooh christmassy delciousness!! I love it!!! and I just had to go candy canes!! its just one of the things Mo adores about christmas! candy canes!! my mum always buys him a little box of them and his face lights up like its a million bucks!!!

So true to my gotta be different me..it had to be a loomy creation!! I found thid tutorial last week and ooooh I so loved it!!! it takes a little while to make but he comes out soooo cute!! huge thanks to the lady who makes these tutorials because I just love them! I find my loom banding sooo relaxing and its so nice just to escape from cards for a day!!!

Don't forget to pop into the  Divas By Design challenge blog  and see what the girls have made, they have rocked it as usual!!

Off to get a bowl of veggy soup now, its been in the slow cooker all morning and smells yummo!!

Thank you for popping in

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Passion for promarkers 237.....Lace.

Image- Valerie in Autumn.

Promarkers-

burnt orange, coral, sunkissed pink and blush.

burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

ginger and spice

olive green and pear green.

warm grey 1-5.

I'm back!!second post for today!!

This week’s challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog has been set by Julie from Team 1 and she has given us the theme of 

“Lace” 

A nice simple challenge for you this week, just add some lace to your project!  Please remember you can enter using any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.  Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers). 

Our generous sponsor this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive a 6 pack of Flex Markers (pastel set). 

I know winters looming but I am still in autumn mode!! and I just had to have a play with my Valerie in Autumn digi's from Mo's Digital Pencil, I just love her!! she is so sweet!!

I popped my lace in between the layers of patterned papers, its a big think black lace so I knew it would put up with being with some autumnal coloured papers and black matting!! he he he!! a juicy big bow with a smaller twine bow just to lift it from the background and it was done!

Right time to go and have a cuppa and defrost from morning wombles with the dog!!

Thank you for popping back in

hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 145... Remembrance or Honor...

Image- Poppy.

Box- 3D poppy shadow box by Marji Roy.

Morning peeps!! its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly inks challenge blog and this time we want to see you get your Fairy thing going!! so the next challenge is...

Remembrance or Honor

so grab your favourite Tiddly Inks Fairy stamp or digital image and think along the lines of..
Thank you, thinking of you, remembrance,missing someone

(**remember...We love to see any new creation, a card, 3D project, journal page etc 

but you must use a Tiddly Inks stamp or image to be eligible for the prize**)

I went for remembrance day with it being a very poignant day today and I was majorly inspired by all the stunning photo's my friends have been sharing of the ceramic poppies at the Tower of London.

I used red vellum and oh boy...that's a delicate one in itself so it really brought home the fragility and meaning of the poppy for remembrance day. And of course, Poppy was the most brilliant choice of image for this challenge too, she is delicate too...fussy cutting her legs was touch and go!!

I carefully painted the frame with acrylic black paint so it stood out a little more that matt black card. Then I cut a zillion (...well it felt like a zillion....!!) little poppies out to decorate around her feet.

This little make will be going to my mummy's house today.Not only was my Step-Daddy a SGT Major in the army and my mummy loves poppies so I know they will both enjoy it.

I'll be back in a bit with my make for the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog.

huge hugs Lou xxx

Penguin Joy!!

Stamp - Whimsy Penguin Joy.

Papers- MME All is Bright.

Divine twine Cherry.

Morning everyone!!

oooooh christmas is getting ever closer and I absolutely love it! I have been playing away making my christmas cards this weekend. A mix of simple ones that are easy to post and floofy ones that I can hand over to family. This little cutie is one of my simple ones.

But honestly, these cute little penguins don't need anything else to go with them, they say it all with those chubby little cheeks don't they? awww they are so cute!!

Well hopefully today the BT dude will be able to sort out our internet, its been on and off all weekend and uploading is a real nightmare!!! while I am sleeping after work I am hopeful that it will all be working tickety boo when I wake up this afternoon!!!

Thank you for popping in

Hugs Lou xxx

A wooferly friday!!!

Image- Silver Valentine from Tiddly Inks.

Papers -T Dawg from Funky Hand.

Morning everyone!!

wohoooo for friday!! I have been looking forward to it all week!! a bit of time with Scott and then the weekend at 3:30pm for little Mo! I can't wait!

Its time for a fabby friday over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog so I decided to go fabby and Funky all in one day and use some dog themed papers to go with my gorgeous little Silver dog.

I coloured him up all squiggly ( yup, literally all squiggly! get that fine nib on your pen and just doodle all over for fur, fun, quick and easy!!!) and then I fussy cut him and foam popped him up on the card base.

Its so easy to do when you have cute and adorable little guy just sitting on your paper!! and then those fabulous doggy themed papers to go with him! well, it was a win win situation really!!

Right, got to fly! there's friday fun to be had!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Feathers.....

Image- Feathers.

(this was a special freebie, no longer available)

Morning everyone!

I thought I would pop in a lilttle post with my  'Feathers' card today. I am having big internet problems at the moment and can't upload anything so have done a copy and paste job to get this cutie shared with you today!! lol!!! well, there had to be a cheat way round for me to blog...I am getting withdrawal symptoms!!!

I went all rainbow and happy for this one, I love how her feathers came out and how she pops out from the papers. There is a good old sprinkling of frantage around her too but its tricky to see! and I love that little inkadinkado sentiment, its just perfect.

Right, I am off to pop some sweet potato and parsnip chips in the oven for my lunch, we got our first frost here this morning and I am in the mood for a comfort kinda dinner!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Hello, how are you doing?

Papers- Keep In Touch from Funky Hand.

Dies- Die- Namics smart phone.

Morning everyone!!

Did you all see the new Keep In Touch download?!! I just LOVE it! and I love texted papers, they are just so much fun so I had to put this one to use. Its just perfect for making a zingy and cheerful card just to say Hi to a friend.

I got my trusty Die-Namics smart phone die out to make a little phone to go with this awesome speech bubble sentiment! with a little bit of foam pad help they all popped out for a good old bit of dimension!!

Just a little reminder of all those lusheroo papers in the download....

If they don't zing up someones day when they receive a make from you with them I would be surprised!!

Right, got to go. I have a huge pile of ironing with my name snuggled into it! and little pawsy peeps to walk in the wind and rain! then its a bit of good old vegging out!

Thank you for peeking in!

Hugs Lou xx

Forgotten Funkies...Funky Daze...

Papers- Funky Daze...Sunday best colourway.

Card- Lori Whitlock Hot air Balloon from the SIL store.

Sentiment- Paper smooches sentiment sampler.

Morning Peeps!!!

Its the time of month again for our 'Forgotten Funkies showcase over on the Get Funky and Craft inspiration blog!!! and each month our fabulous Funkettes will be here on our blog showing off some new makes with our older downloads. 

Today's showcase is centred all around the gorgeously funky and fabulous 'Funky Daze' cd. Just look at this craft backing paper collection packed with ghosts, bats and 'things that go bump in the night!' Full of eye catching bright green, purple, orange, black, white and a word book options to go with them all included. So they are most definitely too good to be forgotten!!!

I decided to go for a colourway with a bit of poperoo!!! so I chose the 'sunday best' papers and printed out a few of my favs! then with the help of Lori Whitlocks gorgeous hot air balloon card file I got busy!

I love that pop of colour with the dimension of the balloon! it really pops out at you! all I did then was add a few little die cut clouds here and there so it looks like its off in the sky! 

Right, must dash! 4 more lil pumpkins to carve and a garden to decorate all spooky!!! here is last nights pumpkin effort too.....

soooooo cute!!!

thank you for popping in!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Happy Halloweeeeeen!!!!

Image- Walker in Love.

Graveyard- Sil Store by Megan Hardy Designs.

Hi everyone!!!

Some of the saturated Canary DT are sharing some halloween fun today with some halloween inspired makes because I looooove halloween!! and I just had to have some fun with this one so out came the zombie and an awesome graveyard cut file I bought from the silhouette store...oh and a whole lot of sticky melty glue gun glue!!!!!

Mo and I went out a mission to find some moss and other 'dead' things to decorate the graveyard with!! I love how it came out!! its just so much fun to have a good old play sometimes!! and then with a bit more of the icky sticky hot glue to splodge it all in it was done!!

It was totally a nightmare to get a piccy of though!! lol!! I will do these things!!!!! I had to get Scott to do it forme in the end because me and photo's...well we don't go together!!!

And I couldn't resist sharing my pumpkin make from this morning for my little guy! One minecaft steve pumpkin! he was most impressed! I asked Scott to pick me up some green lights from the poundshop yesterday for it too!!!!

It was a tricksy one to carve!!! we have 4 left to do so i will post those tomorrow I think!!

Thank you for popping in on me, 

hugs Lou xxx

Keep In Touch...Funky Hand new release...

Papers- Keep In Touch from Funky Hand.

Afternoon everyone!!

Oh I am so excited to share this new release from Funky Hand with you, its just such a fabulous one! I absolutely love it!! I made myself a fabulous little project Life cards set using the papers and the little sentiments.

So..what do you get in your download?!!!......

how cool is it?!!!!

bright, zingy and funky! just what we need to cheer up these gloomy winter nights!!

Thank you for popping in on me

Hugs Lou xxxx