Friday 30 January 2015

Sweet Tooths Semi Sweet...

Image- Sweet Tooths Semi Sweet - from Tiddly Inks.
Papers- Down to my Bones mega pack from Tiddly Inks.

Helllloooooo again!!!

I told you I would be back! 2 posts in one day! go me!! lol!!

I love this Semi Sweet Sweet Tooth image, she is so beautiful, and it would of been a Tiddly crime not to match her up with those awesome Down to my Bones papers!! a bit of twine and some die cut la la land heart doily just finished the look off. I LOVE it!!

I am so into playing with making tags again at the minute, they are like quick and fun little makes, I might even punch holes in mine and turn them into a little art tag book with a D ring, I think i have about 10 now and they are all so different and fun.

I have 4 different tag dies ranging from small to big and I love them all!!

Pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see what my teamies came up with for fabby friday because oooooooooh they rocked it!!!

Huge hugs Lou xx



Cuppie Arrows.....

Image- Cuppie Arrows from Saturated Canary.
papers - MME Unforgettable  .

Morning everyone!

Today the Saturated Canaries are starting our next image showcase challenge over on our Saturated Canary Facebook page.

And its a super duper one this time! we just want to see where your creativity takes you so its...
Anything Goes.

You can make any creation you like be it card, scrap page, an altered something, smash book/journal page etc...just let your creativity go!

The prize, as always, will be 2 digital images of your choice from the shop and the rules are super simple too..

* you can enter ONLY ONCE
( this makes it fair for everyone )

* you can enter with any FINISHED creation but...IT MUST BE HANDCRAFTED
(digital colouring of Krista's images is not permitted in accordance to TOU's)

I could not resist Cuppie Arrows, she is too cute!! Scott is going to get like a million valentines cards this year because I just can't stop feeling all loved up!! lol!!

She really is such a joy to colour though and I was in funky hair mood so she got the blue hair I totally dream of. One day I am going to get it dyed this colour blue, I just need to find the colour first!!

Sooo, in keeping with my card making disasters of the week.. I had a dark chocklit mishap whilst colouring her in!!....



..but all was not lost!! because I had that totally cute target that comes with her! wohooooo!!! 

So, yet again from Lou style bodges came a Lou style card!! go me!!! I sometimes wonder if I will ever get through one week without doing something totally daft and Lou-ish...but then hey I wouldn't be me if I wasn't this dimb right?!!!!!

Huge hugs for you all! I'll be back in a few mins with my fabby friday make for Tiddly Inks!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Thursday 29 January 2015

Bronte and Louis...

Papers- Bronte paper past freebie from Mo's digital pencil.
Yellow spotty paper...mmmm...can't remember!! lets call it...
 'left in stash pile and looked yummy'?!!!

Hi everyone!!
well it was a gorgeously snowy kinda day here today. I took some time to stare out of the window at the flakes tumbling down and have some crafting fun!!

Now, you will laugh at this one!!...I coloured my super cute little Louis...but the cardstock I chose sucked...I mean like really sucked!! I will not be using it again! lol! but all was not lost because I had a new bottle of crackle glaze to play with and decided this little guy would be perfect for it!!

To give you and idea of how much he needed rescuing..this is how he loooked before crackle glaze fun!.....poor lil guy looks like he has a huge case of chicken pox a la pants no blendy paper!!!
I pushed on though and finished his hair...( couldn't resist colouring them up like my little Mo and Dasher) and then it was time for 2 good coats of crackle glaze. I let it dry and then gave the little guy a good roll in my hands to bring out the cracks some more and then gave it a rub with some walnut stain distress ink.

I am so pleased I didn't trash it because it came out so cute! then I just had to print out the Bronte papers Maurie gave as a freebie ages ago, I chose the blue green one to go with the blues and greens in my colouring, layering it up with a little bit of spotty paper I found in my crafty stash pile on my desk.

I have finished my Twilight marathon and moved onto Blade now!! 2nd one tonight so have tomorrow night to watch the last one and....super exciting.....I get 4 of my new windows in tomorrow!!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!! we saved hard and can only afford 4 this time and then a few more in a couple of months!! wohooo!! our old ones are terrible!! the came with the new build it was and they suck! they let air in even when they are fully shut!! and Mo is super sensitive to wind and noise and that scares him so I can't wait for him to have a lovely well fitted window in.

Right, time for me to pootle off!! you must all be asleep from my waffling by now!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Have Heart!!!

Stamp- Have Heart Wryn clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.
papers- Huge Funky Love from Funky Hand.
Sentiment- I heart you- Silhouette store.
Cardbase- Lori Whitlock pop out heart base- Silhouette store.

Morning all!!!

well its a hideously blowy and rainey day here...yuck!! but all is good because I have warmed myself up with a quick wryn make this morning!! oooh I love this stamp ( ...family be warned...everything you receive from me will probably have this cutie stamped on it!!)

But seriously, she is just too cute, I might even be brave enough to say she is my fav wryn from the new releases...but that's only until I colour up the next one!! romfl!!!! lol!

I love cards with a bit of poparoo so I used one of the cardbase I have bought from the silhouette store and some delicious funky hand papers I had left on my desk! I love how it turned out! I saw the challenge over on papertake weekly of Fancy folds and just had to give it a whirl!! I haven't entered a challenge in so long so decided to go for it!!

Right, I need to scoot! I am having mummy and Grandad time today! we are going for breakfast....which is good because I only let myself have a yoghurt at 5:30am this morning in preparation and to say my tummy is grumbling would be a complete understatement...even the dogs ran away when I looked at them for fear I may eat them!!!! romfl!!

Have a fab day everyone, thank you for popping in
huge hugs Lou xxx

Tuesday 27 January 2015

Friends make life sweeter....

Image- Friends make life sweeter from Tiddly Inks.
Paper - Lollipop trees  Past freebie from Tiddly Inks.

Morning everyone!

I hope you are all having a wonderful start to the week so far. This morning I thought I would pop in and share one of my makes from the new Tiddly Inks release. I am soooo in love with all of these but determined not to post them all in one day so doing quite well so far!! he he he! go Lou restraint!!! lol!!!

This image is just way too fun...and it has little dragons which is always a winner for me! I love them! I merged her onto my tree paper and then popped the sentiment on one of the trees, printed her out and had some colouring fun!!

Right! I am off to plod the dog and get ready for the school run! have a wonderful day everyone.
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Sunday 25 January 2015

Waiting for Spring....

 Image- Waiting for Spring.
Papers- Huge Funky Love from Funky Hand.
Card base- A2 tabbed card with scalloped edge by Lori Whitlock.

Morning all!!
The pawsy peeps have been walked, the lil guy and big guy are busy again so I am indulging in some lovely add a make to my bloggy time!!

Krista sent through her latest image for the SC girls to get playing with yesterday and I couldn't resist a quick colouring session while watching Twilight Eclipse (...yep..again! having a bit of a Twilight marathon again this week!!!) .

I had some of my delicious Funky Hand Huge Funky Love papers left from a bit of a DT make for Funky Hand yesterday so I used those up too, they are just gorgeous and go together so nicely with this card base and image.

Here she is all tucked up in the little card base. Too cute! I just added a Die Namics rolled daisy and the word Love and heart are from my new Blue Prints tag builder 3 set ( oooh I love that too!!).

Right, I am going to zoom off now and try and get some more crafty time in before we need to pop out for some shopping!

Thank you for popping in
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturday 24 January 2015

Tiddly Inks new release....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!

Image- Wryn's Cookie.
Papers- Tiddly Inks Cookie Bugg paper.


ok so I am totally beyond excited this morning!! I have been sitting on my hands wanting to share these cuties for a couple of weeks now but finally the day is here and wohoooooooo!!! its the new release date for the Wryn's and Sweet Tooth's!! you can find them all HERE in the shop waiting for you!!!

Please make sure you pop on over to Christy's blog ....but please get some waterproof protection for your keyboards/ phones/ iPads before you go because you will uber drool at the Tiddly Inkers makes! they are amazing!!!

Today I am just sharing Wryn's cookie with you...mmmm...well at least I am for this morning!! lol!! I am sure I will have to squeesh another one in later!!!!! he he he!!!!! they are way too cute not to blurb all out in one post but then I think they need a post each, no sharing on these cuties!!

Wryn's cookie comes with the cutest little sentiments too, I chose one smart cookie!! and of course Christy's cookie paper that I have had for ages. I love my Tiddly Papers, there's loads to choose from (... she should totally make more so feel free to tell her so!!! romfl!!)

They are of course, in digital image and clear stamp format...swoon!! so Christy has covered all angles of crafty needs there!! he he he!!!

Right, got to go...need to go drool at the girls makes again!! come with me! they are HERE!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Friday 23 January 2015

Mo's DP2 challenge....Anything Goes/ optional Warm ....

Image- Ragged Maggie.
Hi everyone.

I am so very sorry I am a day late posting my DT challenge make for the DP2 challenge blog.

We very sadly lost Scott's Grandad very unexpectedly on wednesday and it left us all feeling very sad and not quite with it at all :( He was such a wonderful man, so quiet and gentle and he will be so very missed. We are so sad to of lost him, yet so happy he had such a long and lovely life and I will be forever grateful to him because without him, I would not have my beautiful family.

So onto my make. Our challenge this time is ...

 "Anything Goes/optional Warm"

so, Just choose at least one of Mo's images and create your own masterpiece (card, 3-D project, etc.) using this fortnight's "Anything Goes/optional Warm" theme. Up for grabs is a $5.00 voucher for Mo's online store!! 

I just had to use Ragged Maggie. She is just so sweet, keeping her little kitten all snuggled up with in her shawl. 

I just added a few little rolled flowers and pearls to embellie this one up, she really doesn't need much else bless her.

Right, got to go! there is a small boy wanting to have a draughts rally! the winner plays daddy!!

Huge hugs Lou xx



Wednesday 21 January 2015

Reach Star....

Image- Reach Star from Mo's Digital Pencil.
Starry Circle- Silhouette store.
Morning everyone!!!

Its hump day!!! half way through the week already! super yey!

Last night I had some time to myself so I took it wisely and coloured up this new and uber cute little  Reach Star guy from Mo's Digital Pencil. I don't know why (...apart from the fact that they are just super cute!!!!) I am just drawn to these cuties in their little pjs'!! theres girlie ones too so I might neeeeeeed to get those too!! lol!!

That gorgeous little moon os from the silhouette store, I found it while I was wombling around in there yesterday and thought it would just go so well with this little guy!

Right, time to pootle off! I have some card bases to get ready for adding some bits to later today and I have a ' get me out of the house I've got cabin fever' rescue mission for my mummy! she has been a but stuck in since her surgery with the bad weather ( slipping for her could ruin everything her surgeon is trying to do for her back) so I am going to take her to the garden centre for a womble and cup of tea.

Huge hugs for you all,
Lou xxx

Tuesday 20 January 2015

LDRS SC Amber....

Stamp- Amber.
Morning everyone!

I'm back!! I also have share of LDRS Amber for you all today. She was my make for my Dies to Die For DT make yesterday too but I totally ran out of time to share her over there!!

I love this stamp, she is good for so many things but I am still in valentine mode so I got loved up with her!!

The papers in the MME Unforgettable paper pack made it easy though! they have these cute little quote pages in there so I grabbed a couple of those to embellie up!!

Thanks for peeking in!
Lou xxx

Brrrrrrrrrrrr...new house!!!

Image- Tiddly Inks Dream Home.
Promarkers- 
Burnt orange, Coral, Sunkissed pink and Blush.
Midnight Blue, Denim Blue and Pastel Blue.
Burnt Sienna, caramel and Sandstone.
Olive green and Pear green.

Hi everyone!! Its tuesday so I am busy multi tasking away with a double challenge post for 2 of my DT's!! I love beng able to combine 2 of my favs on a tuesday though! and lets be honest with gorgeous images and lush promarkers it makes it no chore!!
so....

its time for another fun challenge here on the Tiddly inks challenge blog. This time we are going all out for the colder weather so the next challenge is...

Frosty Feeling

Grab your favourite Tiddly Inks stamp or digital image and think along the lines of..

Snow, glitter, winter 
(**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 needed to combine my Tiddly make with.... the challenge set for us by our gorgeous Lou over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog. She chose...

New Beginnings.

So think new baby, new job, new house etc!!

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 sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and the lucky winner will receive a voucher to spend in their online store.

DigiStamp Boutique logo

So I went new home!I have had a couple of friends move recently so this one will be pootling off to one of the soon! 

Now do you know what the best part of this make was?... I left my little make with stickles 'frost' drying on the table and Dasher..little ratbag...decided that licking off all the 'frsot' seemed like an excellent idea...so by the time I came down the stairs there was a rather guilty looking little prince on the table, with a little house on his tongue looking at me.....ot oh!!!

Luckily I was able to rescue it and pop some more stickles on it!!!! so funny!! 

Right, little man is requesting a hot chocolate so I am off to push the button on my tassimo machine!!

Huge hugs for you all

Lou xxx

Saturday 17 January 2015

Valerie in Love...awwwww cuteness!!

Image- Valerie in Love from Mo's Digital Pencil.
Afternoon Peeps!

I did mean to blog this uber cute little card this morning...but then Little Mo had an Ipad screen mishap....sigh...so we popped out to nottingham to get it fixed and I had to wait all afternoon before I could get home and blog! lol!!

I am so in love with this little image! its so cute and just perfect for valentines day. Teamed with cute papers it was just so much fun to make.

I die cut a few little hearts in my scrappy bits of paper and added a little heart button too.

My little card boxes are all over flowy so I think my Scott will be getting a few valentines from me this year!! lol!!

Right, time to go, stuffs to make!! paracetemol to take ( feeling a little pants!!)

huge hugs Lou xxx

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Coffee Run....

Papers- Affection and Affection too from Nitwits.
Morning all!!

Still have a little man down in the house but its ok because...wohooo! get me!! hubby's valentines card is in the bag!!! lol!! I had some extra time yesterday while the little guy was smooshed down on the settee with his dogs watching scooby so I had a little play with Coffee Run from Saturated Canary.

I love this image, she was just perfect for my hubby too because he loves coffee. We have had a tassimo machine ever since they first came out and he always gets the new model when its on offer! a little while before christmas he got the teeny new cute one for £30! bargain!! 

All she needed to be a super duper valentine was some gorgeous love themed papers and sentiment because she really does do all the work in that one lil image! love it!! I hot glued her on to keep her popped out because I have run out of the old faithful foam squares but to be honest the hot glue worked fabulously! I love a bit of pop!the centre of the heart and the sentiment have some pop too! I think he will love it.

Mo is a little better today. His temp is normal now and appetite is returning...made himself a salad a few mins ago but the stinky headache is still making him struggle some, medicine doesn't seem to touch it at all :( anywhoo, here is the salad he made himself! I caught him just wondering if he needed to add cheese sprinkles on the second one and his mouth looks all Elvis!!! (..please excuse my kitchen wall a la classy cardboard filling! we are part way through changing it round!!)





Thank you for popping in!
hugs Lou xx

Tuesday 13 January 2015

Priscilla...in a magazine!! whoop whoop!!!

Image- Priscilla from Tiddly Inks.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! I am in a magazine!!! its sooo exciting!!! its on page 26 of this months Complete Cardmaking and on the little CD Rom cover too!!! I feel all famous!! (ok...so I know i am totally not but it feels like a zillion dollars anyway!!!!)
Looksie!!!!!



Our brief was steam punk but in the brighter colours of spring! easy peasy with delicious papers!! a little bit of Lou treatment on the gorgeous Priscilla to match her up to the papers and ker-ping!! card made and excitedly mailed off in hope that they used it!! and they did!! wohooooo!!! all the little directions on how to make the card are in there too! I love it!!! 

It has really cheered us up in the house of Daubney today because Mo is at home poorly with me and I am still fighting the headache of evils! we are having a scooby doo fest now (...and hopefully a snooze at some point since we were awake almost all night as Mo's head was so sore, even after ibrufen, poor pickle).

Right! got to go! scooby is calling!!

huge hugs Lou xxx


Monday 12 January 2015

You have my Heart.......

Morning everyone!

I hope you all had wonderful weekends. Its my turn to post over on the DTDF inspiration blog today and I just had to get busy with some of the new Dienamics releases I treated myself to last week! ...well they were too cute to resist!!

I have to say that Dienamics Tag Builder Blue Prints 3, is going to be my favourite little die set for a while! its just wonderful and so much fun to play with! I love the little stitched heart that you can pop on after you have cut the heart out, its soooo sweet!! 

The stamp set comes cram packed full of super little sentiments for all occasions too! I loved the 'you're pawsitively awesome' one so that got splodged on!

Right, enough waffling on for you all me thinks!!

huge hugs Lou xx



Sunday 11 January 2015

cakey watt......

Stamp- Cakey Watt by christy croll for Stamping Bella.
Afternoon everyone!

I have been fighting with the migraine from hell since last night, urgh, totally dislike these migraines, I am positive they are coming with age but urgh they are horrid. So to cheer myself up I have been busy pootling away making a quick little card.

Happy cards always lift my spirits and so far...until the pain killers wear out...it is doing the trick!!!! 

I have a growing little stash of Christy's stamps for stamping bella now! everytime I peek a little bargain one I treat myself to it!! ...obsessed by christy croll much me thinks!!! lol! but I just adore her style.

He was so perfect for a man card to add to the man card stash I just went with the flow!! lol!!

Right, off for a cuppa and a soak in the bath to relax my head and neck muscles and kick this evil migraine into the soil before work tonight! ...if not..will be even more strange than my normal self on the painkillers!! he he he!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Thursday 8 January 2015

Hush ~ DP2 Anything Goes.....

Image- Hush from Mo's Digital Pencil.
Papers- Affection and Affection too from Nitwits.
Dies- Magnolia Doo Hickey club 3.
Afternoon everyone!

its time for a new challenge over on the the DP2 challenge blog and this time its one of my absolute favs, picked by our fabulous Pat its a good old free reign on whatever you fancy with...

Anything Goes!!



So whilst drooling through my Mos Digital Pencil images folder for which one to use (...and printing out and colouring up 4...I am so not the only person who does that right?!!!) I went for the stunning little Hush.

Oh I do love this one so much. You can boy or girl baby it, I went for girl! and the edges on the images are done so that they are soooo soft and the effect once you colour it up is amazing! almost makes me look like I know how to colour!! he he he!!

All I needed then was some stunning papers to pop with her and a splodge of distressing and glue! I even squooshed in some of my fabby new dies from my Doo Hickey club 3! oooh I love it!!

Well, I had better pootle of the pooter and get myself ready to walk 2 gorgeous furry peeps before we pick up their brother from school. He is soooo tired this week. The first week back is always a bit of a sensory overload for him so I am looking forward to the weekend.

Huge hugs for you all
Lou xxx

Tuesday 6 January 2015

New Beginnings and a Sketch....!!!


Image- Tiny Dancer from Tiddly Inks.
Promarkers-
Burnt orange, Coral, Sunkissed pink and Blush.
Midnight Blue, Denim Blue and Pastel Blue.
Burnt Sienna, caramel and Sandstone.

Morning peeps!!

Its a multi challenge kinda day for me again today! My Tiddly Inks challenge day and Passion for Promarkers Day are falling on the same weeks recently so bundling up some uber yumminess for both is just awesome! I love it! 2 favs in one!! what could be more fun!!!

So, what are the challenges this week?!! oooh fun ones!! ok so over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog it is...

New Beginnings

Grab your favourite Tiddly Inks Fairy stamp or digital image and think along the lines of..

new year, new babies, new job, new home, new pet etc!!
(**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**)

And over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog today its Me!! he he he!! yup, it was my choose day and I went for a good old Lou sketcharoo!! we are sponsored by Letraset 
Letraset Logo
 and the prize this week is a  Promarker Manga 12 pen set (Chibi). 
(Please remember to be eligible for the Passion for Promarkers prize you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.)


And the sketch just had to be fun and Lou-ish so you got a round card sketch! I love round shaped cards and I don't make nearly enough of them. They are just so much fun! I went with a new year theme choice for my New Beginnings for Tiddly Inks and I love how it came out!

I merged my little Tiny Dancer onto the year 2015!! fun!!!!!!! 

Right, I have to get a wriggly on, its the first day back to school....boooo!! Mo is fine but mummy is sad! Scott went back to work after a 2 week break too so I feel all melancholy this morning about the distinct lack of men there is going to be in my house!!! we have had such a wonderful break.

huge hugs for you all
Lou xxx