UK crafters thread challenge- shocking pink and lime green!!

Hello peeps!!!!!!!

well, the weather here today is blurgh!!!!!!! grey,rainy,dull,blurgh!!! so I was quite happy to do my uk crafters thread challege. This week it was to use shocking pink and lime green, they are not colours I have used before so this was a little bit like stepping out of my comfortable colours box!!!! lol!!!!! I had a really nice download called flirty snowflakes from Karen's blog that i love to visit, you should go there she is awesome.

I cuttlebugged the pink with snowflakes and the green with swiss dots to make it a bit more christmassy. I left a couple of the swirly bits from the green on and they just overlapped the pink nicely and I popped a bit of green bling on the ends of them.

I layered up the christmas tree and popped some pink bling on it for baubles ( it was nice to do as there were little baubles printed on there already!! ) and used my scalloped oval and oval punch that I got from rosy again ( oooooh i love,love,love it!!!! if you haven't got it you NEED it!!!!! lol!!!!!)

I did a little bit of pink metallic thread stitching and popped the sentiment on my ovals with my computer!!! the sentiment is part of that lovely 'have yourself a merry little christmas' song!! I decided it was a good one because it was such a bright card!!!!!!!!

Be warned guys, it is crafty night tomorrow night and sam will be bringing more images for the boutique and Ihave had some really cute ideas too!!!!!

My lovely new butterfly punch!!!

My lovely friend Karen got me this lovely butterfly punch for my birthday, when she is punched you can fluff her wings out and she becomes 3d.

I have been desperate to use it properly ( i have spent the last few weeks punching butterflies in scrap bits of paper and card!!!) and the challenge on the Uk crafters thread seemed like a perfect time to use it!!!!! 

The challenge was to make a card using plain paper/card and use 3 buttons. I folded my pink card so there would be a little pink edge showing and then ran my white card through my cuttlebug and then punched my little butterfly (shes so cute!!) then i inked stickied her up with my watermark pad and chalked her shimmery pink, (i did the same to the edges of the white card too) then i doodled a fluttery flight path with my fineliner pen and used 3 little pink flower buttons,threaded with a little bit of pink thread to match and it was done!!!!

I have had a busy week with  Ryan breaking his wrist and little mo being poorly (…..again! yey, more antibiotics and the upset tummy to go wit them!!!!) and looking though the entries for the Lily-boo DT call. Please go and peek, there is a gorgeous rose freebie from sam on the blog too.

Thankyou for popping in!!!

Silver anniversary and getting ready to walk 6 miles at midnight tonight for charity!!!

Morning peeps!!!!!

It is a glorious sunn day here in Lincoln (which is fab !!) I am sooo pleased it is sunny at the moment because at midnight tonight I will be walking 6 miles for charity. Lincoln is a lovely little historic town but oh boy do we have some steep hills to climb tonight!!! I don't mind though because it is for a really good charity so me doing a bit of a womble is no trouble at all!!!! Check out my giving page here

My friend Sharon asked me to make a silver annivesary card for her so here it is!! The picture was really hard to take as it is miri card and no matter how I tried to take it everything around the card kept shining beautifully!!!!!

I used my wedding solutions cart to make this one along with the 25 being cut from my storybook cart. I made myself a gatefold card with my scorepal and I used some gorgeous silver mirri card from my stash and embossed it in my cuttle bug with divine swirls for the front panels. A little bit of blingy ribbon went just right on the front. I raided my anitas gems for a bit of bling and computer generated the sentiment inside. I think it turned out really pretty.

Wish me luck for tonight and please no rain!!!!!!!!! lol!!!!

Diaper cake!! no eggs reqiured!! lol!!!

Helllooooo!!!!! not a card or anything made of paper which is wierd for me!! lol !!!!

Tonight I made a diaper cake for a friend at work who is having a baby shower for a friend. I based it on the really cute, squishy teddy I bought to go on top and covered the nappies in some sheer voile that is a champagney kind of colour. I found some brown gingham ribbon and made the flowery thingies at the front by tying an elastic band around a bit of viole and then trimming it, i pulled it around a little to make the flowery/rouchey kind of effect. I think I might get addicted to making!!!

I have to report though that I have been naughty and spent my months allowance on some yummy things from the new 'stampin up' catalogue that my lovely friend rosy sent me (......actually I have decided I was good actually because my wish list is a lot longer than the bits that I did order!!! lol!!!) I ordered 2 lovely oval punches and an oval stamp set and next month I will be starting on the inks and the rollarounds look cute too and ..............!!!! lol!!! Rosy, you bad enabler you!!!! lol!!!!

Well I am off to catch some zzzzz's now!!

thankyou for popping in!!!! xxxxxxxxx

Strawberries and dream....

Good Morning peeps!!!! it is so nice here in Lincoln this morning, we had a little shower of rain in the night and the air is lovely and clear this morning which is nice as it has been so muggy.

I am enjoying the quiet outside as in around 3 hours there will be the constant noise of helicopter rides and big planes!!! I live right near RAF Waddington and it is the airshow this weekend!!! Mo is not a fan of the noisy planes so we are taking a womble into town together and catching the bus back while scott and ryan are at a football tournament all day.

The card is my challenge card for the ukcrafters thread over on the cricut mb, this weeks challenge was to emboss and I just had to use this cute little guy from Lily-boo’s boutique Little mouse collection
I coloured him with my copics and cut him out, then I inked and doodled on a scalloped white card and popped a bit of satin white ribbon on ( ...i always follow robyn's cheater method for ribbon,it saves such lot of ribbon that way thankyou robyn!!!!!) then I glued on the cute mose and made a sentiment in word, I stuck with my "strawberries and dream....." sentiment, its cute with him snoozling away on a tummy full of strawberries!!!!!

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polkadoodle challenge card!!!!

Morning peeps!!!! well there is another boiling hot day forecast !!!! i hope it isn't a muggy one though as I am sooo tired!! mo and I have been up 4 nights in a row with asthma now and I am starting to feel like my batteries are running on empty!!!!!

I actually managed to get my polkadoodle challenge card done last night though!!!

This one is for my friend kelly who is turning 30 next week, I thought it was quite funny as I was just sitting in my crafty garage making it with my computer on (i always have my computer out there to chat with my friends oin the cricut mb!!!!) and she popped up on my facebook!!!! she must of known I was thinking of her!!!!

I used one of Lily-boo’s boutique printable images
(celebration collection) for the litle cupcake and resized it in paint shop pro to make it 2" so it would cut out nicely with my fiskars squeeze punch!! I coloured it with m copics, 3d glossed the strawberry and stickled the pink frosting, the photo came up a bit pants but it looks yummy in "real life"!!! lol!!!

I made my landscape card base with some pink card and matted some pretty retro -ish pink summery papers I had in my stash. I cut a little rectangle of the happy birthday paper from the same stack and did a few white doodle lines on it. I inked the edges of the pinks a bit to lift them from the base and used some anitas glittery lines for the 'ribbon' bit ( oooh, if you haven't tried them you should get some, they are sticker glittery lines that come on a little sheet and they are fab to use) I stamped a little 'celebrate' on the black square and added a couple of pink card candy's to bling it up a little more ( kelly is actually excited about turning 30!! i was in complete denial when i turned 30!!!lol!!!)

I like this card, it is bright and cheery!!! I had better go and get ready for work now!! Mo has his 2nd little visit to school today and he seems to be quite looking forward to it today ( he was a little quiet about it all last night and didn't fancy it but has cheered up about it this morning so thats a relief!!)

Thankyou for popping in!!!!!!

Daring cardmakers challenge!!

Hellloooooo!!!!!!

I have had such a lovely day today. We have had a bit of a family BBQ with my dad, big sis and hubby and their children and it was sooo much fun!!! you should of seen the "trying to get a photo with us all in with camera's on timer" palava!! it was so funny!!!!!

(*lou cringes at her face in some of the pictures!!!!!)

Anyway, my lovely friend Enfys showed me the way to postpals today with the Daring cardmakers challenge so I decided to jump in and do one.

Oh my, I had a tough time reading the little stories and an even tougher time choosing but I decided on Tie D, he had such a cute,cheeky look on his face I couldn't resist him!!!!

I used one of Lily-boo’s boutique
for my cute spider circle and heat embossed the spider with my embossing pen and some sparkly black powder, I coloured his little boots red and then put 3d gloss over him t make him stand out a bit. I went over the web with a silver pen and doodled a bit to!!! I embossed the mat with tiny bubbles, inked it white and then added a little ribbon with tie's name in little wooden alphabet stickers from my stash and a little bit of silver thread. The love and bugs is from my ugly bugs set from andrea. On the inside I made up a sentiment that says

" Have a bug-ely day" ( instead of have a lovely day!!)

So my little spider will be going on a little trip in the mail and plop onto Tie's doormat this week!! I hope it makes him smile!!!! If you have a spare minute pop on over to daring cardmakers and join in with the challenge.
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Uk crafters thread challenge card!!

Hellloooo!!!!!! Over on the Ukcrafters thread on the cricut mb we have a new challenge mistress (........Lou pictures Kerry in black leather cracking a whip..!!!lol!!!)

and we had a great sketch to follow.

I decided to cut out a little window for the circle on the sketch and use Little mo's super cute stamp set (shhhh, don't tell him I did that,I would be in trouble!! he saved up his pocket money to buy one set and when he got there there was this set too so he chose this one!!) I stamped and heat embossed the webs with sparkly powder but it hasn't come up too well in the pictures and then cut a circle out for the windo using my george cart on my cricut, I glued the cut out circle to the inside of the card and popped the cute little spider on some acetate with StazOn so that when the card is open he is still 'hanging around'!!!!

The cute little spider is called scatty, he ,the little webs and sentiment come in the set too. The set is ugly bugs set 7 and all of andrea’s ugly bugs stamps are just so cute,so check them out!!

Right, I am off for my weekly fix of the mentalist now...mmmmmmm...simon baker....mmmmmmmm....!!!!

thankyou for popping in xxxxxxxx

Oh my poor neglected little blog!!!!

Oh boy ,have I been busy and my poor little blog has been sitting and waiting for me to pay it some attention!!!!!
First we have my little niece lily-boo's 4th birthday card!! she loves cupcakes so I used one of lily-boo's boutique's cakes from the 'celebrations' collection and put real cake sprinkles on top!!!!! lots of fun!!! the card base I made in CDS and I felt I needed a tilda to sit on top of the cake!!!!!! I like this card, its cute!!! Close up of yummy cake!!!!!

Awwwwwwww!!! my crafty little boys in my crafty garage making daddy's fathers day cards!!!.....yes my worktop really is that messy in there!!!!lol!!!!! thats why i haven't shown you al a propoer piccy of it yet!!!! (lou winces with embaressment!!!! while all her friends think my godness how does she craft in there!!!! i promise it is organised chaos!!!)

Anyway my cute little guys both chose edwin fishing and heat embossed him before they coloured him in and i just had to pinch a piccy of them busy!!!

This is scott's nanna's birthday card!!! I used my new tilda stamp and paper pieced her pinny,shoes and bobble with paper to match the background paper. The little hearts are stickled and 3d glossed but as always I struggled to get a good piccy!!!!

And finally!!!! scotts dad's birthday card using my nitwits collection fbq some assembly required!!

Whew!!!!! well thats it for now, there are actually 4 more cards not on here that I made and posted so I have been rushed off my feet!!!!!! I am hoping to get time to do my polkadoodle card later but i have my plan to do for work first!!!!!!!!!

see you soon!!!!!!!

hugs

Lou xxxxxx

omg!!!!! run don't walk straight over to Enfys 's blog, she has the sweetest blog candy I have ever seen on there, here's a piccy for you to drool over!!!!!!