funky birthday!!

This is my second post today!!! I wishI could say I made 2 cards today but I haven't!! I made this one a couple of weeks ago ready to send off to Anice with some other funky bits!!!

I love the paper on this card, its from my funkyhand dreams come true cd along with its little digi stamp flowers that are in the extras part of the cd. I love the funky and modern papers and stamps on the cd, they are just so much fun to use!!

The scalloped cardbase is a craftwork cards one, distressed a bit around the edges with antique linen distress ink.

I cut the digi with an oval nestie and added a bit of green bling to the flowers and stamped on a little happy birthday sentiment.

I used a tiny bit of lace and ribbon across the middle to break it up.

For an extra bit of yumminess I folded back one of the corners and turned a scrap of my patterned paper to differ the direction of the stripes through the pattern to match the inside of the card and added a little brad to hold the rolled corner back.

That really is it for today!! the bike ride from yesterday has caught up with me and I have got all sleepy!!!! so off for a cuppa and a fig roll to wake me up enough for a monday night womble around everybodies blogs!!!

Hugs Lou xx

Tiddly Inks challenge 16-windows.

Hello peeps!!!

I had an absolutely wonderful day yesterday. We went to Grimsthorpe Castle with some special friends ( including mo's "best best best best best friend"!!!). We cycled for 9.4 miles, most of the ride was on lovely ground but there was some very definate off roading over bumpy grass that left my thighs a burning!!!! romfl! we had a gorgeous relaxed picnic lunch and then onto exploring the gardens and veggy patch and of course the adventure playground. All 3 boys adored going in with the deers and sheep and Mo was amazed by the male deers with huge antlers!

Today Mo and I have been watching the combine again! He is always memorised by this huge piece of machinery!! he absolutely loves them.

So enough Lou waffle and onto my card!!!!

The challenge over on Tiddly Inks challenge blog this week is windows. Now I have to admit my firs attempt I just couldn't warm to so I decided to go for clean and simple with this one. I have had this cute little girl, called watcha doing? for a while and not used her and she just lended herself to the window with her little peeking face and hands that fitted wonderfully over the window ledge.

And how awesome is the gothic window?!!! I love it.It comes with the gorgeous scattered brickwork around it too. I printed it out onto some linen cardstock to get a sort of rough stone look and coloured it all with my chalks.I really like the stoney chalky effect. You can just about see the gorgeous trees and grass through the window

I coloured my little girl with my promarkers and embossed her so she stands out through the window.

I went for an easel fold because they are sweet cards and used the sentiment that comes with the little girl to hold the easel up.

I am actually quite chuffed with a simple little card for today!!! will be making some more cards tonight as I have 4 birthdays coming this week!!! busy me!!!

Thank you for popping in!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxxx

glitter and glitz challenge!!

Wow, a mega migraine knocked me back yesterday and for a bit of this morning but then scott took me to tesco's to get some migraine tablets, took 2 and I am feeling quite good at the minute!!!!

I have even managed to make 2 cards in as many hours ( lou thinks these could be great tablets and she will have a migraine more often!!! romfl!!!).

My first card is my entry for the 'Glitter and glitz' challenge over on penny black at allsorts.

I have had this penny black t is for transparent critters party stamp set in my stamp stash for 2 years or so!!! I have made one card using it but I got it out this morning, dusted it off and stamped away to make this gorgeous card for scott's mum's birthday next week. ( i am posting this in the hope that they have left for the caravan and she doesn't have a sneaky peek at my blog before she goes......!!!!!!)

I coloured it up with my promarkers and added lots of versamark brilliance dazzle, and a bit of at you spica glitter pen dazzle to the cake and candle. I glazed icing and the candle flame for good measure too!! The little acetate butterflies have got glitter on the back of them too that just sparkles through the acetate beautifully.

I made the mum bit with my bargain find thickers from tkmaxx. I put a bit of versamark brilliance on the letters and the roses to glitter them up a bit and the little fronds are one of my yummy marthas!!

The dark green card base is pearlescent cardstock and the gorgeous linen texture looking paper is from my funkyhand deams come true cd, the faux stitching on them is my gorgeous new kelly panacci stamp set ( enabled by the lovely Lou and Fleur xxxxxxxx).

Now onto my second card of the day!!! this card is for my lovely sister in law, verity. I love her to bits but haven't seen her much this year :(. The 2 gorgeous little people on the front are my niece and nephew. My very amazing hubby took this picture of them a few weeks ago when we had a play day at our local nature park, it has a gorgeous park.

I have used my gorgeous funkyhand paper again ( one piece of A4 for 2 card is fab!!). After seeing kathy's fantastic holey cards I just had to do another one with a big window and went for a circle to go with the tunnel they were playing in whe this photo was taken. There was a little girl behind rufus but the magic that is my husband edited her out for me so I could have just rufus and harriet in the piccy.

The swirls are my magnolia swirly stamp ( yup, enabled by Lou again!!!) stamped with frayed burlap distress ink. Inside te card the paper is one of my free my minds eye papers from a mag and a bit more swirly stamp and ink. I cut around the photo where harriet's foot was to make thm pop out a bit.I love how this turned out.

Apologies for if my writing and sentences are a bit waffley, these tablets make me feel a little squiffy!!!! Right off for a womble with mo and the dog, think the fresh air will do me good and it looks terribly like rain again so I had better sneak out while I can!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me,

Big hugs Lou xxxxxxxx

A funky little book !!

Morning peeps!!! I tried to get this post on lat night but our internet wasn't playing due to a fried wireless hub!!!! so Mr.D has swapped the hub for our home hub so I can get on the internet, oooh he's fab!!!

Firstly and most importantly!!!.....

Anice will be demoing live Create and Craft TV show TODAY!!!!! Friday the 13th of August at 9am!!

You will the find Create and Craft on TV channels Sky Channel 671, Freeview 36 & Freesat 813 so please the in and take a good look at the fab colour me happy and dreams come true cd's in use ,they are absolutely super.

I used it to create this gorgeous little memo book and matching pencil!!! ( using the old faithful beer mats and ikea pencils of course!!!). This little book uses the awesome big dotty paper on delighted laughter colourway. Its just delicious!!

I made the pages using some gorgeous recycled index cards from the poundshop, I love recycled card!!!

I made a couple of gorgeous little pockets with paper matching the cover of the book, a bit of chalk pad around the edges and a little help from my loopy martha to pretty it up even more!!

I made a little vellum pocket with a tag in for a special message and a little holder for the pencil so it doesn't go floating away around the handbag of the receiver!!! lol!!!!!


A few funky faux brads, a little bit of gorgeous green ribbon and a punched circle with 'memo's' written on it and I was finished!!! I edged my punched circle with some more loopy martha to tie it in with the pocket pages inside the book.

Right, must dash as I need to get a cuppa ad claim my place on the settee to watch the funkyhand papercrafting on create and craft and mo wants to get ready to wave to funkylady!!! please don't forget to tune in and see what the DT have been making as they are all awesome, I have a long way to go to catch up!!!!

Big hugs

Lou xxxx

my card for my fabulous hubby!

My second post of the day!!!!! told you I would be back later!!! Lol!!!

So this card is for my amazing husband Scott. We will of been together for 8 wonderful years tomorrow, 4 of them married. We chose to get married on the date we first got together as it holds so much for both of us. For any of you who know me already, you will know Scott is amazing. He supports and encourages my crafting which I appreciate fully and he is the best guy ever.
Ok enough of me slushing and getting emotional!!! onto my card!!!

I got this funky fella's paper pack from funky hand before I got my little place on the DT. I loved that it was proper fella paper! boys colours and patterns!!
I had an idea for this card last night and then it just flowed!! I cut my heart on my cricut in the patterned paper first, I used the shadow function fr it because I knew I wanted another layer to peep through too.
The funky fella's paper cut like butter (which was fab as sometimes my cricut decides to eat my papers for a snack!!!!)

Then I cut my underneath layer in normal so it had a nice edge showing beneath the patterned layer.I roughed up the edges on both as its a man card!!!

The 'love' text stamp is from magnolia and I stamped it with frayed jeans distress ink and then went around the edges of it with my antique linen. I wanted to smudge the edges of the text into my antique linen but think I will have to practice that a bit more!!!

Then a bit of inking and time to cut the sentiment. I chose the 'I love you' from george again and cut it in the same papers to match it in. I popped it on a piece of acetate with a heart shaped brad so it dangles above my heart. I popped some crackle glaze on the sentiment but its a little hard to see in the piccy I think.
The 2 little hearts in the bottom left I embossed on my foam mat, inked a little with black and then siliconed onto my card.

I hope Scott will love this, I find mens cards a bit tricky!!!! but it will have a slushy essay on the inside by tomorrow morning !!!!

Thank you so much for popping back in!!

hugs Lou xx

whats cooking this morning?!!!

Yup, its my 'b' plates from my cuttlebug!!

These ones are the ones I use for cutting ( i have 2 sets of 'b' plates, one for cutting and one for embossing!!).

They were looking awfully bendy and getting hard to push through my little green cuttlebug so one of my lovely cricut MB friends, Pam, gave me a lovely recipie for sorting them out!! I just has to share Pam's recipie!!!

Here it is!!!!!

Take 2 shamefully bendy and tatty 'b' plates and place on a baking tray!! Preheat the oven to 160c (and reassure your 5 year old that he won't have to eat them when they are cooked!!!!) Yep, that one on the left hand side is so bent it won't even lay on the tray!!!!!!

Bake for 10 mins!!

Take out of the oven and leave to cool !!

Just look at the difference!!!!!
OOOOh pam!!!! thank you so much, I love how straight they are now!!!!!! How cool is that!!!!!
Right off for a cuppa now!!! then to try and take a good piccy of scott's anniversary card for tomorrow made with my fabulous funky fellas paper I got from funkyhand last month, it cut like an absolute dream in my cricut.
See you soon!!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx

Fit for a princess!!!

Hello!!!

The challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog is 'Fit for a princess'.

It has taken me a few days to get this finished off as I have been at craft club and today I have been suffering with the dreaded monthlies, grrrrrrrr!!!!

So onto my little project!!!!

I decided to go for a little door plaque fit for a little princess!! I know that my niece Lily will love this!

I bought the little crown shaped frame from Ikea quite some time ago ( .....probably about the time I borrowed some pencils for my mini books!!! romfl!!!!) and it is just so adorable. I knew what I wanted to do with it because the challenge over on sir stampalots blog is 'Bring on the bling'

I am so lucky to have a creatopia which meant that all I had to do to bling up my terribley plain crown was run it through my creatopia and then sprinkle my gorgeous glitter over the top!!!! crown frame done!!! I bought this glitter at the dome show a couple of months ago when margaret, Fi and I went on our jolly road trip!!!!! It is gorgeous, so sparkly and extremely fine, when I remember where I go it from I will pop it in this post.......!!!

The gorgeous little everyday princess is coloured up with my promarkers. She is pastel beige and coral. Her hair is my dull ivory copic ciao pen as I love to do my hair 'Lysa style' since watching her awesome tutorial ( you can watch it here!) Thanks Lysa xxxxxx

The little 'The Princess's Bedroom' was done on my computer.

So there we have it, my entry for the sir stampalots challenge and Tiddly Inks challenge!! both are fab fun this month so make sure you pop over to each and join in.

Right I am off to cheer myself up a bit more by checking out every bodies fab bloggies on a sunday night blog womble!!! If anyone fancies a visit from me leave me a comment so I can find you!!! That way can just click on your name if I am not following yo already!! lol!!! see you all soon!!

Hugs

Lou xxxxx

Mini books are so much fun!!

Morning Everyone!!!

Now I know that it arrived and Kat has opened it I can post her little book I made her last week for her birthday!!!!

I was going to put it in for the Get funky challenge this month which is pockets!!

I used some gorgeous pink flowery paper from the free romance colourway on my Dreams come true papercraft factory from funkyhand. I adore the whimsical flowers on this one.

I printed it out and popped it through my creatopia to make a huge funky sticker!!!

The card stock I use for my little books is actually beer mats!!! it might seem a funny thing to use but they are just the perfect size and very cheap to get!!! My mum picks them up for me whenever she pops down to her local!!!!!!! romfl!!! (they probably think " hey, its that lady that takes the beer mats home" whenever she goes in!!!")

The little pocket is made out of vellum, there's one on the inside cover and the first page is a pocket on each side ( just fold a little flap of paper up!)

The little pages are lined paper chopped up in my dreamkutz to make sweet little pages.

Now for my confession about the pencil....I too have my mum's genes....it is an ikea pencil!! I always pick up a few when we go as they are just so super handy. I covered it with a bit of my funky sticker to make it match and then made it a little holder from my scraps left over.

The little hearts are just punched out of the paper.

The super cute little annie's card from Tiddly Inks was perfect for the job as she has a plain card in her hand.

I added kats name and then coloured annie in black and pinks, nice and girly!!! she has glossy accents on her shoes and a bit of bling on the hem of her dress, awwwww!!!

Right then, I must dash off and get myself ready for a day of biking at clumber park, it is so beautiful there and we are meeting friends for a good old cycle around and bbq picnic lunch, yummo!!!!

Hugs Lou xx

A gorjuss little birthday card!

Hello peeps!!!!!

I have had another fun day with Mo, the combine harvesters are out in the field next to our house so we have spent the day running up and own the side of the feld watching them, the farmer was so sweet and waved back at Mo every time he came past and Mo waved lie it was the first time he had seen him!!!!! Lol !!!!

So today I had a birthday card to make for my niece's little friend, Amelie. The little gorgeous girl looks so sweet!! I coloured her up and then set to work finding some papers to match her!!!! ( I don't know why I do that but it seems to work for me!!!!)

I printed Amelie's name out in a soft brown to keep in with the colours ( i had to use scotts printer as mine ran out yesterday but you can keep a secret can't you?!!!!) and used my SU oval punch set to cut it out. I distressed it a little and then I embossed it on my foam mat then foam dotted it onto the scalloped punch out.

The papers are bloom and grow and the little flower is just punched scalloped circles and the leaves are my fav martha punches!! ( i have a thing for branchy ones!!)

A little bit of lace and a tiny scrap of paper and we-hey, it was done!!! I am just waiting for the fabulous scott to send me some piccies via our network of a little book I made for Kat for her birthday as my camera is on charge!! it has been busy!!!!

back in a bit!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Playing with fabric!!!

Good morning peeps!!!!!

The sun is shining here in little ole lincoln today so I am playing catch up with my washing pile!!!

Now I have been so excited about my new DT home and I having a good play this last couple of days making some funky hand bits!!! I have printed so much out that my printing ink has run out!!!!! It was so worth it though!!!

I made this cute little fabric bag with my dreams come true papercraft factory and the bag template from the Funky Seasons cd.
As always I was spoilt for choice in the colourways and got little mo to choose a colour in the end!! he said he "I want a sunny colour because it was rainy outside!!" awww, though he did have great fun puddle splashing and a quick bike ride around the block before it started to pour down again!!!
How did I make it into the rub-ably soft material it is?!!!! It was easy!!!
First I got my blackout lining material. I use this because one side of it has the most gorgeous soft almost velour feel to it. I printed out the handbag template my normal printing paper (its 160gsm and fabulous!) then I ran it through my creatopia to make a big funky hand bag sticker!!!!
Then I stuck my funky sticker to the back of my blackout lining and gave it a good rub!! then all I did was trim around the edges and pop it back into the printer, material side up and printed the dreams come true paper on it! It dries really quickly so I just cut and scored it as I normally would and popped the bag together. I used sticky strip as its fab for being strong!! I love the little spotty paper inside the bag as it looks so pretty and covers up the boring bit of the material beautifully!!
I made a little flap for it to make it a bit handbag styley!! I drew an oval for the tag and stamped a quick happy birthday on it, added a little ribbon to it and glued it on.
The closing for the little flap is just a bow tied through a couple of eyelets on both the bag and the flap.
Mo loved the little bag, he found it when I went to make a cuppa and by the time I had get back into my craft room there were 7 little lego men peeking at me from inside the bag!!!!! so today I have the task of making another one!!
Right must go and hang on the first lot of washing and get a second load on (...the pile is rather large!!!!)
Hugs Lou xxxx