Get Funky- Take 5!!!

Good morning everybody!!!!!!

I cannot believe it is the first of october already!!! omgosh where did the month of september go? but on a much more positve note, its the 1st october today which means its time to Get Funky!!

Lythan set us the challenge of......

Take 5.

so you can make whatever you like, be it a scrap page, card, wall hanging or anything you feel inspired to make as long as you use 5 different funkyhand papers on it. The DT have come up with some absolute corkers again so please pop over to the challenge blog for more details and have a peek at what they have been making.

So here is a full picture of my Take 5 creation!!!

I decided to use some of the gorgeous papers from the All I Want For Christmas download to make little Mo some crackers for our christmas tree.

I made the pattern for these little cuties in my cricut design studio. They are just big enough to fit in a mini little kinder bar, (which is about the only chocolate Mo will eat apart from choccy buttons!!).

I wrapped a little bit of tinsel thread around the edges to sparkle them up. I just know Mo will have so much fun popping these on the tree, plus they don't bang (which is good as he doesn't like the noise of cracker snaps!!!)

So get on with making some funky creations peeps and remember to leave a comment linking them over on the Get Funky challenge blog, I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Hugs Lou xxxx

Feeling a little bit christmassy!!!!

Morning peeps!!!

I wanted to share my edwin snow card with you all this morning. I made it with my cricut DS and a bit of cuttlebugging.I got my edwin from a stamp swap and I am so sorry I don't know what he is called but isn't he cute?!

I am so excited today because I am pootling off tonight with my BF Fi and 2 other very lovely ladies for a card making class. We will be exploring using acetate on our cards and I can't wait. I love learning about new things and its even nicer when I can go with friends as I am such a wuss at going out of the house!!!!!!

Last night I went to watch Eat, Love, Pray and it was absolutely fabulous, I loved it!!

Well, finally a sunny morning here too!! yey!!!!

This creation used....

promarkers- Skin-vanilla and pastel pink. Top and lantern- sandstone. Trousers- denim blue. Hair- sandstone and buttercup.

Cricut DS.

White linen card.

Swiss dots cuttlebug folder.

Blue chalk.

Vellum for snowy ground.

Antique linen Tim Holtz distress ink.

Got to dash....again!!! Thankyou for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxx

Baby sleeptight!!!

Morning everybody!!!

I was asked to make a baby card and this one is just too cute not to share!!! I used the cute little baby sleeptight, awwwwww!! you can just about see the little bit of sparkle on her face and on her stars under the glossy accents.

Here's the finished card!!!!

The paper on the inside mathces the outside but I forgot to take a piccy of the inside!!! lol!!!

Its dull, dreary and raining here again, yuk!!!!! I hope it clears up a bit for the weekend. I am soooo ready for the weekend already!!!!!

This creation used....

Sleeptight baby inks from Tiddly Inks.

Nitwits FBQ bear necessities download.

Tattered rose distress ink.

Promarkers: skin- vanilla and pastel pink. Babygrow- coral. Blanket- pastel pink. Moon- pastel biege and satin. Stars- pastel pink. Shading- cool grey 1.

A litte sparkle from my clear copic at you spica pen.

Glossy accents on the stars.

Martha stewart doily hearts punch.

Right in a rush for work as usual so must dash!!!

Hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 23- Crackle/ diamond glaze finishes!

Morning everyone!! Well, its Tiddly Tuesday again and as you can see I had super fun this week with my guest DT project!!
Over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we have been having oodles of fun making cards and projects with crackle finishes and diamond glazes this week, and the DT have rocked again producing some fabulous inspiration for you all . The papers are from Funkyhand and go together perfectly with my little Frank Boto, he's so darn cute!!!!

I absolutely love halloween and take Mo trick or treating with my friends and family. We all go together, normally around 5:30pm and just womble for an hour enjoying every bodies decorations.

So for this weeks challenge......

All you need to do is pick your favorite Tiddly Inks image and create using diamond glaze or a crackle finish (Christy has added a yummy freebie crackle design paper in our PCP group this week) and link your card over on the challenge blog by next Monday night at 10 PM CST.

This creation used:

Tiddly Inks Frank Boto digi stamp.

Papers from Funkyhand's Colour Me happy Cd.

Promarkers- Honeycomb, Amethyst and leaf green.

Sentiment- computer generated with Gore font from dafont.

Crackle accents- on letters.

Glossy accents- on Frank boto.

( wanted to use both!!! lol!!!)

Martha Stewart Drippy goo punch.

Ribbons and fibres from my stash.

I need to finish this little book of with a few piccies from our halloween's past ( I'll post some piccies of it when its done!)and then it will be all fit for keeping for Mo in one of Anice's fabulous new wordbook envelopes. They are awesome and at the minute they come in packs of 10, 5 white and 5 ivory and I think they are just an excellent idea!! no more teasing 12x12 paper into a envelope shape!!!

Right, off to make a cuppa and have some snuggles with Mo before school!!! He has crafty club after school today while Scott and I have his parents evening!

Have a super day everyone!!

Hugs Lou xxx

Allsorts- plain and simple!

Morning everyone!!!!

We have been fora quick womble around the car boot, nothing interesting there today. I think the cold, damp weather has kept everyone at home today! so I thought I would pop a card on my blog.

This card is for a lovely friend whose birthday was yesterday ( I still have her card as I will be seeing her on thursday night!!) I chose to do a plain and simple card ( as I did want to post it!!) which is fabulous as the challenge over on Allsorts is plain and simple this week!! so this card is going in for that!!!!

And here's a little close up of my gorgeous little stampy!!! there's a little bit of glitter and gloss on the flower heads and they look really pretty.

This creation used:

My minds eye bloom and grow papers.

Lili of the valley- Rosie Posy.

Memento Rich cocoa ink.

Promarkers- skin- vanilla and pastel pink. Hair- sandstone and buttercup yellow. Clothes- pastel pink, pastel green and buttercup for the shoes. Bouquet- pastel pink and soft green for the flowers, pastel beige and buttercup for the paper. Shading - cool grey 1.

Kelly Pannici stitched borders stamp set.

Right must dash as I have a funkyhand creation on the go and Mo is eager to get on with it!!!Thank you so much for popping in on me.

Hugs Lou xxxx

funky noel with bells on!!!!

Good afternoon!!!!
hope you all have lovely weather like we do today. Scott and I droppped Mo off at school, treated ourselves to a lovely breakfast and then came home and set to work tidying up the garden. It looks nice at the moment....all ready for little Mo to come home and fill it back up with lego models and cars!!!!
So on my bloggy today we have a most funky and gorgeous wordbook using one of Anice's fabulous new wordbook downloads,This one used the traditional wordbook download which you can find here.
Its hard to see in the piccy but I printed it out on linen card and it looks so pretty with the texture in real life!!!!
Now to make you laugh a bit!!!
I finished the wordbook yesterday and pootled off to fetch Mo from school. I came home and took a couple of piccies, popped the memory card into my computer, looked at the piccies and thought ( like we all do.....) there naff, I'll take a better piccy when little mo goes to bed.
So I get mo settled off after a story and pootle back down to take a coupe more piccies........yup naff again so I resort to my lovely light box photo thingy.....more naff piccies. By this point I am getting a little stressed with my lovely purple canon ixus and deciding it must be going flat. I put it on charge and treat myself to watching the great british bake off,( mmmmm yummo food in the final, well deserved win Ed!!!)
Go back to take another picture, its poo too so I scream at camera and threaten to squish it into the floor and do a ceremonial camera squishing dance on it!!!!!! romfl!!!!
I take one picture today ( yep, just one!!) telling camera as I am taking it that if its a poo picture I will swap her for scott's 'all singing all dancing god I don't know which button to press' camera
.......and whoop whoop little purple camera does me proud today!!!!!! phew!!! the glitter on my letters still isn't as sparkly as it is in real life but it came out ok!!
so thats me for today!!!
huge hugs
Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 22- Sketch challenge!!

Hello peeps!!

Its that Tiddly time of the week again and this week We have a fabulous sketch for you from the lovely Betty Boo.

Isn't it cool?!!!

I would also like to send some cyber hugs and cyber chicken soup to Betty as she is a little under the weather at the moment. Huge hugs Betty xxxxx

Please use her great sketch to create a card using one of Christy's fabulous Tiddly Inks images. As always the DT have made an amazing bunch of cards to inspire you so make sure you go and check them out before you start!!

I really hope you get a chance to join in. Christy is in the middle of creating a pool of potential DT members for the Tiddly Inkers. You can read more about that here. So if you fancy getting Tiddly a little more often now would be a great time to start!!!!! lol !!!
You have until next Monday at 10 PM CST to link your card on the challenge blog.

So, here's me for this week!!!!!!! I am so excited about this card because ........

I made it for Mo!!! (using the new stamp especially made for him by Christy!!!)

So, Mo was doing his Tiddly Tuesday shopping a couple of weeks ago and said

""I need a school boy tiddly, has Christy got one in her pencil?"

Awwww, too cute!!! I told Christy what Mo had said, ( he is just too cute not to share with people!!) and last week an email arrived for Mo. Well, let me tell you, he was soooo excited. I let him open the piccy ( he is rather computer savvy like Daddy!) and he actually squeals!!! lol!!!

He said " oh mummy, look its me!!!!

Awwww some more!!!

So I set to work pretty much right away using Betty's fab sketch. I decided to be a little different and cut out the little squares in the sketch for windows, resizing the blackboards to fit in the windows, cute!! and added a couple of little schooly dingbats to the boards. I coloured my Mo up in Mo colours!!!!

This creation used.....

Schoolboy Mo digi from Tiddly Inks

Blackboard paper from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- Hair-sandstone, buttercup. Skin- vanilla, pastel pink. Jeans- denim blue, pastel blue. Bag- berry red. Shirt-pastel beige. T-shirt-pastel green. Smiley face on the T-shirt- Gold. Books- a bit of all the above!!!

Tombats 1 dingbats font from Dafont.

Computer made sentiment using Kirsten ITC font.

Antique linen distress ink.

Bit of doodling around the edges of Mo and the card base.

Mo is absolutely loving school so far which is fantastic as he wasn't at all sure last year! He is missing his best little buddy but they have discovered skype and had a couple of chats on there so that eases things a little for him. He has already told me he is taking this card for his teacher when it gets to half term break.

I would love to see some peeps using the gorgeous little Mo on their Tiddly challenge cards this week!!! How exciting!!

Ok time for me to get ready for work!! thank you for popping in on me!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

A scrap page for Grace.

Morning everyone!

I have had a busy couple of days trying to work out a lovely scrap page for my mum to give to her friend Carolyn. This is Grace.
Grace sadly passed away in january after getting meningitis. My mum tells me Grace was always such a happy,smiley girl and she loved pink, so when mum gave me this photograph to work on I wanted to make it a happy page.
My mum also wanted some hearts on there to so this is where I ended up.
The heart around Grace and the letters for her name are cut with glittery pink adhesive paper its yummy and cuts beautifully in my cricut.
I used some little beads to glitz up my doily hearts martha punched strip (....and yup, it took me ages to get them all on!!!! lol!!!!!)
The little ripped bit on the top left is a little trick taught to me by my friend Chris ( she s a lot better at it than me!!!!) and its so addictive as it just makes a lovely feature on a page/card. I popped some eyelets in near the end of the tear to make it look like it was being held together by them and the black hemp thread.
The little elephant charm is there for never forgetting Grace and it had such a pretty little heart on it too, it just seemed to want to sit there.
I made myself some flowers with my boho flowers punch and some fronds with my martha punch to add a little something to the heart surrounding Grace.
I hope Carolyn likes this. I actually felt a little sad making this when this beautiful, happy girl kept smiling at me and then I remembered she had gone.

This creation used:
Papermania paper from my stash!
martha stewart doily hearts and frond punches.
hobbycraft adhesive glitter paper in Pink.
tiny beads.
SU boho flowers punch.
Making memories clear sticker from my stash!
elephant charm.
My magnolia swirl stamp just gently on the photo.

Well, I must get on. I have oodles of housework I must sort and a dog that needs walking!! If I get all that sorted this morning I will be able to craft away tonight!!!
Hope you all have wonderful saturdays!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 21- Our Pets.

Morning everybody!!

Oh I hope you had have better weather than me today!! it is cold, damp and very windy!! but luckily I have my guest DT card for Tiddly Inks challenge blog to post today so that's brightened up my day!!
Its challenge 21 already!!! so here's the details for the challenge.....

We have a very fun challenge if you happen to be a pet lover because this week our challenge is all about our pets. :)
Grab your favorite Tiddly Inks pet or animal image (you can find 3 animal freebies here) and join in.
You have until next Monday at 10 PM CST to complete and link your creation and link it using the little inlinkz gadget on the challenge blog.

I loved making this card because I had a small little helper with it!!! I got Mo to pick which animal I should use and he chose Father bumble bear. He said "its just like him and daddy and could we make daddy's birthday card?"
So we set to work. I used my fav manly backing papers from funkyhand for this one too ( the pack is slowly disappearing now :( time to buy some more!! lol!!!) and they matched the colouring on my bears an absolute treat.
I used a lovely heart sentiment stamp to make a charm with my shrinkies ( yup, led astray by Lou and Chris again!!!! love ya girlies xxx).
Then, (and this is my absolute favourite bit on this card!!!) I gave Mo my black sakura glaze pen and asked him to write Daddy somewhere on the card. He chose where to write it all be himself and I am super proud of where he wrote it. He wrote it on the heart, but not just straight! He wrote it so carefully and followed the shape of the heart adding some little kisses!! I think he is definitely picking up the crafty genes a treat!!! and it will make a super special card for Daddy's birthday in november.

This creation used....
Father Bumble Bear from Tiddly Inks.
Funky Fellas paper pack from Funkyhand.
Shrinkies.
Baby bear hugs heart stamp from my stash ( my mum bought me this one at reevsby show so I am sorry I don't know who made it :( )
Martha Stewart doily hearts punch.
Ribbon from my stash.
Promarker- sandstone and pastel pink.
Heart cut on my cricut with george cart.

Well I must pootle off now and get ready for the day!
Thank you so much for popping in on me and thank you so much everybody for your lovely comments, they always brighten up my day xxxx
Hugs Lou xxx

Christmas princess card!

Morning peeps!!

Just a quicky post this morning as Mo and I are just getting ready for school/work!!!

Here is my little christmas card I made at cricut club on saturday.

I designed this card in cricut design studio over 3 1/2 years ago now but I still love using it! and on saturday I just had to use it to put my gorgeous christmas princess from Tiddly Inks.

I coloured her up with my promarkers, berry red ,of course, and a few copic at you spica red in there too for bling!! and a good old christmassy feel!! and her hair though it doesn't show up is really sweet as it is grey, white and has a few splashes of copic at you spica silver in there too.

I cuttlebugged the letters for 'snow' , inked them with a bit of silver and popped them out with a bit of silicone.

I used a bit of silver mirri board and cuttlebugged it with one of the new bigger cuttlebug folders that Fi had in her box....can't remember what it was called though!!!

I also tied a little bit of red satin ribbon onto the side and it was done.

This creation used....

Christmass princess from Tiddly Inks.

White linen cardstock.

silver mirri board.

swiss dots embossing folder.

snowflake embossing folder ( can't remember what it was called)

silver ink pad.

red satin ribbon.

promarkers- berry red for the dress, hat. vanilla and pastel pink for the skin. cool grey 1 and 2 for the hair

copic at you spica glitter pens silver and red for the hair and dress.

Right must dash!!!

Big hugs Lou xxx