LOTV challenge 84- sketch by dawny.

Me again!!!!

Well when I saw Dawny p's yummy sketch on the Lili of the valley challenge blog I just had to get straight on with my entry so here it is!!! If you want to see the yummy sketch and all the team LOTV's gorgeous cards you will have to womble over to their challenge blog!!! it is most definately worth a huge visit!!

So for my challenge card I used my gorgeous little Riding my bike  stamp. He got inked up quicker than a flash in rich cocoa memento ink  fora soft look and splodged down onto my paper for a good colouring with my promarkers and some frayed burlap distressing!! I was thinking muddy boys and all that!!!!

He is sitting on some very gorgeous, stroke only basic grey papers that have been nestled quietly in my paper cupboard for a long time!! I thought the bike paper was just perfect to go with him!!

The sentiment is LOTV too and came in the A5 set when I bought them from the LOTV stand at doncasters stamp magic last year.

Well, I promise I am going this time!!! its ben a bit of a boy cards day for me today!!! lol!!! ( scroll down for my Tiddly Inks Gamer boy card I posted earlier!!)

Off to feed the hungry little mo now who has informed me he is ...." so hungry that his little tummy is talking to me and says I need food mummy"!! romfl!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxx



Game on!!

Morning peeps!!

I hope this thursday morning finds you all well and good. I am sore from coughing though had a better nights sleep last night thanks to vickes vapour rub on my feet.

Today I have the birthday card I made for one of the children I used to nanny for, I get sad everytime they get a year older!! This card was for Elliott.

I just had to use Gamer from Tiddly Inks becasue it is such a great boys card image ( though I have just noticed that I missed a bit of shading on his little dogs ear, ack!!) 

 I had some yummy boys papers too that were perfect so I used that too!!! a bit of inking and rafia and hey presto, one fab boys card!!!

Game On recipe!

Image -Gamer from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- skin vanilla Hair- buttercup and sandstone

. t-shirt- burnt orange.

trousers and dog- caramel and sandstone

also cool grey 3 and 4 on dog.

Papers- Memory makers

rafia

chalk eye round edges.

So off to work for me again today!! I have a card on the boil that I need to finish when I get home today and then I can do some playing just for me again!!! lol!!!
Thank you for popping in on me, I love that so many of you peek in to see me and leave me yummy commments to cheer my days up ( ....especially my lovely Vicky's typo comment she left me yesterday which I just had to publish as it will make you all giggle and vicky is so fab she will just giggle with us!! I tell you, I spat my tea right out and couldn't stop laughing as I was emailing her and my big sis was howling with laughter about it last night too!!! Love yah Vicky xxxxx)
Hugs Lou xxx

Betty for mothers day!

Morning peeps!!

Happy hump Day!! I am hapy that we are half way through the week and the weekend is in sight!!

It is dark, glomy and rainy here and I have been awake coughing most of the night so i feel like snuggling back up under my duvet today!!! lol !!!!

When Anice sent us out gorgeous Betty stamps and I got the Love n That set I was super pleased because i had an idea for my mum's mothers day card with her!!! yey!!!

I love that huge box of choccies she is trying to give away (mmmmm, or she is holding onto them really tight and smiling because you can't grab them!!!!!!!)

Mothers day Betty Recipe.

Stamp- Betty from Funky Hand Love n that stamp set.

Promarkers- skin vanilla and pastel pink, Dress- cool grey 3,4.

Hair- sandstone and cool grey 3. Heart box- berry red and crimson.

Dress pattern- copic spicas.

Papers- Now thats Funky cd from Funky Hand.

SU boho flower punch.

Martha stewart beanch punch.

seed beeds.

Kelly Pannicci stitched border stamp set.

Well, I must get myself sorted out, a good old slurp of cough linctus and some paracetemol and I should be fit for the day! have a fabby day peeps and I will see you all later when I go for my daily bloggy womble!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 37- Love is in the air!

Morning!!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday and love is in the air over on the challenge blog this week!!!

 Al you need to do to join in is pick your fav Tiddly Inks images and make a card or gift for your loved ones, add it to the linky tool over on the challenge blog before 10pm CST on monday 14th February to be in with a chance to win a $10 to send over in the Tiddly Inks store.

So my gorgeous little stepper is for little mo. I used Dr.Love Boto, I just love him so much (and he is perfect for Mo as he has a robot thing going on at the moment thanks to Christy and Anice creating gorgeous robot stuff!!) He even has love in his little robot eyes!!!

A recipe for love!!!

Dr Love Boto from Tiddly Inks.

Coloured with promarkers, Pastel blue and denim blue.

His heart is berry red and crimson.

Shadow in pastel biege.

Cardstock- blue bazill and kanban card.

Heart charm from clare's shop- cloud 9.

Rafia.

Heart shapes cut from george cart on my cricut.

Don't forget to go over to the challenge blog and see what the rest of the team have been busy creating!!!
Off to work for me today so have a fabby tuesday and I will be back for a bloggy womble later!!!
Hugs
Lou xxxx

LOTV thanks.

Happy sunday peeps!!!

Well PJ day went down very well at our house today! we have ad a lovely relaxing day and I have even had time in between climbing the ironing mountain and exploring into the wilderness of the understairs cuppboard to get a bit of crafting done (...saving the fruits of that for another day though!!)

I made this LOTV thank you card on wednesday but forgot all about blogging it! I am very thankful to the person it was for so I hope it showed in the card.I wanted some really gentle colour to go with my yummy Laura Ashley paper so Rosie got lots of light browns and pinks colouring treatment!!

I added a little butterfly from a punch that one of my special friends got me for my birthday a couple of years ago.

Rosie recipe!!.

Rosie posy from Lili of the valley.

Promarkers-

Skin- vanilla and soft peach.

Hair-buttercup, sandstone and caramel.

Cardie,sox and flowers-pastel pink.

Skirt and shoes- sandstone and caramel

Soles of shoe- Henna.

Bouquet wrapping- buttercup.

Leaves- pear green.

Antique linen distress ink.

Lacey circles nestie.

SU jewelerry tag punch and stamp set.

So I am going to enter little Rosie over on the ABC challenge blog because their challenge this week is N for nesties and Papertake weekly who have an Anything Goes with optional flowers on their challenge.
Off to bath Mo and get back out to my crafty garage! go that crafty feeling today and am absolutely determined to do the basic grey, allsorts and kathy's sketch challenge this week!!
Thank you for popping in!
Hugs Lou xxxx

Magnolia blog candy winner.....

 Morning peeps!!!!
yup I slept in!! so I am very sorry this is late in getting posted (.....but very pleased I got a little lie in!!)!
I just want to thank all of you for sharing your beautiful creations and taking the time to join in with the challenge for the blog candy.

I had to use the random generator to pick a winner fairly as the inlinkz tool didn't do a random pick as I thought it would!! so as you can see above from the screen print I took the winner of the magnolia blog candy is entry number 14 which is..........

Sandra

and this is sandra's gorgeous entry card, isn't she sweet!!

Congratulations sandra!!! drop me an email to let me know where you want Ali to send your goodies too hun!!
Thank you again everybody !
Huge Hugs
Lou xxxxx

A night with my big sis and scorch!!!

Morning peeps!!!

Oh I had such a fun night last night catching up with my big sister. We haven't seen each other in at least a month to have some fun in my crafty garage so I was really pleased to get some big sis crafty time!!

( ....actually most of it involves us being very silly and daft and making each other laugh!!!! but we actually made something last night!!!!!)

So last night we made a card each with Scorch . Isn't he fab!!!!!! it has been so long since I had coloured in and played with one of my big sister's images but this super cute little guy was just calling to me!!!! We both had the same ingredients sketch wise for our base so check out sam's blog to see what she did with hers!!! (...... lou makes note to poke big sister with stick and get her to post hers too,she has an older scorch card on there but its not the one she made last night...poke...poke....poke!!!!)

All I need now is for the sun to come out so I can take a better picture than this one but being as it is still dark here this is the best I could do this morning!! :)

Today is just a vegging out and playing day here today so I am really looking forward to that.

Have a super saturday peeps and don't forget today is the last day to join in with the  magnolia blog candy, kindly donated by Alicraft,on my blog, the winner will be up tomorrow (...says Lou hoping she is up in time to draw the winner on time, if not it will be a little later than 6am as our human alarm clock, little mo, has been getting up a little later!!!)

Have a fabby saturday peeps

Hugs

Lou xxxxx

My january scrap page!!!

 Hello peeps!! I know.....another 2 postings day!!! (scroll down or hit older post to see my craft the year away post!!)

Being a bit pants at it, I made myself a promise to do at least one scrapbook page a month this year and this is my January one!!

Scott took this picture of little Mo on the rock wall last summer and after stroking my basic grey archaic papers once again I decided I really should open the cellophane wrapper and use them!!

I glued a lot of string onto this one to represent the rope that helped mo to stay safe on the wall!.

Here's a bit of a close up so you can see the fabby  You Rock image from Tiddly Inks. I thought he was just perfect for this layout..

Yup, I know I have a long way to go in the world of learning scrapbooking but I am hoping if I do one a month I will look back next January and think Hey, I'm getting the hang of this!!!! :)

Off to pop in jacket tates now because I have crafty night with my big sis tonight and I can't wait!! she will be here in around an hour so I am going to get a bath now and get my comfy clothes on ( ...ack, who am I kidding, all my friends know that means pj's!!!)

Hugs Lou xxxxxxxxx

So what can you do with Funky hands Craft The Year Away?........

Morning peeps!!
I am so excited about this post!! I get to show you some bits I have made with Funky Hands awesome new Craft The Year Away papercraft factory.

I have been daftly excited by this new release and it is absolutely fantastical!!!  our lovely Anice will be showcasing the brand new Papercraft Factory craft CD-Rom Craft The Year Away. Tune in to see the fantastic new features of this unique CD-Rom and hopefully watch some great demonstrations too.
Today on Create and Craft at 10am and 2pm.(Sky 671, Freeview 36, Freesat 813)

So here's a few piccies of what I have been doing with it so far.......



Don't forget to check out all the other funkettes fabby blogs for their creations too, if you go to my sidebar they are all there!!! and get a cuppa, snuggle down on your settee, turn on Create & Craft and watch Anice at 10am and 2 pm.
Off to set my recorder up now as I will be at work this morning and then miss a squidge of it this afternoon when I pick up the boys from school.
Huge hugs
Lou xxxxx

A quick bit of love!!!

Romfl!!!!! did that title get you in on my blog quick?!!!!! :)

This card is a little quicky I made today with the fabulous new download out over on Funky Hand.
Valentines day is fast approaching and I have been feeling the love for valentines cards for a couple of days now so I was super pleased when this download came out, Just look at that fab lips paper!!!! love it!!!
 Here's a piccy to enable you.........

Its full of funky red, white and three shades of grey are the colours for this collection so great for making cards for men! And its a bargain too because this download collection is  priced at just £3.19.

I am a domestic godess this afternoon as I have cooked roast chicken and roast veg for tea, mmmmmm yummo. Off to make some gravy now!!
Hugs Lou xxxx