Choo choo!! a little train birthday card!!

Papers- Craft The Year Away and

Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Cricut carts- New Arrival-Train

Doodle charms- present

Doodletype- text.

SU Tiny Tag punch.

SU 'right on track' roll around wheel

Chocolate chip roll around ink.

Hello!!!

I have been having a little play in my crafty garage and just had to come in, take a piccy and share this little cutie with you. I had most of it made on friday but it had a little giraffe in the truck that was niggling me, he just didn't look quite right bless him so he had to come out and then I spent most of the weekend pondering what to pop in instead and tonight I decided on a little pressie with a tag.

I also couldn't work out what I wanted my little train to sit on (....needed to work that out quick and stick it down on the card today as little mo's eyes lit up when he saw it...!!)

I have had my little train track roll around wheel for at least 2 years and it has just been sitting on my craft stuff shelf but today it got its first outing and it is so fab (....definite obsession going to happen with those rolly wheels me thinks.....).

The teeny weeny sentiment on the tag I printed on my computer and then punched it out with my SU Tiny tags punch.
Here's a little close up of the train!!

I absolutely adore the paper on the top half of the card, its from Funky Hand's Dreams Come True papercraft factory cd-rom and looks just like a puffy cloudy sky on a sunny day, so sweet. The grassy coloured splattered paper is one of my fav's from the new Craft The Year Away papercraft factory.

And just a quicky reminder that Anice from Funky Hand will be on the Ideal world channel/create & craft tv tomorrow at 10 am and 2 pm so get your recorders set or seat on the settee booked!!! :)

I hope you have all had a fab monday, I have got the awful girlie monthlies so I feel a bit foggy today but still cheery me!! :)
Thank you for popping in on me
Hugs Lou xxxx

Birdie birthday card!!

All images and papers from Craft The Year Away by Funky Hand.

Ribbon- September song set from Funky Hand.

7x5 blank card base.

Good morning peeps!!!

urgh well the sun didn't last and this morning we have awoken to drizzle :( I am hoping it will brighten up again later as I have some more washing that would love to dry on the line!!

I was having a little play on my Craft The Year Away again on friday and this is the cutie I created!!! now just incase you haven't got it already here is what my lovely little pooter screen looked like whilst I was working away making my matting for my card within the programme itself.
(I absolutely love this feature as it saves on oodles of layers that the postie loves to charge me a squillion pennies for a large letter due to its width if it is going to be mailed!!)

The only bit you can't see on this screenshot is the darker pink that I printed straight onto my card base and the little bird in his tree.
To make sure my little birdie and his tree were the tight size I printed out all my yummy paper selection and then once that was done I added the tree to the little card front mat I made and resized it and then did the same with the bird and just printed them out on their own.

I love my september song ribbon pack too so I used my last scraps on the thin green one to make a yummy sash and bow.

And what is little mo up to today you ask? well, after mummy and daddy watching him busy creating for 20 mins ( thinking something along the lines of whatever is he doing.....) he had some up with this magnetic racetrack for paper people!!!!! oh I love how his little mind works!!!!!

We have giggled so much racing those little paper people up and down with the magnets!!! got to love McDonald's coffee stirrers!!!! :) mummy and daddy had to take it in turns to race mo!!

Well I am off to make a start on some mothers day cards now so I might be back later!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxx

OOOOh their here!! Tiddly Inks Gothic pinups!!

Oh I am daftly excited today because the fabulous new Tiddly Inks releases are in the store and aren't they just awesome?!! I love them all!!!!!

There are also some great papers and sentiments to go with them so don't forget to pop over to the store and check out the whats new section.

When Christy sent them I couldn't wait to get them printed out and played with!!

My first card is using Heartbroke Happy.

I teamed her up with some black cuttlebug distressed stripes embossed paper and a bit of stitching. The patterned paper on this one is Ty's splatter paper, also available in the Tiddly Inks store.
The sentiment was made in my Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand. I was going from the heartbreaker side for my card!!!! :)

The second one I had a play with was Blow Me Away.

Isn't she fab?!

I teamed her up with some gorgeous papers, again from my Craft The Year Away cd from Funky Hand.

I did 2 layers on her skirt and the second layer actually fluffs up but its hard to see in the picture, it is also pearlescent paper with a hint of pastel pink promarker around the edges.

I distressed a magnolia vintage tag die cut tag and sat her on top of it. The sentiment came from a google search!! love google!!!

And of course a bit of martha punching!!!!!

I have got a bit of a card done with Tainted but she was carefully prised from her card base this morning when I popped to the store and saw Christy had made some gorjuss new papers!!! she so has to sit on those instead!!!!

We had a very early start today and have just got back from visiting my Grandad for a few hours. Scott needed to set up his new TV free sat box for him, so Little Mo and I took our tent and set it up on the patio to play in while the big men did boring ariel stuff!! it was great fun.
The sun is shining now so I have just got to get my washing out on the line, it will be the first time this year but I do so love line dried clothes ( ....much easier to iron!!!)

Don't forget to pop over to Christy's blog and see the deliciously dark cards that the Tiddly Inking team have made!!!

Huge hugs
Lou xxxxxx

Rainbow Polka Dots at Funky Hand!!

Morning peeps!!

Yey its friday!!!!! I love friday!!

And whats even better is a new addition to the Funky Hand downloads!!! yep, its one of my favs, its polkadots!!!!!!

Here's a little piccy for you all and if you click HERE  you will be magically transported to funky land for more info and some awesome ideas and inspiration from the DT.






I used the pink variety of gorgeous spotty dots to make some party invitations for a very special little lady in my life who is having a birthday soon. I used my doodlecharms cart to make the little cupcake and my SU tag punch and tiny tags set for the tag.
Sorry the piccy isn't great but it was cold,dark and rainy when I took it!!! and then off in their little package to the special little lady they went before I could click another!!!
OOOh I love the dots!!!!

Oh and before I forget!! super exciting, Funky Hand now have what Mo calls

 " Funky-vision"

 its a fabulous tutorial from our very own Anice on how to put together a wordbook.
Mo was most impressed to be able to watch Anice making a wordbook and stop and start it whenever he wanted!!!
I am looking forward to getting a bit of time later to have a play in my little crafty garage......if I don't fall asleep with  mo before I get out there!! lol!!!

Have a fabby friday peeps!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Coming soon....a sneak peek!!!

Morning peeps!!

ooooh I am just a bit excited about the new Tiddly Inks images that Christy has been burning the midnight oil to get ready for saturday's release. They are absolutely fabulous!!!!

So do you want a sneak peek?...........

.........well I did say a sneak peek!!!! you didn't think it was going to be any bigger did you?!!! :) :)

So don't forget to pop into the store on saturday and see if they are in the whats new section!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Mini Tilda leaving book.

Hellllloooooo peeps!!!!!

I bet you all thought you had a day of peace without a Lou post didn't you?!!!!!!

Well I have been busy working away tonight making this cute little book with one of my mini Tilda stamps for a friend at work whose BFF is moving away :(

All the papers are My Minds Eye Wild Asparagus and I love them. The kraft coloured card is actually a bit more of my recycled file folders, but ooooh they look so fab together.

The little magnolia vintage tag die cuts all have little sentiments on them that Vicky found last night so I haven't taken close ups of those because they are personal to her. The other side of the little taggy pockets holds a little 3x2.5 inch photographs. I havent taken piccies of those either as they are not mine to show but they are gorgeous. I popped little magnets on the back of them all so Vicky's BF can pop them on her fridge when she gets to her new house.

Right now I have shared my little make of the day I am off for a quick bloggy womble to see what you have all been up to!!!

huge hugs
Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 41- Kraft with me!!

Image- Flowery Wishes from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- kraft card and Laura Ashley.

Lace and string.

Frayed burlap distress ink.

Morning Peeps!!

Its that time of week to get all Tiddly again!!! there will be yummy new images for the shop and I love our challenge this week!!! I had so much fun creating my card so I know you will love it to, its.........

Kraft with me!!!

All you need to do to join in with the fun over on Tiddly Inks challenge blog is grab your fav Tiddly Inks image/images :) and ......

Use kraft card for your card base and image.

Then link your gorgeous creation by 10pm CST over on the Challenge blog using the fabby linky tool ( ...love the linky tool,makes it so easy!!)

For my card I used Flowery Wishes, I love this set. I printed the Get well sentiment and lots of the single flower straight out onto my kraft card and then gave them all a good old splodge with my embossing pad and covered them in clear embossing powder. Oooooooh they came out so yummy I love it!!!

Then all I needed to do was make my card base, add some yummy lace and a little bit of yummy paper and hey presto,card done!!!! I absolutely loved making this card,so much fun!!!

Right I had better get me off to work so don't forget to pop on over to Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and take a peek at the Tiddly Inkers gorgeous creations!!

Huge Tiddly tuesday hugs

Lou xxxxxx

Robot birthday boy!

All images and papers on this card are from Funky Hand's

Craft The Year Away.

Hello Peeps!!!

I am back today with another of my Sunday crafty makes!!! This time its my cute little robot birthday card!!

I had fun making my own backing paper in the workspace part of my Craft The Year Away CD by shrinking down some robots and randomly splodging them around a piece of the green gingham patterned paper!!! ( little mo especially liked that bit!!!).

I used the label font for my birthday boy sentiment, ooh I love the label font!!

I printed out some funky striped paper for the matting on the front of my card and popped my robot out with some foam.Icontinued the theme of colour on the inside and made myself a little sentiment using a different font on the workspace straight onto the gingham again. I love this feature as it all pops out of the printer all ready to go!

Everything got a good old inking of orange around the edges and I added a few green gems to make it look yummy and that was it finished.
I seriously love my Craft The Year Away CD, its so versatile and I would recommend it to anyone! Just look at that cute little robot!! He even had all his colouring on already so I didn't even have to colour him up!!

Right off to cook fajitas for tea,mmmmmmmm!!!
Thank you for popping in on me
hugs Lou xxxx

Paper Sundae's challenge 59- Stripes!

Image- Donna's Adventure from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment-past freebie from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- Vanilla,soft peach,cyan,azure,amethyst,

yellow,gold,sandstone,caramel and buttercup,cool grey 1,

honeycomb,pear green!! 

Papers- Memory Makers for the stripes

yellow core-dinations and a file folder!

Embossing- cuttlebug distressed stripes.

Afternoon peeps!!!!

I have had some awesome crafty time with Mo today and I have loved it!! Mo made a little wild animal stage and I got a few cards and a plaquey thing done,yey go me!!

The first card I made was this little cutey usnig Donna's Adventure from Tiddly Inks. I made it for the Paper sundae's 'Stripes' challenge that Christy from Tiddly Inks is sponsoring this week. I really enjoyed making this one, I love the cheery papers and its been ages since I used my cuttlebug distressed stripes folder!!!

I will definately be checking back into the paper Sundae's blog again as sunday is the day when I normally get chance to play with my paper,stamps and various bits and bobs!!!!! LOL!!!

I will save posting my other creations of lovliness for during the week!!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!!

Hugs

Lou xxxxxx

bowling card for a 6 year old!!

Morning peeps!!!

Mmmmmmm, have you ever tried taking a photo of a card you have made whilst your super excited 6 year old is trying to bundle it off into the envelope and get to the party?...... LOL!!! well, yep thats what happened with this one so apologies for the photo!!

Mo was extremely brave and actually went to a party yesterday, I was so proud of him as he usually won't go but he loved it. It was a bowling party and he really enjoyed it. The dancing after the meal was a bit scary but he joined in with musical bumps after the other children had played it 3 times already.

I am really so very proud of him as he will never go to parties,its a new thing for us!!!!!!

So I am going to have a chamomlie tea and get out to my craft room now and get some making done!!! I feel like I haven't been out there all week and there are some gorgeous challenges I need to get me a card done for!!

Have a wonderful sunday everybody!! Hugs Lou xxxx