LOTV -I do believe in fairies!!

Hello again peeps!!!
( This is my second post of the day so if you are looking for my Tiddly Tuesday post, its Here!!)
I have just managed to drag myself out of bed after a fabby day with the little peeps and I wanted to get these 2 LOTV fairy cards posted for the LOTV challenge blogs I believe in fairies challenge this week.

Now, if you asked me today what my favourite crafting tool is, I would have to say Little Mo!!!! this is because when I was colouring in my little fairy this morning and Mo was lurking over my shoulder watching he asked me what I was making today. I told him it was a card for the I believe in fairies challenge and he said.....

 " oh mummy, its like my peter pan film where tink dies and Peter Pan and everybody say 'I do believe in fairies, I do, I do' until tink is all better again"

Well, I didn't need anymore inspiration  than that for my sentiment and asked Mo to write it for me...hence he is my best crafting tool ever! inspiration and cuteness in one little package!! (oh and if you haven't seen that live action film version of Peter Pan you so need too, its one of Mo's absolute favourites.... you don't want to know how many times we have watched it!!!!)

Then I printed out a few more yummy papers from my Funky Hand Colour Me Happy papercraft factory and made a blue one too ( ...Lou warns everybody that she coloured in 6 of these little fairies so there may be more LOTV posts over the next couple of days!!!!!!) she's so cute how could you not want to stamp oodles of her!!!!

I used my SU tiny tags stamp set and punch, my teeny papermania flower punches and a bit of martha on this one too!!!

I am popping these 2 little sweet flowery cards in for the spoonful of sugar challenge blogs 'Flower Power' challenge.

So thats me for today!!! I am going to snuggle up on the settee and watch 'just like heaven' with Reese Witherspoon in now ( I love a good old chick flick, seen it 6 times but still love it!!!!)

Its my birthday tomorrow and Scott, Mo and I are off to Twycross Zoo for my birthday treat. I am really looking forward to going, I love the Zoo and Mo adores it so its a winner of a day before we even get there!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me.
Hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 52- Darling Diva!!

Image- Everyday Princess from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand.



Woohooooo!! its Tiddly Tuesday again peeps! so its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week we want to see your creations...

Fit for a Diva!!!

All you need to do to join in with us Tiddly Inkers is dig out one of your favourite Diva-ish Tiddly Inks images ( it must be a Tiddly inks image to join in please!!) and create away making any creation you liike fit for a Diva!!!

And don't forget to check out the new images over in the Tiddly Inks store, just incase there is a cool new Diva there to help you along in the challenge ;)

My little creation used the supercute Everyday Princess. I think she is fab!!!! I coloured her up all bright and zesty!!! and then teamed her up using some of the papers from Funky Hand's Colour Me Happy papercraft factory. This colourway is the Barbadian ecstasy one, isn't it cheery? love it!!

.... and the awesome word art that I downloaded ages ago from Bethany's blog. I knew when I saw it I would need it for a card for a little diva one day!!!! heres a close up of its diva-ness....

Can you all tell how much I love my new little Distezz-it-all gadget?!!! :) 

I am entering this little princess in the Cupcake Crafts Challenges blogs 'Zesty Colours' challenge this week, the colour combo is way too funky to pass up on!! I love it.Don't forget to check out their DT's cards if you fancy zesting up anything this week!!! I really really enjoyed their colour combo as it has been icky blurgh rain here for the last couple of days!

Right, I have 5 little people here today to entertain as I am on school holiday Aunty Lou duty!!! I love it, they all play together and have such a fabby day.

Have a great Tiddly Tuesday!!
hugs Lou xxxx

Craft show haul!!!!

Hello peeps!!

wow, I had an awesome day at the craft show. I had fun buying some new crafty stash and best of all caught up with some of my lovely friends who I haven't seen in a while which was so nice, love you all oodles xxxxx

Massive thanks to Fi for making me go, I loved it xxx

oh,oh oh and there on the oyster crafts stand was a little distrezz it all!! omg!! I am so excited about, going to try it out later!!!

And....my lovely Mrs. C found me these charms on one of the stalls!!! how absolutely awesome are they??!!!!

They must of known I was coming!!! romfl!!!! huge huge huge thanks to Mrs.C for the findy xxxxxxxxxxx

Right , off to soak my achey little feet and snuggle up with my little man ( ...who was extremely excited and pleased with his little charms Mrs. C and instantly pinched one and stuffed it in his pocket!!!)

Hugs Lou xxx

Me again!! pale pretty pastels, embossing and Things with wings!!

Papers-  Fairy Fae paper printed over some paper

 from Dreams come true from Funky Hand and

 recycled file folder for the kraft look!

I'm Back!!!!! two posts in one day?! go Lou!!
I have been working on this card for a friend for a little girl who is getting christened and it will just fit snuggly for a few challenges.
So this is my card for the Allsorts challenge blogs Things with wings challenge!! and the CES challenge blogs embossing challenge for this week and the Papertake weekly's pale pretty pastel colours challenge.
I have to thank my awesome bloggy and sir stampalot hotties Fleur, Louise and Lou for getting the umpf to post this card for these challenges.
They never fail to make me go oooooh and awwwwww with their creations and IRL they are awesome too!! love yah all xxxxxx

I used my little butterfly tilda., coloured up with promarkers in yummy pastel colours which were-
Skin- blush, peach and soft peach.
Hair-Buttercup, sandstone and caramel.
Top/wings- cocktail pink and pastel pink.
Trousers/wings- soft green and pastel green.
socks- soft green and pastel pink.
Shoes- sandstone.

I also used some crackle accents on her wings to get the veiny butterfly wing effect with some frayed burlap distress ink rubbed on top to make them show, looks fab IRL!!!

A much needed punched border of Martha stewart heart doily edge punching and a bit of cricutting for cutting hearts and tiny hearts embossing from my cuttlebug love language set, ripped bit and organza ribbon and hey presto, one gorgeous christening card!!! yey!!!!

Ok so I am going out to my mummy's house now and I promise not to post again today!!!!! LOL!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Fathers Day creating!! Do it with digi's challenge.

Image-Ticket to my Life from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky hand.

Morning peeps!!!
Well, we got up at 5am this morning. It is forecast rain but so far we have beautiful sunshine so I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will last a little while longer!! I have a few cards I need to take piccies of so yey for sunshine!!
I was playing around with paper last night (....like I always do!!!) and had these cute papers left over from another project. They are from my Dreams Come True papercraft factory cd from Funky Hand. I love this particular colourway, it is called Blue Magic ( oh and I love the way all the papers from it go together...I am pants at matching papers up!!!!) and you can never have enough blue papers with a house full of boys!!!!
The cute little boy image is Ticket to my Life....of course.... from Tiddly inks!!!! He is inspired by the grandson of my very special friend Shirley. He is so cute. I edited his ticket a little so that it would fit in with my fathers day card making frenzy I am having at the minute!!!
I am popping him in for the challenge over on the Do it with Digi's challenge blog whose challenge this week is "All about boys". I have never seen this challenge blog before but it looks awesome and being as I digi an awful lot I will definitely be popping back in on them!! Please pop over and check out their DT's lovely cards.

This card is another one for Gabby's wedding thanks!! she popped a last minute request in for her grandma who made the bridesmaids dresses and again, Tiddly Inks came to my rescue!!!I  teamed it up with a few papers from my Nitwits FBQ bear necessities download.It is sooo cute!!

Image- Sew some Love from Tiddly Inks.

Well, that's me for today. Mo and I are off to do some vegetable patch gardening today with my mum's neighbour and I am steadily working on my nerves to get myself to the sincerely yours papercrafts show at the lincolnshire showground tomorrow. I have been so looking forward to it! Anyone else going?!

Have a great saturday,
Huge hugs
Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 51- Manly men!

Images- Grog The Caveman from Tiddly inks.

Dinomite from Tiddly Inks.

 Morning peeps!!!
Wooohooooo!! Its Tiddly Tuesday again and we all know that means awesome new images in the shop from Christy and a fun new challenge on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.
Fathers Day is fast approaching ( 19th June peeps!!) so this week the Tiddly Inkers want to see your cards for .....

Manly Men.

Little Mo was in need of some cavemen and that was first on his little list of requests for Christy last week and we totally adore what she made!! How fabulous are they?!!!!!
I got busy using the caveman for a wall hanging from Mo for Scott. Mo loves it!!

 I must confess though that Little Mo was the first one to colour up his cave peeps and he had already got busy with his on Saturday morning when they popped into my inbox from Christy!!!! He loved them and got me printing them out to his specifications right away!!! and this is what he had come up with......

 Its sooooo cute!!! He went out in to the the garden and got himself some real stones and gravel for the scenery, clever chap!!!
Here's a bit of a closer peek...

So go grab your favourite Manly Tiddly Inks images and get creating something special for those Dad's!!
Oh and don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and grab some inspiration from the other Tiddly Inkers too, we are always busy thinking up ways for you to get the most from your tiddlies!!!!

Off to work for me now! have a fabulous Tiddly Tuesday!!
Hugs Lou xxxx

Wedding cake baker thankyou card!

Image-Big Wishes Lilly Bean from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Oval stamp set and punches from SU.

Martha Stewart doily hearts edge punch.

Morning peeps!!

After a fab little get together party for a friend who is off to work in a children's day camp over on the big side of the pond this Friday and a bit of bowling with family yesterday morning, I got some time in my crafty room last night to pootle on with some card orders I have got.

This one is a card for Gabby's wedding again, it is for Gabby's sister who has been busying away making gabby and Andrew's wedding cake.

I used big wishes Lilly Bean and edited out her candles for a smooth wedding cake top!!! there are teeny dots of pink glaze pen on the black punched edge but it hasn't come up too well at all in the picture.

I had to start again on one of my god daughter cards as the blooming anita's glaze would not dry, grrrrrr (...to be fair it was an old bottle but still grrrrrr!!) I couldn't rescue it as the glossy was on the wings! arghhh!! so that is tonight's job...along with a few more!!!!!!! oh busy me!!!

Right then, best kick myself into gear and get a wriggle on. Mo fancies pasta for his pack up today so I am off to cook that in a little vegetable stock and then get myself sorted!!!
huge monday hugs!
Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 50- Inspire me!!

Image- Lilli Claire Make a wish from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!
This cute little Lilli Claire and her  little posty was going to get written and posted this morning but then my internet connection had different plans and no connectivity so here it is this afternoon instead!!!!! romfl!!!

The challenge over on Tiddly Inks challenge blog this week is a photo inspiration challenge and here is the super photograph.....



isn't it fabulous?!!! so grab your fav Tiddly Inks image and get creating!!!! there are even some freebies in the store if you haven't seen Tiddly Inks before!!!!  then enter your card over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog by 10pm CST on Monday using the little linky tool, easy peasy!!!!

I have had such a busy couples of weeks at work I didn't get chance to get this made in time for Tuesday's challenge to start but I got busy this morning before I went to work. I had some papers on my Colour Me Happy cd from Funky Hand that matched the top of the shower curtain a treat so they got printed out, cut down and popped onto my file folder kraft card!!!
A bit of card candy and hey presto, one super cute challenge card made!!!

off to cook my fish to go with chip shop chips for tea now!!!  ( am trying to be half healthy!!!)

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Kenny K's Krafty Girls Die cuts and punches challenge.

Morning peeps!!!

Its a super gloomy morning here with grey skies and rain (...hence the rather pants piccie of my racy roxie!!!!). I am hoping for lovely sunshine this afternoon so I can click a better picture outside!!

The challenge over on KKKG this week is Die cuts and punches , fab because I had this card to finish off for one of the girls at work. Its for her boyfriend's birthday and he loves his car so I decided Racy Roxie was a must!!!

I coloured her up with red hair so she looks like Amy ( the girl at work who wanted the card!) and then cut Dane's name on my cricut with my base camp cart. The sweet border is my Martha Stewart heart doily punch. I did a couple of layers of the hearts and then added a thin red organza ribbon and a heart charm.

The black cardstock is embossed with my tiny hearts cuttlebug embossing folder, it looks so cool.Roxie's hair has some gentle gold highlights in to bling her up a bit and her clothes and shoes have some sparkle too but I am not sure the icky photo taken inside shows it up, Grrrrrr rain!!!!

So I think that's me done for today. I have a whole day at work today so won't have any crafty time again until tonight, I have a couple more thank yous to do for gabby, some thankyous/thinking of yous for Leah and a pear wedding card for Carrie so I am hoping I don't nod off with little Mo tonight!!!!

Have a fabulous monday peeps!! see you all later
Hugs Lou xxx

Tanker meets a Sense of Time!!

 Morning peeps!!!

How are you all today? good I hope. I am feeling a bit brighter today and have managed to get myself out into my craft room for a bit of finishing off!!!

I made a topper with a SU Sense of Time stamp set that my lovely friend Hev lent me (....ermmmmm, and it decided it wanted to stay at my house on an extended vacation so I owe Hev some pennies now!! romfl!!!) and I knew when I was making it that I wanted to pop Tanker from Tiddly Inks on it.

I only got round to getting my Tanker image yesterday as I have been poorly for a couple of days. Last night whilst scott and I were watching the Eurovision song contest (...yup I know its a little pants but I love listening to the commentators, I miss Terry Wogan but Graeme Norton did an awesome job and had me rolling with laughter!!) I coloured her up. Now I don't know why but she really reminds me of Amelia Earhart!!! its those cool goggles I think!!!

Anyhow, she got the brown's treatment to match my stamping of the Sense of Time set onto my creamy cardstock. I used Frayed burlap for all the stamping and antique Linen and frayed burlap to distress it all. On the little clock face you can just about make out the crackle glaze ( which is why I took a piccy from kind of above it!!!!)

........And get me.....I even did inside too!!!! wooohoooo Me!!!! lol :)

So Tankers promarkers were.....

Tan, sandstone,caramel,cocoa and burnt sienna. With a teeny touch of sakura clear star gelly roll pen on her eyebrows, bullet belt and boots.

She is such a cool girl!! so I am popping her in the challenge over on the Southern Girls blog which is Lets hear it for the girls.

So Hev will be pleased that I have posted my card I hope!!

I am off for a bath and a bit of breakfast now before Mo and I pootle off to my mums to plant out his strawberry plants into a strawberry pot.

Have a fabulous sunday peeps

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx