Something Funky!!!

Papers- from  Funky Hand's Dreams Come True papercraft factory.

Morning peeps!!

I just wanted to share scott's nanna's birthday card with you today. When Fi and I were at stamp magic last sunday we were looking at some simple cards with just sentiments on and they were beautiful so I wanted to have a go at making one. Scott's nanna's birthday is next week so she got to be my Guinea pig!!!

I have to say I am totally in shock at how gorgeous it is when you just use something simple on the front. I just chose to write Nanna in some pretty script writing. I added a few simple flowers and a little martha ( fronds....you can't have roses without martha you know...!!!)

OOOh and check out my cute new little watermark, love it!!!!!!!

I am popping this card into the challenge this month over on By the cute and girly challenge blog which is in the garden. and the Totally Gorjuss challenge blogs Flower power challenge.

And while I am writing away, I just want to remind you that the new challenge is up over on Get Funky and it is a fabulous sketch by Da Boss!!!

Here it is...click on the piccy to transport you to Get Funky and the rest of the challenge details..not forgetting the Fabulous Funky Freebie that you could use on this months challenge card!!!

The Funkettes will be posting their inspiration for you every couple of days so keep popping back and have fun creating yours!!!!

I am going to go get another cup of tea and catch up on a few blogs before I go to work. The sun is shining and Mo is busy reading, its so lovely as we are sat listening to the birds. Mo is having a bit of a wobble about school again so relaxing mornings are key at the moment. Have a great day everyone!!

Hugs Lou xxxx



My little bro's birthday!!

Hello peeps!!!

33 years ago today my little brother came into my life and I love him to bits. Today is his birthday and this is the card I made for him last week (.......it is also the card that is still sitting on my desk when it should actually be on his kitchen table because dipstick here forgot to post it, argghhhhhhh!!)

A few years ago, he did a few 'swaps' to get a VW Camper van, it was so exciting He doesn't still have it but it was such an achievement when he got  it and I was very proud of him. So his card just had to be something VW and I have this cute stamp set called Road Trip from inkadinkado.

The postcard and circle sentiment are LOTV and the paper is from my 12x12 stash.

So mahoosive apologies to my fabulous little brother Pete for fogetting to post it but hopefully he will see this and know that I didn't foget to think about him and make him one!! I hope you are having a fabulous day and love you so much xxxxxxxxx

Off to fetch Mo and have tea at my mum's now, yummo!! I love wednesdays!!! then tonight I have more bits to make and do!!

I will be back to pop in on you all later in bloggy land!!!

hugs Lou xxxxxx

Another one for the lili of the valley anything goes challenge!!

Image- Love Grows from Lili of the valley.

papers- MME and cream pearlescent paper.

Hello Peeps!! me again!!

A friend at work asked me if I could make an engagement card for her to give to her friend. I just had to use one of my super sweet new Lili of the valley stamps that I bought on sunday (...yup, I got 12!!! and now I am saving up for some of the new cute little girl ones!!!) This one is called 'Love Grows' and it is a perfect little summery image too.

I cut out a heart shape with my cricut on my fabulous stamping card, (that I also bought a bit more of at the show!!! you can never have enough...) and coloured it in with my promarkers. The little pot has some pink glaze pen on and it looked so cute! I also added a little natural rafia to the heart and ran some pearlescent cream paper through my cuttlebug with the tiny hearts embossing folder, that got distressed with a bit of frayed burlap, along with the heart!!!!

And of course, the much needed punched edge from Martha!! a card should never be without one!!!!! this one is the doily hearts punch.

The teeny butterfly with its congrats sentiment is one from my stash that my lovely Kat sent me in blog candy a few years ago. I use it all the time, its so cute!!!

Here is a close up...

OMG!!! its so cute!!! I can't wait to open a few more of my stamps tonight!!!

I am going to enter this one in the LOTV challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge ( I hope its ok to enter 2?) .

And the Totally Papercrafts Summer challenge as this is such a cute summery little image.

And the Stamp Something challenge blogs something punched challenge!!

I promise not to post anymore tonight!! :) :) and please scroll down if you are looking for my Tiddly Tuesday post!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 54- Create a one layer card.

Image- Flower Blooms fromTiddly Inks.

SU tiny tags stamp set and punch.

Red embroidery thread.

Distress ink.

Happy Tiddly Tuesday peeps!!!

Over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog We are celebrating "crafting with a twist" for the month of June and we really twisted it this week---we have to Simplify!! OMG!!! I nearly fell off my chair when I read this one!!!!

Then a funny thing happened and I got super busy with some of Christy's coloured art. OMG they are just fabulous to work with and made the challenge so much fun. You can find a whole bunch of fabulous coloured Tiddly Inks Here...

I made a few little notecards and all I needed to do was add a little thread on one, ribbon and distress inks.

So as hard as it might be (ask the rest of the Tiddly Inkers..this was a toughy!!) get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and , please create a one-layer card , you can add a squidge of ribbon or twine.

This one uses Be Anything but typical.

Oh I love the way she is sitting there with her martini!! and check out those awesome zebra print shoes!! and the best thing is, that diamondy background that you can just about see comes altogether with the image, Yey!!! I added a little shabby shutters distress ink around the edges to tie in the yummy greens in the image, a bit of green ribbon and a flower charm.

And now onto my fav....this one was my favourite because it is so fun and it always reminds me of one of my awesome tiddly inker DT buddies, Melissa. It is called Chemical Love and I love it!!

Again, all this card needed was a little red distress ink around the edges to tie in the red in the coloured image and KAPOW!!! job done!!!

I actually have 2 more of these on the go at the mminute but I couldn't get them finished in time to post!!! I will get them finished off for later in the week!!

Now go get busy with your Tiddly Inks and I can't wait to see how you use your them for this challenge!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

I just can't stop square dancing!!!!!!

Image- Inky Critters from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Frozen Lake- Funky Seasons from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps! me again and yes, I am addicted to the sketch!!!!!! and yes I know its a christmas card but you can never start too early!!!

Here is the sketch in question....(if you click on it, it will take you straight over to Kathy's sketch blog, where you too can become addicted!!!!!!! romfl!!!!)

The gorgeous little christmas characters are the inky critters for christmas from Tiddly Inks and the totally delicious papers are from Funky Hands Funky Seasons cd. ( linkies under card piccy!!)

I have had a lovely day because sports day went ahead as planned and it was lovely. It is just an hour of little races but it was lovely to see and Mo even got a 3rd place ticket on the bat and ball race (....errrrr, have to confess....he held the ball onto the bat a little....all the way down the track!!!) and he was really brave until half way through when his asthma started to niggle him a bit. It was nice to be sat the other side of the track and see him ask his teacher if he could go get his inhaler, daft as it sounds it helps me to see that he knows when he needs it without reminders from me. The school PTA did strawberries and cream which were delicious and we were able to bring mo home a little early as the children whose parents were there were able to go home if they wanted to.

Right I am off for a cuppa now!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Cooking up a funky recipe!!!

Papers from Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

Well, its the 13th June which means you still have today and tomorrow to cook something up with Kathy's recipe over on Get Funky!!!

Here is Kathy's delicious recipe.....

5 Flowers
Use 3 different papers

2 Buttons

1 Ribbon (cut up or in one strip whatever you prefer)

and a sprinkling of Gems or pearls

Yummo right?!!!
For my card I headed for my Dreams Come True papercraft factory and chose 2 gorgeous papers and teamed them up with the special May challenge Freebie FunkyKraft paper download Anice has over in the shop!! so come and get cooking with us over on the Get Funky challenge blog, the only thing we ask you to remember is to use at least one Funky Hand product on your challenge entries!!! easy peesy!!!

I punched the little flowers and branches and made my own big buttons using my cirlce punch and ribbon hole punch. I inked the edges to make them look a bit more buttony!!!!

Don't forget to pop over to Get Funky and check out the rest of the funkettes cooking!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

LOTV's anything goes challenge..

Image- LOTV Pride and Joy.

LOTV circle sentiment

Hello Peeps!!

Well, I have had a totally awesome morning with my BF at the Stamp magic show in Doncaster, ( I am pleased to report it was totally fab and I handed over 12 stamps worth of pennies to Laila at the LOTV stall!!!!!!)

I got some more fabby card...for stamping the new LOTV haul on.....and some cards and envelopes and card bags.

And now I am back in bloggy land with my trusty cup of tea next to me to post my entry for the LOTV challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge. Its their 100th challenge already!! wow, where did that time go?!!

I inked up my cute little Pride and Joy teddy, he is such an all round fabby one for the boys, which is great as I always find man cards tricky!!! if you look closely you can just about see the glossy accents on his goggles and the water.

I used my sentiment cirlce stamp, also form LOTV (....of course!!!) and wrote June (in my awful handwriting!) and circled the birthday date of this little cuties recipient on it to.

Oh and incase Fi is peeking at this post, both are stamped with Memento rich cocoa which gives the image a much softer and warmer feel before you splodge your colour on!!

The papers and lace are from my stash and the little teeny brad looking thingies are faux brads made using my hole punch. I love them and if you haven't made them yourself already, here is a little video for you I made a while ago...( now I am not saying its very good at all but it is a really neat way to make teeny faux brads out of any little scraps of paper you have lying left on your craft desk when you want it all to co-ordinate wsith your card!!!)

I am also going to pop this is for the secret crafters challenge blogs Male card challenge.

Hugs Lou xx

The Sketch File- June sketch!!

 Me again peeps!! sorry but the weather is so pants I have been making a few bits!!

Firstly I need to apologise to Kathy's hubby who has probably just had to run up to her craft room and pick her up of the floor or wipe the coffee that she spat over her pooter because I have actually managed to do the sketch over on The Sketch File this month!!!!!!

The sketch for June was far to yummy not to do straight away and if you are an inchy fan you need to get those stamps out and get making (.....yes Miss Fi I am talking to you....!!!) Here is the sketch to get you going then just go oveer to the sketch file and add your creation into their linky tool!!!!

Isn't it fab?!

For mine I used my Inkadinkadoo Dogs Life clear stamps. I decided to use the 3 different coloured squares in the sketch as 3 different image sqaures and off I went. I added a little paw print charm I bought from Clare's shop, Cloud nine crafts in Horncastle, a little while ago to finish it off. And the paper is from Nitwits Tailwags set .

So thats me for the minute....but it does keep raining........so there might be something else later.....!!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Little Mo funky post!!

Awwwwwww!!! how cute is it??!!!!

Morning peeps!!! its a Little Mo blog post today!!!!

Now if I had one suggestion of a crafting cd for little people, it would have to be Funky Hands Craft The Year Away papercraft factory. When I said to Mo this morning that we needed to get on with Grandad's birthday card, he took himself out into the crafty room on daddy's big boy pooter. He knows just where to find the programme because he knows the papercraft factory icon. Naturally, Mummy felt the need to click away and get some piccies!! he always amazes me with his navigation of this programme!! it really is a superb one for little peeps to play with.

The drag and drop makes the work space part of the programme so easy for Mo, he loves to place things and \i was super proud of the robot in front of the heart, he has mummy's crafty gene's me thinks!!

 This always makes me giggle, he loves to watch it come out of the printer...

 proud a punch with his little design all printed out...

 Time to get busy..."mummy you have to ink the edges like neese does"...

 ..."and inky the card too"....

 oOOh mummy's ATG....watch out for little peeps and the ATG though as you can never have enough sticky stuff on your paper..oh and you must stick your tongue out to help you concentrate too...

 "splonking" his robot piece on the front, I don't know where he got the word from but its quite funny when he is making! " i will just splonk it on here mummy"

 The very delicate putting on the pom pom for the antennae job....

 Applying "the zig zaggy makered bit" he nabbed from my fathers day card making scraps...

So, sorry for all the piccies but proud mummy moments= a zillion piccies in our house!!!! plus they are too cute not to share!!!!!

And of course with summer hols fast approaching here in the UK, if you are thinking of a crafty purchase for your children, definitely make it the Craft The Year Away cd from Funky Hand.

 Oh and on monday we had the extremely exciting wobbler number 2 come out...

It has left a mahooosive gap now it has joined the space left from wobbler number 1!!

He still hasn't got used to the tooth falling out thing and there was still a good 3 minutes of him going green, panicking and then he was excited for the tooth fairy!! she bought one gold coin for wobbler number 2.Mummy thought she would be clever and try and find a whimsical little fairy writing for the note from the fairy on her computer, I was most chuffed when I found one and happily typed out my little letter in teeny weeny size....only for mo to wake up and shout down to me and daddy...

 " wow, mummy, the tooth fairy has a laptop 'cos she wrote me a letter on it this time..."

 oh well!!!!! back to a handwritten one next time peeps!!!

Its a mummy and mo day here today. Daddy and Ryan have gone off for a football tournament. Mo is all chesty, think its hayfever and asthma not playing nicely so we are hamma beading, card making and just having fun today. And then I have one sleep until I get to go the the Stamp magic show!!!! woooohoooooooo!!!
Have a great saturday everyone!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Home tweet home!

 Image- Home Tweet Home from mo's digital Pencil.

Magnolia swirl stamp.

Papermania mini flower punches.

Hello peeps!!!
I hope you have all had a fabby thursday. I am feeling a squidge green today but daft as it sounds I always feel better when I just get on with things instead of mooching at home!!!!

I made this cute card for a friend who has just moved into a fabby new house, new home, new beginnings.
The challenge over on do it with digi's is Animals so I thought these 2 little loved up birds from Mo Manning  would fit in quite nicely with that. I coloured my digi up with my promarkers... sandstone, caramel, cocoa for the browns. Buttercup and pastel yellow on the birds tummies with pastel blue and denim blue on their wings and heads. Cute!!!! outlined in pastel biege for a change!

I think this card is soooo sweet! Those little birds are gorgeous. I popped some crackle glaze on the little sign, it looks a little smudgy but it did look really cute. I wrapped the rafia around my little paper peicing picky uppy tooly thing and spritzed it gently to get it to curl like twigs and I love how it came out.

On sunday I am off to doncaster to the stamp magic show. I can't wait, have been saving hard and kept back a few of my birthday pennies especially!! anyone else going?

Oh oh oh and I was super duper chuffed to get a top 3 on the LOTV challenge blog with my cute little christening card...and yep....most of my pennies are earmarked for their stand on sunday!!!!!! you can never have enough LOTV's!!!!!

Right then, off to mooch about felling rough a bit more and get an early night!! friday tomorrow, wooohoooo!!
Thank you for popping in on me! I love visitors!!!!
Hugs Lou xxxx