I'm Back!!!!

Image- Minnie's christmas lights from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

 (promarkers used on minnie: blush, soft peach,peach, olive green, pear green, cardinal red, berry, sunflower, gold, pastel blue and cool aqua)

Morning peeps!!

 I am back!!!!!!! I am a bit dopey but other than that ( ....Lou thinks about that sentence and realises thats pretty much normal Lou!!!!) and this morning I have managed to make a little card!! woohoooooo!!!

 I am hoping to get back into the swing of my christmas cards so enrolled the help of my new gorgeous little Minnie from Tiddly Inks and my Funky Hand craft the year away cd to help me get my mojo energy back!!

  ( linkies to goodies under the card piccy)

I went for a z fold with a little bit of martha punching included in there too so I have given all my card making muscles a work out today!!!!

So I am going to enter a couple of challenges with this little cutie to cheer myself up!! the challenges are:

I love promarkers -anything goes.

 Charismacardz - anything goes

We have to go get school shoes for Little Mo now but thats the only job we are doing today as I am finding myself falling back to sleep every couple of hours!!!!!! the pain is a lot less now but I am feeling rather wiped out!! I go back to work next thursday so a good few days rest and I should be back to my normal self, the thing is, I don't do poorly so I am finding it a bit frustrating to be so dopey!!!

Thats me for today!!!!

Huge hugs and thank you's for all your lovely get well wishes

Lou xxxxxxx

Sorry for being bloggy absent

Hello peeps, I am home from my hospital mini break ! after some intensive begging, docs still convinced i have appendicitus, he gave me a special little letter that will let me back into hospital if i need to but he thinks it is rumbling and could return soon, please hope for me that is doesnt because i kid you not, it hurt soooo bad.


I am feeling sore but pleased to be home. not feeling up to chattering tonight or bloggy wombling tonight but will catch up with you all soon.
Thankyou so much for all the lovely little messages i have had from peeps that knew I was there.


I only had 3 email adresses on my phone who I could email as it was all a bit of a rush going in, apologies to those 3 peeps who got morphine waffled messages!!

xxx

Betty's off to the beach for the Get Funky challenge!!

Stamp- Love 'n' That Our Betty.

Papers from Dreams Come true and Colour Me Happy Papercraft Factory's!

Morning peeps!!!!

Its Lou and Betty here to do our bit for Paula's At The Seaside theme for this month. So, grab your Funky Hand papers ( not forgetting the fabulous funky freebie if need some funkiness!!!) and think colours of the sea,sand, rock pools, icecreams, lifegaurds, tight buttocks in tight speedo's........oops did I loose track there?? ;)

Now ya'll know how much Betty and I like to play and she had a little word with me and said she needed a good beach holiday!!! so I printed out some beautiful papers from 2 of the papercraft factory cd roms, they are completely easy to use as they stay on your pooter without having to load a disc every time and are so easy to swap and change through editions that you end up with a mahoosive pile of yummy papers!!

A good degree of ripping paper for sand and a snip with little mo's wibbly scissors for sea and the background was ready, now all I needed was Betty to get out of the changing room and into the waves!! 

I stamped her out, chopped off her heart choccy box and gave her a lovely big beach ball to hold instead. She asked for an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini so I gave her one ( he he he he!! had to add the song, bet ya'll sing it all day now!!!!!).


Betty's beach chair and decking set up is a cut file from the totally awesome Penny Duncan, I am so grateful to her for sharing her awesome creations as I enjoy making bits with them so much and it looks just amazing for Betty to sun herself off on later!!!! LOL!!!

Betty's beach towel on her chair is a scrap of Tea's up paper!! she just had to have a polka dot towel too, a girl needs accessories you know!!!

So get your funk on and pop in to join in with the challenge this month and

  PLEASE REMEMBER......you must use at least one Funky hand paper on your creations and entries.

Hugs from Lou.....and Betty of course!!!!!!!

Tiddly Inks challenge 63- Back to school bookmark.

Image- Tanker Fairy Flies.

Morning peeps!!!!

Its my fav day of the week again!!! Tiddly Tuesday!!!! that means a new fabby challenge from the Tiddly Inkers and new images in the shop!! 

So, lets do the new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog first!! 

With all those little peeps getting ready for going back to school, us Tiddly Inkers were challenged to make Back to school bookmarks. My BF got me hooked on making these little bookmarks, I found a tutorial here on splitcoast stampers if anyone needs a peeky on how to make a bookmark.

I chose Tanker Fairy Flies for mine. I also used my school paper download again and distressed it with faded jeans distress ink, then I stamped my little technique tuesday clockwork heart stamp and stamped over the top of my little bookmark. I added' back to school ' to look as if it was coming out of Tanker Fairy's wand, coloured her up to match the bookmark base and then she got nesty treatment!!! 

Once it was all together I added a few pearl maker pearls but did them small so they don't disturb the pages of the book that this bookmark goes to!!!

Now.....super exciting because I love these!!!! 2 fabby new images in the Tiddly Inks shop!!!!

Dandylion Pixie....

Will You?

Aren't they gorgeous???? I had so much fun with these 2 new images so I know you will love them.

Please pop in on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see what my other awesome teamies have come up with!! And if you are a blog candy lover, my Teamie Marlena has some up for grabs over on her blog.

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Fetch a sketch challenge 5.

Morning peeps!!

wooohoooooo!! its another sunny day here in little ole lincolnshire so it should be a lovely day for the little peeps to play outside ( and me to sit on my deckchair watching and have a good colouring session!!!)

Its time for a new challenge too over on the Fetch A Sketch Challenge blog. They (...they being my gorgeous Funky Hand teamies Ruth and Jenny) are being sponsored by Funky Hand this week and I couldn't resist the chance to have a go at the sketch for them. Its such a great one and so versatile, here it is, if you click on the piccy you will be magically pootled off to the Fecth a Sketch challenge blog where you can get some more inspiration for the challenge.

I had great fun making the little toppers up at the top of my post. I used the awesome sentiment circles and toppers on the Now Thats Funky cd from Funky Hand. The sketch was oodles of fun, Thankyou team FAS!!

And here are a few piccies of what I turned my toppers into!!!! I made some cute 4x4 cards using up some scraps of paper from my Dreams Come True papercraft factory ( ...Jules will be most proud of me for using some scrappies up!!!!)

 And this cute little back to school gift bag!! oooh I like this one, saw this tutorial on Splitcoast stampers last week and totally had to have a go!!!! The paper for this one  is from the pleased to see ya colourway of the Colour Me Happy papercraft factory. (....and just to make Jules giggle...yes it took me over 30mins to find the cd that had the paper on it matching the scrap I used for my good luck topper.......)

I covered  a little memo book in matching paper and tied a little pencil to it to pop inside the bag!

Cute!!!!!

So there we go!! scraps and sketches are the theme of the day!!!!!!!!! gotta join in with Jules snippets challenge with this post after being such a good girl and dipping into the scraps box (though it is still rather full so requires much more dipping...)

Just time for a cuppa before I go fetch big sis and the children, drop big sis off at work (...booo :( think she should skive and come play craftying with me instead!!!)


Have a great day peeps and don't forget to join in with the sketch challenge!!
huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Cuddly buddly- swirls and bling and Little Mo sweetie shop.

Image- Snowman Greetings from Lilyboo designs.

Papers- Funky Hand Dreams Come True.

Good afternoon peeps!!!

We have had a busy little day here. We were up at 5:30am so I printed out a few yummy Funky Hand papers and got on with my challenge card for the Cuddly Buddly's lets keep creating challenge of 'Swirls and Bling'. Oooh what a dream challenge!! one cute snowman image, my cuttlebug divine swirls folder and some bling later and it was done.

Then onto our day.We all wore red to honour the very very brave Red  4 who lost his life yesterday. Living in our village the red arrows become second nature to us as we see them fly all the time. Our thoughts and prayers are with Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging's family at this sad time.

Mo decided he wanted to make a sweetie shop so that was this morning activity!! He turned a cardboard box and a kitchen roll holder into his sweetie factory ( the sweeties went into the bags via the kitchen roll holder attached to the box with a bag held at the bottom of the tube by asisstant mummy, all very technical!!!) 

Then after making up the little bags of sweeties, he iced some cupcakes and decorated them and decided they should all be 10p each.( no dinosaurs were harmed in the making of the cakes.....!!)

 I made him a little tray to carry them in from an old wooden banana box and some gingham ribbony stuff...( and please note the nestied blue funky hand paper toppers " to make my sweeties look fessional" ..think that meant professional but it was cute so mummy and daddy melted instead of correcting the little guy!!!)

 and off we went around the grandparents selling sweeties!!!

He did very well ( think the cuteness helped in the selling!!) and came home with his little penny bag

 ( attached to the front of his tray!!) "full to the brim" in his words!! toooooo cute!!!

Now, today was fabulous, just what having little peeps in your life is all about. Little Mo was so chuffed with himself that he had sold his little sweets in his sweet shop and then this afternoon we all went off for a bike ride to the park. Call me daft, but can life seriously get any better?? it must of taken all of 30 minutes to make this little guy his sweet shop but oh my did he enjoy it and hopefully it will be a very happy summer holiday memory for him.

Well, I had better go serve out tea!! chicken for me and mo, gammon for dady with new tates, corn on the cob and carrots, yummo!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Mo's DP2 challenge blog- feeling blue.

Image- William and Jeffrey from Mo's digital pencil.

Hello peeps!!!

I am late in popping on a bloggy post today as we have had a bit of a playing in the garden morning since we got back from scott's mums house. Mo has been in his paddling pool as it is lovely and warm today and in a few minutes we are popping out to meet nanne and grandad in town for nannie's birthday lunch.

Before I go I wanted to share my entry for the DP2 challenge blogs Feeling Blue challenge. 

I loved this image Mo created of William and Jeffrey as it reminded me so much of my very own thing 1 and thing 2!!!! 

The background is a freebie from Mo from a long time ago when I first got addicted to Mo's images.

I printed them out as soon as Scott had bought them!! lol!! love them so much!! and coloured them up with my promarkers. ( little mo has since complained that his t-shirt on the card isn't blue so i need to do another!!!!)

They are popped out a bit from the card base because I wanted them to stand out from the page.

So that is me for today!! off to get full up of chinese food now at the buffet restaurant!! yummo!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Ocotopode factory butterflies tag from my prize pack

Image- The Octopode Factory for Ryan.

Morning peeps!!!

Yey!!! I am feeling much better today, phew!!! and have had time and enough umpf to have a go at a tag with my Ocotopode factory part of my prize pack from Meredith.  This morning I woke up to an email from Meredith with another image the TGF have donated and that is soooo cute so I will have to have a play with that later.

Now, I am quite new to the making a grungy kinda tag thing so be gentle with me!!!!! romfl!!!! This one is a prezzie for my big sis, so I hope its not too bad!!

 For this one I used the Ocotopede prize download, (I can't find it in the shop so I guess you will just have to join in with the cardmaking for Ryan if you want it!!! lol!!!).

I printed it out and coloured it in with my promarkers easy peasy!!! then onto the tag.

I used my versamark dazzle to plonk some swirls all over the tag, then rubbed over some SU pear pizzaz ( birthday prezzie from BF, love it!) then I went round all the edges and a bit into the tag on the bottom left and top right with SU chocolate chip ( also prezzie from BF for my birthday, love it !!!)


I punched out one of the sentiments from the set with my SU oval punch and stuck it on the side.

I added a few green blingy gems and some fluffy brown and light brown fibrews and I thinks its done?! Any comments on what I have done wrong would be ok!!!

If anyone has any awesome tag making tutorials you can share with my that would be fab as I quite enjoyed this one!!

Right cuppa calling and BF leading me astray into sizzix sale which must be looked at...:) :) so I had better go!!! Love skype and blogging at the same time!!!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

working through my prize pack from Meredith!!!!

 Hello Peeps!!!

Me and feeling rough do not sit together well so tonight I have been taking my mind of poorly by working through some of the gorgeous images I got in my prize pack from Meredith for helping out with Ryan's cards.
Please click here for more info on how you can help and get yours too!! I haven't even got half of them coloured in yet!! These were just the first few that fell out of my printer this afternoon!!!

I was very chiffed when my 11 year old big boy returned from his holiday for a quick visit and deemed my Grumpie from Smeared Inks donation "Cool" !!!

 ooooh I love this cute mermaid!!!!

 Fabulous Bombshell set!! loved making this bookmark, my BFF got me started on these a couple of weeks ago and they are oodles of fun, thank you Fi xxxxxxx

And this is the last one I have managed to get done!

Wow, what a prize pack filled with yummies so far. Huge Thanks to Meredith and all the awesome people who have donated prizes for the pack. Aida from Tiddly inks who has been in a few of my posts recently is also included in the pack.
What I loved even more is that there were so many I wasn't really aware of and have really enjoyed recieving. My octopede butterflies are sat coloured on my craft desk still, too tired to do anymore and want to get to bed before the paracetemol run out!!!!

 If you feel like making a card for Ryan, please click on the linky at the start of this post and get creating away!!!

Thank you for peeking
Hugs Lou xxxx

CES Mix and match

Image- Aida-Gonna miss you from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Laura Ashley traditional (the blue & yellow flowery bit)

Map paper from a 12x12 huge folder of paper I have had for years

(don't know what its called though!)

Morning peeps!!!

I am back in bloggyland bright and early this morning to share with you my card for the CES challenge blogs Mix & Match challenge. I came in their top 3 again last week, thank you so much girlies, and I can't tell you how much that means to me because sometimes you feel like you are blogging away all to yourself so its lovely to know people pop in and like what you have been busy creating away at. Thank you again xxxx

And so onto the mix and match challenge.....arghhhhhh!! anyone who knows me knows that I always try to stick to the same pad of paper or colourway from Anice's funky hand cd's so this was a challenge and a half for dippy Lou here!!!!

In the end I went for some pretty Laura Ashley paper ( its nestled behind Aida) and some of my huge 12x12 stash. This huge 12x12 stash is what my gorgeous hubby bought me when I first got my cricut, so 5 years ago now and its awesome. I don't know who made it but it came in a mahoosive bag and even though I use some every week it is still going strong!! All the paper is thick,more like thin card, and double sided (yey!!!)

I chose a world mappy style one to go with the travelling theme.

You can just about make out the miss you sentiment and hugs and kisses a la cuttlebug love language cutting die. I cut them out of some corrugated card that Scott put aside for me from some parcels last week, its fab, love the effect it gives. I tied the hugs and kisses on with some garden twine and frayed the edges.

And of course, my little distrezz it all had a good buzzing today roughing up all the edges for me, love it!! its huge satisfaction at the touch of a button!!!!!! ;)

Aida got some promarker treatment and a good splodge of glossy accents on her roses on her hat, along with all the gold/brassy bits on her suitcases. I don't know why I love her so much, she just looks so lovely sat there on her suitcases.

A few blingy gems and I called her done!!!!

Today I am hitting the play area with the children. I am feeling rough with a sore throat so am taking some colouring to do with me and a magazine as they will be in there for hours, only emerging for drinks!! lol!!!

Have a fabby day peeps.
Hugs Lou xxx