Fetch A Sketch challenge 6 and a sneaky peeky!!

Afternoon peeps!!

I am feeling a bit losted today as my little sidekick has gone back to school today :(.

I have to say though he was very very brave. He had big juicy teary eyes when I gave him a kiss but didn't cry and pootled off into the school gates, what a good lad. (.....then mummy walked to the car as quick as she could and had a good blubber all the way home!!!)

I have to admit, the first few days back at school are hard on both of us. Mo- because he still doesn't adore school yet, I am hoping he will be more settled this year and Me- because I really do love having the little fellow around, he is such a little character.

Anywhoo, enough emotional mummy waffle  and onto the creative stuff and explanation of my tissue creation!!!! ( if you want to make one of these super little mini tissue pack holders, the instructions are on the very talented Catherine's blog!)

I used the new addition to the  Funky Hand papercraft factory cd family, Happy Happy Birthday,  one of its digi stamps and its 'How Old' colourway to make my little entry for The Fetch A Sketch challenge blogs challenge this week.

I added a few little gems onto the digi stamp and wrote get well soon using the writer in the workspace.

Happy Happy birthday is due to be out on release for sale on the 10th September with our very own Head Funkette, Anice, spoiling you with some live demo's on Create and Craft on the 15th September at 9am and 4pm.

If you click on this lurvely picture of the cd you will be magically transported ( ...by the cute ickle fairy of course.....) to the Funky Hand shop where the silky tones of Ianwill talk you through the fabbiness of the cd. There's also a selection of very gorgeous samples from us Funkettes on there too, just look to the bottom of the Happy Happy birthday page for the gallery!! Love it!!!

Well, I guess thats me all done for today. I am going to have another hot drink and then get ready to go and fetch my little man.

Thank you for popping in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

CES Raise your glasses!!

Image- Happy New Year Lily Bean from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

I loved the challenge over on CES this week, its called Raise your glasses and after seeing Emma's card I had to have a bit of a go at it this morning!!
Armed with the lovely Happy new year Lily Bean tiddly inks image, isn't she gorgeous? (I don't actually drink that much apart from the occasional glass of whisky once in a blue moon but if I did like wine I think I would definitely hug the glass!!!!! romfl!!!)


The yummy looking red wine glass is covered in glossy accents and looks quite cool IRL!!

I love the bubbly and swirly paper from my Funky Hand Dreams Come True papercraft factory! Bubbles for the wine (mmmm...yes Lou knows that red wine is normally not bubbly.....!) and the swooshy one and a swooshy sentiment for the way you feel when you've drunk a little too much of the wine!!! he he he he!!!!!

So I think thats me for today!! Mo and I are just playing in the crafty garage for a while now, he is playing on horrible histories on the cbbc website, he giggles soooo much at the songs and I am having lots of fun playing with my new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand. Not long to wait now peeps until it is released but if you want a sneaky peek at all the yumminess us Funkettes have made so far they are up in the Funky Hand shop, so GO HERE for peekage!!!! the creations are in the slide show at the bottom of the page, but be warned, you will NEED it !!! its an awesome cd and has got the Funkettes hooked!!!

Have a fabby sunday, gotta get the chicken in the oven now, chicken salad for lunch, yummo!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Allsorts- Green and Blue.

Image- The Engineer from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Promarkers-blush, soft peach,pear green,olive green,denim blue

pastel blue, sandstone, cocoa,caramel.cool grey 2,3,4,pastel beige.

Morning peeps!!!

Its a lovely breezy sunny day here in Lincoln today and I am up and with it enough to get a card posted for the Allsorts challenge blogs Green and Blue challenge!!

This card is my Grandad's birthday card. He loves steam trains so I just had to use Mo Manning's 'The Engineer', he's fab isn't he??!!

I teamed him up with some papers from my dreams come true papercraft factory cd, using the Blue Magic colourway, its one of my fav's and totally perfick for those men in your life!!!!!! 

Lol!!! I have never realised how many promarkers I use each time until I try to note them all down for you!!!! the sky is faded jeans distress ink and the grass is forest moss distress ink.

Right, off to big sis's house now to drop of birthday cards and pennies for my nephews as they are off into town to spend them!!!

Have a fabulous day everyone!! 

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

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