Sugarbowl challenge!!

 Image- Sitting Sugar Nellie gorgeous girl from Funky Kits.

Papers- Raspberry Road freebie from a crafty mag

Evening peeps!!!

Well I have had a fabulous sunday. We woke up to icky rain but then had a break in it which was fab as we all got wellied up and plodded the Holly over to the recreation ground in our village to get a good play and run around in. Now, despite being a yellow lab and supposed water dog...Holly does not do rain...to the point where if she even see's it dripping down the patio door she runs back to her bed!!! so a good walk in the break from the rain was much adored by the fluffy princess today!!

Once we had done that(...and Mo had tested out his new sisal rope bought by my mum by tying me up to the garden gate.....) I wanted to get started on making a card for the Sugarbowl challenge this week. It is a yummy sketch and I really felt like having a good old stamp and ink stampy session!!! (...plus its my mum and dad's wedding anniversary this week and they have both forgotten so before they send me frantic texts on monday night to tell me they need a card I thought I would be ahead of the game!!...yeah I could tell them they have both forgotten but its more fun this way!! romfl!!!!!)

So, this is mums card from my dad! I inked up one of my fav gorjuss/gorgeous girls, Sitting. I know there are new ones but I still love the originals from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits. I decided I wanted some nice soft edges so I stamped her in memento rich cocoa. I love how it comes out.

She then got a good old nestie treatment and tim holtz tea dye and antique linen distressing before getting coloured up with these pens below.....:)

Get me...all organised!!! :)


The papers were a delicious freebie from one of my crafty mags and they are Raspberry Road 'Summer Goodness'. They have a kinda glossy feel to them so they were a treat to play with!!! the swooshy swirls are a sizzix die that I got with my big shot and the little flower is..... of course, from Tim Holtz's tattered floral die :) and the little teeny butterfly's are my martha stewart punch.


So I think thats me for today!!! tonight I am just going to veg out a bit and catch up with my 'Castle's I have taped. I need to make mum's card for dad but I know what I am doing for it so it won't take me long and I have even been super creative and made up my own sentiment for it, go me!!!! might get it done and post it for you tomorrow!!


Thank you so much for popping in on me :) this new blogger set up has had me confuzled so I am quite impressed I even managed to post this !!!!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

What can you do with a Tiddly Inks wedding cake freebie.......:)

Morning Peeps!!

Phew its been a busy week and I have to admit I will be very happy when it is 5:30pm tonight and my weekend begins!!!

I have been busy both at work and at home this week!! and the home busy-ness has been full of wedding!!! I have been working on some wedding bits for a few weeks now and these are what I have been busy making!!

I knew just where to head when Natasha asked for a funky wedding cake and sent a begging email to the gorgeous Christy for help!!! :) and omgosh I loved the little cake she sent me! and whats even more exciting is that ya'll can have it too!!! for FREEEEEEEEE!!! if you click on the piccy it will take your straight to the post on Christy's blog. She is just so awesome!! thank you Christy,mwah xxxxxx

Now the date on the book in this piccy is actually the wrong date....derrrrr Lou!!! but I forgot to photograph it once I had sorted the date out!!! derrrr Lou again!!! 

Inside view! there is extra raffia in the bow as Natasha wants to add photographs to the pages so it needed to be able to pumf out a bit!!

bit of a side view!

Here is the table number. There are 6 of them and they do look so cute IRL. Pearlescent card and paper just do not like being photographed by me!! I can never get it right!!!! it makes the images look all bobbly but they are actually all blingyish! 

...and of course a cute little matching card too!!!...with the right date on this time!!:)
I merged the super cute little Wedding Huggabuggs onto the cake (..they are on sale price too :) over in the Tiddly inks bargain basement)

Phew!! that was a mammoth lots of piccies post!!!!!
Thought his cake would be completely awesome for a baking mamma for mothers day too, its just so pretty.


Challenges I am popping this little wedding bundle into are...
Paper Sundaes- Anything Goes
Incy Wincy- Digi's only!
Crafty Sentiments- Use a digi
Well, I had better get my butt into gear and get ready to go to work...I am still in my pj's so best get dressed too!!!
Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx

Birthday Princess!!

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this morning? I am off to work today so am just sat eating my tropical fruits granola and having a cuppa to wake myself up. I thought I would quickly get this little 'Its my party'  LOTV princess blogged and entered into a couple of challenges before I go!! I had a 3rd birthday card to make so she just had to be used!!!

She got some nestie treatment and then a bit of tattered pink DI around her. I mounted her onto a lacey circle nesty too.

The challenges I am playing along in are....

Passion for promarkers - Pink, pearls and lace

craft your passion- dies cuts/punches

Totally papercrafts- Things with wings

I coloured up my gorgeous stroppy birthday princess in these colours...

I just had to use my fabulous magnolia lace die for the lace. I had no pink lace and I knew that would be perfect. It comes out so pretty. 

Now for a little tip with those magnolia doo hickey dies!!...they can be a little tricky to pickle out so all I do is put some greaseproof paper over the die, then add my cardstock I want to cut over the top of that and then run it through my big shot. The cut piece pops out easliy then, it works great for the Tim Holtz border dies/on the edge dies too :) hope that helps someone!!

A little bit of pink twine tied into a bow,3 punched butterflies and the I had some fun with my waco pearl pen to add the pearls!! The lineny type paper is from funky Hand's craft the year away. Then I stamped an LOTV verse for the sentiment. that verse is just right for a little 3 year old.

I must admit to thinking this card is soooooo cute!! I just love her little stroppy face and those boots!!! she is so me!!! :)

Right, got to plod the dog and get my lunch ready!!

Have a fabulous day everyone and thank you for popping in on me this morning!

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

SMASH-ing Day with my little Mo!!

 Evening Peeps!!!


I hope you have all had an awesome day because I totally have!!!
It was the last day of my gorgeous Little Mo's holidays today, he is back to school tomorrow :( so this morning when we woke up I asked him what he wanted to do today. The first thing he wanted to do was try out the tennis ball slingshot for the dog that my friend Leah's fiance gave us yesterday. So off we plodded with the dog at 7am along the viking way and oh boy!! was that slingshot fun!! Mo giggled everytime I sent a ball flying off and Holly thought it was christmas! she loved it!!! we only lost one ball into some tree's so it wasnt bad going!! we even got snowed on briefly when there was a quick snow shower which was very exciting for Mo!!...it was fairly warm for the rest of the day though!!!


Second thing he wanted to do was catch the bus into town. So off we went on our travels, with Mo clutching tightly to his Dylan dog teddy,it was a double decker bus so we headed upstairs and oh boy he loved that!! we even saw my sister walking on her way to work so as soon as we hit town Mo decided he needed to go buy her a present! 4 vienesse truffles bars from thorntons later and a visit to the shop my sister works in for a quick visit.


Cheese straws and a gingerbread man from the bakery, then we found washi tape in paper chase and could afford a whole 2 rolls with the pennies left in my purse so we chose one each and then it was home on the bus.


When we got home I asked if there was anything else he wanted to do and he asked if we could have some crafty time. I LOVE that about him, he really does love crafting. I so hope that lasts as he gets older. So we decided to do some a SMASH page about our puddle jumping photo Scott took at the zoo on mothers day a few weeks ago.


Little Mo did the writing on the bunting and decided he wanted to "descrive puddles for his writing bit" (...descrive is describe in Mo speak!!!) so he got on with that while I did my little bit on a tag to hide behind his writing. I also wrote 'I love puddles' on a little splodge on the paper. I punched out some circles because Mo wanted to point out the "splashy puddle" and my "jumpy hair" ( I love how Scott got those action shots!!) Mo stole one and wouldn't tell me what he had written but asked me to make a cloud that went the wrong way (....?...after asking what he meant he said he wanted it to go up the black bits .....) Phew I got it right!! and then he stuck his little circle on, awwwww!! I LOVE that circle :)

The papers I used are from my Funky Hand Dreams Come True papercraft factory cd rom and just perfect for splodgy puddle SMASH ing!!! I just added faded jeans distress ink, glossy accent rain and puddles and a word art of a quote form E Cummings I have had on my pooter for years! it was so nice to use it!!


I cannot tell you how much of a fabulous day I had for Mo choosing day!!! it was so much fun. After we finished crafting we played with our mini nerf jolt guns together (yup...Mo's was so much fun I had to buy myself one!! we got one for my dad for his birthday too and he loves it!!!!) and then went to the park. Then we came home and watched the film 'Hachi- a dogs tale' and oh boy did we cry!! but it was nice!!


so thats me done waffling for tonight!!!! thank you for popping in on me!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Nappy Cakes!!

Morning Peeps!!
How are ya'll this gorgeous sunny morning?!! I bet you all think I have forgotten about my blog over the last few days!! I have just been enjoying the last few days of the hols with Mo as he returns to school on tuesday :(


Last week I had a couple of nappy cakes to make!! The first one was easy peasy as I knew what the little baby was going to be and I had made a little book for baby's mummy and daddy to start filling up a couple of weeks ago Its Here if you haven't seen it already!)
I just followed to theme of the book for this one and added some cute little booties to the top to finish it off!! I love the bunting! it looks so cute!! you can just about make out the little white buttons at the ends of the twine.


Now onto the Gelfling's nappy cake!! The gelfling is one of my oldest and dearest friend's little bump and with 9 weeks to go, this little baby is still being fairly elusive as to what he/she may be!!! gelfling has had many scans to try and see and has become an expert inleg crossing, back turning and curling up so mummy and daddy are still not sure what sex gelfling is!!! romfl!! so I had to be a bit of a both sexes one! after thinking for 3 days what to do, I went with a blue, yellow and green kinda scheme using my DCWV nana's nursery stack to  make it with!! .......and I was still finishing it off when Leah arrived for a cuppa the other day!! :) so I didn't get chance to take piccies....luckily Leah did and I have stolen them to pop on here :) Love yah Leah :) !!!

I made the flower on top with my Tim Holtz tattered floral die and added a little button to the centre.

I am entering my little nappy cakes into the Allsorts challenge blogs Buttons and Threads challenge .

Right then, off to get myself dressed now. Ryan has got a football match this morning so Mo and I are going to walk the dog around the park while Ryan is playing and then the rest of the day will contain lots of vegging out!!! 

Thank you for popping in on me!! 

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 15- April Showers

Image- Duck, Duck Goose  from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's.

Afternoon Peeps!!

I hope you are all having an awesome week! Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog and this time we want to see.......

April Showers!

Ok, so I can't help but think of the bambi song....

Ha!! now I got ya'll singing it!! :)


Anywhoo!! I just had to use Duck, Duck Goose for my card. I have had her sat in my pile of 'really need to play with that one's for a couple of weeks now. I decided on a get well card theme for mine, with an under the weather kinda thought in my head :)


I got the websters pages papers on a crafty mag a couple of weeks ago and I lurve them!!! I coloured her up to match  them and then had some fun making flowers and embellies. The gorgeous big pinky coloured paper is from Funky Hand's craft the year away cd and I love how it goes so perfick with the websters pages paper. They were only 6x6" size and this card is 7.5x7.5" so I needed something good to pop underneath! My papercraft factories are perfect for this job because the papers come in sooo many different colourways and you can always find one to match what you are using! love it!!


The umbrella is from my create a critter cart and its gorgeous! I cut it in normal and shadow to give it a bit of umpf and added some doodly stitches to it.


Of course, Lord Tim had to feature too and he came in the form of some lurvely tattered floral flowers and a little lace border :) I even pretended he had invented a tattered florals on the edge die....yup glue and paper piecing and there you go Tim...we need a tattered florals on the edge die purlease!!!! :)


There's a teensy bit of lace under the border piece and it looks so pretty IRL but doesn't want to show itself too well in the piccy!! 
I made my sentiment in word and then printed it out onto a good old mini tag from staples!! oooh I love stationary so much!!
And of course there was a little pile of pens involved in the making of this card :) here it is...

So what do you need to do to join in with us over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog??! 
You must use either a Saturated Canary Digi or a Simply Sassy rubber stamp. Also, please leave a link to the blog *post* featuring your challenge card:). This challenge is open until Wednesday, April 25th @ 12:00pm EST. 
And don't forget to pop in on the challenge blog to see what my awesomely gorgeous teamies have been making to get you all going!!


Thank you for popping in on me today :)
huge hugs Lou xxx

Diamonds..ooh yes please!!

Image- Racy Roxie from Kenny K 

sentiment from TLC

Papers- Steampunk pack and Gothic girls pack.

Morning Peeps!!
How are ya'll this morning? good I hope. Before I pop off to work I thought I would get a couple of bloggy posts done so I have this one for now and then this afternoon I will be back with my Saturated Canary DT card for this week as its tine for a new challenge!! yey!!!


So onto this card!! the Kenny K krafty Girls wanted to see Diamonds for their challenge this week and who can resist a bit of the bling?!!!!
I printed out Roxie and gave her a little bit of a mono colour to match her up to my Tiddly Inks grungey text and chequerboard papers.
The lurvely swooshy swirly she is sitting on is from my cricut wedding solutions cart, its a lovely big card too at 7.5x7.5". I blinged the swoosh up with some diamond glitter and added 4 little diamonds to the swoosh ends! bling baby bling!!!


Now taking a photo of bling drove me crackers!! it did not want to show up so  took a piccy of her laying flat...which is quite nice because you can see the dimension of her popped up and the sparkles!! and here is the best one I could get of it stood up!!...which I know is pants!!! :)

Here's a little pile of promarkers for you!!!

And now I really have to go get ready for work!! Please don't forget to pop back in on me later too for the new Saturated Canary challenge!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Diva's by Design challenge- Charmed.

Image- Zombie Boy from Krista Smith's saturated canary Digi's.

Morning Peeps!!

Today I am having a special treat as I am playing along with the DT over on the Diva's By Design challenge blog. Their challenge this week is being sponsored by the gorgeous Krista Smith and her awesome Saturated Canary digi's :)

This weeks challenge is called ... Charmed

so use charms on your projects!! easy peasy and who doesn't love a charm??!!!

I know I do!! there is just something about their little metal cuteness that I adore. My friend Clare has a craft shop and she has them in little bags on the top near the till and I just have to get 1 or 2 (...or more....:) ) bags whenever I pop in on her!! I just LOVE them!!

So my card for today has the awesome little zombie boy image on it!! this card is for my nephew, Jake. He is going to be 12 this year and he LOVES horror films, goofy ones, scary ones, you name it he loves it! he gets it from my big sister because she is exactly the same!! Last week when I had Jake and Boo for the school hols the children spent a long time drawing lots of different zombies in some excercise books I had bought for them so I am so excited about giving Jake this card! I might even have to give him it early :) !!!

I printed my zombie out and then nestied him all wonky with a deckled rectangle nestie. Once I had lovingly and carefully coloured him in.....I then screwed him up and stomped on him a bit to distress him (poor guy!!) then I rubbed some antique linen distress ink all over him and inked the edges in a darker brown ink eye. I added some glossy accents to his orange eye once I had finished squishing him!!! He also got some blender pen make your face all mottley' treatment! Here's a close up...

He,he,he!! Little Mo looked at him when I was done and said

" hey mumma, that zombie isn't a full zombie yet 'cos he has one normal blue eye, but he is going to be a full one soon because you can see he has THE ORANGE EYE"

now, that THE ORANGE EYE bit had to be capitals because that was the moment little Mo put his head to the side, stuck out his tongue and in his best zombie voice said "THE ORANGE EYE" it was soooo funny I nearly spat my juice out laughing!!!

I used Jen's sketch to make this card. If you haven't popped in on her blog, Deconstructing Jen, you really should!! I am always totally late using the sketches but I do love them so!!! I am so going to try and do the next one on time Jen :) xxxx

I attached my little skully charm using some cross stitch thread. I have a tonne of this thread that I love, I used to cross stitch all the time! but moved over into cardmaking and now the thread is my own little stash of twine!!! I also tied some teeny knots and added them to the little circles on the side of the image mats. 

Here is my little pile of promarkers used.....

Please don't forget to pop in on the awesome Diva's by Design DT and see what they have been creating to inspire you all along your way!!

Thank you for popping in on me today

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 84- Photo Inspiration

Image- Wryn Pick Up Sticks from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!

Its that Tiddly Tuesday time of the week again and time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog today I have a layout to share with you.

We have a '2' theme going for a little photo inspiration with a '2' ish theme because Tiddly Inks is turning 2. Here is the photo....

I decided to go with the bottom left of the umbrella and use the orangey and yellow colours along with Wryn- Pick up Sticks! she is just gorgeous! and her sentiments are just awesome.


I chose some paper with the right colours on it and some scraps of orangey handmade papers that would match the colours on the umbrella. I coloured Wryn up in some oranges and browns and I also tried to get a bit of blue in on her top too from the left of the umbrella!
I love photo inspiration because it just inpsires you to use different colour combo's in exciting ways!
Please don't forget to pop in on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and see  the other awesome Tiddly Inkers take on this piccy.

By now, anyone who pops in on my blog will know that I don't do photos of me!!! This picture of me and scott was taken on mothers day when we went to Twycross zoo with Mo. Scott took it when we were in one  of the huts along the Borneo Longhouse Aviary walk so we were in a little wooden walkway. So Little Mo and I went stick hunting so I could use some real sticks to go onto my layout 

(...note to anyone doing this with their little boy...they will bring a whole tree...or 3 back home with them....!! the council had recently been trimming the branches and there were loads of them down on the ground...now they are in my garden!!!)

Here is a close up of my journalling.....

and here is a better piccy of my gorgeous little Wryn all coloured up, I absolutely adore her

and a close up of the sentiment too. I coloured up the 'stick' letters and added crackle accents to them. 

I love this layout because in our 10 years together I only have 3 photo's of Scott and I apart from our wedding ones!!!! and he is just such a special guy. I am a very lucky gal and the 2 of us make the best team.

Right then, that me for today!!! off for a cuppa and some snuggly time with Mo before we head off to the zoo for the day. Scott is giving the fluffy princess a good walk before we go and Mo and I are just waiting for Ryan to arrive.

thank you for popping in on me and please don't forget to pop in on the other gorgeous Tiddly Inking gals too over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

huge hugs Lou xxx

If you can't beat them....SMASH them :)

Image- Zombie Girl from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Steampunk pack and Gothic girls pack.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Well today's plans went pants up when the dreaded monthlies arrived for me :( I have endometriosis so its a very painful and traumatic few days. However, this morning after taking 30 mins to get out of bed and get some painkillers I decided it was time to get even!! 

If you can't beat it ....SMASH IT!!!

So I plodded out to my crafty garage with Mo and my hot wheaty bag and set to work!! 

Lots of grungy stamps,distress inks and some journalling later and here it is!!! My monthlies journal page!!

 I hope I don't offend anyone by smashing and sharing this, its just that it is such a big part of my life. When you have endometriosis it doesn't just end with the monthlies coming, you get back ache a lot and feel icky a lot before it actually comes :( I am still working in the doc's to give me a hysterectomy but they want to exhaust all other avenues first (...which includes me!!! I would rather just get it over and done with!!!)

And heres my gorgeous zombie girl!!!...which is probably just what I look like at the minute after 2 500mg co-codamols!!...which I also had to include on my pages of pain!!!!

I inked them a bit so they fitted it with the grungy colours!!

Its a bit tricky to see but my little zombie chick has a kind of mottled effect going on! I coloured her up and then dotted my blender pen over her and her kitty to get them a bit more zombiefied!! she is also edged in green copic spica pen which sparkls a treat, will try and get a piccy of it later and add it on!

The font for my journalling is called 'Lefty Monster' and I got it from dafont for free! (...though my own handwriting is so monstrous it probably would of fit in quite well!!) I printed out the words I was feeling, inked them and then mounted them onto black card.

I am actually amazed at how much better I feel for getting some of my feelings down onto a page I can reflect on ...well, that and the fact that 2 lots of painkillers help a whole tonne :) :) and ripping round the edges of the paper was fun. I loved tying knots in the thread and adding a little tag to point out my painkillers!! 

And here's my little mountain of pens used!!!

and yup!! they are sitting on my rather starting to look ever so wrinkly paged art/smashing journal !!!!!

 I am entering this page into a couple of challenges too...
Bunny Zoes - Ribbon or Twine - I hope you can see my twine around the journalling part and tablets xx
Anything Goes- Anything Goes challenge !! theres certainly a bit of anything goes on this page!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me! off to watch Lord of the Rings with Mo now. 

huge hugs Lou xxx