Stamp Magic ticket blog candy winner...

Morning peeps!!

Just a quicky to post the winner of my Stamp Magic ticket candy! the winner is Catherine! drop me an email with your addy please hun so I can get it posted off for you in plenty of time for the show.
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary Challenge 27- Office Supplies!

Hi there Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog and this week it was our gorgeous Caz's turn to pick our theme and ooooooh she came up with a fun one!!! This weeks challenge is to .....

Use Office Supplies on your creation.

How much fun is that? I loved altering this notebook yesterday. I took my little pile of officey stuff.......

 A notebook, file folder, paperclip,washi tape, yummy 'What the librarian reads' image and a cute little gromlet from my stash!! I also just had to add some string,a cute cloud journalling card Krista sent me a little while ago and her business card which I attached on with a mini bulldog clip that I glossy accented onto my notebook on top of some scraps of paper that I cut with my Fishtail Stax die-namics.

I ripped a little bit down the side and slid a bit of book page behind it,then sewed a little thread through it and tied it into a bow, cute!!

Here is a bit of a closer piccy of the part with my librarian on. I coloured her up to match the papers and the notepad and I love how she came out. She has glossy accents on her glasses and mug too. She is stuck down with a bit of washi tape.I added a couple of bits of paper from my scrap box and the little cloud attached with a paperclip. I really love the smashy feel of this little bit.

Last week I got an email asking how I do the colour on glasses to make them look real. First, thank you for saying they look real :) and how I do it is to colour up my image as normal, including the skin and eye colours through the glasses and then when that has all dried off I go over the lenses of the glasses with my satin promarker and add the glossy accents over the top.
 Glossy accents is kinda tricky to get a piccy of sometimes but it really does look cute so is well worth buying!!!

Well I will be hard at work while you all read this so I will be popping in on you all once I get home. Don't forget to pop in on my canary teamies over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog as their creations are roughly a zillion times better than mine so don't miss out!!!

Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

My little Blog Candy....

My blog candy.

Morning Peeps!!

On saturday 6th December 2008 a little ole me started my journey into the little world of blogging. Since then I have made so many very special friends and have often thought of having a little blog candy to say thank you for popping in on me and seeing what I have been up to.

I really wanted to have a useful blog candy so I headed straight for Which Crafts and bought a ticket for the Stamp Magic show. Now if you have never been there you so really would love to. I have been 3 times and each time I have thoroughly enjoyed my day and come home with my bags packed full of yummy buys.

So if you would like to win a ticket to the Stamp Magic show all you need to do is these 2 simple steps....

1. Follow my blog by clicking on the 'join this site' button down the right hand tool bar over there....>

2. Leave a comment by sunday 29th september at 8am when I will pick a winner.

Right I have got to get myself going now but here's a piccy of Mo and his breakfast buddy Sophia, sat in Poppy's new cage......

... The cage arrived last night and a very excited Mo got in there as soon as my friend Amy and her fiance Dane had put it up for us and gone home!! Mo and Sophia have been sat in there for over an hour now playing doggies!! its so funny!!

I can't wait for her to arrive now! its just a week and a half now until we get her! squeeeeee!!!

Don't forget to leave a comment if you want to win yourself a ticket to Stamp Magic!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Oh come all ye crafters!!!!

Afternoon peeps!
I have had a wonderful morning with my mum and she is doing so well. The surgeon didn't have to do the major pinning this time and instead took out some more discs and a large amount of bone before he did his little cage and pinning thingy and mum feels so much better so I am so happy. We had a little drive and a walk around a few shops and she did so well. I have some huge DT catching up jobs to do now she is looking much better, it knocked me for 6 worrying about her over the last couple of weeks and I just couldn't concentrate properly on anything. Now I feel like I am floating happily in Lou Land again!!!

So my share for today was made with the help of a very gorgeous Little Mo. He saw the hole in the centre of the star I was making and said it would look lovely with "Twinkle Twinkle little star" in so being an ever so good mummy I gave him a pen and told him go for it!!! it looks so cute. He is saving it for his Great Grandad's christmas card now!!!

And how gorgeous are those papers???!!! they are from the new Oh come all ye crafters christmas download range from Funky Hand, click on the piccy below for more details because there is an awesome multi buy offer!!

This was is my first make but oh boy am I hooked on these papers already!! I printed the whole lot out and am going to love wombling through some makes with them so much.

I cut the little star from the 'Fabulous Finds' cricut cartridge in the zingy green coloured paper and then just popped it onto a base of the stars and the red paper from the download.

Then I just threaded some stitching thread (in red, zingy green,dark green and brown to match the colours of the papers) through the slot in the star.

Right, I need to have a quick boiled water with Lemon before I go fetch Mo from school and strip the beds ready for washing...though I fear its going to have to be tumbley drier dried because the weather here today totally sucks!! the wind is awesome but the showers that keep plomping down with it are not so!!!! lol!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

A Christmassy Bathtime!!

Morning peeps!!!

After a bit of a pants weekend with the icky monthlies I am back in action and popping in with a little make for you this morning and I was feeling in the christmas mood so Kraftin Kimmie's Brigette got a christmassy bathtime!!!

She is the first Kraftin Kimmie stamp I have coloured up so I had to have a bit of fun with her!!

The papers on this one are just gorgeous.They are Glitz Joyeux Noel and I have to admit to a good 30 mins of 'stroke the paper' before I actually managed to cut into it!! he he he!! I cut round some of the gorgeous little pennants in the paper and tucked her under them.

Brigette is coloured up with promarkers and her bubbles got a little bit of Glossy Accents treatment :)

They are  corners are Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B and the twine is MME Merry and Bright.

I had some fun making the little charm too. I stamped it onto some shrink plastic using Jet Black Staz on and then coloured it up with some pencils. Then before  heated it to shrink it up I inked around the edges with a Memento Red Letter dewdrop inkpad. Then when it shrinks there is a lovely coloured deep edge around it. I tied a little bow and glued it on to finish it off.

The sentiment comes with Brigette and when I showed this card to my little Mo he said " wow, Mrs. Claus looks really happy in her bath after wrapping all those toys for santa mummy!!" so I was super pleased I had coloured her hair in grey!!! too cute!!!

I  have Scott all to myself today while Mo is at school. The weather is dreadful, its so dark and pouring with rain, ack!!  so I think we will just be pootling around at home but it will be lovely all the same. I am a bit behind with bloggy reading after spending most of the weekend in bed with my wheaty bag and painkillers so I will probably get some bloggy catching up done too!!

Right best get Mo sorted for school!!

Hugs Lou xxx

An Alice themed wedding card...

 Morning Peeps!
Hope you are all having a great friday, I have just had a quick chat with my mum on the phone so I am feeling much better today. Her bed is one that is able to sit up so the nurses let her sit up a little last night which she said was lovely. She said the room service needs to be worked on a bit though as this morning she rang them at 6am for a cup of tea and they brought her a bedpan instead!! romfl!! I will know more about what they had to do tonight or tomorrow but it was just so lovely to hear her voice.

So today I have a little wedding card that one of my lovely friends at work asked me to make for her. When I asked her a bit about the 2 ladies getting married she said they loved Alice in wonderland so I decided to go with an Alice theme.


The heart is a sizzix die and I stamped one of my distressing stamps onto it, imagine how happy I was when I attempted to read what it says and it had the word wedding in there too!! yey!!

The corners are Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B and I cut those in white so they popped out. The paper is from Tiddly Inks, I love this paper and always use it on Alice themed cards, it just goes so well and I made the banner by typing out the words on my pooter and then cutting it out with my fishtail stax die-namics.

I followed the same theme on the inside and just added a queen of hearts playing card...

I really love how this one turned it, it looked so nice.

Right got to get myself going, its time for work!!
thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Zombie Smash!!!!

Evening Peeps!!

jeesh I have had one busy day but somewhere in all of it I was totally determined I would get a SMASH page done with this piccy of Mo we took ages ago! he has green zombie eye sweets over his eyes! 

I have had it and the little sign printed out and glued up through my creatopia for at least 4 months and kept picking it up and putting it down and then this morning whilst I was wombling through phone apps/games on my phone I saw one called 'Zombie Smash' and that was it!! I was away!! ....course I had to print that one out too!! lol!!!

The gorgeous zombies themselves are from the gorgeous Krista Smith over in the Saturated Canary store. They are...Zombie Philly, Zombie Niamh and Rollerskating Zombie.

I coloured them in with forest moss distress inks and promarkers and then cut them out. My poor rollerskating zombie got her legs chopped off in true zombie style!!! he he he!!!

I had a flick through my smash book, I have the pink one, and just knew the green page with the spooky ravens was the one to use...it reminds me of the film 'Birds'....lol!!

And my little Mo!! he is stuck on using an action wobble and omgosh how much fun are they???? I think I have spent most of today just wibbling him around!! too much fun. Here's how it works...

LOVE IT!!!

Right I am off to get myself some nibblies, I have been so busy today that I kinda didn't eat until tea time and now I am sooo hungry I could eat tea all over again!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

A little autumnal fairy....

Morning Peeps!!

I have a little autumn themed share for today!! I was so inspired by the Bingo challenge on the Lili's Little Fairies blog (I chose the lace, gems and brad line of the bingo...then added a few more bits too...I don't think I have a CAS bone in my body!!!) and the 'A hazy shade of Autumn' challenge over on the Papertake weekly blog , I just had to have a make last night....after I had finished drooling over Paul Hollywood...I mean the  cakes....on  The Great British Bake Off..:) :)

This is one of my fav LOTV stamps, Dandelion Clock, and I love her to bits.I printed out a nice wodge of 'orange october' papers from my Craft The Year Away cd and then coloured her up to match them.

I then decided she looked a bit too neat so I stamped on the Grunge Corners and then embossed the other 2 corners with a sizzix embossing folder and gave it all a good distressing!!! then I added one of the For You sentiment circles too!! The flowers, lace and gems are from my stash.

This little card is sitting in my ETSY  shop just waiting to be bought :) he he he!!

So I have a busy day today!! Mo's little breakfast buddy will be here soon and then its playing and off to school for them both, then I am off for a drive to meet my grandad and fetch his washing!! ooooh I am sooo lucky!!! he he he!!! this will be my job for a couple of weeks now as tomorrow my lovely mum is going in for her spinal surgery. I have to be honest and say I am terrified for her. It was so painful for her last time and if things don't look good when the surgeon goes in he is going to put a metal rod down her spine :(  so if you have any spare cyber hugs tomorrow can you send them my mums way.

Right, cuppa, bloggy womble and then let the day begin!!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

Die-ing For a Challenge...Spots and Stripes..

Stamp- Wallflower.

Papers-Paper Cottage.

Sentiment- Everyday Trinkets.

Die cut- Circle Nestie.

I'm back!! he he he!!!

Its time for a new Die-ing for a challenge and this month Caz has chosen....

Spots and Stripes.

Now there are a few rules to observe which are:

RULES:

* All entries must have at least one Dies to Die for product on

* You can combine our challenge with NO MORE THAN 3 OTHER CHALLENGES

* You must link back to the Dies to Die for Blog

* NO back linking, new projects/cards only please

* Only 2 Entries per person please

* Entries which fail to observe the above will be removed and will not be eligible for the prize

And the prize...oooh a huge £25 voucher to spend in the fabulous Dies to Die For store.

I really wanted to challenge myself for this one and I decided to use just one die cut to show you all how easy it would be to join in with us, can you pick it out yet?

Its on the sentiment, just one simple die cut nestie circle that I then stamped my sentiment on!! simples!!!

My stamp is one of the gorgeous new Saturated Canary Wallflower. She is just awesome, this was her first inking and she stamped a dream!! I paper pieced her shoes and the top layer of her dress to match the papers and then cut out a couple of the little journalling shapes from the papers too pop behind her. She is  coloured with promarkers and popped up on some silicone so she didn't melt into the background. 

The twine is MME Merry and Bright.

Now before I go I want to share the tutorial I made last night with my Movie maker software! it was so much fun to play with..plus I don't have to torture you all with my daft squeeky voice!! he he he!!! its  a tutorial on how to use the new Lollipop Treats die from Die-namics. Its awesome!!! I have 5 made already!! Mo thinks they are fanatastic.....(and keeps stealing the lollies out of them!! romfl!!)

Hope you like it!!

Ok, so that really is me finished posting for today!

I have yet more ironing to finish and a cute little guy to get to school.

Thank you for popping back in on me

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 94- Make it like Asa!

Image- Vampboto and his bat from the Robot Holidays set.

Paper from MelStampz.

Morning everyone!!!

I am so excited today because the Tiddly Inkers are back from our summer break and ready to get you all going on the challenges again over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog, and we are easing you all in with some really fun challenges too. 

The first of which is ..

Make it like Asa!!

and here is Asa's card for your inspiration

You can use the sketch or the colours or even the image...as long as you use a Tiddly Inks image and the photo for your inspiration.

I went for the sketch option because this layout is just beautiful, and me being me it just had to be a halloweeny one!! romfl!!

I adore this little vampboto! he's just adorable. I coloured him up using just 2 colour tones of my promarkers- Cool greys and reds.

The paper comes from the awesome Mel over on Melstampz. This lady is legend and I adore everything she makes and she is so kind to share it all with people too. Thank you so much Mel xxxx

I added a teensy bit of spider web for his cute little bat to sit on and it was done, simple but so much fun!!

Don't forget to pop in on my Tiddly Inking buddies over on the challenge blog...they are back in perfect swoon making form!!!

Mo slept in until 6:10 am this morning which is fabulous but means I was a bit late writing my post this morning and Scott was a little late leaving for work! he he he..... human alarm clocks are fab!!!!

I'll be back in a few with my die-ing for a challenge blog post!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx