Poppy Post :) :)

awwwwwww, the furball princess is home and she is sooooooo cute!!

Hello Peeps,

We picked Poppy up at 12:30pm and we have been having lots of snugglies and playing since she came home. Our little choccy brown furball princess is just so gorgeous I had to share some piccies Scott has snapped with you all.

She went straight out into the garden when we got home and did a wee then we had some playtime then my clever little girl went off to do a big poop in the garden!! 

Now she is just so pooped out she is having a good snoozle.....

This new home stuff is sooooo tiring!!

And this is what she looks like now!!!!

soooooooo cute!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

A little doggy thankyou card!!

Morning peeps!!
I am so excited......actually everyone in my little house is so excited because today is Poppy day!!! we are picking Poppy up in a few hours when Mo has been to his golf lesson. (....mo was all for fetching her at 4:30am this morning when he got up and ran down to our bedroom to tell us it was Poppy Day!!!!)

Clearly we couldn't go get her quite that early....so I decided to get busy on a thank you card for the people we are getting her from and it just had to be an LOTV one with a little boy riding his bike with his pup on the back because it reminds me of mo and his stuffed toy dog,Dylan.....who still goes EVERYWHERE with Mo!!!!

The stamp is Riding my bike from LOTV. sentiment is  from the Everyday Trinkets stamp set and the corners are Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B . The little paw charm is from my yummy charm stash...which is ever growing!! and the papers are Animal Antics.

I am popping this little card over on the Totally gorjuss challenge blogs Anything goes challenge.

Right I am going to go get myself a cuppa and have a bloggy womble!
have a fantastic day peeps!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Office supplies fun....squeee!!

Morning Peeps!!
I have had a bit of fun and I just wanted to share it with you all for a bit of mid Saturated canary challenge inspiration.. Last week when I was wombling through bits in my crafty stash for the Office Supplies challenge over on the Saturated canary challenge blog I found my photo magnet sheets. I bought them so I can pop piccies of my family up on my craft room notice board and yesterday I had some fun with them!
Using my PSP I arranged a few gorgeous canaries all over my page and then printed them out onto my magnet sheet. I cut around them and hey presto!! canary magnets for my craft room!! super yey!!!

Now I've done it once I will so be doing it again, though next time I will be colouring them first. I daftly thought I could just promarker on them once they came out the printer but my pens did not want to work on the photo sheet so the ones that I didn't experiment on have been left in the white colour....they still look stinkin cute though don't they?!!! LOVE IT!!!

I am at work today so will catch up with you all tonight when I go bloggy wombling but if you need to do one thing today....go out and get some photo magnet sheets!!!! he he he!!! I can't wait to try a few die cuts with them next time too.

Its 2 more sleeps until our little furball princess comes home and the excitement is mounting here in our little house!!
Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Smooshing!!

Romfl!! I just realised I watermarked sideways!!!

Morning Peeps!!

its hump day so I hope you are all having a great week. Yesterday I had such a lovely day. 

I spent the morning catching up on housework and waiting in for Poppy's rubber mat for the boot of our car.......3 more sleeps until she is here!!!!! I am soooooo excited!!

Then I had a lovely afternoon waffling away with Sarah and had a yummy choccy chip muffin in her little summer house because the weather was lovely.

And then Hayley came to scrap with me after work. She bought me the most gorgeous bunch of sunflowers I have ever seen. They are not the really huge ones but they have the most beautiful big bushy flower heads and they look like a vase of sunshine.

I had saved this idea of a smash page to do while Hayley did a scrapbook page .....don't worry peeps, I am working on converting her to smash.....:) he he he!!!

Scott took this wonderful piccy of us on sunday while we were having our coffee in McDonalds. We are a pretty teenage kinda couple and are not afraid to show affection in public. Little Mo calls this 'Smooshing'!!! he he he!!!! and its so cute when he says ' I can see you 2 smooshing!!'

He always squooshes himself in the middle and on sunday morning he just had to get his finger in on the smooshing!!! so Scott snapped a quick piccy and I loved it so much. I took the free hot drink sticker thingy off my cup and 'borrowed' a couple of packs of sugar and stirrers to make the little flags with. I emptied the sugar out and cut the flag shape with my Die-namics Flag stix dies then glued them onto the stirrers!! cute!!

I just love this piccy so much.The second piccy on the smash page is just me and Scott's hands. I love pages like this because it is ME. this is my life and I love it. Sure we have challenges now and again with one thing and another out of our control but I am so in love with my little family and our time together.

I was so pleased I actually managed to do a page with Hayley too because normally I just sit and watch her, I love seeing what people make and how they place things around a scrap page and hers was beautiful. it had a stunning piccy of her little nephew,who is soooo cute, holding his grandad's finger.

Right I must get a wriggle on, need to get the washing machine on and then its another waiting in day because Poppy's bed and food should be arriving today :) :) roll on saturday dinner time when we can go fetch her!! We are all soooooooooo excited!!!

Thank you for popping in on me,Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 95...Fall/Autumn

Morning Peeps!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday and I am soooooo excited because our gorgeous Christy has been busy drawing again and she has come up with some super super cute images for today's release, you are going to love them.

So first things first!! its a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its a lovely......

 Fall / Autumn challenge.

I just had to use the new Winter Wishes Wryn and gove her a fall colours twist! I love how she came out!!

The papers are from the orange october colourway on Funky hand's Craft The Year Away,its the most gorgeous autumn paper and I love being able to print off as much as I like of it! the tree one is my fav.

I coloured in some white adhesive pearls with my burnt orange promarker so it matched the colours on my wryn.

soooooo, do you want to see a few new wryn releases????!! I know you do!!!!

I used Winter Wryn and here she is....

She comes both on her own and with an extra image of her with a super cute snowman too.
and there's more too!!!! squeeee!!! meet Skater Wryn.

aren't they gorgeous!!! 

So please pop in on my awesome Tiddly Inker teamies over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog because their fall creations are just stunning.

Well, thats me for today...I think! lol!! I have a bit more ironing to finish off and then this afternoon I get to spend some time with my friend Sarah and tonight I am scrapping with my friend Hayley. I have been saving doing a smash page so if I get it finished I might be blogging it tomorrow!!

Thank you for popping in on me, its been so quiet here on my blog so having a few peeps visit and leave me some comments has made me so happy this week.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tena lady moment?....:)

Hello again peeps!! its a 2 post day for me today because its time for a new challenge over on the FAS challenge blog too! I am the hostess with the mostest for the next 2 weeks. We have a pink theme for october too so arm yourself with some pink papers and this sketch.....

I hadn't done a tall and slim card in such a while so decided to plan the sketch around one of those!

and here's a little closer in on the sentiment I made on my computer.....

I just love to have a giggle so I decided on a good old girly breast cancer awareness card with a funny sentiment. There is nothing quite like laughing so much at something that it could be a tena moment ;) and laughter heals the soul anyway!!! he he he!!!

The paper on the bottom is from one of my fav ever Funky Hand downloads, Shabby Saturday. I love the words on it and its pink too so it fits in with our pink theme perfectly!! and the pink lace and raffia matched in lovely.

I am entering this into the Cupcake Challenge blogs Think Pink challenge, and the Totally Papercrafts Pretty pastels challenge.

Right then, got to get back to that ironing pile..!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Kraftin Kimmie Patsy with a Halloween twist!!

Morning Peeps!

Its monday which means its my turn to show you all some yummy bits from the Dies to Die for shop over on the Dies to Die for blog!!

If you haven't noticed by now I LOVE Halloween!!! and this weekend I had fun giving Kraftin Kimmie's Patsy a bit of a halloween twist!! Her little 'I'm all shook up!' sentiment was so perfect for a spooky card I just couldn't resist!!!

I only have 2 of these Kraftin Kimmie stamps but Patsy is already my favourite because she is just so much fun!! 

The MME Boo To You! card kit was an absolute darling to play with too, packed full with fabulous papers and die cuts and I loved the little ghosty too!! 

I paper pieced Patsy using some of the papers from the kit and then got to work colouring her up a little zombiefied with my promarkers! The edges of her and the wee ghosty are distressed a bit with Brushed corduroy Distress Ink to blend in the white edges.

I added some Glossy Accents to her cool shades and popped her and ghosty up on some Stix 2 clear foam pads to make them stand out a bit. The little green gems are from my stash.

I am entering the show us your fave challenge over on the Kraftin Kimmie stamps challenge blog with this card. I so see a Kraftin Kimmie stamp obsession starting for me!!!

Hope you all have a great monday. I am on breakfast buddy duty this morning and then once Mo goes to school I need to have a good old ironing fest!!! lol!!!

Huge hugs Lou xx

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