Father and Daughter.......

Image- Father and Daughter from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Morning peeps!!

I hope you all had a lovely new year. 

I had some lovely relaxing crafty time yesterday. It was such a nice day. I crafted while Mo watched Lazy town...under the chair..on the floor next to me!!!!!! Poppy was not best pleased as that is her normal spot so she snuggled under my feet instead!! 

We went to my mum's for lunch with my Grandad and then had a lovely lazy afternoon at home. Scott and Mo popped out so Mo could buy himself some Tombstone Valley figures and Poppy and I did some 'Lie Down' training. She did fabulously bless her. She loves to sit on my lap! here is a picture of her yesterday afternoon showing me she still fits on my knee......sigh.......

Anywhoo, I had a birthday card to make for a gorgeous friend of mine and this is what flowed out of my crafty little fingers!! he he he!!!

I matched my promarker colours into my papers and just let it all flow away. I love love love this image,its just beautiful and a total joy to colour.

Right, I need to find some clothes for Mo and get us sorted for a dog walk, a little fresh air first thing in the morning is just the ticket!!

huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

Wendy's Birthday Cake.......

Stamp- Candibean Wendy's birthday cake.

Papers- MME Penny Lane from my 50 sheet offer box!! 

Dies- Die Namics Pierced traditional tag stax.

Die Namics Layered Hearts border.

Ribbon- Pink tutu trim.

Coloured with Promarkers.

Morning peeps!!

I have a super cute candibean make to share with you all today! she is sooooo sweet.

Do you ever make a card that you just really love making? that was me and this card. I have had a stressy kinda few weeks and it was just pure joy to veg out and make this little cutie with some of the gorgeous papers that came from the 50 sheet clearance box ( oooooh thats a box full of treats! I LOVE it!!)

I am full on in love with that heart border,its so delicious. When you cut it you get a gorgeous little heart cut out that you can use somewhere else, I used mine on the little tag!!!

right, well I will be at work when this posts and then having a mega schnoozle when I get home at 7:10am so I will be in to see you all when I get up this afternoon!! he he he he!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Happy Christmas!!!

Image- Parade from Saturated Canary.

Papers- Pink Petticoat.

Morning Peeps!!! 

Today is the day the Saturated Canary DT wish you all a merry christmas and its the third week of the  Passion for Promarkers Challenge. It's a very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014! And the theme is a nice easy one too!

Include a Sentiment

You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as it includes a sentiment of some kind. 

Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – look at all these prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

So I went for a neautral kinda krafty colour combow with this one and my fav colour promarkers.....

Skin- burnt orange, coral, sunkissed pink and blush.

dress- Burnt sienna,cocoa,caramel and sandstone.

Boots- midnight blue, denim blue and pastel blue.

greens- holly, olive green and pear green

Then I just had some fun layering up the papers!

So all I have left to say is have the most wonderful christmas everyone!! I hope your day is filled with family, love and fun and send you all my hugs and love for christmas

huge hugs Lou xxx

Joy to the world!!

Stamps- MFT Sweet Christmas.

Dies- Die Namics Peirced tags stax.

Papers- Fancy Pants Merry Little Christmas.

Bazill Kraft card.

Ribbon- Green Polka trim.

Morning everyone!!

I hope you have all had wonderful weekends. I had some crafty time all to myself on sunday afternoon and I enjoyed every minute of it making this little card.

There is something magical about white ink stamped on kraft card, I just love the look of it. The gingerbread house on the MFT Sweet christmas stamp set is just perfect for that christmassy feel, luckily there are some super sweet sentiments on the set to go with it so I made another tag to pop the sentiment on.

And oh my, those pierced tags stax are just soooo delicious to use, the little holes are so cute and they cut like butter, oooooh they are just so scrummy!! 

Some stroke only papers and gorgeous polka dotted ribbon just finished it off.

Have a magical monday peeps!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Mug of cheer!!!!

Digi stamp- Mug of cheer.

Papers- Silent Night from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

How are you all today?!!! fabulous I hope. I have a Funky Hand share for you all today!!!

I absolutely love all the mugs Anice has in the store, they are so much fun!! paper piecing them just makes me smile and with the colours of the Silent Night download this card just made me smile from ear to ear as I was putting it together.

I added a couple of swirly swooshy steam puffs coming out of it too!! I love a little bit of fun!!

Right, time to get my butt into gear! its been such a busy end of school week!! so far we have had Mo's brithday party on sunday, then his birthday on monday, then his christingle service also on monday! the school nativity and carol concert was on tuesday as well as carolling aound the village on tuesday night!! then he had his hot christmas dinner at school yesterday and its party day today then games day tomorrow!!! phew!!!!!!!!

huge hugs to you all

Lou xxxx

Passion for Promarkers Mega Christmas challenge !!

Morning Peeps!!! 

Today is the second week of the  Passion for Promarkers Challenge. It's a very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014! And the theme is a nice easy one too!

Include a Sentiment

You are welcome to make Christmas cards but as the challenge will still be running after the ‘BIG’ day you can of course make any type of creation as long as it includes a sentiment of some kind. 

Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – look at all these prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

eeeeep what a tonne of cool prizes (...Lou notes at this point she thought about entering under an alias to have a go at winning :) !!!!!!)

I just had to use the Tilda stamp I bought from my friend Kat on this one. She is just so delicious and supercute! then I added some flooooof in the form of die cuts,punches and elements from my first editions paper pad.

And now onto the little guy who had his 9th birthday yesterday (...sigh.....9 years old already?! omgosh that's gone so quickly!) He absolutely loved his party on saturday and then yesterday he was so excited to go to school because it was the christingle service. Anyone who is a regular reader to my daft little blog will know that Mo LOVES Jesus and his faith which we adore so we were so excited to join the whole school with lots of other mummy's and daddy's, grandma's and grandad's in the village church. The church itself is just stunning. Because it is in a rural location it hasn't been tarnished by pollution and inside is just as beautiful. It was Mo's first ever christingle!

Here he is....the photo is a little pants as its from the phone. I haven't gotten over my embarrassment from last week yet so I didn't dare take a camera with me, daft sensitive Lou :(  

 He carried so carefully you would of thought it was an eggshell! he didn't get one drip of wax down the sides of it and he asked me..

 " If I eat my orange tomorrow mummy will I be filled with the light of Jesus" 

awwwww! love this little guy! 

He chose a chinese buffet tea at Yo-Yo in Bejing for his teat tea and he loved it!!!

Anywhoo,its time for this daft mamma to get her butt into gear! this last week has been so busy and today I have physio (...ack.......grrr I really don't enjoy physio one little bit, not even a squidge :( I was lucky enough to be ill last appointment and cancel it but being as I feel ok this week I have no excuse...arghhh!!) and I have a dog walk to do along with Mo's school nativity and carol concert this afternoon, I will be ready for bed tonight!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Yarghhhhh!!! pirate cake again this year!!!

 Hiyah peeps!!

so its that time of year again and Mo is actually having a party tomorrow!!!...yes a party!! a real one! with 7 friends and hopefully 3 cousins!! We are still in shock that he asked for one!! (he is cheating a squidge though as he chose to have a movie party at my brothers cinema!!) 
He has chosen 'The Muppets Christmas Carol' for his film because he has been doing victorians at school and its one of his absolute fav films too! got to admit I absolutely LOVE that film so I was super happy he chose it.
He put his party bags together with daddy this morning and mummy got busy on this cake. Its so cute, I love it. I worried about it being pants all day but it came together so nicely. Scott helped me to stick the matchstick choccies around the edges which was lovely...and he tested them to make sure they were ok.....!!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the hollow choccy volcano!! its so cool!! it has an ice fountain candle inside it!!! soooo coool!! I can't wait to light it tomorrow!!!

And do you like my sand?!! he he he he!! I made that using digestive biscuits!!!! the ship, cross, rocks and skull are all made out of ready roll icing and painted up with distress inks!! he he he!!! I added some little choccie coins and treasure sprinkles in there too!

Mo was really happy with it! I called him in to look at it and he loved it.....  then he says..I got a pirate joke! "mummy, where do pirates hate to be kicked?.....in their arrssse"....sigh.........

Well, that's all from me today folks!! we are going to have a bath, have tea and then snuggle up on the settee to watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters.

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Sorry for Bee-ing so silly ....

Morning peeps!! 

Its Throwback Thursday over on the Tiddly Inks blog, and its my turn to share a creation with us. I used the super cute 3x4 set called Happy Bee Day clear stamps.

and to compliment them just fabulously I used the honey comb paper from the Bugging Out paper set.

So, why did I need to make a sorry card? :( because I am just a total nelly thats why :(

On Monday little Mo took part in his first ever celebration assembly at his new school and spoke about his Lowry picture to an entire hall full of parents. He spoke without having words written on a piece of paper to follow and just freely told them about how he did his picture. He looked at the wall the entire time but for him it was a massive achievement and I was so proud I was all teary.

I took a couple of photo's and came home buzzing that he is doing so well and his teacher is just so wonderful to help him gain so much confidence in the short time she has had him with her.

I carefully edited the photo's to make sure the children's faces were all airbrushed out and then shared the photo's of Mo on my facebook page.

What I didn't think think of doing was airbrushing Mo's teachers face too or asking permission to share the photo's first :( I am so ashamed of myself and so embarassed too :( I was so proud that I turned selfish and just wanted to share my joy.

One of my friends on facebook, who knows Mo's teacher, then went on to tell her that she had seen the photo's, in a nice way and Mo's headteacher said it was a lovely conversation but still that Mo's teacher felt a little strange being on a photo so I said I would remove them from my facebook.

I came home and did it right away.

I am so devastated. I spent yesterday feeling very upset and still fell horrid about it today :( so I made a card to say sorry.

I know it has all made me a lot more aware of facebook now and how people can be so I won't make the same mistake again and I just don't feel my normal happy self at the minute.

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers mega christmas challenge...

Hello Peeps!! 

I am super behind with everything this week so I've got no makey to share with you all today but I just had to let you know about the Passion for Promarkers mega christmas challenge......

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week we are launching our very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 7th 2014! 

Our theme is a nice easy one 

Include a Sentiment

 Please remember to be eligible for our prizes you must use your promarkers, flex markers, tria markers, metallic or aqua markers.

So now for the exciting bit – look at all these prizes!

Letraset are generously offering one lucky a winner a pack of their Autumn/Winter promarkers Ltd Edition set!

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 10 digis of their choice.

Polkadoodles is offering one lucky winner a prize of a copy of their Bonbon Belles Double CD collection.

Clearly Besotted Stamps is offering one lucky winner 1 stamp set of their choice.

Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

WOW!!

Backpack Friends...Legacy project fundraiser by Krista Smith..

Image- Backpack Friends.

Image- Maps.

Papers- Crate paper Story teller 12x12 pad.

Morning peeps!!!

Now I am sooooo excited about this post because its a super special one.

Every once in a while you will get a real kindred spirit enter your lives and I am super lucky because one of my best friends is one of there people. She is of course, Krista Smith and she is doing another awesome fundraiser.

This is the image you will receive if you donate to the charity. All the details you need to know how to get your digi are on this link and the link to the image under my photo up there so please read carefully!! and I copied the little widget into the bottom of my post down there too so hopefully we will be able to watch the donations rise up.

I am so very thankful to have a gorgeous friend who is able and willing to raise donations like this so if you want to help go get donating and get your digi's!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx