Full of beans....

Hi everyone!!!

I checked with Da Boss because I wanted to share one of the fabulous new releases coming up soon.

This on is another fabby coffee cup to add to the I'm a mug for you coffee cup digital stamps over on the shop. I love theses cups! they are just fab. I made the base for this card with my silhouette software and then coloured the stamp up with my promarkers.

I added a squidge of twine, also available in the Funky Hand shop!!

The DT have had their hands on these for a long time now but you will have to wait just a squeeeeeze longer...but hey..if you beg Anice enough they might come quicker :) :)

Little Mo is home with me today because he is not so full of beans!!! he has the cutest croaky little voice and snotty nose! I am not sure if it is hayfever or a cold but he is also soooo white and icky looking I thought I would keep him home for a rest day. We have managed a little stroll around the block but that left him pooped out so maybe thats enough for today!!

I forgot to share his haircut piccy over here though!! I must admit to mass sobbing when his lovely long locks came off but he does look so handsome and grown up!! here he is looking cool on his electric motorbike!!

Thank you for popping in,

huge hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers special Anniversary challenge!! ..use die cuts....

Stamp- Midsummers Night from LOTV.

Papers- Prima Fairy Flora.

Dies- Die-Namics Rolled Daisy.

Die- Namics mini Royal Roses.

Magnolia Heart Swirl branch.

Floral Oval Nestabilitie.

Ribbon- May Arts crochet velvet centre-Rose.

Promarkers...

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Blues- Midnight blue, denim blue,pastel blue,cool aqua.
Yellows- mustard, pastel yellow.
Tonne of blender pen!!

Morning everyone!!

ooooh I am so excited to share my bloggy post with you all today! I am uber proud to be on the Passion for Promarkers DT, and my teamies totally rock!! and its a very special day today because we have a very special challenge for you this week!!

It's our 5th Anniversary. Can you believe it's been 5 years since Gina and Denise started their little blog to share their love of all things Letraset.  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of....

use your die-cuts

 although please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.  As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go.....

Letraset are offering one lucky winner a pack of 12 Promarkers - Set 1

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $10.00 worth of digi papers

DigiStamp Boutique are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher

Polkadoodles are offering one lucky winner 2 digis from their Work & Play range:

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Little Claire designs are offering one lucky winner a beautiful Silhouette Elephants clear stamp

Angel Crafts are offering one lucky winner – prize to be confirmed

Phewsh!!! thats a lot of really cool prizes!!!!

so for my make I just had to get colouring with one of my new stamps from the new fairy range. I am super lucky as my Aunty gave me some pennies to take with me on the open day so I could get some bits and I bought the whole 10 new gorgeous fairies, I just love them. I coloured up Midsummer night for this one. I am being brave and popping her over on the Fairies challenge over on the LOTV idea's to inspire blog too! go me!!

I chose some really midsummer nights dreamy type papers so that I could get that early evening feel to my card, I wanted magical for a magical celebration!!! I stamped her up and cut her out with my floral oval nestie,I snipped around the edge of the stitching and then stitched pink and silver metallic thread through the little holes by hand.

I wanted her to look watercoloury so I used a few lines of colour from my promarkers and a whole tonne of my blender pen and I LOVE how she came out!!

Then it was a case of layer up and fru fru Lou style!!! I added a squidge of personal impressions puff white to the edges of my swirly heart branch just to make it umpfy!!! and a couple of pearly stamens...which are kinda tricky to see in the photo!! but it all looks so sweet together!!! and it has some sparkly glitz which doesn't show up too well either but looks cute!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

What's Cooking?......................

Stamp- What's cooking? 

Papers- Daisy Bucket Perfect Harmony- Callie.
Stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink.
Coloured with promarkers.
edges of paper inked with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink pad.

Good morning everyone!

I hope you have all had lovely weekends. I had some crafty time making a little box for my niece's birthday. My brother and sister and I have a £5 gift rule for the children in our family as we are all a little short on pennies.

Harriet loves making cupcakes so I decided to make a little box we can pop £5 and some cake sprinkles in little plastic bags into.

The box itself is from the Silhouette store so if you have a silhouette machine, you can find it HERE. 

And one of my all time favourite Mo Manning by Stamping Bella stamps, Whats Cooking? was just absolutely posatootly perfect for this job!! I stamped her out 3 times, once on my colouring paper and then once on either side of the paper I had left over from making the box. I stamped her on each side so I could have a different colour dress and apron. These Daisy Bucket papers are just fantastic, they are so pretty and they cut perfectly on my cameo machine, its always sooo good to find a paper that will cut great on your machines!!! I gave the edges a gentle inking with my Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink pad.

She really is just the cutest!! I didn't use her little sentiment as I had already worked on cutting Harriet's name to go along the curved line of the box in my Silhouette software.

Right, well I am still at work just now and will be doing a tonne of sleeping when I get back from the school run so I will pop in on you all later!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Divas by Design challenge...Anything but a card...

Morning everyone!!
Its time for a new challenge over on the Divas by Design challenge blog and this week its a super fun one. Its....

Anything but a card.

we are sponsored by Craft Bag this week.

oooooh I loved this! I love to get away from the cards and make a bit of something different and this time I decided to go for altering a little woooden heart that I bought from The Range with a little bit of help from my Tilda with bee stamp and the magnolia wall.

I just added a little bit of gauze and a little epoxy tag to finish it off! so cute!! you should pop into the blog and see what my uber clever teamies did! they are just so clever! I loved watching the makes come in!!!

Have a wonderful wednesday everyone! thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 133...Head in the clouds....

 Stamp- Ellie says Bye.

Die- Memory Box puffy cloud.

Morning everyone!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its a theme of.......

head in the clouds!

so all you need to do is grab your fav Tiddly Inks image or stamp

and think clouds in your creation!

I just had to go with the Ellie says Bye clear stamp set, well, balloons are perfect for getting you in the clouds right?!!! I also decided to go smashy on this one as I just got stumped and a smash page is fabulous for those stumped days because you can just splodge stuff on and it unfuzzles your head!!

Here's a closer piccy. I love doing smash pages but I suck at the taking pictures of them part!!!

 The journalling I did in word being as my handwriting is pretty sucky too!! I do spend a lot of time with my head way up there in the clouds and I don't think thats a bad thing sometimes. Positivity makes you float so much higher than all the bad stuff so I don't mind being up there at all!!!
Here's a better piccy of my journalling...

I had some cloud washy tape too so had to splodge that in there somewhere!

Right, off to get on with my day!! thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx

Funky Hand new release...Faded Beauty................

Papers- Fading Beauty from Funky Hand.

Image- Happy Happy Birthday CD rom.

Afternoon peeps!

Me again! this time its with the gorgeous new download from Funky Hand. Its called 'Faded Beauty' and its just delicious! its a mix of all my fav paper patterns with a stunning distressed finish and oooooh I LOVE it!!

I am so practicing my CAS at the minute and these papers make it so easy because they are just a fabulous focal point, all I needed to do was add a couple of digi's from the Funky Hand papercraft factory cd's and a little colour and I was done!

I also took myself out of my square card comfort zone!!!

Papers- Fading beauty from Funky Hand.

Image- Dreams Come True cd rom.

You will find more gorgeous makes from the rest of the Funkette's in the gallery over on the Faded Beauty page in the Funky Hand store.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Philly Phil.....

Image- Philly Phil from saturated Canary.

Papers- Echo Park Birthday Boy.

Morning peeps!

I am quite excited this morning for 2 reasons!! firstly I am off on my little LOTV road trip to see my gorgeous budettes! I love LOTV day because I get to see 6 of them all at once!! maybe more!!! happy days!! and secondly because its time for our first challenge over on our new Saturated Canary Stamps Facebook page!!! wohooooooo!!!! 

And its me starting everyone off with an easy little Lou sketchy....

You can embellish away as you wish BUT we need to see the original sketch in there!!

(The prize will be 2 images of your choice from the current images available in our shop.)

All you need to do is make a NEW creation ( no back linking to older makes please peeps) using your Saturated Canary digi's or LDRS Saturated Canary stamps and then add your blog posts about it or just a photo IN THE COMMENTS ON THIS POST over on our Facebook page.

I just had to use Philly Phil for mine! he is so cute and teamed up with some colours to match the delicious papers he just made me smile!! so go on then!! get out your SC's and get playing along! we are waiting for your entry over here on our Facebook page.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Wryn -Sunny Day....

Image- Wryn Sunny Day from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Daisy Bucket playful Petals Mady.

Die- Die-namics Pierced Traditional Tag STAX.

Morning everyone!!

Its time for a fabulous friday over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and I just couldn't help but colour up this super super new cutie from Christy,Wryn Sunny Day, she is just so sweet. I merged all the stamps you get in the pack together to make a little scene and loved colouring her up, she is such a fun and cheery little thing you end up smiling the whole way through your colouring!!

I had treated myself to some little giftbags so I popped some delicious Daisy Bucket paper on it and then popped her on over the top, only adding a little twine bow and a tag to it.

For my next card I placed my ' I can do CAS' head on!! he he he he!! and I merged 2 of the images from the pack together!! I made her all teeny so she can 'Grow a little love' !! go Lou!!!

So, what are your plans today? I have some furry peeps to walk and then my gorgeous big sis is coming for a bit whilst her partner sorts out the mess that the estate agents are making of letting/selling her house. Her current tenant has absolutely trashed the beautiful little terraced house and then the estate agents took photos of it in its trashed state and put them on its selling page!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! it breaks Sam's heart to see the house in that state ( plus it is full of poo memories for her!) so she is coming to me :) 

Have a wonderful day everyone!
huge hugs Lou xxx

You have me hearty!!.......

Image- Tammi Buccaneer from Saturated Canary

( this image is only available as a freebie from our Facebook group.) 

Morning peeps!!!

I hope you are all having a good week! My wrist has been fully rested for 2 days now and it is sore and stiff but I am sure it will get better today once I try to use it some more. I am really looking forward to walking my little pawsy peeps today and have mum's new little lady to go see today too as mum is at the hospital.

So whilst mooching on monday about my sore wrist I popped my Tammi Buccaneer card together. She is a digi only available in our Facebook group ( the link is under the picture) and I just love her!

I even made a little sentiment to go with her because she will be for Scott for our anniversary card in august! go me so organised!! he he he!! oh if only I was a cute pirate girl that would make his day completely!!!!!!

Well, thats me for today. I have to sort out a few little bits to put away as we found an uber bargain yesterday!! we won a solid oak 200cm long table on ebay for £36.53!! omgosh!! you would not believe how excited I was! we had sent the man a message asking how much he wanted for it for a buy it now and he replied £250, so we said thank you but we would bid because we only had £50 saved up and when we won it I just couldn't believe it!!!!! so a super happy me sat at one end yesterday and Scott sat at the other as he was working from home! its just gorgoeus!!!

sooooooo cool!!!! I get excited about the daftest things! 

thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Passion for promarkers challenge 246...yummy food and drink...

Image- Cupcake Thief from Mo Manning.

Promarkers...

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Greys- Warm Grey 1-5.

Morning everyone!

I am so sorry I am on a go slow today because its a case of 1 finger typing after being my normal dopey Lou self and damaging the soft tissues in my wrist..though I should be very grateful as the Dr in A&E was amazed it wasn't broken with all the swelling there was! so I escaped a cast and have to completely rest it for 2 days with ice packs (..ok so am cheating there and applying kool strips instead as I don't do the whole wet and cold thing....!!) so no driving,furry peeps walking or lifting with it allowed,just little rolls and movements to stop stiffness and a lovely cocktail of paracetemol and ibuprofen every 4 hours!! I must add however that its not all bad as gorgeous hubby is working from home for the 2 days  I have to rest it!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog and this week’s challenge which has been set by our gorgeous Lou and she has set us a delicous theme of..

yummy food and drink  

so,think all your images including some form of food or drink.  Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers).

Our fabby sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy stamps and they are offering one lucky winner 1 stamp of their choice (which must be in stock). 

I just had to use Cupcake Thief. I adore her and she has the yummiest looking cakes I have ever seen!!! she is just fab for birthdays so I coloured her up and cut around her to pop her in this little pop up box scene...

Thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx