Bowie.....

Stamp- LDRS Saturated Canary Bowie.

Sentiment stamp- Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.

Papers- Doodlebug Design Sugar Shoppe.

HI everyone! its Lou in with a little post for you today!

I am a squidge late posting again as I needed a quick snooze after to work before taking the piccy and I am enjoying a bit of last day of the holidays snuggleage with my boys!! we are off out for lunch in a minute and then an afternoon of movie watching on the settee with popcorn has been ordered by Mo! I can go for that...might fall asleep though! night shift and little peeps on holiday are a tough mix for a mummy!!!

I had a few little gift bags left over from christmas presents so I thought I would jazz one up a little with Bowie! she is so cute! I do love decorating little bags, its a quick but fun project to do and I love the end result.

I fussy cut Bowie out after colouring ( ...fiddly but fun!!) added a little twine and then stamped my sentiment down in the bottom right to finish it off.

Now I Just need me someones birthday to wrap a little pressie in!!!

Thank you for peeking in!

hugs Lou xxx

Hey Bud.....

Image- Hey Bud from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Papers- MME Pretty things Record It.
Promarkers used...

Burnt orange, Coral, Sunkissed pink and Blush.

Midnight Blue, Denim Blue and Pastel Blue.

Burnt Sienna, caramel and Sandstone.

Mustard and Tulip yellow.

Morning all!!!

we have woken up to rain....blurgh!! so I have cheered myself up this morning, avoiding walking the dogs in the rain and colouring away by making a little card with one of my new buys from Mo's Digital Pencil. This one is Hey Bud and she is just delicious.

And just ...totally enabling y'all...

It's Mo's Winter Sale!!! 

Save 20% off your digital stamp order
use code BIGCHILL

now through Sunday, January 11!!!

www.mosdigitalpencil.com.

lol!! I know...I am shameless in my enabling but come on peeps! these are too cute to miss at a good price!! I won't tell y'all how much I spent incase Scott pops in on my blog!!! romfl!!!

Right, time for a cuppa and a little more making I think. Mo is sorting through his clothes to sell them at the place where they weigh your clothes and give you 50p a kilo ( yup, we are mean parents, this little guy has to make his own pennies if he wants them but I am sure it holds him in good stead for when he grows up to learn these things now.) He wants to buy some duck tape for model making so its all good really even if I seem a bit mean!

huge hugs for you all

Lou xxx

Little Angel....

Image- Little Angel from Saturated Canary.

Morning everyone!!

Ok, I admit it, I know she is kinda a christmassy image but oh my is she just perfect for an uplifting card. I don't mind saying one little bit that I am still quite happy making christmas cards...which is rather funny as I totally missed out on sending them! so this one is a bit toned down and going out as a happy new year card for my Aunty Sally-Anne.

My Aunty is really rather special. In the last 2 years she has had cancer 3 times, yup, not once but 3 times in different places and she has fought it amazingly 3 times. She has picked up her life after her husband finally became honest enough to tell her there was someone else ( for 10 years...) but she didn't let that frighten her and has found the most amazing partner. She has raised 2 gorgeously wonderful children, who I am very proud to have as my cousins and I can honestly say she is more my best friend than my Aunty, I love her with all my heart. So you can never get all that love onto one card! and I would die trying!! so instead I am letting her know she is my angel. She has held me up high through so, so many bad times throughout my life. So to explain the bits I got onto it!! the heart filmy thing is a circle, eternally round and encircling the hearts within and the image is just gorgeous and of course, an angel. Soft colours and gentle papers.

There is a little heart quietly tucked behind the bow to show that love ties all together. It might look a boring and simple card but it is full of everything I needed to say to her in one look. I hope she gets that when she opens it.

Right got to go! woofers to walk and a little guy to soak up time with!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Eggcellent News......

Image- Wryn Eggcellent news from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Crate Paper Oh Darling.

Morning all!! Happy New Year!!!!!

I hope it was fabulous for you all! we woke Mo at 11:45pm last night and although he was uber sleepy he loved seeing the new year in for the first time with mummy and daddy and watching the London fireworks on tv!! it was a lovely memory to have! we had the first kiss of the new year altogether, magic!

So, anyway! I have some Eggcellent news to share!! its that time of year again when Christy opens up a DT call for the Tiddly Inks team! naturally Wryn and I had to tell y'all about it!!!! so heres the linky to Christy's post for more info and a gorgeous little DT call sneak peek new Wryn for you too drool at!!!

Have a wonderful day everyone, I am pootling off into town to fetch my new Actifry (..yup! I am on the healthy eating right away! time to dust off those diet scales and get on plan again!!!)

Huge hugs for you all,

Lou xxx

Big Girl Pants......

Image- Big Girl Pants from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Papers- Crate Paper Oh Darling.
and...totally enabling y'all...

It's Mo's Winter Sale!!! 

Save 20% off your digital stamp order
use code BIGCHILL

now through Sunday, January 11!!!

www.mosdigitalpencil.com.

Afternoon peeps!!

How are you all? I hope you are all ready and fired up for the new year, I am going to wish you all an uber duber happy new year. We don't really bother with it all in our house but this year Mo asked what it was so we told him we will wake him up at 11:45pm to see the new year in...chances are he will just stay asleep and mumble something but we are still going try to get him up and have a little warm milk and chocklit snack with him to celebrate!!

I saw an image a few days ago that so reminded me of Mo Manning's Big Girl Pants image that I just had to print her out and have a play with her. I have a friend going through a really tough time at the minute so went for a good old 'cheer you up' and I'm thinking of you card. I absolutely adore how this turned out.

I hope it raises a smile when she gets it! its just such a lovely image for a cheer you up 'cos you're feeling pants card!!

Right, must dasheroo! I have a washing machine full of clean laundry to hang out on the airer...way too cold for outside drying here!! and another load to get in...which will mean a mountain of ironing for this afternoons job! I don't mind at all though, I love ironing!

Huge hugs and Happy new year!

Lou xxxx

Baker Mae.....

Stamp- Baker Mae from SOG.

Papers- Bildmalarna Picnick - Lots of Flowers.

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying christmas break. I bought some stamps in the black friday offers from SOG a few eeks ago and they arrived last week. They were surprise grab bags and eeeeeeeep did I get gorgeous stamps in them!!

Last night I had chance to have a bit of a play with Baker Mae. I had oodles of fun putting together a little gift box to pop her onto.

The little pearly bit is recycled from one of my christmas crackers!! go me!!!

Right, I need to pootle off because we have some gorgeous visitors coming, my 2 little babies I used to nanny for...except they are not little babies anymore! they are almost 15 and 13...sigh, time goes sooooo quickly!!!!

Huge hugs for you all and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxx

Bugs & Kisses..........

Stamps- Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses.

Dies- Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses die set.

Die- Namics Blue prints 18.

Die- Namics Fishtail layers stax.

Papers- Pink Paislee Prairie Hill.

Hi everyone! 

Wow monday whizzed round fast again! I have had such an uber duber fabby christmas week! I hope you've all had a lovely one too.

I've had time to have a first go with this fabulous Lawn Fawn stamp and Die set that Little Mo and I treated ourselves too before christmas. We both fell straight in love with it! it really is the cutest set so be warned for weekly postings of variations on this set!! he he he!!

Thank you for popping in, all the linkies are above under the photo that you might need!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Forgotten Funkies...Winter Wedding...

Good Morning everyone!!!

Its the time of month again for our 'Forgotten Funkies showcase!!! and each month our fabulous Funkettes will be over on our blog showing off some new makes with our older downloads and CD Roms. 

Today's showcase is centred all around the gorgeously funky and fabulously festive Winter Wedding Download. Just look at this amazing collection of different backing papers and two wordbooks  included. 

There is nothing like a beautiful winter wedding. We have created this craft backing paper collection in chilly colours to reflect the brilliance of this season. The Winter Wedding craft backing paper download has the cool colours dark blue, mid blue, pale blue, blue white and lilac as it's design palette to evoke the feeling of that season. All the backing papers work perfectly together and as well as using them for creating Wedding or anniversary cards they can be very easily used for lots of other craft projects and handmade cards. These backing papers are very versatile and we are sure they will be on the top of the mat in your crafting space regularly. Why not download them? You 'snow' you want to! Take a look at the gallery to see the different card designs the Funky Hand Design Team created using this collection in the gallery over in the shop and some more recent makes below....

this download is most definitely too good to be forgotten!!!

Oh and don't forget!!! ALL the Funky Hand CDs are still priced at just £1.00 each over on the website www.funkyhand.com 

I went for a christmassy make with mine for my little brother and made a 'manly' fires box to pop his christmas pressie in!! here it is all empty so you an see those yummy papers at work!!

All I needed to do was add a yummy wooden snowflake to the little circle part at the front.
I really do love a download with versatility that can swing from weddings to man makes!!!

Right, I am off to enjoy boxing day!! we are popping to Scott's parents for lunch and then home again. Little Mo is much better after being quite poorly from 1:50am yesterday morning, he has a nice little bit of colour popping back into his cheeks and though he is still complaining of a headache he doesn't look half as dozey today!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Super Day!!!

Image- Super Day from Mo's Digital Pencil.
Dies- Die-Namics Blueprints 9.

Merry Christmas morning gorgeous people!!!

I am so so very excited today as I got one of my christmas presents early a couple of weeks ago and I cannot tell you how hard I have been sitting on my hands not to blurtle the news out. I am so excited and uber honoured to be joining the DP2 challenge blog team!! oh my oh my oh my!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeep and squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

So for my first challenge joining the girls as a DT member ( more eeeeep and squeeee!!!) I had to pick my favourite Mo's Digital Pencil creation of the year. 

Well, that one was easy. My gorgeous friend Alyce challenged me to do a make with some uber not me colours a little while ago. My heart almost stopped when she showed me the colours (...and there was lots of sweary about Alyce words muttered under my breath as I picked the pens out of my pen rack!!) but once I had started I absolutely enjoyed every minute. Stepping out of the comfortable colour tones zone was sooo much fun in the end that I felt really rather accomplished!!

So, that's my super duper exciting news. I must say a huge thank you to Mo and Pat for wanting me to come play with them, I am still pinching myself and very much looking forward to getting stuck in with each challenge...there are some awesome ones coming up peeps ;)

So, its onto the fun of christmas for me! I don't do the whole stressy christmas thing, we have fun...all day.

This year I am doing slow cooked pulled pork and cranberry sauce wraps, yum!!!! its a wonderfully stress free and fun dinner! then we have piggies in blankets and stuffing balls to go with it!

Don't forget to pop in and see what my new teamies chose as their makes...I've seen them..they are all dreamy!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Shepherd Boy...

Image- Shepherd Boy from Saturated Canary.

Morning everyone!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! its christmas eve!! there's only one more sleep until we can all celebrate jesus' birthday and I can't wait. Its such a magical day, our house is always full of family bubble time and love, along with the delicious smell of food cooking away.

The Saturated Canary DT girls are sharing a little post with some stunneroonie makes today to say merry christmas to you all so I wanted to share my little shepherd boy make.

He is just so adorable and uber fun to work with as that happy little face just makes you smile every time you look down on it.

Right, time for me to pootle off and get a cup of tea. Little Mo and I have dogs to plod before we can snuggle down for a movie morning and wait for Scott to get home from work! then we are off out for a christmas eve restaurant tea and an early night in time for the fun of christmas day.

huge hugs for you all

Lou xxxxx