Tiddly Inks challenge 9- bleep bleep!!

OOOh I love this little guy!!!! He is so cute!!
This is roboto from Tiddly Inks and Mo caught a peek of him whilst we were peeking in the new for june Tiddly Inks page the other day. He said he needed him ( which was fab because I thought the same!!!) and we popped him right into our basket!!!

This is Scott's dad's birthday/fathers day card. I made it into an easel card as I lurve easel cards, they are like 2 cards in one!!!! Heres a piccy from the side!!

I coloured roboto up in blue and then let mo choose what colours his balloons were going to be. He is actually a little sparkly too but I am not sure it shows up too well in the pictures. The paper is nitwits (though this morning we have noticed gorgeous roboto paper in the Tiddly Inks shop!!)

The 'Dad' I cut with all mixed up on my cricut in shadow and normal, stuck it together and then put glossy accents over the top. The little silvery brads are some of my fab faux brads and off course a bit of loopy martha!!!!!

This little guy is going straight in for the challenge over on Tiddly Inks this week which is 'bleep bleep- boys and thier robots'.

Thank you for popping in, I must go and get ready for work now!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge- Baby of mine.

Well I am back!!!

I have had a night of fun with my big sis and have even had time to finish off my cute little baby card for the Tiddly Inks challenge blog. The challenge this week is 'Baby of mine' and I just had to put his cute little guy in his cosy moon bed to use from the baby inks!!

His little white blanket is covered with some really soft white flock and it is so nice to rub!!!! The rest of him I coloured up with my promarkers and the little stars and star threads are actually spica pen glittered but I don't think it shows up too well in the picture.

This card cut is the invite cut from my wild card cart, Kerry over on the cricut mb UK crafters thread brought it to our attention on sunday and I made a flowery one but I thought it would be just perfect for a little baby card too.

The patterned paper is from my DCWV nannas nursery boy stack and the stamped sentiment is from my fiskars set. I distress inked the edges of the card softly too with faded jeans.

I embossed the little cut out bit with a little buttons embossing strip and put glossy accents on them, then when it had dried I got a needle and some soft blue thread and stitched through the button holes, it looks so sweet.

Right, I really am going to bed now!!!

Thank you for popping in and don't forget to go and check out the Tiddly Inks shop, there are some super cute digi's in there that you will need!!!!

WOYWW!! I knew the tidiness couldn't last forever :(

Well, WOYWW has come around again and it was all too good to be true when I took my picture of my gorgeous neat and tidy craft space!! it has all gone to pot this week!!!

So whats on my work space?!! a rather gorgeous little 5 year old creating with his hamma beads at his end.

Then here's my explosion of mess!!
My laptop is out as I have some digi's I need to print off for making a challenge card, my cute little tiddly inks shadow box card is out as I need to make an envie for him to go in, next to him is my gorjuss girl for a card to make for my niece's little friends birthday. Then there is my pile of 'coloured and almost coloured's' ready to turn into cards!! The silver circley thing is my hairbrush that Mo bought me on saturday, it pops out and is rather cool!!! and a flower card I have been making with some peels offs and scraps of paper, it needs a bit of bling in the middle so my pots of bling are out ready to choose one!!!

Close up of coloured images debris!!!! I love my little orangey coloured everyday princess from Tiddly Inks and my yummy Tilda and Edwin

And that is about it for this morning!!!!! Its another damp and dreaery day here in Lincoln, urgh!!!! more rain is forecast, deep joy!!

I must go and get ready for work , have a cup of cammomile tea and cook my chicken chicken breast for my lunch, be back later!!

Don't forget to pop in on Julia's fantastic blog and peek at everyone else's spaces, I so hope mine isn't the only one to look lived in this week!!

Hugs

Lou xxx

Harriet's gorjuss birthday card!!

Morning Peeps!!!

Well, I am functioning on espresso's this morning after a fantastic electrical storm here in Little old bracebridge heath last night, omgosh it was awesome. Little Mo was only disturbed for around 30 mins but I was so hot and sticky with the humidity that I just couldn't get back to sleep so I went downstairs to watch it with the dog and it was so pretty, the entire sky was white with light until around 3:30 am this morning!!!! I took myself back off to bed but then Little Mo woke up at 4:45am so espresso is the key ingredient to my day!!!!
So here is my little niece's birthday card, she is 4 today, Happy birthday Harriet!!!! and we will be seeing her later for a pirates and princess's party, Yarrrr!!!!
I use one of my most gorgeous gorjuss girls from my lovely friend Kat. I coloured her up with my promarkers, think it was peach and antique pink!! and her hair is a muddle of vanilla, sandstone and tan.
I popped her out from the card with some silicone and doodled her a little shadow with pastel beige onto the star.
The backing papers and cute star are from nitwits fbq bear necessities download, all with a bit of frayed burlap distressing around the edges!!!


I cut the letters on my cricut with doodletype and for the first time ever I used crackle accents, ooohhhhh i love it but I could not for the life of me get a fab piccy of it!!
I had to have a bit of a martha border in there because it is so cute!!
The little rose at the bottom right edge of the star is from my stash along with a few martha punched little fronds that I spritzed up with my champagne crafty notions spray.
The inside matches the outside papers.
Well I had better go and get me dressed!! I am in a bit of a lazy mood today!!!!
Thank you for popping in on me,
Hugs
Lou xxxxx

Feeling Tiddly!!!!!

Morning peeps!!!!

I was feeling all Tiddly again this morning so out came the cutest little wild thing you've ever seen from Tiddly Inks. This cute little guy was actually little Mo's buy but once again I am pinching his things!! lol!! and no way could I resist using this little cutie pie!!!

So I was in the mood for a different card again and set off to splitcoast stampers in search of a fab fold!!!! I found this shadowbox card tutorial and set myself on making a card for Scott from Mo!!!!

I coloured my little wild thing up using my promarkers, this little guy has shades of tan, sandstone,vanilla,cocoa and a hint of pastel pink on his little cheeks and ears!!!!! I made him a little cosy pad out of 'jungley' branches and tissue paper in a couple of shades of green and popped him up from the back of the card with some silicone.
The little heart balloon is pastel pink and vintage rose all blended, really sweet!!!
The little hole in the front of the card I made with my nesties and the little 'jungley' branches are courtesy of latest martha very kindly sent over by the lovely enfys!!!!
The little bow on top and knotted 'vines' down the side are garden twine and the sentiment I made on my computer with kristen font.
I think I might have to make a few more shadow box cards, this one is just too cute!!!!! Mo keeps trying to steal him to give to daddy now so I think I am going to have to hide this one until fathers day!!!!
I am entering this cute little guy in Sir Stampalot's June Challenge which is 'Punch It' , you've got to love martha for her punches!!! lol!!!
I buy tonnes of my crafty bits from Sir Stampalot's so was super pleased to see they had started a challenge blog a couple of months ago but this is the first time I have gotten round to entering in their challenges!!! I am also lucky to have Sir Stampalots only an hour away from me so get to pop in every so often for touchy feely shopping!!!!! but they have a superb website if you can't get there in person!!

Right I must go and get changed now and get Mo ready to go and see Carrie get to the church for her wedding, he says he doesn't want to go in the church but wants to make a video of her going in!! he is painfully shy in big groups ( admittedly I am not much better!!) so I am not going to make him go in!!!
Be back later!!
Hugs Lou xxxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge- going goth!!!

Good morning everybody!!

I am just enjoying my last morning of staying in my PJ's until 8am!!!! and this morning is especially good as I have managed to get my Tiddly Inks challenge card done!! yey me!!! Lots of piccies today!!!

I was so inspired by the DT's fab creations and had an idea in mind really quickly (....a miracle for me!!! romfl!!!) and I treated myself to the very suave but goth charles with tulips from Tiddly Inks on my birthday, He is just gorgeous. As I was colouring him with his blue tulip and blue tinted hair all I could think of was Edward from twilight or Keanu from the matrix , both yummy!!!! He actually has a clear sparkle finish on his face but after no less than 12 photo's I can't get it to show up so I have given up!!!!! I then cut him out and left a little rectangle below his feet that I could fold back to get him to stand up. I placed him on my base so that when the card is folded he just lays down with no squishing of him occurring!!!!!

I googled gothic card before I started to go to far ( I knew I wanted to do an arch shaped card but not quite how!!) and I found this awesome card by a lady called Kriss, here is a link to her gorgeous card. Mine is a little different in size and I kept a square base and also hand drew myself an an arched window frame for the front ,but big huge thanks to Kriss for her amazing inspiration.

The dreamy moon backing paper is from the super freebie that Christy put on the Tiddly Inks paper craft planet group for us, I love it. I re sized it so that it would cover my arch shapes and printed it straight onto both sides of my card stock. I inked the edges with distress ink ( I think it was called denim ...can't remember!!!)

For the inside of my card I cut out one of the moons I had left in my scrap paper and embossed it. I stuck it on my card with silicone and then used some woodware fluffy stuff to get the whispy clouds.

The black swirly floor under charles feet is actually a wallpaper sample that I cut to size to fit my little square!!! ( got to love B&Q!!!) I used it for the window frame on the front too.

Well, I think I remembered everything!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me, I love all my cyber buddies,new and old to bits and your comments always brighten my day!!

Big hugs, Lou xxxx

a clean craft space,blog candy at Lily-boo too and my first visit to WOYWWAC!!

Well I had a wonderful birthday yesterday. I got some absolutely beautiful cards that I will take piccies of later!!! and I won the Funkyhand challenge!! I was so excited when I read my name !! and what an amazing thing to happen on my birthday too!!
I treated myself to the whole set of new stamps from Lili of the valley and and 10 gorgeous Tiddly Inks digi's.
We went out for lunch at Damon's, yummo!! little Mo and I got to eat free as it was my birthday and kids eat free offer was on too so that was great.
Then I used some of my birthday pennies to get some more worktop for my craft room. I had this little 3ft bit at the bottom where my trofast draws from Ikea were and it just wasn't working right for me so Scott fixed that up and it looks super now. So because Scott made it look so beautiful I decided I had better have a good old tidy!!!!! now I am the first person to admit that it definately won't stay this tidy for long but Oh it looks so good tidy!!!!! romfl!!
I am just in the process of making my cuttlebug embsossing folders look fab using Okie's super duper cuttlebug storage cut file. It looks lovely so far but I have run out of the cardstock I was using!!!
I am also having a little lily-boo blog candy over on Lily-boo too for my birthday celebration. The girls at Boo HQ are having a very well deserved rest this month so pop over for the chance to win 2 digi sets.
I've always pop over to WOYWWAC and have a look at peeps workspace, so I thought I had better get myself joined in this time, I just know it wont look this good next week!!! I know my little rossette isn't too fab but Mo saw me making it and wanted to help and we had to put a '1 ' sticker on (a la mo) because he said its a birthday!!

So here's my piccies!!!!

Here is the bit where I mostly sit my shelves are full of crafty bits, cricut carts, inks and stuff!!!! My monitor is super as it means I can blog womble in mojo less moments!!! You can just about see all my photo's, I love having my family piccies around my craft space.



Here are my punches , I have bygel pots with some sort of order though they look messy!! there is one for adhesives, one for pens, one for scissors and tools and one for bits and bobs!! I love my really useful storage boxes and my wall cupbaords which house a bit more cardstock....!!!

The bit with my big e and cuttlebug on is the bit Scott put on for me yesterday, Doesn't it look great?!! My new ribbon storage trays are just bygel rail trays from Ikea, but they look super.
By putting the top on it has given me some more storage space. The trays are full of bits and bobs and 5 of them are cardstock...

This is where my dreamkutz, creatopia and jukebox hang out!!

My 12x12 papers live in another cupboard that is behind me when I sit at my craft desk.....but its still messy that side so I didn't take a piccy of that bit!!! romfl!!!!!

Right off for a cuppa and to decide what to do with my last 2 days of holidays. Scott and I both have killer sore throats today so I am not sure what we will be up to!!!

Thank you for popping in on me.

big hugs

Lou xxx

Gossmere brings on the bling!!!

Hello peeps!!!

Well here I am on my hols but my wonderful DH has brought his magic internet connection with us, he is a total star, he is so fab he told me to treat myself to the gorgeous new gossmere stamp from Tiddly inks. I think she is just wonderful.

I have given her some bling treatment especially for the 'Bring on the bling' over on the Tiddly inks challenge blog.

For the background I printed out the gossmere digital paper, I love the way it matches her skull on a stick!!!!!! to bling it up I popped it through my creatopia so that the printed side was all glued then I tipped over some gorgeous fine irredescant snow glitter (that I bought for little mo to do his christmas cards with last year!!!! but it is gorgeous!!!) it was so hard to take a picture of!!!!

The frame around her is popped up a little on silicone and it is the sull frame cuttlebug embossing folder. I painstaikingly cut the middle piece out to make the frame and kept the middle piece for the sentiment inside the card!!! ( ooohhh so thrifty thinks lou!!!) but the frame was just so perfect for the card I had in mind.

Gossmere herself is couloured up with promarkers, I blended together burnt orange and honeycomb and I adore the effect I got with it. To add a little bling to her I spica'd up her hair, skull on a stick and tiara and added a bit of rhinestone bling to her tiara too. I put a bit of glossy accents over the top of the stick and tiara. Its a shame because they sparkle so pretty in real life but its so gloomy and wet here that I just can't get a good blingified piccy!!!!!!

Here's the inside with my 'use up the spare bit' idea!!!

Despite the rain we have had a fantastic first day, the boys are happy to just be away somewhere different. We have been for a womble to norfolk lavender and they got their new football trading cards, which they have taken all day to open (7 packets each but they look through them like they re gold dust!!! its so cute!) and we all watched our nanny mcphee dvd (again!) but it has been such a relaxed day. Now it is bedtime the rain has stopped and the sun is starting to shine!!!!!!!!

So, don't forget to click on the linkies and go and check out Tiddlyinks shop and the challenge blog!!

Big hugs,

Lou xx

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As an extra special promotion Lisa and Laila have given the LOTV Challenge blog DT a whole set of the new release to offer as candy to one of our thier followers, this candy is open from Thursday 27th May until Midnight on Saturday 29th May so you only have 3 days to enter but omgoodness how gorgeous are they?!!

Please go and check out their DT's gorgeous cards, i look at them and drool!!!! they are fab.

It is my birthday on tuesday and my birthday list is getting longer by the day!!!!!! romfl!!!! so i have entered just incase the birthday fairy is smiling down on me ( lou frantically crosses everything!!!)

oooh Pinky!!!

Ok I am blaming Donna 100% for setting me off with these gorgeous downloads from Tiddlyinks!!! I saw Pinky and the skully cupcake paper on her blog and knew and needed her!!!! (Thank you so much Donna, these are just too cute to miss hunny xxxxx)

I had a bag cut challenge to do for the UK crafters thread on the cricut mb and couldn't resist using my little pinky on it. The bag is from TBBM.

Here is a close up of her, isn't she fab!!!

I coloured her up with my promarkers, I decided she needed cool grey 1 coloured skin with a tiny bit of pastel pink on her cheeks. Her skirt is cool grey 2 with antique pink blended in, looks so cool. The skull and her little hair clip I did with pastel biege and then popped some glossy accents over the top to make them pop out a bit!!!

The sentiment is computer generated and then I cut it with my stampin up oval punches.

I am going to be super brave and enter my first ever tiddly-make on their challenge blog too!! The challenge is to make your own backgrund paper so I have used my skully cupcake on the bag flap and my black cardstock is kind of corrugated, hope thats ok!! wish me luck!!!

So get yourself over to Tiddlyinks quick!!!! There are oodles of gorgeous digi's to choose from, my list is 20 long and scott says it needs to be much smaller!!!!! romfl!!!!!!