my craft club makes!!!!

Hello everyone!!!

I have had a lovely day at craft club today. As usual, I didn't have a clue what to take so I took some of my favs including my tiddly inks, some lilyboo bits and some yummy papers!!!! I was hopeful I could do a nice bit of something with them!!!

Denise did us a fabby tutorial this morning to make the flower on my gorjuss girl card, I really enjoyed making that and I borrowed my friend Fi's punch to make myself some teeny ones too. They came out cute but I haven't plonked them on anything yet!!!!! The papers on this one are My Minds Eye, love them!!! and the superb sentiment stamp is one of the Cuddly Buddly round greetings rubber stamp set. I am so chuffed at how it finished off the card with the little faux brads on the scalloped circle. I coloured the heart to match my gorjuss girls dress.

I had time to do some boo-depage and used the cute little sweetie download for this card, the lovely argyle backing paper is from the pocketful of papers download.

I was also very excited as the new funkyhand cd, Colour me happy, came out today and I ordered that as soon as I had put little mo to bed. I can't wait for it to arrive. I also treated myself to the Funky Fella's paper pack. I can't believe I have never noticed it before but the papers in it look awesome.

We have 5 additions to our house today and they are the african snails that we are looking after for one of the children I was a nanny for. I still see them whenever I can and love them dearly so babysitting the snails duty came up last night when I went to work!! They were strapped carefully into the passenger seat of my car with the seatbelt in their tank last night and I popped them in the kitchen.

Well you have never heard so much excitement from my boys this morning!!!!! Little mo was absolutely over the moon with them and Ryan has been watching them all day!!!! I have been getting snail reports every 5 minutes from Ryan!!! he is 10 so a bit older than Mo and when the dad of the little boy whose snails they are said that the boys could have one or two they were so pleased!! Ryan has spent the last couple of hours looking for a tank on ebay!! I just think it is so lovely that the simplest things keep my boys happy!!! I will try and get some piccies of them holding them tomorrow to post. They are still relatively small but I know they get big as my brother had a huge one!!!!!

Right must go and finish my tiddly ink creation I have on the go!!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me

hugs lou xxxxxx

Boo-depage!!!!!

Morning peeps!

Its going to be another warm one here today!! I have resorted to canvas trousers and my open toed sandls for work as my feet were just way too hot yesterday!!! I feel more paddling in the tough spot with the little peeps coming on today!!!!
So over to the fab new boo- depage!!! I had so much fun doing these last week but due to having a few bad days I didn't get round to posting them. I am feeling a bit better now and coming out of the fog I think so here they are!!!!
I made them using the gorgeous new 3D decoupage available in the Lilyboo Designs shop over on Cuddly Buddly. There are girls and boys which is super and Iwill be getting to work on the boys next!!!

I had never attempted decoupage like this before, ( I am more a couple of bits of paper piecing with my digi / rubber stamps girl!) but I absolutely loved doing these. All the layers are there on the download so all you need to do is get snipping!!!!

This one is the study girl. Just perfect for a thank you card now we are nearing the end of school term!!

Here we have the super cute cupcake girl. I just couldn't resist using the new pocketful of papers download on this one!!!

And this one just has to be my fav, the goregous little bird girl, also using some of the fab pocketful of papers, i love how they co-ordinate perfectly with the Lilyboo digi's and decoupage downloads.

Well I am going to make myself a cuppa and get myself going ( though I would rather be at Kat's disturbing the peace of her day off!!! am soooo jealous!!! ((hugs ))to kat xx!)

Mo is playing with hs baby born doll, Harry, and his baby annabel,annabel ( not much imagination for picking a new name there huh?!) teaching them how to go down the slide!! so I might even get to drink the whole cup in peace!!!

Big hugs
Lou xx

Tiddly Inks challenge 12- summer fun with water, sand and toys.

Hello peeps!!!

Well I have been a pants blogger this week. I just haven't been feeling myself but today I woke up feeling much more me!!!!

So I went out to my crafty garage and started working on my challenge card for Tiddly Inks 12th challenge which is summer fun with water, sand and toys. ( lou feels slightly guilty as while I was doing this little mo decided he needed to wash his slide in the garden, he did a super job but got my tea towel wet. He came into the craft room and said "mummy, it is just the 2 drawers I put stuff in isn't it? at which point mummy thinks uh? and says "mo, what are you doing baby?" to which mo replies " you know, the 2 drawers in the washing machine" I think omg and go with mo to see what he means, little mo opens the washing machine drawer and shows me where he put the powder and softener ,not a drop spilt might i add, i know i know you are thinking awwwwwww, but wait it gets better!!!

I look in the washing machine and he has been upstairs, got all the dirty washing from the pile, taken it down the stairs and put it in too. He says " i didn't want to waste the water on just my tea towel mummy so i gotted all the washing" Awwwwww!!! He is just awesome,i love this little guy so much.........and he is available for work at a fee of a packet of white chocolate buttons per wash load!!! romfl!!)

Anyway, enough about my little man and on to the job in hand......

Lucky me, I had been Tiddly shopping with little mo just a couple of days ago ( oooohhhhh there are loads of totally yummy new summer digi's.) and I had put this gorgeous little sandy memories digi, I love these cute little guys peeping out from behind their awesome sandcastle.

I printed them out twice and coloured up the bottom layer with my distress inks, then I cut out the sandcastle and their adorable little faces, coloured them and popped them on top with a bit of silicone.

I cut my card out from my wildcard cart and distressed it a little then I used my new magnolia swirly stamp (that Lou made me buy............:) ) and added a few swirls to look like waves of water. I love this swirly stamp too ( thanks Lou!!!)

Here's a little side view so you get the effect of swirly waves coming up to the sandcastle!!!

The cute little starfish and sand dollars came in the sandy memories too so I coloured them up to make me some little matching embellies!!! I added a little bit of crochet thread and knotted each end for some rope and popped a starfish on it to finish the card off.

I have to admit I am pretty smitten with this card, its just so sweet and it cheered me up so much making it whilst talking to one of my bf's with the telephone on loud speaker!!

Don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog to check out the amazing cards that the DT have made and join in with the fun!!! I love how cheery the summery cards make you feel. And huge congrats to Larissa for her card published in Hobbyzine xxxxx

Thank you for popping in on me,

Hugs Lou xxxx

A fantastic day!!

Well I have had a super day today.

First, I got driven to peterborough by my amazing hubby and dropped off for 2 hours of absolute heaven with Chris and Lou demo-ing at sir stampalot. I tell you, these 2 ladies are just amazing, they made some yummy projects while I was standing there watching in awe, it takes me forever to do one nice-ish thing but Chris and Lou do oodles!!! thank you so much ladies, it was so nice to meet you in person and I am looking forward to when we can all meet up again xxxx

So this little baby sized card is from one that Chris was making and the photo on it is to try and pull in what lou was doing with her gorgeous Tilda photo on a card card, can't wait to see it finished . Lou led me astray and made me buy a swirly magnolia stamp ( well, thats what I told scott anyway!!!! he, he he ,he!!!!)

I had already started my ric rac challenge piece for the UK cricut crafters group over on papercraft planet but when I saw Chris make the tiddly litle step card I just had to have a go.

I love this picture. It is my great great Aunt Audrey and Uncle Dave in what was then thier pub, The royal oak in knaphill ,woking. Sadly Uncle Dave is no longer with us but Aunt Audrey is so this is a little gift for her. She is a bit poorly at the moment and rather old so will be pleased with a little bit of something I think. I added a couple of martha fronds and a paper flower being as I don't yet own the gorgeous cuttlebug quilled flowers die that Chris was using today. Omg, if you ahven't got one, you need it, its fab, of course you will also need to purchase Chris to make them but the die will be a start!! romfl!!!!

Heres a piccy from the side.

And here are the men in my life watching the aeroplanes that are at waddington airshow which is just across the field from my house. Mind you, Mo would only watch the quiet old ones, he took cover in the house or his tent for the big ones!!!

I try to get a photo of them every year watching the planes, same old scafollding but bigger little boy!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me, I love visitors!!

hugs Lou xxxxxx

I am so so very excited!! Lilyboo's are in rubber!!

Morning Everyone!!!
Well I have come to the conclusion that this week cannot possibly get any better!!!!
I have had a lovely week at work enjoying the fab weather with the little peeps, the planes have started to arrive and practice for waddington airshow ( which is right over the field from my house) and i love watching them practice...mo is not too keen on the loud ones !!)



But the best bit of all this week has to be this.....

Lilyboo designs in rubber!!!!!

This is just so exciting for Sam ( and me too!!) , we both just keep peeking at the picture with disbelief!!!!!! Now none of this would of been possible without the amazing help and encouragement of Kim over on Cuddly Buddly, she is just awesome.

And whats even more exciting is that Kim has them 3 of them up for grabs in her 3 for free july blog candy over on the Cuddly Buddly blog. so pop over and leave a commment for your chance to win some!!!

...... and these are what will be coming soon!!!

Oh I am just so excited!!! They just look so awesome!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!!!! Happy friday!!! Hugs Lou xxxxx

woyww- a day late and oh so much mess!!!

So here is the explosion of debris that is Lou creating!!! omg, all this for one card?!!!! romfl!! and not even time for a choccy bar this week ( lou falls to ground and thinks to self...must have 2 tonight to make up for this!! )

Morning everyone!!!

Yep I am a day late with my WOYWW post this week. I had so much to do last night with team Boo's summer break being finished today and needing to get the new challenge up and posted for this morning that I just didn't get time to post my WOYWW.

....and here is the card is question!!!! it is my DT card for the summery challenge over on Lilyboo Too's challenge blog!!

I made the flower myself, it came out sooooo cute and I coloured my girl with flowers digi up so she matched the backing paper, The fern leaf is my new die from little claires and of course a bit of martha for good measure!!!

I will be looking forward to popping on on peeps tonight when I have finished up a wedding card I have been working on for a friend. Don't forget to pop over to Julia's blog and see if anyone else is as messy as me!!!

Off to get ready for work now, 2 weeks to go and I have soooo much to sort out and do before my summer break with little Mo!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Hugs

Lou xxxx

feeling tiddly again for challenges!!!

Morning everyone!!

Its going to be another hot one here today I think!! I have been so busy I was worried this ittle card wasn't going to get finished in time but I have just made it with a day to go!!

It is for 2 of my favourite challenge blogs:

Tiddly inks june challenge- which was embelishments. SoI used my gorgeous little send me a sign bugg and coloured her face with my promarkers. I paper pieced her little dress and cap with my funkyhand pnk papers and embossed them so the pop out a little and looka bit more real. M loves her and tried to hide her, little monkey!!!!

Get Funky's June challenge was pink cream and brown. I printed out a selection o papers from my funkyhand cd's and made a card base wth them. The lace is made with my martha stewart punch as I didn't have any creamy coloured lace left but I did have some cream paper so that was super!! I lifted the edges of it with a little pink chalk too. The paper flower is from my stash and the little fronds are marthatoo, i lurve martha!!! lol!!!

Oh pants, I must dash or I will be late for work. Mo has a bit of a dodgy tummy this morning so I am hoping he is well enough to make it through the day!!!

big hugs

Lou xxxx

Such a fun day!!

Hello peeps!! Happy Saturday!!!

Well I have had the best day!! It was cricut club today and I just love it. We all gather in a village hall and have a huge table ( lou thinks about this for a moment, there was definitely a huge table there when I got out all my stuff.........) We cricut craft and giggle ( lots of giggling occurs!!) and I always come home feeling blessed for all these people in my life.

So we made flowers today and here are my little blooms!!! ......

These were made using the flower from george in a blackout function and I adore them and they were made a bit more flowery looking by using my frond punch that Enfys bought for me from her USA side of the pond!! I love, love love it. ( for some reason blogger is refusing to put this picture on the right way up?!!! I have tried 4 times and it is still on its side, strange.....!!!)

And this is my hello kitty nappy cake......

I used Hello kitty greetings for the Hello Kitty on top and tbbm for the little heart tags. I sewed the flowers myself and put little pom -poms in the middle, it looks so sweet in real life!!!!!

Fi helped me to wrap it all up all posh with her cellophane and we popped some curling ribbon on too, it really is very cute!!!!

And this is my dad's birthday card.

I used the most gorgeous cuddly buddly stamp for the sentiment on this one,I embossed it with my bally thing to make it into a little button and then glazed it with glossy accents, it looks so awesome.

The stamp is my super cute big present from my Lili of the valley stamps I treated myself on my birthday.

So thats me all crafted out for today!!!! I may womble to my craft room in a few minutes and see if some more inspiration gets me!!!! but I am conserving my energy for the stamp show at doncaster dome tomorrow, I am so excited!!! it is only my second trip to a craft show so I am really looking forward to it!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, I love visitors!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

WOYWW.....finally mess!!! lol!!!

Well, its WOYWW again and this week it marks the return to normality of the mess that is my craft desk!!!!!!! The yorkie bar was very important........in my crafting needs of course.....oh ok, I confess, I got the chocolate munchies!!!!!!!!!!
I was so determined to have some me time that I got busy for an couple of hours on sunday so I pulled out all sorts of stuff to get myself going (....as normal, I didn't use half of it and nothing is really finished but its a work in progress!!!)

There are so many different half thought abouts on my desk!!!

Here is my little Lili of the valley boy all coloured up and my cuddly buddly round greeting stamp ready to go on a birthday card for my dad to take home to the seychelles with him!!! In the background you can just see my stuff tainer stuffed with the rest of my lili of the valley stamps, they are just too cute for words.

There are a couple of random coloured images and a lilyboo mouse card in the pile too!!!!

Here are a few bits I got out for making a mini album, beer mats are superb for mini albums, covered up in yummy paper you would never know they were beer mats!!!!! and the red file is the Lilyboo file full of new yummy digi's waiting to be scanned and sorted!!!!!

So we have beautiful sunshine here again today. Mo and I are just going out to walk the dog as it just gets too hot for our Zaky later and he doesn't enjoy walks in the heat now, he is 14 and getting on a bit!!!

Have a great day everyone, looking forward to peeking at desks later tonight due to having no Sam for crafty night :( she is off sunning herself in Devon.

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Omgosh, sooo busy at the moment!!

Oh I have been so busy my little blog has been a little neglected since wednesday!!!

I am so excited about Lilyboo's move to Cuddly Buddly. Kim has been so busy adding all sam's digi's and there are 90 freebies just waiting to be used here so get on over there!! I love it over on Cuddly Buddly's because Kim has so many other things I need for cardmaking over there too, including inks, stamps, martha's and more!!!!!! its like being in a sweet shop!!!

I have been making us a new little blog ( would love some followers pretty please!!!!) blogs and our Lilyboo page on PCP ( would love you to join there too!!!)along with trying to get my little niece Lily's ( she is the inspiration behind Lilyboo's!!!) birthday card done!!!

So this is lilyboo's birthday card, I used the gorgeous little Fairy cupcake and a middle step card fold. I coloured her up with my promarkers and stickles and added a bit of glossy accents too. I cut her out with my scalloped nesties and tatered rose distress inked around her. I can't remember what the papers are, which is frustrating as I would like some more!!!!!! The stickers are glitterations by anita's that I have had in my stash for ages!!!

The light was a bit pants when I took the piccy but there's no chance of another one as Lily will be having her birthday down in Devon on her holidays and has taken it with her!!!

Right, I need a cup of tea to warm me up, the sun has gone in and it is freeeeezing here today!!!! brrrrrrr!!!

Thank you for popping in on me,

Hugs lou xxxx