My Tiddly Inks Guest Spot debut!!!!!!

Morning peeps!!

I feel ever so excited this morning because I am starting of my little guest spot over with the tiddly inkers on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog today!!!! you all know how I love my Tiddly Inks Digi's so this is going to be a dream few weeks for me!!!

So without further hesitation .......

The Tiddly Inkers (...and me!! excited squeal inserted here !!!) would love you come to play in our celebrations of birthdays!!!

We are all about the day of your birth this week, so choose your favoritest Tiddly Inks image and make a birthday card . You have until next Monday night (Sept 12) at 10 PM CST to link your card with the easy little linky tool on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

For my card I used alice, the mad hatter and the tea cup. I think you could confidently say I was in Alice mode!! The keys are coloured in and cut out from the key paper. I love both the original and the new film so had loads of fun making this one!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the other girls fabalicious cards, they are just so sweet and if your'e anything like me you will be inspired into your own creations right away!! I know what I will be doing tomorrow when I have finished catching up with my work bits..making a new stash of birthday cards!!!!!!! lol !!!

This creation used..

Time for tea Alice from Tiddly Inks.

Mad about you Hatter from Tiddly Inks.

Key paper set from Tiddly Inks.

Hero arts happy birthday to you sentiment stamp.

The fab tea cup was a freebie from a few weeks back on the Tiddly Inks page over on PCP.

It is grey, yuk and rainy here in the shire this morning!!! so raincoats and wellies at the ready for school! Mo did really well yesterday.I was so proud of him , he was so big and brave. He cried in the car on the way to school but once we got out the car and he saw his new teacher he said

" I think I might be ok today but I am going to miss you so much mummy, can you put a hug in my pocket for me so I can have a squeeze of you if I need one"

well, then he was ok but I was feeling teary because of what he had said!!!!

Right off to get ready for work!!!

Big hugs Lou xxxxx

Using up a few scraps!

Good afternoon everyone!!!!

Does anyone else have a totally over flowing box of scrap bits of paper/card in their craft space? !! I definitely do and it grows everytime I tidy away (... generally 2 mins before my big sis or Fi are due to arrive and I want them to think my crafty garage is tidy!!!! lol!)
I was sorting through mine yesterday to donate a few bits to my sister sam , here's her blog ,who has just started making cards with her own digi's. She is doing fabulously and asked if I had a few spare bits so I searched through and found her some but also found myself a few too!!!!

Then this morning my lovely friend carol inspired me 100% by showing me a card she had made ( she made a little cricut file for it too but I haven't swept the dust off my cricut to use it yet!!!) so I used the picture she showed me and followed it like a sketch. Thank you carol xxxxxx

I wanted to make a quick hello card and this is what came out of it!! awwwww!!!
Using my gorgeous scraps of funkyhand paper from a halloween card I made last year I made the card base, bit of cuttlebugging for my scalloped ovals and of course a Tiddly Inks kitty!!!
I added a bit of red here and there to give it a splash of colour!! and a tiny tag saying 'hello'.

So that was my 'make of the day'!!!!
This afternoon Little Mo and I have been out to watch Ryan playing football, his team won 12-0 and Mo was very impressed by Ryan's 2 goals!! he kept shouting " thats my brother!!" to any poor bystander that looked his way!!! romfl!!!! the sun was shining beautifully but it was very windy so I have returned home feeling like an ice cube!!!
Its back to school for Mo tomorrow and he is not overly impressed at all, he has told me he "cant possibly go back to school until november" why november I couldn't tell you but he wants to come back to nursery and be with one of his old teachers, Karen, instead!! Bless him!! I have to be honest, I am nervous about going back to work too, it sees like such a long time since the start of the holidays and I will miss Mo dreadfully, oh the joys of parenting!!!
Oh well, I had better go cook lasagne and watch Wall-E ( ....for the zillionth time!!)

This creation used:
Papers from scraps box, they are funkyhand's salt and pepper download.
Sealed with digi stamp from Tiddly Inks.
SU tiny tags stamps and tag punch.
memento London Fog for inking edges.
copics W3, ,W5 and W7
Promarkers Cool grey 1 and ruby red.
Kelly pannici stitched borders stamp set ( with big thanks to Lou and Fleur xx!!)
Large Scalloped Ovals nesties.
Red Fimo roses from Boyes bragain bin!!

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

hugs Lou xxxxx

All I want for christmas!!

Hello peeps!!! Hope you are having a fabulous saturday!!

Oh I am so excited about the new All I want for Christmas download from funkyhand. It is fresh and zesty and most importantly funky!!! I loved it when I first saw it and the creations just flowed!!!! Here are a few bits I have made so far an there will be more as it is just such a jolly festive selection!!!

If you click the linky you wil see how much fun the funkyhand DT girls and I had!

These funky creations used:

All I want for Christmas download from funkyhand.

charms and ribbons from my stash.

Little bells from yellow moon.

red chalk ink.

Fine glitter.

Well, I am off to delight in a yummy BBQ now with scott and little mo.

See you all soon and don't forget to pop over to funkyhand and check out the All I want for christmas gallery!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Fairy Fae with jazzies!!!!

Hello everybody!!!!!
I hope you have all had a fabulous friday. I have!! We popped into town this morning whilst it was nice and quiet to fetch a magazine I needed. I was looking for a hot glue gun in the poundshop but couldn't find one :( so hubby took me to another shop which just happens to be near a craft shop....I drifted in there....found some yummy stamps at half price....they dropped into my shopping basket....along with some pretty flowers!!! lol!!!! so I up with £34 worth of stamps for £17!! yey!!!
I am very excited today as I am having a little guest visit as a Tiddly Inker!!!!! I feel like lots of my little dreams have come true recently!! I love my little Tiddly Inks digi's so you can imagine how awesome I felt when Christy asked me to come and play for a while!!!!! Mo loves them too and quite often pootles off with me on a tuesday morning to buy some ( Tiddly Tuesday is when new ones go into the shop and it causes great excitement in our house!!)
So my creation for today is using Fairy Fae. She is just beautiful and I have been experimenting with easel fold cards recently by popping a little box on them!!
This one is just tiddly at 4x4 inches.
Here is a close up of Fae with a bit of the bling on her wings showing!!! and here is a close up of the box........
Yup!!!! its full of jazzies!!! I love white chocolate and they are my favourites.Mo decided they looked like fairy twinkles this afternoon so I just had to pop them in the box for the piccy!!! ( ....there are not so many left now!!) I added a little twine to the box flap which is scalloped when you pull it out but I forgot to take a piccy of that, derrrr!!!!!
I had to add a couple of yummy paper flowers too to match Fae's bouquet.
Well,I need to pop back out to my craft room now as I have a bit if a creation with bits drying on it out there!! It might even be finished for tomorrow but we'll see!!! lol!!!!!

This creation used:
White linen cardstock from papermill.
Magnolia Swirl Flourish stamp- sir stampalot.
Fairy Fae digi from Tiddly Inks.
Distress inks- faded jeans.
paper roses from my satsh of gorgeous paper flowers!
Garden twine.
SU scalloped border punch.
Su tag punch and stamp set.
Copic pens ( argh, didn't note the colours, bad Lou !)
Versamark brilliance Galaxy Gold for the wings-sir stampalot.

Thank you for popping in on me xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 19- say goodbye to summer!!

Hello peeps!!

This is my second post for today as I have actually managed to get my card done for the Tiddly Inks challenge, say goodbye to summer.

I had a little idea for it after bringing home a page from my bff's magazine throwing out pile yesterday but didn't have chance to start it until tonight when Mo had gone to bed and I am very impressed with myself for getting it finished!!!!! lol!!!!!

I had already coloured up my gorgeous gossmere with some autumny colours so all I needed to do was cut her out a little, she actually lost a bit of her fringey dangly bits due to scissors cutting them but I know Christy will fully undersand this small slip, hair can be quite tricky to trim....... lol!! and hugs for Christy!!!!!!!!

I made my little framey box card and I just had to use my awesome funky hand funky seasons cd, it has this gorgeous autumn sentiment paper on it. I printed out in the delicious orangey colour ( there are 2 more colour schemes to choose from too!!!!)

I stamped around the edges of my frame with a little leaf stamp and made myself a little shrinky button ( the shrinky button is all down to the lovely Chris who showed us how to do it at the demo on saturday!! I have made 6 since!!!lol!!!)

Then a little orangey chalking ad hey presto!!!

You would laugh at my big sis sam if you were here tonight, she has no internet at home and hasn't had any for 3 weeks now!! she has another week to go until she gets it back so I have introduced her to the world of scheduled posting!!!!!

This creation used:

Gossmere digi stamp- Tiddly Inks.

Autumn paper from Funky Seasons cd rom- Funkyhand

Leaf stamp-Inkadinkado- halloween/harvest assortment.

white linen cardstock.

Promarkers- sandstone,pastel pink-dress. pastel biege-skin. buttercup,-hairat you spica gold- crown and spooky stick.

Orane chalk pad!!

Memento ink pad- Rich cocoa.

White shrinkies.

Anita's tiny gems for a blingy crown!!!!

Thank you for dropping by!!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Get Funky - Fabulous funky florals!!!

Morning everyone!!!!
I am so excited this morning because it is the first time I have made a challenge card for the Get Funky challenge blog being on the Funky hand DT!!!!!

Its Kathy's challenge this month and she set us the fabulous task of............

Fabulous Funky Floral Fantasy

The catch is that Kath wants to see lots of dimension in the way you use the flowers, so just a flower patterned paper, or a flat flowery image just won't do at all!!!!

When creating you flowery masterpieces, please remember your project will only be eligible for the prize if you use at least one Funky Hand product - Click HERE for a quick link to the Funky Hand, you will be spoilt for choice and if you were lucky enough to hit Anice's funky sale over last weekend its a perfect time to get exploring those cd's or downloads!!!!

So for my card I used the colour me happy cd. I wanted some flowers that would match the gorgeous funky flowery paper on the cd so I went for pleated flowers. They were so relaxing to make (especially after a little bit of help from my scorpal ,lol!!!). For the centres I made myself a couple of funky faux brads with a bit of scrap paper left over from the card base.

For the card base itself I printed straight onto my card blank with the flowery paper and then added the plain piece of linen looking paper to the bottom. I also made la little pleated paper ribbon to go across the centre of my card!

A quickly stamped sentiment and a few martha branches for leaves and the job was done!!!

The little pleated flowers are so much fun to make, I had a few more funky scraps left on my desk from a few other bits I had been making so I used some to make a funky little memo holder for my fridge!!!

....and here it is in action holding another one of my fav funkyhand cd's!!!!
Mo has been for his back to school haircut this morning. Please excuse the grimace on his face!! its a bit bright out there today and the sun got in his eyes!!! We went for 7:30am to daddy's hairdresser as he wanted his hair like daddy's!! He looks so cute!!!! he was most impressed when the man asked if he wanted gel on it and jumped at the chance!!!

I am off out into my craft room now to have a bit of a play while Mo is busy with his lego, its gorgeous here today so I have plomped him outside with his car mat on the decking and a bowl of water for putting his boats made out of lego in!! happy days!!!

Thank you for popping in and don't forget to pop over to get funky and take a peek at the dt's fabulous creations, they are all so pretty.

Hugs Lou xxx

My wedding cake- for Chris!!!!!!

Hello peeps!!!

Well I have had a fabulous day today, I was driven to Sir Stampalot by my very amazing hubby to watch Chris demoing. For anyone who hasn't seen the Sir Stamaplot girls in action, you definately need to, they are all awesome!!!

Chris had whipped through 5 totally gorgeous cards by the time I had to leave ( due to a very sleepy Mo who had been biking with daddy at ferry meadows!!) and had bought along a load of super stunners with her too. Go to her blog and keep checking back until she posts her advent calendar, OMG its was adorable!!!!

Just before I left, Lou and Fleur arrived, and a lot of other Sir Stampalottie Hotties!!!! for me it was a bit like being in a room full of famous people!! I pop in on people's blogs and love reading their posts and seeing their creations!! I am a bit shy in the real world so sorry if I don't say hello properly girls! I will get there in the end!!!!

So, while Chris was demoing we were chatting to Louise about what she had been up to on holiday and she had been to see shrek 4. Now my house are big shrek lovers, scott and I are probably the biggest shrek lovers on our house, this picture is our wedding cake!!!!! I am posting it for Chris and the other ladies!!! The lady who made it was awesome. We told her we wanted 3 layers, a stone path, dragon, donkey and shrek and fiona on top!! it had 2 choccy cake layers and the bottom was fruit cake. We kept our cake totally secret until the big day.

Right my head is buzzing with ideas after such a fab day and I have to go on my daily blog womble!!!

Thank you for popping in!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 18- Gear up for school!!

Hello!! I'm back!!!!!

I have been busy finishing up my challenge card for the tiddly inks challenge blog!! This week they it is time to gear up for school, which was perfect with my youngest niece fast approaching her first day at 'big girl school'.

With this momentous day almost here I decided a going to school kit was needed!!!! I made an easel card and then made up a little box with a window to go onto the bottom part of it.

I covered a small notebook, ruler and trusty ikea pencil with the blackboard paper and then found a little pair of red plastic scissors to complete the kit!! a little red ribbon taped to the notebook is holding the pencil nice and snug and was perfect to slip the scissors into.

I coloured up my schoolgirl with my promarkers and made a cute and made a cute little sentiment in word.

I did harriet's name with my yummy white fabric thickers and glittered up the edges a bit to match my colour scheme.

Now, I take a squillion photo's of my little mo in the hope that one day I will manage to do more than one scrapbook page a year. Mo has had a bit of a traumatic week this week with his 'best best bestest friend' moving away. This photo is of their hug on wednesday morning when we went to wave them off, you can just see mo's prized 'little red flying machine' that his best buddy bought him as a leaving present. I am still at the stage where this photo makes me all weepy and daft so I wanted to share it with you all.

....and just to prove he is doing ok, here is my little man after dressing himself completely independently for a party this afternoon, check out the tie!!!! he had a lovely time and that is fab as he is so funny about going to parties and will normally say no to going or chicken out and the last moment and want to stay home! it was my next door neighbours little girls 2nd birthday and he thinks she is 'so cute and small'!!!!!

This creation used:

school girl digi stamp- Tiddly Inks.

Blackboard paper- Tiddly Inks.

white hessian cardstock.

Charcoal chalk pad.

promarkers- tan, buttercup,sandstone-hair. vanilla,pastel pink-skin. pastel beige-socks.

copics-R35,R37-shirt and bow. B95,B97- skirt.

White fabric Thickers.

Red satin ribbon.

Computer generated sentiment- Baabookhmkbold

Bit of doodling- black sukura glaze pen.

I also want to send out a huge hug to Fleur and Vicky who made my week this week by sending me lovely awards, I will get them sorted out and posted tomorrow girlies but just wanted to let you know how much they meant to me, thank you so much xxxxxxxx

Right, cuppa calling me!!!

Big hugs Lou xxxxx

Fabulous and funky sale!!!!

Morning peeps!!!

I have been so busy over the past couple of days I havent hd chane to do too mch to show you today but I wanted to share the funkyhand bank holiday sale with you all so you can all grab yourself a bargain over the bank holiday weekend!!!

We have had a busy morning buying mo's new school shoes and plimsolls....not an easy job!!!!! took us 4 shops to find some plimsolls and then another shop to get the shoes but we are all kitted out and ready for the new term now!!

off to have some tomato sopu for lunch then mo has a party but I will be back tonight with a card...maybe 2 if i can get myself sorted enough!!!!!!!

so bye for now and don't forget to pop over to funkyhand!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Fun with favour boxes!!

Morning everyone!!
when Scott and I got married I made all our wedding favour boxes myself using some flat pack cream coloured favour boxes I bought off good old ebay!!! I bought way too many but they were cheap so I still have a few left!!
I decided to experiment with one a couple of weeks ago when getting some little bits together for Anice and this is the result!! I think it is gorgeous!!
Because they were flat it was really easy to just stick them to a piece of paper with removable tape runner and then pop them into my printer!!
I used my Dreams come true cd from funkyahnd for this one and then added a little 'mr and mrs' sentiment from my computer using my oval punch set.
I love how the pattern on the paper turned it into something so sweet and elegant with just the click of a button on my laptop!!!
The yummy heart choccy ( which may still be in there depending on how hungry Anice and Corrina were when the Lou box of bits arrived......LOL!!!) is just a little choccy heart left from a huge box of thorntons choccies I got from one of the parents at work, what a yummy pressie!! I declare that all pressies should be edible!!!!! romfl!!!!
This Lou creation used:
Dreams Come True cd rom- Funkyhand.
A flat pack favour box from e-bay.
Stampin Up scalloped oval punch.
Stampin Up oval punch.
Sentiment- Computer generated- Bradleyhand font.
Black satin ribbon (thin)
A little bit of soft cream net from dunlem mill to line the box with.
Yummy choccy heart from Thorntons!!!

Huggies Lou xxxxxx