A little bit of love!!!

Morning peeps!
Hope you have all woken up to a fabulous monday! Little mo and I didn't wake up until 5:50am so we had a little bit of a lie in, poor daddy though was in a bit of a rush as if the mummy and mo alarm doesn't go off he doesn't wake up either!! lol !!

I made this gorgeous little card last night whilst having a play with my A child's year cart. I had half forgotten how fabulous this cart was! if you haven't got it I think you definitely need it!!!

Now don't forget that Anice will be  putting her piece of circley inspiration up on the Get Funky Challenge blog today and it might even use some bits from the new cd due out soon!!!! Mo and I spend hours of fun just watching the countdown timer go down over on the shop!!! he thinks its fab!!!!

Well, I am off to finish a little more ironing and get ready for work. The weekend seemed to fly by with everything going on!!

Have a fabulous monday
Hugs Lou xxxxxx

Sad day and Betty Card!!

  I just wanted to share a quick card made with one of Funky Hand's gorjuss Betty stamps!! I had the love 'n' that set to play with and oh thy are just fabulous. Betty stamps like a dream which is fab for paper piecing which is what I did with her dress.

I used papers from the fabby Colour Me Happy papercraft factory  from Funky Hand ( ooooh and super exciting! there are piccies of the new one over in the shop)

The lovely centre rise step card base on this one is another fabby Penny Duncan file. If you haven't been over to Penny's blog you really need too, she makes the most beautiful flowers and cards to cut with MTC.

 

And so onto the sad stuff...

 

our dear little rabbit Simba passed away yesterday. Little mo and I went out to give him his tea and he had just gone off to heaven in his sleep. He looked so peaceful, he was 6 and a half.

Little Mo was devastated, he adored Simba and was always in the run whenever Simba was, sat with him reading o him and alsorts so we have a very sad Little mo here today. Ryan was sad but at almost 11 he can handle it a whole lot better, me? yup I cried like a big baby with mo when we found Simba yesterday.

Mo had some time with simba this morning, he had even wrapped him up in a tea towel  and was snuggling him by the time we got outside, he was so sad bless him.

We bought Simba from another family who didn't want him anymore when mo was 1. He was the most loving rabbit and we will miss him terribly so we had a little bunny funeral this morning.

 

I covered a box with brown paper ad Mo decorated it with a picture of simba's play tunnel and a carrot. He put some sawdust and straw inside " to keep simba warm and cosy mummy" and he gently put simba in (yup, mummy cried again as mo was crying, urgh!) then mo blew 2 kisses into the box and gave simba a last stroke and put him gently down into the big hole daddy had dug.

He popped his simba's fav toy ( a dingly bell treat storer thingy) into the hole with him and then him and ryan filled the hole up with their littl plastic spades ( more tears from mummy...)

 

The boys made little crosses for the  'grave' and mo popped a teddy ornament on top with simba's food bowl which is going to hold a little plant. Mo made a special heart on a stick for his teddy to hold.

 

So thats us for today!! lol!!

Hugs Lou xxx

Get Funky Going round in circles Lou day!!!

Well, its been 6 days since Allison kicked us off in fabby fashion on our new way of doing challenges here on Get Funky with the Going Round In Circles challenge!!! so with that in mind it comes to me to post my circley piece of inspiration for you today!!

....and here it is........

I had a very boring looking little notebook sat staring at me on my workdesk and it wa screaming out for a bit of funkiness!!!!

I printed my papers out from the Colour Me Happy papercraft factory.I just love those big juicy polkadots!!

I adhered them onto my notebook and using my nesties I cut out some circle shapes to make a nice little home for my scrunched up flower.

The flower itself was really easy to make.

I punched 6 little scalloped circles out and screwed them up into little balls.

Then I unfolded each little screwed up ball, placed them on top of each other and used my crop o dile big bite to punch a little hole through all the layers.

I popped a little split pin through the hole and covered it with one of the juicy polkadots cut out from my scraps of paper.

Then all you do is just play with the layers to arrange your flower how you like it. I like mine a little scrunched up!!

So now a quick recap on how to join in.......

The main rule that you must use at least one Funky Hand product remains the same and to help you take part this month there is a freebie which Anice is so kindly giving away for this month to help you with this challenge

Your freebie can be downloaded here from the Funky Hand website, keep checking back with us every month for a lovely new one!!

And remember, you will have to pop back to the Get Funky challenge blog every third day this month when a different DT member will be showcasing their project, so remember to follow this blog so you know when a new project has been uploaded. So be back for the 24th when Anice will have something to share with us!!

Right off to try and finish of a card with a butterfly on in time for En's challenge!!

Hugs

Lou xxxx

Gerbera and butterflies for En's challenge!!!

Morning peeps!!

well I am cutting it super fine with finally gettin this card finished and posted to join in with Enfys's super fun blog party!! Enfys has set up a little voting tool so if any of you fancy looking at all the gorgeous and cute cards people made here is a linky. Mine is the last on in at number 50 so there is plenty for you to womble around!!!

This card is for a friend at work to give to her mum. She needed traditional and a gerbera!!

Here's a front view of it!!

Oh this gerbera was a pain!!! the glue did not want to dry because of the cold in my crafty garage and took 3 days for all the layers to get dry before I could do the centre!! argghhhh!!! lol!!!

So its all done now!!!

Thecard is a cut file from the lovely Penny Duncan and the gerbera is an svg I just googled but I love it.

The gorgeous butterflies are cut from my storybook cart, I love their whimsical flight paths.

Right I must dash to get this post linkied in time and get myself off to work!!!

Huge friday hugs!!!

Lou xxxxx

Diamond wedding anniversary invites!

 Hello peeps!!!

Phew, after 2 very busy nights working on them I have all the 60th wedding annivesary invites done for Scott's Nanna and Grandad.

They were surprisingly hard to take a photo of with all the white and pearlescent vellum flowers and fronds on the front!! 

Inside is some yummy pearlescent paper ( fetched for me by awesome BF and BF 2) with all the details on which I forgot to take a piccy of, but it looks beautiful!!

There are little diamonds in the centres of the flowers representing the diamond wedding annivesary and you can just about make out the diamond pen around the edges of the photograph.

Here is a close up of the photograph.....

( mmmmm, taking photograph of  the photograph didn't come out too well!!!)

But I still love this photograph of Nanna and Grandad on their wedding day. Wow, 60 years! that is awesome isn't it?

Ok so now I have this finished up I am free to go out to play in my crafty room and do some me makes!!!! I have some yummy top secret stuff to play with and a few other card orders to finish up but I am sure a little me time is allowed!!! so the kettle is on and once I have a cuppa in hand I am off out there.

I just have to add that the moon is absolutely huge here in the UK tonight  (I would love to know if it is huge with all my friends over the pond too!!) I always find it quite magical that we are all looking up at the same moon wherever we are so if you should have to take a peek out there tonight just imagine me on the top of it blowing y'all a big kiss!!!

hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 34- Just Be Me.

Morning peeps!!! Its Tiddly Tuesday again!!!! That means its time for another Tiddly challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

The challenge this week is........

 'Just Be Me'.

So get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and make a card that celebrates you. Don't forget to link your creations using the super cute inlinkz froggy guy over on the challenge blog before 10pm CST on Monday 24th January.

So onto my little offering this week!! Now I am a an extremely lucky chick because I have some extremely special friends, some of them I met in cyberspace, some of them IRL bt they are all such a part of me and who I am. They all know and understand me and know when I am struggling and need a blooming good shove to sort myself out!!!!

I made this card with one of them in particular who needs some extra Lou huggles at the moment.

I like to try and cheer people up by making them cards because that is ME!!! I make and enjoy making thinking I am going to put even a teensy smile on someone's face and that someone will know I made their card with just them in mind.

I chose to put my cute Donna image into use this week, I love her to bits and she went perfectly with a qoute from the very awesome Dolly Parton I wanted to use!! yey!! 2 of my favourites on one card ( .....though I can't get the song Jolene out of my head now...yep...thats the one...now I know y'all are singing along with me now!!!!! romfl!!!!!)

I teamed Donna up with some Funky Hand papers that reminded me of big juicy rain splotting down, I love watching the rain. I think she turned out so cute (its just a shame that its pitch black and I couldn't get a better piccy in my crafty garage!!!!)

Donna card recipe!!

Image- Donna from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Colour Me Happy and Dreams Come True

Papercraft factory from Funky Hand.

Promarkers- skin- vanilla and pastel pink.

Coat, wellies and umbrella- berry red and holly red.

Clothes- pastel blue.

Hair- errrr..primrose and buttercup i think!!!

Froggies- leaf green.

Antique Linen distress inks.

White gel pens dots all over.

Blue organza ribbon.

Heart charm.

Border stamps from Kelly Pannicci.

I have had a lovely day today as the postman finally bought the parcel I was waiting for and all I can say about that is whoop whoop wooohoooooo!!!! its fab!! yey!!!!

So I had better get myself moving and have a few cups of tea to wake myself up then I will be ready to face the day!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!!!

Hugs

Lou xxxx

Hanging us up on the wall !!!!

Hello peeps!!!

How is everybody this fine monday? good I hope.

I have woken up feeling much better after working on this slushy wall hanging of me and Scott. Anybody who knows mw knows I have the most awesome husband and i love this photo from our wedding day. I don't do having my photo taken so this is a rare find!!!!

Our wedding day was absolutely amazing and I loved every minute so with feeling not quite myself at the weekend I needed something to pull me back and cheer me up.

I was inspired completely with Allison's theme over on the Get Funky challenge blog which is 'Going round in circles'  .

So I got out my Colour Me Happy papercraft factory (....yup, I use it a lot!!!) and printed a couple of romantic looking pinks and browns off the contented coffee colourway.

A bit of martha branch treatment, some cricut cut flowers and a bit of bling and hey presto it was done!!!!!

I printed the gorgeous verse I found on scrapbook.com a while ago around the edges of the circle using word.

Here's a little close up of the little fronds,flowers and bling!!!

Well, I must dash and pick the little man up from school, he wasn't enthused on the idea of school at all today so I am hoping he has had a nice day after worrying bless him.

Hugs

Lou xxx

Betty And Scott's yummy cake!

 Hello peeps!!!
Hope you are all having a super sunday!! its quite lovely here today, the sun is shining and its fairly warm too so we have had a morning of pootling around getting shopping and bits and now the boys have gone off to do boy stuff  on the field with daddy ( they left the house with a football, a cricket bat and a ball!) so mummy is getting some blog time in!!!

So onto my cake!!! now I have to confess I am not a great 'big'cake baker. Cupcakes and breads are more my thing but I treated myself to a huge cupcake shaped cake mould before christmas and yesterday on wimpy Lou day Scott asked for a cake.
This is what he got!!!!!
Now as I was icing it, I could here a little Mo scrabbling around in my crafty box that I had left on the table. He ws looking at my shrinkied Betty that I had been laying with earlier , he quite likes her!! and that gave me an idea!!! ( now excuse the hole in her heart, she is destined for my mobile phone on a little charm string, hence the hole!!!!) so on top (.....of yummy choccy fudge icing with a huge white chocolate chip in case she gets hungry :) !!) of the cake went Betty!!

 errrrrrrrr......... and this is what the cake looked like after lunch today when 3 hungry boys had attacked it!!!! bless her, Betty is holding fast on the edge of the hole that can be filled by other yummy stuff (......but I didn't have time to do that!!!! lol!!!!)

Betty Cup cake creation recipe!

Image-  Love 'n' that Betty stamp set from Funky Hand.

white shrinkies.

staz-on jet black ink.

watercolour pencils.

10 egg sponge cake mix!!

black ribbon from my stash.

3 hungry boys to demolish what you have baked!!!!

So today I am finishing off another little bit of something in my craft room once I have finished this post. I am feeling a little more myself today and had a lovely lie in this morning while Scott,Mo and Ryan came down to play. We still have our huge pile of games down from christmas as they are enjoying them so much, Frustration is the favourite this week!!
Have a fabulous day everybody!!
Huge Hugs
Lou xxx

Get Funky Funky 15th and oooooh Betty!!!

Morning peeps!!!

Well its the 15th of January and I am super excited for 2 reasons today!! 

1. today is the day when the Funkette's get their funk back on over on the Get Funky challenge blog!!!  Allison has set the challenge this month with a theme of 'Going round in circles' and because we are all so funky we are doing it a bit differently this month. Allison is starting us off today with her gorgeous circles theme ad has her awesome creation on the blog already, then every 3 days another DT member will add their bit of fabulousness ( i know this because i have peeked a few and they are delicious so you won't want to miss them!)
All you need to do is make your circle theme project, be it circle shaped or paper with circles in the design.
The only thing we ask is that you please include at least one funky hand product in your entry.
Now, don't fear if you don't have any Funky Hand papers because you will find a gorgeous freebie here in the Funky Hand store.

now for reason number 2 of excitedness...........
Betty is here!!!! wooohoooo!!! i have tentively been spending a couple of hours a day this week watching the Betty release countdown over on the shop!!! romfl!!! and I am so excited because it means I can share a bit of Betty on my blog now!!!! and here she is in all her Betty-ness!!!

I coloured her up with my promarkers and popped her on this cute little easel card. The little button holding up the easel is actually the 'love' heart' shaped stamp from the set with a little shrinkie treatment!!!!

There are 4 collections of Betty and I have to tell you she stamps like a dream, I have had so much fun with her and I love her to bits. I got the Love 'n' that set to play with and its so versatile. Along with Betty there are oodles of yummy little bits and sentiments too so they really are great sets. I am so excited about them. Please check out the little slide shows under the stamp collections over on the Funky Hand site as the Funkette's have been making some gorgeous bits with her.

OOOh Betty recipe!!

Image- Betty Love 'n' That stamp set from Funky Hand.

Sentiment from the same set.

Papers- Heart paper from Now Thats Funky from Funky Hand.

Black ribbed cardstock from my stash!!

Promarkers- skin- vanilla and pastel pink.

Hair-sandstone, pastel biege and copic ciaoW7

Dress- cool grey 3 and 4.

Choccy box- berry red and crimson.

Pink copic spica pan on flowers and ribbon.

white shrinkies.

A bit of inking and a bit of bling!!

Well, I have had a daft attack of my Lou nerves this morning, I get quite fed up with myself when I am having days like this. Instead I will be staring out of my living room window stalking the postman (....who in true Lincolnshire postie fashion has not bought me a package I really really want....!!!!)
Don't forget to get yourself over to the Get Funky challenge blog and check out Allison's gorgeous card ( she used Betty!!)
Have a fabby saturday peeps
Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

A quick little LOTV post!

Morning peeps!!!

I thought I would quickly share this little Rosie with presents card that I made for a lovely friend at work, I forgot to take it so she had it in time for her birthday yesterday but she will get it today!!! lol!!!!

I am so pleased it is friday!! this week I have felt so dopey!! I have craft club to look forward to tomorrow while the boys have a good old daddy day.

Must dash as I need much more tea and waking up before I go to work. Mo is busy creating a playmobil village in his bedroom and all I can here is lots of different little voices for the characters wafting down the stairs! its so cute it makes me giggle!!!

A rosie recipe!!!

Image- Rosie with presents from lili of the valley.

Promarkers- skin- vanilla and soft peach.

Dress- berry red and crimson.

Cloak and shoes- cool grey 3,4 and 5!!

Hair- sandstone and tan.

Pressies- sandstone, berry red and crimson.

Polka dots- sakura black glaze pen.

Highlights- white gel pen.

Papers from craftwork cards.

Martha stewart lace punch.

Red organza ribbon from the stash of Lou!

Have a fabulous friday peeps!!!
huge hugs
Lou xxxx