Tiddly inks Challenge 45- Bunny Hop with us to refer a friend!!

Image- Bunny Q from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- skin- blush,soft peach.

Bunny ears-ivory,pastel pink,

Dress-coral. Hair-caramel,cocoa,burnt sienna.

Egg- coral and antique pink.

Friendship defintion digi stamp- Hero arts Digi kit.

Sentiment- computer generated (batang font)

Papermania mini flower and leaf punch

(...again shamelessly stolen from little mo but

he did punch them out for me!!)

Lacey circles nesties.

Hello peeps!!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday again so that means its time for a fabby new challenge over on the Tiddly inks challenge blog and Christy has set us up with an awesome one this week. Here is Minnie with a few details for you.....isn't she gorgeous. She is also this weeks new image release so go snap her up over on the Tiddly Inks store.

OOOh I hear you say...what do I need to do? The first thing you need to do is pop on over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and read through Christy's little rules for our refer a friend bunny hop!!

Its best for you to go there and have a read first and get some inspiration from all the awesome Tiddly Inkers to get you going.

Onto the challenge that goes with it ........

Create a card and post it like you normally do----using a Tiddly Inks image (preferably with a bunny, but any TI image will work).

I used the adorable Bunny Q for mine as this card is an easter for my BF, (we have been so busy with one thing and another over the past couple weeks that I am suffering serious BF withdrawal symptoms and have taken to staring at my skype incase she pops up!!!! romfl!!!)

I coloured up my little Bunny Q and cut her out with my nesties, along with making a sentiment and cutting that with the same nestie set. I wanted my little flowers to stand out so Little mo punched me some and a couple of leaves from a spare piece of the friendship definition I had printed out. I embossed them and glued them on! cute cute cute!!!

I am entering this card over on the allsorts challenge blogs 'Blooming Blossoms' challenge. They are so cute and teeny and a joy to make, I can't resist them!!!

I can't wait to see who joins in with the Bunny Hop and make some new tiddly friends!!

I am off to work now. 4 days left until the easter holidays and little Mo is on countdown, the first thing he wants to do is have a pyjama day. This is fast becoming a tradition for the first day of any school holiday we have but I love it!!!
Have a great day everybody!! see you all later! hugs Lou xxxxx

Flowergirls and Ushers cards!!

 Morning peeps!!!!

Happy Friday!!!! I have been super busy, snuggled up in my crafty garage making some more of Gabby's wedding thank you card order so today I have the flower girls and the ushers to share!!!

The flower girls got a super cute LOTV Rosie with present.

I have been colouring the hair of the stamps on my cards the same as the people who are receiving them and sticking with the black and fuschia pink colour theme, I think it makes it a little more personal. I actually did 3 flower girl cards but didn't think to take a picture of all 3 and they have gone now but last night I worked on my usher trio!!! it is actually Sitting Groom Edwin ( my treat from clare's yummy shop last week!!) and here they are....

 black hair usher!! I tired to do his hair with my black promarker first time but he looked awful so I started again and stuck to my cool greys.

 brown hair usher.....

 and the ginger one...

All my papers are from my Funky Hand Craft The Year Away cd. Gabby and Andrew are a young couple so I wanted the cards to be funky and fresh and Anice does that best!!!

The font is from my Storybook cricut cart and I love it. I think it is one of my favourite fonts ever!!!!

This week has been a great week at work and home so I am feeling all cheery and back to my normal self. on tuesday afternoon I helped my BF to restock her new crafty palace with another of my fabby friends, Maragret. Margaret so needs a blog because she showed me the most beautiful name card she had made for her grand  daughter, it was so cute. And as for Fi's crafty palace all I can say is wow-a-roonie!!!! I am so excited for her as she was crafting from a cosy little shed before which was still lovely but oooooh the new place is dreamy!!!!

Right off to make packed lunches for me and Little Mo and get on with the day so I can get home and chill!!!

Huge hugs
Lou xxxxxx

My best surprise of the day!

 Hello peeps!!!

I am blogging in late tonight as I have been having a bit of a vegging night!!! but I just had to share the best surprise of my day.

First I had a fabulous day at work today. I was busy and I loved it!!! I am always at my happiest when I am pootling along busily so that was fab.

Then onto to fetch my super gorgeous little Mo. He came out smiling,cluthcing what I thought was the normal pile of star wars drawings and then he gave me this card. Awwwwwwwwww!!! he gave me a huge snuggle too which was just awesome and I must admit I felt completely proud and a bit teary but held it together (...didn't want to cry in the playground!!!!!! lol !!!)

It is me, cooking tea in the flowers, awwww.

This is just the best ever mothers day card, so I had to share it with you all.
Here's the inside......

Awwwwwwwwwww!!!

It is little mo, in the garden being a gnome because he knows I love being outside!!! oh I adore this little guy and his little stories about what he has drawn, it is pure magic. The big red bits are love hearts.

Thank you for peeking and putting up with my super proud mummy moments!!!!!

huge hugs

Lou xxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 44- Celebrate with us!!

Image- Cup of my Love Lilly Bean from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Promarkers- vanilla, crimson,berry red,cool grey 3,4 and 5.

red at you spica pen.

oval nestie.

Martha stewart punch.

SU oval punch.

Good Morning Peeps!!!!

Happy Tiddly Tuesday :) and the Tiddly Inkers are having a little celebration because it is our very own Christy's birthday!! Happy Birthday Christy xxxxxxx

and so onto the celebrations!!!!!!! over on the challenge blog we are Create a birthday card challenge using Black/White/Red. These are Christy's favorite colours so grab your favourite Tiddly Inks image and get creating!!!!

For my card I used the Cup of My Love Lilly Bean. She is so sweet and sassy (...and strong too holding all that love up there!!!)

The colouring was super simple, as I kept to the challenge colours...apart from her skin of course!!! I decided she needed a good blingy dress for partying!!

My gorjuss papers are from my Craft The Year Away cd. I seriously don't know what I would do without it as it has papers for everything on it and they all snuggle up together so nicely!!!

I made the sentiment in word and printed it out onto one of my scraps of the red paper, then punched it, inked it and doodled on it a little!!!!!

Now...for even more celebratory yumminess!!!!... there are of course new images going into the shop today but wait......you will love this next bit..........to celebrate her birthday Christy is......

Having  a SALE!!!!!

 

so quick, run...go fill your Tiddly basket up!!!!!!! :) there are some gorgeous new tiddlies just sitting in the shop and here's a peek of them.....

 

Well, I am off to work for the morning and then onto my BF's for a cuppa and a waffle. I have been melancholy over the last week so I am looking forward to a chat and cheering up-ness!!!!!! :)

 

Have a fab day everyone hugs Lou xxxxxx



Cute,cute,cute birthday box!!!

 Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Box from my stash!

Flower and leaf punch from papermania

(clare, don't tell Mo I pinched his punches!!)

Anita's gems.

Pear Green promarker.

Tag from 'the work's shop.

Pink thread.

Morning peeps!!!!!

I had a lovely treat of a drive out to the lovely Clare's craft shop yesterday. We had a yummy breakfast in the little coffee shop literally across the door way from Clare's shop (sob, sob..by the time we had finished nomming our yummy scrambled eggs and Mo was extremely excited to find 3 huge marshmallows floating in his hot chocolate,Clare was just about to start a class so I couldn't have a proper catch up...oh well.... will have to go again for a good old natter!!!!)

Now, a teeny confession....the flower and leaf punch are not mine!!! they are actually part of Little Mo's crafty buys from Clare's but I am sure he won't mind me borrowing them!!!!

I have a little birthday party to go to today for my very special little lady (...or not so little now but I am happily in denial that she is growing up as all good nanny's who are feeling old when their charges grow up would!!!!) We are going to have some crafty fun and decorate some cakes, make some door hangers a la funky hand!! I will take my camera for piccies in case I get chance to take some!!

Claudia is growing up now so for her present I wanted to give her some pennies for her to go and choose whatever she fancies and I wanted a nice little box for them to go in.
She loves pink so I knew I could trust my awesome Craft The Year Away cd for some yummilicious pink paper.
I made up my box and added some splodges of pink ink around the edges. Trimmed up some funky pink paper to layer the box up with and splodged some ink on the edges of that too.

Then made myself some gorgeous little leafs by colouring a piece of white card with my pear green promarker and punching them out (..that punch is soooooo cute and very addictive...have more leafs then I need.....!!) then I ran my embossing tool down the middle of it to make it look more leafy!!!!
I punched the flowers out of my scrappy bits of paper, cream and funky pink, inked the edges and embossed them too. The cream flower was glued on first, then the leaves just gently pushed into the glue underneath, then the pink flower went inside the cream flower to gently layer it and a gorgeous pink gem for the centre of the flower.

Here's a little piccy of the punches and other bits and bobs I used in case you need to see the punches.

The glue isn't even dry in the flowers in my top piccy as I was just so excited to share it!!!!!!! daft me!!

The tag is one from a packet of price tags I bought from 'The Works' shop in town. I love these little tags. I took out the white string and then glued it onto a piece of paper, typed Claudia in word and then printed it out. Then I re-threaded the tag with some yummy pink thread to match the colour scheme on the box.

It really is a squishably cute box!!!
Right, better get me dressed...not got that far yet!! crafting in my pj's is so me on a sunday morning!!!

Have a fabby sunday everyone!! hugs Lou xxxxxx

busy butterflies!!!!

 Hiyah peeps!!!!

I have been super busy for the past couple of nights creating some bits that one of the girls at work has asked for for her wedding which is coming up soon.

My first job was the guest book and the scheme is black and fuschia pink and butterflies.

I headed for my stack of yummy bloom and grow minds eye papers becuase I knew this delicious paisley print pinky one was in there!!! oooh I love it.

The butterflies are from my cricut storybook cart and cut in black cardstock, which I then popped through my creatopia and covered with some pink flocking stuff..oooh they are so soft to rub!!! I cut the fluttery flight path off one so I could rest it on my nestied oval.

I added a couple of little gems on them and then popped them up on some silicone.

the little flowers are from my SU boho flowers punch and off course some martha branch!!!!!

I wanted the adult bridesmaids cards to match the guest book so I almost copied the layout of the guest book and I am so pleased with how they turned out. 

I popped a little verse inside the bridesmaids cards too.

I took them to work today and it was lovely to see that Gabby liked them, I am always a little bit worried when I make things people have asked for!!!! daft me!!!!

Anyway, I am off to have a quick cuppa now and recharge my batteries before I finish off a wedding book for us girls at work to sign for another lady at work who is getting married!!! its all go in our nursery this year!!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me, your comments mean so much to me and always cheer me up.
Hugs Lou xxxx

My big boy is 11 today!!

In August 2002 when Scott and I got together, I was also blessed with my step son, Ryan. And today he is 11 years old, I cannot believe how quickly time has zoomed by!!!

His card had to be a squidge more grown up this year so he got a LOTV Football crazy on his card and a LOTV circle stamp too!!

I stamped him and then heat embossed him with some clear embossing powder to make him look yummy. He got a good old Man Utd colouring with my promarkers. If you look really close on his little trainer you can see Ryan written on it. I did that because his fabby new trainers from his mum sarah and dad jim have his name on them and I wanted the little footballer to mirror that.
The punched border is martha stewart and is a very special punch as a dear friend sent me it.A few little card candies on the edges and I sneaked in some kisses in the corners of my little footballer and on the top edge of the punched border. The sun was just going down when I took this piccy and Little Mo and his big brother Ryan were playing rounders in the garden, it was so lovely and a super treat for Mo to see Ryan after school. We don't normally see Ryan in the week as he is with Sarah during the week so Mo was very excited.

Then onto the cake!!!!  for his 11th birthday I thought I had better go for a big boy cake!!!!!! and made this yummy looking little football shape using one of my pyrex pudding basins and iced it ( lots of icing!!). Then I decided that I needed a goal net too so I made one to sit the cake on and a little Man Utd logo stuck into it on a good old McDonalds coffee stirrer!!!!

I know I am not much of a cake maker but I am very proud of this one!! you can just about make out the green icing writing and number 11 on the black icing!!

Right I am off to veg out for a little bit now before I start thinking about some cards I need to make, cuppa here I come!!!

Thank you for popping in on me
Hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 43- Picture Me!!!

Image- Fairy House and

Fairy Fae Dreams from Tiddly Inks.

Promarkers- pear green, terracotta,pastel biege,

cool grey 1,2 and 3,antique pink,cocktail pink,

amethyst,orchid,almond(...phew i think thats it...!)

clear star gelly roll sakura pen

glossy accents

Morning peeps!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again!!! Its time for yummy new images in the shop (...and oooooh they are so fab this week!!!) and a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week we have a gorgeous photo to follow for colour inspiration and your card will need to be shaped too but....with out the use of a cricut or other cutting machine.
(....Lou hears all her friends gasp as they know there isn't much that I don't cut out without the use of my cricut!!!!!!!!)
Here is the gorgeous photo.......

I just love those colours and the ruffley flowers!! oh and don't worry because our very talented Tiddly Inker Lysa has set you all up with a tutorial to give you some ideas!!! and our very lovely Christy has made you all a freebie template so pop over to her blog for more details!!!

So you have until next monday at 10pm CST to get our your favourite Tiddly Inks images and join in with the tiddly inking fun!!!! I can't wait to see what everybody creates, I love a good bloggy womble!!

I used the superb little Fairy House to make my shaped card base, I printed it out making sure the cute little mushrrom house was at the bottom of the page and then folded it in half and cut around the shape of it (...yes that took a little while but oh sooooo cute it looks!!!!) Here's a few piccies I took whilst I was snipping!!!

...and here's the coloured fairy house!!!....and promarkers galore!!!!

.....and then sat one very sweet Fairy Fae Dreams on top of it. She looks like she is just sat watching the world go by on a lovely summery day.

I always have so much fun creating different looking cards. I love this one and she has already been snaffled by little mo who wants this to be his cousin Lily's birthday card.

I am also entering this card in the magical mondays challenge blog shaped cards challenge this week.

Starting on the mothers day creating!!

Morning peeps!!
Its a bright and sunny morning here now which is lovely. Mo had a pants night last night so I am hoping for him to get better today, he has eaten breakfast and a doughnut mum bought him yesterday so I think he is going the right way to feeling better !!! :)

My little share of the day today is my start on my mothers day cards. The papers are from my TK Maxx bargain find of memory makers papers and the stamp is the super cute little rosie from lili of the valley. I love her to bits and use her oodles!!!
The flowers are punched out with my SU Boho punch and the little ovals with my sentiment are SU's oval punches, and not forgetting the most needed martha branches!!!!
A little splish of lace and some yummy beads and she is all ready to go!!!!!!

Off to tesco for milk now!!!

have a fabby sunday everyone, I will be back for a bloggy womble later!!
Hugs Lou xxx

Fabulously Inky Friday!!

Image and sentiment- Harmony at home from Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!! how are you all this fabby sunny friday afternoon?

Its Fabulously Inky Friday today over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog which means its time to announce the winners of lasst weeks Kraft with me challenge and take a peek at what peeps have been creating with their tiddlies!!!

I have been having a bit of a sort out in my craft room. I have lots of pictures of family and sentimental bits hanging above my craft desk and wanted to make myself a hanging for in there too and this is what I came up with.
I printed straight onto my Krafty coloured file folder, trimmed it down and added a bit of metallic ink to the edges. Then I added a bit of black cardstock to the back and few holes to add my raffia to hang it.
Its very simple but I absolutely love it and the sentiment is perfect for me as I am always listening to music while I am out there. I love music and have a huge list of favourites!!! all varied types too from classical which I love right down to classics like the Rolling Stones!!

Mo was quite poorly in the night with his asthma as he has a cold, I think we got a total of 3 hrs sleep but he was raring to go to school and join in with the comic relief fun today as he knew he could go as Robin Hood!!! here he is ( ...yup, they are black bags under his eyes from no sleepies bless him!!)

...all ready to go and get the sheriff of nottingham!!!!! then we had to pick him up at 2:30pm when school rang to say he had gone to the office to say he needed his mummy, awwwwww. So we have a sick little boy on the settee now, all bunged up and red, awwwwwwww.

Right off to get a cup of tea and eat my super yummy coffee cupcake cooked by Hayley's mum for our cake sale at nursery for comic relief,mmmmm yummo!!!

hugs Lou xxxx