Home tweet home!

 Image- Home Tweet Home from mo's digital Pencil.

Magnolia swirl stamp.

Papermania mini flower punches.

Hello peeps!!!
I hope you have all had a fabby thursday. I am feeling a squidge green today but daft as it sounds I always feel better when I just get on with things instead of mooching at home!!!!

I made this cute card for a friend who has just moved into a fabby new house, new home, new beginnings.
The challenge over on do it with digi's is Animals so I thought these 2 little loved up birds from Mo Manning  would fit in quite nicely with that. I coloured my digi up with my promarkers... sandstone, caramel, cocoa for the browns. Buttercup and pastel yellow on the birds tummies with pastel blue and denim blue on their wings and heads. Cute!!!! outlined in pastel biege for a change!

I think this card is soooo sweet! Those little birds are gorgeous. I popped some crackle glaze on the little sign, it looks a little smudgy but it did look really cute. I wrapped the rafia around my little paper peicing picky uppy tooly thing and spritzed it gently to get it to curl like twigs and I love how it came out.

On sunday I am off to doncaster to the stamp magic show. I can't wait, have been saving hard and kept back a few of my birthday pennies especially!! anyone else going?

Oh oh oh and I was super duper chuffed to get a top 3 on the LOTV challenge blog with my cute little christening card...and yep....most of my pennies are earmarked for their stand on sunday!!!!!! you can never have enough LOTV's!!!!!

Right then, off to mooch about felling rough a bit more and get an early night!! friday tomorrow, wooohoooo!!
Thank you for popping in on me! I love visitors!!!!
Hugs Lou xxxx

TiddlyInks challenge 53- Going Goth!!

Image- Wicked Fun from Tiddly Inks.

Paper- Gossmere paper ( skulls)

and Grunge checkerboard from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment- from Jessica's  Blog.

Morning peeps!!

Yes its Tiddly Tuesday again and so its time for another exciting challenge from our awesome team of Tiddly Inkers and this week it is complete fun!!!

For the month of June, over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog, we will be exploring our Tiddly crafting with some fun twists and our theme for this week is ........

Fun 'dark' creations!!!

We would love for you to join in but please remember to use a Tiddly Inks image.!!!!! There are a bunch of gorgeous gothic pin up girls here, perfic for our goth challenge and in the whats new section there is the most awesome new little goth chick you have ever seen!!!!!!

I used a tonne of tiddly on my card since I lurve Christy's gothy stuff!!!! I used Wicked Fun for my image, she's so sassy and cheeky and the sentiment is from Jessica's blog, she is a wizard with gothic bits. I cut up a few of the skulls from Gossmeres paper and plonked them down at the bottom on some foam squares, the ribbon is just scruncied up on some double sided tape. Oh this card was fun and the sentiment is very true to me!!!!!! :)

 (The linkies for all the bits I have used are under the card picture up there ^ !!)

So go and check out the rest of the Tiddly Inkers creations over on the challenge blog and get inspired to get Tiddlying!!!!  I look forward to seeing what you create!!

Tiddly Tuesday hugs!!!!

Lou xx

christening cards for 2 challenges!! LOTV and Truly Scrumptious

 Morning peeps!!

I am back down to earth with a bump today as after a week of playing and enjoying little peeps at home, its back to work :(. Its not all bad though as I work in an awesome place and have missed my friends at work.

So a quick bloggy post before I go make the little peeps at work some playdough!!

These 2 cute little cards were made for a friend to give her niece and nephew on their very special christening day yesterday. Rubi is older than Jack so she needed a bit of a bigger girls card and my gorguss princess was perfect with her cuteness and teddy and Jack got one of my fav LOTV stamps!!

I am entering Jack's card in the LOTV challenge blogs Punch it up challenge. A bit of nestie-ing, martha and SU oval punchage are just perfect for their challenge!!!!!

And Rubi's card......

...should fit in just nicely with the Truly Scrumptious challenge blogs Summer sparkle challenge with the bling on her crown and those gorgeous summery papers from my 'stroke only' cupboard!!!!!!!

Well, thats me for this morning!!
Have a great day peeps and I will catch up with all your blogginess later when I get home!!!
Hugs Lou xxxxx

Paul Texting.....4 cards worth!!! romfl!!!

 Hello again peeps!!!
Another day of 2 posts!! I am blaming it on the children not wanting me much today though I did have to play referee for a bit when a zillion of them descended on my postage stamp sized garden!!!
(My little princesses' are in this post HERE if you are peeking for them!!!)

So this morning I treated myself to Mo Mannings 'Paul Texting', OMGosh, I love him!!! I have had so much fun creating a few cards with him today. He is just perfect for my nephews and I have even had to scrap the card I had already made for my nephew Warren, whose birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and make him a new one with Paul!!!
This is Warren's new birthday card.....

 My little Mo has asked for this one.....

...and this one I made using Jen's first sketch from her fabulous new Deconstructed Sketches challenge blog!!

(......yep, its the first weeks sketch but I am slow and trying hard to catch up!!!! romfl!!!)



The papers are from my stash and most of them are We are memory keepers ones, I love them, got them cheap in TK Maxx, they are called 'teenage angst' very old ones but awesome patterns!! They came in little packs of 10 papers. Some had embellies in and some had stamps, some had both, like this one! the foil border strip on Warren's card and the stamps on the bottom of  this last one were in the pack too, all for £1.00!!! bargain! but that was ages ago !!!!! the crafty bits in TK Maxx are not so good now :(

Right off to nom my pizza now!! promise not to post anymore tonight!!! lol!!

huge hugs lou xxxx

By royal decree...enjoy your birthday!!!

 Morning peeps!!!

Its a beautiful sunny day here today, so nice to see the sun and it is actually rather hot shining on my legs through the patio doors!!!!

Last night ( ...after falling asleep with mo and waking up at 9pm....!!) I decided to have some crafty fun in my crafty garage! I have 2 gorgeous nieces, Harriet and Lily, who both have their birthdays coming up really soon.

A little while ago I promised Harriet I would make her a purple princess card  and my super sweet little princess from Tiddly Inks ( her name is By Royal Decree)so Harriet's is the purple one. And Lily-boo's is the red one....

I made the sentiment in word so that it would be teeny enough to fit in my SU oval punch!! aren't they sweet?!!
Just perfect for my little princess's!!
So I had a fabulous birthday yesterday. I got spoilt with beautiful handmade cards. Unfortunately we didn't make it to the zoo, Little Mo is still a bit off it so we didn't want to walk him around the zoo all day in case it made him worse so Scott drove us to ikea for a bit of shopping instead. I knew what I wanted, 2 magnetic rails, one for my kitchen knives and one for my nesties!! here it is in working order......

cool!!! I wanted it because I am always forgetting which awesome nestie shapes I have and I just know I will use them oodles more now they are out on display, I am going to buy another strip soon as there are a couple more nestie sets I NEED!!!!!!!

I am on Aunty duty again today but only have 3 peeps in the house today, its funny though as the 3 I have today, 3 including Mo are missing their partners in crime, Ryan and Kenz who have gone somewhere else today and keep asking for them!!!! its so lovely how they all get on. So far today we have bathed the dog, hung out the washing and are just vegging a bit now!!

Have a great day peeps! huge hugs Lou xxxx

LOTV -I do believe in fairies!!

Hello again peeps!!!
( This is my second post of the day so if you are looking for my Tiddly Tuesday post, its Here!!)
I have just managed to drag myself out of bed after a fabby day with the little peeps and I wanted to get these 2 LOTV fairy cards posted for the LOTV challenge blogs I believe in fairies challenge this week.

Now, if you asked me today what my favourite crafting tool is, I would have to say Little Mo!!!! this is because when I was colouring in my little fairy this morning and Mo was lurking over my shoulder watching he asked me what I was making today. I told him it was a card for the I believe in fairies challenge and he said.....

 " oh mummy, its like my peter pan film where tink dies and Peter Pan and everybody say 'I do believe in fairies, I do, I do' until tink is all better again"

Well, I didn't need anymore inspiration  than that for my sentiment and asked Mo to write it for me...hence he is my best crafting tool ever! inspiration and cuteness in one little package!! (oh and if you haven't seen that live action film version of Peter Pan you so need too, its one of Mo's absolute favourites.... you don't want to know how many times we have watched it!!!!)

Then I printed out a few more yummy papers from my Funky Hand Colour Me Happy papercraft factory and made a blue one too ( ...Lou warns everybody that she coloured in 6 of these little fairies so there may be more LOTV posts over the next couple of days!!!!!!) she's so cute how could you not want to stamp oodles of her!!!!

I used my SU tiny tags stamp set and punch, my teeny papermania flower punches and a bit of martha on this one too!!!

I am popping these 2 little sweet flowery cards in for the spoonful of sugar challenge blogs 'Flower Power' challenge.

So thats me for today!!! I am going to snuggle up on the settee and watch 'just like heaven' with Reese Witherspoon in now ( I love a good old chick flick, seen it 6 times but still love it!!!!)

Its my birthday tomorrow and Scott, Mo and I are off to Twycross Zoo for my birthday treat. I am really looking forward to going, I love the Zoo and Mo adores it so its a winner of a day before we even get there!!!!!

Thankyou for popping in on me.
Hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks Challenge 52- Darling Diva!!

Image- Everyday Princess from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand.



Woohooooo!! its Tiddly Tuesday again peeps! so its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week we want to see your creations...

Fit for a Diva!!!

All you need to do to join in with us Tiddly Inkers is dig out one of your favourite Diva-ish Tiddly Inks images ( it must be a Tiddly inks image to join in please!!) and create away making any creation you liike fit for a Diva!!!

And don't forget to check out the new images over in the Tiddly Inks store, just incase there is a cool new Diva there to help you along in the challenge ;)

My little creation used the supercute Everyday Princess. I think she is fab!!!! I coloured her up all bright and zesty!!! and then teamed her up using some of the papers from Funky Hand's Colour Me Happy papercraft factory. This colourway is the Barbadian ecstasy one, isn't it cheery? love it!!

.... and the awesome word art that I downloaded ages ago from Bethany's blog. I knew when I saw it I would need it for a card for a little diva one day!!!! heres a close up of its diva-ness....

Can you all tell how much I love my new little Distezz-it-all gadget?!!! :) 

I am entering this little princess in the Cupcake Crafts Challenges blogs 'Zesty Colours' challenge this week, the colour combo is way too funky to pass up on!! I love it.Don't forget to check out their DT's cards if you fancy zesting up anything this week!!! I really really enjoyed their colour combo as it has been icky blurgh rain here for the last couple of days!

Right, I have 5 little people here today to entertain as I am on school holiday Aunty Lou duty!!! I love it, they all play together and have such a fabby day.

Have a great Tiddly Tuesday!!
hugs Lou xxxx

Craft show haul!!!!

Hello peeps!!

wow, I had an awesome day at the craft show. I had fun buying some new crafty stash and best of all caught up with some of my lovely friends who I haven't seen in a while which was so nice, love you all oodles xxxxx

Massive thanks to Fi for making me go, I loved it xxx

oh,oh oh and there on the oyster crafts stand was a little distrezz it all!! omg!! I am so excited about, going to try it out later!!!

And....my lovely Mrs. C found me these charms on one of the stalls!!! how absolutely awesome are they??!!!!

They must of known I was coming!!! romfl!!!! huge huge huge thanks to Mrs.C for the findy xxxxxxxxxxx

Right , off to soak my achey little feet and snuggle up with my little man ( ...who was extremely excited and pleased with his little charms Mrs. C and instantly pinched one and stuffed it in his pocket!!!)

Hugs Lou xxx

Me again!! pale pretty pastels, embossing and Things with wings!!

Papers-  Fairy Fae paper printed over some paper

 from Dreams come true from Funky Hand and

 recycled file folder for the kraft look!

I'm Back!!!!! two posts in one day?! go Lou!!
I have been working on this card for a friend for a little girl who is getting christened and it will just fit snuggly for a few challenges.
So this is my card for the Allsorts challenge blogs Things with wings challenge!! and the CES challenge blogs embossing challenge for this week and the Papertake weekly's pale pretty pastel colours challenge.
I have to thank my awesome bloggy and sir stampalot hotties Fleur, Louise and Lou for getting the umpf to post this card for these challenges.
They never fail to make me go oooooh and awwwwww with their creations and IRL they are awesome too!! love yah all xxxxxx

I used my little butterfly tilda., coloured up with promarkers in yummy pastel colours which were-
Skin- blush, peach and soft peach.
Hair-Buttercup, sandstone and caramel.
Top/wings- cocktail pink and pastel pink.
Trousers/wings- soft green and pastel green.
socks- soft green and pastel pink.
Shoes- sandstone.

I also used some crackle accents on her wings to get the veiny butterfly wing effect with some frayed burlap distress ink rubbed on top to make them show, looks fab IRL!!!

A much needed punched border of Martha stewart heart doily edge punching and a bit of cricutting for cutting hearts and tiny hearts embossing from my cuttlebug love language set, ripped bit and organza ribbon and hey presto, one gorgeous christening card!!! yey!!!!

Ok so I am going out to my mummy's house now and I promise not to post again today!!!!! LOL!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Fathers Day creating!! Do it with digi's challenge.

Image-Ticket to my Life from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Dreams Come True from Funky hand.

Morning peeps!!!
Well, we got up at 5am this morning. It is forecast rain but so far we have beautiful sunshine so I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will last a little while longer!! I have a few cards I need to take piccies of so yey for sunshine!!
I was playing around with paper last night (....like I always do!!!) and had these cute papers left over from another project. They are from my Dreams Come True papercraft factory cd from Funky Hand. I love this particular colourway, it is called Blue Magic ( oh and I love the way all the papers from it go together...I am pants at matching papers up!!!!) and you can never have enough blue papers with a house full of boys!!!!
The cute little boy image is Ticket to my Life....of course.... from Tiddly inks!!!! He is inspired by the grandson of my very special friend Shirley. He is so cute. I edited his ticket a little so that it would fit in with my fathers day card making frenzy I am having at the minute!!!
I am popping him in for the challenge over on the Do it with Digi's challenge blog whose challenge this week is "All about boys". I have never seen this challenge blog before but it looks awesome and being as I digi an awful lot I will definitely be popping back in on them!! Please pop over and check out their DT's lovely cards.

This card is another one for Gabby's wedding thanks!! she popped a last minute request in for her grandma who made the bridesmaids dresses and again, Tiddly Inks came to my rescue!!!I  teamed it up with a few papers from my Nitwits FBQ bear necessities download.It is sooo cute!!

Image- Sew some Love from Tiddly Inks.

Well, that's me for today. Mo and I are off to do some vegetable patch gardening today with my mum's neighbour and I am steadily working on my nerves to get myself to the sincerely yours papercrafts show at the lincolnshire showground tomorrow. I have been so looking forward to it! Anyone else going?!

Have a great saturday,
Huge hugs
Lou xxxxx