So bootiful !!!

Image- Angel spices halloween from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Spooky Dookie from Funky Hand

Promarkers- Leaf green, pear green, olive green

burnt orange, honeycomb,cool greys1-5

sakura starburst pen

He he !!!!! 2 posts in one day!!!!! must be all that sunshine out there spurring me on!!!!

This fabby image is one of Tiddly inks new gothic sugar and spices and I lurve them all, soooo much!!! you can buy each one singly or get a pack of 4 together. I am a big lover of halloween so I just had to play with this one as soon as I got her. 

I coloured her up all spooky, I love how she is dressed up ready with her candy handbag ready to fill with sweets!!! and I love those orange boots!!

Then I distressed all my spooky dookie papers and the green card base. I used spiced marmalade and forest moss distress inks and then gave them a run through my distezz-it-all just to make sure they were definitely feeling distressed!!! romfl!!

I added some ribbon and card candie's too.

I am popping this little spooky creation in for these 2 challenges......

i love promarkers challenge 85-get distressing

my mums craft shop 'Dress up' challenge

Oooooh and I am super excited too because tomorrow the challenges start over on the Saturated canary art challenge blog. Krista has an awesome DT and even more awesome images so I can't wait to see what team canary have got up their sleeves to challenge us with!!!!! If you click on the piccy below it will take you to the challenge blog so get following and join in the fun tomorrow!!! 

Pootling out to my little crafty garage now to do a bit of this and that...not sure what yet but am sure I will find something to mess up and jane...if you are reading this..this is my craft desk as it looks right now......

 OOOOOOh my bad!!!!! that looks so much messier now I loaded the piccy........
but all is not lost....I have a little bit of space to carry on with what I was doing before bloggying today......

romfl!!!!! if its tidy I will never find anything................ :)  :)

Huge hugs for you all

Lou xxxxx

Lilac, nana and a black and white cat!!

Papers- Craft the year away from funky hand.

Morning peeps!!

how are you all today? great  I hope. its a fabulously sunny day here today and lovely and warm. Little Mo pootled off to school in his shorts again today (...so pleased I held off putting them in the loft!!) He has navy blue tank tops this year for school as he gets so hot, even when its cool he gets hot!! He looked really cute this morning!His parents evening last night went really nicely, I am so proud of him and so so very thankful for him going to an awesome school with even more awesome teaching team. I hope they all know how very much that means to parents and how safe it makes us feel knowing our children are with them? I hope so.

Ok, onto my card for today!! a friend at work asked me for a card for her nana's birthday. I wanted to make it have things that her nana liked and asked her for her nana's fav colour and anything she liked. She came back with lilac and a black and white cat, awwwww. Luckily I had this magnolia kitty that my BF stamped for me years 3 years ago!!!! I coloured it up  and added some little patches of white with my gel pen.

The lilac's and purples bit was easy. I chose 4 papers from the 'November Rain' colourway and printed them out, job done easy as they all co-ordinate with each other!! yey!!! I chose the tree's to add a touch of autumn, I love that tree paper!!

The 'nana' is cut on my cricut and then everything got silicone 'd on to make it pop out from the card a bit.

A nice sunny day = piccies taken outside !! I love the red bricks on my garage wall against the grass, it looks so pretty.

I'll be back in a minute with another new Tiddly Inks image!!! 

Hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 66- Acrylic!

Image-Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly inks.

 Morning peeps!!!

Its Tiddly tuesday again and that means time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.
The art journal challenge was so much fun and I loved looking at everyone's entries, wow!! they were awesome.
And so onto this week, us Tiddly inking gals want to see.....

 Acrylic

 this week on your projects. This means use acrylic anywhere on your creation (any acrylic will work---think acrylic albums, flowers, paint and even shrinky dinks count!!)
For mine I decided to make a little mini journal. I decided to use acrylic and some shrinky dink plastic too!! the acrylic was used for covers on the journal. here's a piccy of it laying down so you can see the acrylic a bit better!!

I embossed the acrylic with divine swirls and gave it a good rub with some alcohol inks to turn it a kind of sepia brown colour. I added a few pearls in the corner and stamped a sentiment that I tore out of its paper and then inked the edges of.
And here's a piccy of my Little Miss Sunshine all uncovered and cute!!! I coloured her up all autumnal as I am in season change mode now!!! :)

I ruffled up a bit of  lace too, I love it!!!
The pages inside the book are just plain old record cards, cut up and pretty-fied by me!!! he he he!! I stamped my magnolia swirl on and then distressed all the edges in my distrez- it- all ( oh how I love that machine!!!)

A good old bite and bind from my bind it all and the mini journal was ready!! yey!! The leaves are an inkadinkado stamp my BF got me last year, its so lovely and the leaves look beautiful in teeny shrinky dink size!! I attached them with little rings to the binding and then I had oodles of fun tying on fibres and ribbons through the binding.

So what will you make using your Tiddly Inks????? before you make a start pop over to the challenge blog and see what the other Tiddly Inkers have made (...WARNING>>>>they are all totally gorgeous and will make you need them!!!!!)


And whats even more exciting is that the new sugar and spice girls are in the shop too!!! and Christy has a special offer on them...

 15% off all orders for 36 hours. Just enter shopping code: SUGARNSPICE

and here is one of my creations!! 

Outside...

Inside...

Off to get the little man ready for school now!! its parents evening tonight so wish us luck!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Babycakes!!

Image- Babycakes from Saturated canary

Papers- Craft the year away from Funky Hand.

Morning....maybe afternoon actually peeps!!

Firstly, Thank you so much for your comments for Little Mo and his tutorial video!! he loved every one of them and felt so special, I cannot thank you all enough xxxxxxx

Well, I have had another eventful morning, won't bore you with too many details but lets just say men hiding in bushes when you walk the dog are quite scary but policeman are fab!!!!

I started this card yesterday morning....then we decided to clean out the bookshelves and the loft so Babycakes just sat there staring at me...awwwwww with those gorgeoous big blue eyes....awwwwwwwww

And after most distressing dog walk....which turned into walk dog home very fast (.... I feel so sorry my elderly Mr. Zaky!!!) I decided the best way to calm panic pants daft self down was to watch manic monday by the bangles on youtube and then print out some yummy papers and get on with making my babycakes card!!

I just couldn't wait to share the cuteness of this one! this card is for my friend at work who has just had Ella. (..Carrie if you are reading this....Look away girl!!!!!!) Carrie worked right up until 1 week before Ella was born, wow! in a nursery full time that is no mean feat so I think she was fab to manage that. There are a few of us signing it so there are some gorgeous pink pages inside to match the front!!

Baby cakes is coloured up with promarkers...colours are...

blush, peach and soft peach skin.

tan, caramel and cocoa- hair and clothes

antique pink and pastel pink clothes and boots.

I coloured my white satin ribbon with antique pink too to make sure it matched everything. The papers are all from the 'evening in june' colourway and I love the spots and linen effects together, just yummy.

Awwwwww, I just love her!!!!!!!!

Right, I am off to get some lunch and then go back out to my craft room as I have an order for a nana card to do!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me, I do love visitors!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Birthday sqaush book!!

 Morning Peeps!!

I am in the hot seat today over on Get Funky to get you all fired up and creating for the birthday fun challenge set by our lovely Jenny. See Jenny's post here for a few more details.
I decided to make a lovely little squash book using some of the wonderful papers and oodles of digi stamps from the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory.
here's the outside without its ribbon in the way, I love this flowery paper, its so bright and cheery.

 And here it is half un-sqaushed!!!! This was so much fun to make. If you need a bit of a tutorial on it, our very own gorgeous Kathy has HERE on her blog.

 Wow, all those digi stamps and sentiments and I still didn't even scratch the surface with just how many there is on the cd!!!

Please remember you need to include at least one Funky Hand paper or extra on your card entry, that could be a paper from any of our CDs, Original collections or Papercraft factory CDs, any of the loads of download collections that are available or Our Betty stamp images.  If you don't have any Funky Hand stash yet there is a Funky Freebie paper on the websitewww.funkyhand.com to help you out so you can still join in with us and have a chance of winning your choice of any Funky Hand download.


And if you need help on the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory, don't forget to have a quick peek at this tutorial from the lovely Little Mo!! I can't resist linking it again because its sooooo cute!! 


hugs Lou xxxx

Allsorts- Keep it simple and little Mo gets funky!!

Image- Peek a boo bugg from Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!!
I thought I would have a quick little make this afternoon to join in with the allsorts challenge blogs Keep it simple challenge.
I bet you all thought I had plopped off the planet with no bloggy posts for a couple of days!! ha ha ha!! was giving ya'll a break!!!!
and onto Allsorts......

First I used the cute little pumpkin freebie Christy made a long time ago along with peek a boo bugg to make this cute little halloween card, awwwww!!! I am hoping it is CAS enough!!! I never know where to stop with CAS!!!  the truth is, I wasn't too sure so I spent 5 mins making this one too......

Image- Stand out in the crowd from Tiddly Inks.

Word art from Donna's blog

This afternoon Little Mo had a request for mummy and daddy to make something special and he did!!!

There is another post from Little Mo himself in just below this one,so please pop and have a look and leave the little guy some comments!! he will love reading them!!!!

 * Little Edit- Mo's post is HERE*

Huge huggies!!

Lou xxxx

Little Mo gets Funky!! a video tutorial for the little funky peeps out there!!

Now onto Little Mo!!

We have been very busy this afternoon as little mo decided he wanted to make something!! it is very cute and   he was so funny while he was doing it!!!! he loves making video's ( normally about skateboarding!!!) but after watching Anice's video on the cake box on the Funky Hand Happy Happy birthday cd he decided that today he needed to make a video for the little peeps out there!!! and here he is......(you might need to turn your volume up a little as he is a bit quiet!!)


Awwwwwww, too funny!!!!

Anyway, I am off to go and see what he is up to now, he was last seen filling up our wheelbarrow with our spare bricks (... from doing the garage 7 years ago! seriously if you have bricks and little boys of age 6 there is nothing more exciting than 'real lego bricks' as he calls them) pootling on out to the front lawn!!!

Huge hugs Lou .....and not forgetting Little Mo of course!!!! xxxxxx

Fetch a Sketch challenge 7

Image- Mr Roboto multi pack from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Rainbow Polka Dots from Funky Hand.

Sketch used- Fetch a Sketch

Morning peeps!!!

This morning I decided to have a quick go at the Fetch a sketch challenge blogs new sketch, its lovely isn't it? if you click on the piccy you will be magically transported off to the blog where Ruth, Jenny and Fliss have been busy with some gorgeous cards already.

I used some more funky scraps (good girl Lou!!) to cover a little card blank and a little frank boto from Tiddly inks that I coloured up last year whilst in the full Halloween makes and he must of gotten lost as I found him this morning in my funky scraps!!!!! they were obviously destined to be together!! :)

The little banners at the top are from the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory but I wanted them to look poppy outy so I cut them off the string they are drawn on and put them on some real string with my hot glue (...yeah... I know any excuse to use the hot glue gun, but it was fun!!!!!) the little BOO!sentiment is from my SU tiny tags stamp set, punched out with the SU treasury tag punch.

I am pleased to report no disasters today!!!.....so far. I did have a teeny falling out with the new printer though and Scott put it back into the box......However...after spending an hour trailing the internet for another this morning I am thinking that the new one I got really isn't too bad so I am giving it a reprieve tonight I think!!

Anywhoo, I am starving so off to get some roasted veg cous cous. Don't forget to pop over and join in with the new sketch over on FAS

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Adela's 3D hanging basket challenge.

 Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

stamp- from my critters birthday penny black set.

sentiment- from my wonderful day penny black set!!

***This is my 2nd post for today so if you want to have a nosey at my spooky 

journal page too, its HERE***

Hello again peeps!!

I am just having a little relax on my settee with my laptop and thought I would share my little hanging basket I made for Adela's 3D challenge this week and the papertake weekly blogs creature comforts challenge  as I have had a bit of a morning ...............

Little mo wanted to take zakky to school so we got ready, got the dog in the car ( have to lift him in because he is old!) half way to school ( its 4 miles away) Little Mo pipes up with..
"EEEEEuuuwwwww mummy, it smells of roasted zakky poo in here"
to which mummy says...
"yes, its zakky's old doggy breath poppet"
to which Little Mo says...
" o-oh, no it isn't mummy, its a big zakky poo "

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! thank goodness we have a totally old car and leather seats, the whiff was not pleasant though so Mo and I were the only people in a car with the windows wide open when it was tipping it down with rain! get home, clean car, cuppa......ahhhh all calm.
Then go out to print of some funky papers for a 3d challenge I like to have a go at, printer worked fine yesterday but today nope, luckily have dig in funky scrapbook, ( I keep all my funky scraps in one of those plastic folder thingies with lots of  plastic pages) have a sheet of double sided funkiness from a couple of weeks ago, use that,phew!! 

Then delivery man comes to deliver new printer,happy happy Lou, jumps up from chair in craft room....slips over Mo's twig (that needed putting near my door to keep me safe from aliens....?? ........bless him.....  ) and straight onto big butt!!!

Anyway........Heres a piccy of whats inside the hanging basket  ( .....which I may need to eat to make self feel better....)

So I am ever hopeful of a more peaceful and uneventful afternoon........ keep your fingers crossed for me please!!!!!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

My spooky journal page!!

 Images- Batty, Tree's and moon from the twisted Tree set, 

Kids and Teachers quotes , Spider web and heart that I think was a freebie once..

oh and a cute little mo....sadly he is not for sale...!! :)

Morning peeps!!!

Over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog we are having a special Tiddly Inks 2 week journalling challenge. I have really been trying hard getting to do a page a week at least in my new little art journal and on sunday Mo and I were pootling about mixing paint for fun, he had been doing it at school and wanted to show me how to make orange. It was so much fun!
So I 'borrowed' some of his orange before he used it all and got him to squeeze in some of my gold shimmery acrylic paint, oh wow!! he thought that was magic!!!
And I splodged it on my journal pages with great gusto!! Love a bit of mess!!!! Then I had to leave it to dry.....
And here's Batty doing her spooky thang in her spooky twisty tree wood!!!!

 And here is my super cute little Harry Potter on our doorstep last halloween (...please excuse the crackle glaze refusing to have its piccy taken over Mo, it looks lovely IRL but I just can't get a good piccy of it, grrrrrrrrr!!)We absolutely love halloween in our house and decorate outside the house every year. We go for a spooky walk and trick or treat with friends and then Mo spends the rest of the night looking out the window for trick or treaters to give sweets too, he loves it.

I love the little quote Christy popped in the kids and teachers quote pack and I just had to include it on the page. It is so true and just lovely.

My relationship with journal pages is getting a bit better now as I keep trying!! this one has also got my fav magnolia swirl stamp on it and an Ugly Bug spider web in black and clear embossing, oh I wish you could see the orange glimmery paint as well as I can while it is sat on the table here nest to me in the sunshine, it looks gorgeous!!!!!

Right must go and get a little man for school and then when I get back I am going to greet my ironing pile with a huge smile........as I wave at it when I walk past it to my craft room :) :) :) lol !!!!

Huge Hugs Lou xxxx