Deconstructed sketch challenge.

Image- Katrina from the Tiddly Inks bargain basement.

Paper- Key Paper Set, also from the Tiddly Inks basement

Morning peeps!!

This week Tiddly Inks is sponsoring our very own gorgeously talented Jen over on her sketch challenge blog, The Deconstructed Sketch, and I was super excited to join in (...gorgeous sketch and gorgeous images = total fun!!)

I chose an oldie but a goodie from the Tiddly Inks basement store to make my card with. She is called Katrina and I adore her. I teamed her up with the key paper set, also in the basement store and a complete bargain might I add!! :)

I was having a red hair moment again so out came the poppy, cardinal red and burgundy promarkers for some delicious red hair with a few white gel pen highlights, I lurve red hair. A couple of the girls at work have red hair like this and it looks so pretty.

I embossed a piece of vellum for the triangle with my cuttlebug script folder and then distressed it up some!! I coloured her dress in tan, caramel and cocoa to match the walnut stain distress inks in that I used on the key paper. I really like those bits on the paper that stick out where I cut around the keys.

A little line of pearls just finished it all off.

Please pop over to the Deconstructed Sketch blog and see what jen and her awesome DT have made to get you all going!!! and join in for the chance to win some Tiddly pennies!!

I am off to work now, tea is in the slow cooker so I don't need to worry cooking when I get home tonight, yey!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

The sketch file- october sketch.

Image-secrets ragamuffin friends from saturated canary.

Hello peeps!!

Its a quicky card and a quicky post from me this afternoon!!! I have totally got hump day feeling and am mostly vegging out on the settee with a crafty mag but I just had to have a super quick play at kathy's new sketch over on the sketch file and enter the Truly scrumptious challenge blogs Distressing challenge.

I was feeling experimental decided to go all out distressing with no colouring (...boy that was hard because I just wanted to colour those super cute little ragamuffin girls soooo bad!!) and screwed up my book pages and then distress inked them, punched out some scalloped circles from the pages too and inked them and made them into a yummy little corner flower. I very messily stamped my magnolia swirl around the card base (...yup, my little bloggy watermark is attempting to hide the bit where I was a bit too messy....)
and I scrumpled my ribbon on too. So in a nutshell I am as messy as my desk in my crafting today!! romfl!!!

Now if you fancy joining in with this gorgeous sketch challenge below I can magically ping you there with the click of a piccy...yep, the piccy below....

:) did ya'll ping yourselves there yet?!!!! I know Kathy and her teamies will be very pleased to see you if you do.

So messy me is off to get messy in the kitchen now and make some pasta bolognase  for tea tonight!!

huge hugsLou xxx

Getting a bit more saturated!!!!!

Image- Saturated canary

Papers- Christmas Joy by Mindy Terawasa

sentiment stamp- magnolia

Hello peeps!! me again!!!

I just had to share my quicky make of the day with this adorable digi from Krista over on Saturated Canary. Now this image isn't available in the shop yet. Krista made it specially for Tiets club members (thankyou Krista xx) and I am so proud to of been able to use it. Isn't she just beautiful? I think she is going to be released in a couple of weeks.

I decided that I wanted to use some non-traditional christmas colours so using Tiets sketch ( which might I add had all the measurements on it, thank you so much Tiets!!!) I made up my card base in some of the papers I bought a couple of months ago. I got them from the range and they have been my favourite christmas paper buy ever!!!

Then it was onto fun colouring time!!! I kept to the colours of my card base to colour her in so my promarker choices were pastel green and soft green, pastel pink and antique pink,tan and caramel. Her hair is vanilla, tan and caramel and her skin is blush, soft peach and peach. She has some little hints of white gel pen in there too!! 

I am entering this cutie into a couple of challenges. They are...

ces challenge blogs-totally gorjuss/pretty girls

paper sundaes- lots of layers

abc challenge blogs-anything goes

Thankyou for popping in on me, huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 67- Use paint on your projects!

Images-Time will tell, Steampunk sentiments mega pack

and Rainbow Forest from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!!

Yey!!! Its Tiddly tuesday again and its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

This week we want to see......

 PAINT on your creation 

it can be any kind (oil, watercolour, distress ink) or any technique - just paint on it!!! 

I decided my little art journal was just the right place to get painty and mixed up some blue metallic acrylic paint. I splodged it all over the pages and left it to dry (....for a couple of days!!!)


I stamped a whole lot of the clock faces from my SU sense of time set all over the pages in faded jeans distress ink. I printed out my Rainbow forest and coloured up my little Time will tell to match the forest! I love her little purple dress. When I had finished colouring them, I tore around the edges, added faded jeans ink to them and added them to my pages with some wet glue.


I did the same to my quote and glued that onto the pages, when they had dried I put crackle accents over them but can I get a good picture of it.....Nooooooo!!!! romfl!!!


Christy has been busy drawing up some christmas cuties and today this adorable little Lilli Claire is new to the shop...go get her..you know you want to!! :) if you click on her you will be magically pinged to her...

Tiddly Inks Terms Of Use

So I can't wait for you to go over to the challenge blog and check out the Tiddly Inkers gorgeous creations, there are so many ways to include paint on your project, then get our your tiddlies and get painting!!! and we have a gorgeous new Tiddly Inker too so go and leave pops some comments for me please because she is so talented and fabulous.


Huge Tiddly Hugs!!
Lou xxxxx

FAS challenge 8.......

 Image-Something Warm

Morning peeps!!
Oh I do love me a good sketchand the FAS girlies came up trumps with another cute and simples little sketch this week, sponsored by none other than the fabulous Tiddly Inks!
I couldn't decide whether I was in a christmassy or halloweeny mood so I made a christmas card and a little halloweeny memo pad.

Image- Frank boto from the robot holidays pack

Challenges I am popping these 2 Tiddly creations are......

Craft your Passion - Anything goes- for my little snowman
the secret crafter saturday halloween challenge- for my little frank boto memo book

And here's the sketch from the fabulous FAS bloggy, if you click it you will be magically pooter pinged there!!!

I told you it was a cute sketch and sooo much fun to play with too.
Right then off to get some paracetemol for my sore throat as the chocklit and hot cup of tea didn't work in making the pain go away........:) maybe i should try more chocklit???!!!!!
Huge monday hugs
Lou xxxx

Santa, ruddy and Mo!!

 Papers and card template- Craft the year away from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!!

phew, its been a weekend full of fun here in our house so not much crafty time but I wanted to share this cute little santa and ruddy cool mobile with you before you think I have disappeared!!!!!!

I made it using the car template and the 'How Old' papers on the craft the year away cd.All the little digi stamps are from the cd too so it was a lovely make to do.

Here's a view from the back...

And here is the reason we have been busy this weekend!! 

Yesterday was fimo fun day at our house and Mo beavered away making...

it was " a very serious modelling clay job mummy, I need to concentrate so you can't chatty with me for a zillion minutes" and here is the result of the seriousness....

And today we went to have a womble around the car boot sale and found a teepee tent for £15!!! we didn't actually realise just how big it was but I am sure I will enjoy the inch of garden I have left to sit in....:) Here  is little indian black paw sitting in his reservation....

Sorry for oodles of piccies but |I just had to share them!!! this little guy makes me so proud and gives mo so much inspiration when I do craft that a couple of days of just playing have been bliss.

Hope everyone is having a fabby sunny weekend like we have.

Huge hugs from me and the little indian xxxxxxx

Sugar and Spice and a totally sweet sale at Tiddly Inks!!

Image- angel spices halloween from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!! 
Just a quicky post from me before I go to work to tell you about Christy's totally sweet sale following the fabulous release of the sugar and spice girls just got a zillion times better!! as a thank you to you all Christy is adding a bit more sugar to the sale...here's words from Da Boss.....:)

"I decided to end the sale with a whamoooo! If you are in the mood for some Tiddlys, you have 12 hours to get 40% off all orders over $7...just enter the SUGARNSPICE code during checkout and viola!!! If you would like 40% off all orders over $7, you have from 7:00 central tonight until 7:00 AM when I wake up tomorrow morning....hope you have fun! :) "


So quick!!! click on the words from Da Boss to take you to the Tiddly Shoppe and go get your Tiddly on!!!!


Huge enabling hugs from Lou :) xxxx

saturated canary challenge 1 !!!

Image- Kitty from saturated canary

Hello peeps!!

Oh its a late bloggy from me tonight because I am feeling ack, blurgh, poop with the monthlies but I so wanted to have a go at the new Saturated Canary challenge blogs first challenge that I wombled out to my crafty garage (...please note how funny that looks after 2 co-codamols!!I look like a zombie!!!!!) and my nice hot wheaty bag and had a first go at the fabby sketch that Carissa has made.

I gave Kitty some nice autumny colours and the orange hair is to go a little bit halloween!!! In my dopey tablet induced wobbley colouring my black glaze pen splodged on the bow centre which I am not a 100% happy with but I loved the colours on the rest of her so i didn't want to cast her aside....not sure I even could, she's too cool!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and see what the awesomely talented DT have made, ooooh they will make you drool!!!! I love this sketch and I am so going to make a better go at it over the weekend when I will hopefully feel a bit better!!!!!

Right , off to wobble up to bed and try and get some sleep!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

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