Pirate Captain Ginger!!

Morning Peeps!!

he he he he!! I know its not paper related but I so had to share my pirate gingerbread man I made last week while I was on Aunty duty!!!! ( on it again today so wonder what the little peeps will fancy doing today?!)


We made a whole batch of gingerbread, cut them out, cooked them and then let it cool. Once they were cool I set the children free with icing pens and sprinkles of many different varieties!! but of course the temptation to do one myself got too great and I had to get making one myself. I asked Mo what I should make and he said a pirate...gulp!! but in the end he turned out real cute!!........then Mo ate him!!!! so pleased I got a piccy first before his quick and swift departure!!!!!

Right better get my self dressed and ready to go pick up Jake and Boo.

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Get Funky - Thank you challenge!!

Morning  Peeps!!

Now before I carry on and waffle away to you a little about my makes for our very own Anice's Thank you challenge over on Get Funky, I have 2 very special words to say.......or scream......:)

 Its a perfect time then to get your hands on some Funky goodies!!! I loooove a sale!!!

So onto my makes! My little card you can see at the top was such a CAS make but I think its so cute! I have a 3x3 card obsession at the minute! and the matching wine bottle tag came about because I thought the bottle would look fab with a bit of decoration!!! the yummy thick coloured rafia was a range find just before christmas and I love it. the zingy green and peach tie in so nicely with the freebie paper.

Don't worry if you don't have any Funky Hand downloads yet because Anice has made an awesome  Funky 15th Freebie  and it is available here  it's gorgeous!!! I used it on all of my makes and I think its fair to say I may be addicted to it!!!!! I adore the variation of letters and bright, warm funky springy colours so don't miss it and if you do grab it, don't forget to share what you make with it in our challenge this month over on Get Funky. If you need a bit of inspiration some of the funkette's have already got their thank you thang on so go see what they made!!

I have already been pootling about in my crafty garage over christmas. Daddy and Mo were busy doing boy stuff so I pootled on out and have been playing with paper!!!! they are top secret makes at the minute but I will be sharing them in the new year!!! 

Right then, its off for a cuppa and a good old bloggy womble for me now!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Paper star ornament!!

 Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine boxing day?! I am still full to the brim of yesterday's yummy food!!

Yesterday while Little Mo and Daddy were doing ' boys stuff ' investigating Mo's new golf clubs and bag I decided to have a little bloggy womble and play with paper!!
I just had to have a good play with the gorgeous funky freebie Anice made for this months Get Funky Thank you challenge, its my day to post on the challenge blog with some other makes tomorrow but I just had to share this little decoration today.

The tutorial for this paper star decoration is here on Dawn's Stamping blog. I love Dawn, she is so cheery and bubbly and makes really superb tutorial video's (...tutorials have to be easy to follow for a noodle brain like me!!!) 
I love the surprise of this little paper star and the way it starts off as a teeny 1.5 inch square when its all folded up!! I love it!!

I used a scrap of paper from my Funky hand paper folder to make the little 1.5" cover and one of the stamps in my SU pennants stamp set. I love this for a christmas present thank you! everyone still has their tree's up so it will be a lovely add on to my mum's tree later when we give it to her!! and because it is made with such a bright, cheery paper she can hang it anywhere once the tree comes down.

It doesn't stay that teeny of course!! it pops out into this beautiful decoration below.....

I added a little epoxy button to my organza ribbon. It is what slides up and down to hold the star teeny and then formed, go peek at Dawn's video and have a go yourself because they totally rock!! very relaxing for a boxing day make too!!! and of course if you use the funky freebie you can come play along in the challenge with us over on Get Funky!!!

Cuppa and sausage bap time for me now!!!! I will be back tomorrow with my Get Funky makes!!
 huge hugs Lou xxxx

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

He he he he!!! took this piccy of Mo at my mums yesterday so what better way to wish you all a merry christmas??!!!

huge hugs and love for a very special day for you all,

Love Lou ...and Mo!!!

The last christmas card !!

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine christmas eve? I am so excited for chrimbles and have a very excited little mo this morning!! I have a stinky head cold but nothing that a few fererro rochers and cups of tea won't cure ;) !!

We are just about organised, Mo and I decorated the cake this morning and we have done to nip to tesco for veg for dinner tomorrow and were the only people in our village's tesco express so it was all done in 10 mins!! yey!!!!

So onto the very last chrimbley card I will be making this year!!! I am popping it over in the challenge on papertake weekly- Last Christmas card of the year- in celebration!!!! lol !!

 I don't think I have ever been as behind with cards as I have been this year!! I always promise myself I will be more organised with them but seem to get worse instead of better!!! he he he he!!!!

Anywhoo!! I finally inked up the little LOTV stamp I bought in november and coloured it up with my promarkers:

reds- cardinal red and crimson

greens- pear grean and olive green

browns- sandstone, caramel and pastel beige.

so I am popping it in the challenge over on I love promarkers which is Anything Goes. 

And here's a piccy of Mo's cake decorating!! I made some snowflakes with one of Mo's playdough cutters and we added them to the corners and centre!! that stunning looking thing in the middle is a fountain candle and omg they are fab!! (...it was only right to test run one to see what they are like and you should of hear Mo's excited little gigglies as it went!!)

I want to wish you all a very very merry christmas and I am sending huge cyber hugs to you all from me and Little Mo

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Mo and Mummy post!!

Hello Peeps!

I love the holidays. I am absolutely loving a few days with my little man at home with me and having some Mummy and Mo time.

Today we had a party to go to for 2 of Mo's little friends. Mo asked me to make them notepads for their presents and he would do the cards so we have been working on them for a couple of days. I chose the miniworld sitting tilda because she is just gorgeous. The papers are from my DCWV nana's nursery girl stack and the stickers are from my stash. (Sorry about the piccy too! it was all a bit of a rush by  the time we took piccies so I only took one and didn't realise it was a bit blurry until now!!!)
Mo chose 2 bic 4 colour pens for the girls too to go with their notepads so I added a bit of ribbon and bling and their initials shrinkied onto those but I forgot to take piccies of them!!!

There were a few little frightened tears this morning about going to the party but he still wanted to go and it was the most wonderful party with a fabulous entertainer called Mr. Shiney, he was just amazing and the children loved him!

Anyway, onto the good bit....Here are Mo's cards...... front...

and back.....

He headed straight for the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory from Funky Hand to make his cards. I love how he did it, it was actually a rather fab idea and I was so proud of him for working it all out :) 

He decided he wanted..in his words...

 "to write on the back of his card like in the shops and have the front on all in one go Mummy"

So he got one of our christmas cards and opened it up on the table. Then after looking at it for a couple of minutes he plonked 2 patterns from the Birthday Girls colourway onto the workspace, shrunk them so he could fit 2 on one page and added a few digi's to the front..cute!! 

Then ( and  I have to admit I thought this next bit was magical bless him!!) he opened the writer part of the workspace and used the label writing to write 'made by morgan 2011' I asked him why he wrote Morgan instead of Mo and he said thats what the twins call him so he wanted to do that for them (...awwwww!!) he dragged in onto both cards and left it where he wanted it to be at the bottom, then he added one of the coloured birthday cake digi's onto the back too. I love these cards!!

Just as we were getting changed into party clothes Mo decided he needed a little notepad for Ruby too ( the twins little sister) as she might be sad of not getting one (...arghhhhhh, 10 minute make was quickly put together and a little pencil too, but no time to take piccies of that one!!!)

Well that's all from me and my little squidger today. We are going to snuggle up and watch a film now whilst our slow cooker cooks our tea (...after planning chicken casserole Mo decided a sausage casserole would be nicer!!!)

Thankyou for popping in on me, huge hugs

Lou xxxx

Rudolph boto chrimbles!!

Image - Robot Holidays from Tiddly Inks.

Paper - Twelve Crafters Crafting from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!!!

How are you all this frosty, chilly morning? Little Mo and I are up, dressed and ready for breakfast with Sophia, then when we have dropped her off to her nursery we are off to fetch my niece and nephew, Mo is soooooo excited!! he loves having them here and has got a lovely little party lunch all planned out along with some crafty bits he wants to do so it will be such a lovely day.

I have a little 3x3 card to share again today. I love this card so much, Rudolph Boto is the cutest and the texty paper from Funky Hand looks so awesome behind him. I added a squidgey little martha drippy goo border for snow and added a little bling to his nose. At 3x3 these cards were seriously cute and I nearly hid them in a draw to keep!!!!! :) :) ....though Mo found them and stole one!!!!

So what are you all up to today? Somewhere in between all the running around after my little peeps today I need to finish off 2 altered notebooks that Mo ordered for his little friends tomorrow and make some family christmas cards (...yup...I still haven't done them.....!!)

Have a fabby day peeps and thankyou for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Allsorts Blue and Brown challenge

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand

gardeners twine

glamour dust

hearts cut on my cricut

snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder

blue bling!!

The challenge over on allsorts challenge blog for the next 2 weeks is Blue and Brown. I love blue and brown and one of my favourite Funky Hand downloads has blue and brown in such a perfect mix that I just had to use that to make chrimble cards for all my friends at work.
I am also popping it in the cupcake craft challenge blogs--dont look at light challenge .

I printed out 2 of the papers from my download. The texted paper is brown with blue and black merry christmas written all over it and I love it! the paper on the heart is brown with a snowflake design on it, I embossed the hearts with my cuttlebug snowflakes folder just to add a bit of umpf!!

I added a sprinkling of glamour dust around the edges of my merry chrsitmas paper and then adhered it to my card. The twine around the centre is just gardeners twine from the garden centre. its quite a thick one because I like to 'fluff' the ends of my knots a bit!!!(...he he he! makes them all frayed and fuzzy like me!!!!!!)

I popped the finished hearts out on foam and added a little blue blingy gem to the top corner of them. These cards are so cute because they are just tiddly 3x3 size!

Right off to get on with some notebooks Little Mo has requested for his 2 friends at school for their birthday on tuesday. He is trying to get himself brave enough to go to the party so please keep your fingers crossed for him that he manages it as he gets so nervous about parties bless him!!

Thankyou for popping in on me!

huge sunday hugs Lou xxxx 

Tilda mini wreath hanging decoration.

Hello Peeps!!
I promise I haven't disappeared!! I have been soaking up some time with my Little Mo and I have been loving it!! I can't wait to have some days now without the hustle bustle of the school run!!

So, today I wanted to share a little hanging decoration I have made. The challenge over on the TOMIC blog this week is christmas decoration so it seemed like a perfick time to share this little cutie!! I went for the traditional chrimble colours for this one and used some pine branches that I bought from the range (...could I find anymore after making 10 little wreaths??....noooooooo!! grrrr!!)


I used my hot glue gun for attaching some cute teeny jinlgy bells and tilda herself along with the sentiment at the top and I love these little hanging decorations, they are so christmassy and cheery.

Mo's cousins's are coming for the day on monday and he is soooo excited! he bought some party food today so they can have a little party lunch!! cute!!

Right off to bath my little squidger now as he is so tired from a busy couple of days that he is nodding off on the settee as I type!! its a hard life being 7 you know!!!!!! romfl !!!!

Huge hugs and thankyou for popping in on me
Lou xxxx

Birthday Boy Mo!!!

Morning Peeps!!

Its Mo's Birthday!!!

Our little baby is 7 years old today!! I can't believe how quickly the time has zoomed away!!

Super quicky post from me this morning as we have had a fun filled morning of opening pressies and making birthday badges for this super cute little guy!!! but I had to share a quick piccy of the birthday boy!!

His fabby badge was made with my plantin cart on my cricut and a good old bit of bling!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx