Tiddly Inks new release!! More Wryn's!!!!! wohooo!!

Image- Howdy Cowgirl Wryn.

Font- Bleeding Cowboys from Dafont

Promarkers- blush,sinkissed pink and coral-skin

sandstone,caramel and cocoa- browns

pastel blue,denim blue and midnight blue-denims

vanilla,putty and cinammon- hair

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!! there are new Wryn's over in the Tiddly Inks shop and omgosh you are going to love them!!!!! 

I have made a few cards with them so far but this morning I just had to share this super cute little Howdy Cowgirl Wryn! oooh I love her so much!! I had so much fun playing making this card!!! isn't she just the cutest ever?!!!! I love her little hobby horse!!

I popped her into a little text circle in word and then cut a nice big circle so that I could have some fun with a cardbase of cowgirly-ness!! :)
The card itself is 8x8 so there was plenty of room to have a good play around with space!!

The papers are from a huge stash I bought a few years ago from the kanban factory, they all went together so nicley. I added a little lasso in string and cut out some boot, sheriff stars and horse shoes from the scraps to make my embellies!!! I loved making this card so much!!
I am popping this little cutie over in the Free and easy challenge on the allsorts challenge blog.

So new Wryn's are in.......:) 

well here they are.... (and their piccies are of course linked to thier homes in the shop just to help you out a little :) :) I am sooo good to you all!!!!!!)

OMG!!! aren't they adorable????!! if I get chance to take a piccy I will be back later to show you my Heartfelt  Love Wryn card.

Right then off for a cuppa and Mo squishes!!! I am finally feeling a little more me today and not so sicky at all so thats great!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

why are you still reading.....quick go get those Wryn's :) :) :)ooxxoo

New Funky Hand release- I ♥ You.

 All papers and Images- I  ♥ You from Funky Hand.

Be my valentine sentiment- Betty Love 'n'that stamp set

Afternoon Peeps!!!!!

How are you all today?! we woke up to the most awesome snow day today!! I absolutely love snow! Mo, Holly and I were up and out of the door as fast as we could get out there!!!!

(Ahhhhhh, Happiness is walking the dog through the fields, with your little man by your side too, waffling away all things snowy and chattering away to God thanking him for a snowy play day. We walked back through our  estate and got home..............then I realised that in my excitement I had gotten Mo all togged up in his waterproofs, hat,gloves, wellies etc and I was still in my pj's.....:) romfl!!!)

So here's me, Mo and Holly! Scott took the picture as we returned from our walk!! well, it was fabulous fun even if anyone looking thought I was ever so strange!!!!

Awwwww,  look at Mo's happy face!! he is just about to snowball a poor unsuspecting Daddy!!! 

Anyway, enough Lou waffles!! I have super exciting news to share!!!!!!

Our gorgeous Anice,  from Funky Hand,  has been rushed off her poorly feet this week making you all a fabulous new download. Its called  I  ♥ You and it has 20 of the most awesome papers in, along with an alphas page and digis too!!! Here's a peek of it (....and in the name of enabling..if you click the piccy it will take you straight to the shop!!! believe me you neeeeeeeed this one!!)

I absolutely love it. The papers are perfick for valentines day but also everyday occasions. I have some favourites already, I adore the hearts paper on my card at the top and I love the squared paper that is on the birthday card below.....

And I love,love,love the stripes, digi and the little confetti hearts paper on this card....

I think I might drive you all bonkers with creations from this download because it is just such a funky and modern all rounder and I ♥ it!!!!!! :)

Right, off to colour in some new Wryn's from the amazing Christy Croll from Tiddly Inks now.....oooooh you will love them!!!!! they are toooooo cute!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge- Mermaids!

Image- Pearl from Tiddly Inks bargain basement!

Afternoon Peeps!!

How are you all this chilly, brrrr saturday?!! I am sick! granted I am feeling much better than I was last night when I was closely inspecting our toilet bowl but none the less I still feel rather icky blurgh!!

I had a burst of energy this morning which I spent taking my Holly dog for a quick walk. The vet said not to take her out for very long so a quick walk for us both was perfect. Then I spent 2 hours fast asleep whilst Mo and daddy went to the play area!

I have been itching to get my ATC done for the Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge blog and I printed out my gorgeous little Pearl from Tiddly Inks to help me out (...i actually printed 3 little mermaids out but only had the umpf to get this one done for now so hoping to get a couple more done before the challenge ends!!) I added a bit of blingy sparkley glamour dust to her tail and hat and did a few stamps of swirl around her. Her big juicy pearl is my waco pearl pen. I love it. You can make pearls as big/small as you like them just leave them to dry!! I added a teeny one to the paper flower I popped on her hat.

The sentiment is one of my magnolia stamps from my stash, it looks cute with a mermaid though!!

And just to make you all laugh your socks off, here is a piccy of me and Mo snuggled up watching Muppets in Manhattan this afternoon.

He decided he was poorly too and needed a kool strip on like mummy!! (..please excuse my sick girl smile!!!...and my top which is perching on top of my blanket and bringing out the best of me...:) lol!!)

Mo is pretending to be asleep!! romfl!!

Thankyou for popping in on me! 

huge hugs Lou xxx

Little Mo post!

 Morning Peeps!!

Ok, so we have a Little Mo post this morning!! I was so proud I had to take lots of piccies as he was going along!!! :)
Its Little Mo's teachers birthday today. When I got home from work last night Mo said they have been doing portraits at school and for Miss Cook's birthday he wanted to a do a portrait of her.
So he got out his canvas's and pencils.He always draws on his canvas's first which I think is a fab idea! he really took his time on this though and I think it has come out so beautifully.

 By the time he had gotten this pencil drawing done it was bath and bedtime so we had to leave it for the night. This morning as soon as he got up he wanted to finish it off as he needed to take it to school today, I have never seen him eat a crumpet so fast!!!! lol!!!
Painting was the job this morning so he got out his watercolours and got busy!! he asked for some help mixing the colour for the face as " I don't have the right pinky colour mummy"!

 A nice big brush and a blue background later and.......

 Here is Little Mo's teacher, Miss Cook!!

 I am so daftly proud of this painting! I love that he knows what he to do for a gift for someone without us having to give him ideas, I love that he prefers to make stuff rather than go buy it, I love that he sticks his little tongue out when he is busy concentrating and I absolutely love the cuteness in how nervous  he is to give his gift!! its so sweet.
And here's the little card he made for her on mummy's Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand...

Before he wrapped it I printed out these photographs and tied them together for her to keep. Mostly I do that because its cute but sometimes I do it because I am just amazed by how beautiful the things he makes are and the fact that sometimes I cannot believe he has actually sat and done them!!!! I don't know where his little love for painting comes from, I can't paint to save my life!!!!

Right off for work for me now. I am not feeling so well today...grrrrrr monthlies!! but I know keeping busy will keep me going!!!
Have a great day peeps!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 10- Pink, Red & White

Image- Frizzy Jynx from Krista Smith's saturated Canary

Hello peeps!!!!

How are ya'll today??!! great I hope. Its time for another challenge on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this time we have a colour challenge for you and its a cute one too, just perfect for those valentines creations!! so our challenge this time is....

Pink, Red and White.

I had fun with this one!! I printed my Frizzy Jynx at just 3" tall. (...Lou gets down on her knees and thanks letraset for fine tips for my promarkers!!!!) . I used my little Peek a Boo box from Adela's shop. I love this little box. 

I cut it out in white and then added a layer of red. I also added some little red die cut hearts from my love language cuttlebug die onto the handle. I cut out a couple of sentiments from the same die and put the 'love' across the perspex I had added to the circle cut out on the front of the box and hugs and kisses I popped on the inside.

I made a little bag of gummy hearts look cute and then popped them inside the box.

She looks so cute stood next to that little cut out and the flowers, I love her to bits!
Now it was sooooo dark and gloomy here yesterday when I was trying to take a photograph of this little cutie! so the bits that aren't showing up is the glitzy white glamour dust in the flower centre's and dotted all over the red layer on the front of the box, it looks really pretty IRL!! but can I get a photo....nooooooo!!!


The promarker colours I used on Frizzy Jynx are...
Skin- blush,soft peach and peach
Hair- vanilla,putty,caramel and cocoa
Top,bow and leggings-poppy and crimson and white sakura gel pen with red at you copic spica on the top.
Cardi and boots- pastel pink, cocktail pink and antique pink.

Please don't forget to pop over HERE to the Saturated Canary challenge blog and check out the other girls gorgeous creations too because they will make you  jaws drop!
huge hugs
Lou xxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 79- Special valentine!

Image- Silver Valentine from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Tail wags from Nitwit collections

Morning Peeps!!

Its that Tiddlying Time of the week again over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog!! and this week the Tiddly Inkers have set you a gorgeous challenge. I really enjoyed this one because it is about one of my favourite things........

Love!!!!

so all you need to do is grab your Tiddly Inks images and create a special valentine's card for someone you love, it can be anyone, your partner, son, daughter, Aunt, BF......Vin Diesel, Gerrard Butler, Edward, Jacob, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jnr........ :)

ooops, I think I got lost there a minute...:) back onto the card stuff......:)

I used the super adorable Silver Valentine for my card, she has the teensiest bit of colouring ever!! Iused my promarkers and she has cool grey 1 just on the inside lines and her cute little heart is poppy, crimson and cardinal red!!! 

I teamed her up with some nitwits papers. I made a layout for my card front and inside and made up a cute sentiment to go with her using my PSP and then merged silver onto the layout for the front of the card. I love this Tail Wags set, its got some gorgeous effects in it, check out the inside of the card below....

This card will be going to my little Holly dog for valentines day. She has had a really bad couple of nights and days with kennel cough :(  It started at 11:30pm on sunday night, poor little pickle. We got her to the vets asap yesterday morning and have got some antibiotics so I am hoping she will pick up a little bit today now they have been in her system for 24 hrs. I must admit to being very proud of her though as she was a star in the vets and even the vet thought she was lovely and said we had done so well to find her. He said she is around 3 years old which is lovely to know too.


Challenges I am entering with this card are...
Allsorts challenge - 1 or more hearts
Paper sundaes- valentine
The craft pad- show some love
one stitch at a time- Use a digi
The corrosive challenge blogs- I heart you

And....major squeeeeee....did you know this little gorgeous new little Wryn has been released today and I am a super proud mamma as my very own gorgeous Little Mo asked for this Wryn!! he had a few ideas and I sent them straight to Christy and Wryn and Mo- I love you most  is the result!! Mo absolutely adores this stamp and he has been doing a little happy dance around the room when he saw it on Christy's blog with a little mention for him!! bless him!! anyway..here she is......

She comes with the cutest sentiment too. 

So right now I am snuggled up with my little prince and my little princess. we are in complete routine denial and I feel like we could snuggle here for ages! Mo and I are plomped on Holly's bed with her!! its a lovely big bed and she has her head on Mo's knee and her paws on me!! Mornings like these totally rock!! Tonight I start my ALPHA course and I can't wait......though I am completely nervous of course !!!!


Don't forget to pop on over to see what the rest of those gorgeous Tiddly Inkers have been up to over on the challenge blog, they are just soooo good and all so loved up!!! :)


Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

A boy card.....!!

Evening peeps!!

Well, I was a chick on a mission this morning and I had a plan of craftiness......then the phonecalls started of people wanting to come and meet my gorgeous girly and ....yup crafty time went out the window...!!! awww but she is soooo worth it!! (...and might I add, she has had more visitors here today than I normally get in a whole year!!! he he he he!!!!) 

Once the Holly visitors had gone, we just had time for lunch before we all went to freeze ourselves silly watching Ryan play football...Little Mo and I had a cunning plan though...we would keep warm for the 2 hours of football by walking the gorgeous girl around the park across the road from Ryan's football pitch. Its called Hartsholme Park and is beautiful. We all loved it. Holly was an absolute star with all the other zillions of doggies enjoying a freezy sunday stroll and Little Mo was mezmorized by the mahoosive lake of frozen water with ducks, geese and seagulls walking across the top of it!!! we also caught the last 10 mins of Ryan's football match, which was a 7-1 win for Ryan's team so a perfick day for us all!!!

Anywhoo, onto my card!! I sneaked out to my craft room (...mmmm well, I say sneaked but I was followed by one Holly dog who kept me company by sprawling out to sleep on my craft room floor! it is so lovely to have some company out there at night agani since my beautiful Zaky went to sleep). 

I had printed out my stunning star paper. Its a Freebie from Anice at Funkyhand. She made it for the January Blues challenge and I absolutely love it! you can find a linky to it HERE

I had 2 challenges I really wanted to join in with. they were...

Lili's Little Fairies- masculine card challenge

FAS challenge blogs sketch 16.

Here's the sketch, I love it!

Does anyone else fear the 'boy cards'... I do, I am 100% pants at them so when I saw the awesome sketch over on FAS I was sooooo relieved!! I know I only needed to use the layout of it but those stars just inspired me completely ( thank you girlies xxxx)

I cut my stars out on my trusty cricut with a nice little shadow behind them and then stamped my little rope swinging boy straight onto the star shape. It looks so cute. I coloured him up with my promarkers and then stuck them all down onto my gorgeous starry blue paper. The little 'buttons' on the stars are made using a couple of card candies!! I just poked some thread through them with a needle. The little 'happy birthday' is from a LOTV too.

So I think thats me for today!! I am sooo sleepy after 2 huge walks with Holly but I feel really good for getting some proper exercise again!! I have lost 10lbs so far this month so I really needed a bit of an add to the daily routine to keep it all moving off!!!

Right off to watch Wild at Heart now!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Our new little girly- Holly

Ok, so I know she is not a card or something crafty but this is our beautiful new dog. She is a yellow lab and we got her from the rescue kennels. Little Mo has named her and she is called Holly.

They think she is between 2-5 but we will know more when we have taken her to the vets for a good check over next week.

She is so gentle and as I type she is snoring away after a busy day of walking, popping to pets at home for some spoiling and a new bed and toys, more walking and playing and to her disgruntlement ...a bath!! though to be very fair she was an absolute star once she had gotten into it!!

Here she is all sleepy and snory,bless her!! check out the polka dot collar!! I almost squeeed when I saw it!! I love me some polka dots! The little bunny is a toy she has carried everywhere with her since Claudia gave it to her this afternoon! cuuuute!!

So tomorrow I might be back with something crafty!! ...then again..this little lady is soooooo cute I might actually be doing a lot more playing!!! :)

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Wicked Wednesday ATC - fairy tales/ nursery rhymes.

 Image- Queen of Hearts from Krista Smith's Saturated Canary Digi's.

Paper- Nitwits FBQ Bear Necessities

Promarkers- blush, soft peach & peach

Chestnut, cinnamon & walnut

Antique pink,cocktail pink & pastel pink

Sandstone, caramel & burnt sienna

Pastel blue,denim blue,china blue & midnight blue

Evening Peeps!!

I have had a busy but lovely day at work today. Little Mo was tired out and fell asleep snoring as soon as we had had our bath so I pootled out to my crafty room and decided to get my ATC done for this weeks Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge. Its fairytales/nursery rhymes this week and I just had to use the gorgeous Queen of Hearts to do mine. I used to love this nursery rhyme when I was little, I was always bemused as to why the Queen was doing her own baking! I could never picture a Queen baking tarts!! lol !!

I was going to colour her red and then I decided I wanted to match her into the nitwits paper I had merged her onto. I cut my kraft card to 2.5"x3.5" and then trimmed my patterned paper with her on so a lovely edge of kraft would show. I am really enjoying a weekly pootle into ATC land so huge thank you's to Jenn and her fabby team for getting me going on them again! xxx

Here's a piccy so you can read the rhyme a bit better but I know you all know it off by heart really!!

Well that's me for today. I am going to snuggle up on the settee and watch Van Helsing now (mmmmm....Hugh Jackman.....) with Scott (....who is probably thinking mmmmm...kate beckinsale and Lady vampyres...!!) and have a lovely cuppa!!

thankyou for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Alice in wonderland!

 Images....Alice time for tea

Mad about you Madhatter

Papers.... Grunge Checker board

keys from Key paper set

Alice quote from good old google search!

Afternoon Peeps!!!

How are you all today? I am good! I have had a very productive morning!!

I cleaned out my craft desk ( 2 bags of rubbish later I was able to see the surface....3 bags later and there appeared my 8ft craft desk!!!) got 2 loads of washing done, sent a couple of emails, and made 3 cards!! go me!!!!

The card I am sharing today is the card I finished off this morning. I needed the glossy accents to dry on my "painting the roses red" roses (..Ha see ya'll are going to sing that all night now aren't you????!!) I loved that bit, they are my fav bit of the card along with the cute little 'made out of a cocktail stick' paintbrush!!

Here's a close up of their wet look red paintyness...:) love it!!!!

I am popping this card over on the challenge on papertake weekly this week which is Happy highlights. I just love how glossy accents changes the look of things, these roses still look drippy wet!!

The teacup on my card is a long gone freebie that Christy from Tiddly Inks gave us a while ago. I just cut a little slit and tucked the tag in, cute! I printed the grunge checkerboard paper straight onto my base and then everything else went on top of it.

This card is for my friend at work, I hope she likes it!!!

Well, I need to get Mo's tea in the oven now before I go fetch him from lego club, he always comes home sooo hungry when he's been at an afterschool club!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx