Tiddly Inks challenge 88- lets celebrate fathers day!!

Image- Ricky Fishing Expert from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!!
yey!! its that Tiddlying time of week agaon!! wohoooo Tiddly Tuesday!!! 
and  over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we have a new challenge for you this week and its an awesome one! the tiddly inkers want to see ...

Fathers Day...

so anything manly really to celebrate those awesome men out there.

I chose Ricky and a good old stair step card. I love this style of card and its perfect for men because you get a yummy effect without flowers!!! he he he he!!! I just added a bit of raffia, a little fishy charm and some loopy punched borders.

I made the sentiment on my pooter. Here's a little bit of a side view of the card.

Ricky is coloured up with promarkers and a touch of stardust sakura pen on his catch of the day!! I think he is just perfect for a fathers day card and he is soooooo cute. Mo was super happy when he these new ones as his Grandad gave him an old fishing rod a few weeks ago...However Mo decided that one big one was a bit silly and promptly took it apart to make 3 fishing rods.....amazing what a ball of string can do!!!!! here. He keeps them lined up on the wall incase "the weather is good for fishing"......which generally means when some leaves...sorry Fish...have plomped into his paddling pool and "need to be caught"....


I am popping Ricky in a couple of challenges too, they are....

Love to Create: Father's Day or a Special Guy in your Life

Here Come the Boys: Anything Goes

Last night Scott and I sat and watched the Royal Jubilee Concert and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it so emotional and what I love even more is that Mo is already singing happily away to the commonwealth song by Gary Barlow and Army Wives 'Sing'. He knows how to find it on youtube and loves it!! I really rather love it too....nothing to do with Gary Barlow of course.....:)

Today we are off out to Belton House in Grantham so Mo can check out the new indoor play area they have made. He loves it at Belton House but the indoor play area only opened last week and he is rather keen to "give it a go"!!!!

So before I pootle off to make picnic lunch, don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and check out my awesome Tiddly Inking Pals creations and then grab a manly Tiddly image and join in. You must use a Tiddly Inks image to be in with the chance to win!!

Right then!! off I pop!!! have a great day everyone and super huge hugs for popping in on me and all your lovely comments that keep me going xxxxxxxxx

huge hugs Lou xxx

Fairy for Fetch A Sketch 25 midway....

Image- Sitting Fairy from Jelly Park.

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!we are midway over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog with challenge 25!  and heres a little reminder of the sketch we have been using this fortnight.....

You can flip the sketch, rotate the sketch, resize it and make any type of project you like with it - as long as we can see the original sketch in your creation we'll be happy!

This challenge our sponsors  are the wonderful Jellypark and the very funky Funky Hand!  There will be two prizes, for two winners - two Jellypark digi images and a download from Funky Hand!  Thank you to both our sponsors!  To have a browse through the stores, just click on the banners below:

  

Jelly Park are having a Jubilee sale too and the digi prices are just awesome!! you can pick this little fairy up for just 60p!!! wooohhooooo!!

I really love the paper I used on this one and I use it oodles, its just such a nice colour with a splah of pink in the dots to make it pop. The flower is made with one of my sizzix dies and the swooshy swirls are too.

We have another day of vegging out planned today. Yesterday we popped to ikea and I bought myself some little pots and a board to pop them onto so we might put that up but most exciting yesterday was watching the jubilee floatilla on the television! Mo loved the rowing boats section and he was amazed by how many there were!! and wow the Queen looked fabulous. 

So don't forget to pop on over to the FAS challenge blog and join in with the fun!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

The little things.....

Stamp- The little things from LOTV

Papers- Wishes & Kisses from Funky Hand

Hello Peeps!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful saturday. I have been busy making Mo a little base for his soldiers this morning and I wanted to share my other explosion box make with you using the new cd from FunkyHand. 

I absolutely adore this explosion box template!!! it is the perfect size for tucking in 2 cute little LOTV peeps!!!

This particular one is an anniversary card for my friend to give to her hubby on their first anniversary which is on monday. Heres a few piccies!!! please excuse my classy rubber band to hold up the layers!!! romfl!!!

...and here it is all tucked up and waiting to surprise someone!!!

I am popping my little explosion box in the challenge over on Lili's Little Fairies- which is Anything Goes

Just sometimes my world jumps up and bites me hard on the butt, today was one of those days :( I was supposed to be at a BBQ today with some of my family, I was really looking forward to some family time. I suffer terribly with my nerves and a few strangers started arriving which set me on edge. I tried my best to wait until my Grandad arrived but pretty much as he did so did more strangers and I started to feel sick, then the agitated feeling started and dopey me ended up worrying, got myself all dafty Lou and we came home. I have spent my afternoon in the house  crying and would make a totally awesome panda bear should anyone need one for a zoo! so if you know anyone out there who suffers with their nerves like I do just please give them a huge hug because there are times when I just cannot fathom out why I get this way.

Tomorrow will be a better day. Thank you so much for popping in on me and reading my waffles!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little backyard general book mark!!

Image- BackYard General from Saturated Canary Digi's

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are all ready for a fabulous friday!! My house is full of excitement as it is my birthday and Little Mo is having a little jubilee party at school this afternoon! he woke up at 4am raring to go!!!!...though it wasn't too bad as I went to bed at 7pm last night and didn't wake until 3:45am this morning!!! When I get home from work tonight we are going to order a pizza and get it delivered, which is a huge treat!!

I wanted to share the latest book mark I have made for Mo. He loves this little soldier guy as he is a big playing with his little plastic soldiers kinda guy!!! we find them 'on lookout' in all kinds of places...airing cupboard, in the garden, on my craft desk....in the crafty things I make...kinda all over really so I decided he needed a BackYard General on this one.

(Bit of a blurry piccy as he is all shiny!!!)

Last sunday I had an awesome morning with my mum and my big sister plodding around the sincerely yours craft show in Lincoln. Whilst wombling around we found an awesome decopatch stall called Farmhouse Chicken, heres their ebay store. Oh my gosh!!! the stall had loads more than there is listed in the shop at the moment, you should of seen all the awesome things you can decopatch!!! it was full of gorgeous completed projects too! anywhoo, mum got Mo a dinosaur which he has happily been pootling on with over this last week, (it still isn't finished but when it is I will post it!!!!) There is tonnes of paper left in the 5 we chose in the pack so I 'borrowed' some to make Mo a new bookmark!! I added a little strip of netting too that I coloured in to match with the same promarkers I coloured him in with.

Best of all, its all covered with the glue which gives a waterproof finish! Mo loved this one!! he loved the way the decopatch papers looked like camouflage!! He also adored the 'from' and 'to' tags I cut from my cricut basecamp cart. He always asks " where did I read from mumma?" and then follows with " and I gotto page..." then he will put his fingers in each page and see how much of a 'chunk' of book he read!!  its so funny!!

Here's a 'pens used' piccy!!!!

And talking of cute little guys...here he is in the t-shirt he made for his jubilee party today!!!

And here's a close up of the puffy painting union jack he did. It took him ages and he asked me to do the teeny bit of blue on the left top as he was scared he would go into the white!!! I love how he wrote Mo underneath it!! I pencilled on a rectangle shape and left him to it! the glittery puffy paints were so cool!! and on a cheap white t-shirt they made a super fun activity!!

 Right then, thats it from me for today!! I am off to have a cuppa and get dressed ready for work.
Thank you for popping in on me.
huge hugglies
Lou xxxx

Wishes & Kisses...the new Funky Hand cd....

 Morning Peeps!!
wohooooooo!!! its here!! the release day for the awesome new  'Wishes &Kisses' cd rom from Funky Hand. 

I know I say it everytime but oooooooh this one is amazing!! I have had so much fun playing with it this week!! there will be some more peeks of it over the weekend but today I wanted to share this explosion box. I have been pottling along doing some makes with the 'You're Engaged' colourway, its gorgeous!! Just my cup of tea with a mix of cheery colours. I LOVE that spotty rocky looking paper!! its so cute!!! think it might be my fav!!


And here's the box open...look at those cute little love birds!!! they are made from one of the aswesome digi's in the workspace. I made them a little love nest to snuggle up in and attached their heart to some acetate so it made a little arch over them. I have 2 more of these cute little boxes on the go at the moment!! its such a fabulous template, print,click,glue job done :) the 'love' 'forever' and champagne glasses are also digi's from the workspace.

And here's a close up of the little birds!! I printed them twice so I could puff out a layer with some silicone.

So...quick what you waiting for!! go order it!!! lol!!! and check out the gallery to see what my other delicious funkette buddies have been busy making too, they are awesome!! the gallery of pictures for the cd is located at the centre of its info page HERE.
Well, its a work day for me today so I had better get my butt into gear as I have a fluffy princess to walk and pack ups to make!!!


Thank you for popping in on me!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

A jubilee card for my little Mo ...

Image-Stand to attention- from Lilyboo Designs digi stamps

Sentiment circle-Kim's 12 circle sentiments- from Cuddly Buddly

Morning Peeps!

its another deliciously lovely day here in little old lincoln, there are showers forecast a little later but I don't mind them at all because we have been so spoilt by such wonderful weather this week.

My little Mo has also been having an exciting week at school, (...even thought there were the itchy scratchy days, he has had fun!!!) They have been making things and getting ready for a jubilee celebration at school on friday and each day he has come home to share what he has done and keeps telling me how excited he is for the jubilee!!! its so lovely that he feels this way so I just had to get busy on a boy themed jubilee card....and thank goodness for big sisters who can draw because a few weeks ago my big sis released her London digi's!! this little guard and his hut were in the new releases and he was just perfect. They come together so I did a little magic pen-ing in my photoshop and merged him in from of his hut.

The papers are the FBQ- Tour of London from nitwits set that Debs made me buy....romfl!! and that cute little sentiment is from a sheet with a whole lot of other sentiments made by Kim over on Cuddly Buddly. I cut it out and then added a shadow of red with my nesties. The little heart under the ribbon is a martha stewart one.

I would like to enter this little guy over on the challenge over on Dies to Die for blog- Anything Goes with a die cut.

Now super exciting news for me!!! after my little waving the flag card I shared on monday I got an email from Kim asking me to join the DT team for Cuddly Buddly!! how excited am I?!! I cannot tell you how many lovely things have happened to me over the last couple of months that are crafty related and all your awesome comments have just made me feel on top of the world so I want to thank each and every one of you for making my day everyday.

I know you will all understand when I say how much sunshine one little comment brings into our days here in blogland!!! I have made so many friends through this little bloggy of Lou waffles who I love dearly and though I may never be able to meet you all in person you are all so special to me.

Enough soppy Lou wafflies!!!! I have a cute little guys pack up to do and a summer dress to fix...yeah, the unthinkable happened and out popped something that should of stayed right in there up at the top of my dress but luckily there was no-one around to see it....I hope!!!! lol!!)

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Cool Britannia!!!

Image- Wryn Beach Babe from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Craft The Year away from Funky Hand.

Morning Peeps!!!

Phew it was a hot one yesterday!! I missed my crafty time last night because dopey one here fell asleep after Mo read me a story...romfl!!! ( yes, I am that dopey!! woke up in Mo's bed where we had both been fast asleep for 1 hr 30 mins....!!!) so I have been busy in my little crafty garage this morning making this little Wryn ( I adore her, she is most definitely a new fav!!!!) into another jubilee themed card. Luckily the girls over on the passion for promarkers blog had an inspiration photo up this morning so that kicked my colour choices into action!!

The little flag is actually cut from a sheet of wrapping paper that my mum bought me last week! it had little different sized flags all over it and they are all different patterns!! I just added a little spotty ribbon and a little starfish charm then printed out the sentiment on my pooter.

Luckily today it is a little cooler. Little Mo's reaction to his suncream is much better after a few days on piriton so I won't get to see him at lunch time for a snuggle top up today!! I have a whole bed full of ironing after the awesome drying day we had yesterday but I have shut the door on that!! romfl!!!! and I am going to have a spot of lunch and get some card orders finished.....well.....try....!!!!

Here's a little bundle of promarkers used for you.....

.....yeah ok so I admit it...I took the photo of the pens, skipped inside happily to load them on and then realised that I had taken the photo with the pens upside down...love photoshop rotate button....:) :)

So this little cutie is going to pop in on a couple of challenges today, they are....

Passion for promarkers- photo inspiration.

Fahionista challenge blogs- Simply Summer

Thank you for popping in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Starting my royal jubilee makes...

Image- Wave the flag from Lilyboo designs

Papers-FBQ- Tour of London from nitwits.

I'm back!!!! 2 posts in one day!! romfl!!!

well, I am blaming those awesome peeps over on the Cuddly Buddly facebook page!!! they keep making all these awesome jubilee makes with the Lilyboo Designs digi stamps so I just had to get a little play in!!!(...though one must admit to totally loving having time to play around with my big sisters digi's today :) !!!)

I have had to squeeze this card in in between popping back to see my little Mo at school and give him some more piriton syrup, poor little pickle, he is all sore and itchy still but said he was having a nice day still!! bless him!!! we are off to nannie's after school for a picnic in the huge tent she has in the garden so that will cheer him up lots.

And then there is my gorgeous bloggy pal Debs....well she led me astray into the nitwits shop with her gorgeous cards using the papers on her blog...( yeah yeah..I admit it...its not hard to enable Lou!!!! romfl!!) Though I do just love these papers so much! and that paint chip is just perfect.

I added a little bot of blingyness to her dress and flag too and her boots are all glossy accented to make them shine, too cute!!!!

The olympic torch will be pootling right through our village on the 27th June which is very exciting. Mo has bought his flag ready for going to watch it!! he is also having a fabulous Jubilee week at school this week and on friday they are dressing in red,white and blue. he has made himself a t-shirt but I will wait to share that until his cute little self is modelling it on friday morning!! 

Well, its back to my little crafty room for another quick play, I have a couple more boo's printed out as Mo wants to give his teacher a jubilee card too!

There are a couple of challenges I want  to share her in to, they are.....

Cupcake craft challenges- Royalty

craft your days away- Red, White and Blue

charisma cards- no flowers allowed

thank you for popping back in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Fetch A Sketch challenge 25....

Papers- Craft the Year Away from FunkyHand

Image-Pirate Boy in a box from Jelly Park

Morning Peeps!!! its that Fetch A Sketch time of week again over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog and our gorgeous Ruth is your hostess for this challenge and here is the sketch:

Remember that you can flip the sketch, rotate the sketch, resize it and make any type of project you like with it - as long as we can see the original sketch in your creation we'll be happy!


There are 2 fabilicous sponsors for two lucky winners this fortnight - Jellypark are offering 2 digi's and Funky Hand is offering a download.  You can peek in at Jelly Park digi's and Funky Hand papers and more offered by our sponsors this month by clicking on their banners below:

And a little inside piccy of my card with the whipper snapper skully stamp......

too cute!!!! ....though Mo has pretty much stolen this card already! he is all about pirates!!! I loved the Pirate in a box digi! he was great to colour too!!


Right...off to sort out my little pirate for school now. He had a bad reaction to his suncream over the weekend so he is a bit itchy and sore still so piriton is on order!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Designed to colour challenge card..

Morning Peeps!
I have woken up to another yummy sunny day and I can't wait for the weekend!! roll on 5:30pm tonight when I finish work for the weekend!! 


My little card today is one that I have been playing with this week. I wanted to join in with the first challenge over on the Designed to colour blog but have had so much to do this month, then I saw the Passion for promarkers -Birthday challenge and the I love promarkers-Use die cuts challenge so I decided to do a 3 in 1 card to fit all 3 challenges!!! 
I stamped my stamp,its a Sarah Kay one and then nestied her out with my oval nesties, then I nestied the next size down on my card base and then using the papers  'Crab Apple too' from nitwits, I nestied the larger size again for my card papers. I love how that little bit of die cutting made such a lovely scene through the window!!...hard to photgraph it though!!!


I made the flowers with my little 1" scalloped circle punch, they are really teeny but so super cute, you can just about see the liquid pearls in the centres. I also added a few punched butterflies and leafy fronds to my swirly branches.
This card is really sweet because when you open it you see all of her.


Here is my little pile of pens.....

....yeah OK,  so the pile is not as little as I thought!!! romfl!!! but I have to say those 4 little flexmarkers (...which is the only 4 I have so far.....) are just awesome, I love them so I will be popping some more colours on my wish list I think.


I think thats me done for today. Tonight Scott is taking Ryan to his football/soccer presentation evening so my friend Hayley is coming and we are going to have a scrap page night. I have found a nice little sketch for us to follow so it should be fun. I have a tonne more cards to get made too and wooohoooooo!! its the sincerely yours show in Lincoln on sunday. I am going with my mum and my big sister...who has new digi's out that are sooooo cute....they are here if you fancy peekyage . I have a pile of them printed out and ready for playing with this weekend as Scott and Mo are heading off to the driving range in the morning and then home in time for a christening in the afternoon,phew its all go!!!!
Thank you for popping in on me.
Huge hugs Lou xxxx