Die-ing For a Challenge...Spots and Stripes..

Stamp- Wallflower.

Papers-Paper Cottage.

Sentiment- Everyday Trinkets.

Die cut- Circle Nestie.

I'm back!! he he he!!!

Its time for a new Die-ing for a challenge and this month Caz has chosen....

Spots and Stripes.

Now there are a few rules to observe which are:

RULES:

* All entries must have at least one Dies to Die for product on

* You can combine our challenge with NO MORE THAN 3 OTHER CHALLENGES

* You must link back to the Dies to Die for Blog

* NO back linking, new projects/cards only please

* Only 2 Entries per person please

* Entries which fail to observe the above will be removed and will not be eligible for the prize

And the prize...oooh a huge £25 voucher to spend in the fabulous Dies to Die For store.

I really wanted to challenge myself for this one and I decided to use just one die cut to show you all how easy it would be to join in with us, can you pick it out yet?

Its on the sentiment, just one simple die cut nestie circle that I then stamped my sentiment on!! simples!!!

My stamp is one of the gorgeous new Saturated Canary Wallflower. She is just awesome, this was her first inking and she stamped a dream!! I paper pieced her shoes and the top layer of her dress to match the papers and then cut out a couple of the little journalling shapes from the papers too pop behind her. She is  coloured with promarkers and popped up on some silicone so she didn't melt into the background. 

The twine is MME Merry and Bright.

Now before I go I want to share the tutorial I made last night with my Movie maker software! it was so much fun to play with..plus I don't have to torture you all with my daft squeeky voice!! he he he!!! its  a tutorial on how to use the new Lollipop Treats die from Die-namics. Its awesome!!! I have 5 made already!! Mo thinks they are fanatastic.....(and keeps stealing the lollies out of them!! romfl!!)

Hope you like it!!

Ok, so that really is me finished posting for today!

I have yet more ironing to finish and a cute little guy to get to school.

Thank you for popping back in on me

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 94- Make it like Asa!

Image- Vampboto and his bat from the Robot Holidays set.

Paper from MelStampz.

Morning everyone!!!

I am so excited today because the Tiddly Inkers are back from our summer break and ready to get you all going on the challenges again over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog, and we are easing you all in with some really fun challenges too. 

The first of which is ..

Make it like Asa!!

and here is Asa's card for your inspiration

You can use the sketch or the colours or even the image...as long as you use a Tiddly Inks image and the photo for your inspiration.

I went for the sketch option because this layout is just beautiful, and me being me it just had to be a halloweeny one!! romfl!!

I adore this little vampboto! he's just adorable. I coloured him up using just 2 colour tones of my promarkers- Cool greys and reds.

The paper comes from the awesome Mel over on Melstampz. This lady is legend and I adore everything she makes and she is so kind to share it all with people too. Thank you so much Mel xxxx

I added a teensy bit of spider web for his cute little bat to sit on and it was done, simple but so much fun!!

Don't forget to pop in on my Tiddly Inking buddies over on the challenge blog...they are back in perfect swoon making form!!!

Mo slept in until 6:10 am this morning which is fabulous but means I was a bit late writing my post this morning and Scott was a little late leaving for work! he he he..... human alarm clocks are fab!!!!

I'll be back in a few with my die-ing for a challenge blog post!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

My first play with a Bildmalarna stamp!

Afternoon Peeps!!
I am a bit late popping in today as my mum called me on the way home from dropping Mo off at school and we popped out for breakfast with Scott as I needed to pick up a new wing mirror he had ordered for the car.
So its a new challenge over on the FAS challenge blog this week and Ruth's sketch is an absolute stunner. I LOVE layers and this one is just perfect. Here it is....

Don't forget you can flip it round and resize the sketch, as long as we can see it in use on your project we are happy bunnies!!

I have never used a Bildmalarna stamp before so you can imagine how excited I was when one was just sitting there in my Dies to die for DT pack, squeeee!!  This one is Mimosa Hat and she is so sweet.

I decided to use her and inked her up in Memento Rich Cocoa for a softer look to the stamps edges and then coloured her up with this little pile of promarkers...

The little butterflies floating around the edge are from my Memory Box Butterfly delight die and the little 'Thank you' sentiment is from the Die-Namics airplane greetings die and stamp set. I ripped it along the bottom because it always looks sooo good when my gorgeous friend Pops does that, I am all for trying new things today!!

I have popped this card on E-bay so if you want to buy it here's the link :)

So don't forget to pop in on my awesome teamie Ruth and see what she created using the sketch.

I have 2 loads of ironing and another load in the washing machine to get done now so feel free to rescue me from the pile of doom!! he he he!!

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Lollipop treats!!! You're Spooktacular!!

Hello again Peeps!!
I'm a 2 posts in one day girl again!! romfl!! but I just couldn't resist sharing my quick little make of the day with you before I go to work tonight.

ooooh I love this Die-namics Lollipop Treat die and Stamp set!!! I have wanted it from the second I saw a sneak peek of it and it arrived yesterday a la Tracy from Dies to Die for!!!

I used the stamps in the set to spice up my orange cardstock. I stamped the centred 'BOO!' twice so it popped out a bit using Versafine Onyx Black because its just such a gorgeous crisp inkpad.

The super cute little spook is from the Die-namics Halloween Charms die set, I LOVE him! and tied on with a little bit of MME All is Bright twine.

( Lou seriously thinks that she should take her big shot, yummy new dies, versafine ink pad and glue to work tonight....he he he!!)

I totally know I am going to make a whole bunch of these tomorrow!! they are so much fun!

Right hi ho hi ho,its off to work I go!!
Thank you for popping back in on me :)
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Get Funky Wordbooks challenge....

Phew!! its the 15th September already?!!! it must be time for a new challenge then peeps!! and its little ole me setting off the challenge over on the Get Funky Challenge blog this morning.

And this month is a really good one and I think you will all enjoy it too because it is what drew me to Funky Hand in the first place all those years ago and Anice has made the most awesome FUNKY FREEBIE for you all to join in and you don't want to miss it!  
This months Get Funky Challenge is.....

WORDBOOKS

So it can be anyword, any theme as long as it is a wordbook!! and..

As always you must use at least one Funky Hand product on your wordbook..:) 

(its an easy rule and not much of an ask.)

I used the Huge Funky Love download for this entire page. Its awesome because along with the gorgeous wordbook pages you get matching A4 papers too, I used those for the base of my page.

Its the best £4:59 I have ever spent.

Then using my corel paint shop pro x on the print layout page I opened and dragged in the wordbook pages I wanted onto an A4 size page layout. I love doing this because mini wordbooks are so much fun. I don't often use 'Word' for resizing but I guess it could do the same job really too. Did you spot it on the layout?! Here's a closer look at the pages...

I added on some little die cuts onto the patterned pages and have left the other sides plain for Mo, Scott and I to journal on when we feel ready....it always helps if you can make a scrapbook page without having lots of tears at the same time :( I am still getting emotional every time I drive past Holly's favourite field to walk in with the stream she so loved paddling in.

There are so many ways that Anice's wordbook downloads can be used and I hope my scrap page of my little Mo and Holly has given you some inspiration on how to use them with a bit of a twist.
If you don't have any of the wordbook downloads or cd's with them on,our gorgeous Anice has created a Freebie for you with 4 pages of alphabet to help you join in, simply print them out and attach them to pages to make your own wordbook up. Click on the picture below to take you to the store to get the download!!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with because I love seeing the wordbooks in action and don't forget that those awesome Funkette teamies of mine will be popping their creations on the challenge blog too over the next month so keep an eye out for them too :)

Mo has a golf lesson this morning and when we get home I will be delving into this yummy parcel that I recieved from tracy yesterday :) :) 

and this gorgeous treat from Krista too....

and Mo spent last night snuggled up with his gift from Niamh, Philly and Krista.......

He named him 'Bonbo' and when I went to check in on him last night before I went to bed he was still snuggled up with him....

Awwwww!!

Have a great saturday everyone, thank you for popping in on me

Huge hugs Lou xxx

No character stamps and embossing and a bit of exciting news....

Stamp-Welcome to a lovely new home from Dies to die for

Morning Peeps!!

Last night I was having a read of my google reader and the challenge from the TOMIC challenge blog caught my eye and I just had to join in!

Their challenge this week is No character stamps and embossing. it sounded like such a good one as I have loads of the gorgeous little scene type magnolia's that I always want to put a character with.

I decided on this one, 'Welcome to a  lovely new home', isn't it sweet? and I stamped it on an old book page before colouring it up with my promarkers.

Then I cut it out with my lacey circle nesties. 

The next thing on my list for the challenge was the embossing. I chose to do use my brick embossing folder on some kraft paper. I gently coloured the edges of my bricks with my sandstone promarker to make them pop out even more.

Now I totally love my new swirl with flower leaf Doo Hickey die, its gorgeous. I cut it and distress inked the leaf with a teeny bit of faded jeans and forest moss, then the swirl with forest moss. I then placed it so that it kinda snuggled the house stamp and added a couple of flowers from my stash to the leaf cuts on each side.

Then I popped on a few teeny punched flowers to the little loops on my nesty, added a punched heart where the swirls crossed and a little computer generated sentiment that I punched out with my SU Jewellery tag (...yup, I use it a lot!! its one of my favs!!).

And the exciting news........:) :) :) :)

Tracy over at Dies to Die For emailed me a couple of weeks ago and asked me to join her DT!!! I am so excited and its twice as nice as I get lots of bits from Dies to Die For because Tracy always has an awesome stock of the MFT Die-namics which I lurve!!  Her DT are all awesomely talented so I hope I can match up to their talents soon!!! 

Right, Off to work for me today! Mo and his breakfast buddy, Sophia, are just watching a little bit of TV so I need to rustle them up and get them ready then jump in my yummy new car and get going!!

Have an awesome day peeps

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 26- All the B's.

Hello Peeps its me again!!!
2 posts in one day?!!! yep! I am back to share my Saturated Canary challenge blog make with you as the new challenge has started today. Krista is off to Disney(...I so wanna go too!!!) so the challenge is up now, which is cool because you get an extra day to play!! he he he!!!

Bev is our challenge mistress this week (...Lou has visions of Bev clad in black leather cracking the whip ....romfl!!) and she has chosen a theme of ...

All the B's

so you need to use at least 2 things beginning with a B to play along

and You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp .

I just had to use a boy so I headed straight for the little guy Krista drew for charity.If you click on the cute little piccy below it will take you to the post on Krista's blog all about these 2 very special little digi's that Krista has created for charity to raise money for  

St Jude's Children's Research Hospital .

So for my B's I went for ...Boy, Brown, Blue and Bunting!! its soooo easy!! I love it!! and if  you need a few moments drooling, go over to the challenge blog now and see what the rest of my gorgeous canary teamies have been making, they are fabulous.

My bunting was made with my SU Jewellery Tag punch and the sentiment is from my SU pennants set, along with the little stars I stamped on them and the image.

Well its time for as snuggle on the sofa and to eat some of my packet of maltesers that Scott has just brought home for me from the shop, yummy!!! A very tired after his school trip to 'Horrible Histories' Mo can be heard making littl mini snoring sounds which is too cute and I have had to resort to fluffy pj's and put the heating on tonight because it is soooo cold! I think summer has gone now :(

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping back in!!

Lou xxxxx

Little Big Tree ....

Image- Little Big Tree by Kim

Papers- Quilted Holly by Kim
Sentiment- Christmas Sentiments by Barbara Anne Williams

Hello Peeps!

Hope you are all having a fabby wednesday. Little Mo has gone off to watch 'Horrible Histories' with his class on a school trip so I have had a bit of a  play with my Cuddly Buddly DT make.

I chose this cute little image by Kim called 'Little Big Tree' and some of Kim's delicious christmas papers,  'Quilted Holly'.

It is such a pretty selection of papers, if you click on the piccy below it will take you straight to the shop :) ( I am sooooo helpful!! he he he!!!!)

I coloured up my image to match the colours of the pink papers and then added a bit of blingy snow.

On the inside I shrunk her some so that she could sit down at the bottom on the right. I shifted her size and position using my psp program on the print layout setting.

Before I forget I have had a few questions emailed to me that I need to get answered so I'll do that now!! ( sorry to all the peeps it has taken me a week to answer to xx)

Charms...
I get my charms from all over the place...I think I am addicted to them!! mostly they come from my friend Clare's craft shop, Cloud 9 in Horncastle or 'The Works' shop.

How much I sell my cards for..
£2 for a 5x5 size, £4 for the 8x8 ones, plus postage. Contact me if you want to buy one :) he he he!!

What do I do with my cards when I have finished making them...
I stamp my personalised stamp on the back, get the right envelope to go with them and then bag them up and price them. They then go into a big plastic box that I sometimes take to work to sell or my mum and her friends take the box to the pub to sell them there!!!

What programe do you use for printing your digi's.....
Corel Paint shop pro x.

I think that's it!!! I am going to grab a cuppa and put the heating on!! I cannot believe how cold it is today!!!
Thank you for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly-ing on a tuesday!!

Image- Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly Inks

Printable quote from Kimberly at ' This Kalil Life'

Morning peeps!!
I hope you are all having a fab morning. I am so excited today because my awesome mum bought me a new car and I picked it up yesterday!!! ( when I say new, its actually 10 years old but to me that is mega new!!!) so today I will be having a little explore around in that and a good test drive once I have dropped little Mo off to school.
Mo also slept in until 6:30am this morning!! that's 2 days in a row now but this morning gets special mention as I am sure the extra 1hr30 mins in bed has helped to shake off a bit of the cold of doom and my runny nose is almost gone, I figure if he sleeps in again tomorrow my sore throat will go too!!! romfl!!

So this morning when I popped my google reader on Kimberly from This Kalil Life had made an awesome bright and cheery quote from the Dalai Lama which I absolutely loved. I just had to print it out right away and make myself a cheery little poster for my wall and there is no Tiddly cheerier than Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly Inks. I absolutely adore her, she just makes me want to smile every time I colour her up!!!

Right then, I best get me a bit more organised and get Mo off to school so I can pop a cd in and do some driving around in my new car, brum brum!! romfl!!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me today! Have an awesome day everyone
Huge hugs Lou xxx

FAS challenge 32 midway...

Phew!! how did we get to midway challenge already?!! Here's a reminder of this fortnight's 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!

And just to remind you all....Ladybug Crafts Ink  and Kerry is generously offering the winner of this challenge a £10 voucher to spend in the store! 

We had such an exciting weekend with twycross zoo on saturday and snugglies with Poppy on sunday that I thought I wouldn't even get a make done for the midway post but then a little quicky card idea just popped up into my head and I went for those supper yummy dies!!

Yes, its that delicious Die-namics Layered Rose from Dies to Die for. I decided it would make a totally delicious poppy and got my rememberance day card for my dad pete done. He was a sgt major in the army so I like to give him a little card on remembrance day, get me so organised!!

Right, best get myself moving! I have a tonne of cleaning up to do before I can get myself out to my craft room to do some craftying!

huge hugs Lou xxx