Tiddly Inks challenge 123....Christmas!!!!!

Image-  Birthday Boy and papers from the Yummy paper set.

Morning Peeps!! 

its Tiddly Tuesday so you know what that means? time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog!!! and this week its....

Christmas Holidays or a Winter Scene.

  ...so grab your favorite Tiddly Inks image and color-up a winter scene, a Christmas party, or a cheery holiday card. All creations using a Tiddly Inks image will qualify for a prize and a feature after the two weeks are up.  Please create something new, no back linking!

So I made Mo his christmas card with my DT make!! I love it! the trousers were so much fun to play with! I drew little lines with my promarkers fine tip end and then coloured them in all different colours! so much fun and they turned out too cute!!

I used the awesome Yummy Paper set too, its just so deliciously christmassy!!

Now, onto my little guy!! regular visitors to my blog will know that my little Mo is a little different and he has firm beliefs on christmas that have shaped our christmasses in the most beautiful way. Since he was 2 and old enough to understand things he has said that christmas is not about presents, its about baby Jesus and family and he does not do letters to santa. Too cute ....but mamma and daddy really needed some help this year sooooo mamma got busy on this....

and then this followed....

 flour, glitter and Daddy's walking shoe's rock!!

and then this morning little feet got up at 5:30am and were so excited to find the letter that.....

" mummy I think I am going to fall over! I got a letter from Santa!!"

he plodded down to our room and let us read the letter and then plodded back to his room and got busy with this....

so I am a super happy and super proud mamma this morning! I love that there are just 3 things on it and that he said thanks for the letter!!

Christmas is magic!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

I'm going crackers!!!

Die- Tonic Studio's Cracker.

Doo Hickey Sweet Lovely Lace.

Papers- Bo Bunny Island Mist.

Kaisercraft Just Believe.

Heart- Red ribbon slider.

Morning everyone!!

OOOOOH I am feeling so christmassy now and this gorgeous Cracker die came in my DT box for me to play with!!

Its a very addicting little die and I think I may have a whole tree full of them by christmas day. For the christmassy one I just added a little lace edge with the Sweet lovely lace Doo Hickey die. I also cut out one of the toppers from the Kaisercraft Just Believe pad and tied a twine bow through one of the red ribbon sliders and then hot glued it to the topper. It looks so pretty.

........ but do you know what was even more fun?!! making little party favours for Mo's friends with it for his birthday party in a couple of weeks! His birthday is on the 16th December so I thought these would make such fun favours!!! and they don't bang which is awesome as Mo does not like cracker bangs!!! he he he!!!

There is enough room in there to squish 3 celebration/Hero's sweets in and a balloon!!! I will try and get some photo's taken of them for you when I have finished them off!!!

And whilst on the subject of the little guy I thought I would share a little piccy of him from yesterday. We had to pick up his new glasses and he has been very worried about them. When we got there the optician said that he really needed to keep them on all day to help his eyes adjust and he was very worried about that but he came through it like an absolute trooper. We took him out for lunch to Handmade Burger for a super treat because he did so well and I bought him a meerkat glasses stand for when he takes them off, its so cute! he had the choice of so many but he loves meerkats so thats what he chose.
Here he is in his new glasses!!!

      

He looks so sweet!! 
Thank you for popping in on me. I have been a little quiet of late with everything going on but I am hoping to get back to my normal bloggy self soon!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Starting a little something special from Mamma for the little guy!!

Morning gorgeous peeps of the world!!!

Oh my! I am flying into bloggyland by the seat of my pants this morning as Little Mo actually slept until 7am!!! I can't believe it...and its so much nicer than the normal 4:30am snuggle call!! lol!!!!!

So we have about 6 mins before we need to leave for school but I wanted to share this little altered house I have started making for Mo's birthday pressie from me. He LOVES 'Where the wild things are' so I just had to use Tiddly Inks King of the Wild ones for him.

The gorgeous papers are from the Crate Paper story teller 12x12 stack. They are perfect for a little guy who love exploring.

I am only half way through his little box but I am so enjoying it, making things for your little peeps is just the best feeling ever.

The little stones (...Mo has a thing for stones..!!) are stuck on with hot glue so they don't tumble out every 5 mins!!!

I will pop another piccy on next tuesday so you can see its progress!!

Huge 'oh my gosh I am so behind because my little guy slept in' Hugs from Lou xxxxx

Sledging!!

Stamp- Whimsy stamps Time for Tea Sledging.

Papers- Kaisercraft Just Believe.

Coloured with Promarkers.

Morning everyone!!!

I hope you are having a wonderful monday morning so far. I was in the festive mood again so it was time to ink up this Time for Tea designs stamp!

I went for those stunning kaisercraft Just believe papers again because they are just beautiful. I layered up a few of the snippets I had left from last weeks card then fussy cut around my sledging girl.

I popped her out on some foam so she wasn't flat on the card and popped one of the die cuts from the paper pack just behind her head.

Now...do you like my new watermark?!! eeeep!! I do!!! my gorgeous hubby made it for me in photoshop elements. He made me a black one to print out on the back of all my cards. I do have a similar stamp but I keep forgetting to put it on or I just can't be doing with the faff of finding the stamp after the card is finished!! Lazy Lou!!

So all my blank cards now have this printed on the back of them!! yey!!! they are all ready to be decorated!!! I love my husband so much because he is so good at these things!

He says he is also happy to make them for others at a cost of £2 each so if you would like one please email me ( theres a little link down my sidebar) .

Today I have a scan to get to...urgh...one of those awful lady ones...urgh.......!!! but after that I might get some crafty time in!

Thank you for popping in on me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Hairy and Scary!!

Afternoon all!! 

We've had a busy morning as we had to pop into town to get Mo's disposable camera developed from his sleepover at the farm and get his eyes tested!!

The photo's are just gorgeous!! so cute and totally Mo!! the eye test didn't fare so well and he needs glasses for tv, computer, writing, reading etc. He wasn't really very impressed but I am sure he will be ok with them!! we took him to get his first ever Subway sandwich!! he had a beef and cheese salad meal! very exciting!!!

So onto my card!!! I love this funny little guy!! he is being released this weekend along with some super cool new papers over in the Funky Hand shop!!.

The new download is called Hairy and Scary! and if you click on the piccy of them below, it will magically ping you to their home in the shop!!!

You can see a whole gallery of gorgeousness from the funkettes on that page too :) 

I paper pieced my little monster up and then added some goggly eyes for fun!!! he is really cute...but scary of course ;)

He loved his little adventure. He was absolutely tired out last night when we picked him up and he got a little tearful at bedtime because he had missed us terribly at bedtime but said he was very brave! I am so proud of him.

Right, got to go, I have got oodles of washing to do and need to get a furball princess plodded round the block!!!

Have an awesome afternoon peeps!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 57....Distress......

Stamp- Butterfly Baby.

Papers- Crate Paper Story Teller.

Afternoon peeps!!!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and the theme for this weeks challenge was chosen by our gorgeous Becky. It is.........

"Distress"

so for this challenge we want to see you distressed!!! so think torn edges, super inky edges, tears etc!!!

Now for the details....

You must follow the theme using either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

So my card features the super cute Butterfly baby stamp. I coloured baby up with a mix of flexmarkers and promarkers and then got to work distressing some yummy layers of delicious papers!! I love love love these papers.

So today marked a huge step forward in the life of my little Mo. Siutcase packed and happy smiley face off he went to school for his first ever sleepover trip....actually his first ever sleepover full stop! and I am so brimming with pride that he felt comfortable enough to give it all a go and so very very thankful to a truly awesome teaching team for giving him the support he needed to feel able to go for it.

There were a couple of little hiccups in the night last night where little feet came pootling down to our bedroom....3 times.....to ask what he should do if he missed us at bedtime or needed us in the night. Lots of snuggles and kisses helped with this problem and seemed to do the trick. I told him its ok to miss people but to have oodles of fun at the same time and he seemed to understand that. 

This morning he spent a very long time looking at the schedule school had printed out for him and he kept that in his pocket. He needed a few extra snuggles at the school gate and still kept checking the schedule until bell time!! he asked me to stay until he had gone to the classroom but even that is a massive step forward for him and I am just so proud. I am hoping bedtime goes without a glitch for him and he sleeps really well (...because he wakes up at 4:30am on the dot every morning regardless of what time he has gone to bed the night before!!) I packed him up a little brioche and a drink of chocolate milk incase he wakes super early and we bought him the new ' Diary of a wimpy kid' book to read and my mom gave him a booklite so he doesn't disturb the others too much.

So tonight will be a new one for me and Scott! the first time in 8 years we haven't had a little cutie to sort out! ....gulp!!!! that bit is kinda hard for me, few tears on my way home but I was a good mamma and didn't let Mo see anything but excitement for his big journey.

Thank you so much for popping in on me!

hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers challenge 225....Check it out!!

Images- Cute Christmas Ted set from Digistamp boutique.

Morning peeps!! 

Its time for a new challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog and this week we are sponsored by the Digistamp Boutique and the prize is a whopping £10 to spend in the store!!!

And the challenge Lisa set us was....

Check it out!!

so think checks, gingham's and plaid for this challenge.

(Don’t forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.)

Sally Anne super kindly sent the Cute Christmas Ted set for me to have a play with and awwwwwwwwwww it is so cute! I have had so much fun making a few bits with it.

My promarkers colours are...

Browns- Burnt sienna, Caramel and Sandstone.

Blues- Midnight blue, Denim blue and Pastel blue.

Greens- Holly, olive green and Pear green.

Reds- Burgundy, Crimson and Poppy.

Pinks- Coral, Sunkissed pink and blush.

Have fun with the challenge peeps!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 122......Anything Goes..

Morning all!!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and after all the gorgeous entries last week we decided to have another Anything Goes challenge, we love seeing what you create with your Tiddly Inks stamps and images when we give you free reign!!!

I went for another diary for my make, they are so addictive to make!! I used the gorgeous gossmere and coloured her up to match the stunning papers, I even gave her a few green highlights in her hair!!

Right, got to dash!! I'll be back soon with the new challenge for the passion for promarkers !!

huge hugs Lou xx

Friendship is the greatest gift.....

Stamp- Whimsy stamps wee stamps Friendship is the greatest gift.

Papers- Kaisercraft Just Believe.

Die- Marianne Designs craftables Tab with text.

Morning everyone!!

I am still at work so I am hoping mr blogger is good and posts away for me at 6am!! ..hopefully by 6am I have got all my bits out of their boxes, on the shelves and empty boxes tidied up...I should hopefully be in the process of taking my cages back and facing up ready for the peeps of Tesco's!!! I love love love that bit when everyone has taken their cages away and it looks all full, neat and gorgeous! I work with an awesome team of people and I think it always looks wonderful after they have all been busying away all night, its so much fun.

Anywho, onto my makey!!!!

Christmas card making is getting into full swing in my little crafty garage so I was happy to play away with this gorgeous Wee stamps stamp!! its soooo cute!!! and it was a good old traditional colours day today too!! 

The papers on this card, Just believe by Kaisercraft are just stunning and the pad even comes with gorgeous little die cut shapes and sentiments. I used one of the sentiments for the front of the card and one of the journalling die cuts for inside.

I cut my stamping card out with a fabulous die, I love the edge on this one, it comes out all distressed and gorgeous, love it!!! I stamped my stamp on and then coloured it up with promarkers.

When it came to putting it on the card I popped it up with some foam to make it stick out from the card base a little. I love doing that for a little extra dimension.

I am going to ask you all a huge favour too. I am struggling a bit without my google reader. I have bloglovin but I still miss my reader :( so if you have popped in on me and want me to pop in on you please leave me a comment and when I have peeled my head off of my pillow this afternoon I will pop in and say Hi!!!

Thank you for popping in me!

Hugs Lou xxx

Forgotten Funkies!!....Funky Little Christmas...

Papers and Toppers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand.

Die-  Cheery Lynn Step Card.

I'm back everyone!!!

Its that time of month again for our 'Forgotten Funkies' showcase!!! and each month our fabulous Funkette's are over on our blog showing off some new makes with our older downloads. 

Today's showcase is centered all around the fabulously festive 'Funky Little Christmas' download. This download really packs a punch with its paper designs full of funky and zingy christmas colours and even comes with a sheet of card toppers that are just wonderful to play with.

I had to use that awesome step card die again! but I knew it would be just fab for me to use the whole sheet of toppers with!! I love these funky little christmas trees, it makes such a change from the traditional colours and my fav paper ever from the download is this texty merry christmas one,its fab!! I used the largest topper for the sentiment piece inside my card, you can just see it peeking out in the photo.

The topper on the front is actually curved and look so cool but could I get a good picture of that....errrrr...nope!! so here's a side shot where I tried to get a piccy of it!!

All the little tree's are popped up on foam squares to give them some umpf...and make them look like a little happy forest of chrimbly.....   

Well, that really is me done with makes for today now. I have had such a strange week I am looking forward to just having time to have a think about things today because little Mo's new school have picked up a problem with Mo. They feel he may have Aspergers or Autism and although it is a shock to actually hear it from someone else and has made me feel really sad, it is also a massive relief to us as we have thought this for many years. So I am also thankful for an amazing team of teachers at Mo's new school for noting and picking this up so quickly so we can go forward. I feel super safe knowing that the teaching team are actually looking out for my son.

Nothing will change in the way we are with Mo but it will help school to know how to help him understand the world outside our house and our family bubble a bit more. That is something he has always struggled with but I am ful of hope because he is so much happier at his new school and even wants to go on the overnight trip with his classmates so I know there are exciting times ahead, it will just take a couple of days for the shock of being supported and helped to sink in. I got to say...Mo's new school rocks!! and the teaching team are just drop your jaw awesome.

And in the midst of all my tears and emotions yesterday my little guy still mamnged to make me smile even though he wasn't here. I went to make my omlette for dinner and found this.....

Have a fantastic friday peeps, huge hugs for you all

Lou xxxxxx