Divas By Design challenge...Let's hear it for the boys!!!

Morning peeps!!

I hope you are all waking up to a wonderful wednesday! I am in with my DT make for the Divas By Design challenge blog and this week I was so excited to sit and play away on my make because its for my little guy!! so can you guess the challenge theme yet/!! yup, its....

Let's hear it for the boys!!

This week we are sponsored by Crafty charlie.

Mo absolute LOVES pirates! He actually bought this magnolia pirate Edwin stamp himself a couple of years ago so naughty mummy has been pinching his stamps again but he is soooo worth it!! the boat and the barrel are both mine though so i don't feel guilty about inking those cuties up at all!!! he he he he!!!

I decided to make him a little hanger for his bedroom door. I splodged and distressed some papers together. I loved the little tag with 'Thousands of little Moments' written on it. I underlined the Mo in moments, Mo loved that bit when I showed him the tag last night!!

Right, I had better get a movey on! I need to cook Mo pasta salad for his lunch box and finish off his horrid henry shirt for world book day tomorrow!!

Huge hugs for you all

Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 128......Use Green!!

 Stamps- Wild Thang clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.
Tutorial for this card can be found HERE.

Morning everyone!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its a colour kinda one! the challenge this week is....

Use Green

so I just had to grab my Wild Thang stamp set (....ooooh ok, so its Mo's stamp set and I sneakily 'borrowed' it while he was asleep...I am a bad,bad mamma!!!)

But where is the cute little boy stamp you ask...well...here is a peeky of the card open just a squidgey.....

 I love that little paw print stamp!! I stamped it on brown ink and then highlighted it a little with a white gel pen.

And here he is, awwwwwwwwwwwww! I do just love him so much!!

So, grab your fav Tiddly Inks images or stamps and come and play along with us!! Don't forget you will need to use a Tiddly Inks image/stamp to join in.

Thank you for popping in!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Ellie says bye....

  Stamp- Tiddly Inks 'Ellie says bye'.

Bazzill basics Kraft.

Coloured with Promarkers.

Morning everyone!!

Well I am home from work, have had a espresso to keep me going and am just popping you all a post in before I have a shower to make myself even more awake....well...until the school run is over anyway and then after that I will be drooling on my pillow as I snore!!!!! 

I have a little share made with one of the super gorgeous new Tiddly Inks stamps in the Dies to Die For shop.

This one is Ellie says Bye and she is just the cutest. I made a little treat box for one of the mummies at Mo's school who was having a little bit of a rough week :( so I wanted to add just a squidge of happy to her day and made her this box with a super yummy cookie just snuggly fitting inside!!

I mounted Ellie on some Bazzill basics kraft card ( totally love this stuff!!) and embossed the edges on my scoring board. Here's this inside shot...mmmm cookie!!!

Right then, my shower is calling!! my hair looks like fuzz and I need me some waking up!!!

huge hugs and have an awesome days everyone!!

Lou xxxx

Button Baby Boy....awwwwwwww..

Papers- Button Babies.

Image- Button Baby Boy.

Morning everyone!!!

Hope you are all waking up to a super saturday, we have. It looks so pretty outside,we have a little covering of frost and the sun is rising already, I love the lighter mornings and nights.

Today's make from a Lou is one of the cards I made for the new release of babies over at the Funky Hand shop. They are just too cute and I loved making this one.

I added lots of banners because they are just so sweet on baby cards!

Right, got to get a mooch on! we are taking Mo to the Lego Discovery Centre for a treat after a great IEP meeting and fabulous parents evening and then the hospital yesterday we just wanted to keep him right up there on cloud 9 for the weekend too! its a gooooood place to be! and being as we have our merlin tickets from last year still running its only a pay for the petrol day which is always good!!! lol!!

Have a super day everyone, huge hugs for you all

Lou xxx

a bloggy question answered!!!

Hi everyone!

I got a little question through in my emails this morning about my blog layout so I thought I would answer it on here instead incase anyone else has ever wondered about it.

So, the question was...

"Lou, can you share with me how you get your pictures so big on your blog. mine are all squished into the middle section on mine and there is a lot of space down the sides but if I make my pictures bigger they go over the side bars which looks messy. What can i do to change that out?"

ok, so the answer really very much depends on your blog template. So, lets womble through this together peeps!

OK, go to your blog and select 'Design' on the top right hand side. Then look down the left hand side and choose the 'Template' choice ( it has a little paint roller next to it). 

You will then see lots of different pictures of layouts for your blog. Mine is set on a 'Simple' layout, so we will go with that for these waffles!! 

When you click on your selection you should then see a few options down the side where you can click on options to change the bits on your blog. This is what mine looks like when I go to those settings. ( I have chosen the 'adjust widths' setting for this piccy so you can see the widths that mine is set at....

and this is what it looks like on mine when I select the 'Layout' option...

So onto photographs!! I resize all my photographs of my cards in paintshop. I do them at 72 dpi with the longest side of my crop to be 600 pixels. That way I can upload them to my blog and then click on 'original size' which makes them pop up nice and bog for peeking at. Doing them this way means I can get a lovely big picture on my blog but still have the pages loading quickly as they are not chug chug chugging along trying to load a massive file.

Phew! wafflies over!! hope it helped someone!!

HUge hugs Lou xxx

Family Minty Madness!!!

Good Morning everyone!!!

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

Today's showcase is centered all around the gorgeously fresh 'Minty Madness' download. Just look at these stunning papers, they are too good to be forgotten!!!

I got busy with my digital project life templates for this one, I always forget that digital scrapbooking is so much fun and so easy to compile together too. I added some of the gorgeous stars and alpha's from the download into the journalling squares too. This make was drag and drop heaven and I love how it came out! digital pages are like instant gratification!! he he he he!!!

Well, I had better get going. Scott is at work today..boo and Mo and I need to take him as Mo has an appointment with his 'tummy doctor' today.

Have a fabulous friday gorgeous peeps,

huge hugs Lou xxx

Babies just do make me feel froo froo!!!!!

 Images- Twin Girls from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Tia and friend from Mo's Digital Pencil.

(bit further down!!)

coloured with promarkers.
Challenge- MDP2 Add a ribbon.

Afternoon peeps!!

I have had a bit of a lovely morning of froo froo-ness!! am I the only one that really loves froo froo on baby cards?!! awww I just love them!! and I definitely went the froo froo-ist  have froo'd in a while on this one!!!!

This card is for my friends who have just had 2 gorgeous little twin girls (...can you tell I am just a bit excited?!!!!) so I hit the shop at Mo's Digital Pencil and bought me some gorgeousness to make their card. Mo's shop is just perfect for cards like this and even better I found an image in there too that I just totally squeeled at because it was just like their dog and daughter Khloe!!!

Same old Lou colours used but they do look so soft and pretty together so I think that's why they are my fav colour combo's. Here's a little half blingy shot of the babies....

 Now, I bet ya'll looked at my links under the first piccy and thought where the banana's did she use the Tia digi?!!! well, she is here....except Tia has had a little change to Tyson for this one to match Vicky and Chris's dog Tyson and the little girl with the heart balloons was just so like Khloe I had to get it!! please excuse the chubby Lou fingers on this piccy!!!...

 so cute!! I love it!!!

Then came the froo froo and lots of it!! dies, punches, flowers, 3 different sorts of glue, lace, ribbon, button,twine!! oh my gosh I had soooo much fun!! I will leave you with one last shot of gorgeousness!!!...

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers challenge 236...Make it Digital!!

Image- Rock n Rolla from Tiddly Inks.

(she is just $1..bargain!!)

Papers- The Pier Crate paper.

Promarkers-

Browns- Burnt sienna, caramel and sandstone.

pinks- Burnt orange, coral,sunkissed pink and blush.

Blues- Midnight blue, Denim blue and pastel blue.

Good morning gorgeous peeps of the world!!

How are you all this morning? I am nervous! lol! we have little Mo's IEP meeting and parents evening all in one day...gulp!! lol! but its all good for helping Mo so I shouldn't complain really!!

So its time for a new challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog and this week it was chosen by our teamie Marie and its one I could totally rock out with!! .....

Make it digital!!

( use digital images/papers)

we are sponsored by

I just had to use the new Rock n Rolla digi from Tiddly Inks, at just $1 she is one you totally can't miss out on!! and she totally makes me think of my friend Amelia, who loves skating and has the coolest pink hair. She has been going through some horrid stuff with head pain and she inspires me totally. When my knee is sorted I am going to get my skates out of the shed!!!

So I printed her out, coloured her with my promarkers and then added some super fun papers. 

Right, got to get myself moving! Mo slept in until 6am this morning so I am on a go slow!! lol!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Chloe and her friends....

Stamp-Chloe and her Friends by Tiddly Inks.(on pre -order)

Papers- Glitz Design papers Pretty in Pink.

Coloured with promarkers.

Die- Marianne Design collectables Tab with text.
Die- Namics Mini tabs foursome.
Ribbon- May Arts crochet velvet centre-Rose.

Morning everyone!!

Oh boy! I swear the weekend zooms by me in a blur!!! but we had a super lovely family time one this weekend so I don't mind!! I will still be working away when this little Chloe make pops up for you all to peek at!! then it will be home for the school run and bedtime!!

So, I just had to ink up one of the new Tiddly Inks stamps. They are on pre- order in the shop and will be in very shortly (...but I already got my little Lou mitts on some!!).

I adore the little hedgehog friend she has!! he is too cute! thought it was a super tough choice between him and the bunny!!!

They are all coloured up with promarkers on some hammered card. It blends quite nicely and then looks all sort of oldy bibbly bobbly when its dry, its a gorgeous effect.

And here's a little bling shot of her super gorgeousness!!

Her little eyes were done with a glaze pen and then it was just lots of sakura pen and white pen ditty dots!!

Thank you for popping in, I will be in to see you all later when I wake up!!

hugs Lou xx

Funky Hands new release!!!! lots of piccies to share!!

 

Papers- Button Babies.

Image- Button Baby Girl.

OOOOOOOh I cannot tell you how excited I am to post these makes!! I have been desperate to share these little baby pop up boxes with you!!

There are some new releases over on the Funky Hand shop and I just love them!! 

Here's a little sideview.....

 and of course...I just had to do a boy one too!!!!!!

Papers- Button Babies.

Image- Button Baby Boy.

 So, how gorgeous are those lil babies and papers???!!!! here's a look at the huge amount of papers you get for your £2.99....

Aren't they just soooo cute?!!!!

I'll be back later this week with a couple more makes with the new downloads....though I am really having to sit on my hands not to add them right away too!!!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx