urgh, what a day!!!!

Urgh!!! I have been on a child protection course all day today and it was hard, I don't like to dwell on people who hurt children but as part of my job it is an essential course, I am pleased it is over though!!! Scott took me for a quick visit to alicraft to cheer me up though so I got some pinflair silicone and a syringe and little mo chose me a new tilda!!! bless him!!!

So, I made some gorgeous little books on thursday morning with little mo. His was blue and is now very written in as he spent the whole day at nursery writing in it so I don't have a picture of that one but here is my niece Lily's ( she is a bit cross with me at the moment as her mummy-my big sis- keeps coming to play at my hoise on a wednesday night and Lily can't come as it is past bedtime so she is grumpy with me!!!! this is an aunty Lou peace offering!!! lol!!!)

I didn'r have any acetate covers so i popped some patterned paper through my laminator in a laminating pocket!! genius!!! it looks so cute and i get to decide what paper to choose

******WARNING PEEPS, THIS IS VERY ADDICTIVE!!!LOL!!!*****

I cut come plain paper and lined paper and put them in alternate order ( anyone one with little people will know they love writing and drawing in books!!!) and popped them all in my BIA and punched and binded them, awwwwww so cute!! then I decided I needed to put me a little pen in there ( a little 3 year old lady needs to accesorise you know) so I use da bit of ther patterned paperto match and made a pen holder out of it to keep the pen in the book, I popped a little ribbon and bow on the front and hey prestaroonie it was done!!!! cute !! The card is my nephews birthday card! do you ever regret ringing to see what card your nephew wants?......I did when my brother said 'oh he would love a primeval one' argggghhhhhh!!! panic sets in for 24 hours and then I came up with this!! the evil dinosaurs pop out from the base on foam squares and are covered with 3d glaze, the characters and the words primeval are just layered up and glazed, I quite like it and boys cards are tough so this one will pass for me!!!!!

right its bedtime just about for me so thankyou for noseying in!!!!!

My try for the funkyhand design team!!!

I know, I know...I am late with thinking about doing this but I have wondered about it all week and have just decided that even if I don't get to be on the design team I would always wonder about it if I didn't at least try!!!! So Anice this post is for you hunny!!!!

I have sooo many favourite cards but these ones are my most recent favourites ( lou feels a bit daft as she realises that 2 of them are using funkyhand papers but I just love them!!!!!)

So please cross your fingers for me everyone and I will be crossing one hand for me and one hand for everyone else who has entered.

heres the link if anyone wants to pop a go in before tomorrow morning.

http://funkyhand.blogspot.com/2009/05/wanted-new-design-team-member.html

Thankyou for looking xxxxxx

Woo-hoo!!! finished my word book!!!

Helllloooo!!!!!

Well, I have spent most of the day in my new crafty space built for me by my amazing husband. I am now the proud owner of one amazing crafty worktop, shelves , drawers and ribbon holder!!! I will post some piccies soon but I have been working hard in here all day and it looks like a whrilwind went through it at the moment!!!!

So I used my amazing huge funky love cd from www.funkyhand.com for my 'beth' book to print the gorgeous papers on the pages that I made with my cds. ( I used storybook for the birthday girl 1st pagey bit and pooh font for the letters, all welded to stretched squares from my george cart!!)

This is the first proper wordbook I have made on my cds and I have to say I think it is really cute. The papers from funkyhand just bring it to life.

I used some glittery effect adhesive paper for the top layer of 'beth' and 'birthday girl' ( ooooh, that birthday girl bit was really fiddly!!!!!!) and sat a little summery tilda on a ribbon. I foam dotted most of her out but I stuck her hands to the ribbon, I think she looks more real like that!!!

I also cuttlebug embossed some buttons onto the first pagey bit and inked them too, then I popped a bit of anita's 3d gloss on them to help them stand up. At the moment the rest of the pages have no embellies yet as I am waiting for my bestfriend Leah ( who I have made the book for for a card for one of her little people she looks after) to tell me what she needs inside. She is going to put some photographs of beth inside so maybe she will want some journalling tickets?!! I don't know yet!! I will post piccies of the inside should I change them!!!! Beth's fav colour is green so I think I used enough here!!!! That is what I love about huge funky love, it is all co-ordinated.

The cute little bear card is one I made with one of my big sis's images, I love the little family of bears, You could have so many sentiments to go with this one but I liked 'Have a 'beary' happy birthday!!'.

I printed it, coloured it, rounded the corners, inked them, popped it on foam dots and then onto a butterfly base card, popped a bit of ribbon down the side with 2 'cheats' bows and voila!!! quick but very cute card!!!

So now I only have a challange card and a challenge layout to do!!!!

Thankyou for popping by!! I am going to give my lovely husband some snuggles now.

Black & White challenge card!!

Well, what a busy few days I have had!!!! I have finally got my challenge card done for the uk crafters thread on the cricut mb!!! I used my happy bithday cuttlebug folder and then popped some white card strips with black adhesive lace on and doodled some fake stitches on them. I cut out one of my sisters gorgeous circles and put some white glitter glue on for the frosting. I coloured the dots on the ribbon on the cupcake in black and put little blobs of glaze on them to make them pop out!! I put some little white gel pen dots around the edge of the circle and inked the edges white,I added 3 little black adhesive gems and then stamped and heat embossed 'celebrate' in white.

For the inside I just cut a sqaure piece of cardstock, rounded the corners and inked around the edges with black. I stamped happy birthday on a leftover white piece of card,then onto black and doodled a bit more!!! lol!!!!

Right, I have to get on with a wordbook and a challenge layout now, oh and sleep!!!!

Thankyou for dropping by!!!

Lily-boo's boutique card!!!!

Hello!!!!

I am so excited today!!!! I have been playing with my big sisters images and my dad has been in touch to let us know the dates for when he is coming home to the UK for a holiday. In my excitement all the challenges and things I am doing got popped on the back burner and I have made my dads fathers day card ready for when he comes home from the seychelles!!! He couldn't come home last year so I can't wait for him to come home!!!!

I used one of the teddy images from my sisters collections to make this one and a new way of making a card that my lovely friend Fiona showed me last thursday. I have never made one before but it looked such a great card I had to try one.

I coloured my teddy with my whispers pens and popped some glittery bling on the bubbles in the bath and the bubbles floating around.

I popped some white card through my cuttlebug with the tiny bubbles folder and then inked it in green to tie it into the green card I used for the zigzag base. Then I printed the sentiments out in green on my computer, I inked the edges and stuck them on to my card. I cut out the teddy and some of the bubbles, I stuck some of the bubbles straight onto the card base and then mounted my teddy on some foam dots to pop him out.

I can't believe how cute he looks sat in the bath!!!!!

Heres the link if you want to check out Lily-boo's boutique!!

http://www.lily-boosboutique.blogspot.com/

I have some challenge bits and bobs to do now so I must dash!!!

Thankyou for popping in!!!

60th birthday tag accordian card!

Helloooooo!!! I hope everyone is having a great bank holiday, I am haing a busy one!!!! I have just finished off this 60th birthday card for my mum in law to give to her friend. There are 8 of them to sign it so I headed straight for my CDS and made a card similar to my 'leaving to have a bay' card I made a while back.

For this one I welded 3 tags from my george cart (in shadow function) together and cut it out (this one was done at 5.5" so I can fit it in a normal sized envelope!).

Then I stamped some flowers all over it with my watermark stamp pad and chalked over them with some creamy coloured shimmer glitter to dress it up a bit!!

I popped a bit of spotty brown ribbon on ( i love pink and brown together) and colored my tilda a pinky colour, I cut 2 more cakes out to get some layers on the cake, coloured them and gave them some stickles sparkle!!! Tilda's dress had some creamy shimmer chalk on it too but its hard to see in the picture!! I popped her on some foam dots and attached her to the card over the ribbon.

I cut the '60' twice in shadow function and once in normal to get that to stand up from the card a bit too, I stickled the normal '60'. They were cut from my teardrop cart.

For the tag pockets I used fabulous finds and cut 8 ticket pockets on the jagged setting at 2", I inked the edges and did a few doodle dots, stuck 2 together and then popped them through my cuttlebug with the divine swirls embossing folder. I stuck some anita's gems on the ends of the swirls. I think they look so pretty.

The tags are cut from my george cart again at 2" ( I think, didn't write that bit down....derrrr!!!) in both shadow function and normal. I inked the edges, stuck them together and then I popped some cream organza ribbon through the holes and popped a pink eyelet in.Then I stuck a set of 2 to 4 of the pages.

The sentiment I got from my hallmark cards studio and I used my word programme to get it onto the matching tag which I cut again from george at 4.25"

so I could get the shadowy effect from the base card. I stamped and powder embosed with my heat gun to get the little matching flower at the top of the sentiment and was done!!!!!

Now I have got a few cards to make for my big sis and some school transistion books to make and I will be done!!

Oh and I forgot I have a mount olympus of ironing to chug through later!!!!

Thankyou for popping by, I am off to ake some egg and cress sandwiches with the cress Mo has been growing on my kitchen windowsill!!!xxxxx

Party Edwin!!!

Hello peeps!!!!!
just a quicky for tonight as I am pooped out after a lovely day with 2 of my favourite men!!! ( nope not ty from xtreme makeover and simon baker.....dh and ds!!!)
This is my card for the male card challenge over on the cricut mb uk crafters thread.The challenge was a male card with a button on!!! (to get to this card I had 3 other attempts that lined my bin beautifully!!!!)
I finally decided to give myself a days break from it and went to play at my very lovely new friend fiona's house on thursday night and she let me stamp some of her magnolia stamps, i took a shine to this party edwin one nd stamped myself a couple in between snuggling fiona's new puppy spencer!!!
I took them home and placed them on my table but it was too late for me to play with him when i got home from fiona's and the rest of my week has been so busy!!
Finally last night I had a good chance to play and painted him up a bit. I popped some stickles on the tiny stars and inked the edges up. I used a bit of my big one stack to pop on the card base it says happy birthday and best wishes all over it. I stuck that down to my scalloped card base and inked the edges of that too.
Then i popped my ribbon on and threaded some through the holes in my little blue button ( lol!!! that was tricky!!!!!) and woo-hoo my card was done!!!!
I am loving my stamping attempts at the moment! I keep practising my colouring and I am really gettng into the swing of it!!
Don't forget to sneak a peek at my sisters blog, she has more image download on there now and more to come over the bank holiday!!!
Heres the link: http://www.lily-boosboutique.blogspot.com/

Another mothers day card!!!!

I have woken up in such a great mood today!!!!! I had a great night with my sister and she has done some really cute images for her blog that I will strive to get sorted for the weekend, she has even made up some little freebies to pop on her blog from time to time which I love. I got my mothers day card for my mil to give to her mil in australia finished up and I am going to play at a friend's house from the cricut mb tonight!!!

she lives just down the road from me and I am really looking forward to it.

Ok so for the mothers day card I used my wild card crat on the doily card setting ( i lurve the doily card!)

I cut it from some butterfly cardstock that I had in my stash and then I cut a circle for the front from my co-ordinations card in yellow and popped it through my cuttlebug with my divine swirls embossing folder. The sentiments are computer generated and I mounted the sticker on a bit of acetate and then foam dotted it to pop it out a little.

I added some inking around the edge and then a bit f bling with some tiny yellow gems. I tied a little yellow organza ribbon around the top to finish it off.

I made a little circle from some flowery paper (again from my stash...its amazing what i find in there!!) and did a bit of doodling aroud the edge of it.

Thankyou for popping in!!!!!

My first Tilda stampn cards!!!

Hello everyone!!!

I have been MIA for a couple of days on my blog as I have been soooo busy!! I have been making a couple of cards for the craft shop that I love for a charoty card make they are doing at the weekend, I can't go as scott and I have made plans to go walking with Mo. I still have a couple to finish up and a 60th birthday to finish but thought I had better post something here!!! (poor neglected little blog!!!)

I love,love,love these Tilda stamps I have bought and am eally getting addicted to them!!!!

I used some card bases I have had in my stash from my cross stitching mags, stamped and coloured my Tilda's and then popped them on so that they were 'sitting' on the cutout part of the card. I think the one with the buterfly and ladybird on is my favourite. I glazed the ladybird and the butterflyand stuck her hands and feet down but foam dotted the rest of her out,then added a bit of stickle bling to her bow and top and the pink flowers on the base, behind her I stamped some little flowers and chalked them pink, the foam dotting behind her is hard to see in the picture but it is a great effect as she looks a bit more real, soooo cute!!!

have a lovely day everyone, my big sis is coming to play tonight so we will hopefully be adding some more images to her blog,drinking lots of tea and generally eing a pair of dafties!!!!!

Trying new things!!!!!!

Wow!!! I have had a busy weekend trying new crafting techniques!!!!

On friday night I decided I would take the plunge and attempt a bit of a digital scrapbooking challenge from Diane (aka capdia!!) over on the fantastic new mb I have joined, heres the link to the new mb, it really is a great, friendly place to visit, make sure you mention me if you join!!lol!!! ( bit of a promotion going on over there!!! lol!!!!)

http://www.fromctoshiningc.com/

The sheep May calendar page was my try for this challenge!!! I used my hallmark card studio deluxe to make it for my mum who loves sheep!! I think its cute!!

Then on saturday morning I wombled off to my class to learn how to emboss stamps, and oh boy did I have fun, it was brilliant. I have the most amazing lady who teaches the class, she is so nice and funny and it makes the learning so much more enjoyable when you have someone like Ali teaching you.

The cards I made at class are in the second picture!!

Then as an extra, Ali gets out this brayer thing ( * at this point Lou thinks, omg, what the heck is that and what have I gotten myself into!!*) but OMG, this thing was amazing!!!

Ali had used some glossy card and made a card by using the bouncing brayer technique, it was absolutely stunning. My effort is the 3rd card!!! nowhere near as good as Ali's, (I just used the -rolling it and hope I am doing it right and not looking too stupid -tecnique!!!!)

I stamped the love doves (!!! don't know what the stamp is called!!) with a versamark watermark stamp pad and then rolled the rainbow ink over the image with the brayer, ooooh this is just so much fun, if you haven't tried it you really need to!!!!

I had filled up my loyalty card so ( and heres a warning to anyone who ventures into alicraft in lincoln...watch out for that Ali lady- she is a Level 1 enabler!!!! romfl!!!) with my free £15 I bought myself a brayer .....

( at this point I would love to blame Ali and Iain and say that they held me down and forced me to buy it!!! ....unfortunately I actually have to admit ...I am weak!!! and cannot resist the powers of enablers!!!! romfl!!!!)

Today is it a gorgeous sunny day again and me and mo are having a pyjama morning!!!!

So far this morning I have made some 'football club club' cards for my 9 year old son who wants to make up a club and have started colouring in some of my tilda stamps!!

Have a great sunday everyone, thankyou so much for popping in!!!