Tiddly Tuesday- April showers bring may flowers!!

Image- Who Loves You from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand.

Magnolia swirl stamp.

Morning peeps!!!

Wow..Tuesday already!! That must mean its time for Tiddly Tuesday again and a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.

This week its a theme and the Tiddly Inkers want to see you rain inspired projects. I chose the sweet little owl in his tree called Who Loves You. I printed him out on some linen cardstock and had a chalk colouring day! it felt like ages since I had used my chalks and they go so nicely on the linen card stock.
I made some rain using my pastel blue promarker and then popped some glossy accents over the top to make it look wet!!!
Here's a little close up......

Awwww, he's so cute!! I am not sure its easy to see but my little owl is popped up on some silicone.

For my card base I printed straight onto my linen card using my Funky Hand Craft The Year Away cd. I love the colour on this one, its from the Come What May colourway.
My sentiment is actually some of the verse from one of my favourite Eric Clapton songs!!! I just typed it out on my computer and printed it onto one of my scraps of the linen cardstock and cut it into a square shape.

I chalked over the sentiment in some glittery blue chalk but its a squidge hard to see.

I am popping this is for the Allsorts Challenge blogs April Showers challenge.

Oh and super exciting!!! on saturday its the start of the Tiddly Inks Treasure Hunt!!!

You WILL NOT want to miss this fun and inspiring hop!!! Christy, the captian!!and artist at Tiddly Inks has cooked up some seriously adorable NEW images!!!  and well what's a treasure hunt without plenty BOOTY  to be grabbed??!!- surprises and prizes!!!! Wooohoooo! I can't wait - so get ready for April 30th. Don't forget to set sail with us and get your spade ready for digging out clues and booty!!!
 Yaaaaaaarrghhhh!!!



Off back to work and school for me and little mo today! the tooth fairy came last night as his first ever wobbly tooth fell out at nannie's house yesterday while he was enjoying a corn on the cob!!!!

Have a great Tiddly Tuesday hugs Lou xxxx

diamond wedding anniverary piccy!!

 Hello peeps!!!!

so here we all are at the diamond wedding annivesary of scott's nanna and grandad. It was the most amazing day and I loved every minute!!
I don't normally like having my picture taken at all but I am ok when my oldest and fabby friend Leah is clicking away.
I am the chick sat on the grass and scott is the gorgeous guy stood on the left in the blue checked shirt. Mo is next to me and Ryan is on the floor on the right hand side in the same clothes as Mo. They are so funny like that wanting to wear the same clothes but I am actually cherishing it at the moment as I bet it won't last much longer ( lou sobs into her cuppa!!!)

And here is a little piccy of  Little Mo taking a picture of Aunty Leah taking a picture of him!!! soooo cute!!!!

(...oooh yeah and thats me too!!!!)

There are too many totally awesome piccies for me to share in one post so I might share a few more later in the week, Leah is so darn clever!! Here is Leah's Redbubble site if you fancy a peek at some more of her piccies.

Off to snuggle on the settee for a bit now before I  get an early night! back to work tomorrow!!
TTFN!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Snuggles for easter!!

Rose Fence- from Lilyboo designs.

Tilda holding egg basket-from Sir Stampalot.

Happy Easter sentiment- from my BF Fi's stash!!

Morning peeps!!!!

Its me and my little buddy Tilda here to wish you all a very Happy Easter!!!!!

I have had a lovely morning so far with a little easter egg hunt for Little mo and Ryan and a bit of crafty time too!! I have made 8 paper easter baskets ( thank you Donna!!!) and this super cute little magnolia hanging for my kitchen.

I forgot to write down which promarkers I was using but definately remember sandstone and caramel for the fence!!! I love love love this Rose Fence. Partly because Tilda looks great with it but mostly because my fabulous big sister drew it!! you can get it HERE. ( its only 99p so a complete bargain!!) I resized it in my paint shop and  printed a few out on one A4 sheet ( I know I will need to use it again!! lol !!)

Well, I had better get myself dressed really as I am still sat here in a rather fetching pair of turqouise pj's with white spots on!!! sooooo laazeeeeee!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful day with lots of yummy choccies to eat!!! I am very lucky as Little mo doesn't really do easter eggs so he has 3 little kinder eggs with toys in and we all know that hollow eggies have less calories and when eaten with a hot cup of tea, all the calories melt away.........:)

Huge easter snuggles

Lou xxxxxxxxx

Happy Easter from Funky Hand!!!

I have been busy this morning helping little mo put some compost in his little flower bed and have been lucky enough to have time to get a little crafting done too!!! because........

Oh there are the best easter treats ever over on the Funky Hand website.  Anice is having a BIG Easter Sale on NOW with 25% off EVERYTHING available for sale on the website until 10pm Monday 25th April.
So its a fabby time to go grab yourself the Craft the Year Away cd (...or any of the other awesome cd's!!), some Betty stamps or some yummy funky hand stash!!!

Now I think I used some of the papers off funky seasons for this one, the stamp is a LOTV sentiment circle stamp.

I fancied trying a bit of green mono-tone!!!!! I love the way the little patterns make the card look soooo funky.

Right off for a big play in the sun with my little man now so have a fabulous sunny day peeps and get yourselves over to the funky hand sale!!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Diamond wedding...diamond fold!!!

 Morning peeps!!!

I am so excited because today Scott's nana and grandad are celebrating 60 years of marriage!! wow 60 years of loving and caring and sharing your life with the person you love, that is just so amazingly special.

So naturally for the diamond wedding I decided I just had to do a diamond fold and use some yummy diamondy paper and bling too!!!

(...note to self.....yummy diamondy paper does not like having its photo taken and will look poop no matter what you try so when you get to 20 photos and it still doesn't look right.....GIVE UP!!!!!! romfl!!)

I decided to stick with a white and blingy colourscheme and added lots of teeny gems to the ribbon and a few more on the hearts. I cut the hearts,60 and initials using my george cart on my cricut. A bit of martha was most necessary so the fronds and doily lace just had to go on!!! :)

You can just about see the teeny fimo roses in the midst of all the fronds!! which would be fab as I am entering this in this weeks C.R.A.F.T. challenge which is Flowers.

So that's my creation of the morning!! There may be more later as it is crafty night with big sis tonight, she has some new images (peeky HERE if you want to see them, I need the rose fence for my tilda's to sit on!!....) for me to drool over and  I am sure there will be oooodles of giggling too!!! ( ...i think we giggle more than craft but hey that's what sisters are for isn't it?!!!!!)

Right, must go get dressed and sorted for the day!!! see you all later!!

huge hugs
Lou xxxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge- You're A Stitch !!

Image-Tainted from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Stitched Up paper from Tiddly Inks.

Its Tiddly Tuesday again!!!  and our little team of Tiddly Inkers are asking you to use some stitching on your project this week over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog. It can be faux or real stitching and as always please remember to use a Tiddly Inks image to join the challenge!!!

For my card I used one of the gorgeous gothic girls, Tainted, I love love love them and had so much fun pootling away doing this card on sunday night. I coloured her up with my promarkers and added a bit of glitz to her hair which shows up better in this piccy...

The delicious stitched paper is Tiddly Inks too. I layered a couple of the pieces up in my paint shop pro and then printed out the single sqaure for inside the card. I distressed all the edges to goth it up a bit!!

 The huge stitches I made myself using some paper string from ikea, fab stuff!!! and the cute yet gothic alphas I downloaded from Kelly's awesome blog.

The base colour pink is layerd up on foam and the alphas and my lovely Tainted are all layered up on silicone to make them pop out so I am entering this card into the challenge over on Papertake weekly , which is Truly Dimensional, the Cupcake Challenge blog which is lots of layers and the Haunted Designs Macabre mondays challenge which is Gothic pin ups ( and sponsored by Tiddly Inks too!!). Here is a piccy that shows the layers a bit!!

I made the flower by scrunching up some scalloped circles, loads of fun and very theraputic!!!

Right, I am back onAunty Lou duty today!! I have been informed we are making something bunny today!!

Have a fabulous Tiddly Tuesday and please pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and peek at what the awesome Tiddly Inkers have been making to get you started, I can't wait to see your entries peeps!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Daring cardmakers challenge.

Image-Lilyboo designs I'm Here...

Papers- Stripes funky freebie from Funky Hand.

Well I was pootling down my blogger dashboard this morning and saw that the Daring Cardmakers  and the C.R.A.F.T challenge blog were having a spring time/ easter theme and over on Bunny zoe's challenge blog it is one for the boys!!  which is fab as I was just sitting in my craft room starting  Little mo's easter card!!! He was supposed to be having a pj day with me but it turned out just to be a pj morning as his little friend Elliott who lives a couple of doors away came to call for Mo and they are presently asking the builders who are doing some new pipe work with big diggers and other exciting boy stuff near the field which is right outside the front of our house. (I can see them from here in my craft room and feel extremely sorry for the builders who are being asked for at least the billionth time " what is that bit for then man?"!)

Little mo loves anything mythical so I just had to use the cute little dragon from my sisters digi's!! I coloured up the cute little guy with my promarkers and a bit of at you spica in there too, just to bling him up a little.

I wanted some super cheery papers so I just had to use the fabulously stripey and gorgeous papers are from the freebie lovingly created by Anice at Funky Hand for our Debs's Spots and Stripes challenge over on Get Funky. Please pop on over to see Debs's delicious card that has started us off for funky fifteenth and join in the fun with us this month.
The spots I made myself so that they pop out, all I did was punch some teeny circles out and emboss them then glue them on with silicone!

Right then, another card coming on I think!! hope you are all having a fabulous friday!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Father of the bride/groom cards!!

Hiyah peeps!!!

Oh boy I am feeling so rough today, normal monthly yukkies but after some considerable mooching on the settee tonight I decided it was time to get on with a couple more of Gabby's cards. I am actually quite sad that I only have 1 more left to do now, I have been enjoying pootling along with them!!!

So tonight it was the turn of the fathers of the bride/groom. I used a heart idea that I saw on a video on the lovely Dawn's blog a few weeks ago. If you have never been to Dawn's blog before she is a total must. i have been following her for a few years now and have made a few Dawn things!!! :) they are always so much fun.

I always feel so sorry for the dads as they must feel such a mixed bag of emotions on the day and I always think they feel a little left out so on the insides of these 2 there is a poem from the bride and a poem from the groom too.

I wanted to try and keep them 'manly' so embossed some black cardstock with divine swirls and popped out the tuxedo hearts on foam. I hope Gabby likes them. I love how these cards came out.

Right I am going to go and tuck myself up in bed with my hot wheaty bag and get to sleep. I hope I feel a bit better tomorrow. Scott is off out to the gadget show live for the day so me and Little mo are having a mummy and mo veg out on the settee day!!I was supposed to be having the day with my big sis and her children but  just don't feel up to it. Mo has decided we should have a pj day again because mummy feels 'ruffty' so there will be no arguing from this mummy!! bless him!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me, its comforting to know you all read my waffles!!!! :)



Lou xx

Getting my ribbons sorted!!!

Hello peeps!!!

Just a quicky post from me today as I have spent the whole day pootling around sorting my craft room out with Scott. I had 2 things that hubby was required for today and we planned the day a few weeks ago!!!

Number 1 was to get my ribbons sorted. I am completely blaming my lovely bloggy pal vicky for this one. Hers is a lot more classy than mine!!

 I thought I had 2 long bygel rails but it turns out I only had the one so a trip to B&Q for a 12mm pine dowel and a packet of large cup hooks was the first job of the day!!

Then home to get them sorted and put up.

In the piccy you can just about see the little bits of string I tied all the clips up with!! took ages but I can't believe how much ribbon I thought I didn't have ;)

Then onto my little lights, they are the teensy round circles on the bottom of my cupboards just above the ribbon rails. They came with the cupboards that my fabby little brother gave us ages ago and when I am using my cricut expression or cuttlebug its a bit dark down that end of the table so Scott said he would put them up for me. They light it up fab! yey!!

The picture is cleverly cropped to hide the mass of destruction that is still on my craft desk down that end!!! my baby bug is just nestled behind my cuttlebug,he is probably giggling at the big E who is stuck under lots of mess!!!!!!

Right off to give mo a snuggle and a kiss and catch a quick nap before I go and tidy up the messy desk!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxxxx

Tiddly Tuesday- new release!!!!

Image- Hoppy Easter from Tiddly Inks.

papers-memory makers.

promarkers-ivory,pastel biege,pastel pink,

olive green,pear green,crarmel & cocoa.

Morning peeps!!

i have survived my night of camping (...or 'tenting' as mo is calling it!!) It was cold and windy but Mo loved it and woke up so excited at 6am this morning!! He fell straight asleep which surprised us a little as we thought he might want to stay awake (...lou hears the sound of her friends falling onto the floor with laughter,saying "mo stay awake...past 5:30pm...yeah right!!!) Well he managed until 6pm but was out like a light !! LOL!!!

Here he is all tucked up in snuggle land last night...

Awwwww!!!

I am excited because it is Tiddly Tuesday. Over on the challenge blog we are carryingon withour 2 week challenege...



And the prizes are.......

1) One random winner of a $10 gift voucher (there will not be a Top 5).

2) And a new fun idea...a "referral reward" for up to 10 people.

So head over to the Tiddly Inks store - pick up an image or two and join the fun!

*MAKE SURE TO CLICK HERE TO JOIN ALONG AND FIND ALL THE DETAILS!!!*

And here is a peeky of Christy's new release........

isn't she just awesome?!!!!! I know I will definately be having a play with her later!!!

If you pop on over to Christy's blog she has some sneaky peekies of some very cute and special images she is getting ready for the Tiddly Inks 1st birthday!!!

Right on with my day!!! cuppa and defrosting in the bath!!

Have a great day peeps!!

Hugs Lou xxxx