LOTV challenge 102- a sketch.

Morning peeps!!

Well,we were up early at the house of daubney today thanks to someone's car alarm going off.....repeatedly so I gave up trying to go back to sleep and decided to get busy doing some making instead.

When I turned on my google reader the new LOTV challenge was up and it was a yummy sketch by Donalda so that was what I decided to work on first!! Pop over there to see the sketch and their DT's awesome cards, I love them all!! I am also entering this cutie in the I love promarkers challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge. I used blush, soft peach, buttercup, sandstone,caramel, dusky pink, pear green, olive green and ivory to shadow. And the Sweet Stampin challenge blogs Things with Wings challenge.

I decided my new little pom pom fairy was going to get her first inking for this one!! I bought her at the stamp magic show, (along with 11 other  LOTV friends to keep her company...!!!!) and I love how this card turned out. The sketch is so nice to work with so I can see a few more popping out yet!!!!

I stamped her with memento rich cocoa onto a fabric doily and then coloured her with promarkers. They bled a little on the material but I have decided they added to the sketchy look of the cute little fairy. You can just about pick out the sparkle on her pom poms and wings but its still a little overcast here so taking a piccy is tricky!!!!

So don't forget to pop over to the LOTV challenge blog and look at the sketch, I am not putting a piccy on here or you wouldn't go for a visit now would you!!!!!! :)

Off to work/school for me and Little Mo, who has lost another tooth this morning!!! oh my goodness, he has such a huuuuge gap now with all 4 front teeth gone, I must admit he looks kinda cute though and the lisp he has gained is so sweet!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me, huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 55- Sugar and spice with a twist!!

Image- Toasting Properly from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment from Create with TLC.

Papers from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday again!!! That means fabby new images for the shop and a new challenge from us Tiddly Inkers over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog!! this week our challenge is....

SUGAR AND SPICE.

 So what is Sugar and Spice? well, this week our challenge this week is to make a sarcastic or humorous card. using one of your Tiddly Inks Images. If you need a little inspiration, pop over to the Tiddly inks challenge blog and see what the other Tiddly Inkers have been creating, they are so awesome. Love y'all girls xxxxx

For my card I used the gorgeous gothic Toasting Properly. The gothic characters over on Tiddly Inks are my fav gothic characters out there, they are fabulous and I decided that my toasting properly was having a good old glass of champagne!! ( of course it had to be gothicly coloured burgundy champagne...I know it doesn't exist but it looks great and I would love some!!!!)

The I love bubbles sentiment from create with TLC was just perfect for this one!! Love it!!

So go grab your fav Tiddly Inks images and make us something sugary and spicey to look at!! can't wait to see your creations!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Fore You!!!

Image- The Big Guy Golfing from Mo's digital pencil.

Papers- FBQ bear necessities from Nitwit collections.

Morning peeps!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful fathers day, we are. We have been down to the golfing range for Daddy and Mo to send a few balls flying and now we are all vegging out at home!

This card is the one I made for my step dad for fathers day. He has gone off golfing for the day so we took it at 7am this morning before we left.

I was super inspired by Liza over on the cupcake craft challenge blog DT for this card. I am entering their boy oh boy oh boy challenge with it so thank you oodles Liza xxxx

For mine I used The Big Guy Golfing from Mo Manning's shop. He is fabulous!!!! I really enjoyed coloring him up with my promarkers.I cut him out with my nesties. Then I made my for you dad sentiment in word and printed it out, I punched it out with my circle punch and the de-bossed it with my tiny bubbles embossing folder in my cuttlebug.

I popped it out by rolling one of Little Mo's huge marbles around on the back of it!!! I love how it turned out!!! (and yes, I drew the tee and it is pants!!!) and it is popped up on some foam

I made the background using my FBQ Bear necessities papers from Nitwits collections. I lurve these digi papers and elements. The little ropey bit was from the Aye Aye captain nitwits. I put it all together in paint shop so that it printed out as one layer and I made the inside to match.

I added some doodles around the edges to finish it off and a bit of chalking to soften the edges before I glued it down onto my card.

Challenges I am entering with my big guy!!!:

Cupcake craft challenges boy oh boy oh boy challenge.

Papertake weekly's Dads and lads challenge.

Totally Papercrafts Die cuts and punches challenge.

Right, I am off for a cuppa now and a little nibble of something to eat. Thank you for popping in on me!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

whoops....

Image- Whoops from Tiddly Inks.

Sentiment- a freebie from Create with TLC.

Papers from my MME freebie pad.

Morning peeps!!!

How are you all today? great I hope!!! I have been up for a while and having some crafty fun already!!!

I wanted to try out my fabby new black watermark so naturally I had to get out some of my stroke only fav papers and make something delicious and summery!!!

My gothic cutie Whoops from Tiddly Inks ( linky up there ^ under the card piccy!!) and the funny sentiment I got from Create with TLC ( yup, linky up there ^ too!!!) worked together so well on this one!!!

I popped my sentiment on a little McDonalds coffee stirrer to make it into a little sign and my Whoops had to have Little Mo's fav icecream flavour which is mint choc chip!!!

Challenges I would like to enter with this gothic cutie are:
The Charisma cardz pink and green challenge.
and the Stamp Something Pretty Papers challenge.

Its a little overcast here today :( but on a positive note, wobbler number 3 came out yesterday for little mo. Unfortunately he lost it at school...luckily he wrote the tooth fairy a letter with a map to show her where school was and she left him a letter last night with a shiny gold coin to say she had found it and thank you for the map..... :) :)
Here he is with his gappy mouth!!!!

(yes, he was pooped out when I took the piccy last night and his eyes look super heavy!!! poor child!!!)
but OMGoodness, check out that gap!!!!! hope his new teeth come soon!!! he has the cutest lisp ever going on now!!!!! and you would of giggled at him this morning when he went to have a drink out of his sports water bottle!! he tried to open it with his front teeth and they weren't there!!! oh the things we take for granted!!!!!!! LOL!!!!

Have a fabby saturday!! hugs Lou and the gappy one!!!!

Something Funky!!!

Papers- from  Funky Hand's Dreams Come True papercraft factory.

Morning peeps!!

I just wanted to share scott's nanna's birthday card with you today. When Fi and I were at stamp magic last sunday we were looking at some simple cards with just sentiments on and they were beautiful so I wanted to have a go at making one. Scott's nanna's birthday is next week so she got to be my Guinea pig!!!

I have to say I am totally in shock at how gorgeous it is when you just use something simple on the front. I just chose to write Nanna in some pretty script writing. I added a few simple flowers and a little martha ( fronds....you can't have roses without martha you know...!!!)

OOOh and check out my cute new little watermark, love it!!!!!!!

I am popping this card into the challenge this month over on By the cute and girly challenge blog which is in the garden. and the Totally Gorjuss challenge blogs Flower power challenge.

And while I am writing away, I just want to remind you that the new challenge is up over on Get Funky and it is a fabulous sketch by Da Boss!!!

Here it is...click on the piccy to transport you to Get Funky and the rest of the challenge details..not forgetting the Fabulous Funky Freebie that you could use on this months challenge card!!!

The Funkettes will be posting their inspiration for you every couple of days so keep popping back and have fun creating yours!!!!

I am going to go get another cup of tea and catch up on a few blogs before I go to work. The sun is shining and Mo is busy reading, its so lovely as we are sat listening to the birds. Mo is having a bit of a wobble about school again so relaxing mornings are key at the moment. Have a great day everyone!!

Hugs Lou xxxx



My little bro's birthday!!

Hello peeps!!!

33 years ago today my little brother came into my life and I love him to bits. Today is his birthday and this is the card I made for him last week (.......it is also the card that is still sitting on my desk when it should actually be on his kitchen table because dipstick here forgot to post it, argghhhhhhh!!)

A few years ago, he did a few 'swaps' to get a VW Camper van, it was so exciting He doesn't still have it but it was such an achievement when he got  it and I was very proud of him. So his card just had to be something VW and I have this cute stamp set called Road Trip from inkadinkado.

The postcard and circle sentiment are LOTV and the paper is from my 12x12 stash.

So mahoosive apologies to my fabulous little brother Pete for fogetting to post it but hopefully he will see this and know that I didn't foget to think about him and make him one!! I hope you are having a fabulous day and love you so much xxxxxxxxx

Off to fetch Mo and have tea at my mum's now, yummo!! I love wednesdays!!! then tonight I have more bits to make and do!!

I will be back to pop in on you all later in bloggy land!!!

hugs Lou xxxxxx

Another one for the lili of the valley anything goes challenge!!

Image- Love Grows from Lili of the valley.

papers- MME and cream pearlescent paper.

Hello Peeps!! me again!!

A friend at work asked me if I could make an engagement card for her to give to her friend. I just had to use one of my super sweet new Lili of the valley stamps that I bought on sunday (...yup, I got 12!!! and now I am saving up for some of the new cute little girl ones!!!) This one is called 'Love Grows' and it is a perfect little summery image too.

I cut out a heart shape with my cricut on my fabulous stamping card, (that I also bought a bit more of at the show!!! you can never have enough...) and coloured it in with my promarkers. The little pot has some pink glaze pen on and it looked so cute! I also added a little natural rafia to the heart and ran some pearlescent cream paper through my cuttlebug with the tiny hearts embossing folder, that got distressed with a bit of frayed burlap, along with the heart!!!!

And of course, the much needed punched edge from Martha!! a card should never be without one!!!!! this one is the doily hearts punch.

The teeny butterfly with its congrats sentiment is one from my stash that my lovely Kat sent me in blog candy a few years ago. I use it all the time, its so cute!!!

Here is a close up...

OMG!!! its so cute!!! I can't wait to open a few more of my stamps tonight!!!

I am going to enter this one in the LOTV challenge blogs Anything Goes challenge ( I hope its ok to enter 2?) .

And the Totally Papercrafts Summer challenge as this is such a cute summery little image.

And the Stamp Something challenge blogs something punched challenge!!

I promise not to post anymore tonight!! :) :) and please scroll down if you are looking for my Tiddly Tuesday post!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 54- Create a one layer card.

Image- Flower Blooms fromTiddly Inks.

SU tiny tags stamp set and punch.

Red embroidery thread.

Distress ink.

Happy Tiddly Tuesday peeps!!!

Over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog We are celebrating "crafting with a twist" for the month of June and we really twisted it this week---we have to Simplify!! OMG!!! I nearly fell off my chair when I read this one!!!!

Then a funny thing happened and I got super busy with some of Christy's coloured art. OMG they are just fabulous to work with and made the challenge so much fun. You can find a whole bunch of fabulous coloured Tiddly Inks Here...

I made a few little notecards and all I needed to do was add a little thread on one, ribbon and distress inks.

So as hard as it might be (ask the rest of the Tiddly Inkers..this was a toughy!!) get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and , please create a one-layer card , you can add a squidge of ribbon or twine.

This one uses Be Anything but typical.

Oh I love the way she is sitting there with her martini!! and check out those awesome zebra print shoes!! and the best thing is, that diamondy background that you can just about see comes altogether with the image, Yey!!! I added a little shabby shutters distress ink around the edges to tie in the yummy greens in the image, a bit of green ribbon and a flower charm.

And now onto my fav....this one was my favourite because it is so fun and it always reminds me of one of my awesome tiddly inker DT buddies, Melissa. It is called Chemical Love and I love it!!

Again, all this card needed was a little red distress ink around the edges to tie in the red in the coloured image and KAPOW!!! job done!!!

I actually have 2 more of these on the go at the mminute but I couldn't get them finished in time to post!!! I will get them finished off for later in the week!!

Now go get busy with your Tiddly Inks and I can't wait to see how you use your them for this challenge!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

I just can't stop square dancing!!!!!!

Image- Inky Critters from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Frozen Lake- Funky Seasons from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps! me again and yes, I am addicted to the sketch!!!!!! and yes I know its a christmas card but you can never start too early!!!

Here is the sketch in question....(if you click on it, it will take you straight over to Kathy's sketch blog, where you too can become addicted!!!!!!! romfl!!!!)

The gorgeous little christmas characters are the inky critters for christmas from Tiddly Inks and the totally delicious papers are from Funky Hands Funky Seasons cd. ( linkies under card piccy!!)

I have had a lovely day because sports day went ahead as planned and it was lovely. It is just an hour of little races but it was lovely to see and Mo even got a 3rd place ticket on the bat and ball race (....errrrr, have to confess....he held the ball onto the bat a little....all the way down the track!!!) and he was really brave until half way through when his asthma started to niggle him a bit. It was nice to be sat the other side of the track and see him ask his teacher if he could go get his inhaler, daft as it sounds it helps me to see that he knows when he needs it without reminders from me. The school PTA did strawberries and cream which were delicious and we were able to bring mo home a little early as the children whose parents were there were able to go home if they wanted to.

Right I am off for a cuppa now!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Cooking up a funky recipe!!!

Papers from Dreams Come True from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!

Well, its the 13th June which means you still have today and tomorrow to cook something up with Kathy's recipe over on Get Funky!!!

Here is Kathy's delicious recipe.....

5 Flowers
Use 3 different papers

2 Buttons

1 Ribbon (cut up or in one strip whatever you prefer)

and a sprinkling of Gems or pearls

Yummo right?!!!
For my card I headed for my Dreams Come True papercraft factory and chose 2 gorgeous papers and teamed them up with the special May challenge Freebie FunkyKraft paper download Anice has over in the shop!! so come and get cooking with us over on the Get Funky challenge blog, the only thing we ask you to remember is to use at least one Funky Hand product on your challenge entries!!! easy peesy!!!

I punched the little flowers and branches and made my own big buttons using my cirlce punch and ribbon hole punch. I inked the edges to make them look a bit more buttony!!!!

Don't forget to pop over to Get Funky and check out the rest of the funkettes cooking!!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx