DCM how many candles challenge.

 Image and papers- Happy Happy Birthday

from Funky Hand.

Hello peeps!!! I am back with another post, 2 in one day again??!!!!

I just had to join in with the DCM's challenge this week. The host is my lovely funkyhand teamie Kathy and she has set the challenge of How Many Candles? all you need to do is have at least one candle on your card, eezy peezy!!! quick go make something and join in!!

And their sponsor this week is none other than our Funky Boss Anice!!! and the most exciting bit is that the prize is the yummy new Happy Happy Birthday cd!!! ooooooohhhhh!!!! now ya'll know I love it!!!!

I used the cake image ( I chose to use the coloured one) and some papers from the birthday girl colourway.The sentiment is from Happy Happy birthday too, so how cool that everything all got printed off and splodged onto a card Lou style!! lol!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the DCM blog and look at the DT's gorgeous cards to get you inspired for your make!!!

hugs Lou xxxx

Smile!!!

 Wordbook- from Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!

How are you all this fine friday? ( Lou looks out of window and thinks......ermmmm weather not fine, weather blooming awful!!!) but I am oh so happy in my heart today that it doesn't matter whats happening with the weather!!

So were you all watchinng C&C with Anice yesterday?? isn't she clever and super fab??!!! We had to record it in the Daubney household as we were all at work/school but can you imagine Little Mo's excitement when he saw himself on tv in this little wordbook??? (....oh yeah and can you imagine how shocked Scott was to see himself on tv too, I might of forgotten to tell him his piccy was in the front!!!!) Oh Mo was so chuffed!!! 

I have to say I was super happy because all the funkette's are just the fabbest bunch of creator's you have ever seen and the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory is just the best. 

So using the surprise colourway on Happy Happy Birthday I made this smile wordbook full of my fav smiles from my nutty family!!!

Here's mamma and pappa cheeeeeeese......

 Thing one and Thing 2 with their cheeky cheeeeeeese's......

 Gorgeous Thing 1 piccy taken by Aunty Leah which we love............

 And one of my favourite quotes ever by Mother Teresa....

I hand stitched the word smile but its a bit tricky to see in the piccy!!!


Then last night I got a text with the most awesome news I have had since Little Mo got his achievers award certificate ( ...which might I add he is getting in achievers assembly today, proud mummy!!!). I got a message from a very special lady telling me that her and her very special man had got engaged. I was so happy (.....yup you guessed it...I cried!!!) So a week of complete loveliness here and I feel like I am smiling from the inside out.


I hope you enjoyed my cheeeeesy post!!! I am off to work now and wil be back to pop in on everybody tonight when I get home!!  then I have a very special peeps engagement card to make.


HUGE hugs!!
Lou xxxxxx

LOTV wedding

Stamp- Wedding Couple from LOTV

Sentiment- A5 verses from LOTV

Papers- Craft the year away from Funky Hand

(November rain colourway)

Morning peeps!!

its a work morning for me so I am just popping in quick to share with you one of the wedding cards I made yesterday. This one is for my mum to give my great cousin for his wedding on saturday, it doesn't seem 5 minutes since he was a poorly little baby with a hole in his heart so I am so so pleased to of made this card for his wedding day.

I used purple because mum's invite had a purple ribbon on it so I was kinda guessing on the colourscheme a bit but I am super lucky to have my Funky Hand papercraft factory programmes with a zillion scrumptious papers in to turn to!!  I used Craft the Year Away for this one and I love the little flowery paper, too cute.

A little bit of nestifying and martha-ing and I was done really, then I decided I wanted to add some personalisation so I typed out Greg and sarah's names and the date of the wedding on my pooter, printed them out and then punched them with my SU tiny tags punch. I attached them with some stitching thread and tied a teeny bow and then I was finished........until I decided I needed a little bit of bling on there too ( well, I did say i wanted to make it special !!!) so I added some lilac gems around the lacey circle nestie. Then...wohooooo!! it was done!!!


I am so super super excited too as little Mo has won the achiever of the week award at school and is going to get a little certificate in assembly on friday. Anyone who knows me will know this is so so special for Mo as he finds school really rather scary but this year he seems to of just settled right into it, phew!! I am so very proud of him.

Anyway, I had better get my butt into gear and go to work but before I do I just want to remind you to turn on the TV at 9am and 4pm, on the C&C channel  (Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813) and watch our Anice strutting her funky stuff as she demo's the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory. 

It is totally delicious with some extremely yummy templates so you won't want to miss it.

Have a great day!!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Teddy first birthday!

Morning Peeps!!
Happy Hump Day!!

Now , don't all fall over at once but I used my cricut!!!!!! romfl!!!! might even have to use it some more later (.....and definately will be using it all day saturday at cricut club so good job I had a practice!!!!)

I was in a button pressing mood and had a 1st birthday card to make so out came my create a critter cart (which is so totally cute!!!).
I loved having a bit of a lazy make! cut, stick, done!! lol!!!! and I added a little flower to the teddy and her balloon. I used a scrap of funky Hand paper to make the flowers and her dress with, good girl Lou!!!!

Right off to tackle the worlds biggest laundry pile, the wind was so fab yesterday I got 2 huge loads dry but now I have to face the consequences!!!! :) :) then I have 3 wedding cards to make! and all before I go and fetch my precious little boy from school!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Another rainy day and a very proud mummy moment!!!

Image- Rainy Day from Saturated Canary Digi's

Papers- Happy Happy Birthday- Birthday boy colourway

from Funky Hand

***This is my 2nd post for today so please scroll down or go HERE for my Tidlly Inks challenge post***

Hiyah peeps!!

I had some me time today which was lovely so I decided to have a play with my other Rainy Day from Saturated Canary digi's that was left from my playtime yesterday!!!!! (well, she did look kinda lonely sat there on her own!!!)

My printer has decided that anything with yellow in will not be printed without looking all weird so I am down to my dark colours only!! and being as I only have a couple of red, a couple of blue and greys (warm and cool) in my copics box I decided they should have an outing for a change!!

Rainy Day was lots of fun to colour today and then I distressed the edges and decided to do some hand stitching too.

I chose the splotty paper from my Happy Happy birthday cd because I decided it makes a neat rain splot background!! then I printed out the dark blue lineny looking one and pulled in some red paper from my stash to match my colouring.

Then the postman came and I had the best surprise ever, it was a postcard from Little mo's headteacher and it said...

I did what every proud mummy would do and cried!!!! I am so unbelievably proud of him. 

Right off to get a snuggle from Mo, then its bathtime!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly inks challenge 65- special 2 week Art Journalling challenge.

Image- Aida from Tiddly inks.

Paper- Key paper ( retired freebie from Christy)

Morning Peeps!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again and so its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly inks challenge blog.

And this week it is a super one, we want you to join us over the next two weeks with a special journal page---or project (featuring a Tiddly Inks image, hopefully). We thought the extended time would be helpful if art journaling is new to you.

And for me, art journalling was totally new(....yup.....I panicked totally when I got the email for this challenge from our Christy!!!!) so after much scouring of google ( don't worry, Christy has found some excellent linkies over on the challenge blog for you to peeky at!!) I took the plunge and decided to do a page on my utter confusion of where to start!!!!

Aida represents a very confounded Lou and the string is my loopy mind trying to work out where to go!! lol!!! anyhoo a bit of scrunching up paper, distressing and heat embossing copper powder and I was a bit happier about my new learning curve!!! and I can happily report I am busy with page 2 already!! yey lou!!!!

Well, thats me for today then!!! I am going to take little Mo to school ad then pop in on my mum, then its home for some crafty goodness!!!!

Huge hugs

Lou xxxxx

Sprocket the steampunk aviator!!

Image- sprocket the steampunk aviator from Saturated canary digi's.

Hello peeps!!

I am popping in late today because I have had a fabby day of crafting with my BF. we had a good play in MTC and making some really cute boxes, I had such a nice day.

I picked Mo up and came home to a power cut....argggghhhhhhhhhh!!! so a quicky hob tea for us tonight (....after dopey here remembered you need to light the gas with a match as the electric clicky button won't work in a power cut.....) and Mo is just playing out the front now. It is so windy!!

Todays share from me is Sprocket, another of my new digi's from Saturated Canary. I coloured her up last night and was in blue and pink mode!! hence the super funky blue blingy hair and lippy she is sporting!!! I am sporting blue fingers from my distress inks...am sure BF thinks I don't bathe at night......!!)

I really didn't need to add too much to this little chick, just an embossed background, scrumpled up bit of lace and a super yummy piece of paper from my stash that I stamped cogs all over!! The cogs and sentiment are from my SU sense of time stamp set, love it and use it oodles!


I am popping this over in the Simon says stamp and show some steampunk challenge. I am very much still a learner when it comes to putting some steampunk together so I was blown away with their DT's creations!!!

Right off to see what Mo is doing now as he has taken his bike, helmet on head and is just carting his big brothers skateboard ramp out through the gate....evil kenevil watch out!!!!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Hugs Lou xxxxx

Rainy Day.....

Image- Rainy Day from Saturated Canary Digi's

Hello again peeps!!

Now no laughing allowed from my friends who all know that I am completely addicted to digital papers but......my printer hath died!!!!!! argghhhhhhhh!!! DH is currently standing over it and garbling many techie things..... of which I have no clue what they mean.... but I am diligently nodding, saying mmmmm and being wifely supportive!!!

So when my gorgeous new Rainy Day digi from Krista plopped into my emails I was fine printing her out in black, phew!! and for once there is not a DP in sight on my card!! go Lou!!!

There is,however, oodles of antique photo distress ink, stamping and clear heat embossing on it with a sprinkling of gorgeous ribbon and a few pearls!!!!

Isn't she gorgeous all dressed up in her fall colours?? I used a whole bundle of promarkers for this one!! 

the orangey colours are...apricot, honeycomb,ginger and burnt orange

           browns are... terracotta,henna and burnt umber

          skin- blush, peach and soft peach

          hair- vanilla,putty and caramel

          eyes-denim blue

Right off to make fabby DH a cuppa and hope he can sort my printer out before I get shakes of withdrawal.........

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

One layer quicky cards!!

 Image- Hi There Boy from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- FBQ Aye Aye Captain from Nitwit Collections.

Hello peeps!!

How is everyone's sunday going? Mine is fab. Mo woke up later again this morning, a lovely 6:40am this morning, its so nice to have that extra few minutes in bed.

I got some housework done and Mo and Scott went off to the driving range to play a bit of golf so I got busy on playing around with my Tiddly inks images!!!

I wanted to play with the new Hi There girl and boy so armed myself with paintshop and a couple of my old nitwits and got to work on some one layer cards for a change, you know the ones where you play around then press print and they are done!!! yey!!! flat for postage!!!

I placed all my layers together, merged and then added the Hi There girl and boy .png's to each card. They come out white when I print them so I can then promarker them up however I fancy. I love cards like this to ease myself into a crafting morning, both of these were finished in 20 mins flat!! lurvely!!!!

Image- Hi There Girl from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- FBQ Bear neccesities from Nitwit Collections.

So there we go! a couple of Lou quickies!!! off to get messy again now in my craft room as Mo is pootling around outside at the bottom of the drive with his scooter and a doctors dressing up kit!! he is the height of fashion my boy!!! romfl!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Saturated canary Digi's- Nevaeh.

Nevaeh from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Papers from Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Hello again peeps!!


We had a fabby morning at the little peeps bowling party and then a little bit of chilling when we came home.


Then I got some crafty time !!!!! wooohooooo!!!!!


So I had a little play with Nevaeh from Krista's new etsy shop, Saturated Canary Digi's. (.....now, if you clicked the linky straight away here is my little apology for you spending all your pennies in the shop on yumo digi's.....nah, changed my mind about the apology because ya'll need to be led astray... !!!!)


I was in a purple kinda mood so lots of yummy purple papers got printed off my pooter from my Happy Happy birthday cd  (Pressie time colours if that helps at all) and Nevaeh got coloured in using Orchid, Amethyst and aubergine and some cool grey promarkers.


A good old splodging of dusty concord distress ink and a bit of nestifying and she was done....right up until I decided she needed some pearl maker pearls on her dress.....then she was done!! romfl!!!!


I used my scraps of purple paper and my SU boho punch to makes a pretty flower to go at the side of the nestie and my martha frond for some fronds, fab way to use up my scraps!!!
The quote is pooter made in word.


Huge Thanks to victoria who has told me that the challenge over on MIC this week is purple so I am entering this cute little Nevaeh into their challenge xx


Well, my mummy has made us yummy stuffed marrow for tea so I had better go peel some tates to go with it.


Thank you for popping in on me again!!! I promise not to post again today......


Huge hugs Lou xxxxx