Sugar and Spice and a totally sweet sale at Tiddly Inks!!

Image- angel spices halloween from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Happy Happy Birthday from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!! 
Just a quicky post from me before I go to work to tell you about Christy's totally sweet sale following the fabulous release of the sugar and spice girls just got a zillion times better!! as a thank you to you all Christy is adding a bit more sugar to the sale...here's words from Da Boss.....:)

"I decided to end the sale with a whamoooo! If you are in the mood for some Tiddlys, you have 12 hours to get 40% off all orders over $7...just enter the SUGARNSPICE code during checkout and viola!!! If you would like 40% off all orders over $7, you have from 7:00 central tonight until 7:00 AM when I wake up tomorrow morning....hope you have fun! :) "


So quick!!! click on the words from Da Boss to take you to the Tiddly Shoppe and go get your Tiddly on!!!!


Huge enabling hugs from Lou :) xxxx

saturated canary challenge 1 !!!

Image- Kitty from saturated canary

Hello peeps!!

Oh its a late bloggy from me tonight because I am feeling ack, blurgh, poop with the monthlies but I so wanted to have a go at the new Saturated Canary challenge blogs first challenge that I wombled out to my crafty garage (...please note how funny that looks after 2 co-codamols!!I look like a zombie!!!!!) and my nice hot wheaty bag and had a first go at the fabby sketch that Carissa has made.

I gave Kitty some nice autumny colours and the orange hair is to go a little bit halloween!!! In my dopey tablet induced wobbley colouring my black glaze pen splodged on the bow centre which I am not a 100% happy with but I loved the colours on the rest of her so i didn't want to cast her aside....not sure I even could, she's too cool!!!

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and see what the awesomely talented DT have made, ooooh they will make you drool!!!! I love this sketch and I am so going to make a better go at it over the weekend when I will hopefully feel a bit better!!!!!

Right , off to wobble up to bed and try and get some sleep!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

So bootiful !!!

Image- Angel spices halloween from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Spooky Dookie from Funky Hand

Promarkers- Leaf green, pear green, olive green

burnt orange, honeycomb,cool greys1-5

sakura starburst pen

He he !!!!! 2 posts in one day!!!!! must be all that sunshine out there spurring me on!!!!

This fabby image is one of Tiddly inks new gothic sugar and spices and I lurve them all, soooo much!!! you can buy each one singly or get a pack of 4 together. I am a big lover of halloween so I just had to play with this one as soon as I got her. 

I coloured her up all spooky, I love how she is dressed up ready with her candy handbag ready to fill with sweets!!! and I love those orange boots!!

Then I distressed all my spooky dookie papers and the green card base. I used spiced marmalade and forest moss distress inks and then gave them a run through my distezz-it-all just to make sure they were definitely feeling distressed!!! romfl!!

I added some ribbon and card candie's too.

I am popping this little spooky creation in for these 2 challenges......

i love promarkers challenge 85-get distressing

my mums craft shop 'Dress up' challenge

Oooooh and I am super excited too because tomorrow the challenges start over on the Saturated canary art challenge blog. Krista has an awesome DT and even more awesome images so I can't wait to see what team canary have got up their sleeves to challenge us with!!!!! If you click on the piccy below it will take you to the challenge blog so get following and join in the fun tomorrow!!! 

Pootling out to my little crafty garage now to do a bit of this and that...not sure what yet but am sure I will find something to mess up and jane...if you are reading this..this is my craft desk as it looks right now......

 OOOOOOh my bad!!!!! that looks so much messier now I loaded the piccy........
but all is not lost....I have a little bit of space to carry on with what I was doing before bloggying today......

romfl!!!!! if its tidy I will never find anything................ :)  :)

Huge hugs for you all

Lou xxxxx

Lilac, nana and a black and white cat!!

Papers- Craft the year away from funky hand.

Morning peeps!!

how are you all today? great  I hope. its a fabulously sunny day here today and lovely and warm. Little Mo pootled off to school in his shorts again today (...so pleased I held off putting them in the loft!!) He has navy blue tank tops this year for school as he gets so hot, even when its cool he gets hot!! He looked really cute this morning!His parents evening last night went really nicely, I am so proud of him and so so very thankful for him going to an awesome school with even more awesome teaching team. I hope they all know how very much that means to parents and how safe it makes us feel knowing our children are with them? I hope so.

Ok, onto my card for today!! a friend at work asked me for a card for her nana's birthday. I wanted to make it have things that her nana liked and asked her for her nana's fav colour and anything she liked. She came back with lilac and a black and white cat, awwwww. Luckily I had this magnolia kitty that my BF stamped for me years 3 years ago!!!! I coloured it up  and added some little patches of white with my gel pen.

The lilac's and purples bit was easy. I chose 4 papers from the 'November Rain' colourway and printed them out, job done easy as they all co-ordinate with each other!! yey!!! I chose the tree's to add a touch of autumn, I love that tree paper!!

The 'nana' is cut on my cricut and then everything got silicone 'd on to make it pop out from the card a bit.

A nice sunny day = piccies taken outside !! I love the red bricks on my garage wall against the grass, it looks so pretty.

I'll be back in a minute with another new Tiddly Inks image!!! 

Hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 66- Acrylic!

Image-Little Miss Sunshine from Tiddly inks.

 Morning peeps!!!

Its Tiddly tuesday again and that means time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog.
The art journal challenge was so much fun and I loved looking at everyone's entries, wow!! they were awesome.
And so onto this week, us Tiddly inking gals want to see.....

 Acrylic

 this week on your projects. This means use acrylic anywhere on your creation (any acrylic will work---think acrylic albums, flowers, paint and even shrinky dinks count!!)
For mine I decided to make a little mini journal. I decided to use acrylic and some shrinky dink plastic too!! the acrylic was used for covers on the journal. here's a piccy of it laying down so you can see the acrylic a bit better!!

I embossed the acrylic with divine swirls and gave it a good rub with some alcohol inks to turn it a kind of sepia brown colour. I added a few pearls in the corner and stamped a sentiment that I tore out of its paper and then inked the edges of.
And here's a piccy of my Little Miss Sunshine all uncovered and cute!!! I coloured her up all autumnal as I am in season change mode now!!! :)

I ruffled up a bit of  lace too, I love it!!!
The pages inside the book are just plain old record cards, cut up and pretty-fied by me!!! he he he!! I stamped my magnolia swirl on and then distressed all the edges in my distrez- it- all ( oh how I love that machine!!!)

A good old bite and bind from my bind it all and the mini journal was ready!! yey!! The leaves are an inkadinkado stamp my BF got me last year, its so lovely and the leaves look beautiful in teeny shrinky dink size!! I attached them with little rings to the binding and then I had oodles of fun tying on fibres and ribbons through the binding.

So what will you make using your Tiddly Inks????? before you make a start pop over to the challenge blog and see what the other Tiddly Inkers have made (...WARNING>>>>they are all totally gorgeous and will make you need them!!!!!)


And whats even more exciting is that the new sugar and spice girls are in the shop too!!! and Christy has a special offer on them...

 15% off all orders for 36 hours. Just enter shopping code: SUGARNSPICE

and here is one of my creations!! 

Outside...

Inside...

Off to get the little man ready for school now!! its parents evening tonight so wish us luck!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Babycakes!!

Image- Babycakes from Saturated canary

Papers- Craft the year away from Funky Hand.

Morning....maybe afternoon actually peeps!!

Firstly, Thank you so much for your comments for Little Mo and his tutorial video!! he loved every one of them and felt so special, I cannot thank you all enough xxxxxxx

Well, I have had another eventful morning, won't bore you with too many details but lets just say men hiding in bushes when you walk the dog are quite scary but policeman are fab!!!!

I started this card yesterday morning....then we decided to clean out the bookshelves and the loft so Babycakes just sat there staring at me...awwwwww with those gorgeoous big blue eyes....awwwwwwwww

And after most distressing dog walk....which turned into walk dog home very fast (.... I feel so sorry my elderly Mr. Zaky!!!) I decided the best way to calm panic pants daft self down was to watch manic monday by the bangles on youtube and then print out some yummy papers and get on with making my babycakes card!!

I just couldn't wait to share the cuteness of this one! this card is for my friend at work who has just had Ella. (..Carrie if you are reading this....Look away girl!!!!!!) Carrie worked right up until 1 week before Ella was born, wow! in a nursery full time that is no mean feat so I think she was fab to manage that. There are a few of us signing it so there are some gorgeous pink pages inside to match the front!!

Baby cakes is coloured up with promarkers...colours are...

blush, peach and soft peach skin.

tan, caramel and cocoa- hair and clothes

antique pink and pastel pink clothes and boots.

I coloured my white satin ribbon with antique pink too to make sure it matched everything. The papers are all from the 'evening in june' colourway and I love the spots and linen effects together, just yummy.

Awwwwww, I just love her!!!!!!!!

Right, I am off to get some lunch and then go back out to my craft room as I have an order for a nana card to do!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me, I do love visitors!!

Hugs Lou xxxx

Birthday sqaush book!!

 Morning Peeps!!

I am in the hot seat today over on Get Funky to get you all fired up and creating for the birthday fun challenge set by our lovely Jenny. See Jenny's post here for a few more details.
I decided to make a lovely little squash book using some of the wonderful papers and oodles of digi stamps from the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory.
here's the outside without its ribbon in the way, I love this flowery paper, its so bright and cheery.

 And here it is half un-sqaushed!!!! This was so much fun to make. If you need a bit of a tutorial on it, our very own gorgeous Kathy has HERE on her blog.

 Wow, all those digi stamps and sentiments and I still didn't even scratch the surface with just how many there is on the cd!!!

Please remember you need to include at least one Funky Hand paper or extra on your card entry, that could be a paper from any of our CDs, Original collections or Papercraft factory CDs, any of the loads of download collections that are available or Our Betty stamp images.  If you don't have any Funky Hand stash yet there is a Funky Freebie paper on the websitewww.funkyhand.com to help you out so you can still join in with us and have a chance of winning your choice of any Funky Hand download.


And if you need help on the Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory, don't forget to have a quick peek at this tutorial from the lovely Little Mo!! I can't resist linking it again because its sooooo cute!! 


hugs Lou xxxx

Allsorts- Keep it simple and little Mo gets funky!!

Image- Peek a boo bugg from Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!!
I thought I would have a quick little make this afternoon to join in with the allsorts challenge blogs Keep it simple challenge.
I bet you all thought I had plopped off the planet with no bloggy posts for a couple of days!! ha ha ha!! was giving ya'll a break!!!!
and onto Allsorts......

First I used the cute little pumpkin freebie Christy made a long time ago along with peek a boo bugg to make this cute little halloween card, awwwww!!! I am hoping it is CAS enough!!! I never know where to stop with CAS!!!  the truth is, I wasn't too sure so I spent 5 mins making this one too......

Image- Stand out in the crowd from Tiddly Inks.

Word art from Donna's blog

This afternoon Little Mo had a request for mummy and daddy to make something special and he did!!!

There is another post from Little Mo himself in just below this one,so please pop and have a look and leave the little guy some comments!! he will love reading them!!!!

 * Little Edit- Mo's post is HERE*

Huge huggies!!

Lou xxxx

Little Mo gets Funky!! a video tutorial for the little funky peeps out there!!

Now onto Little Mo!!

We have been very busy this afternoon as little mo decided he wanted to make something!! it is very cute and   he was so funny while he was doing it!!!! he loves making video's ( normally about skateboarding!!!) but after watching Anice's video on the cake box on the Funky Hand Happy Happy birthday cd he decided that today he needed to make a video for the little peeps out there!!! and here he is......(you might need to turn your volume up a little as he is a bit quiet!!)


Awwwwwww, too funny!!!!

Anyway, I am off to go and see what he is up to now, he was last seen filling up our wheelbarrow with our spare bricks (... from doing the garage 7 years ago! seriously if you have bricks and little boys of age 6 there is nothing more exciting than 'real lego bricks' as he calls them) pootling on out to the front lawn!!!

Huge hugs Lou .....and not forgetting Little Mo of course!!!! xxxxxx

Fetch a Sketch challenge 7

Image- Mr Roboto multi pack from Tiddly Inks

Papers- Rainbow Polka Dots from Funky Hand.

Sketch used- Fetch a Sketch

Morning peeps!!!

This morning I decided to have a quick go at the Fetch a sketch challenge blogs new sketch, its lovely isn't it? if you click on the piccy you will be magically transported off to the blog where Ruth, Jenny and Fliss have been busy with some gorgeous cards already.

I used some more funky scraps (good girl Lou!!) to cover a little card blank and a little frank boto from Tiddly inks that I coloured up last year whilst in the full Halloween makes and he must of gotten lost as I found him this morning in my funky scraps!!!!! they were obviously destined to be together!! :)

The little banners at the top are from the new Happy Happy Birthday papercraft factory but I wanted them to look poppy outy so I cut them off the string they are drawn on and put them on some real string with my hot glue (...yeah... I know any excuse to use the hot glue gun, but it was fun!!!!!) the little BOO!sentiment is from my SU tiny tags stamp set, punched out with the SU treasury tag punch.

I am pleased to report no disasters today!!!.....so far. I did have a teeny falling out with the new printer though and Scott put it back into the box......However...after spending an hour trailing the internet for another this morning I am thinking that the new one I got really isn't too bad so I am giving it a reprieve tonight I think!!

Anywhoo, I am starving so off to get some roasted veg cous cous. Don't forget to pop over and join in with the new sketch over on FAS

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx