Advent calendar fun!!

 Good Afternoon Peeps!!!

I am sorry I have been a bit quiet this week, I have really been struggling with a nasty virus. I thought I was better for a couple of days and then it came back with double doozey strength so today I am feeling a bit tender but a bit more me too!! he he he!!! :)

I have been locked away in my little crafty garage this morning finishing off my advent calendar for my brothers children. I haven't really seen them since the summer holidays so I wanted to send them a little fun advent.

I used some favour boxes I had left over still from my wedding a few years ago as the boxes and cut some petal envelopes from my walk in my garden cart on my cricut for the doors. The little tags are made with the SU jewellery tag punch and the little handles on the doors are gold coloured split pins.

Here's a few of the doors open of the ones I have already managed to fill up........

I have promised myself not to put sweets in all of them.....:) so there are some festive jingley bells and wooden decorations for the tree too. I just have some more bits to make to pop in and then it will be ready to go. Tonight I am going to work on Mo's advent....I better get it done quick!!!!

I am entering my advent in a few challenges they are.....
craft your passion challenge- Tis the season!
totally papercrafts challenge-christmas!
simply create too challenge-all about christmas

Right then, thats me for today. Off to fetch my little squidgy Mo. I was told this morning as I kissed him goodbye at the school gate we are watching Cars 2 together tonight! sounds perfect to me on a cold windy day, snuggles on the settee, pefick!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Owl always love you!!

Image- retired free image from Christy at Tiddly Inks.

Hello peeps!

I am actually feeling a little better tonight....well, who wouldn't after 2 max strength flu relief tablets, some buttercup syrup, a good rub of a 4Head stick and a cuppa?!!!! :) :) :)

I made this card a couple of weeks ago and haven't gotten round to sharing it yet so thought I would tonight! the image isn't available anymore, it was a gorgeous freebie from Christy last christmas but I adore it. I was asked to make an anniversary card and I always find owls so romantic as most owls mate for life, I love that.

I really didn't have to add too much to the card apart from some gorgeous Funky Hand paper from the I do wordbook download, distressing, some martha stewart doily lace punching, gorgeous thread, a heart charm and some cool writing on my pooter with hearts that are part of the letters, super cute!!! Then the sentiment was punched out with my SU oval punch set, another fav of mine!!...oh and of course the much needed magnolia swirly stamp!!

Now my BF says she has fallen in love with a different magnolia swirl but I just know she will come back round to this one soon!! :)

This little card is going in for a couple of challenges today, they are....

sweet stampin challenge blogs- punches/dies

my mums craft shop challenge blog - things with wings

Right, off to watch masterchef australia now! I love it!! we are a little behind in the UK and I know who wins but I still love every episode! then celebrity get me out of here, I absolutely love Ant and Dec, they make me laugh soooo much!!!!

thank you for popping in on me again!!

huge hugs

Lou xxxx

Get Funky- Christmas 'v' Non- Christmas!!

 Morning Peeps!!! 

I hope you all got yourself some fabulous funky bargains in the birthday sale yesterday!!

This morning its time for me to share my christmassy 'v' non- christmassy makes for our lovely Jackie's Challenge over on Get Funky- to make a traditional christmas something and a non- christmas something!!

The funkettes have all been using the latest Funky Hand craft CD Twelve Crafters Crafting for both cards.

For my first make I used the awesome Funky Freebie Anice made, co-ordinating with the vintage christmas colour way on the cd, I absolutely love it! those little trees are way too cute!! I teamed them up with a little gingerbread man and some hearts using some funky scraps from my stash of scraps and a little poem I found on google written in the workspace on 12 cc.

Then it was onto my nono- christmassy make!! I just had to use the pillowbox template from the workspace too, It is fabulous. You can resize it if you want but I just have to tell you that the size it goes on to fit an A4 piece of paper is fabulous, I made my mum one the other day for her friends new baby and we fitted a cute little onesie in it!!

I used Angel on the Tree colourway for this one, the parcels are one of the digi's from the workspace and the text is done in the writer part of the workspace and it my very favourite text on there! it makes the coolest ever labels!!!

If you don't own any Funky Hand products yet don't worry as Anice always include a Funky Freebie paper on the website www.funkyhand.com each month especially so you can join in.

I have been a bit poorly this week :( ( don't tell my BF'cos I have been telling her it was just a tickly cough and I was fine!!) but last night I took some tablets ( am not a lover of cold relief type tablets as they knock me out a bit!!) and attempted to make myself look alive and I had a super night with my BF at the ladies night. I was so super excited to see all Fi's bits flying off the table into peoples bags. She is so very clever and had filled the table with all sorts of gorgeousness, I so wish I had taken a photo now because it looked so pretty.

Today I am resting up a bit and trying to get better!! I have so much to catch up on because  I just haven't been up to doing much since tuesday!! tine to get the Lou mojo going again!! :) :)

Have a fabby day everyone

Hugs Lou xxx

43% birthday sale at Funky Hand!!

Morning peeps!!!! I am so super excited this morning because...

 Anice is having a one day 43% sale to celebrate her Birthday.

Its on for 24 hours only  ending at 00.00 (GMT) 25th November,  without further waffling I want to say Happy Birthday gorgeous boss lady :)!! and if you want  to say Happy Birthday to Da Boss too leave her some love on her blog!!

Everything FUNKY HAND is included in the sale - so why are you still here reading??!!! Go and get yourself some fabulous deals!! Shipping from Funky Hand is FREE with any £10.00 and over purchase - WORLDWIDE.  

Right then, now I have enabled you all I am off to try to eat some toast and have a cuppa!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Autumn Baby Jake!

 Image- Baby jake from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Morning Peeps!!

Now, try not to giggle at me too much but did you ever make something and think you would really rather keep it yourself?!!! yup that would be me with this cute little pillow box!!!

The challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog is autumn colours and one of my mum's friends had a baby boy last week so instead of a card I made this cute pillowbox, (..which is actually big enough to nicely fold a cute little onesie into!!) 

I used ginger and honeycomb promarkers to get that lovely autumnal orange onesie on Jake and then sandstone, caramel and cocoa for his cutie little hat and boots. He is just so squidgey cute, I want to squidge those little chunky knees!!!!

I made the pillow box using a template from Funky Hand's new 12 crafters crafting papercraft factory and using the workspace I opened the template and then swapped to the craft the year away one to get that gorgeous autumnal spotty pattern.

Little Mo has a breakfast date with his BF Sophia again this morning (...which is great as he has been asking for her every morning since she came last week!!!!!) so we are just waiting for her to arrive now! Mo has been up and down to the window like a yo-yo!! He says " its best to look out the window every 5 mins because that makes her get here quickerer" .......she lives right next door!!!

Here's another piccy of baby Jake from a different angle!!

I added some rafia, stamped leaves and an orange rose for decoration and then a little SU stamped tag, cute!!!

Have a fabby day peeps!! once I have dropped the little peeps off at school and nursery I am going to have a few hours making some more bits for the ladies evening on friday, I am sooooooo nervous about it but at least I get a whole night with my BF!!!!!!
Thankyou for popping in on me!!
Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 74- Anything Goes for 2 weeks!!!

Image- Hedgie Hugg from Tiddly Inks

Paper and easel card template- Twelve crafters crafting from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!

How are you all this fine Tiddly Tuesday?!! :) Yep!! its Tiddly Tuesday again over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and that means more challenge fun from the Tiddly Inkers and new images in the shop!! yey !!!!!

So what do the Tiddly Inkers want from you this week????? well, we have been enjoying the Anything Goes month so very much and seeing all your awesome creations that Christy thought we should be spoiled by your talents for another 2 WEEKS !!!! I am so very excited about this because it has been awesome to see so many new faces and be wowed by your cards/projects. Thank you so much to each and every one of you for playing along with us and giving us so much inspiration.

For my card this week I wanted to use Hedgie Hugg. I love this image and I wanted to get started on my personal christmas cards. I printed out the easel card from my Twelve Crafters Crafting cd rom and a couple of the papers to make the hearts with. Now, this was the first time I had used the easel card template and OMGosh!! what a compete joy it was to make, I printed on both sides of it and I love how it came out. I cut some hearts out with the papers I printed out on my cricut and added a bit of rafia. It made such a perfect platform for my image.

When I coloured my cute little Hedgie Hugg I kept to the colours of the card and she looks so sweet all festive!! cute cute cute!!!! I popped glossy accents on her hearts and left a nice white shadow around her when I cut her out so she popped out from the card.

Now enough about my card and onto the awesome new image in the shop!!! Please meet Genius......

Isn't he just squishably cute?! he even comes with an extra little mouse and sign so if you love him as much as I do, just click on him to be magically pinged to his little place in the Tiddly Inks shop. When I showed him to Little Mo he was so excited and has now decided that he needs to get some mouses to go in his school trouser pockets....!!!

So thats me for today. Little Mo and I have dental appointments this morning...ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHH, oh my I sooo don't do dentists but I am a model mummy and don't show Mo my fear. I have to be really careful as Mo has black extrinsic tooth stain,the staining on his teeth is black instead of yellowy like most children so he has to go to the dentists regularly to get them cleaned. His new teeth are coming through yellowy so hopefully it is just happening to his milk teeth and will go when they have all gone, fingers crossed!!!

Have a great day peeps!! huge hugs Lou xxx

Baby Tilda

stamp- baby tilda stamped in rich coca memento ink.

Papers - Funky Hand Craft The Year Away

(Evening in June colourway)

Hello peeps!!!

How are you all this super foggy sunday?!!! We are having another lazy day here! the fog is not enthusing us with wanting to venture out as its really cold too!!

I had a baby card order from my mum last night so I decided to get busy with that this morning. I didn't fancy using just pink and wanted a summery zing to it to cheer me up from the foggy outside so I went for the Evening In June colourway on my Funky Hand Craft The Year away papercraft factory.

I stamped the baby on watercolour paper and she came out so cute and coloured her in then stamped her again her again on some scraps of the pink paper I used to paper pieced her little bow, frilly pants and slippers to match the pink paper.

I punched out some teeny martha stewart butterflies and layered them up a little, sparklying up the edges. They looked so sweet!

The pennants are from my SU pennants set, I stamped the little stitches on and then punched them out with the punch.

I really struggled to get a piccy today so I am sorry for the fuzzy wuzziness of it.

Right I am off to get my sunday tea cooked now as we were up early and out tummy clocks are messed up!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

My little wally !!

Morning peeps!!

Phew!! its been a busy couple of days!!! it has been children in need all the way this week and I have loved it!! Mo needed to go dressed up as his favourite book/ cartoon character and he chose Where's wally 

( waldo for my friends over the pond!) so I had to get to work on a hat, stripey top and a walking stick for him. It was so much fun.

Here's my little wally....

Cute!!!! I made his top by using one of his vests!! I made the stripes by masking the white off with selotape and then using fired brick distress ink to make the red stripes!!

I made his little hat with a dishcloth!! I sewed up the edge and the tied some string around the top. The very top bit I snipped little shreds into to make it look like a bobble and then I dipped the bobble and the bottom of the hat into some red food colouring! Here it is...

His walking stick was just parcel wrapping covered in seloptape and shaped around with a little bit of clear plastic to hold the curved handle shape.

Mo had a super day and was even allowed to wear his costume for his tennis lesson which he thought was super!! then to top it all off he chose a few cakes from the cake sale we were having at the nursery where I work! he had a pudsey biscuit last night for pudding and tghis morning he had " a melly cake" ( a cake made by my friend Mel's mum!!) for his breakfast!!! There are someleft which I am sure he will munch through over the weekend! but its haircut day today so I had better get a wriggle on and get him to the hairdressers then hopefully a squidge of crafting for me today.

Before I go, my BF is teaching her first cricut class over at Jo's shop, Let's Create, so I want to send her huge huge (((hugs))) and good luck wishes. Fi's blog is here if you fancy leaving her some good luck comments, I know she would really appreciate them. She is so kind and caring so she will have them all buggy by the time she has finished her class today.

Have a fab day peeps, I will be back with some creations later I hope!!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Gorjuss chrimbles!!

 Afternoon Peeps!!!

I have had a busy morning pootling around everyone so I had to wait until now with my trusty cuppa in hand to bloggy my little sparkly card yet not a card!!! I made it last night for 2 challenges, they are...

Papertake Weekly's When a card is not a card challenge

Chrimbo Crackers- Make it sparkle

So, above is a piccy of my card not yet a card! Its in the shape of a gift tag and it was from the fabulous Adela. You can find it HERE in Adela's yummy shop!

I had total fun with this one!! and even used my stamp that I bought from Clare in the summer holidays!! didn't take me long to ink this one up then.....:)

Here is a half opened "oooh what is it" side view!!!

 and here it is all opened (....including the fake £5 I googled and printed out to pop in it.....Lou's mind thikns oooooh fab super cheap chrimbles...it looks so real!!!!)

I added lots of glittery sparkle to it using diamond stickles around the layer of patterened paper, sakura starburst pen for the teeny stars on her dress and a good old sprinkling of silver metallic thread stitched into the punched border piece and fluffed out behind the sentiment circle.

I am loving the non traditional colours on my patterned papers. They are (...of course :)   ) Funky Hand papers from the Angel On The Tree colourway of the new Twelve Crafters Crafting papercraft factory, I love it!! (last night I was working on a bit of something with the Vintage Christmas colourway but you will have to wait until next week for that one!!!)

Right then, I am off for a bloggy/facebook catch up before I go and fetch Little Mo and pop in on my mum!

Huge hugs, thank you for popping in on me!!

Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 73- Anything Goes!!! Goes On!!!

Image- Tiny Dancer from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- FBQ Bear Necessities from Nitwit Collections. 

Morning Peeps!!!

Yey!! its that Tiddly time of week again and I have to say I am loving the creations that you guys are sharing with us Tiddly Inkers for our Anything Goes month over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog!! I can't believe you have all been hiding your talents!!!

My little make this week is a blessing for me as I was convinced Mr. Mojo had taken a trip away without telling me and wasn't coming back anytime soon!! of course, all I had to do really was open the Tiddly Inks file on my pooter, stuffed full of Tiddly goodness and he came running back to me faster than lightening!!!

I printed out my Tiny dancer (...she's so sqooshably cute!!!!) and then I made myself a card base in PSP. I also printed out an extra star and made one of the buttons extra big to mount her on, along with the little journalling rectangle that I stamped happy birthday onto.

The reason I wanted to add all these little extra shapes was to join in with the fabby sketch challenge over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog, here is the sketch, if you click on it you will be magically pinged to the blog...

A little bit of bling for her tu-tu and some little pearls and she was done!! yey!! go Lou !!!

So, have fun creating a bit of anything for our challenge this week, but you must remember to use a Tiddly Inks image to be in with a chance to win the prize.

Please pop on over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog and see what the Tiddly Inkers have been up to because man they have me in awe every week!!!

Thank you for popping in on me!!

Huge Hugs Lou xxxxx