Wryn- Eggcellent News... Tiddly Inks new release :)

Image- Wryn Eggcellent News from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!

Ooooooh I am so egg-cited because its Tiddly Tuesday and there is a super scrummy yummy new Wryn in the Tiddly Inks store, squeeeeeee she is just adorable and OMGosh I love her sooooo much!!!!

When Christy sent these through I leapt off my chair, I think I may need to start a W.A. group (Wryn's Anonymous........) because I am seriously addicted to Wryn, she is just soooo cute!!! So, as always I will help you to keep you pennies inside your purses by adding a little piccy linked to where Christy's gorgeous new Wryn is on the shop...........(mwah ha ha ha ha!!! :)..small evil laugh from Lou.....)

I have had a 'new leaf' paper pad in my cupboard that I have been using very sparingly recently but I just had to break out a piece of the glittery paper for this card. I haven't been so sparing in using my lurvely new Big Shot though!! its fab!!! and I used a whole tonne of punches on this one!! :) ahhh, theres nothing like the old fashioned way of crafting :)

I printed Wryn and coloured her up then cut her out with a circle nestie and stamped some little flowery fronds from my SU teeny tags set all around the edge of the circle.

I nestied a lacey circle and also cut out some Lord Timmie tattered flowers, the smallest one on the die, for the orange part of the flower, the kraft coloured middle is my SU Boho flowers punch and the teeny centre of the flower is my papermania mini!!! flower power or what!!! they just all go so awesome together!!

I know you have probably all dissapeared over to the shop now to get this gorgeous new little Wryn haven't you :) if you haven't and you are still reading ....why are you still here...go quick go!!!!! romfl!!!!!!

Challenges I am entering with her cuteness...
CES challenge blogs- Flower Frenzy.
Throwback thursdays- cricutless challenge
Craft your passion challenge blogs- anything goes 100th post celebration!

Huge hugs and thank you's for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

Little Mo's first card swap!!

Morning peeps!!


This mornings post is a bit more about the cute little guy than me!! its all about his first card swap, organised by Krista from Saturated Canary, over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog.


It was all so super exciting for Mo. He got to swap with Krista's son, Philly. I snapped a whole bunch of photo's of Mo making his card ( which he did all by himself and I love him sooo much for that! he was so proud of himself making a card for his buddy!) and pictures from last night when he recieved his parcel from Philly and I put them in a slide show for you all to see. I hope you enjoy it because it has all been so exciting for Mo!! ....hope it works as it took me all morning to upload!! :)


You need to click on Mo or  the "Little Mo's first card swap" title below the piccy for it to work (...and yup...I did notice after we took the piccies that Mo had put his tennis kit on inside out.....!!!) 

Little Mo's first card swap!

Gardener Guy.

 Image- Gardener Guy from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Morning Peeps!!
I am flying in by the seat of my pants to post before I go to work this morning!! :)
I have been working on a 70th birthday card for one of my friends to give to her Dad next month, he loves gardening so I called upon the gorgeously talented Mo Manning for help!!  oooh get me with another man card?!! 2 in one week....(mmmm, must rectify this by getting all girly again this weekend....!!!)


I used her Gardener Guy and the Potters Bench for inside the card.


There were 2 challenges I wanted to enter this week...
Mo's digital pencil challenge blogs- Anything Goes with a Mo image
Paper Take weekly challenge blogs - sketch ( who can resist a bit of a dawny p sketch?!!)


Here is a piccy of the inside with one of my favourite Dad poems ever, I love it, and |I love how the bench carries on the gardening theme inside the card, too cute!!

Right then, I had better get a wriggly on!! hi ho hi ho, its off to work I go :) :)
Thank you for popping in on me, I love a bit of company :)
Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 12- Doilies...

 

Image- Secrets, ragamuffin friends by Krista Smith saturated canary digis.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog and this time its all about those .....

Doilies!!!

Now I have to admit to letting out a small whimper of help when I saw this one! lol !!! I don't have any doily dies ( ..but would love some!!) so I had a small panic! then I remembered about the goodness that is the poundshop and popped in to get a pack of cake doilies!!! yey go me!!! I think I got 30 for £1 so bargain!!! I chose the middle sized doily, this is a big 8x8 card.

I printed out and coloured up the awesome Secrets image from Krista's shop. I love, love , love this cute pair. It actually reminds me of me and my big sis (...I of course would be the crazy excited one on the right!!!) and I used a circle nestie to cut it out. 

I distress inked my bargain doily with some Frayed burlap DI and then stuck it onto my card base. The papers on my card base were some free HOTP papers and I absoloutely love them (...so will have to get them!!!) The brown velvet adhesive ribbon is MME and I just stiched some pink thread onto it.

I used a little SU sentiment and my lurvely big shot to make a flower for it to hang off. I added a button to the flower centre because I love buttons!!! :)

Here's my little chicks having a good old natter!!!

I am popping this card in for the Circles challenge over on the paper sundaes challenge blog.

Thank you so much for all your thoughts and prayers for my mum. her spinal surgery actually took 3 hours instead of the 2 they thought it would take and last night she was in so much pain that she was on an hourly morphine syringe dose. I am at work today but will be waiting for updates from my dad as he will be with her later this morning. The hospital she is in is 34 miles away so he came home last night and will be driving back this morning. Its crazy they don't do spinal surgery in our hospital here in Lincoln :(


Right, then I had better go and see what my other awesomely talented teamies have been making for their doily creations for the challenge...come peek with me...come on lets go, HERE  :)


Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxx

A man card.......arghhhhhh :) :) :)

 Papers- Happy Happy Birthday- Funky Hand.

(just for men colourway)

Morning peeps!!!

How are you all today? Great I hope. I am thinking of my mum today, as I type she will be in spinal surgery having 4 discs removed from her back as she has a tumour that has wrapped itself deep into 3 of then and has attached itself to the 4th. Thankfully they do not think the tumour is cancer but if it is left there it will strangle mum's spinal chord :( so if you have a little space in your prayers today could you please pop my mum in them.

And so on with card Lou!!! ok, so who loves making cards for people and then you get the man card orders and you say " yeah, sure I can whip something up" ...then go into a cold sweat and panic because it is.....de de dehhhhh... A MAN CARD... I do!!!!!! :) I got an order last week for a 6oth birthday card for a dad.

So in order to help me I printed off some of my fav birthday papers from the Happy Happy birthday cd rom. I am determined after drooling over Pops beautiful rectangle cards recently to make more rectangle cards myself, I have loads! they just sit in my cupboard and I kinda shake everytime I pick one up because my dopey head just can't seem to work around them!!!

I decided to make a manly shirt card. I made the shirt and then thought for  a bit of extra fun I would put the 60 inside the shirt on a bit of acetate so it pops up when the shirt is opened (....be warned...when you do something fun like that you will sit and pop it open for no reason then giggle each time.......!!!)

I adhered the shirt to a big tag that I had popped a punched bit of kraft card onto and a bit of ric rac ribbon. I popped some crochet tool around the layers and threaded a kraft paper heart through it, I love that bit, it looks cute!

I cut the word Dad on my cricut in shadow and normal, then layered it up and glossy accented it to make it look shiny.

Here's a piccy of the pop up 60!! too fun!!!

So thats my make for today! Challenges I am entering with this one are...


Dream valley challenges- Just for men
Allsorts- its your choice


I had an awesome night at church last night! the kitchen was all dusty and broken so we had chippy shop chips and mushy peas and the lessons last night were so uplifting. I left church feeling on top of the world.

To get to the village I live in from town you have to go up a long steep hill. As I drove home I noticed an elderly man walking slowly at the bottom of it with 3 heavy looking bags, in my rear view mirror I saw him put one down and rub his hands so I knew they were heavy. I turned my car right around and went and picked him up and man I am so pleased I did because when I helped him take off his back pack it was so heavy. 

He had come all the way from California to visit his daughter who lives in my village!! he had come into the train station ( which is quite a way from where I saw him) and our village bus service is so hit and miss. I dropped him off where he asked me to and I am just so pleased I could help him, he was lovely. 

He had been travelling for ages,from california to florida, and then onto england, I think there were even a couple more places as he ssaid he had flown in with the navy because he was ex navy. I just feel so happy knowing I helped. I hope he has a lovely visit with his daughter.

Right, I am off to make Mo's lunch for school !

thank you for popping inon me!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 81- Fabric Fun...

Image- Take a stand from the Tiddly inks basement store.

Morning peeps!!! How are you all this fine Tiddly Tuesday??!!!

Well, its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog this week and our little gang of Tiddly Inkers want to see some....

Fabric on your creations!!

so this week we want to see some yummy ideas for getting material onto your cards/creations.
Oh and there's a new Wryn in the shop too....she's too sweet......love her!! This is Wryn- with a cherry on top.

(Now, not to help you too much but if you click on her it will take you straight to her home in the shop.....:) :) ya'll know I like  to help you out in any way I can..... )

I just had to make a mothers day card with the fabulous 'Take a Stand' digi from the Tiddly Inks bargain basement. I adore the way you can add any message you fancy onto her little sign boards. I added ' I have the best mum' using psp. But fabric was a little more of a challenge for me and I ummm-ed and ahhh-ed about my DT make for so long I was thinking I wouldn't even get one done!! lol!!!...that was until I bought my Big Shot and got some free dies with it :) :)

oooh I got flowers and swooshes and more and because of all the gorgeous free ones I was able to buy myself a Lord Tim Vintage Lace decorative borders die (...yes Lou...that's you enabling me again hun!!!!!)

Scott, Mo and I spent the whole afternoon playing around and cutting out bits of felt and paper to experiment, I love that we all did that together, did I ever tell you I have the best hubby ever? :) and then on saturday night I had a little play on my own with some scraps of felt I had left over. I layered up the blue and brown alternately to make the flower stand out a bit more. The teeny centre of the flower should be a little circle with dots around the edge but I swapped it out with the heart from my swooshey instead, it looks so cute!!

So, please pop on over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog as the rest of the Tiddly Inking gals are a zillion times  more fabulous than me when it comes to using material and have made some mouth watering yumminess to inspire you all. 

Right I am off for a cuppa and a few squooshes with Mo before I drop him off at school and have a plod in the fields with the fluffy princess!

Have a super duper day peeps! and huge thank you's for popping in on me :)

Lou xxxxx

Beach walking and a Funky Hand sale going on...NOW !!!

Hello Peeps!!
Not a card to share today as we have spent most of the day plodding along the beach with Mo and Holly and we are now all resembling zonked out little zombies (..have you ever realised how hard it is to walk along on the sand?!!!!)  but I just had to make myself move to my pooter to share a few piccies and most importantly a Funk Hand sale with you!!!


Sooo, Sale first!! There's a whopping  50% OFF all downloads on the Funky Hand  website from now until Monday 27th February at 10am.  Now, don't miss out on this sale because those downloads  are going for next to nothing until monday and ya'll know how much I use them!! I don't think there are any that I am not completely in love with!!! I think I use them on most of my cards in some way because I love the fact that I will never run out of that paper because all I ever need to do is print off another sheet!!!! :)


And now a share of my cute little peeps on the beach!! Its the first time we have ever taken Holly to the beach and oh boy did she love it!! she kept woofing at the waves when they came along and they caught her by surprise more than once tumbling over her but she loved it!!!


Here's a thoughtful Little Mo. It was only 8am when we got to the beach and the sun was gorgeous (.....but dippy here forgot to remind gorgeous Hubby to pick up his posh gadget boy camera so these are from my phone, an ancient Samsung  Jet!!)

I think the sun must of been shining right at me taking it judging by the colours! he is always completely mystified by the big wind turbines in the sea!!!
Here's the fluffy princess!! in this piccy she had just been attacked by a mahoosive wave and was trying to work out where exactly her attacker had hidden!! it was so funny, I thought I was going to drop my phone I was laughing so much!! talk about a tena moment!!!!

and here's thing 1 and thing 2 chasing each other around the beach. hey had such a wonderful time and I am so very thankful for both of them being such a great match, they completely adore each other and that makes me so happy. Its a joy to watch them together as Mo is so loving with her.

After a good 2 hours of beach exploring (...pockets full of shells, stones and seaweed...ahhh i so love Mo's idea of treasure!!) we plodded back to the car and Scott took me 2 mins down the road to the Cutting Edge Crafts shop.
Now I have shopped online with them before and it came super whizzy quick but boy oh boy was it gorgeous in the shop!
I have been saving hard for a Big Shot and finally managed with the help of payday to get enough pennies to go buy one. I was so absolutely confused at what you need to get that I asked one of the ladies in there for some help and she was just absolutely amazing. She helped me to get together all the bits I need, steering me away from bits I though I needed but totally didn't ( i am so super thankful for that as it meant I had pennies left to buy a die i really neeeeeeeed ...!! yup, Lou if you are reading this it is definitely your fault.....) 
So if you are ever in skegness pop in on them and you will not regret it at all....and give the lady in glasses in the shop a huge hug from me because she was so lovely.
We put mummy's new treats in the car and went off to get some fresh donuts for the journey home ( ..its ok peeps, don't worry about my diet because I bought a cup of tea too so all donut calories were instantly melted.......)


Once we were home and Holly had splonked out fast asleep from a busy morning (.....and little Mo had helped to open the huge box....make it into a robot head...and come back to mummy to investigate the big black and oink thingie!!!) all 3 of us sat down to watch the tutorial dvd which was great too as Little Mo decided he should demonstrate each step for us!!! too funny but I cannot tell you how much easier it is for him to use than the cuttlebug I was using!! I love it already!! if its good for the small one, its good for me!!!


Right I have waffled a zillion!!! :) bet ya'll have dropped off to sleep!!! :)
thank you for popping in on me! 
huge hugs Lou xxx

Scott's valentine card!

Image- The Force, a galactic couple from Saturated Canary

Papers- Huge Funky Love wordbook download from Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!!

How are you all this morning? I am good. I have walked the dog already as its a work day today so I sneaked out in the dark at 5am while Scott was still here to look after Mo and I have to tell you it was wonderful. It was surprisingly warm after all the freeeezing cold days we have had and listening to the dawn chorus as I walked along was magical.

Now valentines day has conme and gone I can share the card I made for Scott on my bloggy!! ( I did sneak it on to the SC facebook page a while ago because I know he doesn't peek in there!!)

I used The Force couple for this one, I adore them!! being star wars peeps here in our house they were a definite must!!! I kept their colours quite simple and used some absolutely gorgeous papers from Anice over on Funky Hand. They are from the Huge Funky Love wordbook download, its one of my absolute favs. You get all the alphabet to make into wordbooks and then these bonus A4 size papers too.

I was so pleased with the papers as I had some raffia that matched it perfectly.

Scott being the star wars fan he is absolutely loved this card so that was just such a lovely feeling and it is still sitting proud on our living room windowsill so I must of done good this year!!! :)

So challenges I would like to enter with this cutie are....

joanna sheen challenge blogs- love is in air challenge

fussy and fancy challenge blogs- with all my heart challenge

the sisterhood of crafters blogs- getting digi with it

So have any of you had any thoughts on what you are doing for lent yet? I have. I had an awesome night at church on tuesday and we covered prayers this week. Now, I am the first to admit that recently my prayers have been very selfish and asking for strength for myself, then plonking my requests for everything else at the end. So I am sorting that out now!! to help me along I am going to start a prayer journal. So what am I doing  for the next 40 days for lent.......

Negativity around me makes me feel really sad. There is so much to be happy for in my life that I just want to focus on that, ( it can sometimes be something as simple as a Little Mo smile on his way out the door after being upset at going back to school that makes my day so much better) I feel a sort of calm when I am thinking happy thoughts.

So for lent I have decided to simply decrease its presence in my life by thinking happy thoughts and keeping you all cosy in my heart. I am sending out happy lent cyber hugs for you all!!

I don't think a whole 40 days of positive thinking is going to be easy as I am sure there will be some days that test me but I am going at it with a hopeful heart!!! :)

Have a great day peeps!! and thank you for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Tuesday new Wryn releases....:)

Image- Watcha Doin? Wryn from Tiddly Inks

Morning Peeps!!

How are ya'll today? :) :) I am one super happy little bunny because its Tiddly Tuesday and that means new images from Christy and this week there are ......

*THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...THIS IS AN ENABLING WARNING...OH BOY OH BOY IT REALLY IS*

romfl!!! but seriously ....quick go get your purses because there are 2 gorgeous new Wryn's in the shop!!!

I used Watcha Doin? Wryn. I don't know what it is about these little Wryn's but I just love them to bit so I just had to make a mothers day card with her. I coloured her up with my promarkers, I love red hair!! and then highlighted her hair with some sakura starburst pen. I doodled a bit of the starburst pen on my butterflies too.

The big stamp shape is cut on my cricut from the marriage solutions cart and I added a good old bit of sparkle and some really cute little butterflies with my martha stewart punch. Then I just had to doodley some dots so I did black glaze pen ones and white glaze pen ones, I can't resist a doodle!! :)
Anywhoo enough Lou waffles you wanna see piccies of the new releases don't you??!! :)
(...now I am not saying you have to do it but...if you they will take you straight to the cosy little snug in the shop.....see peeps your mornings would be lonely without a little Lou enable-ment you know......)

So we have ...

               Watcha Doin? Wryn                                      and                    Wryn Birthday Girl

SQUUUUUEEEEEEEEE!!! aren't they both just gorgeous???!!!!

Today I don't have much planned at all. I am going to pop in and drop a newspaper off for my mum and say a quick hello and then come home to work on some cards. Yesterday I lost my mojo because my Little Mo went back to school. I always find that first day back soooo hard, Mo was very brave though and after lots of tears,some good snuggling and a snuggle in his pocket so I was with him all day, he went in ok.  I on the other hand felt pants and mooched around the house feeling low!! what am I like!!!!
Right, off to get a cuppa and have a good wombley over to see what you have all been creating in bloggy land!!
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

18th birthday bag...card!!!

Evening Peeps!!

I have had a fabulously fabulous saturday!! Little Mo slept in until 6:15am, then we got up and I went for a good old womble along the viking way (...very lucky to live on it!! huge walk in big open quiet fields) ...though in the wind it was a bit tricky!!! an hour later and a really bad hair day, I was home having a cuppa!!!

Then we went out for lunch with Scott's mum and Dad, had a little womble to the pound shop and came home to play. More Holly walking, Mo loves that he can throw a stick and she gets excited and fetches it!! (Our gorgeous old dog, Mr Zaky, would just look at him as if to say "uh huh Mo, you threw it..now you go fetch it boyo"!!! we still miss him sooo much)

Enough Lou waffleys!! I want to share my entry for the Lili's Little Fairies challenge blog now!!!! its too cute!!! I was asked to make an 18th birthday card for a girl who lurves Mulberry handbags. (...ok...so there was a small panic and quiet scream from me as I am not a girly girl and had nooooo idea what a Mulberry handbag was but good old google saveth me!!!!)

I decided to go with a bag fold and a good old google later I had a cute Mulberry logo clasp on it!! yey Lou!!! Its made from a 12x12 peice of kraft card and then I cut a lacey circle nestie for the flap!

And so onto the inside....

 A good old bit of cricut cutting, oval nestifying and stamping and inking and I had the inside finished with a little bit of sparkle and some teeny flowers. The little tag that is really hard to see had the date of Lucy's birth on it.
And here's my super cute little card!! it was only 4x4 and I actually struggled to give it up!! I loved it!!

There was oodles of fun to be had on this one!!! First I stamped up my little New Hat stamp. It is one of my oldest and favouritest LOTV stamps ever. I use it so much because she just makes me smile whenever I colour her. Anywhoo!! I stamped her up and then printed out the Mulberry handbag logo really teeny in the middle of a peice of paper, then I stuck my little stamped girly onto the paper with repo glue tape and popped her through the printer
(mmmmm...ok so it didn't quite go that easily...the first one I stamped and stuck on printed the tree upside down on her handbag...lou takes it out of printer..think you plonker to herself...carefully stamps another...repo glue tapes it over little teeny tree logo...prints again...DOH...stuck image on upside down and she is now sporting a tree...on her hat.....3rd time lucky...phew!!)
So after a little experimenting on where to put the tree logo.....:) :) I decided it looked fab on the handbag ;) lol!!
So I got out Lucy's fav colours, spring green/bluey,blue and brown and got colouring!! I absolutely love how the little bag came out, its so subtle and totally cute. I was itching to know if she had noticed it when she opened her card!!
I wanted to include a 'key for the door' for her 18th so out came a little brassy coloured key and some thread to attach it to and I added a few more flowres and branches to match the inside of the bag.
I had to add some little pearly gems to the flowers and the card too....I just can't not bling!!!
Here's another piccy of the card standing up in the bag!!!

So challenges I am entering with this little cutie are....
Lili's Little Fairies- Anything Goes
Allsorts challenge week 142- Anything Goes
Die-ing for a challaenge's 1st challenge- Anything Goes 

So thats little ole me for today!!! oh and while I am here..is anyone else really really struggling with the new word verification on blogger??...because I really really am and I know a few of my friends are too, so if you have your word verification on please consider turning it off and having approving comments before they go on to your bloggy  :)  purlease!!! xxx
Thank you for popping in on me.
Huge hugs Lou xxxx