Fathers day with Edwin!!

Morning Peeps!!

Its almost and Mo and I are wide awake bunnies already!!! ...though I would rather be asleep, icky monthlies are dictating otherwise so we have snuggled up to watch a movie on the settee with a big blanket, it is actually one of my favourite things to do over the weekend so I thought I would do a quick bloggy post while we are snuggled here!!!

I love my magnolia stamps and really enjoyed a quick edwin make, he's just so cute and perfect for those dad's out there too!! I coloured him up with my promarkers...didn't remember to take a piccy of them though, derrrr Lou !!!

The text is actually a pretty awesome stamp I bought from my local garden centre's craft shop and I love it. It just has the perfect Dad description on it.

The papers are MME from my scraps box. Its a simple but really cute card!!!

Challenges I am popping Edwin in are...

Just Magnolia- Fathers Day

TOMIC- Anything Goes...

SSSC challenge blog- Happy Fathers day

Ok, I am going to get back to snugglies with Mo now!!

thank you for popping in on me!

hugs Lou xxxx

Faerie baby...

Image- from- 3 baby fairies from Mo Manning

Morning Peeps!!


Oh how I love saturdays!! We have had a lovely morning walking Holly around hartsholme park (....and bathing her after she decided to go for a dip in possibly the dirtiest part of the entire lake........) Mo had a super time playing at the park and now we are back home and vegging out.


I wanted to share the little card I made for my niece, Harriet, whose birthday was on wednesday. I absolutely adore the little faerie baby digi's I bought from Mo's digital pencil a couple of weeks ago, they are just way too cute and you kinda want to squeesh their little toes and cheeks as you are colouring them up!! they are just gorgeous!!


I decided to go for a bit of a mono colouring session with her and I love how she came out, I used my new cherish memory box border too and ooooooh its fabulous! love it!! I think its going to get a lot of use!!!
I added a little bit of sparkle with my sakura starburst pen and then some clouds in the background with my faded jeans distress ink and a sponge. I made the little pearls in the top right match by colouring them with my aubergine promarker, I love doing that and don't often buy coloured pearls anymore because its so lovely to make them match using my promarkers!
The papers are from my DCWV Nannas nursery boy stack... weird as they are purples..!!!


Here's my little pile-o-pens!!....

Challenges I am popping this little cutie into are....
Mo's digital challenge blogs- anything goes (with a mo image)
I love promarkers- for a little girl

I am so super excited today because I won the new Die-namics notched border from the gorgeous Tracy over on Dies To Die for in her Friday freebie post on the Dies to die for  facebook page!! she is so kind to give away such awesome gifts and I can't wait to have a play with it!!! I didn't find out until we had got back from our walk this morning as Scott and I had a film night last night which comes with a 'no pooters- time together' rule for us!! We watched a few episodes from our 'Game of thrones' dvd set ..mmmmmm..Sean Bean..........
Right off to feed my guys!!!
huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me!!
Lou xxxxx

Get Well Soon......

Image papers and sentiment from Wishes& Kisses by Funky Hand

Morning Peeps!!!

I am popping in quick to share a bit of a Funky Hand make this morning. Its this uber cute little get well card this morning. I just love this little monster, he...or she..is so adorable!!

It is a digi stamp from the new Wishes&Kisses cd from Funky Hand. I coloured monster up using blush, sunkissed pink and coral promarkers and then added some big juicy sakura glaze pen and doodled some 'poorly' dots all over my monster!!! Mo says they make it look like monster has chicken pox!!!  I just enjoyed having a good doodle with my glaze pen!!! the little bandage has a little edging of pastel blue promarkers just to give it a little shadowing. I felt the need for some cute googly eyes too!!

I also love the little hot water bottle get well soon sentiment!! oh its so cute!! I literally tied it on using a bit of twine.

The colours on this card are all from the 'You're Engaged' colourway and I have to say it is fast becoming my favourite on the cd. I am not that great at colourmatching so I love the way I can print out any papers from the same collection and get them to muddle together perfectly!! LOVE IT!!! 

This poorly little monster is off to play in a  couple of challenges today, they are....

Papertake Weekly -Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts-Doodle on it

So I had better get my butt into action as its a work day for me :( I am not feeling 100% today and I can't decided whether its hayfever or a stinking cold on the way so doping self up with piriton seems like the best way forward this morning!!!! Mo has a daddy day so they will no doubt have lots of fun!!!

Have a great day everyone and thankyou for popping in on me!!

huge hugs Lou xxx 

Saturated Canary Challenge 19- Anything Goes!!

Image- Double Take from Saturated Canary Digi's.

Afternoon Peeps!!!
When you read this I will be hard at work running around with little people!!!
Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week it is one that will be everyone's favourite as its one of my absolute favourite...

Anything Goes!!

I love an anything goes kinda challenge!! I have been loving playing with Tags recently and thus decided I needed to do a tag!!
But...man are these tags a monkey to take a picture of!!!! I think I need a taking a picture of a decorated tag tutorial!!! they are tricky!!!
Anywhoo here is a close up of Double Take, isn't she just gorgeous. I love that she could be a bride, or a bridesmaid ,or a prom queen...she's just gorgeous.

I hand stitched her little tulle skirt on. She look so much nicer IRL!! she has little glazed glitter dots in her hair and on her dress. I was in a blue hair mood too. I would so love blue hair like this but I have black hair...granted it has a lot of white in and is actually purpley colour at the moment but my dream hair colour is blue, I just love it!!


The challenge over on Cupcake Crafts Challenge which is Tags and over on Ruby's Rainbow which is Tags. This post is a scheduled one so I'll pop in and join the challenge when I get home!!!


Thank you for popping on me, and don't forget to pop in on my other gorgeous Teamies over on the Saturated Canary Challenge blog.


Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little High Flyer....

Image- Little High Flyer from Cuddly Buddly

Papers- A patchwork of papers- Blue from Cuddly Buddly

Sentiment- Kims 12 Round greetings from Cuddly Buddly

Morning Peeps!!

I am getting my Fathers Day cardmaking into action now and I just had to use this cute little bear from Kim over on Cuddly Buddly. He is just so sweet snuggling his star.

I printed him out and coloured him in with my promarkers and then made him look all teddy fluffy by dabbing my blender all over him in oodles of little dots. I nestied him out using my circle nesties and scalloped circle nestie for his little base. Then I dotted all over with my white gel pen, starburst sakura pen and my blue glaze pen, along with my cool grey,pastel blue and midnight blue promarkers.

I cut out the letters for daddy with my Tim Holtz chip block border die in white so that the daddy really stands out and then added the little round sentiment down on the bottom left. The little bow was white but to make it match in I just coloured it up with my denim blue promarker!! bit of a cheat but an absolutely perfick match!!!

So today I have 2 duties!! one is breakfast buddy duty as Mo's little buddy sophia will be here at around 6:30am and then once Mo and I have dropped her off at nursery I am on Aunty Lou duty with my niece Lily-boo. I am quite excited though as I have booked Mo and Boo in to do a clay critter at our local nature park. They are going to make a bug with air drying clay and lots of natural bits like twigs, feathers etc. Mo is sooooo excited about it!!

So a good cup of tea, a bit of toast and a bloggy womble and I will be fit to go!! lol!!!

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

Lou xxxx

Get Funky Thinking of You....

Papers- Rainbow Polka Dots

Sentiment- Wishes and Kisses

Morning Peeps!!

Its my turn to share my little make for Ruth's Polkadots and flowers challenge over on the Get Funky challenge blog. Now somehow I managed to get my dates all muddley and wrote down the 6th for my date...it was the 2nd...der Lou (...Lou crawls into small hole and hides...a lot....).... so if you are popping to see my Tiddly inks challenge day post it is HERE.

You'll need to use at least one Funky Hand product on your entries, its a really easy rule and the only one we have so please remember to stick to it for us!!!

I used the Rainbow Polkadots download for my card, I love it and the little 'Thinking of You' sentiment I absolutely love. Its from the new 'Wishes and Kisses' cd rom. I am still loving the Red, White and Blue colourschemes from the jubilee so decided to go with them again, its just such a neat colour combo!!

There's still time to get your entries in so get busy!! if you don't own any Funky Hand bits please join in using the awesome freebie Anice has made. Its available HERE or click on the piccy below.

Thank you for popping in on my little make! Before I  leave you I just want to share a little bit of something Funkettes. Now all good teams have a song that they call their own, a song that inspires them and makes them work hard.....well ours is this....

So whenever you hear it now you will be reminded of all the little funkettes busy hitting click and print and making you funky things to look at!!! Da Boss is going to get me for this one!!! romfl!!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 88- lets celebrate fathers day!!

Image- Ricky Fishing Expert from Tiddly Inks.

Morning Peeps!!!!
yey!! its that Tiddlying time of week agaon!! wohoooo Tiddly Tuesday!!! 
and  over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog we have a new challenge for you this week and its an awesome one! the tiddly inkers want to see ...

Fathers Day...

so anything manly really to celebrate those awesome men out there.

I chose Ricky and a good old stair step card. I love this style of card and its perfect for men because you get a yummy effect without flowers!!! he he he he!!! I just added a bit of raffia, a little fishy charm and some loopy punched borders.

I made the sentiment on my pooter. Here's a little bit of a side view of the card.

Ricky is coloured up with promarkers and a touch of stardust sakura pen on his catch of the day!! I think he is just perfect for a fathers day card and he is soooooo cute. Mo was super happy when he these new ones as his Grandad gave him an old fishing rod a few weeks ago...However Mo decided that one big one was a bit silly and promptly took it apart to make 3 fishing rods.....amazing what a ball of string can do!!!!! here. He keeps them lined up on the wall incase "the weather is good for fishing"......which generally means when some leaves...sorry Fish...have plomped into his paddling pool and "need to be caught"....


I am popping Ricky in a couple of challenges too, they are....

Love to Create: Father's Day or a Special Guy in your Life

Here Come the Boys: Anything Goes

Last night Scott and I sat and watched the Royal Jubilee Concert and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it so emotional and what I love even more is that Mo is already singing happily away to the commonwealth song by Gary Barlow and Army Wives 'Sing'. He knows how to find it on youtube and loves it!! I really rather love it too....nothing to do with Gary Barlow of course.....:)

Today we are off out to Belton House in Grantham so Mo can check out the new indoor play area they have made. He loves it at Belton House but the indoor play area only opened last week and he is rather keen to "give it a go"!!!!

So before I pootle off to make picnic lunch, don't forget to pop over to the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and check out my awesome Tiddly Inking Pals creations and then grab a manly Tiddly image and join in. You must use a Tiddly Inks image to be in with the chance to win!!

Right then!! off I pop!!! have a great day everyone and super huge hugs for popping in on me and all your lovely comments that keep me going xxxxxxxxx

huge hugs Lou xxx

Fairy for Fetch A Sketch 25 midway....

Image- Sitting Fairy from Jelly Park.

Papers- Funky Little Christmas from Funky Hand.

Morning peeps!!!we are midway over on the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog with challenge 25!  and heres a little reminder of the sketch we have been using this fortnight.....

You can flip the sketch, rotate the sketch, resize it and make any type of project you like with it - as long as we can see the original sketch in your creation we'll be happy!

This challenge our sponsors  are the wonderful Jellypark and the very funky Funky Hand!  There will be two prizes, for two winners - two Jellypark digi images and a download from Funky Hand!  Thank you to both our sponsors!  To have a browse through the stores, just click on the banners below:

  

Jelly Park are having a Jubilee sale too and the digi prices are just awesome!! you can pick this little fairy up for just 60p!!! wooohhooooo!!

I really love the paper I used on this one and I use it oodles, its just such a nice colour with a splah of pink in the dots to make it pop. The flower is made with one of my sizzix dies and the swooshy swirls are too.

We have another day of vegging out planned today. Yesterday we popped to ikea and I bought myself some little pots and a board to pop them onto so we might put that up but most exciting yesterday was watching the jubilee floatilla on the television! Mo loved the rowing boats section and he was amazed by how many there were!! and wow the Queen looked fabulous. 

So don't forget to pop on over to the FAS challenge blog and join in with the fun!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

The little things.....

Stamp- The little things from LOTV

Papers- Wishes & Kisses from Funky Hand

Hello Peeps!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful saturday. I have been busy making Mo a little base for his soldiers this morning and I wanted to share my other explosion box make with you using the new cd from FunkyHand. 

I absolutely adore this explosion box template!!! it is the perfect size for tucking in 2 cute little LOTV peeps!!!

This particular one is an anniversary card for my friend to give to her hubby on their first anniversary which is on monday. Heres a few piccies!!! please excuse my classy rubber band to hold up the layers!!! romfl!!!

...and here it is all tucked up and waiting to surprise someone!!!

I am popping my little explosion box in the challenge over on Lili's Little Fairies- which is Anything Goes

Just sometimes my world jumps up and bites me hard on the butt, today was one of those days :( I was supposed to be at a BBQ today with some of my family, I was really looking forward to some family time. I suffer terribly with my nerves and a few strangers started arriving which set me on edge. I tried my best to wait until my Grandad arrived but pretty much as he did so did more strangers and I started to feel sick, then the agitated feeling started and dopey me ended up worrying, got myself all dafty Lou and we came home. I have spent my afternoon in the house  crying and would make a totally awesome panda bear should anyone need one for a zoo! so if you know anyone out there who suffers with their nerves like I do just please give them a huge hug because there are times when I just cannot fathom out why I get this way.

Tomorrow will be a better day. Thank you so much for popping in on me and reading my waffles!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Little backyard general book mark!!

Image- BackYard General from Saturated Canary Digi's

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are all ready for a fabulous friday!! My house is full of excitement as it is my birthday and Little Mo is having a little jubilee party at school this afternoon! he woke up at 4am raring to go!!!!...though it wasn't too bad as I went to bed at 7pm last night and didn't wake until 3:45am this morning!!! When I get home from work tonight we are going to order a pizza and get it delivered, which is a huge treat!!

I wanted to share the latest book mark I have made for Mo. He loves this little soldier guy as he is a big playing with his little plastic soldiers kinda guy!!! we find them 'on lookout' in all kinds of places...airing cupboard, in the garden, on my craft desk....in the crafty things I make...kinda all over really so I decided he needed a BackYard General on this one.

(Bit of a blurry piccy as he is all shiny!!!)

Last sunday I had an awesome morning with my mum and my big sister plodding around the sincerely yours craft show in Lincoln. Whilst wombling around we found an awesome decopatch stall called Farmhouse Chicken, heres their ebay store. Oh my gosh!!! the stall had loads more than there is listed in the shop at the moment, you should of seen all the awesome things you can decopatch!!! it was full of gorgeous completed projects too! anywhoo, mum got Mo a dinosaur which he has happily been pootling on with over this last week, (it still isn't finished but when it is I will post it!!!!) There is tonnes of paper left in the 5 we chose in the pack so I 'borrowed' some to make Mo a new bookmark!! I added a little strip of netting too that I coloured in to match with the same promarkers I coloured him in with.

Best of all, its all covered with the glue which gives a waterproof finish! Mo loved this one!! he loved the way the decopatch papers looked like camouflage!! He also adored the 'from' and 'to' tags I cut from my cricut basecamp cart. He always asks " where did I read from mumma?" and then follows with " and I gotto page..." then he will put his fingers in each page and see how much of a 'chunk' of book he read!!  its so funny!!

Here's a 'pens used' piccy!!!!

And talking of cute little guys...here he is in the t-shirt he made for his jubilee party today!!!

And here's a close up of the puffy painting union jack he did. It took him ages and he asked me to do the teeny bit of blue on the left top as he was scared he would go into the white!!! I love how he wrote Mo underneath it!! I pencilled on a rectangle shape and left him to it! the glittery puffy paints were so cool!! and on a cheap white t-shirt they made a super fun activity!!

 Right then, thats it from me for today!! I am off to have a cuppa and get dressed ready for work.
Thank you for popping in on me.
huge hugglies
Lou xxxx