Smooshing!!

Romfl!! I just realised I watermarked sideways!!!

Morning Peeps!!

its hump day so I hope you are all having a great week. Yesterday I had such a lovely day. 

I spent the morning catching up on housework and waiting in for Poppy's rubber mat for the boot of our car.......3 more sleeps until she is here!!!!! I am soooooo excited!!

Then I had a lovely afternoon waffling away with Sarah and had a yummy choccy chip muffin in her little summer house because the weather was lovely.

And then Hayley came to scrap with me after work. She bought me the most gorgeous bunch of sunflowers I have ever seen. They are not the really huge ones but they have the most beautiful big bushy flower heads and they look like a vase of sunshine.

I had saved this idea of a smash page to do while Hayley did a scrapbook page .....don't worry peeps, I am working on converting her to smash.....:) he he he!!!

Scott took this wonderful piccy of us on sunday while we were having our coffee in McDonalds. We are a pretty teenage kinda couple and are not afraid to show affection in public. Little Mo calls this 'Smooshing'!!! he he he!!!! and its so cute when he says ' I can see you 2 smooshing!!'

He always squooshes himself in the middle and on sunday morning he just had to get his finger in on the smooshing!!! so Scott snapped a quick piccy and I loved it so much. I took the free hot drink sticker thingy off my cup and 'borrowed' a couple of packs of sugar and stirrers to make the little flags with. I emptied the sugar out and cut the flag shape with my Die-namics Flag stix dies then glued them onto the stirrers!! cute!!

I just love this piccy so much.The second piccy on the smash page is just me and Scott's hands. I love pages like this because it is ME. this is my life and I love it. Sure we have challenges now and again with one thing and another out of our control but I am so in love with my little family and our time together.

I was so pleased I actually managed to do a page with Hayley too because normally I just sit and watch her, I love seeing what people make and how they place things around a scrap page and hers was beautiful. it had a stunning piccy of her little nephew,who is soooo cute, holding his grandad's finger.

Right I must get a wriggle on, need to get the washing machine on and then its another waiting in day because Poppy's bed and food should be arriving today :) :) roll on saturday dinner time when we can go fetch her!! We are all soooooooooo excited!!!

Thank you for popping in on me,Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 95...Fall/Autumn

Morning Peeps!!

Its Tiddly Tuesday and I am soooooo excited because our gorgeous Christy has been busy drawing again and she has come up with some super super cute images for today's release, you are going to love them.

So first things first!! its a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its a lovely......

 Fall / Autumn challenge.

I just had to use the new Winter Wishes Wryn and gove her a fall colours twist! I love how she came out!!

The papers are from the orange october colourway on Funky hand's Craft The Year Away,its the most gorgeous autumn paper and I love being able to print off as much as I like of it! the tree one is my fav.

I coloured in some white adhesive pearls with my burnt orange promarker so it matched the colours on my wryn.

soooooo, do you want to see a few new wryn releases????!! I know you do!!!!

I used Winter Wryn and here she is....

She comes both on her own and with an extra image of her with a super cute snowman too.
and there's more too!!!! squeeee!!! meet Skater Wryn.

aren't they gorgeous!!! 

So please pop in on my awesome Tiddly Inker teamies over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog because their fall creations are just stunning.

Well, thats me for today...I think! lol!! I have a bit more ironing to finish off and then this afternoon I get to spend some time with my friend Sarah and tonight I am scrapping with my friend Hayley. I have been saving doing a smash page so if I get it finished I might be blogging it tomorrow!!

Thank you for popping in on me, its been so quiet here on my blog so having a few peeps visit and leave me some comments has made me so happy this week.

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tena lady moment?....:)

Hello again peeps!! its a 2 post day for me today because its time for a new challenge over on the FAS challenge blog too! I am the hostess with the mostest for the next 2 weeks. We have a pink theme for october too so arm yourself with some pink papers and this sketch.....

I hadn't done a tall and slim card in such a while so decided to plan the sketch around one of those!

and here's a little closer in on the sentiment I made on my computer.....

I just love to have a giggle so I decided on a good old girly breast cancer awareness card with a funny sentiment. There is nothing quite like laughing so much at something that it could be a tena moment ;) and laughter heals the soul anyway!!! he he he!!!

The paper on the bottom is from one of my fav ever Funky Hand downloads, Shabby Saturday. I love the words on it and its pink too so it fits in with our pink theme perfectly!! and the pink lace and raffia matched in lovely.

I am entering this into the Cupcake Challenge blogs Think Pink challenge, and the Totally Papercrafts Pretty pastels challenge.

Right then, got to get back to that ironing pile..!!
huge hugs Lou xxx

Kraftin Kimmie Patsy with a Halloween twist!!

Morning Peeps!

Its monday which means its my turn to show you all some yummy bits from the Dies to Die for shop over on the Dies to Die for blog!!

If you haven't noticed by now I LOVE Halloween!!! and this weekend I had fun giving Kraftin Kimmie's Patsy a bit of a halloween twist!! Her little 'I'm all shook up!' sentiment was so perfect for a spooky card I just couldn't resist!!!

I only have 2 of these Kraftin Kimmie stamps but Patsy is already my favourite because she is just so much fun!! 

The MME Boo To You! card kit was an absolute darling to play with too, packed full with fabulous papers and die cuts and I loved the little ghosty too!! 

I paper pieced Patsy using some of the papers from the kit and then got to work colouring her up a little zombiefied with my promarkers! The edges of her and the wee ghosty are distressed a bit with Brushed corduroy Distress Ink to blend in the white edges.

I added some Glossy Accents to her cool shades and popped her and ghosty up on some Stix 2 clear foam pads to make them stand out a bit. The little green gems are from my stash.

I am entering the show us your fave challenge over on the Kraftin Kimmie stamps challenge blog with this card. I so see a Kraftin Kimmie stamp obsession starting for me!!!

Hope you all have a great monday. I am on breakfast buddy duty this morning and then once Mo goes to school I need to have a good old ironing fest!!! lol!!!

Huge hugs Lou xx

Stamp Magic ticket blog candy winner...

Morning peeps!!

Just a quicky to post the winner of my Stamp Magic ticket candy! the winner is Catherine! drop me an email with your addy please hun so I can get it posted off for you in plenty of time for the show.
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary Challenge 27- Office Supplies!

Hi there Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog and this week it was our gorgeous Caz's turn to pick our theme and ooooooh she came up with a fun one!!! This weeks challenge is to .....

Use Office Supplies on your creation.

How much fun is that? I loved altering this notebook yesterday. I took my little pile of officey stuff.......

 A notebook, file folder, paperclip,washi tape, yummy 'What the librarian reads' image and a cute little gromlet from my stash!! I also just had to add some string,a cute cloud journalling card Krista sent me a little while ago and her business card which I attached on with a mini bulldog clip that I glossy accented onto my notebook on top of some scraps of paper that I cut with my Fishtail Stax die-namics.

I ripped a little bit down the side and slid a bit of book page behind it,then sewed a little thread through it and tied it into a bow, cute!!

Here is a bit of a closer piccy of the part with my librarian on. I coloured her up to match the papers and the notepad and I love how she came out. She has glossy accents on her glasses and mug too. She is stuck down with a bit of washi tape.I added a couple of bits of paper from my scrap box and the little cloud attached with a paperclip. I really love the smashy feel of this little bit.

Last week I got an email asking how I do the colour on glasses to make them look real. First, thank you for saying they look real :) and how I do it is to colour up my image as normal, including the skin and eye colours through the glasses and then when that has all dried off I go over the lenses of the glasses with my satin promarker and add the glossy accents over the top.
 Glossy accents is kinda tricky to get a piccy of sometimes but it really does look cute so is well worth buying!!!

Well I will be hard at work while you all read this so I will be popping in on you all once I get home. Don't forget to pop in on my canary teamies over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog as their creations are roughly a zillion times better than mine so don't miss out!!!

Thank you for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxxx

My little Blog Candy....

My blog candy.

Morning Peeps!!

On saturday 6th December 2008 a little ole me started my journey into the little world of blogging. Since then I have made so many very special friends and have often thought of having a little blog candy to say thank you for popping in on me and seeing what I have been up to.

I really wanted to have a useful blog candy so I headed straight for Which Crafts and bought a ticket for the Stamp Magic show. Now if you have never been there you so really would love to. I have been 3 times and each time I have thoroughly enjoyed my day and come home with my bags packed full of yummy buys.

So if you would like to win a ticket to the Stamp Magic show all you need to do is these 2 simple steps....

1. Follow my blog by clicking on the 'join this site' button down the right hand tool bar over there....>

2. Leave a comment by sunday 29th september at 8am when I will pick a winner.

Right I have got to get myself going now but here's a piccy of Mo and his breakfast buddy Sophia, sat in Poppy's new cage......

... The cage arrived last night and a very excited Mo got in there as soon as my friend Amy and her fiance Dane had put it up for us and gone home!! Mo and Sophia have been sat in there for over an hour now playing doggies!! its so funny!!

I can't wait for her to arrive now! its just a week and a half now until we get her! squeeeeee!!!

Don't forget to leave a comment if you want to win yourself a ticket to Stamp Magic!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Oh come all ye crafters!!!!

Afternoon peeps!
I have had a wonderful morning with my mum and she is doing so well. The surgeon didn't have to do the major pinning this time and instead took out some more discs and a large amount of bone before he did his little cage and pinning thingy and mum feels so much better so I am so happy. We had a little drive and a walk around a few shops and she did so well. I have some huge DT catching up jobs to do now she is looking much better, it knocked me for 6 worrying about her over the last couple of weeks and I just couldn't concentrate properly on anything. Now I feel like I am floating happily in Lou Land again!!!

So my share for today was made with the help of a very gorgeous Little Mo. He saw the hole in the centre of the star I was making and said it would look lovely with "Twinkle Twinkle little star" in so being an ever so good mummy I gave him a pen and told him go for it!!! it looks so cute. He is saving it for his Great Grandad's christmas card now!!!

And how gorgeous are those papers???!!! they are from the new Oh come all ye crafters christmas download range from Funky Hand, click on the piccy below for more details because there is an awesome multi buy offer!!

This was is my first make but oh boy am I hooked on these papers already!! I printed the whole lot out and am going to love wombling through some makes with them so much.

I cut the little star from the 'Fabulous Finds' cricut cartridge in the zingy green coloured paper and then just popped it onto a base of the stars and the red paper from the download.

Then I just threaded some stitching thread (in red, zingy green,dark green and brown to match the colours of the papers) through the slot in the star.

Right, I need to have a quick boiled water with Lemon before I go fetch Mo from school and strip the beds ready for washing...though I fear its going to have to be tumbley drier dried because the weather here today totally sucks!! the wind is awesome but the showers that keep plomping down with it are not so!!!! lol!!!
huge hugs Lou xxxx

A Christmassy Bathtime!!

Morning peeps!!!

After a bit of a pants weekend with the icky monthlies I am back in action and popping in with a little make for you this morning and I was feeling in the christmas mood so Kraftin Kimmie's Brigette got a christmassy bathtime!!!

She is the first Kraftin Kimmie stamp I have coloured up so I had to have a bit of fun with her!!

The papers on this one are just gorgeous.They are Glitz Joyeux Noel and I have to admit to a good 30 mins of 'stroke the paper' before I actually managed to cut into it!! he he he!! I cut round some of the gorgeous little pennants in the paper and tucked her under them.

Brigette is coloured up with promarkers and her bubbles got a little bit of Glossy Accents treatment :)

They are  corners are Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B and the twine is MME Merry and Bright.

I had some fun making the little charm too. I stamped it onto some shrink plastic using Jet Black Staz on and then coloured it up with some pencils. Then before  heated it to shrink it up I inked around the edges with a Memento Red Letter dewdrop inkpad. Then when it shrinks there is a lovely coloured deep edge around it. I tied a little bow and glued it on to finish it off.

The sentiment comes with Brigette and when I showed this card to my little Mo he said " wow, Mrs. Claus looks really happy in her bath after wrapping all those toys for santa mummy!!" so I was super pleased I had coloured her hair in grey!!! too cute!!!

I  have Scott all to myself today while Mo is at school. The weather is dreadful, its so dark and pouring with rain, ack!!  so I think we will just be pootling around at home but it will be lovely all the same. I am a bit behind with bloggy reading after spending most of the weekend in bed with my wheaty bag and painkillers so I will probably get some bloggy catching up done too!!

Right best get Mo sorted for school!!

Hugs Lou xxx

An Alice themed wedding card...

 Morning Peeps!
Hope you are all having a great friday, I have just had a quick chat with my mum on the phone so I am feeling much better today. Her bed is one that is able to sit up so the nurses let her sit up a little last night which she said was lovely. She said the room service needs to be worked on a bit though as this morning she rang them at 6am for a cup of tea and they brought her a bedpan instead!! romfl!! I will know more about what they had to do tonight or tomorrow but it was just so lovely to hear her voice.

So today I have a little wedding card that one of my lovely friends at work asked me to make for her. When I asked her a bit about the 2 ladies getting married she said they loved Alice in wonderland so I decided to go with an Alice theme.


The heart is a sizzix die and I stamped one of my distressing stamps onto it, imagine how happy I was when I attempted to read what it says and it had the word wedding in there too!! yey!!

The corners are Cherry Lynn Lace Deco B and I cut those in white so they popped out. The paper is from Tiddly Inks, I love this paper and always use it on Alice themed cards, it just goes so well and I made the banner by typing out the words on my pooter and then cutting it out with my fishtail stax die-namics.

I followed the same theme on the inside and just added a queen of hearts playing card...

I really love how this one turned it, it looked so nice.

Right got to get myself going, its time for work!!
thank you for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxx