Tiddly Inks challenge 100- Make it like Pop's!!!

 Stamp- Friends are Flowers Clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- DCWV Nanna's Nursery baby boy.

Box Tutorial from the fabulous Yani is HERE.

Morning Peeps!!

well a slightly stressed Lou finally gets her blog post up this morning!!!!! I was so almost without a make for this weeks Make it like Pop's challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog but I saw an awesome tutorial from Yani this morning that got me spurted to finish of my make!!

So the challenge this week is make it like Pop's and this is the card we have for inspiration....swoooooon!!!

I love the make it like someone challenges. I went with the layout on the front of Pop's stunning card, the blue colours, oval matting and yummy flowers. It was so going to be an easel card too but then I saw the tutorial and it just had to be a gorgeous box!!!

Here's a bit of a sidey view!!

 and here's the box inside.......

it was so much fun to make and I have 2 more finished ones on my desk and another in progress as Mo wanted to learn how to do it!! There's a linky to the tutorial up at the top under my first piccy.

Right, I am going to relax with a cuppa now as my drive home was grrrrrrrr!! There was an ambulance with lights flashing coming towards me as I came home and though there was the empty turning lane in the middle of the road it is slippy and icy out on the roads this morning so I pulled over to allow the ambulance oodles of room. Cue the person behind you gives you the whole hands up moaning at you thing when you pull over to let an ambulance pass safely :( have to admit to being so cross with said angry brooklands auto man with car on back of lorry that I flicked him the v sign. I think he had to wait a whole 30 seconds to let it pass, grrrrrrrrrrr. I am a little bit ashamed that my little flicky finger v sign did not stay on my lap where it should of been but people like that seriously upset me. I am the dopey kind of person that see's an ambulance with flashing lights and goes into auto drive in my mind for the safety of the person who is either in the ambulance or who the ambulance is trying to get to.Urgh!! vent over!!

On a happier note!! The princess Furball was most impressed with a frosty walk on the playing field near Mo's school this morning. Frozen clumps of grass are awesome for throwing from ones furball princess mouth giving one the air of a real tomboy and oh my gosh how much fun is frozen grass root to dig up??! wag my tail, nibble, woof, waggle some more, snuffle snuffle into grass and yey!! a muddy nose and frosty sprinkles all over her face later and she happily trotted on with said grass root hanging out of her mouth!!...might I add she is now zonked out on her cosy rug after all that fun!!!

have an awesome day peeps and thank you for popping in on me,
huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Free Hugs?......

Stamp- Free Hugs.

Papers- Pink Paislee Prairie Hill.

Nestabilities- Floral Ovals.

Morning Peeps,

How are you all this chilly, grey morning?! I am great. I had an awesome weekend which always makes me feel fabulous for a few days afterwards!!

We had a wonderful family day out on saturday. We went for a drive to the garden centre and bought myself a couple of treats with some pennies my gorgeous Aunty Sally had sent for me (they are in yesterdays bloggy post!!!) and on sunday we went to church to see the children's christmas show and it was fabulous. Mo loved it and thought it was "awesome"!! then to top off a wonderful weekend I went to visit my dear friend sarah's new baby, Lily Isabella, and she is just so delicious I could eat her up. Mo adores her already and has great plans to take her shopping to toys r us and get her some baby girl toys!! awwww!!!

So onto my make for today!! Its my turn to do my DT post over on the Dies to Die For inspiration blog and I am sure you will of heard the whoops for miles when I opened my DT box of yummy treats and Free hugs was sat there looking at me, ya'll know I am Saturated Canary addicted!!!!

I love easel cards so knew I wanted to do an easel and use the stunning new Nestabilities Floral Ovals so I cut the biggest one for my stamp and the littlest one for my easel stopper. The littlest one has a really cute little flower that embosses into it but with my super pants taking a picture of easel cards ability it super tough to see!! on a serious note if any of you have any tips on taking pictures of easel cards I need your help!! this was around the 9th photo I had taken and I had lost the will by then so that's the piccy you got!! he he he!!!

Right then, I must get a move on! I have a little guy to get umfed for school, (he is adamant this morning that he should stay home and go see Sarah again!!!!) and I have cake pops to make for my staff meeting tonight, Mo has chosen colourburst candy melts for me to ice them with so they will look pretty!!

Have a fabulous day peeps and thank you so much for popping in on me.

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Silent Saturday!!!!

                                                                       <3 p="p">

Saturated Canary challenge 32... Hot Chocolate and marshmallows!

 Image- Latte from Saturated Canary.

Papers- Christmas Kraft Organics from Pink Petticoat.

Afternoon Peeps!!
Hopefully Mr. Blogger has played nicely and posted this little scheduled post for me, he's been a bit of a monkey recently so I hope he behaved today!! Today is my 4 year bloggyversary too! I love my blog so thank you for all popping in to see what I have been up to xxxx

Its time for a fabby new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week its our Pop's driving the challenge train!! she chose us an awesome theme of..
Hot chocolate and Marshmallows!!

Ooooh I loved it!! there are so many ways you could use that theme, like the colours of marshamallows and chocolates but I went for a more literal approach of....Hot chocolate and Marshmallows!! he he he!!!

This little gift is for my niece, Lily-Boo. I am just making another one at the minute for my nephew too. They love Hot chocolate......(though they had a yukky experience when they tried nesquik chocolate milkshake as hot chocolate earlier in the week!! my sisters facebook status had me giggling for a few minutes!!!)

Aren't those papers just delish?!! I am so in love with them!! They are from Pink Petticoat, linky up at the top. I punched a circle of it for the top of the jar and then a band for the lid and middle of the jar, I love those cute hearts and reindeer's!!! he he he!!

I filled a little jar with cadbury's drinking chocolate powder, some red glimmer sugar and marshmallows and then screwed on the lid.

Then I punched 'Latte' out cropping her a bit so there is kinda just her head!! poor girl!!! and coloured her up all chrimbley. Now I know its supposed to be a latte in her hand but I think she's just perfick for hot choccy days too!!! she's so cute with her super smiley face. A good old bit of twine to attach her to the jar and she was all done. This is such a cute gift idea, I can't wait to see Boo and Jake's face because they love the weird stuff Aunty Lou comes up with!!!

Have fun with Pop's fabalicious theme and don't forget...... to join in you must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp

Right, well I will be along to pop in on you all tonight when I have gotten home from work and had some tea!!
Thank you  so much for popping in on me
Huge hugs Lou xxx

The Conductor...

Morning peeps!!!

Its a super quicky post from me today as I am off out to fetch mum for meeting grandad but I just had to share the new image Christy has released for you today...meet The Conductor.

The Conductor

He's just so adorable!! I had to colour him up straight away!!

I am popping his little cuteness over on the challenge on the Papertake Weekly challenge blog which is anything goes.

be back later with more deets!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Shopping Ivy....

Morning All!!

Here I am with another chrimbly make, I can't get enough of them this week as I am so excited about christmas!! Its raining here...blurgh!! so later I am going to take my little furball princess for a quick walk around the nature reserve this morning on the way to have a cuppa with a dear friend. There are many walks around the reserve but the one I am going on is just 20 mins long which is prefect for little furball princess leggies!! I have plenty of little treats nestled in her little pink treat pouch as I am still setttling her into her halti lead, which she is taking to beautifully but loves the occasional paw to get it off!! cheeky pudding!!

For this card I used CC Designs Shopping Ivy she is fab isn't she?!! I just had to colour her up in traditional christmas colours with my promarkers.

The papers are from the First Edition Festive Treats pad , with a length of gorgeous Sparkle edge gold trim, (this trim is totally delicious!!) across the centre. I also added a cute bit of Loop Border over the top edge of the trim because it does so look like christmas lights and I love it.......I am actually a little addicted to it at the moment!!! oh and there just had to be some use of my fav doily die too!! its the Cheery Lynn French Pastry die.

And here's a piccy of my little guy with his nativity this weekend, it is his fav advent activity as it is something he shares with me dear cyber friend Shirley. he looks forward to the 1st december from october onwards and this year he was super pleased as there were camels!! oh my you have never heard such glee as those camel boxes getting opened!! 

....yes he is still into pirates too!! he has had that poster behind the head of his bed for 4 years now! it used to have a black frame and he was devastated when I knocked it dusting one day and it fell and broke :( (luckily the pirate map was totally fine so that stopped the tears!) and every single night we have to pick an island to go to in our dreams. I LOVE that, its so cute!!

You will have to excuse my gushy mamma moments!!I just love this little guy so much!! we had an awesome weekend.

After a couple of years of being terrified of the water ( due a not so nice swimming teacher experience when Mo was 3) We searched around and found some lovely swim teachers and after 10 weeks of lessons. He has had to start from scratch because of his fear and nerves but and yesterday Mo got his 5 metre badge at swim club.

I was so proud because he sobbed when his teacher sent him to try out for it but after a little teacher and Mo pep talk he got in and swam just over 5 metres, he didn't make it to 10 but that didn't matter because proud mamma was already in tears watching and Daddy could not believe his eyes.....his swim teacher was so proud because he knew Mo would be able to achieve that if he could just relax in the water, Yey!! go Mo!!!

Right I have waffled on enough!!

Thank you all so much for popping in on me,Huge hugs Lou xx

Funky Inks blog Hop!!!

Image- Little Bugg.

Papers- Rainbow Polka Dots.

Steam Funk.

Morning everyone!!

Well the super exciting day is here!!! are you ready to get Finky with us all?!!

The awesome talents of Funky Hand’s Anice and Tiddly Inks Christy have come together, along with their gorgeous DT’s to have a little fun collaboration blog hop and showcase Anice’s delicious papers with Christy’s awesome images. You should of come to me from Karen’s blog so If I am your first stop please check out the hop order over on the Christy's blog or Anice's blog so you don’t miss any info you need!

So, why Hop you ask? Well, there will be a lovely prize from Anice and Christy for their stores and a whole tonne of inspiration from a team of gorgeous crafters who have put together some mouth watering yumminess to share with you all. You will have until December 3rd at 12am CST to comment on the blogs for our fabulous Tiddly Inks Prize of a $20 gift certificate to any digital item in the Tiddly Inks Store!  and a £20 voucher from FunkyHand .YOU won't want to miss it.

I love digital crafting…why? Because all the favourite papers I love never run out! Super yey!! And the images never miss a part when stamping!! Its a dream crafting date so what more could we ask!!

So on my card today I used Christy's Little Bugg, and Anice's Papers- Rainbow Polka Dots.

and Steam Funk. I paper pieced the little red polka dot paper onto my super cute little bugg and then nestied her into a circle shape and made a card base with some black polka dotted paper from the Rainbow Polka dots download and the text paper from Steam Funk download, the text paper is actually full of wonderful crafty words!

I tore a little bit on the right edge and tucked some more polka dots behind it and then added a little twine bow.

I also added a cute bit of Loop Border, I love how that came out! just as loopy as me!! he he he!!! and there are some teeny flowers and fronds just nestling at the bottom of her feet and the sentiment came from the Die-namics Airplane greetings stamp set.

So now please hop on over to Larissa’s blog to see what she has to share with us all!!

 Don’t miss anyone out because I've seen them all and they are just awesome, I cannot tell you how proud I am to be a part of these 2 design teams, their creativity just knocks my socks off.

Thank you for popping in on me today.
Huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 99- make it like Marlena...

Image- Faythe Gives and Yummy Paper set.

Morning Peeps!!

Its that Tiddly time of week again where the Tiddly Inkers rock your socks off with some gorgeous creations and challenge you to get your Tiddly thang going over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog :) I am a squidge late in writing my post because little Mo slept in until 6:45am...he he he! love my little human alarm clock!! luckily the smaller black furball princess alarm clock woke Scott up at 5am so he got to work on time!!!

Its another fun challenge showcasing design team member Marlena. I love these challenges and used Marlena's card as a sketch for my creation this week.

So here's Marlena's gorgeous card to inspire you.....

Remember you can use the sketch, the colours or the image for inspiration!!  That leaves this creation wide open.  Please join us using a Tiddly Inks image and you could win a gift certificate to the Tiddly Inks store or possibly be a feature on our Fabulous Friday post! 

I used the super cute new Faythe that Christy released earlier this week, I absolutely love her! ( heck, I LOVE everything Christy draws!!!) I teamed her up with some of Christy's papers and went all out christmassy. I have to say I really love her hair, I did it ginger and curly, squee too cute!! Mum bought me the wired ribbin across the centre ages ago and its gorgeously shiny. I embossed the circle of red card behind her with my snowflakes embossing folder and added a little MS branch punch and card candi to make some holly to match the papers. 

And to remind you of something exciting for friday too....

Please join the Tiddly Inks crew and the Funky Hand group for a wonderfully fun blog hop!  PRIZES will be available from both companies and their will be a oodles of inspiration!  You can start at Funky Hand orTiddly Inks - so don't forget to join us!!!

So thats me for today peeps!

I am off out for a drive in the rain with my mum to meet my grandad for our weekly cooked breakfast. The way we normally go is closed off as the river has flooded so we are going through town today instead and then after that when I get home I have a few card orders to get finished off.

Have a super duper day peeps and thank you so much for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxxx

Daisy....

Stamps- Gorjuss Girls Daisy clear stamp set.

Sentiment- Die-namics Airplane Greetings set.

Pens- Promarkers.

Papers- Pink Paislee Prairie Hill.

Yellow lace.

Morning Peeps!!

hope you are all having an awesome start to your week. I am sharing a gorgeous little autumn coloured card with you this morning.

I love this Gorjuss girl set. The lovely little daisies around the edge of her are included in the set and she is a bargain too at just £5 from Dies to Die For.

The fab loopy border came in my DT box too but I can't find where in the shop so I will have to get back to you all when I find it!!!

Here's a little pile o pens!!!

Right I had better get myself moving as I have 3 dogs and 3 small peeps to sort out this morning!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Weekends.....!

Morning all!!

I have had a couple of emails from lovely followers to check I am ok because I haven't blogged much over the last couple of days, firstly I want to say a big thank you to those 2 peeps and how lovely of you to take the time to send me an email xxx

Ok so my lack of weekend bloggying at the moment is due to this cute little guy up there ^and this gorgeous guy down here...

and this furball princess right here......

I am not ashamed in the least to say my crafting world stops at the weekend for these guys and I suck up every little bit of time I have to spend with them because I have been blessed with a truly awesome little family that I adore.

What are you all up to today? we have swimming lessons for Mo, puppy class for poppy and then Mo and I are going on a little sleepover with the children I used to nanny for so its a fun day here!!

huge hugs Lou xxxx