Tiddly Inks new release clear stamps...squeeeee!!

Stamp set- Everyday Magic.

Morning Peeps!!

I am so excited to share the new release clear stamps from Tiddly Inks with you this morning....I have been counting down the minutes to getting my blog post done this morning until I could see them all in the shop ( ..especially as little Mo and I have been up since 1:30am because he is sick again...grrrrrr!!!!)

I loved every one of these new releases and had so much fun making some bits to show them off to you all. The other gorgeous Tiddly Inkers have been busy too so here's a link to all their blogs if you fancy noseying in on the gorgeousness!!!

I love how much versatility Christy has, we go from the gorgeous  Everyday Magic fairy above to some really great steampunky/victorian feeling stamp sets with the Stylish Friends and Grow Old Friends then onto the super cute mini and many friends set....LOVE THEM ALL!! (...got to get me that mini and many friends set in my basket so save one for me please guys!!)

Here's a super cute treat bag, I love making these!! here's a link to the tutorial I followed so you can knock up some of your own!

Stamp set- Stylish Friends.

and my last make with them for you is this wooden plaque...

Stamp set- Grow Old Friends.

And here's a little tutorial I made for you all so you can see the work in progress of this gorgeous little hanging wooden plaque, I so loved making this,it was nice to jump out of my comfort zone and embrace a new media!



and so to remind you of all the gorgeous new sets here's some piccies (all linked in to their home in the shop of course...) 


Squuuuuuueeeee! I so love them all!! I just need to get me some playtime with the mini and many friends set when Mo is a bit better.

Right time for me to go and sort out this little guy. I need to get his temp down from the 40°C it has been all night and get him drinking a bit more than he is before doing that lovely chore of trying to get through to the Drs surgery to get an appointment....I think they may even have a couple of chairs reserved for our use after all the times we've been just recently. I had a mummy date planned with one of my friends today so I am sad I cannot go but this little guy comes first and he needs major snugglies with mummy! and oh my, this will make you all laugh!!.....

I so love my night time conversations with Mo. Yetsreday evening he had a temp of 38.4 again so I gave him some calpol and he settled off. I went up to check it again at about 10pm and it had gone down a little, the conversation went..

Mummy- "oh mosey pickle why do you keep getting all hot and tempy?"

Sleepy no eyes open Mo replies - " probably because you fart a lot mummy" then rolls over and snuggles into his pillow...

Sigh!!!!!

Thank you for popping in on me today!! 
huge hugs Lou xxxx and smaller feverish hugs from Mo!!!

I'm Raptor Round Your Finger!!!

Stamp- MFT Doodle Garden I'm Raptor Round Your Finger.

Papers- First Edition Blank Canvas .

Dies-Die-namics Rustic Hearts ,Die-namics rounded banner stax,

Die-Namics Hexagon.

Twine-Divine twine Yellow Solid.

Morning Peeps!!

Its my day to post over on the DTDF inspiration blog so to cheer up your monday morning  I thought I'd post him here too!! awwwww isn't he just adorable??!! I love him to bits!!! I had so much fun pootling in my craft room making this little card yesterday afternoon.

I loved the look of the First Edition Blank Canvas papers I chose, the green one looks all scaly and the yellow one is just gorgeous!! I edged them all with Vintage Photo distress ink. ( well ya'll know I simply cannot resist a good old edgey ink!!!)

Now for that little cutie!! He is coloured up with my promarkers. I dotted my blender pen all over him to get some cute looking raptor skin look going on and I did a little stippling around the edges of him too. Then cut him out using those awesome rounded banner stax.

I popped his little cuteness on the inside of the card too and totally forgot to take a piccy until I remebered as I was writing this post.....Doh!! so I will pop a piccy of it on later!!

He totally reminds me of my own gorgeous little raptor.....

so he might be getting this little card!!

So as you can see I am loving pootling through my latest DT box from the gorgeous Tracy Kendall over at Dies To Die For!!

Challenges I am entering with this card are...

Allsorts challenge blog- Valentine theme..

Inky Chicks- Valentines/ anniversary theme. .

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes..

Its just me, Mo and the furball princess this morning as Mo's little breakfast buddy is being taken to school club by her mummy this week. Mo is a mix of missing her and enjoying a bit of mummy to himself in a morning!! little monkey!!! he keeps asking "when is Sophia coming?" quickly followed by "oooh lets have another snuggly mummy" !!! though I don't mind the snugglies one little bit!!

Right time for a cuppa and some nutella on oaty toast...mmmmmm...yummy!!

Thank you so much for popping in on little ole me!! 

(oooh and while I remember I fixed my comments as my gorgeous Pops let me know they were broked a bit, so you should be able to leave comments now without having to write them 2 or 3 times...though I have to admit I was tempted to post all your repeat comments peeps to make me feel more loved!!!!romfl!!!)

Huge hugs Lou xx

Little Ladybug...

Stamp- Little Ladybug from Saturated Canary LDRS.

Papers- MME Happy Day.

Sentiment- Flutterby to say Hi clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Morning peeps!!

wohoooooo! its friday!!! :) now I was going to post this little cutie yesterday...but I forgot then last night I fell asleep and just could not wake myself up to do a blog post so you get her today instead!! :)

This is the gorgeous Little Ladybug stamp designed by my gorgeous Boss Lady Krista Smith and sent to me in a gorgeous little bundle of happy mail last week ( love you Krista, mwah xxx) the twine and little heart also came in the package of happiness so I had to add them on too!!! and just to remind you of our current colours challenge over on the SC challenge blog...

 You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

and follow the theme of the challenge.

and please remember you can only enter once.

I am so looking forward to the weekend. Tonight we are treating Mo to tea the our local 2 for 1 pub, then on saturday Mo has his golf lesson and the furball princess is starting a new puppy school ( ..so tonight I well be cooking up some chicken for treats so she doesn't completely embarass me during class......!!) she has 6 weeks of lessons and gets a certificate at the end if she manages to do all the right furball princess stuff each week........!!!

So that's me for today!! have a fabulous friday all and I will be in to see you all when I get home tonight!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Digi Funk!!

image- flower cake .

papers- rainbow polkadots .

Dies- Die-namics fish tail layer stax.

Morning Peeps!!

I hope you are having a wonderful wednesday!! Little Mo slept in until 6am this morning which was lurvely but my bloggy post is a squidge later than normal due to enjoying the  'Scott has gone to work and Mo isn't up yet whole cosy bed to myself' thing :) :) :)

So better late than never I am popping in to show you some of the cards I have made using Anice's gorgeous new digi stamps. They are so sweet!! I couldn't decided which one to play with first so I just printed a few out and got crafty!! 

The yummy cake card digi is my fav I think, it was so much fun to colour up. And this is my friend's Fi's birthday card........sigh..it is still sat on my desk because I am totally useless at actually remembering to post the cards.......

The little flowers on this little tree stump house matched the new just for jen papers so well I just had to pop them together!!!

image- No1 tree stump lane.

papers- just for jen. 

and I was in a bit more of a rustic mood by the time I had gotten to this little tree stump house....

image- No 2 tree stump lane.

papers- Christmas Tree.

Fence- Memory Box Rounded Fence.

These are the lovliest digi's to colour and I am so happy Anice has branched out into doing her own stamps, she shouldn't be keeping cutie's like this all to herself now!!! :)

So today I am on the 3rd day of waiting for the Poppy cage to arrive!! I am so hoping it comes today but I am expecting another parcel too which I am over the top super excited about!! its this......

Squeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I cannot wait to get started popping all my little bits and bobs in my PL box ( yup, I have been stashing them all whilst saving up for these pocket pages!!) 

Right time for a cuppa and bloggy womble!

huge hugs Lou xxxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 103...Love is in the air!!

Image- Emma and Jake Love Fully.

Morning Peeps!!

Its that Tiddly Time of week again where the Tiddly Inkers get their inky thang on over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and roll out another super fun challenge for you all!! and this week our theme is so much fun! this week its....

Love is in the air

Your creation can use any Tiddly Inks image you'd like but just make sure there is the theme of Love on your creation!!  Remember to link up before midnight on February 18th with your NEW creation using a Tiddly Inks image.  

I am still head over heels in love with Jake and Emma so they just had to be on my Tiddly valentines card! They are just so cute! For this one I cut out a heart aperture and then embossed my red paper with hearts before  popping it up on some foam tape. Then I coloured in the little sweethearts and tucked into the heart.

The words and the heart on this card are all from the same Love Language die and embossing set, it is one of my absolute favs and I use it all the time!! I cut some flowers out with my scraps and added them to the bottom of the heart. The flowers are made with the Die-namics Layered Rose.

So that's me for today!! I think I may be loosing my marbles a little though as I waited in all day for Poppy's new cage for the car to arrive yesterday and it wasn't even scheduled to be delivered until today and I almost forgot to add this card to our Tiddly DT blog but remembered to add the card for our next challenge....derrrrrrr!!!.....sigh..it must be my hormones!!!!

I am popping this little sweetie into a couple of challenges...

Top Tip Tuesdays blogs Let me call you sweetheart challenge. My Top Tip is on the flowers. I always love to make mine pop a little. I did cut them and then pop them on my foam mat and roll over them with my ball embosser, I love how they curl up. Then using a smaller flower punch I just do the same again and add it to the centre of my big flower then add a little glitter/bling/liquid pearls to the centre.

Passion for Promarkers blogs Add Sparkle challenge- Love those little bits of blingy in the centres of the flowers. Promarkers I used were..

Skin- blush, sunkissed pink, coral

jake's hair- Vanilla,putty,caramel

Emma's hair- sandstone,cocoa,burnt sienna

greys- cool grey1-5

reds- poppy,crimson,burgundy

Don't forget to pop in on the challenge blog and see what my gorgeous teamies have made and don't forget.....to join in the fun you will need to use a Tiddly Inks digi or stamp!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Feel better soon...

Morning Peeps!! 

I'm here this morning with a super cute little share for the DTDF inspiration blog using the some of the new Kraftin Kimmie stamps. This poorly little cutie is from the new Love is the best medicine stamp set and I actually squeeeeed when I saw this set in my DT goodies!!!

I cut her with the biggest Floral Oval nestabilitie and coloured her up with my promarkers. I distressed all the egdes with Vintage Photo distress ink, this is my fav colour distress ink at the moment because you can make it nice and light or good and deep all in one ink pad!! The super cute little sentiments come in the pack too!

The papers are MME Happy Day and they are gorgeous!! with a touch of Bazill Hopi cardstock behind them. I added a little bit of pink and orange cooling stripe ribbon and made a little bow with some twine wrapped around it. Those little corners are Cheery Lynn Lace Deco B.

Now for the back of my card and oh boy you are going to LOVE these little cuties!!!  I used the new Handmade Trinkets...

 How cute is she!!! there are 6 in the set and they are all totally gorgeous!! 

I am popping this little cutie over on the Kraftin Kimmie challenge blog which is show some texture, that juicy bow and twine hopefully do the trick!! :)

I have had such a nice weekend. We went for a wonderful walk in the old quarry on saturday, Mo loved it, there's nothing better for a stone obsessed 8 yr old than an old quarry and so did Scott!oh and not forgetting Poppy!! Here they all are exploring the wall of rock!!

And then yesterday Scott and I decided it was time to paint the garden fence. Our super lovely and fabulous new neighbour cut down the huge tree's that our old neighbour let grow out of control and the light that has been let into our garden again is just so wonderful. I went for a cream coloured paint to paint the fence with and even though my arm is aching like anything this morning it is just gorgeous looking out onto our garden because it feels all seasidey with our lovely new fence colour!!

Right that's it from me for today!! Have a fabulous monday everyone
Huge hugs Lou xxx

Saturated Canary challenge 36...Colour inspiration

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for another fun challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week our gorgeous Maria Therese has set it for us!!  and this week its a colour challenge, yummy!!

I used one of the new awesome rubber stamp releases from CHA, Balloon Wishes, she's just so happy and I love her balloon with the plaster on! its too cute!! the papers are Basic Grey Paper Cottage and I used the Tim Holtz one the edge Distressed Doily to pop behind her. All the other little bits are from my stash!! 

So all you need to do is use at least 3 of these colours..

So pop in and see what my awesome canary teamies have been making and join in with the fun but don't forget.......

You must use either a:

Saturated Canary Digi, 

Saturated Canary rubber stamp, 

or Simply Sassy rubber stamp 

and follow the theme of the challenge.

and please remember you can only enter once.

I am at work and hoping this has posted itself like a good blogger! so I will be back in to visit you all tonight with a cuppa!!

Huge hugs and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxxx

Tiddlying on a tuesday!!!

I'm a 2 in one day gal today!!!  I have been out for a cookie and a cuppa with my bestie and her gorgeously super cute baby ( got my snugglies in too, she 's sooooo cute!!) and felt like a quick make before I go pick up my mini man from school!! 

This card features 2 of my favs!! Jake and Emma ...

                                        

and the gorgeous new Funky Hand download, Just For Jen.

So now I guess I better go get that little guy! he is so exhausted from the bug he had that he fell asleep on the way home last night so I wonder if he will do the same tonight as he had swimming today too! poor chap!!

Huge thank you's for popping in on  me!
hugs Lou xxxx

Funky Hand new release...Just for Jen!

Morning peeps!!

I hope you are all having a terrific tuesday so far!! so this morning I have a share with you from the gorgeous new Funky Hand download, Just For Jen.

And here's some words from Da Boss about this download as its a bit of a special one.....

This craft backing paper downloadable collection was created with someone very special in mind. The pink and grey colours were influenced by the Breast Cancer Awareness colour scheme. The backing papers have been designed to help you make really pretty handmade cards or scrapbook pages for special people in your lives. They include lovely flower/lace effect designs and hearts along with the always needed stripes, polka dots and plain papers to all work perfectly together. Also included are five sets of Alphabits for you to use to create your very own sentiments.

For every download purchased Funky Hand will donate £1.00 to Cancer Research.

It really is a super download too, the papers are gorgeous so don't forget to click the piccy and go peek at the DT gallery just below the description where you will find some awesome makes from the Funkettes.

For my card I cut a heart shape out of one of the plain papers and then foam mounted it onto the gorgeous heart paper so it made an appeture. The little tag is from my stash with a stamp from the Love n That stamp set .

Right, got to get Mo's breakfast buddy to her breakfast club! 
huge hugs Lou xxx

mimosa hat bookmark!!

Morning all!!
its my DTDF inspiration blog day today and this week I had another bookmark to make. 

I always like to try something a little different so I cut out my bookmark out of Kraft card using the Die-namics bookmark and die stamp set and then stamped on my cute little Bildmarlana mimosa hat stamp. I coloured her up and then snipped a couple of little holes around her hands to thread some blue paper cord through to make a little pretend wall, the stones in the wall are just me doodling with my promarkers but they turned out so nice. I coloured a bit of grass in and dotted some white pen for little teeny flowers and around my little girl too.

I stamped the circle from the set up at the top of the bookmark and then using Die-namics Layered Rose I cut and  layered up the flower and added a flat backed pearl to the centre to make it pop!! Then I cut an extra one and tied it onto some twine so that it can hang out of the book page.

So thats me for today!! Now while I am here I just want to let you all know about our new DTDF Creation Station facebook page that we have set up for you all to share your makes using products you have bought from the Dies to Die For shop, so please pop in and join the group!!

Right time for a cuppa for me!! Little Mo is going back to school today and I have a couple of bits to do this morning.
Thank you for popping in on me!
Hugs Lou xxx