Fathers Day tag card.

 Papers and alpha's from Steam Funk.

Image from Colour me Happy.

Morning Peeps!!

It's my turn to post over on the Get Funky and craft inspiration blog this morning.

I have been thinking of Fathers day cards for my Dad's! and this one is my fav so far. I wanted something a bit different so went for this folded tag album card.

They are so much fun to make. All you need to do is print out your fav paper on some thin cardstock.If you want the inside to have a pattern on too, pop it back through the printer and print on the other side too.

How you do the pocket inside is up to you, I had fun making different pockets for this one! I love the shirt and tie one!! 

I added a bit of string and saw charm to the second pocket, rolled the edge of the next over and added an eyelet and some punched Alpha's from the Steam Funk download. For the last pocket I punched a little out of the top of it and then printed out the tools image from the Colour me Happy workspace.

I was really careful with the little scalloped circles.  looked all over my texted paper and picked out some cool Dad describing words from it and then punched them so they would be clearly seen on the bottom of the folded over circle. I chose Smart, Slick, Knowing and Skill!! how fun is that?!!

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxx

Passion for Promarkers challenge 194- Button it Up!!

Image- Cute oriental characters from DSB.

Dies- Die-Namics Blue Prints 1.

Promarkers..

skin- tan and sandstone.

dress- poppy,crimson and burgundy.

I'm back again peeps!! its time for a new challenge over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog and this weeks challenge is....

 Button it up!

it doesn't get much easier than that does it?  Basically as long as we see a button on your creation then you’re fine. Don’t forget you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow the theme. 

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Sally-Ann from DigiStamp Boutique and she is offering one lucky winner a prize of 6 digi images.

I used Hana for my card. My Dad collects Momijii dolls and she so reminded me of one I just had to use her his birthday card.

I made the card base using my awesome Die-Namics Blue Prints 1. They are just a dream!! I used the largest one to cut the card base and then played with the other layers using one of the skecthes avaialble for them. The best news was that the big button die was perfect for this week challenge!! and I added a little red flower button to the top of it too, just to make sure I had those buttons in there!! he he he!!! the swirl is a sizzix one from my stash of dies!!! 

Right , got to go!! I am having fun making something funky hand for tomorrow's bloggy post!! Just perfick for Fathers Day!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Tiddly Inks challenge 108- 3,2,1 Recipe!!

Image- Wryn Hopping By.

Morning Peeps!!!

its time for a new challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and this week its......

The challenge today is a recipe challenge, a 3, 2, 1!  

We want to see THREE design papers, TWO embellishments, and ONE Tiddly Inks image of your choice!  

So all you need to do to join in with us this week is get out your fav Tiddly Inks images and show us a bit of distressing, stitching, or embossing.  You can use all three or one of the three, it's up to you!  so here's some idea's from the gorgeous Tiddly Inkers to get you started.

For my card I used Wryn Hopping By. She is just so sweet and I really challenged myself too and made myself stick rigid to the recipe!! it was a toughy! I hadn't realised how much I just kinda keep going and adding bits to a card!!

I distressed all my edges and made sure there were a few little rips for extra umpf and did a few layers to really make it pop!! Wryn is coloured up with promarkers and popped out a bit on some foam.

Right I had better get a wriggle on!! Mo slept in until 6am this morning and I have another blog post to schedule up for the Passion for promarkers challenge this week so don't forget to pop back in on me later too!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxxx

Die- Namics Blue Prints 2.....perfick for man cards :)

 Papers and embellies- Crate paper Toy Box collection kit.
Bazzill Basics Ivy.

Die- Die-namics Blueprints 2.

Morning Peeps!

Oh my my my is all I can say!!!! he he he!! Last week saw the release of the new Di Namics Blue Prints 2 set and as soon as I knew I was on the pooter to Da Boss throwing some pennies her way so that it arrived to live at my house asap!!!! and of course with Tracy being fabulous it did just that!!!

Which is perfect as I had a Thank you card to make for my Grandad who paid for us to have our central heating flushed. My grandad loves planes so naturally I had to head for that awesome Toybox collection kit!! ( I hope you aren't all bored of it,its just so good and a good old boy card in between all these gorgeous girly ones is so much fun!!)

The dies in this Die- Namics set just absolutely rock! and I even used one of the sketches you can find HERE to make it, thank you MFT!! 

I splodged a few of the die cuts and stickers from the kit on and then added the plane popped up on some foam to the top. I love that little tag die soooo much!!!! its so cute!!!!

So today see's tears in our house...from Mo and me!! lol!! its that dreaded first day back at school and even at this early hour we have had 2 meltdowns :( one at getting dressed and the other at the general schooliness of the day :( I feel so sorry for my little guy when he gets this sad so its snuggles and Willow (...sigh...yes again do I have to sit through another session of young Val Kilmer....swoooooon!!!!!) Since Scott bought him it on saturday we have watched it 4 times!! but its such a good film, a real children's film is so nice to watch.

And here's my little guy feeling happier. I took this piccy last wednesday when I was fiddling with my photoshop elements texture tool!! I love this little squidger so much!!!

He he he!! it doesn't hide those dirty little "Mumma I've been gardening" fingers!!! boy did I have to scrub those clean!! but he had so much fun weeding with his little friend and they even earnt a dairy milk choccy bar from one of my neighbours for doing his garden so they were happy!!!

Off to do some snuggling!! Have an awesome day everyone!!

Thank you for popping in on me!

Hugs Lou xxx

Hello Chicka!!!!

 Stamps- For the birds clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Leaves from Grow Old Friends clear stamp set from Tiddly Inks.

Afternoon Peeps!!!

So this morning I was sat thinking...mmmm...no-one liked my fabulous friday Tiddly Inks post :(.....then I took Mo to golf and had some facebook time, a bit of lunch, exciting post and then thought sob sob...no-one liked my Tiddly Inks fabulous friday post...so I went to check it was on my blog and....nope!! bad blogger strikes again and it is still sat in scheduled!! pmsl!!!!! soooo...here it is!!!!

oooh I had so much fun with my clear shrinkies and Tiddly Inks stamps last night! I am so excited to show you my fab friday post as its a little leap into something different!!....shrinkie's rings!!!!!! My friend posted a link to this tut on a facebook page a couple of weeks ago and I loved it so I had to give it a go!!!

I cut my shrinkie sheet at 1"wide and rounded the corners with my punch (it can be quite sharp if you don't!!) and then got to playing birdie!!!

I stamped the sentiment in the center first and then added a couple of the cute little birdies, LOVE them!!! then I went around the edges with the leaf stamp from the Grow old friends set.

I gave them a light colour with some pencils and that was the job done. Out came my heat gun and I loved watching ti curl up!! I wrapped it around a marker pen I had hanging around that I had slipped my ring onto to see if it was the right size.

Here's a side view...

Here's the back with the little openening part....

 and here's daftly excited me with the ring on my little chunky fingy!!!....

It's soooooo cute!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Saturated Canary challenge 41- Anything Goes!!

Stamps- Suspenders and Wallflower.

Love sentiment from my SU Teeny tags set.

Papers- MME Lucky In Love.

Dies- Die- Namics Monarch border.

Twine-Blue divine twine.

Coloured with Flexmarkers- 

Nutmeg, Champagne, Antique white.

Afternoon Peeps!!

Its time for a new challenge over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog and this week its a nice and easy one of....

Anything Goes!!

I made a card for Scott this week. He has been an absolute superstar while I have been hobbling around like an old lady with my hip. 

And if ever there was a smash card I think this is it!!! I think I threw a bit of everything onto it!! I LOVE the gorgeous MME papers and the little memo card was sent to me from Krista in a little packet of goodies. The hearts were lying on my desktop from a card I made last week.

I was having a use minimal amount of colour day too!! he he he! I wanted a kinda classic sepia tone on my stamps so I stuck to just the 3  flexmarker colours, Nutmeg, Champagne, Antique white. I doodled some dots in the background too.

They are mounted on a plane old record card and I just stamped love on the tab to jazz it up a little!!

Smashing on a card!! who knew?!!!! lol!!

My hip is hideously sore. I am still no further into knowing exactly what is wrong with it. My xrays have been sent to the consultant but not reported on yet :( booooooo so I am wobbling on! work is a toughy as I am so sore but hopefully the girls at work won't think me lazy for needing to stop and sit down quite a bit....nursery nursing and hideously sore hip are not the best mix!!

Anywhoo, don't forget to pop in on my teamies over on the challenge blog and see what gorgeousness they have cooked up to inspire you...

And the challenge rules are super easy too so please remember to follow them...

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.

And please turn off your word verification and turn on comment moderation, you

just need to  need to go to Customise > Settings > Comments > then scroll down to where it says comment moderation and select always (it won't stop anybody commenting but they won't show on your blog till you approve them). Then you scroll down to show word verification for comments? and select No 

Our DT don't want to miss any entries but word verification is becoming

increasingly hard and we have a whole lot of gorgeous makes we don't want to

miss out on leaving the love for :)

Thank you xxx

Thanks.....

Stamp- TGF Blush Thanks.

Dies- Joy Crafts swirl no 2

Die namics Mini Royal roses.

Ribbon- Grey Velvet.

Morning everyone!!

Hope you are all having a great thursday! I am needed to pop and do a post over on the DTDF inspiration blog as our Thursday girl Michelle has the icky flu :( get well soon hunny xxx

So I made a quick thank you card with a few little bits!! 

This is a 3x3 card blank and I stamped straight onto it. Then I added the luscious velvet ribbon and cut a little swirl and royal rose in kraft card scraps I had left on my desk.

Its such a cute little thank you card and the stamp works so beautifully. I'll be back later with my Saturated Canary challenge post, off to hobble to work now :( I am so sore but just about to have my co-codamol so if you are up in the clouds I will see you there in about 30mins!!! romfl!!! they give me the strangest feeling,its a bit like that warm and daft drunk feeling! poor girls at work having to put up with me all floaty and daft!!! but as long as they take the edge off the pain I am happy!!

thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xx

If you can't walk with them, think of them and craft!!!

Stamp- TGF Furever.

Dies- Joy crafts swirl no 2.

Papers- Affection Too from Nitwits.

Morning Peeps!!

I think I am just teetering on morning but if I don't waffle too much I might get it done before the clock ticks round to 12pm!!

So today I should be on my grumbly dogs walk with my little Poppy (who isn't grumbly at all but instead helps the other dogs to get over their black dog fear aggression worries!) and I am so sad I couldn't go because naughty hip is being an absolute toad :( so instead I got my crafty thing on thinking of all my gorgeous doggy peeps and their furbabies and made a card instead!!

The TGF Furever stamp set is just perfect for the job too!! I stamped the cute girl and her little dog up and coloured the with my promarkers and then added a few bones to the background with the mini bone stamp in the set, tooooo cute!!!

I cut them out with a lacey circle and added some raffia through the loops tying it in a pretty bow at the side.

Now to answer an email question I got last week....

how do I get my flowers to match in with the colours on my stamps?...

answer... I buy mostly white or cream flowers and then colour them in with my promarkers!! the flowers above are coloured with sunkissed pink and sandstone promarkers to match her skin and hair!!!

ok, I am going to rush off now. Mo is getting his hair cut soon and I need to get him some lunch before we go!! he has decided he would like a big boy haircut so we'll see what that means when we get there!! he he he!!!!

I am entering this cutie into the challenge over on the cupcake challenge blog which is Raining cats and dogs. and the Top Tip Tuesdays boys and girls come out to play challenge ( entry 2) with a top tip of my flower colouring!!

Thank you for popping in on me

huge hugs Lou xxxxx

Helicopter Fun!!!

 Papers and embellies- Crate paper Toy Box collection kit.

Die- Die-namics Blueprints 1.

Morning peeps!!

I hope you are having an awesome Monday!! its my turn to post my DT creation over on the DTDF Inspiration blog so I thought I would share it in here too!!

Oh wow was this card fun to make!!! he he he he!!! I just had to get my little mits back on that Toybox collection kit again, the die cuts and stickers alone are enough to get you wanting to play with it and then ooooh gorgeous boy papers ahoy!! can you tell I love it?!!!

I cut the card base with my Die-Namics blue prints 1 and Kraft card, then using a few more of the dies I cut some of the papers to get it looking all combatty!! I chose a couple of the yummy stickers and then popped the little helicopter up on some foam...( gorgeous little soldiers standing near the card do not come in the kit but they were way too fun to leave out of a piccy!! he he he!!)

I matched the inside up too with some more paper with the scalloped rectangle in the Blue prints set and a little soldier die cut from the sheet in the Toybox collection..

Thank you so much for popping in on me!!
Hugs Lou xx

Poppy Tilda....swoon!!!

Stamp- Poppy Tilda from Sir Stampalot

Papers- Affection too from Nitwits

Coloured with promarkers

Morning peeps!!!!

How are you all on this gorgeous sunny sunday? fabulous I hope.

So yesterday my naughty hip was being really naughty and I ended up not being walky enough to go to Ferry Meadows with Scott, Mo and Poppy but it wasn't all bad because instead of dropping me off for a quick visit to Sir Stampalot to spend some time watching my gorgeous friend Fleury demo away on her first demo, they left me whilst they went off to explore with Poppy so I got to watch Fleur for longer!! she was just fabulous as always.

She was using this stunning Tilda and of course I just had to buy her!! (he he he....told Scott Fleury made me do it.....!!!) she is just gorgeous!!  After a good couple of hours drooling over Fleur's card, that was just delicious, naughty hip got really bad so Scott and Mo came to fetch me and we went to have a cheeky McD's before coming home.

I treated myself to some new Nitwits papers especially to go with Tilda and printed them out....then Scott, Me and Mo all fell asleep at 7:30pm and didn't wake up until 5:55am this morning!!!! Lazy monkeys!!

So making of card didn't happen until this morning. I have to say I enjoyed every minute of pootling away at this card, its so special when you can be inspired by gorgeous friends. 

Here's a pile of promarkers used.....

Just a few then!! romfl!!!!

On Mo's agenda this morning was 'making a robot', so Daddy raided his bits box and Mo and Mummy got gluey with the glue gun!! He is kinda cute!! bye bye coffee machine!!!

And now they are in here....

...while I get some bloggy time!!!!!...oh and Mo is scoffing plums!!!

so I am entering this little cutie in a few challenges.....
Top Tip Tuesdays- Girls and boys come out to play challenge.

Papertake weekly-Anything Goes challenge. ( I used Kraft for my layering and leafy fronds and dawny's sketch 42,its one of my absolute favs!!)

I love promarkers- What's your favourite colour challenge. Pink and brown are my absolurte fav colour combo ever!!

Thank you so much for popping in on me
huge hugs Lou xxxxx