Pirate Lovejoy.....

Image- Pirate Lovejoy.

Morning peeps!! yarghhhhhhh!!!

I got my boy and pirate thang on today!!  our next 2 week challenge over on our SATURATED CANARY STAMPS facebook page is all about the boys!!! so grab your fav boy Saturated Canary image, make a something!! ( it can be anything you like but it MUST be a FINISHED project) and pop in and add it to our FACEBOOK CHALLENGE 5 ALBUM.

I chose Pirate Lovejoy for my make, he really is too cute! I gave him a little stripy pirate top too!!! add a few boyish piratey bits of paper and fun and he was done! a good old bit of Lou splodging makes a fun card!! he he he!!!

The DT girls rocked this one! there's nothing like a good boy make to make you smile. Boy makes can be the toughest cards to make so a whole challenge of inspiration should really get us all some fabulous ideas for future boy makes too!!

Right, off to walk the dogs!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxx

Baby Dragon Queen....

Image- Baby Dragon Queen from Tiddly Inks.

Morning gorgeous peeps of the world!!!

Its time for Fab Friday with the Tiddly Inkers and oooooh did we rock it this week!!! but we are uber spoilt with gorgeous images so it makes it super easy to have fun!!

I just had to share my Baby Dragon Queen make with you all today. I totally fell in love with this one ( ..I so want to be daenerys targaryen when I grow up....!!!!) and I decided to go for something different and crop tem out into a heart die shape.

Little baby dragon is coloured totally with dots in a tonne of different dragonny colours because I couldn't decided what colour I wanted him to be and I wanted him to look scaley!!! I love how he came out.

So..now for the Lou lecture!!! I have seen so many posts on crafty groups I am a member of over on facebook, most of them are like ..." I know I am not as good as some of you but I wanted to share..." or " I have been colouring this image for hours and I am still not as good as you guys"...urgh.... crafting is not a competition people,its a loving community. Share your makes with pride, don't worry about what others think,if you love it thats all that matters.

I colour quick, 10 mins for each image, I faff about making the card bit for sometimes 30 mins but oh my I love what I do and I absolutely adore seeing each and every persons makes. So.....

Be yourself, be gorgeous and enjoy everything!!!

Huge squishy hugs

Lou xxxx

Dark Queen..Tiddly Inks new release!!

Image- Dark Queen from Tiddly Inks.

Papers- Arsenic and lace by Echo Park.

Morning everyone!!

How are you all this tuesday morning? I am sat kinda lost!! its my first day on my own without the little guy home! Scott took thursday and friday off last week and I slept yesterday after my night shift on sunday so its just me today and ooooh boy is it quiet!!!

I have sat and made a loom band and then I thought oooooh I should share one of my makes from the new Tiddly Inks release!! this one is Dark Queen and I love her!!! I decided on making my niece, boo, a card for halloween. We normally go trick or treating together but my big sister has moved 40 miles away now so we won't be able to go together this year :( so I made this card and Mo and I are going to tuck sweeties inside the box with it for her and pop it in the post!!!!

I made a little bottle of poison with beads and a little paper heart!! cute!!!

Right, thats me for today! huge hugs for you all and thank you for popping in on me

Lou xxx

Simples..............

Stamp- CC Designs Drozy Darlings Rose.

Sentiment- Taylored Expressions Many minis Ocassions.

Papers- Doodlebug Designs Sugar Shoppe.

Bazzill Atlantic.

Dies- Die Namics Blue prints 18.

Memory Box Precious Hearts.

Morning everyone!!

I made myself go simple because I was desperate to try out my Blue Prints 18 die set!! oooh I know I always say it peeps, but its a GOOOOOOOOOD one!!!

I grabbed a stamp, coloured her up and then cropped her out with the solid circle die, then a layer for her with the stitched circle and onto the card base! One sheet of my Doodlebug designs Sugar Shoppe paper was all I needed for this one (which is good because that pad is very stroke only!!! he he he!!!) I used the two section dies and cut the same paper to keep it simples, just using the dotted border die in between the 2 layers on my atlantic blue mat to add some umpfles!!!

I cut the fishtail and then stamped my sentiment onto it, then cut the little button and added a little twine. It was just so relaxing to play with this Die Namics set,it really is a great one, going to have another play with it this week!!

Thank you for popping in

Hugs Lou xxx

Crisscross Applesauce....

Stamp- LDRS Saturated Canary Crisscross Applesauce.

Papers- Doodlebug design Sugar Shoppe.

Ribbon-Pink and orange cooling stripe.

Morning everyone!!

Its Lou in with a share for you today using one of the stunning new rubber stamps from the Little Darlings rubber stamps Saturated Canary new release.

I popped myself out of my normal colours safety zone when I coloured her up because I fancied a bit of a challenge and soooo wanted her to match my gorgeous new Doodlebug design papers. I never normally colour to match my papers but its sooo good to challenge yourself now and again!!

right, got to go,its Mo's first day back at school and I am feeling a bit anxious for him...he on the other hand is currently bouncing his basketball around the living room....!! lol!!

Hugs Lou xxx

Divas by Design challenge blog..Tags!!

Stamp- Never too old for a hug.

Papers- MME Indie Chic.

Dies- Die Namics Blueprints 9.

 La La Land Heart doily.

Die Namics Mini Royal Roses.

Die-namics rolled daisy.

Morning everyone!!

its time for a new challenge over on the Divas By Design challenge blog and this week its...

Tags!!

and we are sponsored by Live and love crafts.

oooh I do love making big tags at the minute,they are just so much fun. I don't know what to do with them afterwards but they are soooo much fun to make!!! and this stamp from LOTV is just perfect for it too because she is just cuteness in abundance!! I am going to end up with a whole tonne of these cute tags because the Die Namics Blueprints 9 set is just perfect for them! it gives you enough width and height to use a normal stamp and embellie away to your hearts content too!! perfect!!!!!

Right, thats me for today! Its the last day of the school holidays and we are going to walk the dog and then just hang out!!! I love my little guy so much and I love that he is not sad to go back to school but I am going to soak up every mamma moment I can get today!!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Genius.......

Image- Genius from Tiddly Inks.
Papers- Echo Park paper and glue.
Promarkers-
burnt orange,coral,sunkissed pink and blush.
Caramel, mustard, gold,buttercup.
Soft green,mint green and psatel green.
burgundy,cardinal red,poppy.

Morning peeps!!

I am multi tasking this morning as I have Tiddly Inks 'Pop of Poppy' colour challenge and the Passion for Promarkers 'Back to school' challenge all in one day and the 2 went together

 soooo well for the little Genius from Tiddly Inks that I couldn't resist squooshing them together into one cute make for Mo!!

So the colour inspiration for Tiddly Inks comes from this delicious photo..

I thought I would uber struggle with this colour palette but it was actually a really gorgeous one to tap into!! Pop over to our challenge blog and see what the Tiddly Inkers have made for this one, they rocked it!!

So don't forget to grab your fav Tiddly Inks stamps/images and join in for the chance to win $6 to spend in the Tiddly Inks store!!!

And over on the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog we are sponsored by Whiff of Joy who are giving away one stamp to the winner so don't forget, as always, to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers).

Right, brekkie time for me! I zonked out at 8pm last night as the sleep deprivation from night shift then straight to the beach when I got home got the better of me!! I didn't wake up until Mo did at 5:54am this morning!!....and I still feel like I could grab a few more zzzzzz's!!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Little Darling Saturated Canary new release......

Stamps- LDRS Saturated Canary  Novel and School House.

Papers- Crate Paper Farmhouse Collection.

Hi everyone!!

I am just a huuuuge bit excited!!! I have been playing with the new LDRS Saturated Canary stamps!! oh my...they are just gorgeous!!

And to celebrate their release Angie and her amazing DT girls are having a blog hop over on the Little Darlings Design Team blog. There are awesome prizes so please go and hop in on them and hop around the girls blogs for a chance to win!! you will need tissues for drool and wowness because they rocked it.

I used Novel and School House. They will be available from Dies To Die For here in the UK very soon too. I stamped Novel up on some Bazill Kraft card and then masked her up with my frisket film and then stamped the school house over the top of her, then it was a good old splodge of colour with my promarkers and hey presto... uber cute gorgeousness!!! I just adore this new release! and did you know....they are mounted, cut and even have the piccy on the mounting piece so you can see where you are stamping??? how uber cool is Angie for doing that?!! I absolutely love it, they come all ready to go!!! so exciting!

So grab that blog hop link above and go see the LDRS DT makes... do slip on any remnants of my drool on your way....!!!! lol!!

huge hugs Lou xxx

Carved Tree.....

Stamp- Woodgrain background stamp.

Sentiment-Taylored Expressions Many Mini Occasions.

Ink- Hero Arts Cup o Joe shadow ink.

Paper- Doodlebug sweet heart pad.

Bazill Kraft cardstock.

Dies- Die namics fishtail flags stax.

Die Namics fishtail layers stax.

TGF Film and Polariod (heart)

Morning everyone!

Hope you all had a fabby weekend! Its my turn to post over on the Dies to Die For inspiration blog and I fancied doing something a bit different this week and have had this stunning woodgrain stamp in my stash for a few months now and forgot about it until I was clearing my desk up some a couple of weeks ago.

I inked it p using the wonderful new Hero Arts Shadow inks, oh my!! they are fabulous!! (especialy if you are pretty pants at backgrounds like I am lol!!!) I used 'cup o Joe' on some Bazill Kraft cardstock and then you leave it to dry, while it is drying it smoooshes together and fills any gaps you missed!! WOW!!!!

Right, I am going to go and get a bath as I am just in from my nightshift and feel all gross and icky!! lol!!!

I'll be back later to share my make with a couple of the new LDRS Saturated Canary stamps.....oh man...they are delicious!!! like totally delicious..but I am not telling you anymore than that yet! lol!!

Huge hugs Lou xxxx

Forgotten Funkies...SteamFunk...

Plane File-  By SnapDragon Snippets in the Silhouette store.

Good Morning everyone!!!

Its the time of month again for our 'Forgotten Funkies' showcase over on the Get Funky and craft blog!!! and each month our fabulous Funkettes will be here on our blog showing off some new makes with our older downloads. 

Today's showcase is centered all around the gorgeously funky and zingy 'Steam Funk' download. Just look at these delectably grungy papers, 17 of them and 4 digi stamps ( 2 of them sentiments)  in delicious browns and creams with the most awesome texted papers we have seen for a while!! so they are most definitely too good to be forgotten!!!

I was in a 'lets do something different' kind of mood and since we have been plane spotting such a lot with family over the last few weeks I decided to go with this cute little plane! it was so much fun because I did it in my Silhouette software! I was able to import my papers and 'fill' each piece of the pattern before I cut it out using print and cut!! oooooooh That is soo cool! I love it!!!

The plane, of course, only stayed in my possession until I had tied the little knots through the holes to attach it to the string, it was then spirited away by a rather excited 9 yr old who claimed it as his own......!! 

Huge hugs for you all

Lou xxx