Awwww - SO CUTE!

SO CUTE was a constant from my daughter not too long ago, something she said with a certain spin on it every day at least 10 times a day.  Luckily for her, and me, it was not the most annoying ear worm that has come home from school.
In fact even I picked up on it and found myself saying it.

So Cute, seems an apt description of this card.
The stampset is Hello Bluebird "Tree Neighbors"
which has unfortunately been discontinued I think, but if you pop over to their shop there are so many cute stamps that are in stock.

 I am on a no buy, we ave a son that is needing LOTS of ongoing dental work after a football (soccer) injury to his 3 front teeth.
So lots of the items used on my cards are quite old as I have only just got back into it on a regular basis. 
So you will just have to put up with my retro papers and stamps.

the papers on this card are from pink paislee, they are from the Fancy Free collection by Paige Evans, released in 2015!  See, totally retro.
The images are coloured with my copic markers.

See you soon
Lou

Stay Awesome Buddy!!!!

See, told you I would be back soon.
Hopefully this lasts and  manage to keep uo the crafting and the posting as life gets busier towards Christmas.
Although, because I have so much accumulated leave I am having to take some time off.
For the next month I have Thursdays off which makes my weekends 4 days long, pretty excited.
I know I am lucky to get 3 day weekends,  I work for a charity so I only do half days as we rely on funding to keep us going and seriously can't afford to do full days.

I was cleaning up for my destash as mentioned on my last post, and found some distress crayons I had purchased from someone elses destash.
I had a play, used some white embossing ink and a super old hero arts stamp.  At least I think it is hero arts, could be something else.
I made kind of a rainbow effect.

I have to say the crayons are not really my thing and will probably get destashed.
The stamp was definitely studio calico from a moons ago kit.
It actually says, Be Awesome, but I thought stay seemed a better sentiment.

So you stay awesome and I will be back soon

Lou

WOW - It's been a hot minute.

 Well, life aye?
I can not believe it has been so long since I made a post on here.
Nearly a year and a half.
Lots of changes, my oldest son is out in the work force, farming and loving it.  Great friends and has a pretty fun life.  Good work, life balance.
Son #2 is at University, doing a major brainbox degree.  He must get that from his dad I think.
Only daughter is still footballing, has now taken up hockey as well.... I am so glad summer is nearly here!  She is doing very well at school, has exams shortly then heads into her final year of highschool next year.
Son #3 is in second year of highschool this year, big year for him next year.  He has started a wee lawnmowing sidehustle and also working the odd evening at a takeaway shop in town.  Still his same sweet personality and wonderful sense of humor.
And Hubby and I - we are tracking well with life.  It is pretty great and we are incredibly blessed with our children, home and work.

As for crafting, after a long hiatus I am back into it.
Well the posting part.
I have still been papercrafting, just not posting. 

So, here are a couple of cards I made yesterday...

I was inspired by a card from quite sometime ago that I found on pintrest that was made by Darla at https://www.scraphappensherewithdarla.com/

I found some old SU dies in my cupboard and decided to have a play.
On that note, I am actually destashing some stuff.

If you are in New Zealand you can find my listings on 
TRADE ME 

or 
FACEBOOK NZ SCRAP & CARD STASH SALES GROUP

I will be back soon with some more crafty stuff

Lou x

Inlaid Die Cts - Mix It Up Challenge

 Shesh, my post for this is totally late, I thought I had scheduled it but NOOOOO.
Our theme at Mix It Up Challenge for this month is 
INLAID DIECUTS

Funny story I totally screwed up with the card I originally made for this challenge as I was working off last year theme list, DOH, so I quickly came up with a new card and here it is.....

I used Birch Tree Die from Hello Bluebird, Forest , Hello Bluebird Forest Fawns stampset
the papers are Jen Hadfield Peaceful Heart.
I coloured the images with my prisma pencils, which I hadn't used in a while and on smooth paper, so not the best colouring.

Thanks for popping by
Louise

A Beary Sweet Thank You

 A cutie to share today. I used the bear from "Happy Day" by Colorado Craft Company.

I tried to do a background with just distress oxides but it turned out quite s%#* 
so I covered it up with the big Thank You die from Lawn Fawn.
I had stamped and masked the bear image before trying to blend the background.
The grass was done using slimline grass stencil from Lawn fawn.

In the end with the background mostly covered, I don't hate it.

The image was coloured with prisma pencils and blended with odorless spirits, which doesn't really work the best on smooth cardstock, but that too turned out ok. 

Thanks for visiting my blog
Lou

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges....
Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Diagonal - Stencil, Diecut, Critter
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Inkspirational Challenges - Mood Board

Polkadoodle Challenge - Anything Goes

Gem Of A Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Hello (Autumn) Sunshine

Well, I blinked and summer disappeared.
Only one beach trip this year and here we are into Autumn and football (soccer for my USA visitors).

Now that all my children's teams are about to kick off, LOL see what I did there, that is my weekends down the tubes.

So in memory of my favourite season of the year here is a summery smile to share....
 

 The diecuts are from Lawn Fawn
The background paper was sent to me from my wonderful friend Julie, quite a few years ago now!

Thanks loads for dropping by my blog 
Lou

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges....

Lawn Fawnatics - patterned paper

Dragonfly Dreams - Use a Die

Little Patch of Crafty Friends- Anything Goes

The Paper Players- Sunshine and Rainbows 🌈 Picked as HEADLINER!