THE Mo 'n' Zo Blog Hop!!!

Good morning...and welcome to THE hop of all HOPS!!! Two of the best designers (and their Design Teams) in the crafting world have come together for a hop full of fun...prizes...and inspiration!! They really don't get any better than this!! :)

For my card I have used the fabulous Circus Tent from Make It Crafty...and Jojo the clown from Mo's Digital Pencil x I've coloured the images with Copics, and made an acetate front which isn't that great to see, sorry x

This goes to show what a fabulous artist my dear friend Mo is...because I really DO NOT 'do' clowns...end of!!! But I'm starting to warm to this one :)

I hope you have a fabulous time hopping around to everyone...there are some added details below....

Clowns, Fairy floss, sticky fingers, squeals of delight and of course complaints of sore feet near the end of the day... Where are we?

THE CARNIVAL!!

Hopefully you have hopped across from my wonderful Mo Teamy DORCAS and as I am so lucky to be on both teams, here is where I link as the last person on Mo's team and the first of MIC x So...your next stop is over at the everso talented Make It Crafty 'BIG TOP BOSS' ... ZOE x

If you have just popped on by to say g’day and want to join us on the super carnival hop then you’ll want to

‘START HERE at JAK’

Zoe from Make it Crafty and Mo from Mo’s Digital Pencil, came together to share the delight and fun of The Carnival. To celebrate - the two fabulously talented teams have come together for a massive blog hop to offer you plenty of inspiration when playing with these images.

Along the way you will find balloons with a letter in them. Write down the letters as you go because at the very end we want you to guess what the saying is!

There will be THREE grand prizes randomly drawn from the correct answers PLUS there will be hidden prizes along the way so make sure you leave some love as you hop along!

Now we know this is a super big hop, but we wanted to make sure you would get LOTS of inspiration! The hop will be open until the 28^thApril so you will have plenty of time to come back each day with a cuppa to soak it all up! (Just don’t lose the letters you have been collecting!)

We would like to thank our fabulous sponsors, Mo’s Digital Pencil, Make it Crafty, Stamping Bella and Quixotic Paperie for providing the fabulous prizes for this grand carnival hop!

My balloon letter is ... I ....

As a special, Mo has designed this wonderful digi that is on sale for the absolute 'steal' of a price of $1 !!!! All donations will go to the Make A Wish children's charity and will be split between the US and UK x

xx Mo...you are an angel xx

SAVE THE DATE!!!

Nooooooooooooo...I am so NOT getting married!! This is something far better 'IMHO' !! Lol

Two fantastical designers are joining forces on the 21st April to bring you........... THE MOST AMAZING - CARNIVAL HOP!!!!!!!!!

The wonderful 'Make It Crafty' background images and 'Mo's Digital pencil' characters are coming together for the Carnival of all Carnivals!! The Design Teams are joining together (how lucky and proud am I to be on BOTH!) to show you amazing projects...with prizes to be won along the way AND Grand Prizes too!!!!!!

So SAVE THE DATE.....You just don't want to miss it!!!

Make It Colourful - Bright Colours

Good Morning :)

What a way to wake up! The sun is streaming through my windows...I was brought a cup of coffee by Katieann (she's 8...for a few more weeks!) ...and then she and Daisy sang * Happy Birthday * to me...awww x They also gave me handmade cards... Katieann's had £1 in change in it and Daisy's had a T bag! It just doesn't get any better than that does it?? xxxx

It's also Make it Colourful challenge day, and this week our theme is to 'Colour with Bright Colours'. We're being sponsored by the fabby Whimsy Stamps too!

If you've not joined us at MIC before, then we'd love to see you...just grab those Copics...ProMarkers...Distress Inks...Prisma Pencils or Watercolours and get colouring!!

If you have 5 minutes (you may need longer as it's hard to tear yourself away) to take a look at the DT's work, it'll be your best spent 5 minutes of the day! They are totally awesome girls and so super duper talented...not to mention an absolute scream! We have laughed our little socks off this week...thank you girls...I sooo needed that x Mwah x

My images this week are Kissing Booth from Make it Crafty and Gruffy Little Gnome from Whimsy Stamps.

Medium - Copics

Colouring/blending paper - THE BEST for Copics - from Make it Crafty

Designer Paper - Bo Bunny - from Dragonfly Designs

Pennant die - Whiff of Joy from Dragonfly Designs

Rolled flower - Handmade

Make it Colourful - Kids week!

This is Katieann's card....

Don't you just love computers...when they work!!! tut...

I spent ages trying to upload the girls cards to Zoe yesterday, but it kept switching itself off!! How rude!!! So apologies for the late post x

This week at Make It Colourful, we decided to let the children take over!! Mine love crafting so jumped at the chance to join in as part of the 'DT Minis' this week. I let them loose with my Promarkers and they coloured the fabulous Penelope Shopping' from Make It Crafty...the theme is PINK ...

If your little ones would like to join in, just email Zoe, and she'll send Penelope Shopping to you x

This is Daisy's card...

Make It Colourful Challenge #4

Woohoo! It's the weekend! And it's also time for another challenge from Make It Colourful! :0) We have a great challenge for you this week...and we're sponsored by the fabby Karen's Doodles too!

Karen kindly gave the DT a couple of images to choose from, and I chose this little fella with his butterflies ...Thanks Karen x I've also used the gorgeous Peaches of Plenty from Make It Crafty.

The challenge....is to blend your colours from purple to blue or vice versa. You might think eeek! ...but actually it's not that bad. If you start off with purple as your deepest shade colour you can then blend the blues as you move out.

**Please note** It's NOT a colour challenge...but a 'colouring' challenge. If you want some fantastic colouring tutorials grab a cup of coffee...ok a flask might be better lol...and nip over to Zoe's amazing blog. On the left hand sidebar of her blog you might just see the HUGE 'You Tube' logo ...click on that and off you go!! :)

The team have amazing work to show you this week if you want heaps of inspiration ... have fun!!!

I'm entering this into...

Flutter By Wednesday - Anything Goes (but must have a butterfly, angel or fairy on it)

Creative Belli - jewellery ...I've used pearls

Copic Creations - We're Cool

MIC - NO White Card!

After several (more) nightmares with my car and printers, finally my MIC DT project is finished (a fair few hours late!)!! Now, I know there's no MIC image in sight BUT... due to a very grumpy new printer I couldn't use my digi's :(

This weeks theme at Make It Colourful is 'To Colour on Something Other Than White Card'. Usually for me that would be fab! You know me...a T shirt here...a candle there...or even a bag with a shrink plastic charm....but NO!! New HP printer 'ate' my last piece of transfer paper...shrink plastic was just NOT going to be forced through and don't even go there with the tissue paper!!! *.*

Then...an idea!!! Acetate!!! That's it...I'll use acetate! Ermmm...ok...so I won't then. New printer won't do transparencies!! Its ink is hopeless for Copics/Promarkers too... even heat set or left for a week, it still smudges/bleeds!!! Bloomin good job it prints beautiful digi papers!!!

So...here we are with a stamped image on a plastic choccy box. Not THE best colouring, because as with normal alcohol ink, it spreads on contact with the surface, but it's not too bad. I stamped the image on the underside of the lid and coloured on the top. Due to the shiny plastic I needed Stazon...but couldn't use it with Copics.

The little flowers were made with Liquid Pearl.

If you get a chance do nip across to see the rest of the teams fab creations...it'll be worth the trip...I promise!! :)

Make It Colourful Challenge #3

Yay! It's the weekend! And as I type this post up it's gone way past 3 o'clock in the morning...AGAIN! One day soon I'm going to really try hard to get to bed by Midnight...now that's what I call a real challenge!! Lol

Well, today is Saturday and that means it's challenge day for Make It Colourful. The wonderfully talented Zoe, has set us the challenge of 'Colouring in Monochrome...Black 'n' White or Sepia' this week.

I have used the totally gorgeous Ornate Floral Scroll, and also one of Jak's fabulous floral print papers, that she donated to the 'Help for Katie' digital download, available HERE ... The punched flowers have also been made from the same papers.

Nip along to see what all the other DT girls have made...I just KNOW you won't be disappointed!

I'm entering this into

Crafts and Me - Monochrome

Creative Belli - Letter P - Pearls and Patterns

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything goes

PaperCrafting Journey - Wedding, lace and pearls

Copic Creations - What's New? - Papers

Have a fab weekend every one... and HAPPY COLOURING x