Mo Challenge # 92 Summer Vacation...

Wow!! It's been so long since I came in here that I had to dust before I could sit and do anything... and such a long time since I've crafted too! I've put that to rights and made a few 'teacher' cards in the last couple of days...and have HUGE plans to get some 'me' time once school finishes tomorrow! Yip!! ^.^
Well I'm back, (late!)... and playing at Mo's Challenge this week, and boy have I missed the girls and their incredible work x
This weeks theme is 'Summer Vacation'...here in the UK the weather seems to be confusing Summer with Autumn...it's rained and rained...and rained some more...but regardless of the weather, we are just one day away from the summer hols and so this is my DT card for this challenge, based on the teachers going off on Summer Vacation....

Mo Challenge # 81

Good morning x

It's Thursday and Mo Challenge day!! :) Thank you to everyone who took part in my chosen theme of Pink 'n' Girlie last week...a girl just can't have too much pink and there were some beautiful cards :)

This week my wonderfully talented teamy 'Sheila' has chosen the theme of... Monochrome'... always a favourite of mine...hope it's yours too x

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 #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

Help Our Artists...

Our dear friend Mo has been having a real hard time with a certain somebody, who believes she has the right to 'steal' Mo's (and other companies) images, and put them out on her own site! Even people who sell artists digi and stamped images on Ebay don't/don't want to realise the damage they are doing to these artists....and us!!! They need our help, before our artists stop sharing their wonderful illustrations with us.

Click HERE to see how you can help x

Make It Crafty - Blog Hop!

Well here we are!! The countdown is complete and the big day is finally here! Nooooooo...not THAT big day....THIS one!!! The Make It Crafty Blog Hop day!! :0)

It's been a manic week here so huge apologies while I type and post at the same time x

Hopefully you arrived here from Irina ...but if not then you can start the hop at the Make It Crafty blog. If you're on track then the next person to visit is the fantabulous Mag's ...

Our hop today is to bring you the BRAND NEW images from MIC , designed for Spring & Love x

As you 'hop around the World' (our design team has members all over the globe) the girls have the most fantastic and inspiring projects to show you.

I have used the image named 'Stairway to Heaven' and merged it with Sapphire sitting ...then whilst shuffling stuff around my desk I found Mo Manning's gorgeous little Jack from the 'They Grow So Fast' image, who just fitted the scene perfectly x

There are many wonderful goodies that you can win so be sure to read all the details ... it could be YOU!!!! :0)

Along the way you will find some puzzle pieces...but not on everyone's blogs, so keep your eyes peeled!
Here is puzzle piece No 2!

Make It Crafty - Sketch

Morning/afternoon/evening to you...depending on where in the world you are! :) The lovely Zoe and 'Make it Crafty' are based in Australia, so are at the other end of the day to me...but apart from posting times, it really doesn't make any difference at all :)

We have a fabulous sketch for you this time...and if you add a bit of vintage/distressing that would be even better!! Having had a hectic week with a poorly Dad, my brain cell (singular!) seems to be under strain...and I neglected to read the vintage bit until adding the final charm!! Eeeek!! So, with scissors in hand the edges got a bit of distressing...but I'll also class my Zombie as 'vintage' 'cause he looks as if he's been around for a while!!! Lol

I have merged the Crooked Picket Fence image with the Halloween Zombie (quick...he's a freebie at the moment!! ) image, in Word. I then made a mask for them and using my new 'colour duster' brushes, made the background. I also used a 1 1/4 circle punch to mask the corner to make a moon, then used my new Mica powders to fill it in.

You have until the 9th November to enter ...and the winner will get 2 brand new RUBBER Santa stamps!!!!!

Have a fab day x
I'm entering this into ...

Cards for Men - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Punch!

Hanna and Friends - Halloween

Stampin' for the Weekend - Halloween/Fall

Stamptacular Sunday - Orange, Lime green, cream & Plum purple

Make It Crafty - Anything Goes!!

Morning all x

Today starts the BRAND NEW fun challenges from Make it Crafty!! Yay! These will be every fourth Wednesday of the month. This month's challenge is an easy one to get you all going...it's ANYTHING GOES. You can choose whatever you like, theme, colour, sketch, etc

I used the fabulous 'Slimy House' and 'Sapphire Sitting' images...and merged them using Word, so that Sapphire is sitting on the toadstool. I've coloured them using TH distress inks. Slimy House has become 'Snowy' in this scene ... just perfect for Christmas :)

If you've not bumped into our lovely Zoe, and the wonderful digi's she has in her shop, you just NEED to go and see them for yourself! There are goodies to win with this challenge too...so go on...you know you want to play along!!

Make It Crafty DT

Good morning... from a wonderfully sunny part of Surrey!! Why is it the sun comes out just as they are about to return to school??? Tut

Never mind...today is sunny anyway as today is the day that the lovely Zoe reveals her NEW DT for Make It Crafty!! And...that includes .... MEEEEEEE!!!! YAY!!! ^.^

Zoe has great things planned, including technique/learning challenges and a monthly challenge too!

The aim is to help you do the things you've seen others do, and always wanted to do yourself! Help is at hand for you to ask questions and step by step instructions too! How exciting!! :0)

If you haven't seen the fabulous digi images she has...run and take a peek...you'll want them ALL!!!

There's MORE!!! The wonderful Zoe has CANDY too!!! All this is up for grabs for one lucky person...it might be YOU!!!

• Zoe -
• Carisa -
• Sandy -
• Leah -
• Mag -
• Lydia -
• Jill -
• Maria -