It's my birthday and I'll tiara if I want to

We have a new theme for "Numbers" at Everybody Art Challenge.  Do come and play along and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.

Today I have used this delightful image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called Tiara which is available in Mo's shop here.  I wanted an image with pleats in the clothes to enter at Inkspiration.  I coloured this beauty with alcohol markers and did some masking and stencilling in the background.  

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. It's easy to become a member.  Just click HERE.  And check out Mo's other sites where there is lots of inspiration from my teamies.

* Dream Team Blog HERE for inspiration

* Mo's "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month!  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus - #130 always Anything Digital Goes

Inkspirational - #313 Word prompt - Fold  My folds are in the skirt of the girl's party dress

Krafty Chicks #710 Stamps

Polkadoodles #14 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Happy Birthday!  And a BIG Happy 15th Birthday!

Stencil Fun Challenge - Anything stencilled goes with optional spring/flowers  

Sweet Stampin - Birthday Girls

Tic Tac Toe #244 Using the middle row of spring colours, free & stencil

 

Edited to add a happy dance and a lovely award to acknowledge my presence in the top picks from the lovelies at Krafty Chicks.  Thank you, thank you!  

What's Moo at The Funny Farm?

For my card today I have used this quirky What's Moo image from the Funny Farm by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous.  I stamped and masked the cow then used a stenciled print pull from my Gel Press to make the background before adding additional stamping on top.  

We have a new theme for "Farm Animals" at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations. Do check out the wonderful inspiration of my teamies and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Z is for Zoology

Creative Inspirations - #Anything Goes for March

Polkadoodles #12 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) -Easter/Spring.   

Stencil Fun Challenge - Anything stencilled with optional Easter 

  

Napoleon Barkalot

I just LOVE Napoleon Barkalot  which was one of the monthly treats earned from Mo’s Digital Pencil Patreon Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month (plus tax where applicable) and each month Mo offers treats to her patrons.  

If you are looking for some inspiration, check out the Dream Team Blog HERE, or if you want somewhere to post your own creations using Mo's fabulous images, there is a Facebook page  HERE.  

I simply coloured this cute guy with my alcohol markers and teamed him with some vintage styled design papers and a fun sentiment (more suited to Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France during the French Revolution - whose great niece was married to Napoleon) which I have sneakily included in order to enter two food related challenges.   

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Z is for Zoology

CD Sunday Plus - #129 Anything Digital Goes

Crafter's Cafe - #306 Food (The cheeky sentiment)

the Male Room #184 Food or Drink (My sentiment)

Polkadoodles #12 Anything Goes

Edited to add my excitement for a top three place from the lovely DT at Crafter's Cafe.  Thank you! 

Roll on Spring!

We have had soooooooo much rain here in the south of England and I can hardly wait for the clocks to jump forward, the days to lengthen, the skies to brighten, and Spring to arrive.  Crocus, Daffodils and Tulips are so welcome in my garden right now and Teddy Bo has some tulips on my card for a Spring Birthday for our new "Spring" theme at Everybody Art Challenge.  Check out the lovely inspiration from my teamies on our blog and come and play along!  I don't know if Teddy Bo images are still available on line anywhere.  I absolutely LOVED Gayle Cook's fabulous images of Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea and the gang.  If anyone knows if a shop is still out there selling these cuties, please do let me know and I will happily add a link.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus - #128 Anything digital goes

Creative Inspirations - March Anything Goes

Fourseasons - March Spring

Krafty Chicks #706 Stamps

Polkadoodles #10 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Add a Sentiment

Edited to add a great big thank you to Jo and the lovely team at CD Sunday Plus.  I absolutely love my digi images and I nearly always play along with this fun challenge.  I'm  chuffed that my card was in your Top 3 selection.

Sweet, beautiful, delightful, spunky, lovely, darling, warm-hearted YOU!

For my card today I have used this lovely Danica image from Mo’s Digital Pencil.  She comes full length in a sweet retro styled swing dress but I decided to use only her top half in this fun die cut frame. I coloured her face and hair with Copics.  I paper-pieced Danica's dress with these lovely floral papers which I consider to be in spring colours and added a gingham yellow ribbon to add to the spring vibe.  My word banners were all cut from designer paper and inside the card there is a large die cut "Y O U" to complete the sentiment.  Danica's balloons are covered in glossy accents for a more shiny look.  I hope you like my card.

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there.  Just click HERE to become a member.  And check out the Dream Team Blog where there is lots of inspiration from my teamies HERE.

Mo also has a "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month (plus tax where applicable) and each month Mo offers treats to her patrons.  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - Y is for Yesteryear, vintage/retro

CD Sunday Plus - #128 Anything digital goes

Creative Inspirations - March Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks #706 Stamps

Passion for Markers -#729 Colours of Spring

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Add a Sentiment

Edited to share my delight at being the Spotlight Winner at the fun Alphabet Challenge. Thank you, thank you!

Mermaid and Starfish in my Favourite Colours

We have a new theme to use our "Favourite Colours" at Everybody Art Challenge.  Do come and play along and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs. I love blue and teal and aqua and pool and mint, and I'm a big fan of pastel pinks (and greys) too. I inked over a wave stencil which I think is from Simon Says Stamp, and added some memory box bubble dies and some adorable little fishy dies from Marianne Design. 

Today I have used this cute "Mermaid and Starfish" image from Mo’s Digital Pencil which is available in her shop here.  

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. It's easy to become a member.  Just click HERE.  And check out Mo's other sites where there is lots of inspiration.

* Dream Team Blog HERE for inspiration

* Mo's "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month!  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus - #127 Anything Goes

Just Us Girls #715 Stencil Challenge

Krafty Chicks #704 All Occasions

Stencil Fun Challenge - February - stencil optional hearts

Time Out #257 Happy10th birthday celebrations (with lots of fab prizes from their sponsors)  

 

Edited to add a very happy top picks award from the lovely Krafty Chicks and a prize win celebrating with Time Out.  Thank you!  I'm delighted

 

Arms full of Birthday Hugs!

It's been a very long time since I made a card just for the fun of it and I thought I would have a play with the lovelies at the Time-Out team who are celebrating their 10th birthday and have some great prizes from their sponsors - Happy Birthday Time-Out!  I learned recently that an octopus can change its colour and its skin texture to blend in with it's background so I broke out my fabulous Octopus stencil from Sweet Poppy and teamed it with some stencilling paste and bright oxide ink colours having been inspired by the terrific mood board at Just Us Girls.  I added a My Favourite Things HUGS diecut and an inked seahorse from Aall & Create#137 and came up with this.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Just Us Girls #714 Mood Board - I loved the colours and the ocean theme

We Love to Create Mixed Media #1 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Stencil Fun Challenge -February - Optional Hearts  

Sweet Stampin - Always look on the Bright Side of Life (dumdedum dedum dedum dedum)

Time Out #257 Happy Birthday!

         

Edited to add an excited Top 5 pick from the fab team at Sweet Stampin'.  Thank you so much!

Birthday Challenge with EAC

We have a new theme for "Birthday" at Everybody Art Challenge.  

Today I have used the beautiful "Eliza" image from Mo’s Digital Pencil which is available in her shop here.  I printed Eliza on my card and then masked her before layering two stencils - one above the other to ink up the heart.   I added some gold spatter and a gold embossed birthday tag together with another sentiment.   Even though I coloured the folds of Eliza's dress with the shading in the wrong place, I am very happy with this make.

Do come and play along and share some love with the EAC Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.  And if you have a Mo Manning image, come and showcase your work on Mo's Facebook page HERE.  Inspiration from my teamies can be found on Mo's Dream Team Blog HERE and Mo has a Patreon page too which you can find HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month!  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

AAABirthday Challenge - #58 - Birthday Hearts

Dragonfly Dreams - Feb - Hearts

CD Sunday Plus - #126 Always anything Digital Goes

Creative Inspirations - Feb - For someone you love or a special friend

Inkspirational -#309 Word Prompt "Hearts"

Seize the Birthday -#277 Spatter

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Love is in the Air

Stencil Fun Challenge - Feb - Love/Hearts  

 

Edited to add a top pick from the lovelies at CD Sunday Plus and at Stencil Fun!  Thank you so much for selecting my card - I'm so delighted to get not just one but two awards!

 

 

Is it nearly Spring yet?

We have a new theme for a "tag" at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations. Do check out the wonderful inspiration from my teamies and share some love with them by leaving comments on their blogs.

For my card today I added mini tags to my card with this Papertrey Ink sentiment but I also made a separate coordinating gift tag, also with a sentiment by PTI.   On the card the image is  "Boo and Tulips" from Mo’s Digital Pencil which is available in her shop here.  

I have tried to colour the kitty in the same pattern as the cat who lives with the recipients of my card.   They also happen to be keen gardeners so Mo's images are a win win. 

For the separate gift tag I offset "More Tulips" which you can find here in Mo's Digital Pencil store. 

There is a Facebook page HERE where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. Mo has two other sites:

* the Dream Team Blog HERE for inspiration from my teamies; and

* Mo's "Patreon" Page HERE. 

I am entering my card/tag into the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks #700 All Occasions

Make my Monday -#218 Patterned Paper

Polkadoodles #4 Anything Goes

Snippets  Playground #472 No theme as long as snippets are used (I topped and tailed my tags with some very tiny paper pieces from my scraps drawer)

Additionally, my cards are nearly always digital images just right for CD Sunday Plus who always have an "Anything digital goes" theme so I would like to enter my card there, if they will let me, when their new challenge starts on 4th Feb.  Hope you ladies had a great break and will forgive me preempting my entry which is not technically back linking because I made this for your challenge before I realised you were still vacationing!

Edited to add my delight at being in the top 5 at Make my Monday!  Thank you so much for this coveted award!

Start your year with a Recharge!

I've started my year with a "Recharge" from Mo's Digital Pencil.  You can find this fun image here.     I used a favoured Papertrey Ink Sentiment and a number of stencils to create a background for my image.  

After a fabulous Florida holiday at the back end of 2023, a wonderful Christmas spent with friends and family, and now - at home - recovering from some quite significant surgery, I have vowed that 2024 is going to be a GREAT year!  I hope it will be for you too!

We have a new theme for "Anything Goes" at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations and for you to share some love by visiting the personal blogs of our Design Team and leaving a comment.  

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations HERE, and plenty of inspiration from my teamies can be found on the Dream Team Blog HERE.

I love being a member of Mo's "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month and loads of free images and discount coupons for her store!  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments #309 Make your own Background and/or birthday + sentiment

CD Sunday Plus - #125 Always anything digital goes

Cupcake Inspirations - #585 Grey Yellow and White (and a happy top pick for my winter card)

Inkspirational #307 Use Stencils

Make my Monday -#217 Happy Birthday

Polkadoodles Always Anything Goes

Stencil Fun Challenge - Stencils plus Optional Birds  

Food or Drink anyone?

For my card today I have used these fabulous Tim Holtz for Sizzix "Happy Hour" Thinlits dies to make a birthday card for our "food or drink" theme at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations. Do check out the wonderful inspiration from my teamies and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.

Instead of cutting out die shapes for the drinks portion of the glasses and adhering them on top, I have stencilled through separately die-cut shapes.  I felt this looked more like the liquids were inside the glass. I added an embossed background for additional interest.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments #308 embossing folder or winter or new year + sentiment

Can You Handle The Pressure - Dec - Anything using an embossing folder + optional holly

Simon Says Stamp (Mon) - Use Dies for Diecember

Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - Use Dies for Diecember

Stencil Fun Challenge - December - Anything stencilled (I used the dies to make stencils and then inked through the apertures to add liquid to my drinks glasses) optional Christmas

Don't you come into the house wearing those snowy boots, Santa

Today's card showcases "Door with Wreath" from Mo’s Digital Pencil which I have merged with the boots from Santa Napping which you can find here.  In my mind, I could hear Mrs Claus warning Santa to leave his boots outside after he had finished shovelling the path.  No one wants snow traipsed through the hallway!  I overlaid Mo's original wreath with some flower and foliage rubber stamps. I always ask and receive permission from Mo when I tamper with her already perfect images!

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. It's easy to become a member.  Just click HERE.  And check out the Dream Team Blog where there is lots of inspiration from my teamies HERE.

Mo also has a "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month (plus tax where applicable) and each month Mo offers treats to her patrons.  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus - #125 Anything Digital Goes

Creative Inspirations - Dec - Happy Christmas/New Year

Cupcake Inspirations - #584 Winter Wonderland

Dragonfly Dreams - Dec - Christmas

Krafty Chicks #693 Stamp Act

the Male Room #181 Christmas 

Edited to add a very happy Top pick from the lovely Cupcakes and also from the lovely team at CD Sunday Plus!  Thank you 

          

Starry Starry Night

For my card today I have used this lovely Lawn Fawn Image image called Upon A Star with a lovely Papertrey Ink Sentiment.

I inked up some Northern Lights and then obscured them (a little more than I intended) with black ink having stamped, coloured and masked the bunnies.  The larger stars are white heat embossed, the smaller ones are splattered, and the bunnies have heat set liquid applique tails.  

We have a new theme for "Stars" at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations. Do check out the wonderful inspiration of my teamies and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks #691 All Occasions

Tic Tac Toe #236 I used the first column of Critters, colouring and stamping

Mo's Digital Pencil Snowy Mailbox

Greetings Papercrafters!  Today I have used this lovely Snowy Mailbox image from Mo’s Digital Pencil.  It comes in Black and white and precoloured.  

I coloured mine myself and teamed it with these fab papers and an embossing folder to make two different designs for some challenges.

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. It's easy to become a member.  Just click HERE.  And check out the Dream Team Blog where there is lots of inspiration from my teamies HERE.

Mo also has a "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month (plus tax where applicable) and each month Mo offers treats to her patrons.  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Can you Handle the Pressure - Anything Embossing Goes with a Christmas twist

CD Sunday Plus - #124 Anything Digital Goes

Creative Inspirations - November - Contemporary Christmas Colours 

Cupcake Inspirations - #583 Navy White Gold

Inkspirational - #303 Seasonal

Krafty Chicks #691 All Occasions

the Male Room #180 Feathers - I was delighted to be the number one pick last challenge so I'm trying again with this cute cardinal

Passion for Markers -#717 Winter 

Tic Tac Toe #236 - I used the diagonal choices of critters, free and design papers

Time Out #252 Winter/Holidays

   

     

Lace or Pearls with Everybody Art Challenge

We have a new theme for "lace and/or pearls at Everybody Art Challenge and we would love to see your creations. Do check out the wonderful inspiration from my teamies and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs.

For my card today I have used this fun "Breezy" image from Mo’s Digital Pencil which is available in her shop here.  She is coloured with Copics and I have used a variety of stencils and oxide inks in the background to give her funky appeal.  My sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It is from an all time favourite set.  I have split it in two for my card but it is in fact just one large sentiment.

There is a Facebook page where members can upload their Mo Manning creations and we look forward to seeing you there. It's easy to become a member.  Just click HERE.  And check out Mo's other sites where there is lots of inspiration from my teamies.

* Dream Team Blog HERE for inspiration

* Mo's "Patreon" Page HERE. There are three levels of Patron to choose from with a minimum of just $2.50 per month!  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

CD Sunday Plus - #123 Anything Goes

Passion for Markers -#715 Favourite Digi or Stamp (I have used my favourite sentiment) 

Polkadoodles #45 Anything Goes

We Love to Create Mixed Media #10 Anything Mixed Media goes

Stencil Fun Nov - Anything Stencilled with optional leaves