Showing posts with label Mo Manning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mo Manning. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Christmas in July!...

Good morning, dear Bloggers!  I don't normally 'do' Christmas this early, but having thought that the house would now be in turmoil and that all I would be able to do is colour, I printed off a load of digi stamps ready and this little cutie was one of them!
..This is Mo Manning's Kai in the Snow and I thought he would be just perfect for a First Christmas card...
...I decided to make an aperture card and then half way through remembered why I don't do aperture cards very much - because they're a pain in the tush!!  I used 2 Marianne doily die cuts to create the lace edge around the aperture and my Martha Stewart Snowflake border punch along the edges of the card...
...The paper is one that has been in my drawer for EVER and I think was an old Dovecraft pad?!...
...I created a faux nestie behind the image by drawing around my largest circle die and cutting out.  To save me having to bring in loads of different papers from the shed, I used white card which I coloured the edge of with my Promarkers - this also means that you can have perfectly coordinated cardstock to your image!...
...I embellished with some Marianne snowflake die cuts, holographic snowflake and crystal stars which Mam gave me some of about 5 years ago! (I only have 1 left now!)  The image and snowflakes were glittered with Crystal glitter, pearls added and a couple of blue pearl stars to finish.  I created the sentiment in PS using Papyrus font and will probably add a name somewhere before sending it out in a few months! (Can't quite believe we're in July already!)
My little man had his school trip yesterday to Drayton Manor - they left school  at 8.15am and didn't get back until about 6.30pm, but he was so on a high!  He loved every minute of it and went on quite a few rides, despite the fact that he's only ever been on the little dragon coaster at Rhyl!  I had the full explanation of all the rides, complete with hand gestures to show the ups and downs and how wet everyone had got on the log flume!  It'll be summer holidays before we turn around and then the dreaded 6 weeks of trying to keep occupied - let's hope that the weather plays it's part and that we can get out in the sunshine, especially as it looks like work might start just in time for then!?!  Oh, joy!
Thanks for dropping by to see me today and I hope you like my little card, despite being a Christmas one!  Enjoy the rest of your week and have a great weekend- it's workshop for me and our village Carnival, so I'll have to make a costume for little man before Friday!  At least the forecast is good!  Hugs,

Lisa xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :
Anything Goes
Christmas in July
Quite a Few (layers)
Use a Digi stamp

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Passion for Promarkers 4th Anniversary Challenge!

Good morning, lovely Bloggers!  It's a special day over at Passion for Promarkers this week as we are celebrating our 4th Anniversary - can you believe it's been 4 years since Gina and Denise started this fabulous blog to share their love of all things Letraset.  As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "anything goes", although please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only.  To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria, aqua, metallic or neon markers) and of course follow the theme.  As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as usual .  Here we go.....
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Letraset are offering one lucky winner a pack of their Limited Edition Spring/Summer Promarker 12 pack
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Whimsy Stamps/Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $10.00 worth of digi papers
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Saturated Canary are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice
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Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store
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Dies to Die For are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store
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Wow! Amazing prizes, I'm sure you'll agree!! – definitely lots of reasons to join in the fun this week!!

So, this is what I made as my DT card this week...
...As you can see, the First Edition Boho Chic pad came out again - I just can't get enough of the lovely orange tones in this pad and especially this pretty paisley design, so fresh!  I started with a standard square card and wanted to do something a bit different so placed some layers so that they hang over the edge, creating a more interesting shape.  The image is Big Shoes by Mo Manning and she is such a darling...

 ...I coloured her up using my Pro/Flexmarkers and here's the colours I used :
Skin : Blush, Dusky Pink, Sunkissed Pink
Hair : Sandstone, Caramel, Cocoa, Umber
Hat : Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Sunflower, Gold
Ribbon and bag : Tan, Cinnamon, Saddle Brown
Top : Light Fawn, Soft Peach, Honeycomb, Pumpkin
Panties : Dove Grey, Blue Grey 1
Shoes : Red, Berry Red, Burgundy, Satin, Tab, Cinnamon
...I added a mixture of flowers, roses and chrysanths from WOC, mulberry paper flowers (that my sister gave me donkeys years ago!) and pearl pins.  I thought that the image would suit for a female relation on becoming a teenager or turning 18, so added the sentiment, "From ribbons and curls...to high heels and pearls"...
...I finished the inside with my usual printed insert with the sentiment "Hope your day is as special as you are!" and the black and white line image.  Well, that's it from me for today - I hope you like my little creation and that you can join in with our celebrations this week.
Please remember for this weeks Passion for Promarker Anniversary challenge only we will only accept 3 cards/projects per person and just for this one week we will not be choosing a top 5 passionista as we have lots of extra winners, however this will go back to normal next week.  Have a brilliant week and we cannot wait to see what you create.  Thanks for dropping by to see me and good luck in the challenge!  Lisa x

P.S. To give you lots of inspiration we have both Team 1 and Team 2 to share their creations this week, so don't forget to hop over to the Passion for Promarkers blog to see their wonderful work

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :
Flower Power
Sunshine
Girls, Girls, Girls
Diva Image - Young or Old
Anything Goes
3-2-1
(3 papers, 2 pins, 1 image)

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Hey monkey...

Good afternoon, Bloggers!  Hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend, whatever you were doing...we had a wonderful family weekend away in Yorkshire, visiting loved ones...

...We started in York on Friday, doing a bit of shopping and visiting theYork Museum and Gardens, then were staying at a little village called Slingsby, near the Castle Howard estate.  We visited Robin Hood's Bay, Riveaulx Terrace and Nunnington Hall and did a Treasure Trail around the village of Slingsby.  We ate out and had a lovely time visiting family and even the sun shone for us...if a little on the cold side!  Altogether, what more could you ask for than being with loved ones in a beautiful part of the country and the sun shining...if only it could have lasted a bit longer!
So anyway, I have a card to share with you today that uses the same sketch as the Dreamy Dragon card I made a few posts ago...
...This time I did it for a boy and used Mo Manning's Monkey Tricks and Dovecraft Masculine papers...
...As ever, I coloured this cheeky chappy with my Promarkers and he was so simple to colour.  Here's the colours I used :
Body : Vanilla, Sandstone, Caramel, Cocoa
Face : Satin, Dusky Pink, Sunkissed Pink
Shorts : Aniseed FM, Lime Zest. Lime, Pear Green
Shadow : Glacire Blue FM, Pastel Beige
The leaves are cut using a Cheery Lynn Leaf border and the bananas are actually the waste from my Marianne lace ribbon border die...
...I added an insert inside, rather than decorating fully, using the line image and a digital sentiment...
...and finally, a sideways view...
...The sun is shining again today, so it's off to hang some more washing out on the line and then the dreaded ironing!  A big hello to my newest followers and welcome to my little corner of Blogland - hope you enjoy your visits!  Thanks for dropping by to see me and don't forget about our current 'Fantasy' challenge over at Passion for Promarkers this week!  Lisa x
I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :
Happy Birthday
Anything Goes
Name that tune
(it's got to be Hey, hey we're the Monkees from the old TV series!)
Something Borrowed
(mine is a sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday)

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Easel card



I've got the challenge bug!! Whilst browsing this morning, I noticed that Daring Cardmakers and Stamp, Scrap & Doodle both want easel cards for their challenges, so set to work! I came across this lovely cat picture which is a freebie over on Mo Mannings site and decided to use my nesties (and Mum's!) to make a shaped easel card. Green and orange doesn't seem like an obvious colour combination, but it just seemed right once I coloured the cat picture - which is coloured using my chalks! The leaves are from the Sissix flowers, branches & leaves dies and the flowers are an Xcut flower punch. Of course, I had to add a touch of polka dot ribbon in orange. (If you're one of our girls, don't look too closely as we may be making it!)

Challenges I'm entering -
Daring Cardmakers - Easel Does It!
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle challenges - Easel