Mo's Challenge # 114

Punches and Dies

 We were to use punches, dies, or a combination of both on our cards and projects this week. It wasn't a problem for me as I have tons of both!

 

 This card uses Mo's "Snow Day"which was offered as a rare free image, and is now in her shop! Isn't she adorable?!

  

Images: "Snow Day" from Mo's Digital Pencil, Digital sentiment

Tools: Copics, MS Snowflake and Drippy Goo punches,  Cuttlebug with Nesties, Mounting tape, Dimensionals

Papers: SU! Cool Caribbean, Razzleberry,  Neenah smooth white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments: Fabric trim, Stickles, Pearl Dew Drops

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I love these images! I merged the image of the three carolers with the lamp post.  I think they make the perfect Christmas card. This card is larger than my usual cards....about 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".  Don't look too closely at my doodling! LOL!

Images: "Carolers Three" and "Christmas Lamp Post" from Mo's Digital Pencil, Digital sentiment

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, White gel pen, Thin black marker, Cuttlebug with Parisian dies and embossing folder

Papers: SU! Real Red and Garden Green, Neenah smooth white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments: Large pearl brad, Grosgrain ribbon,  Wide silk ribbon

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I paper-pieced Mo's image of this sweet little Victorian girl and used Flower Soft on her muff.

Images: "Winifred" from Mo's Digital Pencil

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Cuttlebug with Nesties, Tacky tape

Papers: SU! River Rock and Always Artichoke, Neenah smooth white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments: Grosgrain ribbon, Lace, Metal corners, Flower Soft, Ornate button with shank removed

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I sent this to my younger sister, who is always  naughty! Don't you love the sentiment?!

Images: " Little Present" from Mo's Digital Pencil, Digital sentiment

Tools: Copics, White gel pen, Cuttlebug with Marianne swirl die and MFT border die

Papers: SU! Real Red and Glorious Green, Neenah smooth white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments: Satin ribbon, Poinsettia
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So, those were the last of my Christmas cards for this year. I hope you liked them.
Now it's your turn to take some time for yourself and make something using one of Mo's great images and dies, punches, or both, and enter Mo's Challenge for a chance to win!

Mo's Challenge # 102

Furry Friends

The challenge this week is to use an image of Mo's that includes a furry friend.

There are so many  from which to choose.

I've combined two images for this card...."I love Ya, Tomorrow!" and the  Bronte image from  "Makin Cards." I cropped him out of the image, erased the paw prints, and added some musical notes.

Images: "I Love Ya, Tomorrow!"and "Makin Cards" from Mo's Digital Pencil and Stampendous stamped sentiment.

Tools: Copics, Daisy punch, Cuttlebug with embossing folder and Marianne swirl die, Dauber, Mounting tape, yellow ink pad

Papers: SU! Cool Caribbean, Daffodil Delight, Neenah smooth white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments, Gingham ribbon, Button brads, Doily, Beads, Dragonfly charm

Show your love for our furry friends and enter Mo's Challenge for a chance to win one of her great images.

So glad you stopped by!

Elaine

Merged!

Bitsy's Birthday!

This is a card I made for our granddaughter's eighth birthday on Sunday. She was spending the weekend camping at a state park in New Hampshire's Lakes Region with my husband, her brother, cousins, uncles, and aunts, and two other families. Her mother and father couldn't go because of their animal menagerie, and I don't camp, so her parents and I went up for the day and brought cake, ice cream, party plates, etc. and presents, and she  had her party under the pines. She declared it her 'best birthday ever!"

I merged an image of Mo's and a window from Make It Crafty.

Images: "End of Summer" from Mo's Digital Pencil, "Open Window" from Make it Crafty, Digital ticket sentiment from When the Scrap hits the Fun

Tools: Copics, Mounting tape, Nellie Snellen Embossing Leaf punch set, Dauber

Papers: SU! Taken with Teal, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Neenah smooth white, MME Stlla Rose DP

Embellishments: Satin Ribbon, Flowers, Pearl cabochons

Thanks for visiting!

Elaine

Mo & Zoe's Combined Carnival Blog Hop

We have a winner! 

Margaret (I Love Crafting),  Mo (mo@mosdigitalpencil.com)
to collect your prize!

Clowns, cotton candy, 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 just hopped on over from Dawn's Blog. If you 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’ on Jak's blog.

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, three fabulously talented teams (Mo's Dream Team, Mo's Challenge Team, and the team from Make It Crafty), 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 28th of April, so you will have plenty of time to come back each day  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!

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So Jealous!

For this card, I've merged two of Mo's images with Make it Crafty's circus tent.

The inside says, "Mom always liked you best, too!

Happy Birthday, Sis!"

Images: "Jill Two" & "Angelina's Balloons" from Mo's Digital Pencil and "Circus Tent" from "Make it Crafty", Digital sentiment

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Cuttlebug with Embossing folders and Nesties oval dies

Papers: SU! Melon Mambo and Gable Green, Neenah smooth white

Embellishments: Grosgrain ribbon, Tiny pearl cabochons, Pearl hearts, Button Brad

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Kiss Me, You Fool!

My second card again combines three images; "Little Smooch", "Bronte" (cropped from "Happy Hoppin") and "The Kissing Booth." I just love the look on Bronte's face!

Images: "Little Smooch" and "Bronte" from Mo's Digital Pencil, "The Kissing Booth" from Make it Crafty, "S.W.A.K." stamp from Studio G

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils,  Cuttlebug with Fleur de Lis border and Di-Namics flower dies, Martha Stewart Leaf punch, Mounting tape, Tacky tape

Papers: SU! Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Glorious Green, and Very Vanilla, Cosmo Cricket DP

Embellishments: Braid trim, Gold pearl cabochons, Brads
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Just One More!

 I've merged Mo's sweet old couple  and Zoe's carousel image for this one.

The inside says, "It's been a wonderful ride, Sweetheart! Happy Anniversary!"

 Images: "Jack & Ginger" from Mo's Digital Pencil, "The Carousel" from Make it Crafty

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Distressing tool, Cuttlebug with Embossing folder and Marianne swirl die

Papers: SU! Orchid Opulence, Cool Caribbean, Mauve Mist, Neenah smooth white
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This adorable carnival image is available at Mo's. Get an adorable image for just $1.00
and support a wonderful cause!

 Thanks for stopping by! Now you'll want to 'hop' over to Paola's to see the wonderful work she has to show you!

If you get lost along the way,
here's the Hop order for Mo's Challenge Team

Pat

Dawn

                                   Elaine      YOU ARE HERE!

Paola

Lisa

Dorcas

Lydia

Mo's Challenge # 47

Browns and Cream 

           

Paola is our hostess for the month of September, and she's asked us to use shades of brown on our projects this week. I'm not all that fond of browns, so this was a difficult challenge for me! I love bright colors and really had to fight the urge to use other colors along with the shades of brown. With that said, this is my DT card for this week. I was a good girl and did as I was told. LOL!

I used Mo's image, "Missed You". I just love the look on the mama bear's face.....I think any mother can relate to what she's feeling!

This time, for a change, I colored the main image entirely with Prismacolor pencils. The Stamped mushrooms are colored with Copics, though.

Inside it says," Sending you hugs on your birthday!"

Images: "Missed You" from Mo's Digital Pencil, Mushrooms from Magnolia, Computer-generated sentiment.

Tools: Prismacolor pencils, Copics, Martha Stewart Branch border punch, SU! slot punch, Mounting tape

  

Papers: Bazzill Dark brown textured paper, SU! Creamy Caramel, Digital paw print DP, PTI White

Embellishments: Satin Ribbon, Heart Charm

Hop on over to Mo's Challenge Blog and check out the other DT members' cards, then enter a card or project for a chance to win one og Mo's wonderful images.!


Waitin' on the Dock!

This is a merge of two of Mo's images: the little sister from Bethy's Wagon set and the barrels from her Pirate Accessories set. I took some artistic license and 'erased' the X's on the big barrel. I didn't want it to look as if she were sitting on a barrel of rum!

Images: Barrel and little sister from Mo's Digital Pencil

Tools: Copics, White gel pen, Cuttlebug with embossing folder and Nesties, Circle punch (for roses), Nellie Snellen embossing leaf punch set, Flower Soft, Glue Dots, Mounting tape

Papers: SU! Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Going Gray, Always Artichoke, PTI white, Basic Grey DP

Embellishments: Grosgrain ribbon, Hand-made roses and daisies

New cards!

My printer is on the fritz, and I'm waiting for my new one to arrive. In the meantime I'm not able to print off any new images, so I'm using  a few images I had colored some time ago but never made into cards. I also resorted to actually stamping an image, too! 

Beach Babies

I had merged these image weeks ago. Janie in July and Kai in the Sand can both be purchased separately at Mo's store.
This card gave me fits...nothing went together easily! I planned to make a small pinwheel to place in the upper right corner, but after several failed attempts, I gave up and used the buttons instead.

Images: "Janie in July", "Kai in the Sand", PrintWorks sentiment

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Cuttlebug with Nesties, SU! oval punches, Martha Stewart Zig-Zag border punch, Tacky Tape, Glue Dots

Papers: SU! Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, PTI white, Cosmo Cricket DP

Embellishments: Grosgrain ribbon, Buttons, 1/8" Ribbon


An Actual Stamp!

I really do prefer digital images for many reasons. This stamp  from an SU! set was given to me by a friend of a friend who gave up stamping ( I know! Crazy, huh?!) about a year ago. She gave me tons, most of which were not my taste, so I gave them to the staff at school. I kept this and a few others.
My main problem with stamped images is that they are just way to small! I love digital images because they can be any size you want. They really make much more of a statement and are more fun to color.

Images: SU! Fairy, Digital strawberry cluster and individual berries, Digital sentiment from TLC

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencil, Cuttlebug with Embossing folder and Nesties, MS Hydrangea and Doily border punches, Hole punch, Mounting tape, Tacky tape

Embellishments: Ribbon, Pink glitter, Pearl cabochons in white and green

Did you notice my pretty new watermark? I ordered it weeks ago from Karen Giron, but just got up the courage to try adding it to my photos using GIMP, a free photo editing program. After a few frustrating attempts, I was finally able to do it successfully. Now I just have to figure out how to make it a bit darker for light-colored cards.

 Thanks for dropping by!
Elaine

Mo's Challenge #45

Thank Heaven for Little Girls!

Peggy has chosen the theme of "Little Girls" for Mo's Challenge this week. This one should be a snap, because Mo has soooo many sweet little girls to choose from in her store!

 My card uses "Daniele and Muffin". I bought this image months ago and don't know why I  never did anything with it until now. It's probably because I literally have hundreds of Mo's images....I'm addicted! (And I don't want to be cured! LOL!)
Because of the colors I used, this might be a good card to send to a Red Hatter

Image: Daniele and Muffin


Paper: SU Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, PTI White, Basic Grey Green at Heart DP

Tools: Copics, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Creative Memories oval-cutting system, Cuttlebug with embossing folder, Nellie Snellen embossing leaf punch set, Glue dots


Embellishments: Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and Prima, Satin ribbon, Jewelry finding, Jewel flower, Lace


 
My Little Red Wagon
 

This second card uses Bethy's Wagon  Full Set which has several  images that can be merged in many different ways. It's so much fun to play with! I think this version would make a funny card for a girl who's newly engaged. Inside it could say, "Congratulations! You finally caught your man!"

 Images: Bethy's Wagon Full Set

Papers: SU! Green Galore, Riding Hood Red, Cool Caribbean, Tempting Turquoise, PTI White, Basic Grey DP

Tools: Copics, Martha Stewart, Lattice Border punch, Glue Dots, Circle punch, Cuttlebug with embossing folder

Embellishments: Prima daisies, Ribbon, Wagon charm, Hand-made roses

So head on over to Mo's and adopt one of her little girls or use one you have to create a card or project for this week's challenge. It will be fun and you'll have a chance to win one of her images, too! We'll be waiting!

Elaine

 

Mo's Callenge # 44

A Color Inspiration

Aren't these colors wonderful?! Peggy has chosen this photo to inspire us this week. Just looking at these colors makes me happy! 

I made two cards for this week's challenge using two different color combinations from the photo.

The first merges two of Mo's wonderful images, the straight-haired version of "To the Beach" and "Jeffy in July".  I knew as soon as I saw them that they'd go together well, but several others had the same idea and beat me to it!
I used mostly yellow and orange on this, real hot summer colors, perfect for a beach scene.
The brown panels are  pieces of cardboard that I colored with Copics.

Images: "To the Beach" and "Jeffy in July" from Mo's Digital Pencil

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Flower punch

Papers: SU! Only Orange, Green Galore, and Yo-yo Yellow, PTI white, K & Company Citronella collection DP, Corrugated cardboard,

Embellishments: Real sea shells, Plastic shells, Silk flower petals, Brads

Pretty in Pink

Just pinks and greens for this one, a combination I'm particularly fond of!
Don't you just love Bella and Bronte? This image cracks me up. I love her 'not so tight' tights!


Image: "Bella Carrying the Cake" from Mo's Digital Pencil, Digital sentiment from TLC

Tools: Copics, Prismacolor pencils, Mounting tape, Glue Dots, Martha Stewart Leaf punch.

Papers: SU! Green Galore, Gable Green, Melon Mambo, PTI white, Basic Grey Green at Heart DP

Embellishments: Satin ribbon, Heart charms, Hand made spiral roses

So, use one (or more!) of Mo's images and any of the colors from Peggy's inspiration photo in your creation and enter Mo's Challenge for a chance to win a free image.

Mo' Challenge # 34

Are We Having Fun Yet?!

For this challenge, Sheila, our hostess this month, asked us to use Mo's images and merge two or more together on our project. There are several programs and tutorials out there that can be used to achieve this. I use PrintMaster and find it fairly easy and not too technical.. It's just a matter of sizing your images proportionately and 'erasing' the parts you don't want. You can also do it the old-fashioned way and just cut out one or both of the images and arrange them in a little scene.

I've used two images from a cute set of four ornery little ones.....Jill, Toby, Marcus, and Tasha. 

I want to use the little guy pitching a fit for my youngest son's birthday card. He turns 32 this month, and this was sooo him when he was a toddler! He will get a kick out of it.

(I have to say that he turned out to be a wonderful young man, though at the time, I wasn't sure I'd let him live to grow up!!)

The inside says, "Things can only get better!" 

As usual, the images were colored with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils.

Sentiment Stamp---PrintWorks

Card Stock,---SU!'s Rich Razzleberry, Garden Green, Pale Plum, Wild Wasabi

DP---Basic Grey Kioshi

Punch---Martha Stewart Hydrangea

Die---Sizzix Branch 

Embossing folder---Cuttlebug

Embellishments---Prima roses, pearl cabochons

So, let's see what wonderful scenes you can create using Mo's fabulous images!
Thanks for stopping in!
Elaine

Mo's Challenge # 33

All About Babies!

Denise's challenge this week was for us to make something with the theme of babies using one of Mo's wonderful images. Any babies will do...human or furry...it's up to you!

I used two of Mo's sweet images and merged them into one scene. Ben is pouring more water into his little brother's kiddie pool. I don't know the name of the image of the baby in the pool. It was a freebie from Mo's that I believe is now available for sale. I can't claim the idea of merging these two as my own...I saw it done somewhere months ago and thought it was really clever. 

I used Copics and Prismacolor pencils to color the image. My color inspiration came from the DP....Basic Grey's Kioshi collection. I think the papers in that collection are so pretty! I also used Only Orange, Barely Banana, and Mauve Mist, (all of which are now retired) and Certainly Celery from SU! The textured purple is from Bazzill.

I made the white daisies, leaves and ferns using Martha Stewart punches. I used Flower Soft for the daisy centers. The tiny roses are Prima. 

I used Crystal Effects to make the water shine. you can see it better in the picture below.

The little folding chair (Yes, it really does fold up!) and the watering can are from my miniature collection. 

Thanks for looking, and now let's see your babies in this week's Challenge!

Avast, Ye Brigands!

Mo's Pirates!

Mo's new pirate images are wonderful! It's so much fun to merge them in different ways.

Here are two I did recently. One uses Captain Hugh, and the other uses Mate Kate. Both are paired with  images from the accessories set, which comes with the barrels, treasure chest, map, parrot, stand, and palm tree. The compass rose is clip art that I found in Google.

I bought the gold coins on the Captain Hugh card in Walmart when they still had a sewing section. They were sewn onto a length of decorative fringe. I fashioned the eye patch with black CS and narrow ribbon. I didn't have any black, so I colored it with a black Copic marker. The Hero Arts sentiment on the patch was stamped with Versa Mark and heat embossed with detail gold EP.
I made the "plank" paper by streaking Caramel CS with various shades of brown ink pads. I drew on the lines and nails with a Spica Multiliner pen. The other SU! CS is Real Red and Pacific Point blue.

The inside says, "Wishing you a birthday full of wonderful memories to treasure!"

I used a lot of rhinestones on Kate's card, and

a tiny key charm to "unlock" her treasure chest. 

The CS is SU!'s Summer Sun, Brilliant Blue, Pacific Point, and Real Red. I used a scrap of Basic Grey DP along the bottom, cut to resemble waves.

 The digital sentiment  is part of a free digital set at Paper Garden Project. I omitted "Hello" from it before printing it in red.

Inside: "I'm so fortunate to have discovered such a great friend. I treasure our friendship."