Mo Manning - Big Shoes

Hi Crafters,

I'm back today to show another card that has been waiting in the wings. Now that the recipient has received it I can go ahead and share it with you guys. I have a further 6 cards for you to look at when the timing is right so hopefully over the next couple of weeks I will have plenty to show you.
Here she is, this little cutie is called 'Big Shoes' and comes from Mo's Digital Pencil shop. I think all little girls go through the phase of wearing their mummy's shoes, I know I did.

I had great fun colouring her with my Promarkers and I adore this colour combo (nearly as much as brown and blue together, which is my fave). The patterned paper is a digital freebie and the spotted cardstock comes from Anna Marie Designs. I used a SB Labels Seventeen die for the frame and the border die under the ribbon is a Nellie Snellen die. The sentiment is an old one from DoCrafts.

I'm entering the following challenges:

 

Brown Sugar Challenge - #101 Anything Goes

Sister Act - #64 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - #42 Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Challenges - Lets Go Digital

Scribble & Scrap - #22 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - #46 Anything Goes/Celebration

 

Thank you to all who visit me and leave such lovely comments, everyone is an encouragement to me and greatly appreciated.

 

Stop by again soon,

 

Lorraine



My 5 Favourite Creations of 2013.........ooops I mean 6, lol, just couldn't decide.

Hi Crafters,

This is my second post for today, scroll down to see my Tea Bag dispenser made with my Silhouette Cameo.

I thought I would join in with Debby at A Scrapjourney and show you my favourite 5 creations of 2013. Turns out I can't choose just five but hey-ho.

Click on the title and it will take you to the original post.

Five Jolly Snowmen

 

Christening Album

 

Art Impressions Stamp

 

 

Dear Friend

 

Mo's Digital Image

 

 

You're Cute



Thanks so much for looking in, it means a lot,
See you all soon,

Lorraine

 

 

 

 



Mo Manning Image

Hi,
I'm really enjoying using Mo Mannings digi images lately, so I would like to do a quick share with you of my latest commissioned card.

 

 

The recipient is an animal lover so I thought this image called Coexist was just perfect. I have to say that the background paper was not as bright as the picture shows but hey, my camera and I are not the best of friends, try as I might I couldn't get it any better, sorry.

 

I've shown a couple of close ups here for some details...

 

 







The key started out being silver but I changed it by pressing it in to my Versamark ink pad and sprinkling with gold embossing powder, heat set and voila, one gold key :o) chuffed. This is also the first time I have used an 8 x 8 card blank- in the past I have avoided them because I felt a bit daunted by the expanse of blank card to start with but I enjoyed filling it with the layers. I will probably be entering this card in to some challenges but will post the details later as I must finish this post now, -

 I'm off to the NEC in Birmingham tonight for my bi-annual pilgrimage to the Hobbycraft show and I still have to make a list of crafty stuff that I want to hunt down tomorrow.

Love this show - I'm like a kid in a sweet shop.

See you all soon,

Lorraine 



Birthday Wish

Hello again, what a change it is to wake up to sunshine.
Today I'm going to share with you a Birthday card that I have made for my Hubby's birthday which is in a couple of weeks time. (It's ok, he doesn't read my blog). He rather likes steam engines whether large or small as in this great Mo Manning image The Engineer. I had seen this image a long time ago and purchased it with the idea of this card. A bit of dry embossing, inking, some promarkers and embellishments and here it is......

 

 

I hope he likes it, in fact apart from the moustache this could be him, lol, don't tell him I said so :)

 

I'm entering in to the following challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Add Metal

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie Free For All #55 (flipped)

 

Have a great day crafty pals,

See you soon

 

Lorraine

Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Friend !

I'd like to share with you a birthday card that I made for a good friend of mine. She loves her holidays and so when I saw this card on a blog the other day I just had to purchase the image from Mo's Digital Pencil and create my card. I used the original card layout for inspiration and changed a few things to make it appropriate for my friend.



The two digi's can be found here and here.
I coloured both the background and sunbather with Promarkers, cut her out and stuck her on to the background and put shading around the edge of the towel to ground the image. I used polka dot papers and buttons to carry on the theme of her bikini. In my stash I had a starfish charm and a small pair of silver coloured sunglasses which went beautifully with the beach theme also. Here is a close up of her enjoying her cocktail...

 





I'd like to enter this card in to these challenges:
Mo's Digital Pencil - 'H is for'........ Hot
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

I love Mo's images, I have quite a few now, they are so easy to colour and uncanny in that they resemble someone you know, lol.

Thanks for joining me today,

See you all soon,

Lorraine