November Blog Hop with Mo's Dream Team White plus One!

Hello - it's my turn to choose the theme for this month's blog hop with Mo's Dream Team and I've gone with White plus one other colour - blue is my choice.

I've used one of the fabulous Valerie  images from the Valerie in Winter set which is such great value at $6.75 for three digi images!

As you can see I added some chunky white frantage to enhance the snow effect and some Marianne dies mixed in with a couple from Joy Crafts (Winter and Half doiley) and Memory Box (gloves).  My Marianne Dies are as follows:

Frame - Petra's Birds - Catalogue No LR0351

Star - CR1226

As I am the start of this month's hop, all it leaves me to do is send you on to the blog of my lovely friend, Debby who will be sharing something delightful with you I'm sure.  And don't forget to leave a comment on each of the hop posts as there are a couple of $5 vouchers hidden to spend in Mo's Digital Pencil.
The full order of our hop is below - happy hopping!

 Julie, Debby,  Vili, Anneke, Gretha,

Hugs, Juliexx

Monthly Blog Hop with Mo's Dream Team - Summer Colours

Yay, it's time to hop with us over on Mo's Dream Team and this month your host is l'il ol me so I am also the start of the hop!!  

I chose the theme of  Summer Colours and when I picked that theme, I was thinking of blues and yellows for my card.  As you will see, I've gone with something entirely different - Strawberries and Cream, a great colour combo for this time of year!!

For my card, I chose Blueberry Girl, again not going with the obvious and her blueberries have become redcurrents, but you get the idea!! I'm normally ok with red colouring but it really wasn't coming out too well on her top, so I decided to do a bit of paper piecing using the Webster's Pages that I was also using for my matting and layering and have to say I'm rather pleased with her little gingham outfit.

I then used some teeny tiny pearls for the berries spilling out of her bucket.

The main sentiment is Paper Trey Ink on a Stampin Up punched mat.  The butterflies are from a new Joy Craft set, with the Watering Can and Mini Picket fence cut with a Memory Box die.  The cartwheel is a Joanna Sheen Signature die.
Well, I hope you like how my card turned out, your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Debby Y. (Full order is below)

 Julie, Debby Y, Heidy, Alice, Vili, Alexandra,
Anneke, Danielle, Kaly, Gretha,

As always, don't forget to leave a comment as you hop on through the blogs as there are two  $5 dollar vouchers hidden somewhere along the way!
Happy Hopping!!

Passion For Promarkers Have a Heart

I cannot believe it's a week since I posted a card -what!  Have to confess though, my mojo went awol and just haven't felt up to visiting my little craft room.  I did enjoy making this card though which is for the new challenge starting today over at Passion for Promarkers.  And with Valentine's Day almost upon us, we have the perfect theme of Hearts, chosen by our lovely Shelley.

My image is from Mo's Digital Pencil, Ragged Romeo - so sweet, which I've framed with Theresa Collins papers cut out using a Go Kreate set of dies, Frilly no 10, I think!

The flowers were cut with a  Spellbinder die set, and the big heart with a Joy Craft Die. The teeny hearts are Impression Obsession.  I added a bit of aging with Aged Scarlet Frantage and then coloured some white seam binding with a Burgundy Promarker to ensure the colour matched my papers!

We have two sponsors this week, Letraset and Angel Crafts, so come and join us for this week's challenge.

Check out the rest of the DT's fabulous makes here and come and join us!!

Fairy Sleepy

I just knew that I wanted to team up this sentiment die from Memory Box with one of Mo's latest digital stamps, Fairy Sleepy which you can find here in Mo's store.

The papers are from a Kaisercraft pad, Lulu and Roy, with various dies from Memory Box (sentiment and corner die), Joy Crafts (semi-circular filligree die), Magnolia (Heart Tag), Joanna Sheen(heart banner die).

The little pink border comes with the papers, and the rest of the embellies are all from my stash.

That's all from me today - thanks for all your well-wishes, I am feeling a whole lot better!xx

Sketch N Stash Challenge 131

Hi there peeps.  I've not been around this weekend as we had a whirlwind visit to the Lake District to visit Nick's brother and to meet our new little great-nephew, Henry, (who is a little love!) and to bring MIL home from her stay up there.  Luckily, I was a little more organised than usual and had this card ready for today's new challenge over at Sketch N Stash.

This is the sketch we're using, and as we're being sponsored by Stitchy Bears, the DT were given some fab images to work with - I love this cute little Boo Boo Bear, don't you!

I've coloured him with my Promarkers, and used some papers from a DCWV Linen Closet pad.  The die around the image is a Spellbinders one and the little bows on the edge of the lace topped panel is a Magnolia die - Edwin!  The flowers are a mix of a Marianne Die and a some punches, and the heart is Joy Craft die.

I think my papers are my oldest item used, and the heart die the newest!

My lovely teamies over on SNS have got some wonderful makes to share with you using other  Stitchy Bears digital images so do pop on over here and give them some love!

I'm only working four days this week, as I'm off to Sandown on Friday with bestie Lesley - really looking forward to that!

Hope you all have a good week!

Passion for Promarkers Snow is Falling

Another day, another Christmas card, this time for our new challenge at Passion for Promarkers.  We have a great theme of Snow is Falling, so together with  the fact that our sponsor is Lili of the Valley this little cutie fitted the bill perfectly.

I coloured her with my Pro and Flexmarkers and used papers from Craftwork cards. The large paper flower was the same as the other papers from, Craftwork cards.  I've used chunky white frantage for the fur trim on her coat and the falling snow - think it looks a bit like she has a heavy cold due to her arm placement as she's putting the star on top of the tree!

You can check out the rest of the PFP teams's cards here

Thanks for your company!!!!