The Engineer - A Mo Manning Image available in rubber at Penny Black

Today's card is for Stamp It Saturday - using a Mo image but from the rubber collection at Penny Black.  This image is a great one for the men in your life and is called Engineer and the rubber version can be found here at Penny Black.  You can also get the digi version here at Mo's Digital Pencil.

I coloured him with my Promarkers and then teamed him up with some Webster's Pages, a Tim Holtz On The Edge die for the cogs and a Tim Holtz ticket.  Luckily, I had coloured him up a few weeks ago, as have been pretty busy cuddling our lovely Violet - she gave the biggest of smiles today to her Grandad! 

Now, I don't normally wish the weekend away, but DD number three is arriving Sunday night, by train, but a slightly faster Virgin train than the one above!  She's coming to meet her new niece for the first time, so can't wait for her to be here! 

Enjoy your weekends everyone!

Hugs, Juliexx

Passion for Promarkers and Mo's Digital Pencil

White Rabbits everyone - 1st September -eeeekkk!  Where has the summer gone?  The hubster and I did a Wainwright Walk yesterday up Burn Bank at the back of Loweswater here in the Lake District.  It was spectacular as the weather was good and they were paragliding off the top of the fell.  However, I was absolutely shattered, just had no energy at all.  Couple of pictures to share below.

I think I should have chosen to get a boat out on the lake rather than walking up the fell just like this chappy below.  This was for my son's birthday last week who loves fishing up here and funnily enough caught a couple of trout today so that's tea sorted tomorrow! 

Forms of travel or transport are our theme for this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers chosen by our lovely Marie!  The image is called Fishing (funnily enough) and is from Mo's Digital Pencil and can be found here in Mo's online store. 

I love the little haversack button and fishes that I managed to find in my stash!

My papers are from Webster's pages and the Happy Days sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

The gone fishing sign is from a really ancient Flipping Men set that I bought years ago because it was so cheap!! 

Well that's all from me folks apart from just to say that our sponsors are the fabulous Letraset with a 12 pack of Promarkers as the prize!

Oh and don't forget to check out the fab makes of my PFP teamies here!

Tight Lines!!

Juliexx

Fancy - Passion for Promarkers and Mo's Digital Pencil

Today we have a new challenge starting today at A Passion for Promarkers with a lovely theme of Fancy chosen by my lovely teamie Eileen. And really all that means is adding a touch of sparkle, or some ribbons or dies maybe.  Just up my street!  I pulled out an older Mo Manning image that I've not used in a while - Melia On Her Shell Phone - such a gorgeous image! 

I picked out some Webster's Pages nautical themed papers and then raided my Marianne Dies to finish off my under-the-sea theme.  They are as follows:

 Leafy Vines - these are from  are from the Leaves Design Folder/Die combo DF3414

Lighthouse- LR0231

Anchor and Starfish - Seaside LR0232

Christmas Leaves-(as I thought they looked like seaweed) - LR0245

I've added some Liquid Pearl and Stickles fr a little sparkle and finished off with some ric-rac ribbon and resin flowers from my stash. 

We have two brill sponsors for this week which means two brill prizes!:

Little Claire Designs 

anda  Letraset prize of a pack of 6 Rich Tone Promarkers.

Don't forget to take a peek at the gorgeous makes from my PFP teamies here and then come a share your Fancy makes with us at Passion for Promarkers.

Have a great week.

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!!

The Tramp by Mo Manning

I made this card for my niece's boyfriend's 21st birthday  over the weekend.  We had a whirlwind trip up to the Lake District actually, to celebrate their joint 21sts in the form of a Great Gatsby Party (pics at the end), which was a great success.  So I thought The Tramp would be just perfect for Sean's card.

Love these corner sentiment dies from Die-Versions but they don't show up too well against the papers I've used (Websters Pages) hence the close up.

The Charlie Chapline motif is cut from a Graphic 45 pad and the other dies I've used are Party Music from Memory Box, Film Clapperboard die from Whimsy Stamps and a film strip die from Tim Holtz.

You can find The Tramp here in Mo's store.

And here are a few pictures of the big day:

My two girls with our great-nephew Sam. 

Son Harry didn't go for the obvious but went as the invitation with a scene from the Great Gatsby 

Hubby Nick as Elliot Ness thinking he was enforcing prohibition! 

And the birthday boy and girl themselves, Sean and my niece, Lily! 

Broked Boy C - Mo's Digital Pencil

I've got another Mo Manning cutie to show you today - this is Broked b c (boy curly haired version) - he looks so sweet, don't you think?

I've coloured him with my Promarkers and then teamed him up with some paper scraps from Stampin Up and a Brenda Walton pad.  The train panel is from a Websters Pages set but can't remember which one!  The plane die is Paper Trey Ink and the sentiment on the cloud is from a Krafting Kimmie set.  The ticket sentiments are from Whimsy Stamps.

Thanks for popping in - I hope you have a fabulous Tuesday!

A Get Well Card

Just a quick card from me tonight!  I have spent the last two evenings searching for stuff in my little craft room.  The first evening was spent looking for a pad of DCWV glittered papers that I have had for an age, and the second was spent looking for some little Santa Claus and sleigh diecuts that I bought at Ally Pally and that I had out only a couple of nights ago!  I did come across an embossing folder that had disappeared so there is hope!  However, it means that I've not been crafting!!

I made this card using  this great Kenny K image for my friend's husband who had heart surgery.

The papers are Websters's Pages and the rest of the bits are from stash.  I think the sentiment is Inkadinkadoo.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Ribbon

Love to Scrap - Play Some  Blues

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Mo's Little Elf Ava

Hi there - well I'm into the second week of my holiday at home.  Harry had the second op on his hand yesterday at St George's locally - so much  more professional than the other hospital.  Slowly, slowly getting better too - probably not quick enough for Harry though!  One of my other babies, Emily, left on Saturday for three/four months of travelling around Europe!  She's with a great friend, Tom, so I know they'll look after each other - yesterday France, today, Barcelona, tomorrow - I need to look at the calendar!

She should be home just before Christmas and not that I want to wish the time away but what a Christmas pressie to have her back.

And speaking of Christmas, this is another festive card, using Mo's Little Elf Ava which you can find here in Mo's digital store - one of a number of yummy new Christmas images for 2013!

I' ve coloured her with my Promarkers  and used these fabulous Webster's Pages Christmas papers. The holly die is from Marianne Dies, the deer is a Tim Holtz die and the sentiment from Lili of the Valley.

As we haven't gone away this holiday, I've been trying to get cracking on making my Christmas cards in bulk and have made precisely 6!  I'm going to have to make them quicker than that!

Still the weather is lovely at the minute - the last of summer, so hope to get a bit of R&R in the garden tomorrow.

Passion for Promarkers - Recipe

Our new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers today has been chosen by the fabulous Nic and she's picked a recipe for you:

Three Papers, One Image, One Sentiment and Three Embellishments

I've used this gorgeous Lili of the Valley image  called Looking Glass and my sentiment is also LOTV.

Now I thought the challenge would be right up my street with all those papers and embellies to use, but it just made me realise how much embellies I do use!  So I've made the picture one embellie ( made of Wow embossing powder with a Martha Stewart mould, a cameo cabochon and Aged Wine Frantage), the lace flowers another and then the wood chandelier also frantaged, (and then you just ignore the pearls!) 

My papers are from the Websters Hollywood pack,and layered onto a Memory Box Vaudeville frame.

Our sponsor this week is the fab Bugaboo and the winner will win 6, no 7 digi images of their choice!

The rest of my teamies on Team 1 have some stunning cards to share with you, so take a peek here and come along and join in our challenge!