The Engineer by Mo Manning

Recently I had a request to make a few men's cards, in particular with trains or sailing. Well I couldn't go past using Mo's The Engineer for one of these cards. The image is an older one of Mo's but he's still a fabulous choice.

A couple of die cuts and colouring to create the "tunnel" and I had a perfect backdrop for him 

Little Princess in Lilac and Lemon

This gorgeous image is called Little Princess and is by Mo Manning. I ended up using a soft colour palette of Lilac and Lemon for her as she's just so sweet, and I couldn't see her in bold colours. Perhaps I was influenced by the fabulous costumes of The Queen in the Bridgerton series...perhaps ;)

Baby Fairies by Mo Manning

Today I'm bringing you a card with one of Mo's sweet Baby Fairy images. This cutie is one of 3 in the set and, although I love all 3, I think this one is my favourite!

It's a tad hard to see but the teal background is embossed with a beautiful floral swirl which ties in so well the theme and adds so much extra texture IRL.

Late by Mo Manning

What the perfect image for a belated birthday card! This is Late by Mo Manning. He would work well with Mo's Alice in Wonderland images as he's perfect for the White Rabbit, which is what inspired my fun colour palette.

Janny Texting by Mo Manning

This week I've used the fabulous image Janny Texting by Mo Manning. After colouring her up I decided to re-colour her and video the process. Mo's DT has started doing live colourings on Facebook, but I haven't felt comfortable doing one of those - hence the video instead.  

This is the image I coloured up in the video. I did her fairly quickly and probably spent more time on the original image making sure the blending was perfect, but I'm still happy with how she turned out! I popped her onto a second card using the same layout as the first.

For anyone interested - here is the link to the colouring video....and please excuse any glitches, I'm pretty new to all this! And next time perhaps I'll record in landscape mode rather than portrait 😏

Mona by Mo Manning

This sweet little image is called Mona by Mo Manning. I love colouring black hair and using bright blue as a highlight. And how well does the stark black work with the pink and lime green?! Such a fabulous image to play with.

I repeated the spotty theme with the stamped background using a set by Altenew, and an embossed spotty panel. The black rhinestones finish off the theme.

Gabrielle by Mo Manning

I love using Mo's gorgeous young women to play with adding "sparkle" I've always loved glittery things. This time I'm using Mo's Gabrielle. 

I had started this image earlier but the spots from the
white Posca paint pen I used were bigger than I wanted and then dropped a huge blog of paint right on her bodice. I tried to clean it up but wasn't too happy with it so tore it up. In my I always prefer to re-start rather than "fix". The colours on this picture aren't true as I took the photo under artificial light.

I did end up taping her together and gave fixing her a quick go - to see if I could - but I was always going to re-colour. As you can see the paint pen I used second time around was much finer and gave me a much nicer look. I also decided to go with the softer look of white trims.

Gillie by Mo Manning

This gorgeous image is called Gillie and she's one of my many, many favourites from Mo. I just love her sweet face, but it's that fabulous fly away hair that really makes me smile. I think she it makes her look a little more magical by giving that amazing hair colourful streaks.

 

Carolina by Mo Manning

We're in the middle of Summer here in Australia and I was inspired to use this gorgeous image because our veggie patches are providing is with some lovely fresh produce at the moment. This is Carolina and I have to say she "grows" much better carrots than we've ever been able to manage 😂

 

A Snowglobe Card

Recently I saw a cute box card design that was made to look like a snowglobe. Having made box cards in the past I used that concept and drafted out a design in my Silhouette Cameo. I love that this card has so much depth but can be folded flat for popping into an envelope. I used Mo Manning's Fairy Snowman and 2 of the elves from Fairy Christmas as my images, one added to each of the first 3 panels. To stabilise the circles I added some plastic circles. For these I used laminate sleeves that I had splattered some white paint into the middle of before laminating and cutting into circles.

Side view