Mo's Dream Team Project of the Month Blog Hop!

Hello Mo Fans! Another month has whizzed by (and how!) and it's time for the Dream Team to inspire and delight you with their Project of the Month.  This month it's all about 'Clean and Simple (CAS)' and, boy oh boy, this was really a challenge.   If you've arrived here from Liza's blog you're on the right path; if not, why not hop back to Lori's blog and start from the beginning so that you don't miss any of the wonderfulness along the way.

So, back to the challenge that was 'clean and simple'.  Moons ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I first started making cards (he-he), everything I did was clean and simple - very minimal, very chic and very simple.  Time passed and when I returned to card making last year, I discovered digistamps, and, most particularly, Mo and my clean and simple went out of the window.  And that's where it stayed so it was very difficult to get it to come back in when I needed it as it felt entirely unloved!  And with my mojo wandering and my clean and simple sulking, I was left to my own devices and this is what I came up with:

Image: Mo's Digital Pencil, 'I Love Ya, Tomorrow'; text by Create with TLC

So, could you get cleaner and more simple?  I suppose that, technically, the ribbon/bow shouldn't be there but I just had to have something to jazz it up! 

I love this image - Daughter is a curly readhead (when she hasn't had the straighteners out!) and when she was little she looked so much like little Annie!  And yes, we did encourage her to sing 'Tomorrow', which she did in such a sweet little voice.  Aaah - good times.

I created a background for the card by using my Scor-pal equivalent and scoring a pattern (look reeeeallly closely!) of squares and diamonds.  The image and text were merged in Paint.net, where I also turned her dress into red polkadots!  I then printed her out and coloured her skin and hair, adding shading to the dress and colouring up her pretty red shoes.  No Prismacolor this time (shock! horror!), just a simple warm grey outline. Oooh, I had to work sooo hard to get so little to look anything like right!

So you'll want to be hopping off to see what the wonderfully talented Debbie has for you today - it's bound to be something scrumptious.  In case you get lost along the way, here's the hop list in full:

Lori, Kerttu, Jak, Liza, Peri (that's me!), Debbie, Mina, Shell, Elaine and Rosette.

Enjoy the hop and Happy Crafting.
xx