Thursday 16 September 2010

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.
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33 comments:

  1. gorgeous card Peri, love her dotted dress.

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  2. Stunning work Peri, I love your card and image.

    Liza x

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  3. Wow Peri, this is wonderful. Love the bright red or Annie on the white grid background. Super job as always!!

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  4. Wow Peri, you NEVER fail to amaze me.

    Just as I think you have created your best card ever (BCE), you go and out do yourself once more by creating yet another BCE! This is truly stunning and definitely worthy of the WOW factor, but then ALL of your cards deserve that.

    Gorgeous! Hugs, Fae xxx

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  5. Oh Peri,you certainly know how to get the most out of CAS! That ribbon is so beautifully matched to your image,gorgeous! Happy crafting,Julie.x

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  6. You may have found this difficult but the result is fabulous
    Sallie

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  7. Gorgeous card Peri, love the sentiment!
    Clairexx

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  8. Peri... this is wonderful hun, and the text goes in bautifully!!! Lovely job :) xxxx

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  9. very cute... thanks for sharing

    Hugs,
    Sharette

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  10. ooooooooooooooooo
    i am speechless, thanks for showing
    and what a great bow. perfect match with the girl

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  11. I'm not a big Annie fan, but what you did is fantastic....thank you for sharing.

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  12. Excellent job on the multi media. We are always our worst critic. I think the card is simple, sweet and adorable.

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  13. I love her but also that saying... it is something I really believe in

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  14. Oh my goodness, how cute. I love the Annie image.

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  15. Brilliant idea to pre-color the dress digitally then backfill by hand. Great card!

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  16. Beautiful I Just Love The Colors And The Sentiment Wow!

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  17. Love this card. Brings back happy memories of my daughter performing as Annie in a show.

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  18. If this doesnt put a smile on your face nothing will!

    Sherry

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  19. True sentiment! A great card to brighten up my day! (didn't get much sleep lately -> thanks kids!!) hihi..
    xx Alie

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  20. Great vibrant colouring, and the TLC sentiment fits it perfectly. Fab card.
    Tine :)

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  21. Fabulous - Simply Fabulous! The sentiment you used is perfect with this image. Thank you for the inspiration!

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  22. Absolutely amazing. Love the scor effect, would never in a million years thought up that idea, yet so simple. Love the text, this is one truly awesome card, FULL STOP!! Tfs, Dee xx

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  23. Perfection!
    LOVE the sentiment and what you did with the dress on your computer!

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  24. I adore the simplicity of design, your project is gorgeous. Cheers Suzanne

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  25. Fantastic!
    greetings from Holland,
    Ineke

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  26. So beautiful. Love all the white, and your coloring is perfect.

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  27. Gorgeous card, love the CAS style. Debs xx

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