City Crafter 236 - My Deer

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

I hope you had a good weekend and if you're ready for a new challenge at City Crafter you'll be delighted to know that our newest team member the lovely Stella has chosen the challenge this week ...

My Deer

Stella has a love of deer ... and this week her challenge to us is to create a card or project that features a deer ... Simple right?

I created a 3D card with the help of my Cameo ...

I backed the die cuts with some Christmas vellum and when the light shines it looks really pretty

I got the glitter out for this ... I love glitter at Christmas 

This would also look really nice with a little battery operated candle behind it

Our team have some more inspiration for you up on the blog and our Guest Designer is 

Imke Ludwig 

Imke won our challenge in week 230 with her beautiful card -  she is a very talented lady ... click the link to go visit her blog

I hope you can join us this week ... Our winner will also have a GD spot with us

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Historical Monuments Old and New

Hi there ...

This week Robyn has chosen the prompt word at 

Our Beautiful World 

Historical Monuments

Liverpool is full of Historical Monuments and it seems every week more are added to the landscape. The thing is you really don't take much notice when you have passed them constantly for years ...

This is a relatively new one ... standing high up at the renovated dockside it is one of a tribute to the many dockers who lived and worked at the busy and prosperous port of Liverpool

This is another one

You can see that there is still building work in progress ... what was once a run down dockside has been transformed ... Luxury apartments, Marinas, Water sport areas and Restaurants are just some of the new features

I worked in the city for a long time and regularly went into the city to shop and to socialise ... We had so many night clubs that monuments were just regarded as a meeting place before we went off to enjoy the nightlife ...

These days I hardly ever go into the city and this week I haven't been well enough to go out and about taking photos so I'll share just a small few of our Historical Monuments ... photos NOT taken by me but a little bit of my city... You can click the Source links to find out more about them

Edward V11 ... The famous Liver Buildings in the background

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The Gladstone monument

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The MacKenzie Monument

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The QueenVictoria Monument

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The Lord Nelson Monument

They you are ... just of few of the scores in and around my city

I hope you'll link up your photos of

Historical Monuments this week at

Our Beautiful World

Hop over to the blog to see what the rest of the team have come up with

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Love

Hello ... How are you all?

I had the flu jab a couple of days ago and I've felt quite rough ever since .. sigh

I've a card to share which I made for my husband's son and his wife ... they celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary at the weekend ... We actually missed the wedding last year as my husband was in hospital

I picked up a couple of MME paper pads at TK Max ... Cut & Paste by Jen Allyson ... not that I needed more paper but I love MME and Jen Allyson designs so the paper I used is from one of these pads ... I drew a curve shape on my cameo and cut my paper with it - adhered it to white CS and then did a partial die cut circle ...

The "Love" die is by PTI and the little inset heart has had glossy accents added to it ... not sure if you can see it but it is very effective IRL

I know I usually work with softer colours but I really love these papers ... I'm sure you'll be seeing more of them!

Have a beautiful day and I hope your Halloween celebrations go well tomorrow

Till soon

~ Ros ~

PTI Techniques

Hello ...

I've a card to share that I did using a couple of the Make it Monday techniques at PTI

Sometimes I don't always get time to do them and not all of them are for me but it's a great way to get one's mojo going...

This card features the dipped die cut technique along with this week's one - partial die stamping

I love this sea glass colour ink by Avery Elle and used it to sponge my card base to which I then added

something called Fluffy Stuff by Woodware ... It's like liquid pearls in white but when you heat it up it goes puffy like snow

I dip dyed the antlers on my stag using silver embossing powder and silver embossed part of my PTI word die using the Life stamp set also from PTI

I think next time I'll  add some glitter to the Fluffy Stuff before I heat it and see what happens but overall I'm pleased with the way this turned out

I hope you're having a good day ... It's been pretty dull here but not too cold for this time of the year

Till soon be safe and thanks for dropping by

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 235

Hi there ... Did you have a good weekend?

DH got his new car so we took a trip to Lincoln to visit my Aunt on Saturday ... We had a great time

Are you ready for a new challenge at City Crafter? This week we have the fabulous Char hosting for us 

Char wants us to make a card or project using stripes

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Here's my card

I enlisted the help of my Cameo to cut out 3 oblong shapes into a piece of CS and added acetate behind them - then using foam pads I adhered that to my base card after first adding a piece of striped paper 

I also cut the stars and the word 'You' on the Cameo - The word 'Sparkle' is a PTI die

Our Guest Designer Greta has been with us all this month and this will be her last week with us ... We really enjoyed having her onboard ... The winner of our challenge this week will also be offered a GD spot with us so get out your stripes ... Paper, Paint whatever suits you and come join us this week.

Our team have some lovely projects for your inspiration up on the Blog ... pop over and take a look!

Have a lovely week and I'll be back soon

~ Ros ~

Spooky

Hello and Happy Sunday!

Not long now till Halloween and at 

Our Beautiful World

The lovely Manuela has chosen a great word prompt for us

"Spooky"

This week with the help of Picmonkey I altered a few of my 'normal' photos to make them 

Spooky...

The above shot was originally a photo of snow falling in my garden ... darken it, add a moon and some Halloween favourites and voila!

As well as Picmonkey I played with brushes in Photoshop to change the above photo into a ghostly image with dark shadows creeping along ... you saw the film Ghost? Remember those black little shadow things that took away the bad people... Eeeek!!

A young witch? Or just me at 16 with my cat? It's all in the eyes....

I'll leave you with this photo taken in my garden - I think there's always something spooky about magpies

I'm really looking forward to seeing your photos this week ....

Link up with us at 

Our Beautiful World

And don't forget to hop over to the blog and see what the rest of the team have in store for you

Till soon

~ Ros ~