September, Birthdays and Holidays

Early September...

The shops are bustling with parents and children buying uniforms and all the necessary supplies as the school term starts again.... Leaves are falling from the trees, flowers are dying out and the squirrel is rushing around my garden trying to gather anything he can before winter sets in. And we have rain... lots of it...Ginger cat is miserable and mooching around not knowing quite what to do with himself.

There are lots of birthdays this month in my circle of friends and family and DH is due to be a grandfather for the second time next week, so here's another birthday card I've made for a blog friend ... 

One way to dress up old papers is to stencil on them and add a good splash of paint Lol! This kind of looks like a galaxy now, that's not what I was aiming for but I'm ok with it

It's contrary to the white space cards I normally do and I've added a flower...I have lots of them because I always used them a lot but no so much now. I even squeezed in some watercolour on the leaves

Did I tell you we were hoping to get away this month? I so need some sunshine and rest. Well it seems that the whole world had the same idea and it's been a nightmare trying to get anything... It appears that lots of people are reluctant to travel to certain places now due to the unrest with wars, economies and other issues but yesterday I did find something and in a couple of weeks we are off to a luxury hotel in a quiet area of my favourite island Majorca. We've never stayed in this part before though we have visited it ...  People like Tom Cruise and Claudia Schiffer have properties in the area so it should be good.

Well, I'll let you get on ... Thanks so much for stopping by 
Have a great day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 277

Hello and Happy September!

Marina is our host this week at City Crafter Challenge

and the theme she has picked is "In a Jam"

Photo Credit

 Create a project that features Fruit and/or a Jam Jar (mason jar)

I made this card for some friends who recently celebrated their wedding anniversary

Truthfully I am not one for using fruit on cards  - I could have opted to use a jar but hey, it's a challenge... I cut the pears and leaves on my Cameo and then used distress paints to colour them

The paper I used - Basic Grey I think - is some that I've been hoarding... I love the colours

Our Guest Designer this week is winner of challenge 269 Katarzyna Rossa aka Moje Hobby Click on the link to go visit her blog

Once again CCCB are offering a GD spot to this week's winner so I hope you'll be inspired to join us -

Have a lovely day my friends

~ Ros ~

Beads

Hello!

The lovely Mandy has picked our prompt today at

Our Beautiful World

Here we go....

A spray of tiny pearl beads

A mix of beads 

Hand embroidery with beautiful bead work done by my sweet aunt

Do you have photos to fit the prompt? Share with us at 

Our Beautiful World

Enjoy your sunday

~ Ros ~

Watercolour

Good morning!

Well the weekend has started and here in the UK it's a bank holiday weekend which means the roads are going to be very busy! So far it's dry and sunny which is unusual for a UK bank holiday - fingers crossed it stays dry.

I have another birthday card made for a friend who celebrates her birthday in a weeks time - This one is a watercolour done with distress paint and stains

...in my happy colours

It's really sparkly when the light hits it too

I used a piece of the water coloured CS to cut out 'Sending' then cut more in ordinary CS and stacked them before adding glossy accents 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Purr-fect Day

Hello there lovely people...

How has your week been? I've had a few crazy days ... I started to make a DT project on monday and try as I may it just wouldn't go right and it seemed that everything I touched fell to the floor ... I even broke a glass ... Tuesday was not a lot better - I did get the project done but then I managed to drop a whole box of neatly sorted sequins on the floor... Oh yeh, my hoover is sooo sparkly right now.

But my friend Pat came yesterday and it was a purr-fect day!

I made a start on some cards for friends of mine who have birthdays in September

I absolutely love the colour of the Sea Glass Avery Elle ink as I'm sure you've noticed, and I started by sponging a circle on my base card and then stencilling the stars with embossing paste and glitter

I cut out the circle for the front of my shaker and stencilled that too in sea glass ink ... same with the balloon but I used some new pink inks from Mama Elephant ... I love them!

The kitty is from Newton's Nook...

Thanks so much for popping in ... I hope you have a purr-fect day!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 276

Hello and good morning!

Kirsty is hosting this week's challenge over at

City Crafter Challenge Blog

The theme is World Traveller

Photo Credit

The challenge is to create a card or project inspired by the photo

I took those suitcases as inspiration together with the traveller theme to create my project

Two little suitcases ... One is an album 

I love the travel theme so pulled out some old papers and bits and pieces from my stash to make a little album of our last trip abroad

The album fastens to look like a suitcase 

...and then fits into the larger suitcase which I part cut on my cameo ... I just cut the sides on the cameo and made the box to fit in between

 The lovely Suchi is Guesting again with us ... You can find all her creations by visiting her blog Here

And this week's winner will also have a guest spot with us at CCCB

As always the team have more inspiration for you up on the City Crafter Blog, we hope you'll play along with us

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~