Foxy Christmas and More Than an Itch

Hello and good morning ...

I hope you are well

It's a weird title to my post I know but I'll start with my card - A Foxy Christmas card

I haven't been able to craft much lately due to illness and it felt good to finally come up with something yesterday evening... I even got to try my new paints (Gansai Tambi) which I love

The cut out on the card was done on my Cameo and I did a little painting behind it ... The fox is from the Wplus9 set winter pals ... he was coloured using Promarkers and then covered in glossy accents

More than an itch

Those of you who read my blog know that I was diagnosed with eczema early this year and it's an autoimmune disease... It's more than just the awful itch and the problem skin which is bad enough!

There are times when the immune system works so much overtime deciding it doesn't like this or that so eventually it just burns out...

It leaves me with no energy at all ... just taking a shower is a huge effort and I feel so ill with it. That is how it's been for the last 3 weeks until I started to take some anti inflammatory tablets. For some reason they calm everything and make me feel so much better, though I can't take them long term.

I have to go for more tests in a week or so just to be sure there is nothing else underlying but right now I feel so much more in the land of the living and hopefully on the road to recovery.

Thanks so much for your well wishes and I'll get around to visiting your blogs soon

Have a good day and take care

Hugs

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 285

Hello friends

It's time for a new challenge over at City Crafter and this week Marina has set the challenge to create a card or project featuring

 "Creatures Of  The Night"

Photo Credit

Here's my card

I did some sponging for my BG and added some die cuts to create my scene

Owls are definitely creatures of the night and whilst I don't like my own cats to be out at night ... there are many who are creatures of the night

Our Guest Designer this week is Denise Price ... winner of week 281... Hop on over to the Blog to see what Denise and the rest of the team have created this week

I hope you'll be inspired to join in with our challenge

Yesterday saw the start of the Cat Lovers Blog Hop Here

So I'll be linking up my Purrfect Friends kitty card there

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

Boo!

Hello...

Just a very short post today for 

Our Beautiful World

Where Kirsty has picked this week's prompt - The word BOO

With a little bit of hocus pocus using the free online editor - Picmonkey

I have a photo of ginger cat ready for Halloween

I tell you he's as big as a pumpkin and I love that little guy....

Share your photos for this week's prompt over at

Our Beautiful World 

And hop on over to the Blog to see what everyone else is sharing this week 

Have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~

A Christmas Shaker

Hello... How are you?

Just when I thought I was getting over this bug, it decided to hit me again ... I feel like hibernating till Spring comes along....

Anyway.. I have a card that I made last week... Just a Christmas shaker

...Using the cityscape die and although you can't see it I cut it a few times and layered it up so the shaker has quite a bit of dimension

It was so nice to hear your views on my post regarding all the new releases and it seems we all pretty much agree... best not to get caught up in the frenzy and get the most out of what we have

I confess I have bought something recently ... I treated myself to the Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints - I haven't tried them yet but I'm hoping they'll be a good investment

I hope you have a lovely weekend ...

Take care

~ Ros ~

Puppies

Hello ... Happy Thursday!

It's a beautiful autumn day here ... breezy but sunny. Where I live there are tree lined roads and avenues and the trees are just spectacular in rich golds, yellows and reds ... It's so mesmerising!

You remember a few months back one of my lifelong friends was seriously ill and I spent a fair bit of time at the hospital... Well, she celebrates a birthday in a few days and I am so happy that she made it. Just before she got so sick she had bought 2 puppies and maybe the thought of leaving them helped pull her back, so it's only natural I would make (another) puppy card for her birthday

I just love these Avery Elle stamps... but you already guessed that huh?

And I'm going to be using those MFT label sentiments forever I think

The cloud dies are by Memory Box and of course there's a piece of my sponged and water splattered CS cut into a little hillside

I'm slowly getting over my bug but it's left me quite tired, still, I have club night tonight and I can't let them down ... fortunately Pat has created a project for them so no pressure this week. I am blessed to have such lovely friends....

Have a beautiful day 

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Neutrals

Hello there...

Every Tuesday my sweet friend Wen Sylvestre runs at photographic link up where people share all different sorts of things ... 

It occurred to me that most of my home has neutrals... pictures, ornaments even wallpapers so I'm going to try and link up something each week...

Here's what I have for this week

I got this bust a few years ago ... there was something about her face and the imperfectness that attracted me

 Not easy to photograph but still, it's neutral

Wishing you a lovely day

~ Ros ~