Woodware Owls

Hello!

We have sunshine today and it's so welcome after all the rain and dark days we've had lately...

I recently bought a couple of Woodware stamps that were in the sale, one of which features owls, and today I'm sharing a card that I made using that stamp

 

The not so perfect colouring was done with Copics (I'm still learning) and I stamped the image twice so I could cut out the little owl and the wings to the other two and give it some dimension

 

 It's just a fun card, not my normal style I know but I couldn't resist these guys

I hope your day is a special one too - Thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 299

Good Morning!

I'm hosting the challenge over at City Crafter today and I've chosen the theme

Negativity 

Source

Create a card or project using the negative part of a die

(The part that's left after you cut out the shape)

Here's my card

I did some sponging and stamping on my card base and cut out a butterfly on another piece of card to use the negative

Just to finish it off a little I cut some antennae from a scrap of paper and added some sequins

The BG stamp is by Woodware and the sentiment stamp is from a set by Wplus 9

 Our month long Guest Designer is the lovely Andie Miller ... Hop on over to the blog to see what she's created for us and check out the projects from the rest of our team

The challenge over at AAA Cards at the moment is Sequins

 

So I'd like to enter my card there too ...

Like my sentiment says, I hope you have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~

 

I {Heart} You

Hello there...

Did you have a lovely Valentine's day?

I was quite spoiled with flowers, chocolates a cute teddy bear and even a sweater - I got to his heart

See, 2 days before I took DH for a birthday meal at Viva Brazil in the city ... They have a barbecue of 15 different meats and an amazing hot and cold buffet ... It's all you can eat all night long ... DH was in heaven! And in my case it's true that 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach' hee hee!

I'm sharing the card I made for him for Valentine's - To be honest my inspirations was completely dried up and I resorted to putting together a card using some of the many bits and pieces I had stored

 

Not your regular Valentine I know, but he loved it 

I also did a little book folding having seen the amazing work by a lady called Clara Maffei Here

I loved those animals and here's mine

Kinda cute huh?

 

I'll be back tomorrow for the new challenge at City Crafter ... Have a great day and thanks for looking in

~ Ros ~

 

 

 

Up

Hello and Happy Valentines Day!

It's time for a new word prompt at

Our Beautiful World

This week it's Mandy's choice and the word she chose is Up!

 

Well, I wouldn't like that guy's job for anything... I don't do heights at all and this is what he is Up on

 

This huge bridge goes right across the river in Lisbon and carries vehicles as well as a train line below

I took the photo whilst cruising in the Mediterranean and much as I loved cruising, my nightmare was having to go Up the steps to get on the ship

 

Having a fear of heights is no fun... But my great niece has no fear whatsoever... Since a mere toddler she has climbed Up anything she could - the higher the better

The Liverpool Eye was a doddle to her

Bet she'd love to go Up on this one, built in the side of the cliff at La Coruna

  

Take a peek at what my friend's are sharing Up on the Blog today...

Just as a side note ... I have spent ages trying to upload the photos on my post...Blogger is not co-operating so I had to drag and drop and even then they were not right ... 

Enjoy your Valentine's Day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Birthdays

Hello... Happy Friday!

There are 2 birthdays to celebrate today ... one is my DH and one is my blog friend Greta!

Greta and I have discovered so many things we have in common it's spooky... We've never met and live thousands of miles apart but we have a connection...So.... 

Happy Birthday Greta!! 

Have an amazing day! 

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my husband

 

It's kind of a peaceful scene ... done with some ink blending and stamps

 

I was given some stamps years ago, they're oriental type stamps and I noticed that one of them looked like water so I stamped and embossed it with clear E/B and used a white gel pen to draw under some of the ripples

 

 When it came to cutting the sentiment ... I tried it in white and didn't like it so added a black one, offsetting it a little and I still didn't like it... I ended up covering a piece of CS with glitter tape and cutting out the sentiment again and adding that - again offsetting it... Finally it looked okay to me

I hope you have a lovely day and a great weekend ... Be safe

Till soon

~ Ros ~

 

It's a Squirrel

Good morning!

How's your week going? It's been a busy one here - I caught up with an old friend yesterday, we haven't seen each other in such a long time...We met many years ago dog walking. I had my GSD Holly and Ree had a Dalmatian called Moby... We walked together for years and then within 6 months of each other we sadly lost both our dogs.

It was good to catch up and I hope we will do it more often now.

So... I told you I was playing with water colour last week, well, here's another Thank You card on it's way to a blog friend over in the USA

 

Both the tree and the squirrel are stamps and dies from Stampendous...I only partially die cut the tree so I would have a base to paint

This is like one of our squirrels here in the UK, he just blends in to the trees ... And whilst I don't usually use ribbons, the pretty ribbon bow on here was tied around the gift I received so I put it to good use and it's heading right back to my friend...

I have club night tomorrow and it's a Valentines night so I have 20+ owl treat boxes prepared and 40 cards for them to make... It's taken me a few late nights I can tell you! But I know it will be good fun

Oh, and I made Top Pick over at Make My Monday and a Top Pick at Classy Cards n' Such this week ... doesn't get much better than that!

Well my crafting buddy Pat is due in a few hours so I'd better get on ... Enjoy your day

Take care

~ Ros ~