Our Beautiful World

Happy Sunday friends

Mandy has chosen the new prompt at Our Beautiful World and it's 

Worn 

You can interpret the word anyway you want and I have a few photos that fit the prompt

 

Rock worn away by the sea constantly thrashing against it to leave amazing patterns and texture

Constantly changing over centuries and sometimes leaving shapes that look like animals or reptiles

Then there are things deliberately made to look worn 

Little vintage looking items as though worn by time...

And what about these....

Worn for Halloween when you choose to be a pumpkin

Or worn to the football Match

Worn to golf

Or maybe just plain worn out

Hop on over to the Blog to see what everyone else is sharing this week and check out the upcoming prompts too

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

 

 

Winter Wonderland 2

Hi there... I hope you are staying warm

It's really cold here Brrr!

Here is another of my Winter Wonderland cards which perfectly fits the bill at

Inkspirational Challenges

where the prompt is

 Chill

 Again a watercolour BG and double stamped trees ... this stamp was an unmounted one from Ebay and I really like it, but then I love all types of tree stamps

I always use either acrylic paint or Mr Huey's for the splashes of white ... They sit better on the watercolour. For the snow I used embossing paste and glitter

Wishing you a cosy day

~ Ros ~

Watercolour Challenge

Hello there...

I was going to share another Winter Wonderland card today but instead I have a card I've made for the

 November CAS Watercolour Challenge

The time is flying by and if I don't do it now I'll probably forget so here's what I came up with

I guess you're thinking "What? A beach scene in November?" The thing is, whilst I was looking through my stamps for anything with text... This one just happened to fall out and land on my desk, so I thought, go with it...

I only used part of the text and it's Inkylicious stamp that I really love. I used Gansai Tambi paints on ordinary CS and then some white acrylic to get the 'sea foam'

Our weather here today is far from beach weather, we've had everything from thunder and hailstones to bright sunshine...

I hope your enjoying your day ...

Till soon - be safe

~ Ros ~

Winter Wonderland

Good Morning!

I'm so glad it's Thursday... I had to have a colonoscopy yesterday and anyone who has gone through that or any of you nursing staff out there will know that there is a 2 day prep for this ... The first day I could only eat certain foods, the 2nd day no solid food at all and I had to drink 2 litres of cleansing fluid plus 2 more litres of clear fluid. My procedure was not until yesterday afternoon and I was so hungry but thankfully all was well...Yay! 
I was so glad to be able to have my first cup of tea later that afternoon...

Not being able to go anywhere on Tuesday I stayed in my room and got out my watercolours and some stamps and made a few Winter Wonderland cards... Here's one

I used Gansai Tambi paints and stamped the trees whilst the card was damp using PTI Ripe Advocado ink

You can see I used Versamark and white E/P over the tress but only in certain areas. The stamp I used was a freebie from a magazine last year and it's a solid stamp so I didn't ink all of the stamp to emboss so I could still get some of the Ripe Advocado bleeding through

Once again I used ordinary CS ... This is my personal preferred method and it's more forgiving than watercolour paper... you can go back and add as long as you don't wet it too much. The colours are brighter too.

This is a second entry at Try It On Tuesday

I'll share some more of my watercolour Winter Wonderland cards with you in the next few days ... I hope you don't get bored of them

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by my blog

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 338

Hello!

Tuesday is upon us once again and it's time for a new challenge over at City Crafter

This week the lovely Stella has chosen our challenge and the theme is 

Beach Colours For Christmas

Source

 I decided to make a bunch of my Christmas cards with paints and inks this year ... They come together so quickly and I really like making them. This time I smooshed distress stains onto CS and I blew across to get the streaks before splattering with Mr Huey's Calico mist. 

I did two of them in similar colours ... This is the other one

I added a Tim Holtz tree cut in glitter foam and left the centre piece in, funnily enough my DH loves these cards and usually he doesn't say much at all

We have Danielle  Guest Designing with us again this week having also won our challenge in Week 332, please go visit the City Crafter Blog to see what Danielle and the rest of our team have to inspire you.

Thanks so much for your visit, have a great day

~ Ros ~

Strange

Good morning ...

I've picked the prompt today at  Our Beautiful World

The word is Strange

I'm really interested to see what you come up with... Here are a few things I found strange

Ok, so you may have encounter one of these ... A Praying Mantis. I had not! In fact I thought it was a leaf, those wings really look like the leaves that surrounded the wall (well, that's the point I guess) and that little guy obliged when I took his photo - See him looking straight at me and smiling?

 DH told me he was dangerous and could sting me badly ... Of course DH was wrong and this strange little creature was not the least camera shy, he even did a little dance for me

Now you may wonder what is strange about this structure

Well I'm not quite sure what it is... A boat house? Somewhere to store fishing nets? That's what I thought, given that it was in a fishing port. What I found strange was the size of the green door and those little steps... You can see people in the photo - They certainly wouldn't fit through that door. So "who lives in house like this" Haha!

Nature creates strange sights and many wonders  ... I love to see the world 'wake up' the older you get the more you appreciate every new day that dawns.. When we are abroad I love to rise early and in particular take in the open sea...It's so peaceful and calming with just the odd fishing boat returning laden with the night's catch or a cruise ship sailing silently on the horizon. This last holiday the sun rose to my left and the view to my right was the blue sea

So how strange that one particular morning everything that should have been blue was bathed in a peachy pink glow

I grabbed my camera as I'd never see a sea so pretty

Strange but beautiful ...

Click on the link to go visit  Our Beautiful World  blog and see what everyone else is sharing this week

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~