City Crafter 358

Hello and good morning!

I'm in Lincoln for a few days, spending time with my Aunt so this is pre-scheduled please note that I will announce the winner of my prize for last week's City Crafter Challenge at the end of the week...

Still in the midst of our 7th year celebrations at City Crafter with

CASE Me If You Can

 The lovely Stella has given us this card to CASE

Here's my take ...

I made this as a get well card for one of my hubby's friends and my elements are on the bottom right rather than the top as on Stella's card

I've also taken the cloud element from Stella's card but added raindrops instead of polka dots

Of course you can use any of the elements or the design to make it your own version... 

Head on over to the blog to see what the team have created and for details of how to win this prize from Stella too!

Have fun!

~ Ros ~

Happy Easter

Hello there...

I'm just popping in to wish you all a very 

Happy Easter

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I'm off to stay with my Aunt for a while so I'll catch up with you when I can...

Be blessed, be happy and don't eat too much chocolate!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 357

Hello lovely people...

We're still celebrating City Crafter's 7 year anniversary with 

CASE me if you Can

This week it's my turn to offer you a card to CASE and here it is

You can use the design, or any of the elements to make it your own - The team have all CASEd this - go visit the blog to take a peek...

I also CASEd it myself and here's my second card

It's totally different but it still has the design, some ink blending, a gate instead of the music note and a dog in place of the cat

You probably can tell from the photo but the wellingtons are really glossy and there are puddles of rain around them and the pup ... It reminds me of when I went walking with my dogs.

I am also offering this prize for one lucky person check out the details on the City Crafter Blog 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with

I'm going to enter both my cards at Happy Little Stampers

Thanks so much for your visit and enjoy your day!

~ Ros ~

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello there...

Since I did club night last Thursday and prepared all those projects, I haven't had much inclination to create at all... Sometimes I think I just get burnt out 

This afternoon I forced myself to create something... I wanted to make a card for the current challenge at CAS Watercolour

I love green and use it a lot, but pink? Mmm... I'm more blues and greens and being creatively challenged this week hasn't helped. But finally I have something to share

I think that paint pattern shows where my creative head is ... all over the place ha!

As always I used ordinary card stock and Gansai Tambi paints. You could be forgiven for thinking that the white dots are splattered white paint but actually I spattered some Goosebumps before painting...

...I was curious to see what would happen as I've only ever used it when ink blending and then I stamped with it. It's just been sitting in my cupboard and the spray was blocked so I spattered instead.

Well it's a start and thank goodness I work ahead with DT stuff or I would really be panicking!

I hope you're having a good start to the week... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Double D Challenge

Well hello again...

I'm back today with my DT project for the new Double D Challenge hosted by team Diane

This fortnight's challenge is 

Neon Brights

Hop on over to the blog to see what the teams have to inspire you and the lovely prize on offer...

Neons are not really colours I reach for but I found this surprisingly easy

I cut a stencil with my balloon dies and pulled out all my bright distress inks to create a quick and simple card

I used a black sharpie pen to add strings to the balloons and a white gel pen for a little dimension.

The sentiment was die cut in black card and covered in glossy accents...

I'm also entering this at Happy Little Stampers April Challenge

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Celebrations!!

Hello and good morning!

It's April and this month City Crafter Challenge is celebrating 7 years of success!

Happy Birthday City Crafter

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I started blogging 7 years ago (yesterday) and 6 months later Kirsty invited me to join the City Crafter Team and what a pleasure it has been, not only to be on the team but to have made so many dear friends...

For the next 4 weeks we will be celebrating at City Crafter with prizes donated by the whole team.

Each week one of the team will have a card for you to CASE... Kirsty is kicking off the celebrations and here is her card

CASE this card

Here's what I came up with

Totally different but still the same design - I stencilled my BG and used silver thread to emulate Kirsty's scribble die cut

I used just dots of Glossy Accents to represent Kirsty's enamel dots - I have to say my sentiment was hard to capture in the photo but it is there, in silver embossing

The team have also CASEd this card ... Head on over to the blog to take a look

This is the amazing prize being offered by Kirsty to the winner of this challenge

 To be in with a chance to win there are a few rules we'd like you to take note of

1. You need to enter the challenge

2. Leave a comment on the City Crafter Blog

3. Leave a comment on Kirsty's blog

We're looking forward to having you come to our party!

Have fun!

~ Ros ~