Mermaid Wishes

Good morning lovely people...

Did you have a good weekend? It was a little manic here - Ginger boy got sick with a water infection and it meant a trip to the vet. I hate to have to take him, he gets so stressed. Poor boy underwent a very embarrassing examination and the indignation of being weighed! He was not very happy I can tell you. Other than a shot for the pain, the vet couldn't give any meds until I get a 'sample' to them to test.  It's not been an easy job I tell 'ya! But I succeeded and we have to wait now to see what they say.

I hate it when the animals are sick, it's such a worry...

So Thursday Club finishes this week with their usual disco... And I've promised myself to get ahead with some projects for next term, one of which is a mermaid card. I've painted and sprayed cardstock to use and decided to made a little card from some off cuts

Pat gave me the die for the mermaid and I used Avery Elle coral dies as well

I cut that oval shape simply because the centre piece of the card was used for something else and I didn't want to waste what was left...

...Then filled the space with Nuvo drops

We're heading off to the Netherlands at the end of the week and I only hope Ginger is better by then. Thankfully Mikey will be here with him and I know he will be in good hands and spoilt rotten!

Wishing you all lovely day

~ Ros ~

Birthday Gull

Hello...

I've a few "birthday boys" to make cards for in the next few weeks...
They're always a bit of a challenge don't you think? So I decided to make a few cards with the one design using the MFT Seaside Gulls set again...

I didn't have a stamp of the posts and I was going to draw them but I came across a free digi here which I altered slightly (added some lines and took out the bird) before sizing and printing then I coloured it with Copics

I then masked off the posts to do a little blending before adding the seagull - To finish off I stamped some birds from an old Wplus 9 set and computer generated the front sentiment

Inside it has the sentiment that came with the gull set 
"I want you to be as happy as a seagull with a chip"

At least I have a few spare in case an unexpected birthday comes along... 

It's a glorious day here, I have grocery shopping to do and club night tonight so I'll bid you farewell and hope you have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello...

It's a very dull and wet day here, I've even had to put the lights on ... What's that all about? It's July for heaven's sake!

I've been enjoying some free time with my watercolours and I've made a few cards (as well as a lot of mess haha!)

 Today I'm sharing a quick card that I made for this month's challenge over at 

CAS Watercolour

Please excuse the photos - It's difficult to get a decent shot when it's so dull

It's quite a simple card, watercolours on white cardstock, splattered with gold paint and cut on my Cameo

The sentiment was computer generated

I trust you are enjoying your week... Thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Just Us Girls

Hello...

I hope your weekend went well... 

Today I'm sharing a card that I made over a week ago to send to a sweet blog friend and it just so happens to fit this week's challenge at

Just Us Girls 

Unfortunately you really don't get to see a lot of the blending given that I added vellum over the top ... 

I used a stripe stencil and tilted it to get the first set of diagonal lines and then tilted it the other way to get the criss- cross effect - Two inks were used, Citron distress ink and Broken China oxide ink

I also used the same inks to blend onto the leaves and the flowers were coloured with copics

So yesterday we drove over to Derbyshire yesterday to visit hubby's granddaughter Felicity - The traffic was manic and it took us 3 hours to get there due to all the road works and congestion...Normally it only take about half that time.

I took the little crochet cat lovey I made for her 

Suffice to say she loved it!

And it was well worth the journey to see that little cutie!

Well, I hope you all have a lovely day

Take care

~ Ros ~

Cats & Critters

Hello...

Cats & Critters?  Well here we go...

First off here's my my latest crochet creation (I'm really enjoying this new hobby) A lovey I made for my hubbies little Granddaughter Felicity

It's supposed to be a cat - I'm told she loves cats and I'm pretty pleased with this attempt

I hope she likes it too

Still on the subject of cats, a few months ago another one turned up here and refuses to leave.

She has now taken over Tabby's home...

Trouble is, she fights with all the visitors and terrorises Missy... although she is extremely friendly with us. I'm waiting for someone to come and scan her for a chip, but I have a feeling she may belong to one of the neighbours and if that is the case, I doubt we can deter her. Now, anyone that has cats knows that not feeding them doesn't mean they will go away... This one will just find a way into the house for food, and when she first came she was starving...

Critters?

Well, Monday a baby hedgehog decided to visit too... In the middle of the afternoon if you please! Sure enough the new cat chased after it and trapped it, thank goodness we saw it

Mikey got the cat whilst I got the hedgehog and put it safely back into the wooded area behind our home

I tell 'ya, it's all go here and the very same evening would you believe we had a visit from a fox! God only knows how that managed to get into the garden!

Who ever said retirement was easy, doesn't live here! Lol!

And I'm working tonight with my group so it's going to be a long day!

I hope you all have a good one

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 369

Good morning!

Well, it's Tuesday and that means a new challenge starts at City Crafter but just before we get on to that, let me say to all my friends in the USA

Happy Independence Day!!!

I hope you have a terrific day!

Back to City Crafter where this week we have Stella hosting for us. 

The challenge is to use only Black and White (and maybe a touch of grey) on your projects

Here's my card

A little ink blending to get that grey BG and some die cuts

The sentiment is from a very old stamp set by Waltzingmouse...

These days I'm more into colourful creations so this was a bit of a challenge for me Lol!

But I'm sure you can rock this challenge so link up this week at City Crafter!

Sadly this is my final post as a DT member for City Crafter ... I decided to step down and give myself more time to do what I like... I've LOVED being on this team and I'm so blessed to have been selected by Kirsty... Not only has she become a dear friend to me, but so have many of you, so you will still be seeing me around and I'll still be following you all.

Till soon

~ Ros ~