CAS Watercolour Challenge March

Hello and welcome...

I'm thrilled to be guesting over at the CAS Watercolour Challenge this month where the challenge this time is to watercolour on vellum

Up on the blog there are some video links to help and inspire you along with wonderful cards created by the team.

Here's what I did

I stamped and heat embossed my leaves first and then used distress inks to paint them and even added some splatters
It's not as difficult as you may think, in fact I found it very therapeutic to do. Yes, the vellum can curl when it gets wet but you can use this to your advantage

... Like I did here - I stamped, painted and fussy cut one leaf and I love the curl on this and the clean fresh look that the vellum offers.

 
I hope you'll take a minute to check out the cards from the team and maybe give this a go 

Thanks so much to the team for having me this month and thanks to you for popping in

Enjoy your day!

~ Ros ~

Welcome Spring

Happy March 

and 

Happy St David's Day 

A leek is the traditional emblem for St David's Day celebrated by the Welsh, but more often than not many people recognise the daffodil - I have no Welsh ancestry but I did make a card...

 

... from some of my scraps. I love putting little bits together - all I had to make for this was the pot

 

 

And I stamped and embossed the sentiment....

We've enjoyed a few really warm days this past week... So unusual for this time of year but very welcome. Ginger cat thought summer had arrived but it's raining today and he's so disappointed...

I hope you are enjoying your day... The weekend will soon be here

Take care

~ Ros ~

 

Another Project

Hello and welcome... 

It's a very misty Sunday here but hopefully the sun will break through later

 

 

I've been a bad blogger... It's been a week since I last checked in. All is well, it's just other things keeping me busy - My head seems to be full of things that I want to do and not enough time...sigh. 

I do have something to share with you though ... Another personalized frame project that I made for a dear friend of mine

who lives in ' The Cottage' and yep, the family have a little schnauzer called Stanley. She's also a Christian so I know she will like the quote

 

 

It's a 7x5 frame and I amongst the bits and pieces I used to create this was a rose Rub-On, remember them? It had lost most of it's stickiness so I ran a glue roller over it and it worked a treat. I had some fake grass courtesy of AliExpress and the little bucket came from the works.

 

I'm off to visit some friends later... It's their 51st wedding anniversary!  I've still to wrap the gift yet and I want to visit your blogs so I'll get on...

Have a wonderful day and I'll be back soon (hopefully).

~ Ros ~

 

 

Life's A Beach

Hello and good morning lovely people!

Thanks so much for your kind wishes both for my DH and our family and friends...

Things are improving all round... Now all we need is some lovely Spring weather Lol!

 I haven't done a great deal of crafting but I have a little light up project to share with you today

 I made a little beach house with a battery operated tealight inside - The house is made from card and I added hessian to the roof and a few die cuts plus a door made from lolly sticks, painted with a tiny link glued on for the handle

The base it sits on measure just 4x4¾ so it's quite small and I used fine (used) glass paper to cover it

The die cut anchor was covered and embossed a few times to get a rusty looking effect and I added a piece of broken chain - You can also see a flap at the back of the house to insert or change the candle

Here it is lit... The windows are on 3 sides, lined with vellum that I drew a few lines on

A few bits and pieces to decorate and that's it... Cute huh?

Ok... I'm off to catch up with your blogs now...

Wishing you all a lovely day

~ Ros ~

 

Birthday Boy

Hello everyone...

Happy Valentine's Day!!

What a hectic time we're having here...It was DH's 75th Birthday on Tuesday  (Heck I can't believe my hubby is 75!)

On the same day his best friend was rushed into hospital, then my brother took ill. Just to make matters worse hubby's doctor asked to see him as he thinks he may have something called MGUS... No, I'd never heard of it either - It's to do with his blood but it will be awhile before we get to know as the NHS is in dire straights here so appointments are few and far between....

Lots of other not so good things also happened but somehow we still managed to celebrate DH's birthday after I convinced him that no one was going to die. He's very much a panicker.

Anyway I thought I'd share a card I made for hubby together with an exploding box

Quite a simple card really... But I was all out of inspiration

Here's the little box I put together

... With one floppy balloon that refuses to stand up Lol!

At least the cake looks good! Except it's a fake cake haha! Hubby is not much of a cake eater - He prefers pastries and pies 

We've no plans for today and I'm hoping things settle down, I could do with a peaceful day...

I hope yours is peaceful too filled with love 

~ Ros ~

CAS Stencil Challenge

Hello there...

The  CAS Stencil Challenge for February is to use powdered inks...

Sometime ago I was given a few Brushos and when I tried them I made such a horrible mess that I never bothered again... Well this time I watched the videos and gave it another try - I can't say that I had a great success - I definitely need more practice

Anyway, I did make a card... using a circle stencil from Memory Box and the negative or second part where you lay the wet stencil onto another piece of card and here's the result using 2 shades of green powders

It made me think of bubbles in water so for fun I die cut a seahorse using thick acetate... 

The die left everything intact and just created an imprint which I cut around... and believe me at this time of year the sea and the beach are never more than a thought away...

At least the sun is shining right now...

Have a lovely Sunday

~ Ros ~