Sweet Dreams

Hello friends... How's your week going? 

It's been all cats here... Missy got sick and had to see the vet yesterday... She doing better now but the feral tabby cat we feed turned up over the weekend with a very badly infected sore on his face. The vet agreed to see to him if we could get him there at 9am this morning. Well, my son and I did everything we could to get him in the pet carrier but to no avail. Despite being prepared my son was covered in scratches. So we will just have to try again or maybe get a trap from somewhere...

Today's card is another one made from bits and pieces

The background piece was done using the ghosting technique and part of a lovely stencil gifted to me by my dear blog friend Greta. You know when you get something new and you just have to try it out... Then it gets left until inspiration comes...

The die cuts were left overs from Christmas and I cut the stars from a tiny piece of triple embossed card that I kept

I added a few liquid pearls and a computer generated sentiment...

If you were to look out of my window today, it looks like a glorious summer day... The sun is shining but it's cold. Still, only just over a week to go and DH and I will be on a sunny beach in Nerja (fingers crossed), one time we went away in April and it poured with rain the whole time...But I'm staying positive!

I hope you enjoy your day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

CAS Stencil

Good morning... 

The weekend has started well... The wind has dropped and the sun is shining... Couldn't be better.

Today's card is for the CAS Stencil challenge

 

It's been that long since I used any paste 2 of the pots just would not open. Thankfully I had one by Wendy Vecchi that I was able to open and there was still a little paste left.

For the stencil I used a die cut and then tried something I haven't done before, not sure if it would work ... I sprinkled some silver embossing powder from a height whilst holding my stenciled card upright... I wanted to try and get a little silver on there to bring out the silver backing on my leaf, but I didn't want too much.

Then I used a heat gun on the reverse side first and then on the front to melt the embossing powder... Low and behold it worked!

I added a little frame and a stamped clear embossed sentiment to finish... By the way the leaf was one of a bunch I made a while ago.

I hope you have a lovely weekend...

Take care

~ Ros ~

Simple Poppies

Hello from a very wintery UK... 

I don't know what happened to Spring but Winter decided to pay us another visit again... Thankfully we don't have snow here in Liverpool but lots of the country has

Staying warm I made a card for this months challenge at  CAS Watercolour Challenge....

I promise you that these were the easiest poppies to do

I painted a piece of cardstock ... I applied water to a piece of cardstock and splodged several colours of Gansai Tambi paint randomly, allowing them to just flow and then dried it.

Once dry I stamped and embossed lots poppies and fussy cut them. Then I stamped and embossed again onto a small piece of card and layered the fussy cut poppies and buds.

The stamp is an old one by Technique Tuesday and only has 2 poppies on it but I decided to add more - Well, I didn't want to waste them Lol!

When I used to travel to Lincoln to see my aunt I loved seeing the many fields of poppies... I miss that and I miss my aunt....

Oh just realised that this card also fits the bill at Double D Challenge

What a lovely mood board!

I hope you enjoy your day...

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Five Minute Card

Hello... 2 posts in 2 days!

Well actually I saw the challenge at AAA Card Challenge

...And one of the cards I made yesterday literally took minutes as it was made from all leftovers

The background with the pretty painted flowers (Morning Glory?) was a digital I've had for about 10 years... I used to print lots of them for my special needs group to make cards and had some over

The little bunny and the die cut 'trellis' were both in my bits box so all I had to add was an embossed sentiment...Couldn't be quicker

Enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Bonjour

Hello...

Happy April and Happy Spring

Yesterday was Mother's Day here in the UK plus the clocks went forward an hour so Spring is officially here....

I put the sewing machine away today and finally made some cards using die cuts and background pieces I had been holding on to. This card even has a cat image I salvaged from a birthday card I received last January...

He's like my cat snoozing in the garden....You can see the sparkle on the painted BG from this angle

 I'm slowly making a little dent in all the leftover bits... It's like doing a jigsaw putting them together

I'll share some more soon - right now my cats need feeding as does my husband!

Enjoy your day/evening 

~ Ros ~

Birthday Girl

Hi there....Are you well?

I haven't had any inclination to make cards lately, instead I've started sewing again and so far have made 3 tops, 2 pairs of pants, a maxi skirt and a sundress... Can you tell that we're off on holiday soon Lol! 

I took the plunge and booked us a week in Spain right by the beach - I so need a break.

My GP has given me some knock out tablets to take for the flight in the hope I won't struggle with RLS so fingers crossed....

Mojo or not, I had to make a card today... It's a dear friends' birthday this week - A big one, and I was under strict instructions not to put her age on the card Lol!

I pulled out all those left over painted pieces I hoard and stamped embossed and die cut till I got something I was happy with

And made the inside a pop up

...Of dancing butterflies suspended on strips of acetate

It took me hours to make and I can't see my mojo returning anytime soon either.

Ah well... I'll keep on sewing

Have yourselves a lovely evening/day

~ Ros ~