CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello it's me again...

With a card for this months challenge at

 CAS Watercolour

I needed a birthday card for a friend and inspiration was away on holiday but eventually it came together

Using Gansai Tambi paints, I started by painting sparkly white through a piece of card that I'd cut a heart into... Not that you can see that sparkle...

With the heart stencil still in place, I used a fan brush to randomly  make some shapes that sort of remind me of blue wisteria...

Well, I got that far but it needed something else and knowing my friend loves birds as well as her garden, I added a branch, painted some die cut birds and that was that.

It's rained all day again today and it's dull... Like a winters day and we're all getting a little fed up with being couped up - Especially the cats!

Have a lovely weekend and take care

~ Ros ~

 

Red Balloons

Hello there... How are you?

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts following the loss of my friend Jeanie... I cried a million tears at the funeral and a few days later DH and I took a trip to Cornwall to visit our Cornish cousins. It couldn't have been better... The sea, the rugged coastline and the sheer unspoiled beauty of Cornwall together with the love and laughter has helped restore me and I'm feeling good.

We sailed to the Scilly Isles as guests of cousin Peter who is captain of the ship that transports around 490 people plus cargo to the Isles on a daily basis. Many of the passengers took along their dogs... Honestly I have never seen so many dogs together and on a ship!

It's not a cruise ship by any means and boy did I get seasick once we hit the Atlantic. It was all worth it though as St Mary's, where we docked, is beautiful. I don't have any photos to share yet, they're all on my husbands phone but I'll get around to downloading them sometime.

Suffice to say we crammed in a lot in 5 days and had a wonderful time with our family.

 I haven't had any time to craft since I got home but I do have a card to share that I made for a friend who celebrated his birthday at the end of May... His family threw a party for him in the garden - A small affair they said, just a few friends - There were 50 people! And it was freezing Lol!

 The balloons were done using Distress Oxides and the baby wipe technique on glossy photo paper

I know I've said it before but I do love the results you get doing this

I haven't had time to visit your blogs either but hope to rectify that soon and also check out the new challenges I like to play along with...

 

It's good to be back... 

 

Have a wonderful day and if you have any sunshine to spare could you please send it my way?

Till soon

~ Ros ~

A few more leftovers

Hello there...

I'm not sure where the last week went or where May went either...

Thanks so much for your comments and kind wishes on my previous post... Losing my friend hit me very hard and I have the funeral to face tomorrow. Another friend lost her kitty too and, well, it's just been one of those times you know?

Still, life carries on and I've kept busy even though my head has been elsewhere at times like making cards that I forgot to photograph before sending so I can't share... But I do have one that I made awhile ago using up even more leftovers...

 I had a piece of vellum that I stamped and coloured with copics - more as a trial really - but it wasn't big enough to fit my frame in places hence the butterfly in the corner.

I like the bright effect of colouring on vellum and don't do it often enough... Mostly because it's hard to get pure white vellum here. When I did my friends' save the date cards I had terrible trouble getting the same white vellum so I hoard every little piece I have left.

 I've a busy few days ahead and today I'm looking forward to seeing one of the sweet girls I used to teach at Thursday Club... Her lovely mum is bringing her over and it's nice to know they still think of me.

On Saturday we are off to Cornwall for a few days so fingers crossed the weather will buck up for us.

Have a wonderful week... Happy Memorial Day to all my friends across the pond and Happy Bank Holiday to my UK friends.

~ Ros ~

 

Thinking of you....

 Hello...

I've tried to write this post several times and then abandoned it. 

 Over the years my blog has been my diary of sorts... I've shared cards and handmade items, holidays and photos. Many fun times and some not so fun... 

Today I have a card to share that was probably the hardest one I've had to make yet... Not because it was a difficult technique or anything like that, but simply because it is one I never envisaged having to make... 

You see last week I got a call to say my friend Jeanie had passed away suddenly... Only a few weeks before I posted a photo of us together having met up by chance in Spain... I said it was one of the best things that happened and it was. I couldn't have known it was going to be the last time we would be together and laugh like crazy school girls as we always did when we were together...

My heart is broken, the loss is overwhelming but I do know that somewhere in heaven there's a party going on...

~ Ros ~

CAS Stencil Challenge

Hello...

 

What a beautiful day it is here... Sunshine and blue skies

Hubby is golfing and I'm doing housework.. As if!

I got around to finishing a card for the CAS Stencil Challenge

I had a leftover piece from a card I made Here 

A distress inked background, splattered with water then stenciled over using translucent paste... I didn't want to waste that piece but I wanted it to look different from the original so I inked over the dry stenciling with Blueprint Sketch distress ink and this completely changed it.

 

 

I love the result, the way the colours altered... Much more vibrant than the original

 

 

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the dragonfly and adhered it to the die cut reeds and there we are done!

Just before I go, my blog friend Sue Lelli asked me to share a photo of my Lilac in bloom so here it is

Have a great day and I'll catch up with you soon

 

~ Ros ~

 

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hi there... How's it going? 

Still raining here and no improvement in the temperatures either.

 

We're off to a funeral later so I have a little time to post my card for 

The CAS Watercolour Challenge

 

Here's what I did

A Polar bear you say... Well, I do have teddy bear stamp but I just had this image of a happy Polar bear with magical snow...Kind of like Unicorn colours

 

 

Everything was painted with distress inks and I added glitter to the magical snow... 

I've been watching every episode of 'Earth from Space'  It's amazing! You need to see it... So much of the natural world is at risk and who would have thought that satellites can help

 

 

So a happy Polar bear it is...

 

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by

 

~ Ros ~