CAS Watercolour Challenge

Happy Sunday peoples...

I hope you are well and I sincerely hope my friends in California are safe following the earthquakes...

Today I have a card to share for the new challenge at CAS Watercolour

where they are also celebrating Darnell's birthday

Happy Birthday lovely lady!

Here's my card...

I stamped and embossed an old but favourite stamp of mine by Clearly Besotted onto ordinary cardstock... I use card I get from Ebay, it's quite heavy and a nice bright white and I've been using this for years.

Then I got out the Gansai Tambi paints and only used 2 colours to achieve the look I was going for

Before I finish I ought to clarify what I mentioned in my last post re the Apple Store... I realise that I confused some of you when I said raided... It was raided by a mob of thieves who managed to make off with some 36 iPhones and a Laptop all at 9.45 in the morning.

Okay that's me for today ... Have a good one 

~ Ros ~

New Home

Hello there...

I hope all my friends over in the USA enjoyed your 4th July celebrations... Now it's almost the weekend.

It's been another busy week in our household, one that included a trip to the Apple store in Liverpool One. I rarely go into the city but DH's iPad was dying so we made an appointment and off we went. What a beautiful day it turned out to be... The sun was shining and honestly you could have been in any city in the world... Sitting out taking coffee and in beautiful surroundings. For those of you who don't know what Liverpool One is... It's a redeveloped area of the city close to the river that has all the fancy designer shops as well as restaurants, coffee shops, book shops, a cinema and much more.

I said it had been awhile since we were there and the Apple store had moved into a larger premises... Very modern and full of people but we were looked after and came out with a new iPad for DH. 

That was wednesday, so imagine my shock when I saw that yesterday (Thursday)  the store was raided whilst all the shoppers were there. Yikes!

I have another card to share using a stencil... I've a passion for them lately, and this is for a blog friend who moved house ... a little late but it will still be a surprise I think.

I hadn't used that stencil before and the bird house die had been long forgotten

I also have to mention my visit to the dentist... It was amazing! My filling was fixed in 20 minutes with no needles no drilling AND the dentist I saw was a young (very) handsome Spanish guy... Total cost £22...What's not to like? Lol!

If only it could be like that all the time.

Have yourselves a wonderful day... I hope the sun is shining where you are, it certainly is here...

Till soon, be safe

~ Ros ~

Birthday Girl

Hello and welcome to July! I hope your week has started well?

Saturday was a scorcher here in the UK so we decided to drive over to Salford Quays to the indoor shopping mall. Hubby wanted to go to Marks & Spencer outlet. Outside the mall was a wonderful Artisan market, heaving with people, but it was just too hot for me so I didn't get to see much at all before I dived back into the cool of the mall...

The heat didn't last, now we are back to cool weather and it's very, very windy.

I have another stencilled card to share with you today... Just a simple one for a friend's birthday

Whilst the stencil was still in place I splattered a little gold paint over just to add some sparkle

My shoulder is still bothering me and I have another treatment this week as well as a dentist appointment... You all know how much I detest going to the dentist... can't wait to get that over with I can tell you.

Have a beautiful day and I hope to catch up with you very soon...

~ Ros ~ 

Stamps and Stencils

Hello there

I hope you are having a good week...  

I had a play yesterday with stencils and stamps... Honestly I am struggling to get back into card making but I'm running short of cards as there's been a lot of birthdays this month 

Here's a couple that I did yesterday

 

 I did some stenciling and stamped over it then used some edge dies to give it this shape

And ribbon... Yep, I still have rather a lot of it even though you hardly ever see me use it now

The second card is a little busy but I kinda like it

I've never used that stencil before... it was given to me a long while back. That's an old stamp and it looks a little like fireworks don't you think... Not that I was going for that at the time

I've had a few sessions at the Chiropractor lately to help my neck and shoulders, so, much as I'd like to, I can't sit for too long at the computer and it isn't exactly sunbathing weather here... Maybe I'll find my mojo and get some more cards done.

Have yourselves a great day

~ Ros ~

Not So Perfect Pearls

Well hello... Bet you thought I'd left blogland

I have no idea where the time has gone, but trust me this week has just been filled with appointments of one sort or another including a visit to a rescue centre to get another kitty for my friend.

June has been a whirlwind with today being the only sunny day we've had and instead of taking full advantage I had a lunch meeting with my friends and then decided to try and make a card for the 

CAS Stencil Challenge

Perfect Pearls... Or in my case, not so perfect...  

I knew that somewhere in this craft room of mine that also includes all my sewing stuff and just about anything and everything, I did have a pot of Perfect Pearls. Lord knows how long ago I got them or indeed when I ever used them, but eventually I found a small pot of silvery pearls. 

Well this is going to be my first and last card using the stuff I can promise you that...We just don't get on together and the cat jumping on the desk did not help. After several attempts on various backgrounds I went with black cardstock

Hardly visible huh? It is there and it took  forever to get a decent photo ... This one is probably better

I tried at least, but I did struggle to clean off the excess without rubbing out the stenciling. My cat has a lovely sheen though as does everything else in here

I'm now going to cook dinner and have a very large G&T....

Till next time ... 

~ Ros ~

 

Rain Rain Go Away

Hi there...

We are drowning in rain here and there is no sign of it letting up in the next few days either. I ventured out but only for the follow up appointment on my spine... Thankfully it's all fused together now and I only have one appointment to go before I'm signed off altogether. I can't believe it's been 18 months already.

I got to make a card today ... This one is for the

CAS Mix -Up Challenge

It's awhile since I did anything Ombre and though I do have ombre ink pads... I like to use ink blending

The inks I used were Squeezed lemonade, Dried Marigold and Spiced Marmalade and I did a little splattering of water.

There's is a mix of stamps here too and all have been heat embossed.

 

 I used a tiny piece of vellum to stamp the bees wings and stuck them onto the original stamping and also added white gel pen to the petals

 

 

I need to sign off now to see to the dinner so I'll wish you a lovely day/ evening

Take care

 ~Ros ~