Watercolour

Hello friends... I hope your weekend is off to a good start

I have two more cards to share which I made using the watercolour pieces I did the other day

The first one features a new stamp that was gifted to me

 

And for the second one, a new die that I've had for awhile but hadn't used

Two quick and easy cards and fun to make...

 

Have a great weekend and I hope to catch up with you soon

 

~ Ros ~

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello!

I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing this month at the

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Who just happened to be celebrating their 3rd Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I am not a watercolour artist by any means but entering here has shown me so many ways to use my paints in the simplest of ways...

This months challenge is to use a Maple Leaf

Here's my card

It's a simple one layer card using an old (but favourite) Kaisercraft french postal stamp which I masked off either side before stamping and then added touches of gold leafing here and there

I wanted the maple leaf to be the rich red of Autumn and I achieved that by

painting layers of red, orange and yellow (using Gansai Tambi paint) on a piece of white card till I got a really good depth of colour. I dried in between a few times with a heat gun and then die cut the leaf.

I also added touches of gold leafing and a few drops of Mod Podge dimensional to the leaf.

 To compliment the gold leafing I stamped and gold embossed my sentiment.

The team would love you to join in with their birthday celebrations this month and if you are looking for inspiration, do pay a visit to the blog...

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

CAS Mix Up Challenge

Hello there and Welcome to October!

I am delighted to tell you that I have joined the team at

CAS Mix Up Challenge!!

So I'm going to get right on with it - This month's challenge is Foiling

I may well be the only person who hadn't actually done any foiling and I don't have a fancy foiling machine either Lol! But if you check out the videos you'll see that there are there ways of achieving foiling on your cards using double sided adhesive tape which is what I used here for the stars.

I started with a tiny left over scrap of an alcohol ink piece that I'd added some gold leafing to and layered it onto a die cut rectangle...Before attaching the rectangle to my card I tucked in a spare die cut leaf.

Then came the stars... I took scrap of white cs and added a piece of double sided tape to both sides of the card, die cut the stars leaving the tape backing in place and then removed one side of the backing to glue the stars onto my card. Then I peeled off the top part of the tape and rubbed the foil onto each one. Oh my goodness what a pretty effect it gives and I will definitely be using this technique more. 

I finished my card with a stamped and gold embossed sentiment.

The challenge is open for a month so I do hope you will join us.

Have a lovely day and thanks so much for your visit.

~ Ros ~

Watercolour Therapy

Hello...

I had one of those days this week, started off okay but gradually I could feel my stress levels rising...

So I pulled out my watercolours. Touching a colour loaded brush onto the wet paper is mesmerising and very therapeutic.

I'm no artist but a mish mash of colour always finds a home on my cards 

 

 

I got 5 done including these 3 

No sentiments but I'll probably send them as Christmas/Holiday cards 

That's a new die and I really like how easy it is to make up a quick card...

...With your own artistic touch

Needless to say by the end of the day I was feeling much calmer

It's still raining here (heavily), the days are getting shorter but funnily enough the trees are still very green in my neck of the woods and flowers are still blooming... 

I've a quiet afternoon planned whilst DH is off to enjoy the match. Whatever you have planned I hope you enjoy...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

 

One Man and His Dog...

Hello... Bet you thought I'd left the planet

Well, given the political situation here that might not have been a bad idea Lol!

Actually other than life getting in the way I needed to have my computer updated and it took a few days.. I hadn't noticed my back-up system no longer worked for the version I was running so nothing had been backed up since last October. Thankfully I have Mikey... who not only rescues mice, but can sort my computer problems too.

I've had a few new dies sitting on my desk for awhile and seeing as how the computer is now up and running and it's raining outside, my cats and I decided to make something. Turned out to be a pop-up card.

 

I thought it would be an ideal birthday card for my brother Rick  who has a beautiful Italian Spinone called Rollo...

The new die is the man and his dog which I got from AliExpress. It's one of those reflection dies so had a man and a dog below the top ones but I kinda liked it without. The reeds die (also from A/E) I already had and I've used many times.

I used distress inks for the background , some splashes of water and a little bit of glitter for stars.

I hope your week is going well... I'm off to see what I've missed on your blogs.

Thanks so much for stopping by

Till next time

~ Ros ~

Watercolour Challenge

Good morning all...

We have another lovely sunny day here - 

I've been looking at some video clips from S.E Spain where friends of mine are visiting and the flooding is awful! My heart goes out to all the people affected.

Today I have a card for the CAS Watercolour Challenge

 I was thrilled to get a top pick there last month, thank you ladies!

If you visit the blog there is a colour wheel to show you the opposites, my choice was red violet/ yellow green

I die cut the criss cross (AliExpress) and then cut out a centre from it to make a frame for the flowers (Clearly Besotted) which were painted using zigs.

The card is for a friend who has been going through a rough time... Just to let her know I'm thinking of her.

Did I tell you that my cat Missy brought me a teeny tiny mouse again the other day? Honestly it was only about an inch big. I thought it would probably die of shock but you know that boy of mine Mikey... He spent hours with it and the little guy was fine! He just did not want to go - every time he put it in the bushes it came right back to him. Eventually we managed to get it to safety. 

Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks for looking in on me

~ Ros ~