Christmas Cards

I know! Don't faint, but I've actually made a start on Christmas cards..

Hello, from a very wet Liverpool. 

It's been a wet and windy few days and not really good for trying to take photos of cards but I've 

done my best

 

These were pretty quick to make which is how I like things. Stenciled backgrounds varying the colours 

the trees die cut and embossed, the sentiment embossed. I like to mix powders to give different looks and the trees were done using a mix of silver, gold and a sparkly one called 'under the sea'.

 

 

depending on the light, they twinkle different colours

 

The stencil is one by Nellies Choice and was on sale at Crafts4Less. 

It's an A6 stencil so I just used part of it.

I even made some postbox cards

These are very sparkly though it's difficult to capture that. The postbox was a digital one 

that I altered to make it look more "British'

 

Before I leave you to enjoy your weekend I just wanted to share a photo of my Gingerboy, I bought him a new cat chair/bed which he absolutely loves! Turned out he's far too big and far too heavy for it so he tipped out a couple of times  - The second time the chair landed on top of him and he looked like a turtle which made me laugh, though he was not happy. Now I've used my dumbbells to secure it for the time being.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for your visit

Till soon

~Ros ~

 

Tone on Tone

 Hello friends...

It's been a while since my last post - A week ago I had the flu jab and woke up the next day feeling dreadful. It lasted quite a few days but I'm fine now. My husband didn't have any problems after his jab but I know of a few people who were so bad they were given Covid tests. Thankfully I didn't have any Covid symptoms which is great considering we have been classed as a high risk area now...

I had intended to post this a little earlier but it's just been one of those days,

 the printer kept chewing up paper, my camera didn't want to cooperate and worst of all - I realised (too late) that I hadn't put the slow roast in the oven.. Hey ho

 

I needed a thank you card this week so to kick start me

 I turned to the new challenge at

CAS Mix Up

Here's my take on Viv's Tone on Tone challenge

I only used one distress ink - Iced Spruce which I blended lightly through a die cut triangle 

and then used a stencil by Dutch Doobadoo over the top

The sentiment and the leaves were stamped with Versafine ink and embossed 

with clear embossing powder.

Thanks so much for your visit - Be safe

~ Ros ~

 

Lanterns

 Hello there friends, I hope this finds you well...

Autumn is creeping in and just like the little hedgehogs, I'm feeling the need to hibernate. I actually got to go to my exercise class this past week - They had closed during the lockdown and on Monday they were allowed to open once again with strict Covid precautions in place. OMG I am still aching...I'm not sure what scares me the most, the pandemic or an hour of class, my co-ordination is totally shot!

I have a couple of cards to share, more of the oriental type

There's the little hedgehog on his way to hibernation... I painted the tree and the lanterns, used distress inks for the mountains and drew a few birds and stones for the ground

This one uses up a circle die I had spare

I don't know why I chose to do lanterns, sometimes things just come into my head

I must confess that these past few days nothing has come into my head... I came across some digital jigsaws whilst on Pinterest and suddenly I was hooked. Oh well... 

I'm off to get lunch now so I'll wish you all a lovely weekend

Stay safe

~ Ros ~

CAS Mix Up

 Hello... 

I know I only posted yesterday but an idea for a card suddenly came into my head and I just had to go with it. We'd been out this afternoon to collect a few things and I was just relaxing when boom inspiration hit. Of course things were delayed a little when I realised I hadn't fed the cats and I also had to prep tonight's dinner... But a card... For the CAS Mix Up Challenge

See, I still had the stencil out and the stamps (Lavinia) so all I had to do was find the umbrella dies

Which I embossed into the card, and then stenciled over. I only used two colours of Distress inks, Walnut Stain and Iced Spruce. I really am liking the earthy tones

Okay that's me done... 

Have a beautiful day/evening

Till soon

~ Ros ~

 

Stencil and Sketching

Good morning my friends...

Well, we are more than halfway through September... The leaves are starting to fall and the darn squirrels have strewn acorns all over the garden.

I'm still trying to get some ideas for Christmas cards but it's just not happening. I'm probably the only one who is not a fan of Christmas. I like things simple and everything now is so commercialized. Give me an old fashioned Christmas when the smallest of gifts was a genuine kindness,  families enjoyed each other and whether they were religious or not, the meaning was never forgotten...

So, no Christmas cards to share but I do have a couple of cards using a Lavinia stencil and my own sketched flowers

It is so much easier to draw around paints than just sketch but I had a go

The mushrooms are also a Lavinia stamp which was on my desk so why not. Looking at this now I am thinking that maybe I could even try sketching into those pebble shapes. I might give that a go...

Both cards are similar but I think I prefer this one

What about you?

One thing I'll always love are my distress inks and stencils, how they can totally transform a plain piece of card into something pretty with very little effort.

I hope you are all well and safe, though I know some of you are struggling with  forest fires and have to stay indoors... What a year this has been

I hope these have brightened your day a little. Take care and thanks so much for your visit

~ Ros ~

  

Birthday Cards

 Hello!

Summer is paying us a final visit before Autumn settles in and it is very welcome...

I have two birthday cards to share, the first one went to a friend in Scotland and the second one is going across the pond to a blog friend.

I used a new stencil here by Lavinia but the flowers I drew and painted

Though you can't see it on my photos, the flowers are very sparkly - I went over them with a glitter gel pen

Whilst I still had those paint colours wet  I did the second card with 'blobs' and doodled over them

I absolutely love how these flowers turned out

I added a little gold paint and some sequins after.

Both cards have embossed sentiments but again not easy to see.

My previous doodled flowers here won me a $25 voucher at Simonsays Stamp... Thank you Diane for the heads up and thank you to SSS!  Of course the postage for goods to the UK is $15.99 but nevertheless it was an honour to be spotlighted.

Okay, so as soon as the guy who has come to clean the gutters today is finished, I'm going to join my Gingerboy in the garden and relax.

Thanks so much for your visit... If only it was IRL

Take care

~ Ros ~