Happy Birthday Stella!

Good morning!

In case you didn't know it ... Today my dear friend Stella (A little bit of the things I enjoy blogspot)

celebrates her birthday!!

Happy Birthday Stella!!!

Stella and I spent 5 fabulous days together earlier in the year and I only wish I could be with her today

City Crafter has a special post today and we'd love it if you stopped by and left a birthday message too

Here's the card I posted to Stella along with some treats

I know Stella loves these colours and I added lots of sparkle to reflect her personality

Stella I'm wishing you the Happiest Birthday ... Enjoy every second of your special day!

With love and hugs

~ Ros ~

The Muse

Good morning!

Another week gone by and the weekend awaits...

I've been able to spend a fair bit of time creating this week and today I have a card for 

The Muse Challenge

Anita Bowden is this week's Muse and this is her beautiful card

Here's my take...

I focused on the flowers and the design ... and I've rediscovered my love of paper piecing which is great for using up scraps!

Once again I'm using Wplus9 Doodle Buds ... I just adore this set and you can probably tell that some of those scrap papers are years old!

I used an SU punch to cut out a window for my sentiment just as an extra twist

Ok that's me for today ... I'm hoping that the weather will brighten up later and I can drag myself away from my little room ... 

Wishing you a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Blue Bouquet

Hello ...

Firstly, I am thrilled to say that  2 of my previous cards received Honourable Mentions this week ... One at The Male Room Challenge and one at Colour Me

Thanks so much to both Teams for the honour!

Well, summer has disappeared once again and I'm feeling a little blue, so I made a card
 for The Mixed Media Challenge where the theme is Blue an the optional element is a Vase

I recently bought the Wplus9 Doodle Buds stamps which I used to make my bouquet

... Stamping them onto paper and just fussy cutting them
My blooms are arranged in a stamped and painted jar which I masked off before stencilling the brick background

A little vellum die cuts, a few sequins, burlap ribbon and more paint splatters complete the card

I hope you're having a good day and the sun is shining for you 
Thanks for looking in on me ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Make it Monday

Happy Wednesday!

I'm just popping in with a card I did for the PTI make It Monday...

Watercolour with die cut stencils

I went with the PTI 'Love' die and the little heart is part of the die

I opted just to used one colour of shimmery paint and then adds some splatters

Just a shame the shimmer doesn't show but it gave me a chance to use the masking paper I bought and hadn't even opened!

I hope your week is going well ... thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 271

Hello!

Well, here we are on week 271 of City Crafter Challenge and it's my dear friend Stella's turn to host for us

Stella has given us the theme

Hemp & Twine

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This week we are to create a project that features either Hemp or Twine but NO ribbon or lace!

Here's my whimsical card using twine

I made quite a lot of those galaxy backgrounds for my special need group so I'm using a piece here along with a kitty from the Newtons Nook stamps ... You recognise him right? It's my little ginger cat Lol!

He's being floated up to space in the "paper pieced" box tied to a ballon with twine

Our Guest Designer this week is Lise ... click on her name to go visit her lovely blog - I love her simple clean style and I'm sure you will too

This week there will be a prize package for the winner from our host Stella!

Just look at those beautiful goodies!

Hop on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what the team have in store for you this week and thank you to everyone for your constant support....

Have a great week

~ Ros ~

Just For Me......

Hello ...

It's not often I make something just for me but It's pretty dismal here ... Grey skies and rain showers...

Even Ginger cat has found an old box to curl up in here in my craft room

I'm missing the beach ... been thinking about it a lot lately ... When I came across this on Pinterest

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That was it ... I had to try and replicate it ... just for me ... to sit on my desk

I started with the 'sea' by randomly adding some art masking fluid on Watercolour card and then painting with various Distress Stains ... Not too bad...

...once I peeled off that masking fluid to reveal the white CS underneath and added a few splashes of water...

 I decided to type out the words on my computer and print them onto acetate ... So far so good but it needed a little more

So I added some embellishments including a starfish I'd made from clay and painted - I used the same paint to colour some cardstock and die cut out the word LOVE several times and stacked it - same with the little heart.....

The rope at the top holds the acetate to the painted BG and that was then adhered with foam tape onto a scrap piece of cardboard which I had torn and given a wash of white paint ... Finally I glued it to my card base

I'm going to enter this at Anything But Cute

And also at AAA Cards

And The Mixed Media Card Challenge

And would you believe the sun has now just appeared??

Have a great day

~ Ros ~