City Crafter 288

Hello and good morning!

Here we are already halfway through November ... Time is whizzing by and today is the start of another new challenge at 

City Crafter

This week my sweet friend Stella is hosting for us with a colour challenge

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Stella is asking that we create a card or project with Blue White and a touch of Silver

Here's my card

A snowflake shaker... The large snowflake is a die from Provo Craft that I've had since I began cardmaking and every year it comes out...

The gorgeous blue sequins are a gift from Stella .. I love them!

Our Guest Designer, her 3rd week with us, is the lovely Marcia Hill and this week's winner will also be offered a Guest Spot with us so get out your Blue, White and Silver and come link up with us

Hop on over to the Blog to see what my friend are sharing to inspire you this week...

Wishing you a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Stone

Good morning...

Wen has chosen the new word prompt for us this week at

Our Beautiful World

The word is Stone

Here we go.....

Stone walls built before 79AD and still standing... This is part of the remains of Herculaneum Italy, buried like Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted...

People turned to stone... and stone relics in Pompeii

I apologise for the poor quality of this but it is another place I will never forget... standing on the stones at The Acropolis of Athens ... This was taken nearly 40 years ago when visitors were allowed to climb the steep road to the top... It was one heck of a climb as I remember and in searing heat!

I may have shared this before.. stone walls and a road in one of the many narrow back streets of Majorca...

And a little closer to home...

 ...The beautiful countryside of Wales, where rocks and stones are just about everywhere and rivers and streams dance ....

And in my garden ... small stones where a young bird hunts for insects

Will you link up with us this week?

Hop on over to the Blog to see what everyone else is sharing 

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Red Poppies

Hello there...

It's my brother's 45th wedding anniversary today and I am sharing the card I made for them... My SIL loves poppies and red poppies are a symbol of remembrance.

Today I dedicate this to the people of Paris where so many lost their lives in a terrible assault last night... Both my Grandfathers were French and they fought for freedom and peace....

The stamp I used is by Technique Tuesday and I embossed it in gold before water colouring it

I need a lot of practice with colouring ....

over at Colour Me the palette is red and olive

...and the photo is of poppies so I'm entering this card there and at

 Just Us Girls where the challenge calls for Watercolouring

And... I think this fits the Muse Card Club challenge

Wishing you a wonderful weekend ... may peace be with you

~ Ros ~

70's Shaker

Oh it's not what you think....

Though in the 70's I was definitely a little shaker, clubbing it most nights Lol!

No... I'm sharing a shaker card that I made for my friend's 70th Birthday

Green happens to be her favourite colour and though I've made plenty of cards this style ... I've never done one for this friend... 

I was going to add one of the little pups as she's another dog lover, but somehow that sprig of leaves just seemed to fit better... It's actually the backing from some masking paper - I used the sticky part when I was doing some water colouring sometime ago... Shows you all the little bits I keep!

My sweet friend Pat is coming today, we'll do some creating, chat and drink a coffee or two... I wish you could join us

I hope you all have a lovely day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Another Gift

Hello friends...

Thanks so much for your visit and your lovely comments ... I hope you don't mind me sharing another light up picture with you ... You can see the first two I did Here

I made this one for my friend's son ... A great guy who I've known since he was a little boy - life hasn't always been kind to him where relationships are concerned but now he is settled with a wonderful lady who also deserves a lot of happiness...

 These are not easy to photograph - The glass front doesn't help - IRL they look much nicer

As with the previous ones, I used the Printshop programme to do the verse and printed it onto acetate, cut out the image on my Cameo and used paint mists for the BG - The lights I use are just little string lights that you can pick up for about £2.

I'm going to enter this at Try It On Tuesday and hope it fit the challenge "Create A Scene"

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 287

Hello and good morning!

It's my turn to host the challenge this week at City Crafter 
The theme is Dye It 

Photo source

This week I am challenging you to create a card or project with 

NO stamping and NO DP

You may use paints, inks, stencils Die cuts etc.,

I took inspiration from that lovely photo and here's my card

I used my inks and paints to colour pieces of scrap CS and then just cut out a bunch of leaves and flowers... added sequins and beads and a die cut sentiment

I know it's kind of 'out there' for me but I'm happy with it

Hop on over to the Blog to see what the rest of the team have to share and don't forget we have the talented Marcia Hill Guesting with us too!
I hope you'll be inspired to join in the challenge!

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~