City Crafter 301

Good Morning and Welcome to March!

March 1st is also St David's Day - Patron saint of Wales

Happy St David's Day to all who celebrate!

It's also time for a new challenge at City Crafter

This week's challenge is hosted for us by Marina

"The Elephant In The Room"

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 Marina is asking that we use an elephant on our project - I've used elephants many times on my cards, the hard part is coming up with a new design but I think I managed it with my jungle party

I think this is the first time I've used all 3 Ellies on a card and I love these cuties

I did some sponging and a little splattering for the BG, used watercolour paint for the leaves and the branch and copics for the elephants

 

Our Guest Designer this week is Sarah, who won challenge 295 Her work is very diverse... She even makes cute little dolls ... Hop on over to her blog and take a look 

Don't forget to check out the projects our team have created too at CCCB ...

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week

Have a fun day and be safe

~ Ros ~

Colours

Good morning

This week Ariadne has chosen the word prompt at

Our Beautiful World

The word is Colours 

Now I expect you are wondering about this pretty watercolour - Its actually a tissue box... Normally I try to buy one that fits in with the colour scheme of the room it's going in but I was drawn to this because of the watercolour effect and those lovely colours. How I would love to be able to paint like this.

There's not a lot of colour around at the moment. Dark winter clothes, pale skin. The trees are bare and nothing looks clean. I'm desperately waiting for the Spring flowers to bloom 

Colours that make you feel warm and happy.

Whilst travelling on a bus abroad I took this photo of a Pirates play land for children ... I just love the bright pretty colours

 I tell you I am so fed up of the cold and fed up of winter - I want the summer to arrive and colour to abound.

What will you share with us this week? Hop on over to the Blog to see what everyone else is sharing

Have a great day

~ Ros ~ 

 

Gift Card and Birthday Card

Hello! It's Friday and the weekend is almost here...

It's been an exhausting week ... Doctors, Chiropractor, Chiropodist, and I would also have been going for my hospital dermatology appointment had they not cancelled on me ... Getting old is such fun! You get to meet so many medical people Lol!

My DH was away last weekend visiting his brother and he collapsed whilst he was there hence the doctor's visit this week ...It seems his labyrinthitis has returned, whilst I've been suffering with an old back problem.

However, I have had a little crafting time and I made a gift card holder for a friend's birthday, then decided that perhaps I should do a birthday card to go with it.

So this is the gift card holder and I used the pretty Woodware flower stamp again colouring it with Copics... This stamp was a sale item (£3.99) and I really like it

Here's the inside...

I think that verse is so funny... And here's my card

 I stamped a few times at different angles and just cut what I wanted to use ...It just gives another look to the stamp

I had those little scraps of striped paper in my 'bits' box and the keen eyed amongst you will recognize some very old PTI paper that I used for the die cut word 'Enjoy' which is a Sue Wilson die... my UK friends can find it Here

I hope you all have a great day and enjoy your weekend

Till soon

~ Ros ~

PTI Make It Monday

Good morning...

I have a card to share which uses the technique from this weeks' Make It Monday at PTI

The technique is Watercolour resist using rubber cement

I have been unable to obtain rubber cement here in the UK but I have an art masking fluid which is a similar thing and I've used it before on projects... So here's my card

 

It's sort of like butterflies rising from the sea... The sunshine here has me thinking of the beach - hence the colours Lol! 

I stuck to a white CS for the base and used Gansai Tambi paint... I love that colour

The butterflies are from PTI as is the sentiment and die... I also used PTI's Classic Craft ink to stamp the sentiment then went over it again in Versamark and heat embossed it with clear E/B. The antenna are cut from another die - I smooshed the PTI ink pad over a scrap of CS and again added Versamark and heat embossed it before cutting the antenne

It's a fun technique... Give it a try

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

 

 

City Crafter 300

Hello! 

Happy Tuesday to you ... Lovely to have you visiting me today

There's a new challenge over at City Crafter and it's challenge 300! Heck, I can hardly believe we done so many challenges! 

This week it's the turn of my dear friend Stella to host for us and her theme is  Polka Dots

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A simple challenge ... Just add Polka Dots to your project or card

 

 

I know you've seen this style of card from me before ... I love that cityscape and it's great for a male birthday card... which this was. In this case I layered up the cityscape both in black and some CS that I painted and splattered

I love the look of the b/w polka dots along with the striped paper

For the 4th week running we have the lovely Andie Miller Guesting with us ... Click the link on her name to go visit her blog

We'd love it if you popped on over to the City Crafter Blog too and see what our team have created ... maybe you'll be inspired to join us this week?

I hope you have a wonderful day ... Be safe

~ Ros ~

Cityscape Die ... Clearly Besotted

Papers... MME

Sentiment Stamps... MFT 

Lil'Inkers Stitched Mats

 

 

Sweet

Good morning friends

It's Wendy's turn to pick the prompt at 

Our Beautiful World 

this week...

Her word is Sweet 

Here are my photos... Sweet gifts from my husband for Valentine's

Beautiful flowers

And a Sweet little teddy

And I had to include my sweet tooth ... my love of chocolate

Come and share your 'sweet' photos with us at

Our Beautiful World 

And have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~