City Crafter 325

Good morning!

Kirsty is hosting this week's challenge at City Crafter and the theme is

Black and White Party

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This week we want to see your black and white projects suitable for a party/celebration such as Birthday, Graduation or any Happy occasion

This week I made a bottle tag

I used one of my Cameo cut kitties and dressed her with a bow, did some paint splatters, added some washi tape and a die cut congrats...

Our Guest Designer Davi and the City Crafter team have more inspiration for you up on the Blog and we hope you'll link up your black and white projects this week...

Talking of Kitties... We've acquired another one... It's early days yet, and we'll have to see how things go - She's not keen on Ginger cat so hides a lot and she looks like a baby version of Gipsy who we sadly lost earlier this year ... Here's a photo

Cute huh?

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Sending Hugs

Hello...

I'm still playing with paints at the moment and have another little card to share

I get the same feeling of awe seeing watercolours pool into different shapes as I do when I see the magic of heating up embossing powder...

With paints no two things are ever the same and I love that

I love these colours too and I added some gold drawing ink though you don't really get to see the shimmer here..

This one is going to a blog friend and I hope she likes it

Wishing you all a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Bridge

Hello and happy Sunday!

The new prompt over at 

Our Beautiful World 

is Bridge, chosen for us by Kirsty

I took this on my phone so it's not a marvellous shot, but it's The Runcorn bridge which is only a few miles from me and links us to the other side of the River Mersey... A new bridge is being built right now and it is causing havoc with motorists but once it is finished it should alleviate a lot of congestion... though it will be a toll bridge...

It's funny how many bridges I did find going through my photos... Some were taken abroad like this one in Andratx Majorca

And this one is in Lisbon, carrying cars on top and trains below

The next little one is in Flam in Norway

They have larger bridges too in Norway like this one in Stavanger

and many of them just disappear into the mountains where roads have been built, Aesthetically Norway is so clean and pretty with no sign of pylons or anything that would mar the beauty of the scenery hence many roads go through the mountains and not around the mountains

By contrast here's a wooden bridge that goes from the beach to a lovely restaurant in the sea in Majorca

But here in the UK we have lots of bridges, some are very old and picturesque

This was taken many years ago when my husband and I stayed in Matlock Derbyshire ... It's a beautiful place and very dog friendly! The bridge is the Jubilee Bridge... For Queen Victoria ... dated 1887

And if you've ever travelled to Worcester to the River Severn you may have come across this bridge

Bewdley Bridge opened in 1798... It's so pretty and the swans love it too

Then there's Whitney Bridge in Herefordshire

In the Peak District the scenery is beautiful and wonderful for walkers and hikers and you often come across little bridges like this one across the many streams that flow

So there you have it ... My shots of bridges... If you have one that you'd like to share, link up with us at

Our Beautiful world

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Another watercolour

Hello friends....

It's another rainy day here and time is flying by... Before we know it Autumn will be upon us. 

I dream of being on a beach somewhere, relaxing, feeling time slow down a little. I did get a few days away in early May but even then it was cold and wet... 

 I have another watercolour to share... Yep, a beach again

With a few added bits and pieces

The sea looks a bit stormy here and I can imagine the wind whipping up as I walk on the headland

Maybe I ought to do one with the sun shining and palm trees gently swaying... That would be better huh? 

Wishing you all a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 324

Hello...

It's Marina's turn to host the challenge at City Crafter this week and she's chosen a fabulous one for us

Synchronised Swim

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The challenge is to make a project inspired by the photo... The colours, shapes or the swimming

It's not often that I have an idea right away but I did for this...

I cut out a shape from some scrap card using the hillside border dies (Lil'Inkers) and sponged various distress inks in a circular shape all around the front piece of CS.

Then I splashed water on to give it an underwater feel and added some coral die cuts by Avery Elle, some gems and a computer generated sentiment printed onto acetate

I loved this challenge, it really pushed me to make something vibrant and, well, different.

Hop on over to the blog to see what the rest of our team and our Guest designer Davi have created. I hope you'll be inspired to join us I'm really looking forward to see what you come up with.

Have a great day!

~ Ros ~

Watercolour Thank You

Hello... Happy Monday

I hope you're having a good start to the week

Last Friday Pat and I were invited to dinner by a lovely lady who comes with her daughter to our craft class at Thursday Club... Winnie and her daughter Gemma originate from Hong Kong and we enjoyed a wonderful home cooked meal of ribs, ham fried rice and roast vegetables finished off with ice cream, sorbet and fresh fruit.

The only other person that cooks for me is my lovely Aunt so I really enjoyed being spoiled  

I have a Thank You card to share which will be on it's way to Winnie and Gemma

 

I wet some watercolour cardstock and let the red and black colours flow... Then once I had dried it, I splattered various other colours on and then dragged some white paint and some gold pen ink around

 

I love the vibrancy of these colors though I wasn't quite sure what I would end up doing with it, but as you can see I cut up some of the painted CS and also die cut the Thanks and then added part of a PTI die cut (from the Waves cover plate) over the top just to give it a little something extra

 

Whilst we were at Gemma's she took us to see her bedroom and every project she had made over the years at Thursday club was on display ... How sweet!

I hope you enjoy your week and I'll be back tomorrow for the new challenge at City Crafter

Take care

~ Ros ~