City Crafter 261

Hello and Good morning!

Today it's Kirsty's turn to host the challenge over at

City Crafter

This week Kirsty is asking us to Focus on Flowers (create a card or project that focuses on a flower or flowers) An 'easy peasy' challenge for you

Here's my card

I did some heat embossing and painted the roses (An old Hero Arts Stamp) after stencilling and paint spraying my background

After fussy cutting the roses I cut some leaves and painted them too - The little tag was also stamped and embossed with a HA stamp from the same set

Our Guest Designer this week is the winner of challenge week 252 the very talented Janelle

Click on her name to go visit her blog and check out her beautiful creations - Don't forget to hop over to the City Crafter Blog and see what the rest of the team have come up with this week.

I hope you'll come and join in our challenge

Have a fabulous day!

~ Ros ~

Our Beautiful World

Hello again...

It's time for a new prompt at

Our Beautiful World

This week Robyn picked the prompt

"Life is like a box of chocolates ... You never know what you gonna get"

After much thought I came up with this

My husband is a big fan of Everton FC (the Blues) whilst I support the opposing team Liverpool FC (the Reds) However, I have been with him to see his team play a few times as a corporate guest

Well, football is so unpredictable you never know what you are going to get

Kind of like our weather ... One day its starts so sunny and encouraging then within minutes the skies go grey ... 

See what I mean ... The rain has flattened all the pretty flowers

But see what is hiding in the background?

Lily of The Valley ... At least that has survived and a few Forget me Nots

I never know what I'm going to get after each winter ... Last year my Lilac tree was covered in beautiful blooms ... This year ... Not a single one ... sigh

Go visit the Blog and see what my friends have come up with this week and link up your photos with us at 

Our Beautiful World

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Vintage Garden

Good morning from a cold and wet Liverpool

I'm really fed up of the rain and the cold but in a weeks' time I will be flying off to spend a few days in a warmer part of the world thanks goodness!

Today I have a little mixed media piece to share ... my blog friend Pamellia has started her own Mixed Media challenge blog Here 

So to support her first challenge I pulled out my paints and stencils and trinkets...

The challenge is a Vintage Garden

You can see the many paints I used on that stencilled background ... The wooden items also took 3 different embossing powders, Silver, copper and distressed walnut - some of the wood border was originally a frame that I broke apart ... I knew they'd come in handy some day

The tree was made from styrofoam ... I cut a shape from a styrofoam ball and added two different paints - hot glued a small twig and voila!

The little angel was a gift from my friend Sue Lelli and I had to add it ... I smeared 2 more paints over it to make it look aged and moss covered

The challenge at Just Us Girls this week is embossing 

So I'll enter it there too.....

It's not often I do mixed media but given that it was such a wet and dismal day it was fun to sit for an afternoon and just get covered in paint

Have a beautiful weekend ...

Till son

~ Ros ~

Hexagons

Hello!

The week has flown by - I can't believe it's Thursday already

My card today was inspired by the amazing Laura Bassen who posted This card using hexagons... 

Well, I had this little hexagon die that I've never used so decided to pull it out - 

I don't have any Copics but I do love to play with paint...

 I took a scrap piece of pearlescent CS and sprayed it with various inks, tilting the card to get some interesting designs and when it was dry I cut out some hexagon shapes and adhered them to a scrap piece of vellum...

I also cut the word 'you' from the same painted CS 

The cue card at CAS.ology this week is Shape

...So I'll be entering my card there

Have a lovely day/evening ... I'm working with my special needs group tonight and I'm looking forward to it

Thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 260

Hello there ...

It's Samra's turn to host for us at City Crafter this week and she has chosen a lovely mood board to inspire us

The challenge is to create a card or project taking inspiration from the mood board ... You can use anything from the colours to the images

The first thing that called to me was the colours - that lovely aqua colour along side the brown and beige

I did some stencilling to tie in the colour and texture of  that pretty crocheted bedspread ... 

...added a little gold and black and a frame as in the mood board and my card was complete

Our Guest Designer this week is Penny Ward  winner of week 255... Many of you will already be familiar with Penny's amazing creations ... Click the link on her name and go visit her lovely blog and see for yourself!

Our winner this week will also be offered a GD spot with us here at CCCB so get out your supplies and come join us this week - If you need more inspiration take a look at what the rest of the team have up on the City Crafter Blog

Enjoy your day and be safe

~ Ros ~

Case This Sketch

Hello and good morning!

I'm playing along with this week's challenge at CAS(E) this sketch

This is the sketch

I kind of went the negative route...

My 'tag' was cut out of the top CS and behind the negative space I stencilled with embossing paste

The tulip stamp and sentiment are by Clearly Besotted ... Did I mention that I got a Misti? Boy I'm loving that tool! Stamping is a breeze and no more wasted projects ... It's particularly good when stamping on tiny banners like the one on my card

...and you can stamp over your first attempt to get a better depth of colour

In case you are wondering ... the top CS was originally white card that I ran through my printer after selecting a digital paper from Pink Petticoat's Natural Pack - it's called Cashmere and I love it!

Enjoy your day

Till soon

~ Ros ~