City Crafter 296

Hello there ...

Today at City Crafter we have the lovely Stella hosting our challenge and she's picked a wonderful theme ...

For The Love of Pets 

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Stella is asking that we create a card or project that features a pet... cat, dog, bird etc.,

Seeing that sweet puppy's face I had to use a pup on my card ... I may have cats but I adore dogs!

 

This is one scruffy puppy... I used a white gel pen to create that look - doesn't he look kinda cute?

I made this for me ... On a day I was feeling a little low - Nothing wrong in sending yourself a hug, especially with a cute puppy

Now see that weird background? Well it was a left over from card I had previously painted and cut out 2 skyline's from and I just like the shape that remained Lol!

Our Guest Designer this week is Dana one half of The Crafty Couple - click the link to go visit the blog.

As always our team have lots more inspiration for you up on the City Crafter Blog hop on over and take a peek.

Wishing you a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

 

Make My Monday and Thanks

Good Afternoon

  First of all I would like to thank the team at AAA Cards for picking This card as 1st place!! I'm absolutely thrilled!

I noticed that the challenge at Make My Monday this week is to use your newest or most favourite stamps...

Well, look what just arrived

I know that they're Christmas stamps, but they were in the sale so I ordered them, a while ago as it happens, but they only came today and I just had to try them out...

 

...I mean you don't have to use them just for Christmas do you?

I did a little water colour and some splattering just to add a little interest

 

I never did 'cute' at one time... looks like I am becoming obsessed by little animals and even gnomes now Lol!

 

I hope you are having a good day - My thoughts go out to all of you affected by the storms and the bad weather - Please take care

~ Ros ~

 

 

Bright

Good morning...

Wen has chosen this week's prompt for us at 

Our Beautiful World

The word is Bright

Well this Orchid is bright don't you think?

It was sitting on a table in the reception area of a hotel we stayed in last summer and here's a photo of the sunset there

Pretty bright too....But in summer the sunset at Land's End in the UK is just as bright and beautiful

 

Though it's winter here and cold, we haven't really had any snow to speak of ... It was bright sunshine first thing yesterday - the sun was shining through the windows

...Reflecting the glitter on some of the artificial flowers

The ivy was enjoying having some sun too

Hop on over to Our Beautiful World Blog to see what my friends are sharing and if you have photos that fit our prompt please share with us

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Create With Critters

Hello!

So the Wednesday challenge at SimonSays Stamp is to create with critters... Well, I made this card a week or so ago and though I didn't use the featured Lawn Fawn products, it does include a cat

 

I was trying out my new copics to colour the kitty and using up some spare die cuts 

He's like my ginger cat... Sleeps most of the time

 

He does like to play but throw him a piece of string and he forgets to let go! 

I hope you are enjoying your day... Blogger is still playing up for us Safari users so I'm sticking to Firefox for now

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Best Friends

Hello and good morning

I've always had cats and I also owned a couple of German Shepherds which I absolutely adore!

Now I no longer have my beautiful dogs or the cats from those days... Though as you know we still have a few rescue cats, but I miss my dogs soooo much

My dogs always got on well with the cats ... Cat's rule! 

This is an old photo of my dog Holly with my cat Lisa

Why am I telling you all this? Well, because it is the basis of today's card... 

When I saw that Try It On Tuesday's challenge is silhouettes -

It gave me the idea

You know I love using silhouettes, they feature on many of my cards and here's what I came up with

 

I cut the silhouettes out on the Cameo and did a little sponging

 Amazingly (for me) this turned out a one layered card with a little stamping and some punched out hearts

I really hope that one day I will be reunited with my pets ...

Wishing you a lovely day - free from blogger problems at least!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 295

Well hello!

It's my turn to host the challenge at City Crafter this week and I have chosen a photo inspiration challenge for us

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Create a card or project taking inspiration from this photo and tell us what inspired you

It could be the colours, teapot, snowdrops or even the numbers...

Based on the colours, here's what I came up with .. This card was sent to a dear blog friend who recently got a new job

 

I love shades of grey and the pattern on the teapot made me think of this digital paper I have from Pink Petticoat...

I got in the green and the shade of those Palmier biscuits translated into those sweet little birds

Our Guest designer this week is the lovely Dora Dora was our winner in week 289 - Do go visit her blog she makes beautiful cards and don't forget to visit the City Crafter blog too ... We have lots more inspiration for you there and we are looking forward to seeing what you come up with ...

Have a wonderful Day!

~ Ros ~