NBUS Challenge 6

Hello...

I'm popping in to share a card I made for the lovely Darnell's fun NBUS challenge 6!

I couldn't bear to miss it even though my mojo has gone on a winter break, no doubt to get away from the cold.

My NBUS item it the Paper Smooches Bird House die I just received

 

I even used some patterned paper on this... that paper is really stacking up. I buy it 'cos it's pretty and then it just sits there...

I cut one of the 2 bird houses that comes in the set, layered it up then coloured it with a copic - It's a linen type CS which gives it some texture. The leaves (coloured with copics) were in my bits box along with the grass and the glossy birds are from a Memory Box set, I kind of preferred them to the one's that came with the dies

 Just a little tip for you ... sometimes I want a glossy finish to a die cut but those little ones are quite fiddly so rather than use Glossy Accents or something similar I smoosh the CS with VersaMark add clear E/B then heat. Let it cool and then cut out my die...Voila!

I hope you have a lovely day / evening

Till soon

~ Ros ~

 

 

Double D Challenge

Hello!

I'm back this morning with my DT card for the new challenge at

Double D Challenge

Team Diane are hosting this challenge and the theme is 

Feeling Green 

(Shades of Green, Add an optional pop of "red", shamrocks, be inspired)!

I don't celebrate St.Pat's day but I made a fun card changing little gnomes into Leprechauns

 

Do you think they pass as leprechauns? Lol! I did some watercolouring on my card and on the tree which is from a Stampendous set - Pop Up Forest

 

The "leprechauns" or gnomes are from the Memory Box set Gnome for Christmas and I coloured them with copics - note the pop of red in their socks!

The team have more inspiration for you up on the Double D Blog - Hop on over and take a look and link up your creations with us

Have a fabulous day!

~ Ros ~

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"

 Photo Source

 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 ~