Fox In The Snow

Hello lovely people!

How was your weekend? Good I hope...

I'm trying to get back into the swing of things and one thing I like to do regularly is make a card for the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge

I love to make snow scenes, either with ink blending or using my distress oxide inks to paint with so this was a perfect challenge for me

Here's my card

My blog 'sister' Greta gifted me the lovely fox die and he too is painted with distress oxide inks

For the BG I used Hickory Smoke and Faded Jeans and for the fox it was a mix of Carved Pumpkin, with Walnut Stain and Hickory Smoke on his legs

I have to say, much as I love blue and green together I am really liking the grey here - It's kind of like that outside but not so pretty and no snow. As always I paint on ordinary CS but it is quite thick. A white gel pen for snow added the final touches. 

Thanks so much for popping in... Have a super day! 

~ Ros !

With Love

Hello there...

 

Thanks so much for your lovely comments on my Lantern project... I'm working on something similar but today I have a card to share

It just happens to be our wedding anniversary today and this is the card I made for my husband

 

 

You may think it's totally un-traditional and it is I suppose -  We were married in Cyprus 19 years ago so the watercolour piece represents the sea... We only knew one person living there, a Cypriot friend Andreas who travelled a fare distance to be with us on the day....

It was meant to be a quiet affair, just the 2 of us, with Andreas as a witness together with the travel agent (it was second time around for both of us) but our friend and the people of Cyprus thought differently and we had a huge celebration - even a photographer and florist were roped in.

Andreas lost his only daughter some years before so to him this was like giving his daughter away

He kept insisting that we call our first child after him... I don't think he got the fact that I was 47 at the time and babies were not an option Lol!

Now you know a little more about me Lol!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

 

Project One

Good morning and Happy New Year to you!!

I have something a little different to share with you today... 

 I got to thinking about what I would do now I don't have my group anymore and though I miss them, a lot, I also miss making the projects. Yes, it was hard work and coming up with ideas taxed my brain but I enjoyed making things other than cards.

For a long while making Christmas cards kept me busy, then I had a clear out of a lot of craft stuff and household items that were never used or were just collecting dust, but some things I couldn't part with, one of which was a candle lantern that I bought when I was going through my 'all things French' phase Lol!

Then I saw something on Pinterest that peeked my interest and I grabbed that old lantern and here's the something different

My lantern is now a room with a chandelier (fairy lights)

I made all the furniture from card and bits and pieces I had

The Eiffel tower for example is from a pack of brads sent to me by my blog friend Barbara, the draw handles are beads and the tiny clock was a little imitation stop watch that I trimmed the bits off.

The Piano legs are cut from chopsticks!
Everything is tiny so it was quite fiddly to do but I'm really please with it now it's done
So that's my first project of the year if you don't count the pom pom animals I've also made - I may share them sometime too.

I'm wishing you all a lovely day and a wonderful 2019

~ Ros ~

Bright and Happy Wishes

Hello...

The big day has come and gone for another year and it's time to put away the Christmas stamps and look ahead to the new year... And maybe the diet Lol!

 

 I can't believe Mikey turns 36 tomorrow and the last day of the year my friend's daughter, Carla, celebrates her birthday

Today I'm sharing the card I made for Carla

 I went with bright inks and lots of splatters, it's shame you can't see how sparkly this is

The leaf dies are from The Works, I know I have plenty but I couldn't resist them

 

 

2018

It's been an eventful year in many ways... Some good and some not so good. 

Throughout the years I've made wonderful friends in our blogging community and I'm thankful to you all for your support and continued friendships... You've inspired me, picked me up when I was struggling and encouraged me in so many ways.

I don't know where 2019 will take me or what the universe has in store but I hope it will be a good year for all of us ...

I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year 

 

~ Ros~

 

And there's More...

Good morning!

Got time to see a few more cards? I'll be really quick

 

Here we go

Brighter inks on this one

 

...One for a cat lover friend

 

 

And back to blues

I'll enter this last one at Double D Challenge 

where the theme is Let It Snow

 

 

I'm wishing you all a Wonderful Christmas and may

Peace Health and Happiness surround you this season

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Soft Snowy Scenes

Hello there... Are you all ready for the big day?

 Only 4 more sleeps!

I've a couple more cards to share, this time they are softer snow scenes

 

I used a glitter pen on the ornaments but unfortunately it doesn't show up on these photos

I stamped the trees first with distress ink (Iced Spruce) and then over stamped in Versamark and white embossed them

I used a HA ink (cornflower) on the trees here

and one of those tiny sponges for the moon

I also used a correction pen for the falling snow... It's a little quicker than paint and fast drying.

 

My great niece Sophia asked me to make her a some fingerless mittens when she was here on Sunday... I managed to get one done whilst she was here and she insisted on wearing that home so the other one has been mailed to her... She also asked me to make her a crocheted sleepy unicorn! Well, I've finished crocheting all the parts so today I have to sew it all together...

I've also had a big clear out in my craft room and little by little I'm getting to where I want to be in 2019 but more on that another time.

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~