sunflowers

Hello there ...

I had a lovely Saturday with Miss Sophia ... She is and has always been such a happy little girl and full of conversation ...

Yesterday evening I had a play with some digital images ... Sometimes I just prefer to create with my computer ... trying out new things. 

I've never been one for colouring images ... I am in awe of those of you who do this with utter perfection ... Me? I like to play with graphics and these were the ones I selected from The Graphics Fairy

And with a little work (ok, a lot of work) in photoshop and print shop ... this is what I came up with

I just love how I can flip and turn those images ... took me months to learn how to make them transparencies though ... and I still have a lot to learn!

Can you spot that green butterfly again? 

... and the glittered centres of those beautiful sunflowers?

I printed the butterflies both on the card and separately to fussy cut and mount and I did the same with the lower sunflower

All that I added was a little lace and a tiny bit of my hand made tissue tape ... it looks a lot better IRL

I think I'll enter this into Brag Monday at the Graphics Fairy ... 

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your lovely comments ... I really appreciate your friendship

I'll be back tomorrow with my CCCB project and till then I wish you a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Digital delight

Good morning to you ...

Yesterday we had a lovely day weather wise ... I decided to get some work done in the garden ... With my foot on the mend I thought I would try and get back to the things I have sadly had to neglect ... Boy do I ache ... I ache in places I never knew existed! But the garden is looking so much better. 

It was a lovely balmy evening and we ate dinner outside ... I put candles in glass jars and it was really nice...

I tried to photo a couple of visitors ...

A cute little butterfly on the marguerites 

Further down the garden I have an array of these large yellow flowers ... Rudbeckia

And I watched as a bee visited each and every flower ... 

Not easy getting these shots ... each time I got him in view ... he flew to the next flower ... it became a game of anticipating which flower he would go to next ...

I love these yellow and green colours and made a CAS card inspired by these colours using digitals 

I used the lovely butterfly from The Graphics Fairy again ( Check out the challenge at CCCB) and also one of their bird images ...

The script is a digital file from Design House Digital ... by Agnes Biro

And Finally ... Thank You to the ladies at Just Us Girls for awarding me Chic Of The Week for This card ... I am delighted!!

Ok ... I am expecting a visitor ... little Sophia, a 3 year old bundle of fun with her Daddy ... so got to run ...

Enjoy your weekend and thanks so much for stopping by ...

~ Ros ~

Clean and Simple

It's my brother Bill's Birthday today ...

so just popping in to say "Happy Birthday"

and to share a very CAS card I made for him

Some Prima Printery papers and an image from Kaban 

The little cloud is from a PTI die and I computer generated the sentiment 

The sun is shining here and I've been invited for afternoon tea with a friend ...

Hope you enjoy your day whatever you are doing ...

Thanks so much for visiting me and leaving me such encouraging comments ... I so appreciate it ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

A Little Nautical

I have 2 posts today ... If you are looking for my post for Papercraft Star ... Please scroll down ... Thanks!

I made this next card for 2 challenges ... First up I used this week's sketch at Just us Girls which finishes on Thursday ... hence the reason I am posting it today ... Here is the sketch

It's been ages since I played along here and I loved the sketch ... Though I ended up flipping it ...

I used the colour combination from CR84FN60

I found these colours really tricky ... But what started my card was this gorgeous image from The Graphics Fairy ... 

I just fell in love with this little boy and his surroundings ... and this is what resulted

The blue papers are digital papers By Chrissy W at Two Peas ... The green is Core'dinations 

and the grape coloured tissue tape was made by me ...

When it came to embellishments ... though my grape coloured roses looked lovely ... they were just not appropriate ... so I took a button and glued rope around in a circle leaving the end loose and popped an eyelet in the centre ... dunno why ... just like it!

The shells I have are ... well ... 'shell' coloured ... and I was highly delighted to discover that I could change them to green and grape using TH distress Stains ... The green one really look like they have algae on them

A piece of netting and some plastic 'twigs' (snapped of from a piece of home decor) and it was good to go! ... 

Here's a little close up of those shells ... Jeez I'm thrilled with them

... and that I managed to stick to the sketch AND keep to those (difficult for me) Colours!

Phew! That's it for today ...

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star

Happy Wednesday friends ...

I had a lovely lunch and catch up with my GF's yesterday ... We really don't do it often enough and I always feel so much happier when we've had a relaxing few hours together ...

So today I have my DT project for this weeks challenge at Papercraft Star

As you can probably guess from this photo ... the theme this week is 

"Fruit"

Whilst those strawberries look so delicious ... my preference are raspberries ... though having suffered from kidney stones in the past ... I have to be very careful ... seems the seeds in fruit can cause these stones ...

Anyway ... I found a lovely vintage image on the web for this challenge 

and used papers from Websters Pages 'Cherry Pie' as my background

I made the flower with burlap, tulle and fabric ... and a little help from a TH die

The button is from my supplies 

A sticker from October Afternoon and some lace just finish it off

The girls at Papercraft Star have some more inspiration for you and Steph is our featured designer this week using digitals from our sponsor THATB.

You have till Monday 13th August 6am EST us time to link up your entries ... so I hope you'll join us and have fun!

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Challenge

Linda is our lovely hostess this week at City Crafter ... and she is the reason I have rekindle my love of butterflies ... 

See the challenge she has chosen "Lets Do it Again" is about using this gorgeous image from The Graphics fairy ... where Karen works hard to bring us the most gorgeous free printables ... if you've never visited ... you really ought too!

I just adore this image ... the colours are so striking - you have already seen me use it on my cards ... and here is another card 

This time I am using paper from Papermania and a few little scraps

Once again I have cut and layered my butterflies

I love this challenge and I am so looking forward to seeing your creations ... 

Our guest Designer this week is the talented Linda B from "Hands to Work Hearts to Love"

and this weeks winner will be given a Guest Design spot here with us at City Crafter ...

If you would like to see what the other girls on the team have come up with ... hop over to the blog ... you're always welcome ...

I'm also linking this up to Brag Monday at The Graphics Fairy 

Have a beautiful day ... I'm off to lunch with my girl friends

Till soon

~ Ros ~