City Crafter Clean & Neutral

Good morning!

I'm hosting the challenge at City Crafter this week and I've chosen simply

"Clean and Neutral"

Create a CAS card in neutral colours and here's your inspiration photo

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I love the subtle colours in this photo ... and I love not having to pay the Royal Mail a fortune every time I send a card ... hence I am trying to do more CAS cards lately

I used the lovely Going to Seed stamp by Woodware and stamped it in London Fog ink by Memento

... added lots of liquid pearls in two colours ...

I over stamped with a PTI stamp from the Hand of Time set ... then added some ribbon twine and mother of pearl buttons which reflect the colour in those terracotta pots

I'm happy to tell you that our Guest Designer this week is Lisette ... aka Mrs Beez ... Lisette won challenge week 159 with her lovely creation ... Please hop over to the blog and say hello and take a look at the cards from the rest of the DT. 

If you'd like a chance to Guest Design with us ... just join in our challenge ... 

We were overwhelmed by the entries last week ... There were so many beautiful cards it makes it really hard for us to pick winners ...

Have a beautiful day and I'll be back tomorrow 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Hello!

How are you?

I'm back from beautiful Lincoln where I had a lovely relaxing time with my Aunt who is doing so well ... I did miss my supplies though ... especially as I had some new papers arrive just before I left ...

 Today we were out celebrating a special someone's upcoming 4th Birthday 

Yes my great niece Sophia is growing up ... and it just wouldn't have been the same without her cousin Ross ... These two adore each other

... And yes I had to join them in their little circus tent! All I can say is thank goodness I did Pilates for years ... 

I managed to get a DT project done yesterday and using the scraps I am just about scrapping in with a card for the challenge at CASology ... which is simply "Yellow"

Pink Petticoat have a new range of (digital) ombre papers as seen on my card ... I really love them

So a very quick and simple CAS card using Pink Petticoat papers and PTI dies

... together with a Kaisercraft stamp ...

I hope you are having a lovely Sunday and a Happy Father's Day!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Photo Inspiration - Papercraft Star

Beautiful pink tulips ... 

This is the inspiration photo for this week's challenge at Papercraft Star

Remember you can go with your own interpretation or any suggested on the Papercraft Star blog

T'was the pink that got me ... that and a whole bunch of scraps left over from Thursday club projects ...

This is a little matchbook card 

The papers are all digital scraps and the image is too

... "with love" fabric tape by Papermania 

What does the photo say to you? I'm looking forward to seeing your interpretation ... The DT have some more inspiration for you on the blog ... stop by and take a look ...

Till soon

Keep safe and have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter "All About Him"

Hello ...
My posts this week are scheduled as I am away and according to my Aunt with whom I will be staying ... We have a full week!

At City Crafter today Our lovely Kirsty is hosting for us and the challenge she has set this week is 

"All About Him"

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The challenge is to create a Father's Day card or a Masculine card

Our Guest Designer this week is the Uber talented Jinny Newlin  who also happens to be one of the sweetest bloggers too ... Please take a moment to go visit her blog and be awed by her talent and her cute children

I came up with a bright beach themed card this week 

Some MME paper with an image I had in my stash to which I added some eyelets and rope for a little interest ... the silhouette stamp is from a freebie set that came with a magazine

The banners were made by stamping with my blenders onto white CS in different inks and then I sponged around the card too

I looking forward to seeing what you all come up with ... Masculine cards can be a challenge at the best of times! 

Don't forget to take a look at the rest of the DT projects too ...

Have a beautiful Day

~ Ros ~

Happy Mail and Photo Heavy

Hello there ...

I'm getting organised for my trip tomorrow but I just had to pop in and say a HUGE thank you to 2 sweet blog friends who sent me happy mail ...

My friend Sylvia sent me a beautiful handmade card and some sweet angel scraps ... (that's what we call them over here) 

I'm old enough to remember 'scrap books' when you filled an ordinary book with things like the above and did swaps with your friends ... (Do any of you know what I'm talking about?)

Isn't that card just beautiful!! Sylvia is one talented lady!

As you may know some of her family live in Oklahoma and you can imagine, she has been very concerned ... so to know with all that going on in her life ... she thought of me ... well I am humbled ... Thank you my friend

Now the talented Linda B. (Hands to Work Hearts to Love)  makes the most exquisite albums and cards and we decided to help each other out ... I couldn't get the bags needed for the albums and Linda couldn't get the transparencies ... hence we did a swap ... 

Well, her package to me just arrived and rendered me speechless ... Not only did she send me the bags ... but a gorgeous card ... AND ... one of her amazingly beautiful albums!! 

I know this album has been posted on her blog  (do hop over and check out her work) ... but given just how much detail and just how stunning it is ... I am going to show it again 

... And the card 

Even my husband was rendered speechless!

Thank you so much Linda ... 

I am truly blessed to have such wonderful, thoughtful friends ...

And thank you all for letting me share this with you ...

~ Ros ~

Thank You and Pushing it a Little

Hello ...

We're having some lovely weather here ... I'm not one for sitting in the sun much and my little craft space is cool with a view of the garden so I'm really enjoying it ...

I'm off to Lincoln again at the weekend ... going to have some time with my lovely Aunt ... But right now I'm up to my neck in making the project for my sweet group tonight. I've decided that we will be making flower pot cards ... you guys are the best for inspiration ... 

I have been so fortunate this week ... an honourable mention at both CASology and Shopping our Stash ... I'm over the moon!

So I took a break from cutting flowers, leaves and plant pots to make a card for the new challenge at CASology .... Now that's where I'm pushing it a little ... the theme is "Wheels" Do Pinwheels count?

Shopping Our Stash are challenging us to create without using any DP ... So my Pinwheel is all fabric - even the sentiment is on a piece of ribbon and I did do some dry embossing but I'm not sure it shows up too well ...

Lessology are asking for "Beads" ... There are little pearl beads on my flower and I did use a left over scrap of fabric ...

Ok, play time is over -  I have 25 bows to make now ... 

Have a beautiful day and keep safe

~ Ros ~