At Peace

Hello ...

I have a post to celebrate Charlene's birthday just below this ...

I wanted to quickly pop in and let you know that our cousin Sheila passed away a short while ago

Finally she is at peace and I can only hope and pray that she will find the love and happiness she richly deserves wherever her sweet soul has gone ...

Thank you for your kind words, your support and prayers 

~ Ros ~

Happy Birthday Charlene!

Another scheduled post today ... Life is hectic right now ...

Today is our lovely Charlene's (City Crafter) birthday ...

It's a special one for her and to celebrate she is taking a trip ... or rather a cruise ... 

Charlene if you are able to see our posts ... 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

This is a card I made especially for our sweet Charlene

I know Char received this before she left for her vacation ...

I hope you're having the trip of a lifetime Charlene

Stay safe and take lots of photos!

And enjoy your special day

Sending hugs

~ Ros ~

Please hop over to the City Crafter blog to see a special posting and leave Charlene some birthday wishes!

Our Beautiful World - Details

Good morning!

My post is being scheduled today because I don't know how things will transpire in the next 24hours with my husbands cousin ... 

Grateful thanks to all of you for your kind words and thoughts ... It's so very much appreciated...

Today at Our Beautiful World ... Wendy (Our very own Miss Netherlands) has picked a prompt for us which is 

"Details"

So we are looking for you to link up your photos of how this word translates to you

This is my shot

I love getting up close and personal with nature ... this was a wild flower growing in Cornwall - the details of flowers and plants always fascinate and enthral me ...

If you look really closely you will see a little visitor there too ...

See it now? Click to enlarge

Here's another one

Just look at all those ants!

My lovely team mates from around the world have posted their photos up on the blog and we would love for you to join us too ... and why not grab our button whilst you visit ... spread the word and lets get to see the loves and lives of our beautiful blogging community through your lens ...

A secret ... Later in the week we will have a little tutorial for you at Our Beautiful World ... my very first (eek)! 

I hope you have a lovely Sunday 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Hedgehogs and heartaches

Hello ...

Well the heat here has caused me sleepless nights ... but more than that my husband's cousin ... who you may remember from previous posts fell and broke her hip in April has been hospitalised once again after only being released into a nursing home a few days ago.

Having spent the last 3 months in 2 different hospitals - social workers, contrary to our opinion, decided that she was fit to go back to her own home this coming week but things have taken a turn for the worse ...

 Yesterday we were informed that she had  fallen in the nursing home but was 'fine' ... an hour later she was rushed into hospital ...

At 4am this morning we were called out to the hospital ... It's not looking good at all and we are having a little respite before going back to face whatever will be ...

So what's a girl to do? Breathe deeply ... trying to dispel the frustration and anger brought about by those who would not listen ... stay calm and stay strong ... and fold book pages ...

This little guy cheers me up ... Just an old book with a simple fold

I had a notion that I could write down my words of anger and frustration onto little cards and put them here ... instead of keeping them inside

Perhaps I will ...

.. after all it's a prickly situation

Time for some tea I think ...

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star A Decorated Tray and a little Tutorial

Hello!

My we are having lovely weather ... what a difference to be working with the doors and windows open and the sun filtering through ...

Today is a brand new Photo Inspiration challenge at Papercraft Star

There's so much to choose from in this photo ... Beautiful colours and just look at the piano covered in foliage ...

The hydrangeas jumped out at me here and a light bulb went on ... See, I have this pretty tray which got damaged

So it was time to play with my digital images and see what I could do ... Here's what I ended up with

Now doesn't that look better? A close up before I give you an idea of how I did this

I use an iMac computer ... it's my best friend ... so the program I use when working with digitals is Print Shop ...

I started here with a digital paper by Erica Coombs which looked like this

... Until I lightened it in Print Shop so that it looked something like this

Then I took this image from The Graphics Fairy

 and changed it to a transparency (using Adobe Photoshop Elements) and saved it as a png file ... 

Once saved I could open it in Print shop and change the colour to get more of a blue shade as in the Inspiration photo

... So it then looked like this

I could then layer this in different sizes and directions onto my paper ...

when I was happy with the design I then used Hero Arts digitals (Formes & letters) on top - you could of course stamp instead if you wanted but with digitals you can alter the sizes

As a final touch I found the definition of Hydrangea on the internet written in French

Once I was completely happy I just printed the image on ordinary copy paper and used Mod Podge to adhere it to my tray and added a few coats of clear lacquer to protect it 

So thanks to this challenge I now have a pretty 'new' tray ...

I hope you will be inspired as I was to join us this week ... please hop over to the blog to check out the creations from the rest of the DT 

Thanks for stopping by ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Postcards from Paris ... City Crafter

Good morning ...

I am hosting today at City Crafter Challenge and you all know I love to dress things up and alter something simple to make it pretty ... so my challenge this week is 

"Dress It Up"

I want you to take something ordinary ... a book, a box a peg ... anything really ... and dress it up!

I had this simple box lid 

 Which I first covered in black (washi type) tape 

 Then I downloaded some pretty postcards from the French Sparrow ... (grateful thanks to Kerry) and also made some postcards myself using photos of my great Aunt and some digitals to create this ...

... Accordion album

It's made from folded black cardstock which is adhered into the box lid ... Each side has these lovely postcards plus a blank page to add your own photos or memorabilia ... 

Let me take you through Kerry's postcards

... and theses are the ones I made which I will add to Free Stuff at the top of this page in case you would like to use them

I love how an ordinary box lid can become something pretty ... 

... and I would love to see what you can dress up so please come and link up at City Crafter where the winner will have a Guest Design spot with us ...

This week's GD once again is Linda Breedlove ... I can't wait to see what beauties Linda and the rest of the team have created so I'm hopping over to the blog to take a look ... But not before I've linked up to

LESSology where the challenge is all about Packaging

Thanks so much for stopping by ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~