A Bucket of Roses

Hello ...

It feels so good to be back in my little room surrounded by my craft supplies ... even though I dearly miss my Aunt and Miss Sheba ... her cat ... who would bound into my bedroom every morning to say good morning!

Today starts another challenge at City Crafter and this week sweet Charlene has picked a beautiful photo to inspire us ...

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 ...and her challenge theme is 

Flower Power

Char is asking that we create a project that includes 

a minimum of 5 flowers and at least 2 different backgrounds - either DP or mixed media

I was so taken by this photo that I wanted to somehow replicate that bucket of flowers and this is what I came up with

I rubbed the brick embossing folder with silver ink to try and mimic the distressed chair and IRL it is more aqua

I love the little bucket ... I just hand cut a shape from silver mat card and stamped it in London Fog ink with a crackled effect and made a little handle from craft wire ... Foam pads help to give it some shape

Click to enlarge

This week we have the talented Beata  (our winner from week 169) Guest Designing for us ... Please do visit her blog Here to see her amazing creations!

This week's winner will also have a guest spot with us at CCCB so get out your supplies and come and join us ... remember you don't have to mimic the photo ... just follow the challenge theme 

I can't wait to see what you come up with

Thanks so much for stopping by ... don't forget to visit CCCB to check out the wonderful designs from the rest of our team ...

Till soon 

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Fall Berries

Hello sweet friends...

 Sunday is always the start of a new prompt at 

Our Beautiful World

and this week the prompt is "Fall"

It's a little early in my part of the world for real Fall colours ... The rich autumnal golds, yellows and copper that will grace us probably in another month. 

I love the crisp mornings especially as the sun filters through the trees and the leaves crunch underfoot. But right now the trees and shrubs still have their green leaves though they now display a plentiful supplies of berries to see the wildlife through the winter

... many have already been eaten as you can see on this Elderberry ...

As I have been staying in Lincoln on the east coast of the UK - all my photos are from in and around my Aunts garden this week

If you were into making Elderberry wine ... there is no shortage of berries here ... and the honeysuckle is also laden

The Firethorn also has a plentiful supply but they are yet to turn colour ... these will be a magnificent bright orange colour

In fact there are berries hiding everywhere ...

It's late September ... The fields have been ploughed and the hay cut and stored but the roses still bloom

... along with pretty pink flowers

... and delicate but oh so pretty Fuchsia

This is my part of the world ... what's your like this time of year? We'd love to see ... Please link up at 

Our Beautiful World

Have a lovely Sunday

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Ciào!

Hello!

Gosh it's getting cold ... here in Lincolnshire the wind is always very strong and it a cold wind that blows!

Still I'm enjoying the break and some girlie time with my Aunt

Today starts a new photo inspiration challenge at 

Papercraft Star

And this is your photo

Once again there is quite a bit to go on in this photo and you'll always find suggestions along with inspiration on the Papercraft Star blog 

The photo reminded me of The Cafe Rouge ... not sure if you know what that is but we have a few of them in the UK ... Here's a shot of one in Manchester

As you can see this one is right next to the Italian restaurant and my card this week has an Italian theme with the French colours

I overlaid a digital image of the "Ciào" which I bought at Etsy onto my paper - the BG paper is a large A4 picture so I scanned it into my computer to make it smaller for my card and to add the overlay

Can you see I used a couple of cogs from the MPD Time Pieces set too ... They are just so versatile and add a little something to a masculine card ... And this card is for a male friend of my husband

I'd love to see your interpretation of the photo so I hope you'll join us this week ...

Ciào for now!

~ Ros ~

CCCB Colour Challenge

Hello!

It's my turn to host at City Crafter this week and I thought we'd go with a colour challenge based on this lovely photo

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Aqua, White, Silver, Green are your colours

And here's my card ...

These papers have been hiding away for a long time and they were just perfect for this colour challenge ... whenever it's my turn to come up with a challenge - I never have anything in my head about what I will create ... sometimes I am struggling and think "Ros why did you pick that!" Lol! Fortunately it always comes together in the end

The die is by PTI

... and the flower was cut on my Cameo ... which I can no longer use as the power cable is broken! I see from the internet that I am not the only one who has experienced this and so far I have had no luck in finding a replacement ...sigh

This week we have the very talented Macarena guesting for us ... Macarena won our challenge in week 166 ... I'm sure she would love you to stop by her blog and say hello ... she makes such beautiful things ... and don't forget to visit the City Crafter Blog to check out the inspiration from the team this week ...

I'll be back with you tomorrow ... till then have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~

Yellow

Happy Sunday!

I hope you are all well ... I'm in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire ... enjoying the peacefulness and my Aunts company ... 

Thanks so much for your well wishes ... I'm happy to say that finally today my face is no longer swollen and I am not in much pain with my mouth ...

At Our Beautiful World this week ... the prompt has been chosen for us by Wendy and it is simply

Yellow

This is a photo of the leaves on a shrub outside my front door ... some leaves are yellow, some green and some variegated ... I took it just after it had rained and looking at it - it would have been a good shot for last weeks prompt of Bubbles!

I hope you aren't fed up of seeing my flowers ... because here are some Yellow ones in and around my garden

Can you see the bee to the right just about to land on this flower?

I wonder what you will come up with this week for Yellow ... 

Our Beautiful World would LOVE to see your photos so please link up with us

Have a lovely day

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Graduation

Hi there!

This is just a quick post ... I had to have a tooth extracted yesterday and it wasn't an easy extraction ... I looked like I had been punched ... several times! And I feel it!

So I'm taking it easy today as I have club to do tonight ...

After posting the school album yesterday for my great niece Sophia ... I received a gorgeous photo in the post that I wanted to share with you ...

This is Sophia's "Graduation from Nursery" photo

That certainly cheered me up!

I'm leaving for Lincoln again on Saturday but I'll keep in touch ...

Till soon - Stay safe

~ Ros ~