Let's go to the beach with City Crafter

Hi there and Happy July! 

It's my turn to host the challenge at City Crafter today...

Having recently been at the beach I am asking that this week you

Create a card or project with a Beach theme

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We have a generous sponsor this week ... Deedee's Digis who will be giving away 3 digi sets to our winner... 

Click the link to see their lovely designs

For my project this week I made a Beach Hut box and a little album with photos from our beach holiday at Santa Ponca last month

I made the box from cardstock after printing the woodgrain effect ... Then for the front I adhered a piece of coloured scrapbook transparency (for the sea) to a piece of white CS together with a piece of a napkin (woodgrain with the word beach)

After cutting a triangle shape for the roof - I added a scalloped edging, twine, a flag and a die cut birdie then embellished with some 3D stickers from my supplies

This is the back with the album inside

The anchor and the word 'photos' are both cut on the Cameo using vinyl

The album is simply done ... I used my Cameo to cut stamp shaped pages from black cardstock to which I adhered some photos

I used a thick transparency for the front and back covers and again used vinyl for the words ... A small piece of ribbon and some Washi tape and it was done - 

This photo shows you how the album slots into the back of the box

Our Guest designer this week is the super talented Ela winner of week 206 ... I can't wait to see what she has created ... hop on over to her Blog to see her lovely work

And don't forget to see what my fellow DT have created up on the

City Crafter Blog

I am entering this project in the Summer Lovin' Challenge at Catered Crop

I hope it fits the bill

Thanks so much for your visit ... Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Palma

Hello...

I spent last week in Palma ... It was far too hot for me ...  DH loves the heat but not me...

The first day I was so miserable, my head ached, my tummy ached and I couldn't find any respite from the heat. 

I met Sid the seagull who came everyday to the hotel in search of a free meal...

... How I wished I'd had wings to fly away to somewhere cooler...

Fortunately my DH took pity on me and took me off to the beach where the sea air was fresh and a constant breeze put a smile back on my face as the sun and the sea turned my skin to a golden brown ... I found a special spot under this Palm tree

Over a few days we became best friends

Life is good at the beach ...

We did meet quite a few Americans on the island ... Some had travelled for 36 hours from Pennsylvania 

 Now though I've said goodbye to Sid ... he was sad

Goodbye to the lovely shaded street cafes in the city of Palma

To the designer shops with pretty windows

Even with that 30% discount the prices were crazy ... But I did spot this set I thought my blog friend Sue Lelli would LOVE ... it's just her colour

Sorry I couldn't buy it Sue ...

And what about this gold Eagle collar/necklace ...

There was a matching wrist cuff to this ... I dread to think how much this would cost ... they even had security guards on the door!

Thankfully for my husband I'm not into designer goods ... I like what I like, labels don't come into it ... And I much preferred this bicycle

...and the shop interior to the goods on sale

So for now I'm content to be home where my heart is ... with my kitties and my son and my craft supplies ... Catching up with my friends here and in Blogland and baking recipes from Pinterest like this (now half eaten) raspberry and cream cheese coffee cake

It's delicious and the recipe can be found Here

I hope you are having a lovely day ... I'll be back tomorrow 

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Baby You Are One

Hello and Good morning!!

I'm happy to be back home and just in time for a special celebration

Our Beautiful World 

Is turning ONE this week! 

Congrats to my lovely friend and creator of Our Beautiful World ... Kirsty!

We are so grateful to you lovely people who have shared with us over this past year and we will be celebrating over the next 2 weeks with a

blog hop and prizes

We have a word prompt today and another one next week ... you can link up to either or both 

Please go on over to the Blog for full details and to see what you could win

Our prompt this week is

Baby You Are One

So... We were asked to post a photo of ourselves around the age of ONE ... 

I only have a single photo to share

I was about 15 months old ... Oh my goodness where did the years go?

Here I am with my Mum and my brothers ... 

I'm really looking forward to seeing your photos and here's the gift I am giving away

A purse from the UK and something for your photographs ... and maybe a little surprise too?

Here's the blog hop order ... 

Our Beautiful World

Kirsty

Ros

Milagros

Manuela

Robyn

Our Beautiful World

You need to start and end at Our Beautiful World 

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Red White and Blue

Hi there!

I hope your week is going well ... I'm on holiday so whilst you are reading this I'll be getting some R & R time!

Today of course is City Crafter Challenge day and this week we have Kirsty hosting for us with a 

Red White and Blue challenge

You may use other colours ... but the challenge colours must be prominent

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Of course there is only a short time before Independence Day so I have no doubt that this challenge will be easy peasy for many of you ...

Here's my card

I actually made this card for a dear friend of mine who went to live in the USA almost 30 years ago and celebrated her 60th birthday this month ...

It's another Cameo cut flower ... See, when I lost my mojo a few weeks back, I cut a few of these and made similar cards as you've seen in my previous posts so forgive me if you're fed up with them but 'needs must' as they say

Our Guest Designer this week is the lovely Victoriya of Fairy tales For Mary blog... Spotlight Artist from week 206 ... I just know she will be thrilled if you hop on over and say "Hi"

And the team have some lovely projects to inspire you at City Crafter so get out your paints, stamps, papers ... whatever you play with and come join us this week!

I'll be back at the end of the week so have fun and be safe

~ Ros ~

When The Unexpected Happens

Hi ...

I never expected that when I did this post for my friend and shared the card I made for her birthday that a week later I would be sharing a sympathy card for her daughter Elizabeth ...

Tragically 2 days after my friend celebrated her birthday, her son in law was killed in a car accident...

Elizabeth is left with 2 young children of just  5 and 2 ...

Somethings are just hard to comprehend ... It was only a few years ago that my friend's son lost his girlfriend in the same way...

He's gone on to find love again and a has a baby daughter now ... I can but hope that in time Elizabeth will be able to find peace and her new beginning...

~ Ros ~

Mail

Good morning!

It's time for a new word prompt at 

Our Beautiful World

This week we have Kirsty to thank for the prompt which is

Mail

Our Post (mail)boxes are bright red but this one is painted over in black as it's no longer in use ... I took this shot at Lands End and it's special because it's the first and last Post box in England

(altered using Picmonkey)

I love getting mail ... we do get inundated with junk mail but it's lovely when you get something special

Like this brown envelope dropping through the door

I knew straightaway it would be from Kirsty ... A Lovely Thank you card

And here's some mail I recently posted ... there are 9 friends and family birthday's this month

(photo altered in both iPhoto and Adobe PSE)

This little lot cost me almost £11 in postage!

My final photo today is of a lamp on my desk ... I just love that the burlap shade has a mail theme

Ok ...I'm handing over to you now ... I've got packing to do ... I'm leaving for a short vacation tomorrow but I'm looking forward to seeing your photos on my return

Please link up to 

Our Beautiful World 

And hop on over to the Blog to see more photos from around the globe ... remember you don't have to be an expert in photography ... this is just for fun

Have a beautiful day 

~ Ros ~