Believe

Hello ...

I hope you've had a good week ... We've had some warm weather over here and I certainly can't complain about the summer ... We have the Golf Open Championship on Merseyside so it's always good when the sunshines ... But we did have some storms this morning and lots of rain and the seeds from the trees came down like confetti ... the garden is covered in them.

I've been playing with my new memory box star stencil using modelling past and glitter ... and different background papers ... Now, I don't like to do Christmas themes until much later in the year ... I don't like wishing time away ... Plus I'm not that organised ... but this one just screamed Christmas to me

The paper is by MME Lost and Found ... It just reminded me of a night sky

My talented friend Tracy (I Wanna Build A Memory Blog) recommended that I buy a proper tool for the modelling paste so I bought a set from The Works (I use their Modelling Paste too) and it's made a much better job than my old store card Lol! Thanks Tracy!

I've also been playing with some Sculpey clay and ordered some Shimmerz and paints ... So I hope I'll have something different to show in a few weeks ... It's fun trying new things

I've some desserts baking in the oven and my bread needs to go in soon so I'd better say goodbye for now

Wishing you a lovely weekend ... 

~ Ros ~

Winners and Balloons

Hello and good morning!

I do have a card to share but firstly I am delighted to say that the winner of my prize for the birthday celebrations at 

Our Beautiful World

Is Lesley G ... Congratulations! Your package will be sent to you shortly

A full list of winners is up on the Blog ... Go take a look

Last weekend a friend's husband celebrated his birthday ... another guy card ... not always easy huh?

I decided to use the balloon stamp again ...

I apologise for the poor quality of the photos ... we had one of those days when one minute the sun is blinding ... then suddenly it goes dark and the heavens open! 

However, I hope you can see the sky background which I did with chalks and the PTI cloud die ... really simple but effective

After stamping the balloons I cut out the birthday word and layered it up before putting it back

I used the cardboard from all those cat food boxes for my layering ... Well I have enough of them!

That's it for today my sweet friends...

Have yourselves a lovely day

Be safe

~ Ros ~

Chirpy Chipboard

Hello ...

It's time for a new challenge at City Crafter and this week our challenge has been set by the very talented Anna
The challenge is to use at least one piece of Chipboard on your project ... 

Photo Credit ... Anna

I wonder if like me you have tons of it squirrelled away ... Well it was time to dig it out and make a little something with it 

I used 3 chipboard pieces, a bird, a branch and a border cut in half

For the bird and branch I used distress stains to colours them and for the scalloped borders I just smooched them with a pearlescent Brilliance ink 

There are so many ways to use your chipboard and to colour them ... We're hoping that you will join us at CCCB this week and share your beautiful creations ... Our guest Designer this week is the lovely Robyn ... be sure to check out her project along with those of my fellow DT.

Kirsty is also sponsoring a prize  to our winner this week ... a Maya Road chipboard alphabet package

So get out your chipboard and get creative!

Have a beautiful Day!

~ Ros ~

Woodland

Hello and welcome to another photo prompt at

Our Beautiful World

I have chosen our word this week ... and it's simply

Woodland

You know I love the beach ... but I have a passion for woodland, forests and trees ... I simply couldn't live without trees around me ...

As a young girl, whenever I was troubled I headed for the woods ... Not something I could probably do today. I am fortunate that where I am we have lots of green land and I am right next woodland known as The Triangle which is part of the Pennine Trail where my "Eagle" tree has been standing guard for many years ...

Would you not agree that it looks like an eagle?

Every morning for years I would pass him and say hello...

Having owned a couple of German Shepherds ... exploring woodland was a joy and explore we did from Scotland to Cornwall

This was taken some years ago in Derbyshire and this one...

... In Wales

Everyday I would walk come hail rain or shine ... 

Winter ...

Through to summer...

 Some mornings it was hard to motivate myself ... but the beauty was always worth it.

Both my dogs detested the rain ... but still wanted to be in the woods and those times were probably the best when I think about it ... Sometimes we would shelter under a tree for half an hour - being at one with nature, listening to the pitter pattering of rain drops on the trees ... Meeting friends along the way...

On this path at a certain time of year it would be completely covered by tiny frogs no bigger than a finger nail ... To me woodland is just magical, calming and gentle ... nothing heals like nature

I and my friends at 

Our Beautiful World 

Would love to explore woodland with you ... link up your photos and tell us about them

I will be revealing the winner of my gift following the  birthday celebrations at 

Our Beautiful World shortly.

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Smile

Hi there ...

I'm feeling a little burnt out right now ... In need of some rest and 'me' time

Last night was our last craft class at Thursday club until September and I'm looking forward to re-charching my batteries and hopefully coming up with some new projects for them.

It seems all I've been doing lately is keeping up with DT work, comments, my group of special needs and a little teaching here and there and I miss being able to "just create"

My little Ginger waits patiently for me to join him on the swing

We've had some nice sunshine and he spends all day here

But today I have a card to share that is for a friend's birthday ... I used to take her out in her pram ... spent many many years with her and her sisters ... babysitting, taking them to the park etc., I can hardly believe she is celebrating her 50th! 

She now lives in Norway so I haven't seen her in a long time ... If I'm up to it we will be meeting again tonight as she's come home to celebrate

There is a challenge at Mod Squad this week 

It calls for some texture on your card...

Well there's lots of different texture here don't you think?

Linen card stock, dry embossing, liquid pearls and glitter paper

... a felt star, silver thread and rainbow gems

I had fun putting this one together ... That's what it's all about 

Ok, I'm off visit you all then join my kitty for a little while...

Have a lovely day 

~ Ros ~

Sunshine and Lavender

Hello ...

How was your weekend? Mine was busy catching up with family and helping my SIl to make some cards ... I showed her a few techniques with embossing, chalking and stamping and she went home a happy girl with a few cards and lots of die cuts.

Today of course is time for a new challenge at City Crafter  - I have to say that every week I am blown away with your entries to our challenges ... you lovely people are so very talented ... I literally drooled over each and every entry last week! You've no idea how hard it is for us to pick winners ...

 This week we have the lovely Char hosting for us with a

Sunshine and Lavender theme make a card or project using Lavender and Yellow
 I can hardly wait to see what you come up with

Here's the beautiful inspiration photo Char has given us

Source

I decided to try my hand at a shaker card for my sister's birthday using these colours in my stamping

It's really hard to photograph things with acetate don't you think?

The balloon stamps and word die I used are by Lil' Inker though the sentiment is computer generated

I love that word die ... I cut it twice ... once out cardstock I first stamped using my favourite Precious Remembrance stamp from New Day ... then again out of grey card and slightly offset them to give the dimensional look ...

Our GD this week is Karasiowa ... who won week 211 with her beautiful creation and once again we are offering a GD spot to our winner this week.

I hope you can join us 

Have a great week and thanks so much for your visit and your kind comments

Till soon

~ Ros ~