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Hi there ... Did you have a good weekend? 

We went to a BBQ at my best friend's house yesterday ... The weather wasn't very kind but we had fun ... I haven't laughed so much in ages ... I love my girlfriends.

This afternoon my brother and my great nephew Ross will be paying us a visit so I'll keep this short ... I just have a card to share

A NBUS stamp from Inkylicious together with a little water colouring using Gelatos

My sewing machine doesn't like vellum ... hence the crooked stitches .. I think perhaps it's the needle or maybe it's about time I got the machine serviced

 Looking at this card has given me an idea for another one ... hmmm, better jot it down as I'm liable to forget these days Lol!

Have a beautiful day and thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Gates

Good morning!

Time for a new word prompt at

Our Beautiful World

Chosen for us by the lovely Manuela ... The prompt is

Gate

Now here's some famous Gates ... Not that far from where I live is Mendips ... The house that John Lennon grew up in ... This is the house with the original features including the Gates.
Every day of the week tourists from all over the world make their way to Mendips ... some take the tour bus others take local transport

This set of Gates was in Majorca ... They have many ornate Gates

I often wished I kept my DH behind these Gates at Palma Cathedral ...

My life would have been so peaceful Lol!

This last photo always tears at my heart ...

No longer able to walk far my beautiful dog Holly would sit all day behind that baby Gate waiting for Mikey to return from the USA ... A few days after this was taken and just 2 weeks before Mikey's homecoming I had to make the decision to put my beloved girl to sleep ... She had cancer and I couldn't bear to see her suffer ... I still have that Gate

So there you have it ... My photos for this week's prompt

I hope you will share with us this week and take a look at all the photos up on the Blog

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Saturday Smile

Hello and Happy Saturday

The football season has started here and later this afternoon my DH will be going off to see his team play ... I love my peaceful time!

It's cold and wet but I don't mind ... more reason to play with my supplies or maybe catch an afternoon movie ... Oh the choices lol!

In between DT work yesterday I put together a card from my scraps ...

I often die cut something then change my mind about the colour... hence I end up with things I don't use ... Like this smile word die and the chloe stem

I've always admired the cards I see with the curved front and really wanted to try it so I used my Cameo to cut one ...

As it happens the challenge at JUGS this week is a photo challenge

It's such an interesting photo with so much to go on ... I hadn't seen this photo when I made my card and I'm glad I went for those colours as they are in the photo and I have a flower so hopefully this will qualify for the challenge...

I hope you have a lovely day ... I'll be back tomorrow with photos for 

Our Beautiful World 

Till then ... take care

~ Ros ~

PTI Design Tips

Hello!

How are you all? 

I have had a really busy week at home ... just the usual, cleaning cooking and baking ... 

This week I've made a 3 loaves of bread, 24 sticky buns and a lemon and blueberry desert ... so I'm still being creative... And I had Pat come around for a lesson in how I made This set

 Today I have a card to share using the PTI design tip from Maile Belles which involves cut out panels

Unfortunately my stamps from PTI are very limited so I used a holly stamp by Dovecraft to make this Christmas card ... Yes, you heard me right ... A Christmas card Lol!

I just thought it would be a good stamp to use for this technique and I really like the result

I did use a PTI ink (Ripe Avocado) to colour my holly leaves with

I'm going to have to invest in some more stamps I think because I like this effect and I guess you've noticed that I'm still bewitched by blue and green colours 

I hope your day is going well ... It's almost the weekend ... Have a good one!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 225

Hello

This week at City Crafter we have an Inspiration Photo challenge for you

Kirsty is our hostess and this is her photo choice

Source

Isn't that just the cutest? I absolutely love those colours - the grey and kraft beige and I spotted those little red and turquoise flowers on the sweet little girls hat ... So it was the colours I went with

I randomly scored my grey cardstock top and bottom to mimic the pattern in the little cardigan

I think I captured all the colours here ... The sentiment is an old Bo Bunny sticker I had hiding in my stash and I used textured cardstock and fabrics to reflect the feel of the photo

Our Guest Designer this week is Joanne - winner of week 216 ... click on the link to go visit her lovely blog

Joanne and my fello DT have some beautiful creations to inspire you up on the City Crafter Blog ... hop on over and take a look ... We're looking forward to seeing your interpretation of Kirsty's lovely inspiration photo so please come and join us

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Blue & Green

Hello...

It's been a while since I got to create something and I love blue and green together so when I saw the challenge at 

Just Us Girls

I had to play along ... 

Whilst over at AAA Cards this week 

The challenge is to CASe this card by Jane Taylor

Here's my card

I used blue and green mists for my background and layered some flowers on to a navy blue die cut wreath

... A couple of die cut ferns and a silver thread bow complete my centre piece

The sentiment is by PTI stamped in ink by Gina K. designs 

I also added some glossy accents onto a few petals ... simply because this flower reminds me of a waterlily, and I couldn't resist adding a few sequins too.

I hope you're having a good start to the week - It's cool and wet here and it's been very windy too ... 

Thanks for looking in - Take care

~ Ros ~