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Hi there!

How was your weekend? I hope you are staying warm ... it's very cold and icy here

I got to play a little yesterday ... Got out my Gelatos and made a few cards ... One is for my DH's brother and his wife ... they just moved down to Dorset 

I'm using my new City Scape die again even though they've actually moved to the countryside Lol!

I used 2 different colour Gelatos mixing them with water and then I splattered both Picket Fence and Brushed Pewter distress paints over the top once the Gelatos were dry

The sentiment is computer generated and all the embellishments were from my left over box

I'm entering this at The Mixed Media Card Challenge where the theme is NEW

And leaving the best till last - I got another beautiful card in the mail today together with some chocolate!!

I love Lindt chocolate Thank you so much Manuela!!

Have yourselves a good day and thanks so much for looking in

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Like A Song

Happy Sunday!

Robyn has picked the new prompt for 

Our Beautiful World

This week she's asking that we post a photo that represents a song ... What a great idea!

I could have posted so many photos for this ... No prizes for guessing this first one

If you enlarge it you'll see that this is a sculpture of "Eleanor Rigby" here in my home town

And while I'm about it how about "In My Liverpool Home"

Then of course "Sailing"

I came across this and thought "Here Comes The Sun"

Then this ... "Little Donkey"

You see ... I could go on forever ... But my final one is this

"Kiss"

A BIG thank you to Robyn for this prompt ... I Love it!

I'm sure you can all find something that suits this week's prompt ... come link up at 

Our Beautiful Word 

 and hop over to the blog to see what the rest of the team have come up with

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

Have A Great Day

Hi there!

It's kinda crazy around here right now ... We are decorating the dining area and the kitchen and you girls know what it's like when your home is in disarray and you can't get to do the things you want in the kitchen

Still I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end ... My dining area will have something Pinterest inspired ... i.e. Faux panelling and I'm really hoping it comes together like I have envisaged it in my head ... My DH is trusting me on this one (gulp) 

Whilst work was going on yesterday my friend Pat popped over and we had a little crafting time together ... Here's a card I made using one of my new Dies from Clearly Besotted a terrific online store from the UK ... the postage is low and the service is amazing ... my goods arrived the following day!

This is the skyline die which I love ... the butterfly is from Memory Box and the sentiment is from a Precious Remembrance set my lovely friend Sue Lelli sent me

The word die is by Simon Says ... quite a mixture but it all works don't you think?

The BG is Ombre Paper in Apricot by Pink Petticoat and I used a Spellbinders Frame Die to give a fancy edge to the CS

I was lucky enough to get money from my DH, my Brother and my GF's for my birthday and I've had fun buying new craft goods as well as a new little sewing machine from Ikea ... 

I hope you have a beautiful weekend - I'll be back tomorrow for the new prompt at Our Beautiful World 

Till soon be safe and thanks for looking in

~ Ros ~

Edit ... I'm linking this up to Darnell's NBUS challenge Here

Birthday Shaker

Hello!! 

My, where did this week go? I can't believe it's Thursday already... 

Ok, so I have another birthday card to share ... My husbands SIL had her birthday a couple of days before me so I made her a shaker card

I did a partial die cut using one of my circle dies to get that shape ... Just to make it a little different 

I had to return to the doctor this week ... My 3rd visit for this skin rash ... it's been months now and they are baffled ... I have more medication and failing that I will have to have biopsies done ...

I had to laugh though ... My GP called in another GP to see if she could offer any further advice and she mention that I may be light sensitive or sun sensitive ... I mean here we hardly see the sun this time of year and the skies are often grey and given that the rashes are in places normally covered - I can assure everyone that I have not been streaking Lol!!

I hope you are staying warm wherever you are ... we are expecting severe storms again ... I'm really looking forward to Spring and even though it's mid January we have beautiful Daffodils coming up everywhere ... Some are in full bloom!

Thanks so much for stopping by

Hugs

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 244

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

It's time for a new challenge over at City Crafter and this week we have the lovely Stella hosting for us with a Winter White challenge

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Stella is asking that we make a card or project that is mainly white with some touches of neutral or pastel shades

Here's what I came up with

I made this weeks ago and looking at it now it is so like the sympathy card I did recently ... Oh well,

I guess it shows the versatility of those dies

The pastel paper I used is from a Christmas pad I had last year ... 

... and though I dread having to do mainly white I am really please with how this turned out 

Our team have some more projects up on the City Crafter Blog to inspire you and this week our Guest Designer is the talented Deepti!

Click on her name to go across to her blog and be inspired by her fabulous creations ...

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week ...

Thanks so much for stopping by - Have a great day!

~ Ros ~

Birthday Thank you's

Hello ...

How was your weekend?

I had family and friends here all yesterday and later Stella and I talked then a dear friend who I haven't seen in a long time rang too ... It was lovely

I was exhausted at the end of the evening ... I'm not used to talking so much! 

Given that it's my birthday today I will be going out to lunch with some girlfriends but before I get organised I just wanted to say a big Thank You to all of you for your kind wishes and I'd like to share a few things I received

This lovely selection of goodies including a fabulous apron arrived from the lovely Ira

together with this stunning card ... wouldn't you just love boots like that?

And my dear friend Stella sent these

A wonderful Tea chest and tea towels with a hanger plus a beautiful card

Did you notice that those tea towels match the apron Ira sent? How amazing is that! Those ladies really know what I love

I was positively doing the Happy Dance when these cards arrived from 2 of my blog friends ... They create totally different things but each is a masterpiece

This is from the lovely Asia

Beautifully layered and so very pretty ...

And this one came from the amazingly talented Tracy ... I saw it on her blog and was thrilled when it arrived here (as most cats do Lol)

The most adorable no mess no fuss kitty!

Thank you all so very much ... I am touched by your kindness and always amazed by your talent

I'm waaaay behind on my commenting but I promise I'll catch up as soon as I can...

Have a beautiful day ... It's very wet and wild here!

Hugs

~ Ros ~