Beautiful You

Hello...

This week my sweet Aunt celebrates her 88th Birthday so I'll be heading off to Lincoln to see her on Wednesday and I'm really looking forward to it....

Here's the card I made for her

She likes happy cards and I think this is kinda happy with those balloons and vellum clouds don't you?

It's been hard trying to photograph things lately ... We've gone from rain and dull skies to bright sunshine but it's still not warm

I'll be back tomorrow for the City Crafter Challenge ... Have a great day and take care

~ Ros ~

Black & White

Hello there

This week it's Manuela's turn to pick a photographic prompt for 

Our Beautiful World

The prompt is Black and White

These are two of my less troublesome cats ... ornaments given to me years ago by friends

Little did we know then that Gyspy would come into our home

A black and white cat with a strong will and the strangest behaviour I have ever known in a cat 

On the same shelf stands another cat ornament that is very like my fat Ginger cat 

.. so I had to include this shot

My DH has been working on a project for his Local History class ... or rather I have been working on a project for him Lol! He's doing a brief history on John Lennon Airport and it includes lots of Black and White photos

I like black and white photos ... they are so much more flattering and I have a frame of family favourites on the wall of my hallway

I'm sure you can find many photos that fit this weeks' prompt ... I hope you'll share them with us at 

Our Beautiful world

Hop over and visit the rest of the team to see what they've come up with

Kirsty
Manuela
Robyn

Have a lovely Sunday my friends

~ Ros ~

Smile

Hello 

A whole week has just whizzed by once again ... It's a little brighter here in the UK but still cold

Not much to share except a card I made a few weeks ago using a little Memory Box frame die, my city scape die from Clearly Besotted and the Smile die from PTI

Clearly Besotted have just released their March goods and I just know if I take a look I'll buy more stuff

I've been busy keeping up with DT work and projects for the Thursday Club ... I'm preparing 25 exploding boxes for Mother's day for them and my Cameo decided to go wrong half way through cutting out yesterday so I've still a lot of work to do by hand ... I've had a few problems with the Cameo lately which is so frustrating ... I'm debating on buying a new cutting machine ... any advice from you lovely people would be welcome

I hope you have a great day and enjoying the upcoming weekend

Till soon be safe

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 251

Hello everyone

My fellow DT member and dear friend Stella is hosting the challenge today at City Crafter and she has challenged us to create a card or project that features Washi Tape

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I am also delighted to say that our Guest Designer is the lovely Darnell Knauss ... Many of you will know Darnell for her lovely creations, her NBUS challenges, her generosity, her witty and uplifting posts and not least of all for her fine use of invented words lol! If you have never visited Darnell's blog you don't know what you are missing ... click the link and see for yourself

So here's my card

I made it for my SIL who celebrated her birthday last month ... The tag features 2 different dottie Washi Tapes overlaid with vellum

The tulips (stamps by Clearly Besotted) were painted with Gelatos and I dusted off my Swiss embossing folder for this one

Like Darnell this week's winner will also have a GD spot with us so pull out those forgotten about Washi tapes and get creating ... Our team have lots more inspiration for you up on the City Crafter Blog, so take a minute to have a look ...

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Be safe

~ Ros ~

This and That

Hellooo...

I have just returned from the hospital where I had 2 biopsies taken. I'm hoping that in another month I will finally know what is going on with this old body of mine....

I was thrilled to discover I had This card highlighted at The Mixed Media Challenge ... what a great piece of news to come home to ... Thank you ladies!

It's a cold and very windy day here and I don't have anything that new to share but I do have a Thank You card I made a while ago for my sweet friend Ira

Quite simple but it did use up some of my left overs

...And I thought I could enter it at CAS(E) this Sketch

I also thought you may like to see the mirror I was painting ... I shared a few photos of my new dining area Here and the furniture I painted, then I bought a shutter mirror which was originally a dirty white and a little too shabby for my liking so I altered it for the far end of the room

I apologise for the poor quality of the photos but as you will see the light was so bright when I took these

The little hen and chicks you can see are lights ... they look so sweet lit up

And my Ginger cat also has a new little house which he loves!

He had outgrown his other one and though this is a little girlie ... he doesn't seem to mind ... He can move around in there and sleeps all night in it ...

I hope you are having a good start to the week ... I'll be back tomorrow for the new challenge at 

City Crafter ...

Have a yourselves good day and thanks so much for your visit

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Tangled

Hello ...

Happy St David's Day and Welcome March!

Today I have picked the word prompt for 

Our Beautiful World

This week your word is Tangled...

And I'm am a little embarrassed to share this photo of my ribbons all tangled up ... 

I'm certainly no neat freak ... But hey this is me

Looking around at the trees and the garden made me think of the word ... everything seems to be tangled this time of year ... or maybe it's just the bareness that makes it appear that way

But do you see what I see? Look a little closer...

Cheeky grey squirrels ... These guys were having such a wonderful time charging up and down the trees and almost camouflaged in the tangle of twigs and branches

Share your Tangled photos with us this week at 

Our Beautiful World

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~