Meet Monique

Hello!

I'd like you to meet a friend of mine Monique Dubois

She doesn't live with me (well, I've got cats) No, she's from Paris

My blog friend Darnell as most of you know has a hamster "Hammy" and Monique would love to meet him

Ok, Monique is a mouse not a hamster and I'm not sure how hamsters and mice get on so Darnell may have her hands full... Never the less this card will be on it's way very soon

I think maybe I need another cup of coffee... or maybe I've had too many

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Stretch Your Dies Day 6

Hello ...

This is my second post today ...  I would love it if you scrolled down to check out the post for

 Our Beautiful World  too

I'm just posting my card for Day 6 of the online class

Day 6 is about using your border dies in different ways ... The team really came up with some amazing samples ... Shaped cards, inlaid die technique and sponging using a border die cut as a template

I went with the latter using the Hillside Border dies by Lawn Fawn to create this cute card

The little elephant is a recent purchase ... he's from the Unforgettable stamp set by Wplus9 which I got from Make the Day Special - I just love this cute set

My sponging needs a little practice but I'm happy with how this turned out

I hope your day is A beautiful one

Thanks so much for stopping by

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Gift

Good morning...

It's time for a new word prompt at 

Our Beautiful World

This week Kirsty has picked the word for us it's

Gift

I've been a little too preoccupied with creating this week so I've been going through my photos to find something suitable ... 

The word Gift has so many meanings and looking through my archives I sort of realised that whilst I am not what I would call a gifted person (talent wise) I have been gifted...

My greatest gift -  The gift of motherhood without a doubt ... I only have one child but I am more than thankful

I've been gifted with having beautiful animals... there's nothing like the love of a dog

And looking at this photo I see so much more ... I have the gift of sight to enjoy the beauty of the forest... and my legs have carried me many miles walking my dogs and enabled me to gift back a little

by doing the Race for Life a number of times

I have the gift of somehow being accepted by animals that need help

Yes that's a real Coal Tit in my hand...

... And a fox cub that I found ... she was very sick but made a good recovery

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week to fit the word gift

Link up your photos with us at 

Our Beautiful World 

Have a lovely Sunday

Stretch your Dies Day 5

Yep I'm back again ...

Day 5 of the class is using coordinating stamps and dies ... I only have a few of these and the examples in class were all stunning but I opted to make a quick card CASing the card by Shari Carroll

Pat always comes here on Friday afternoon which I love so I was a little restricted for "me' time as I try to help Pat make something to take home

So this card uses a stamped window and a cut out from the coordinating die

The set I had was from Clearly Besotted stamps and I first stamped and embossed in white onto a piece of acetate

Unfortunately my embossing is nowhere near as neat and clean as Shari's but that acetate is slippery!

Behind the acetate which neatly fits into the coordinating die cut is patterned paper...

I'm hoping to find time in the near future to try out the other 2 examples in today's class - I'm amazed I was even able to keep up as well as I have ... I only missed one day ...

I hope you are all well and wish you a lovely weekend

Till soon be safe

~ Ros ~

Stretch Your Dies Day 4

Hello again ...

Day 4 of the online class is about using your small dies...

I went with a sample by Jennifer Rzasa which is using your mini dies to fill your background

I pulled out those pussy cat dies for this together with the littlest of the balloon dies

I decided that they looked better on a piece of DP ... This is one by American Crafts

One little tip I use when cutting certain images is that if you turn your paper or card over and cut again ... the direction of the image is reversed ... That way my cats don't all go in one direction

My nephew is coming to dinner tonight so I'd better get on ...

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments - I really appreciate it

Enjoy the rest of your day

~ Ros ~

Flap Opening Card

Hello ...

Today I'm sharing another card from the online class and this one I've taken from Carissa Wiley's example ... It's using your dies to create a flap opening

I sponged Avery Elle's Sea Glass ink through a Memory Box stencil for my BG and added a strip of paper from MME before partially cutting through using one of the Lil'inkers stitched rectangle dies to make a flap

I also added a few sponged circles to my base card and stamped under the flap ( stamps are from Clearly Besotted) and finally added a frame cut from 2 of the rectangle dies

I think this is really a fun way to use my dies and I'll be trying this again

Thanks for letting me share with you ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~