Thinking about you

Hello and Happy May to you all ...

I wish it were a little warmer here but at least colour is starting to come back into the garden and the trees are slowly filling out...

I have a little card to share using my Ellie stamp again - this time paired with the umbrella ...

(I am so thrilled to say that my umbrella card Here won the Chic of the Week at Just Us Girls!)

The umbrella is actually silver mirri card ... a little hard to photograph - I just made a little cut beneath Ellie's trunk to slide the umbrella handle in

I stencilled the background with ink - green and grey is how it's been here ... lots of grey skies and rain and the beautiful fresh green leaves on the trees

If you're wondering about that umbrella die it's by Impression Obsessions

I hope you have a lovely weekend 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Looking for Inspiration

Hello

It's been a few days since I posted anything ... DH is having fun in Spain golfing and I am coming down with a cold and feeling a little rough... 

 I had a big tidy up of my room yesterday and today I couldn't find my inspiration ... maybe it's because I don't feel so good or maybe I tossed it out with the rubbish

I thought I'd try and make a card for the challenge over at The Card Concept 

This is the photo inspiration

Well, I stared and stared at that photo and I just kept on coming back to that beautiful coral rose... I love that colour... So eventually that's where I went with this

Roses always say Love to me even though they aren't actual roses on that paper

Excuse the shadowing on my photo ... We've had a lot of rain with bright sunshine in between

I'm going for the Clean and Layered category with this one

I thought I'd enter this at AAA Cards too ... 

Does it count as a hole when it has a vellum backing? 

I hope you are enjoying your day ... 

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 259

Hello and good morning friends...

This is the last week of the birthday celebrations at 

City Crafter Challenge

This week the lovely Stella has made a card to inspire us

You can pick any element of Stella's card to create one of your own and link up at CCCB for a chance to win the prize she is offering here

Here's my take on the challenge

I was inspired by the stars and the circle shape

I used spray mists to cover the front before cutting the circle 

The Guest Designer this week is the lovely Lin of heartshugsandflowers blogspot 

I am also entering my card for the challenge over at AAA Cards this week

There's definitely a hole in my card!

Thanks so much for your visit

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Flutter

Hello

There's a new word prompt over at 

Our Beautiful World

This week it was my turn to pick the prompt and it's simply Flutter

We have so many butterflies here right now ... they seem to be fluttering everywhere
Mostly they are Peacock butterflies but not all of them

And quite recently I had to cut out 80+ paper ones for the Thursday club project ... Here they are fluttering on acetate stems

The group made exploding boxes as a Mother's Day gift

I thought I'd also share a photo of one of the many squirrels we have in the area ... 

This little guy was enjoying the sunshine we've had recently and decided to take a nap ... His fluffy tail was just fluttering in the breeze

Hop on over to Our Beautiful World Blog and see what my fellow team mates have come up with this week ... 

Have a beautiful Sunday

~ Ros ~

April Showers

Hi there!

I've a dinner guest tonight ... Stella's son Martijn is coming over so I've done some baking and before I start the preparations for our meal I've a card to share that I'm linking up with the new challenge at 

Just Us Girls

 I spoke too soon in my last post ...  The April showers have arrived Lol! So whilst the JUGS inspiration photo shows beautiful Spring tulips I'm using umbrellas! Well, the die was still on my desk from my previous card and I love that little die

I painted some card stock in various colours before adding some splats and then die cutting the umbrellas - 

I tried to include as many colours on my card as in the photo... 

...and I think it's kind of cheerful even if it isn't outside

I hope your weekend is off to a good start ...

Wishing you a lovely day

~ Ros ~

You Brighten My Day

Hi there!

It's been really sunny and warm here when normally we have the traditional April showers ... Ginger cat and I have been able to sit in the garden under the sun umbrella which was my inspiration for the card I have to share for The Card Concept 

Such lovely colours here aren't they?

Here's my card in full

I noticed the silver elements in the photo together with those lovely greys, the bright patterned pink and the glimpse of frames... Hence the frame, the silver sequins and word and the little touches of silver added to the umbrella

My problem is what category to enter this in ... Is it CAS or Clean and layered?

It's easy to replicate but it does have a couple of images - I think I'll go for CAS

Wishing you all a lovely day and thanks so much for your visit

~Ros ~