Life is beautiful

Hello ...

If you are looking for my post on Our Beautiful World - please scroll down...

I'm squeezing in a card for 2  3 challenges (thanks to my blog friend Lisette) ... A colour challenge at Colour Me which finishes tomorrow 

A sketch challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch

And a Stencils and Mask challenge at That's Crafty!

Here's my card

Sponging, stencilling, Glossy accents and glitter....

You can't really see from my photo how glossy those little cats are ... I cut them on the Cameo and coloured them before adding gloss

The stencilled brick was done with embossing paste mixed with a little distress stain (Fired Brick) and of course I sponged the BG before stencilling and adding glitter to the stars

To finish I typed a sentiment on my computer and printed it onto acetate then die cut it

I hope you are enjoying your day - Thanks for your visit

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Layers

Good morning!

It's my turn to pick a prompt for this week at 

Our Beautiful World

I thought we could have some fun with the word 

"Layers"

It kinda conjures up many things don't you think?

Here's some photo's I came up with

Beautiful layers of petals on my roses

These have a wonderful scent

Layers of pretty balconies

Layers of houses and vineyards on the Amalfi coast

Layers of cabins, balconies and portholes 

Hop on over to the Blog to see what the rest of the team have come up with for this prompt ... We'd love it if you shared your photos of layers this week too

Enjoy your day!

~ Ros ~

Make a wish.....

Hello how are you?

I've been busy catching up on work this past week and I was delighted to see that the tag I shared in my previous post was picked as a favourite over at the Tag You're It challenge!! Thanks so much ladies!

I've made a few cards this week but none that I can share just yet ... However I do have one that I made a while ago using up my scraps

I love making cards from my scraps ... they always seem to come together much quicker than those where I have to 'think' about either the theme or the colours

The word 'wish' is a SSS die which actually says "wishing' I just cut of the last part ... It's worth looking at your word dies and seeing how you can easily adapt them to fit into your sentiment ... I like to do that with stamps too ... take words from different sets to say what I want

My special needs group had their end of term disco last night ... I'm exhausted! Lol!

I'm getting too old to be dancing all evening!

I'm glad for the summer break ... it gives me a chance to think about projects for next term and I can relax a little.

Thanks so much for stopping by....Enjoy your upcoming weekend

~ Ros ~

Tag It

Hello ...

This is my second post today ... I don't usually post twice on CCCB day but I wanted to squeeze in a challenge ...

The lovely Kara Lynne has joined the DT over at 

Tag you're it

And though I don't often make tags - I really wanted to play along...

This is the inspiration tag

I just love the red and blue and that coil of twine ... Here's my take

I stamped and embossed a piece of CS in white and then sponged two different inks for the blue background. I had a little boat already cut out so I also sponged the sails and boat with inks too

A white gel pen added a little more interest ... The stamps I used are by WPlus9

 In place of a coil of twine I used silver thread for waves and some craft rope for the hanger and finally backed it all onto a scrap piece of grey CS.

Ok that's all for now ...

Have a beautiful day/evening

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 270

Hello there!

It's my turn to host the challenge over at City Crafter this morning and I've chosen the challenge theme 

Woodland Animals

Create a card or project that features a  woodland animal

Source

I made a card for a special little girl featuring a sweet little deer

The deer stamp is from a set by Stampendous and I just used distress stains to colour it

I'd already stencilled and splattered that background and it was in my 'to use' box

The little butterfly is a sticker from way back when

Our Guest Designer this week is Laurie (click on her name to go visit her blog Stamping up north with Laurie) I just adore her clean layered style and I know you will too!

As always the challenge winner will have a GD spot with us too. 

Head on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what the rest of the team have in store for you this week - We hope you'll be inspired to play along with us....

Wishing you all a Magical day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Countryside

Hello and good morning!

My aunt is now back home in Lincoln and it was rather sad not to see her sweet face today ... I shall miss her, the laughter, our girly chats and the light she radiates wherever she is ... hopefully it wont be too long before we are together again.

Well as always Sunday sees a new prompt at 

Our Beautiful World

This week Kirsty has chosen the word Countryside

I dug out some old photos for this prompt even though they are not very clear - This photo is a favourite of mine ... It was taken in Derbyshire ... DH, Holly dog and I went on what was supposed to be a 2 hour hike

Somehow we took a wrong turn and it lasted all day until the mist came down ... We had to cross fields of cows and sheep ... It was quite daunting at times but a good memory....

We once rented a very old cottage in Scotland again with our beloved Holly

We were surrounded by the magnificent Scottish countryside ... Forests full of deer and other woodland animals ... On a walk through the forest a golden labrador appeared from nowhere and to Holly it was love at first sight!

That labrador followed us right through the forest and we were so surprised to come across this old empty mansion house right in the heart of the forest

It must have been a magnificent country house at one time

As much as I love the beach, the countryside calls to my soul ... there is nothing more beautiful or as enchanting

I'll leave you with a photo of the Welsh countryside in Autumn ... Simply beautiful!

Link up with us at 

Our Beautiful World

And go see what the rest of the team are sharing

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~