Hobby

Good morning...

It's time for a new word prompt at Our Beautiful World and this week the prompt is 
Hobby

You all know I like to make cards, home decor etc., and lately I've been trying my hand at watercolour. I'm not a natural but I really like to try, along with practising colouring with Copics

Things change with time ... When I was working and my son was young, there wasn't a great deal of time for hobbies, though I loved to walk everyday with my dogs

...And every Sunday I would take my young son swimming... The little swimming baths we went to is no longer open and now I only swim on holiday...

Being retired I can indulge myself and craft, be it card making, painting, sewing or baking or sometimes curl up with a book in our conservatory 

where I can also watch the birds

Of course being on the team for Our Beautiful World means that photography has also become a hobby, something that runs in the family ... My Father was an amazing photographer and my older brother has the same passion

Talking of hobbies, my husband leaves for Portugal on Monday to pursue his hobby of golfing

So that means 5 days of doing anything I want ... Lol!

Share your hobby photos with us at Our Beautiful World this week and hop on over to the blog to see what my friends are sharing...

Have a great day

~ Ros ~

Snowmen

Hello friends...

Brrrr! It's a cold and wet morning here in Liverpool and I'm popping in to share the crafts my special needs group made last night

They always have a little firework display this time of year but not everyone likes it, including me, so I did a craft class and prepared a few christmas cards and some snowmen for them to make.

Where would I be without Pinterest?  I saw these little snowmen on there and just knew my group would love them. I thought about letting them make them from start to finish, then had second thoughts, the rice would be everywhere! So I did that part and they did the rest

The completed 20 little snowmen looked so cute

Then on to the cards... mostly cut on the Cameo

It was a really good night and we were even treated to chip butties (it's a Liverpool thing) Proper fat fried potato chips (fries to my American friends) none of the skinny frozen "bung in the oven" things... Sandwiched into a barm cake (a soft bread bun). They were so good! My tummy doesn't quite agree this morning though Lol!

I've a busy morning and then lunch with a friend so I'll say goodbye for now...

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Autumn Blessings

Good morning!

Today there's a new challenge at Double D Challenges 

Team Diane are hosting with the challenge....

Harvest Blessings and  Give Thanks

Here's my card

I just love the colours of Autumn and whilst we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK ... We used to celebrate Harvest Festival, when we would take the fruits of the harvest to church or school in little boxes or baskets to be donated. I'm not sure if they still do that now... Now we have food banks everywhere and all manner of food gets donated all year round.... There are even places to donate food for cats and dogs

My card celebrates the glory of the season with sponged and glossed leaves just like they look outside right now, well, perhaps not so glossy but just as pretty.

In case you're wondering, the little clock hands represent the time of year

Both Diane and Dar's team have some lovely projects up on the blog to inspire you and we hope you'll share your creations with us. 

For full details and to see what you can win ... go on over to the Double D Blog

Wishing you a lovely day and the blessings of the season

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 336

Hello there...

 Happy November!!

It's time for a new challenge at City Crafter and this week Marina has picked the theme

I See a Star

Source

Include one or more stars in your project

A few weeks back my husbands DIL gave birth to a daughter and this is the card I made for her which of course features stars...

Glitter card is always hard to photograph but I hope you can see that the little cloud (cut on the Cameo) has a bunch of hanging stars

Most of this was cut on the Cameo and I only had to do some ink blending

Our Guest designer this week is the winner of week 330, Charlotte

Do go visit the City Crafter Blog to see what Charlotte and the team have to inspire you this week..

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Orange

Good morning everyone...

I'm popping in with my photos for this week's prompt at

Our Beautiful World 

Kirsty has chosen the word Orange for us and it's amazing when you look around just how many things can fit the prompt. Of course there are lots of pumpkins around at this time of year ... They're relatively new to the UK and I spotted these mini ones they call Munchkins at our local supermarket

These little things cost nearly a £1 each! But then considering there are many orange groves in Majorca, the fresh orange juice there is expensive too... Maybe the cost includes the sugar which I never use

 Their fruit and vegetables are amazing and I love the displays they make with them

 Lots of orange there! Even the human statues are orange

Here at home we still have orange coloured flowers blooming...

Which reminds me of the orange coloured visitors to the garden

Butterflies and ladybirds ... Right now there are lots of ladybirds around which is very strange for this time of year

 

And one other Orange visitor is a cat we call Foxy ... for obvious reasons

...And I couldn't ignore my own Ginger boy

 

 Share your Orange photos with us at Our Beautiful World and hop on over to the blog to see what everyone else is sharing

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

 

 

It's that time of year

Good morning... 

Believe it or not I have a Christmas card to share today... I know, I know... 

See, it's that time of year and if you are like me and want to get your DT work done in advance (so as not to panic) well, there's bound to be Christmas cards on the agenda. So I've been making a few using the TH tree dies and the negative pieces were just staring at me... Oh they are so pretty, I think I love the negative more than the positive -  I just had to grab my inks and do some stencilling

I used 2 different distress inks and then decided to put some vellum over the top which gives it a really soft look

and the tree die, cut in shiny silver, isn't lost in the background

The only problem I encountered was that the vellum is not the kind you can stamp on but it did work for embossing

Well, that's one down - only 100 to go Lol!

Have a great day ... Thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~