Our Beautiful World

Good morning!

The prompt this week at Our Beautiful World is Yummy,

Chosen for us by Riitta

Well I guess what's yummy to some, is definitely not yummy to another...

I might find this yummy

Or a crab fresh from the sea in Cornwall

And afternoon tea with special friends is definitely yummy

There's even yummyness for my cats

They love these things...

 I've noticed that the word yummy is used in Blogland a lot to describe things that aren't food based, like lace, colours and textures... Well if you're going for yummy colours ... How about these scarves

And these with lace

Could you pick just one?

We're really interested to see what you can come up with this week... Link up at 

Our Beautiful World

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

In the dog house

What?No, I'm not in the dog house hee hee... 

I thought I'd share the project I've prepared for my group at Thursday Club to make tonight. Many of you often ask me to share but I don't always remember to photograph my prototype, and normally at the end of the evening someone gets to take mine home with them. 

So here's the dog house

Actually they won't be all dogs... I came up with the idea for them to make the little houses first and thought how much they would love something to put in them ... I trawled the web and finally came up with a bunch of finger puppets on Ebay that were inexpensive and so cute

...So I bought 30 of these and I know they will love them.

After cutting 30 of those houses on the silhouette ( yes, that's why I go through so many blades and mats!) I printed some papers and hand cut all the pieces to decorate it. Added some punched flowers and thought it still needed something....

So I digitally created a base and BG to stick the house onto and voila! All done.

It did take me a few full days I hasten to add but seeing their faces tonight will be worth the effort. 

A week or so ago I told you about one of my group who had been through the mill a little and I'm happy to say that a foster home was found for him and he is still able to come to club. He was so happy last week and so were we.

I hope you enjoy your day ... Take care and thanks so much for your visit

~ Ros ~

Lavender & Lace

Hello and welcome to February!

It's going to be busy here, there are lots of my friends and family celebrating birthdays and anniversaries this month, not to mention that it's also Valentine's day in a few weeks

Celebrating her birthday today is one of our Double D Challenge team members Kathy...

Happy Birthday Kathy!!

And talking of Double D, team Diane are hosting a brand new challenge today

Lavender and Lace 

Look at all those pretty things!

Boy this was a real challenge for me, the majority of our team create in a wonderful shabby chic style but I'm more of a CAS gal if you know what I mean and my inspiration was zilch... Anyhow, I did finally come up with something

And surprisingly it does feature lace... I know... Good job I kept some Lol!

Having finally completed my card it was a devil to photograph ... It looks so much better IRL

The burlap strip is silver grey to compliment the embossed sentiment and hearts and the lace is pure white, but you get the idea right? The challenge is all about Lavender and Lace in any style and as always the lovely creators Diane and Dar are offering a fabulous prize...

 So go on, get out your lavender and lace and come play along...

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with...

Enjoy your day!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 347

Good morning!

It's the last day of January and February beckons...

Today Stella is hosting this week's challenge at City Crafter with a Colour Splash

Source

'Create a project with Black & White and a splash of Aqua'

I think I got a little more than a splash here...

I've got stamping, heat embossing, stencilling and a little die cut cat... Kinda busy? Hey ho ... I just went with it ... I've decided not to be so hard on myself and agonise over these things, after all I'm not entering these challenges ... That's down to you haha!

So this week is our final week with a Guest Designer... The lovely Danielle has been with us the whole month of January and we've loved having her, but we are changing things a little here at CCCB so stay tuned.

Our team will continue to inspire you with their creations up on the blog ... Go take a look and link up your 

black & white with a splash of Aqua creations

Have fun!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Our Beautiful World

Good morning...

The prompt this week at Our Beautiful World is

'Beautiful'

Simple, or is it? There are so many things in our world that are beautiful but some can not be captured in a photograph... 

You can photograph the beauty of nature

 The colours and the delicate petals of a rose... But not the scent

The first show of blossom but not the joy that Spring brings...

The wildlife that visit and thrive because of these beauties

And the funny little habits of some of those visitors that both annoy and yet make you smile

But you can't photograph the beautiful relationship of trust and love
Not many would think Ginger was beautiful when we took him in

His eyes so sore and the sadness of being mistreated and unloved evident... And now?

Now you can see his beauty was always there... 

My last dog Holly was about to be put down till I found her in the RSPCA,  dirty and neglected, ribs broken from beatings ... 2 years later, just look how beautiful she became... 

Sometime you have to look beyond the surface to see beauty, sometimes the most beautiful things are only felt in our hearts...

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

NBUS Challenge & SSS Work It Wednesday

Hi there...

Once again the lovely Darnell is hosting her ever popular NBUS challenge! 

You must hop on over to her Blog to check out all the details as there are various optional elements but the theme is always the same ...

Use something that you haven't used before, be it a new item or something that has been stashed away just waiting for this moment! 

There is a whole array of amazing prizes to be won... That lady just blows me away... I was lucky enough to meet her last year and trust me, she really is as lovely, generous and witty as you think!

So here's my entry

My NBUS items are the stencil I used for my BG which was a gift from my friend Stella and to my shame I had never used, and also the bicycle die which I bought on Amazon and it arrived on Monday... 

I cut the bicycle in silver glitter card and in white so I could pieced the flowers/stars and mud guards, then used Copics to colour the balloons etc and glossed them with Mod Podge dimensional magic

One of the optional elements is to use the camouflaged word technique and that's what I did here with a PTI birthday die.

I'm also entering this as Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday

Ok... My friend Pat will be arriving in a few hours and I know she will want to CASe this so I'd better get organised...

Have a great day 

~ Ros ~