Bright and cheerful

Good morning!

It's been such a busy week and so much more to do... 

Thank you for your kind wishes - My hospital appointment went well and the doctor was very thorough ordering a lot of blood tests... Seems a lot of those well meaning medications we are given over the years often come back to bite us, and of course getting older brings it's own party - Yep it's such fun Lol!

Mother's day is approaching here in the UK and I've been preparing projects for my group... I still  have tons to cut and I'm hoping to finish today whilst hubby is at the match. Then I have to strip the bedroom ... Hubby has asked the decorator in again - He hates to think of me idle (I wish)

So I have another birdbrain card to share ... When I print digitals I often print more than one at a time, well you can't have too many birthday cards

This time I cut a stencil with balloon dies to use for the BG

I used distress inks to stencil with and Copic Ciao's to colour the image

No eyelashes this time but still bright and cheerful don't you think? 

The blossom has appeared on the trees now and there are so many daffodils around... We have them all over the central reservations - Hundreds of them! It's been windy and wet and as they bob and sway it looks like they are all chattering to each other... Or is that just me? See, I told you I was getting old!

Have a wonderful day and a wonderful weekend

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Things that Fly

Hello again... I'm off for my hospital appointment today but I have a card to share for the new challenge at 

Double D Challenges

Darlene's team is hosting the challenge for the next fortnight and the challenge is "Things that fly" Here's the tile board

Last saturday my lovely Aunt celebrated her 90th Birthday ... Can you believe it?

I made this card for her 

Another Polka Dot Bella image and once again I slightly altered they eyes to give her that surprised look... 

Two of the balloons were cut from scraps of card that I'd previously watercoloured on and of course I had to have one silvery glittery one

There's a super prize on offer ... A gorgeous Memory Box die

Head on over to the Double D blog to see what the teams have created to inspire you and link up your creations of things that fly for a chance to win

Catch you later...

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 353

Good morning!

It's time for a new challenge over at City Crafter and this week we have the lovely Stella hosting for us 

The theme is "Spring is around the corner"

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Stella wants us to create a project inspired by something in the photo

This week I thought I'd share a card I had my Thursday Club make last week ...

With all those butterflies I thought it fit the bill...

I prepared 25 of these cards and that's an awful lot of butterflies to cut! The little bunny was a digital image from a colouring page - Once coloured, I converted it to a transparency and merged it onto my BG paper and printed away

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week and I hope you'll take a minute to hop on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what the rest of the team are sharing to inspire you.

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

To brighten your day

Good morning friends...

I have a little card to share that I made for a lady I used to work with many years ago. She's a lot younger than me and she moved away from Liverpool, married and had a little girl... I recently discovered that having battled cancer for many years it has returned... I'm hoping that my card will brighten her day

I used the digital Polka Dot Bella and altered her slightly, giving her a little smile and some eyelashes. 

I drew and coloured a little plant pot and added some stamped and coloured flowers

It's all I can do other than pray she will pull through this

I hope you have a wonderful weekend ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Birdbrain Birthday

Hello!

I've been quite productive since I started my meds ... Made a few cards, done the club projects and helped Pat create 6 cards yesterday...

I'm lunching with my GF's on Monday.. One of the girl's is celebrating a birthday and for her card I used a digital image called Bee Happy Birdbrain which I got Here

I like to change some of my stamps and digitals just to fit into what I'm making so I took the bee out of this image, changed the direction of the eyes and I added some lush eyelashes Lol!

I printed the image and coloured it in with Copic Ciaos then used a cloud die to make a stencil so I could add some subtle clouds in the background

 I also added glossy accents to the eyes and a glittery die cut balloon and string - A simple way to add the string and get that little bit of movement is to pierce a small hole both on the part of the image that is holding the ballon and where you want it to end. Then secure on the reverse with tape before adhering to your card base.

I'm entering this at Happy Little Stampers

Ok... Got to get my stuff ready for club tonight ... Have a lovely day/ evening and thanks so much for all your well wishes

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Birthday

Hello...

I know I haven't been posting much lately... I've been struggling with a health issue for 7 months now and some days are harder than others ... I've been waiting and waiting for my appointment at the hospital and my doctor has managed to bring it forward to next week then Finally, FINALLY!!  The hospital sent some medication. Yay! I'm feeling much better these past few days and hope it stays that way.

So today one of my team mates on the Double D challenge blog is celebrating a birthday...

Happy Birthday Vicki!

Here's a card I made for her ... I hope it arrived on time

I used the same BG as I have on previous cards but this time I added the musical notes die by Memory Box. 

To get that shadow look I first cut one of the musical note dies in black cardstock and inlaid it into my BG. I know, not the wisest decision as there were so many little bits to piece back...

Then I cut it again in white and adhered it over the other die cut but slightly offset. I think the effort was probably worth it in the end

I hope Vicki likes it ...

Have a lovely day and thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~