Weddings

Good morning...

Weddings is the theme for the new challenge at Double D where team Darlene are hosting

 Here's the tile board to inspire you

Wedding cards and baby cards are my least favourite to make - I much prefer everyday cards, but last month my friend got married and having made all the invitations and Save the Date cards for her which I shared here - I had to make her a wedding card too. Eventually I came up with this one

Gold and silver splattering and lots of die cuts. A die cut heart, which I cut twice to inlay the gold glitter card with the white... The little birds were part of another die but they work well together

Some tulle and lots of gems... Then I made a box to put it in

 

 

It's only when I put this photo on here that I noticed the word 'May' hasn't printed properly... Argh! Hopefully she didn't notice Lol!

 

Both teams have created lovely projects to inspire you and you can see them up on the Double D Blog.

Enter your creation and you can be in with a chance to win this 

 

 

Wishing you a safe a happy day

 

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 367

Hello! 

How are you? Ready for another challenge at City Crafter?

Don't I seem upbeat for someone who hasn't had a decent night's sleep in days Lol! 

This week Marina is hosting and has picked another terrific challenge... 

Hagtash City Crafter

Use social media symbols, such as #, @ or an icon such as the t for Twitter or f for Facebook. 

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When I first saw what she had come up with I kind of panicked, I'm not really a social media type of gal... To be honest I had to ask my son what all this "hashtag" business was about...  Yeh, well I'm old!

I guess I could have taken the easy route and just used a letter somewhere but I had a vision haha! And it all came together in the end 

I remembered that my friend Stella once sent me some stamps that included a hashtag symbol (boy that was lucky). I don't use Windows anymore, when I did there were so many times that it crashed and big brother Ron had to come and fix it for me so I moved over to Apple, but this would have been a great card to send him back then

I found a shape in printshop that sort of looked like it could be one of those 4 curves in the 'Windows' sign so I digitally grouped 4 together in the size and position I wanted and reduced the opacity right down before printing it - Just enough of a line to see where to colour. Colouring it was the challenge! I have limited Copics (and colouring abilities) so trying to get it to look right was not easy for me... But when big brother saw it, he thought I'd actually printed the sign so I was happy with that

I can't wait to see what the team have come up with so I'm heading over to CCCB 

Wishing you all a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

MFT Slider Card

Hello...

Are you enjoying this heat or are you wilting like me? We're not used to having a few hot days in a row  and right now I wish I lived on a beach.... 

So, Miss Sophia, my great niece celebrates her 8th Birthday on Monday ... Heck, the kiddies grow up fast these days ... Being a little crafter herself I thought she would enjoy a slider card this year

Using the MFT Gulls again (love those guys) I created this card.... When you pull the tab the smug looking gull  (It's his birthday too) whizzes by attracting looks from the other gulls (don't mind me - It's the heat)

I did have fun making this and I'm loving the oxide inks the more I use them

So it's Fathers Day and I hope you are all enjoying your day and the lovely weather

Be safe

~ Ros ~

Blue Flowers

Hello there...

There was a dreadful fire in a London tower block this week which touched my heart... Looking at how quickly the fire spread and the billowing smoke, I couldn't help but think of 9/11... So many lives have been lost and many changed for ever... My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved...

I haven't done much crafting for myself this week, though Pat and I did have a creative and busy afternoon on Wednesday, but today I had to make a card for a friend and neighbour who has a birthday tomorrow....

 

I pulled out my MFT stamps and dies for this one, citron distress ink for the BG and my copics to colour the flowers

I still have lots of those vellum leaves around - I cut tons for the wedding invitations I did so I'm using some here, along with a little silver thread and some Nuvo drops

Rather than just inlaying the centre, I wanted to add a little interest by tilting it and I'm pleased with the result... I hope she likes it too.

You remember I told you that we are off to The Netherlands in July to visit Stella as our husband's football teams are to play each other? Well, it seems the Mayor of Groningen was not happy about the match and cancelled it Lol! We are still going of course, everything had been booked and paid for but the guys won't get to enjoy a little bit of rivalry.

Have a lovely day and enjoy your upcoming weekend

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 366

Hello...

I can't believe another week has gone by and it's time for a new challenge at City Crafter

Stella is hosting our 366th challenge 

Frame It!

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Create a project and add a frame

Here's my card

I created the background using distress inks through a stencil cut from balloon dies - It was then splattered in silver and gold paint - which is quite hard to see here

I added 2 frames, one of which is a shaker using vellum and filled with gold and silver micro beads and to finish I added a die cut sentiment in silver glitter card

Hop on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what the rest of the team have to inspire you this week.

I'm also entering my card at Happy Little Stampers

Wishing you a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

Hey Gullfriend

Good morning

We've seen some pretty wet and windy weather here, normally we go out and about on Saturday if hubby isn't at the match but it was so miserable yesterday that we had a lazy day indoors.

I did make a card though, playing with those MFT gulls again

I'm going to enter it at Inkspirational where the theme is windows

This was so quick and simple to make... The fence is made from a digital paper ... You know when you have those paper pads and there are always some that you will never use? Well, I turn them over and print digital paper that I will use... The paper is better quality than copy paper and it uses up all those sheets.

You may wonder what that gull is so smug about, Well I have some pretty exciting news... We will be flying off again next month to The Netherlands to visit my dear blog friend Stella! You all know that my hubby is a huge Everton FC supporter and they have been drawn to play Stella's home team Groningen who of course are supported by Stella's family! So the guys get to go to the match and Stella and I will have fun!

That's it for now - Wishing you all a wonderful day

Till soon

~ Ros ~