By the sea ...

Good morning sweet blog friends ... it's a new challenge at City Crafter today and this week our lovely Kirsty is hosting ... the theme she has chosen for us is "By the sea ..." and this is the lovely inspiration photo 

I love this picture ... reminds me of days gone by ... once when I was little my parents took my two brothers and I to the beach ... of course my brothers were playing in the dunes and were supposed to keep an eye on their little sister ... I was about 4 ... but they ran off and left me somewhere on the dunes ... I can still remember it ... I could hear my Mum calling but couldn't see her ... then our faithful German Shepherd came bounding up the dunes and found me ... She continued to bark until my parents got to us ... what a relief! 

Anyway ... back to the challenge ... we have the talented Shannon Baker  a digital stamp designer as our sponsor this week and the DT all got to use one of her pretty stamps ... the challenge is to create a card or project related to the sea ... I used the lovely lighthouse stamp ...

I actually painted this using Photoshop on the computer ... even the clouds ...

I printed the image twice and ran one through my Sizzix using my TH brick embossing folder then cut out just the lighthouse and paper pieced it ...

Can you see the brick effect? 

my papers are a mix of digital ... the text paper from Antique findings by Jen Allyson and some TH paper ... everything else is from my stash ... the little starfish was a charm from a bracelet ... just had to use that ... Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Steph aka Sweet Craf-Tea Chick please pop by and welcome her ... and check out all the cards from the rest of the DT ...

So ... I hope you will join us again this week ... everyone likes the sea right? and you can use anything related to the sea ... boats ... deck chairs ... umbrellas ... beach huts ... whatever comes to mind ... just have fun! 

Have a lovely day ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles ...week 19

Can you believe we are up to week 19 already with our Christmas cards at Jingle Belles Rock? I'm so glad that I stuck with this challenge and I am enjoying each and every week ...

This week the challenge is "Vintage" ... whatever vintage means to you ... or you could just use something vintage on your card ... I used a free vintage image that I found on the web ... this is my card

when I think of vintage I always think of glitter and sheet music for some reason ... anyway my doily is glittered but I'm not sure it shows up that well

How about you ... are you still playing along with the challenge? It's never too late to start ... so why don't you hop over to the blog and take a peek ...

Now I'm off to Pilates ... haven't been for a few weeks due to all the bank holidays ... so I'm not looking forwards to it ... I just know I will be aching like mad later ... the best I can hope for is that I get through the whole lesson ... Lol!

Have a good day 

~ Ros ~

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Good morning ...

I'm just popping in to wish you all a Happy Mothers Day ... we have already celebrated this here in the UK

but I know that there are lots of you ladies around the world celebrating today ...

Motherhood to me is the best gift ever ... hard work but incredibly worthwhile ... whether it be to a group of children or just one ...  even if you're "Mom" to a pet ... cat ... dog whatever ...

I read somewhere that Motherhood is like having your heart walk around in someone else's body for the rest of your life ... how true ...

Have a wonderful day wherever you are ... 

I also wanted to just say a couple of "Thank You's"

  ... To sweet June Lanum for sending me some lovely happy mail

 ... and to WaltzingMouse for my Top Mouse award this week ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

2nd post

Hello ... this is my second post today ... another challenge card .. this time for The Shabby Tea Room where the theme this week is "Sweet Dreams" ... a colour challenge based on this lovely photo ...

There's something so gentle and fresh about these colours ... and I am glad I found the time and inspiration to join in this week ... this is my take 

Something a little whimsical and soft ... a mixture of different papers ... lace, doily, seam binding and a sweet butterfly with a little tassel ...

... and I think this quote is so very apt ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

WaltzingMouse Challenge

 The syrup of kindness ... it comes in all forms ... it could just be a smile that somehow makes your day ... a hug when you most need it ... a card or phone call from a friend ... they are all little bits of kindness that we can give ... and in the giving ... we are giving to ourself  ...

I have a card to share that I made for this weeks challenge at WaltzingMouse based on this sketch 

This card didn't come easy ... my creativity seem to have left me this week ... I looked through my WM stamps ... tried a few things ... then discarded them ... disappointed I left it alone for a while ... then I cast my eye over the Rescue Remedies and suddenly it all fell into place ...

I love how these stamps fit so neatly with my SB dies ... I stamped onto cream card stock with brown ink then die cut it and cut a larger die out of canvass to back it with ... I used some gorgeous Bo Bunny paper for the background

A beautiful Prima flower and some pretty pearlescent ones with little pearls just seem to fit ... and believe it or not I had that tassel in my stash ... so my card was born ...

I hope you all have a lovely weekend ...

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Initial Challenge ...

Hi there!

Today I am hosting at City Crafter Challenge Blog and I thought it would be nice to do a colour  challenge this week ... I decided to use the initials of our blog CCCB for the colours ... (good huh?... )here's the inspiration picture 

I even challenged myself with this one Lol! But the DT came through with some lovely cards and you also need to see what our fabulous Guest Designer Davi Reid did too ... I am so thrilled to say that our sponsor this week is the lovely talented and generous Deb Hickman ...

So finally here is my take on these colours ...

Yep ... using my PTI stamps again with some gorgeous Websters Pages ...

The butterfly, crochet flower etc., was all from my stash ... I used some SB dies to cut the borders just to add a bit of interest ...

So are you up for the challenge? I do hope so ... remember that you can make a card or any project just as long as you stick to the colours ... Can't wait to see your take on this challenge ...

Have a lovely day ...

~ Ros ~