City Crafter 343

Hello Friends and Happy New Year!!
I hope 2017 will be a fabulous year for you all ... 

For the first City Crafter Challenge of 2017, Kirsty is hosting with..

Make a project using the word Hello

It's not a New Year card but it does have the word Hello
I made this card for a friend who celebrated her birthday in December...  Due to the weather I had a real hard job photographing it 

A little ink blending using a die cut stencil for the BG, a stamped and embossed sentiment and a die cut branch and bird

The team have some lovely projects to inspire you up on the City Crafter Blog and we have the lovely Danielle guesting with us too. I hope you'll find time to play along with us...


Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Pen and Paint

Hi there...

I spent New Year's day playing with my paints... We'd been out celebrating on New Year's eve and we were both really tired so we had a lazy day

I thought I'd try something a little different for me ... Mixing some watercolours and then drawing over it... I had so much fun and I have one of my cards to share which I'm entering in 2 challenges

  Happy Little Stampers - where I've never played before

 ...and The Mixed Media Card Challenge where the theme is change

 

 

Well a butterfly is all about change

Can you believe last week there were butterflies in my garden? In december!

The only stamping on here is the word smile and the flowerhead

I drew the butterfly once the paint was dry and drew a stem for my flower

As always I just used plain cardstock and I'm still experimenting with how it handles... I found that once I dried this I could go back and add more paint...

My hubby has gone to the match today and it's given me time to do some de-cluttering on my computer.

I hope you are enjoying your day - I'll be back tomorrow for the new challenge at CCCB

Take care

~ Ros ~

 

Sparkle

Hello friends!!

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Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2017

Today I'm sharing some photos for the first prompt of the year at

Our Beautiful World

Mandy is kicking off the year with the word Sparkle

Did your holiday season Sparkle?

Indoors and out?

I'm looking forward to another wonderful year of friendship
Because...

Link up with us at

Our Beautiful World

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Holiday cards

Hello there...

I didn't get to share some of my cards before Christmas and the new year is beckoning so here's a little look at a collection of my last holiday cards 

My love of trees will never wane... 

I do hope you are having a good day and staying warm

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Hellooooo!

Yay! I'm finally back online!

After 12 long days that seemed like an eternity, the connection came on late this afternoon.

Not being able to visit friends and family over the Christmas period, do any online ordering etc., has been very upsetting, not to mention the days spent on the phone trying to get someone somewhere to get their finger out and fix things.

You'd think not being online would have given me time to create, but in truth I lost all interest and inspiration...

Before I went offline I did enter a card in a challenge, not expecting I would win anything, so imagine my delight to see my card was one of the cards picked for an actual prize!! I was so happy, that was until I saw I had to claim it within 5 days... Well, that was that.

All in all it's been an experience that I could have done without... My son was ill all over Christmas too and for the first time since he was born, we didn't have Christmas dinner together.

Roll on 2017!

Now I am back I will be visiting you all first thing tomorrow.

Thanks to all of you who sent me messages to let me know you were thinking of me, it really meant a lot.

Have a great day/evening

~ Ros ~

MIA

Hello friends... 
Unfortunately I have been without an  Internet connection since last Saturday and I have no idea when it will be back. 
So sorry that I haven't been able to visit you all... I miss you. 
I'm trying to do this note via my phone and I  can at least get emails on my phone. 
Wishing you a wonderful day and hoping to be back with you soon 
Hugs 
Ros