Autumn Blessings

Good morning!

Today there's a new challenge at Double D Challenges 

Team Diane are hosting with the challenge....

Harvest Blessings and  Give Thanks

Here's my card

I just love the colours of Autumn and whilst we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK ... We used to celebrate Harvest Festival, when we would take the fruits of the harvest to church or school in little boxes or baskets to be donated. I'm not sure if they still do that now... Now we have food banks everywhere and all manner of food gets donated all year round.... There are even places to donate food for cats and dogs

My card celebrates the glory of the season with sponged and glossed leaves just like they look outside right now, well, perhaps not so glossy but just as pretty.

In case you're wondering, the little clock hands represent the time of year

Both Diane and Dar's team have some lovely projects up on the blog to inspire you and we hope you'll share your creations with us. 

For full details and to see what you can win ... go on over to the Double D Blog

Wishing you a lovely day and the blessings of the season

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 336

Hello there...

 Happy November!!

It's time for a new challenge at City Crafter and this week Marina has picked the theme

I See a Star

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Include one or more stars in your project

A few weeks back my husbands DIL gave birth to a daughter and this is the card I made for her which of course features stars...

Glitter card is always hard to photograph but I hope you can see that the little cloud (cut on the Cameo) has a bunch of hanging stars

Most of this was cut on the Cameo and I only had to do some ink blending

Our Guest designer this week is the winner of week 330, Charlotte

Do go visit the City Crafter Blog to see what Charlotte and the team have to inspire you this week..

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Orange

Good morning everyone...

I'm popping in with my photos for this week's prompt at

Our Beautiful World 

Kirsty has chosen the word Orange for us and it's amazing when you look around just how many things can fit the prompt. Of course there are lots of pumpkins around at this time of year ... They're relatively new to the UK and I spotted these mini ones they call Munchkins at our local supermarket

These little things cost nearly a £1 each! But then considering there are many orange groves in Majorca, the fresh orange juice there is expensive too... Maybe the cost includes the sugar which I never use

 Their fruit and vegetables are amazing and I love the displays they make with them

 Lots of orange there! Even the human statues are orange

Here at home we still have orange coloured flowers blooming...

Which reminds me of the orange coloured visitors to the garden

Butterflies and ladybirds ... Right now there are lots of ladybirds around which is very strange for this time of year

 

And one other Orange visitor is a cat we call Foxy ... for obvious reasons

...And I couldn't ignore my own Ginger boy

 

 Share your Orange photos with us at Our Beautiful World and hop on over to the blog to see what everyone else is sharing

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

 

 

It's that time of year

Good morning... 

Believe it or not I have a Christmas card to share today... I know, I know... 

See, it's that time of year and if you are like me and want to get your DT work done in advance (so as not to panic) well, there's bound to be Christmas cards on the agenda. So I've been making a few using the TH tree dies and the negative pieces were just staring at me... Oh they are so pretty, I think I love the negative more than the positive -  I just had to grab my inks and do some stencilling

I used 2 different distress inks and then decided to put some vellum over the top which gives it a really soft look

and the tree die, cut in shiny silver, isn't lost in the background

The only problem I encountered was that the vellum is not the kind you can stamp on but it did work for embossing

Well, that's one down - only 100 to go Lol!

Have a great day ... Thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 335

Hello there...

Stella is hosting this week's challenge over at

City Crafter Challenge

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This week the challenge is either to make a Halloween project OR a project using the word Hello as Hallo is the Dutch word for Hello

I made a Halloween card that also uses the word Hello ... 

...Using some tree stamps and a stencil from Inkylicious. The stencil is actually for mountains but I thought it would work for spooky clouds too

I used various distress inks and of course I had to add my little cat

Our Guest Designer this week is Sarah, winner of challenge week 328 ... Hop on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what Sarah and the tea have to inspire you this week

Wishing you a fabulous day

~ Ros ~

Be a Survivor

Hi there ... 

Visiting my lovely friend Darnell's blog this morning I was alerted to a blog hop run by 

Becca Cruger

 

It's something that I feel passionate about ... I hate bullies of any sort and the transition from victim to survivor is not an easy one when your spirit is broken and your confidence is non existent

I made a card for this hop 

...Probably the quickest card I ever made as I knew exactly the right sentiment to use

If you're interested in joining in ... Hop on over to Becca's blog to check out the details - There are many companies offering gifts too 

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~