City Crafter 349 Old Stuff New Look

Good morning!

Happy Valentine's Day

It's noisy round here ... We're having the en-suite replaced and I can't wait till it's done. I'm not a fan of workmen in my home Lol! It means early mornings and noisy days with tea being served constantly... That's how are workmen keep going in the UK.

Today is City Crafter Challenge day and this week funnily enough the theme is 

Old Stuff - New Look

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Picked for us by Kirsty ... Hop on over to the blog for full details

It took me ages to decide what to do ... I trawled through many of my past creations and cringed at some of the early ones, what was I thinking? Lol! In the end I decided to go with a card I did last year and one I really liked ... Here's the original

And here's the new version

I did the same curvy ink blending just using a piece of card for a template and used the same colour distress inks

The little fish I found on a web search, the colours were perfect so after saving them, I was able to resize and print them on to glossy paper, then I just hand cut them.

We have a terrific Guest Designer this week from the blog Magic Flying Boots - Click the link to go visit and I'm sure like me you will just love her creations!

Then head on over to the City Crafter Blog to see what the team have to inspire you this week.

Enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Just us Girls Card

Good Morning!

I hope you had a good weekend... It was my husband's birthday yesterday and on Saturday his eldest son and DIL came to visit so he got to see his granddaughter for the first time... I think it was his best present!

She really is a cutie...

Today I have another card to share that I'm entering at Just Us Girls 

I made another card with the same design as my GD card for Inkspirational but this time it's a top fold card with vibrant colors

I thought it would make a good Valentine's Card without the obligatory red 

As you know, I'm a huge fan of blue and green and I love these distress inks... Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon

I hope you are having a good start to the week ...

Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~

Love

Happy Sunday!

Today's word prompt at

Our Beautiful Word

...is simply "Love"

Valentines Day is yet to come and you know, it doesn't matter who you love...

Or what you love...

or how you show your love...

Just love... This world need so much more of it

Link up with us this week at Our beautiful World and see what everyone else is sharing this week over on the Blog

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Inkspirational Guest Designer

Hello there ...

Today I am delighted to be guesting over at

Inkspirational

for their Photo Inkspiration challenge... I'm truly honoured to be invited 

Such a beautiful photo and here's what I came up with

I love the soft colours in that photo and used a balloon stencil from MFT together with the heart breeze die from SSS to create my card

The love word is also from SSS

The team over at Inkspirational have some wonderful creations to inspire you up on the Blog ... Do go on over and take a look.

A huge Thank You to the team at Inkspirational for having me join them this fortnight

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 348

Hello and good morning lovely people...

Are you ready for a new challenge at City Crafter? 

This week we have Marina hosting for us with the theme

S.W.A.L.K

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Marina wants us to use a letter or an envelope this week

I made a card which actually looks like an envelope... This is the front

And this is the back

Pretty easy actually as the front text is a digital image. I stamped and paper pieced the rose using Copics to colour the leaves and stem, then covered it with glossy dimensional... A few little hearts just finish the romantic look

Of course you could just do this on an envelope

We have a Guest Designer with us this week ... Jenny Martin... Many of you will know Jenny, but if you don't, do hop on over to her lovely blog - she makes fabulous creations

So... Have you any ideas? If you need a little inspiration the CCCB team have some lovely creations up on the blog ... Go take a look

I'm also going to enter my card at AAA Card Challenges

Thanks for your visit, have fabulous day!

~ Ros ~

Our Beautiful World

Good morning!

The prompt this week at Our Beautiful World is Yummy,

Chosen for us by Riitta

Well I guess what's yummy to some, is definitely not yummy to another...

I might find this yummy

Or a crab fresh from the sea in Cornwall

And afternoon tea with special friends is definitely yummy

There's even yummyness for my cats

They love these things...

 I've noticed that the word yummy is used in Blogland a lot to describe things that aren't food based, like lace, colours and textures... Well if you're going for yummy colours ... How about these scarves

And these with lace

Could you pick just one?

We're really interested to see what you can come up with this week... Link up at 

Our Beautiful World

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~