Stamp with us challenge

This is the second post of the day. I absolutely adore this weather, I lived in the Middle East for 15 years and loved knowing it was going to be sunny. Most of my free time would find me at the pool swimming and enjoying the sun (with sun protection of course). It's probably the thing I've missed most since I came back. Not this weekend I got my sun lounger out for the first time in 3 years. I am sensible and only sit out with lots of protection on for short periods of time. In between I came in to have a go at this weeks Stamp with us challenge. It's a sketch this week, I actually had three attempts, the first two I felt were a little predictable and then my final idea came to me when I was admiring the first rose that has flowered this year.

Products used were Stampin Up:

Stamp sets - Happy Everything, A Rose is a Rose, Roses in Winter

Ink pads - Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Aways Artichoke

Card stock - Whisper White, Apricot Appeal

The base card was from stash.

with this card.

Here are the first two attempts, they are OK but not different enough for me. The first one was supposed to look like a win on a one armed bandit.

This one was supposed to look like port holes.

I hope this weather continues especially as I have to drive to the Lake District on Tuesday for work and the last time I went it was absolutely chucking it down.