Memories, roses and trees

Hi everybody!

I am sure a lot of you are looking forward to the weekend - I wish you a good one!
Here we had a cold, wet and windy day, but some places it was much stormier, so I'm glad it wasn't worse here.

I have made another piece for my Memory wall, using a photo of my great auntie Fanny, taken back in 1918, when she was 18 years old. I have used this photo a lot, I just love it. I printed it onto photo-paper and cut it with TH's cabinet card die.
For the background I used a piece of thick card, almost like chipboard, that one of my nice neighbours put into the paper recycling bin. It is A4 size, so just what I wanted. I covered it with printed papers, gave it a coat of gesso, and then stencilled various patterns with embossing paste. I gave it a coat of thinned down blue-grey acrylic paint. Then I collaged various papers onto it. I decided that the stencilled parts were not visible enough, so laid the stencils on again and put more paste over the top of some of the stencilled motives. When it was dry, I embossed some parts with Frantage EP, or added some fairy-dust. I used the same EP to emboss some of the 'seams' of the collaged paper, before adding the photo and the clock. The clock is from the Gecko Galz 'Time Flies' collage sheet. Then I added some roses (rub-ons), some lace, and a little posy of textile roses. I coloured the edges of the white roses with Victorian velvet DI using a water brush to give just a hint of colour. The sentiment has been written by hand onto a ticket (stamp by TH), stamped with Archival black and fussy cut.
I am linking to a Vintage Journey ,fond memories, and my TH inspiration here is the use of  the techniques with stencilling, distressing, stamping and die cuts to make a vintage style.  

I am also linking to Craftroom challenge, roses and romance,
 Paint Party Friday, and Manon's 'Paper Saturdays'

The ducks were wandering about on Market Street today, and a little robin, too.

The entrance to the orthopedic hospital:

Flowering trees:

and lush green everywhere.

This is the rare white mulberry tree; I showed a photo of it in winter, and here it is with leaves. The tree is propped up on brick supports to stop it falling down.

Have a great weekend, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!