Birthday Girl...

In just over a weeks' time little Sophia will have her first birthday... Today I found the inspiration for her card .....

How cute is this little teddy from Meljen's Designs digital stamps.... ? She has some really beautiful images. I painted some of the teddy bear using Paintbrush on my computer then printed the whole design twice - once on white fine card stock and then on some Melissa Frances paper which I cut out and overlaid onto the first print using foam pads to give it some dimension. The background papers are the same MF paper and paper from PTI.

Not quite sure if you can make out the sparkly lace which I gathered by running ribbon through. Lots of embellishments here from my own stash...... 

Now remember I gave you this peek?

Well this was for a sweet blog friend - Kirsty - and I sent it over to the USA a week ago so I am hoping that it has not been lost somewhere along the line....... 

If so this was for you Kirsty to welcome you in your new home..........

....Together with this......

No doubt now I have shown you they will turn up!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone....

Till soon

Ros

Play Date Cafe Challenge........

Just a very quick post this evening .... 

The Play Date Cafe have a new challenge and the very talented Mona Pendleton of Cupcake Creations

has set a beautiful colour challenge.....

That bed looks so divine!!

Anyway here is my challenge entry......

Another cute lil' fairy.... 

Please hop over to see the lovely creations by the DT at Play Date Cafe  - they are so pretty.

Well I've had a really busy day and now I have to go to my crafting group, so I love you and leave you

Till soon

Ros

Thank you.......

I have got 4 big "Thank You"'s to make today.......


First of all - Thank you to...... City Crafters Challenge.... for awarding me another City Spotlight Artist Award for which I am truly grateful.
Secondly - Thank you to....Picture Perfect Creations .... for my Runner Up Award and for my new little button proudly displayed. I am overwhelmed........

My 3rd Thank You ,and the reason for this card.... is to Betty... One lovely lady who has been a blessing to my Dear Aunt and who today sent me some lovely embroidery ......

I think this little mouse from Tiffany's Doodles is so cute .... If you haven't seen her stamps you need to... they are brilliant and so easy to use.

I had in mind Picture Perfect Creations new challenge when I created this.....These are the colours......

Funnily enough they are the same colours I used in this card for the Caardvarks challenge, but they are such a nice combination and you can see the lovely cards the DT have done with these colours over at Picture Perfect Creations. 

So there are 3 thank you's and also my new challenge entry..... But my 4th Thank you is to all of you people out there for your kind words and support..... I feel I have made so many friends and it is .... Well....just great!

Till soon

Ros

Vintage wedding gift....

Craft wise the last few days have been quite busy... I do Pilates on Monday mornings and always catch up for coffee with my friend after class......So it surprised even me when I suddenly had a surge of creative juices flowing when I came home.... Good though because I had to sort my project for Thursday evening and it is not so much that I don't have the ideas - it's more of what they are capable of and would like.


So first up is this weeks project with a Father's day theme.... Notebooks and cards.....

I have prepared 20 of these for them to assemble and will do some more as I know they are always popular with my group.... what starts out as maybe a dozen people soon becomes over 20 when they see what we are making and more and more of the men now join in.

I covered each one of the buttons and then pierced the holes ready for them to attach with twine - velcro dots will act as a fastener for the notebook.

The snakeskin card is by Kaban and is really a lovely quality - looks and feels like leather. I printed the card with a vintage colour on my computer.

Next up is for the City Crafters Challenge this week... "Here Comes The bride"... A great challenge hosted by Cheryl Nelson and as the sponsor is none other than Kraft Kirsty ... the prize is some more of her lovely goods.

I chose to make a gift rather than a card this time ... a little vintage horseshoe......

Once again I have made my little flowers but this time with vintage music sheets. I won't pretend that this was not the fiddliest of things to make, because believe me it was! But I am pleased with the outcome.... And just in case you are interested.... No..... there is no tutorial for this as I make it up as I go. I started by covering stiff card with self adhesive glitter paper - I cut the shape using 2 circular nestabilities and it just grows from there... As you can see I added Tulle, ribbon, flowers, lace and glitter with some little hearts and pearls. Yep, fiddly!

And last but by no means least, I have another vintage card to share... this one was made for the Shabby Tea Room challenge - "Just For Dad".... Debbie always comes up with a great challenge and the DT have done some lovely cards... The prize is fabulous! Not telling you what it is - you will just go and take a look!

I lost my Dad nearly 40 years ago and still miss him everyday.....

Lots of little vintage ephemera ... with some distressed book paper for my butterfly.....

I dread to think how old that lil' button is..... my Mum and my Nana always kept sewing bits and bobs and heaps of buttons... nothing was ever thrown out without the buttons being removed first! Now I find myself soooo grateful for those habits - not sure why my Mum kept things as she had no interest or skill in anything to do with craft.... 

Well that's it for now my friends......

I hope you are all having a great day,

Till soon

Keep safe

Ros

Caardvarks Challenge...

The new challenge has started over on the Caarvarks blog Here....  And their sponsor this month is DRS Designs.
This challenge is to use Dry/Wet embossing and/or stamps ..... So, pretty versatile I would say. The DT have come up with some lovely creations... pop over and take a look .....


I decide to have a play with the lovely Core'dination Cardstock I received from a previous challenge...This is what I came up with...

I think this vintage CS has a real denim look to it, but I paired it with the softness of Melissa Frances paper, and stamped some butterflies with a pale pigment ink. The lovely tag is from Bluebirdlane Etsy shop Here.....

The CS is of course dry embossed and I added some lace - (seam binding came with the tag) and one of my favourite flowers from Iralamija.

Thursday club starts again for me this week and I really need to come up with something for my group so I'll say goodbye for now...

Till soon...

hugs

Ros

Digital Couture....

A couple of little things to share with you today....

It's been really hot here and I have been out all afternoon shopping. So I needed to just sit and create for a while - I was playing about with my digi stuff ..... and this is what I came up with ... kind of a mish mash hey?

That is actually a black rose on my seam binding but it doesn't show up very well. The lace is from KraftyKirsty's Etsy shop... isn't it lovely... It was a gift for the CCCB challenge win.

Some rubons - 7 Gypsies - and pearls from my own supplies. 

The other thing I wanted to share is this....

This is a little market stall shop I found at the weekend........

I just about wanted one of everything!! Gorgeous isn't it?

Have a great weekend everyone.. I have a package to post tomorrow and until it arrives I can't show you - it would spoil the surprise but I guess you could have a sneaky peek...

Till soon......

Ros