For Joanne ...

One of my ladies from Thursday Club is celebrating her birthday this weekend ... Now Joanne is not a girlie girl ... Flowers and lace would not suit her at all! So I needed to come up with a card that I thought would be acceptable and pondered on the colours to use ... Then I saw the new challenge over at the Play Date Cafe   with this lovely picture and adorable colours ....

(licking my lips here!...) So I thought I would go with these colours and hopefully she will like it ( I did all her invitations and she was so happy with them) ...

A mixture of digital papers have been used here Spontaneous Delights (courtesy of Shabby Princess) and the CS has been printed using the ledger paper from Shimelle's Spring basics ... 

It's the first time I've tried one of these rosettes and silly me adhered it the wrong way round ... the pinked edge should be showing! Lol

Congrats to Andrea Ewen on making a Private Blend Designer over at PDC ... her creations are lovely.

Till soon

Keep safe

Ros

Isn't she lovely ....

Hello and good morning to you all ...
How do you fancy winning a full pad of 6x6 Melissa Frances "Kitchy Kitchen"?... Well you can ...

... at  City Crafter Challenge Blog... hosted by our lovely Linda (soon to be a grandma! he! he!) and sponsored by our very own Kirsty ... (I REALLY would love to win the prize!!) ... our Guest Designer is the very talented Jessy Christopher  and she has done two beautiful examples for us this week ...  for which I am very grateful as my co DT's have all used beautiful pictures of family and friends .. and I  didn't ... neither did Jessy ... so I don't feel left out ... (LOL) 
On to my card ...

She is lovely though isn't she? (actually thinking about it I could have lied ... said it was a picture of me in my youth ... my Grandmother did have one of those telephones ... he he). This is a little bit of a different style for me ... I tend to worry about colours and though I do love vibrant colours - I am a little nervous using them ... It's ok for a challenge 'cos everyone else uses the same ... but I am glad I took the plunge on this ...

This pretty lady is an image from the Print Shop program again ... the sentiment is also computer generated ... 

Please hop on over to see the other DT's samples and come and play along with us this week ... SOMEONE will get that gorgeous pack of MF paper (sigh) ....

Before I sign off I just want to say 'Thank You' ... for all your lovely comments and in particular for my previous post ... You are so lovely and kind and I look forward each day to visiting with you ...

Keep safe

Ros

Going green ...

Yep, changed my blog again ... somehow that pretty pink was just not me ...
Anyway how are you all? ... Good weekend? 

First off I would like to thank The Shabby Tea Room for my Terrific Top Three award this week ... I was so pleasantly surprised  - given the lovely creations there were to pick from - So Thank You very much!  Today starts a new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room  - "The Delicate Cottage Rose" .... Isn't this just a pretty picture? 

And Squigglefly are sponsoring the challenge - I actually have some digital stamps from here so can recommend them ...

Now it just so happens that yesterday I made a little hanging 'thingy majig' for a sweet lady, to put in her sewing room ... she makes fabulous interior furnishings but more than that - she is a wonderful friend to my dear Aunt.

I think my creation qualifies for this challenge so grab yourselves a cup of tea ( from the STR of course), sit back and get ready for a few pictures ....

See it's all about sewing ...

Starting with a chipboard backing (which I painted first)  I then did a back sheet from an old sewing pattern (just peeking through on the left hand corner) ....

Can you see the pink material with lace stitched on? ... That material has sewing images all over it ...
The little sewing machine is from my digital collection "Sew Crafty" from hero arts .. with cotton on the reel and little buttons, a piece of tape measure, tiny pin cushion ... poppers ...

... Flowers made from old sewing patterns, with a pearl brad and of course glittered ... seam binding, strips of pearls, laid over a heart done with Sizzix and backed with more pattern paper ...

Little cotton reels, tiny scissors that I painted silver, a tied bundle of ribbon, tulle, a glittered butterfly and just peeking out from there are little tags saying (custom made & created for) ...

... roses mixed with white petals and ivy leaves (can't have too many flowers) ... I had so much fun doing this and I know she will appreciate it ... thing is ... maybe I should have done two so that my Aunt could have one in her sewing room ... Yep, think I'll have to do another ...

I thought I could also enter this in two other challenges ... new ones to me.. Frosted Designs (a recipe challenge) and Kaboodle Doodle (use metal) ..

Well that's me done for today ... don't forget to pop over to City Crafter tomorrow for a brand new challenge ... 

Till soon, keep safe ...

Ros

Lil' gift...

We really haven't had a summer here ... all the children are on their summer break from school and it has rained nearly every day ... pretty flowers lose their petals to the weight of the rain and the birds pop out from the trees intermittently to descend on my bird station and feed whilst they can ... But I have noticed that the shrubs are full with berries ready to ripen ... so the wildlife should have plenty to feast on .. even though it is a sign of a bad winter.... 
Another of my friends celebrates her anniversary this coming week and I know she would appreciate anything handmade ... she loves all things shabby ... so I thought I would make another "Home" plaque just for her ... 

Based on the one I did in a previous post Here ... but different in its colours ... more shabby ...

... similar embellishments ( waiting on a delivery of some new goodies) ... but I think it looks totally different from my previous one proving that colour can change everything...

Not sure if you can pick up the glitter and pearls ... 

I hope she likes it ....

Have a lovely weekend ...

Ros

Trick or Treat

I love the colours of Autumn ... I love to see little children dressed for Halloween and enjoying the innocent fun of it all ... I still remember my own son as a little boy deciding on the last minute that he would go with his friends 'trick or treating' and Mum would have to come up with a costume of sorts ... I always anticipated and was good at improvising! I can remember his little face when one of our neighbours gave him some sunflower seeds and not sweets ... he thought he was being given poison!! 
That was all so long ago ...  trick and treat had just begun to wing it's way across the ocean from the US ... before that we just had 'duck apple' ...
My card today is for the JUGS challenge .. a sketch challenge and I sort of turned is on its side ... this is the sketch ...

I haven't had the time to join in their challenges lately so I'm glad I will get this in before it finishes ...

Made a little treat cup too ...

Love making these little flowers .... papers are (green) My Minds Eye and a digital paper 'Dinner Party' courtesy of Shabby Princess  ...  image from The Print Shop  program ... the rest is from my stash 

Enjoy your day my friends ....

Till soon

Ros

A special heart...

Hello friends ... 
As you know this weeks challenge over at City Crafter is "I left my HEART in San Francisco" ... it got me thinking about something strange that happened 5 years ago and I am going to tell you a very personal story .. a True story ... make of it what you will ....


Five years ago we lost my beautiful nephew aged 33 ... quite suddenly really ... We are a small family and only family flowers were requested by his wife ... I chose a beautiful heart shaped arrangement in red and white ( from my husband and I ) with a smaller heart of red roses mounted on the top (from my son) ... 
You can imagine that this was a terrible time for us I was very close to my nephew and 2 days after the funeral my husband insisted on taking me out for a drive into the countryside. Naturally I did not want to go but I knew he was trying to help me as best he could ... so off we went. 


We were driving through country lanes .. no houses in sight and I looked up into the sky ... When my Mum was alive we used to play a game when we were on car trips .. we would look at the clouds and pick out shapes .. you know what I mean? 'There's a dog... there's a dragon ... there's a rabbit" .. And as I looked up this morning I played the game alone ... in silence. In the shape of the clouds  I saw what looked to me like a door ... I imagined that this was a door to heaven, a place where my nephew had gone to join his grandparents... It was then that I spotted something shining in the sky - heading for this 'door' .. my thought was that it was a helium balloon drifting in the warm air, broken away from somewhere far away as there were no houses ... no properties of any sort around. My husband became aware of me staring at this and stopped the car to look too ... sure enough he saw the same as me .. a Heart shaped object floating high up and still rising ... we watched until it disappeared into the cloud shaped door and I said to my husband "It looks like the Heart I got for Peter is going with him". 


A few hours later we arrived back home and my brother and his wife called me in tears ... not unexpected given that they had lost their beautiful son ... but the tears were in part distraught anger and disbelief as they explained that on visiting the cemetery earlier that day ... my beautiful Heart of flowers was missing ...
They searched all over in case someone had moved it ... but there was no sign of it .... I told them not to fret, Peter had taken them with him.... 

Till soon
Ros