Chocolate and challenges

Hello there... How are you all? 
We have beautiful sunshine but it is very cold ... It would be lovely in Wales today seeing all that beautiful countryside glowing in the colours of Autumn ... But I am content to craft and watch the squirrels dashing along the garden ... digging and burying their store of nuts ... Yep, going to have some wonderful oak trees and beech trees growing if I don't watch out ...
I have a project for 2 challenges to share ... 
First up .. The Shabby Tea Room has an inspiration picture for this weeks challenge ... "Chocolate Covered Autumn" either go with the theme or the colours ... look at the delicious picture ...

Well, I just had to go with the Chocolate! who doesn't love chocolate? 

And secondly Pixie Dust Paperie are having their first ever challenge! "Scrap - Lift" all the DT work is so beautiful, but in the end I knew I had to go with Kirsty's boxed notes .... So without further ado ... here's my project ...

A boxed set of notes cards .... all with a chocolate theme ... all of  the images are from a collage bought at Etsy ...

My box has an acetate front so you can see the cards through ... handmade and printed on my computer

Looks like white chocolate and dark chocolate (yum)

The cards in more detail ...

This gorgeous chocolate brown ribbon is from the Pixie Dust Paperie and so is the prima flower below

So why don't you hop on over to these two challenge sites ... I had fun doing this today ... and I never ate one piece of chocolate ...(yet!) ... 

Till soon ... take care

Ros

City Crafter Challenge Day ...

Hello there ... I've missed you all over the past few days ... I had a great time with my SIL in Anglesey and Wales and crammed a week into 3 days. We laughed and chatted and had a lot of girlie time together, which was so overdue.
I am anxious to see all your creations and have spent ages checking out all last weeks entries on City Crafter Challenge ... but today we have a brand new challenge set by our creator the very talented Kirsty ...
A brilliant challenge where the theme is Rome and the challenge is to make a card/project with a vintage feel ... I have never been to Rome, but it makes me think of the Colosseum, the Trevi fountain, and all the beautiful old romantic films I watched with my Mum ....

I hope my card interprets both the place and the romance ....

In case you are wondering ... I got the image from the internet and changed it to a png. file ... resized it and added the words ... then printed directly onto DP. Lots of Tim Holtz here too in the masking tape border, the key and heart die cuts which I first rubbed with gold buff, then glittered ... large flower from Prima and small flowers from Kirsty ... the rest is from my stash ...

Please pop over to the City Crafter Challenge to see the rest of the DT work together with a lovely card from our GD this week Laurie Willison .

I have sooo much catching up to do ... and look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge ... Have a lovely day

Till soon 

Ros

Waltzingmouse and Christmas

I have been trying to get into Christmas mode ... you know that is hard for me in October ... and I am prompted even more by the Waltzingmouse sketch challenge this week ... which looks pretty "Christmassy" to me even though some of the DT have made fantastic non Christmas cards ... and as I am going away for a long weekend - no crafting or computer ... eek!  I am thinking of taking some things to cut out so I don't have withdrawal symptoms ... So I have been playing around with some Websters pages (digital) ... the WM sketch ...

my card ....

I found it so hard to photograph this and capture the softness of the colours - the background is a creamy colour and I have been all over the house trying to capture it's true prettiness ... perhaps the glitter doesn't help?

Whilst awaiting my new stamps from WM ... I carried on with some more of the gorgeous Websters Papers and made these two cards ... 1st card

2nd card ...

So there we are .... I'm getting a start at Christmas anyway .... 

Till soon

Ros

City Crafter - Happy Birthday Linda!

Good morning ... I can't believe how fast the weeks are flying by ... I am hosting this weeks' new challenge at City Crafters which just as it happens is called "Take Flight" ... 
The challenge is to make a card or project that includes anything with wings ... be it an angel, butterfly, bee ... airplane ...  in fact the choice is endless ... so I hope you are all going to join in the fun and as long as you follow the rules you could win a prize too ...

I love this lacey butterfly ... I got it from a shop in the city and I'm not sure who make's it ... I got the lace there too. A mix of papers from my stash, some tulle and a bit of stamping to finish.

Hop on over to see the other DT cards and welcome our GD Zielonookabeti ... her work is just amazing ... I could spend hours just pouring over her blog .... 

And ... Today is my fellow DT  Linda Robinson's Birthday!! .. Happy Birthday to you oooo!!

a little card for you Linda ... cos I know you love cats ...

See ... he all furry too ... and I made the flower especially for you ... have a wonderful day! 

Edit note ... The beautiful picture on CCCB challenge (Wings) is from a brilliant artist .. Josephine Wall .. you can find her work Here

Till soon my friends

Ros

Card Patterns

Hi there ...
I've not had a lot of time for creating today but  just wanted to pop in with a little card for this weeks' challenge at Card Patterns ... this is the sketch ...

... and this is my card ...

I had this image and paper which I think is Kaban and though I don't think you can see it, I over stamped the background DP with butterflies using SU whisper white ink and sponged the edge of the kraft CS ... The frame I cut with my circle nestabilities and glittered it twice ...  though again I don't think you can see the sparkle .. Both the image and the frame are mounted on foam dots to add some dimension ... I got to use some of my doilies from the swap at City Crafter too ... the sketch was perfect for them.
It's been a glorious day again here ... the sun hardly ever shone during the summer months and now it is fabulous! ... flowers are starting to flourish again just when they should be going to sleep for the winter ... it's quite crazy really but us Brits are enjoying it whilst it lasts ...


Have a great evening/day ... and I'll be back tomorrow for a brand new challenge at City Crafter
Till soon
Ros

Birthday Bling

Tomorrow is my friend Ella's birthday and though she has a main present from me ... I like to give little 'extras' as a surprise ... one of the things she needed was a new note book and I love to make or alter note books .... But the one I bought was just too pretty to cover and it was also so very appropriate ... she loves to shop! My best shopping buddy in fact ... and she loves a bit of bling ... So I decided to 'bling' up the note book and this is the result ...

Ok ...  so I should have taken a picture before I altered it ( duh! ) but I guess you can see the added bits ... anything that sparkles, shines and of course the lace, ribbon, buttons and doily (courtesy of Chriss) ....

are all added ... and I decided to carry on the same theme for her card ... well, sort of ... 

I am truly loving this stamp set from Crafty Secrets ... and it was available here in the UK! You get a lot of stamps in one set too...

So now I have a lot of wrapping to do before tomorrow ... and before I forget ... take a look at the gift bag ... Shop bought ... well,  for £1 I certainly could not have made it better ...

Till soon

Ros