City CrafterChallenge Week 29

Good morning to you ... It's Tuesday again and that means a brand new challenge at City Crafter and this week Linda has chosen a digital theme with "Get Your Digi On" ... Yep, time to use your digital stamps ... We have "Some Odd Girl" as our sponsor this week and the DT each used a stamp from her range ... 

I used Anjou!

I printed it twice onto CS ... reversing one and then did the same with paper  and pieced them together. Everything else was from my stash ... 

We have the brilliant Clare Buswell as our GD this week ... if you're looking for inspiration take a look at all the work done by the Clare and DT this week ... as always there's a prize to be had ... just follow the rules and most of all have fun! I look forward to seeing your creations this week. 

Have a lovely day ...

Till soon

Ros

Play Date Cafe Color Splash

Hi there ... how's it going? ... Did you all enjoy your Halloween weekend? ... It was very quiet here and we didn't have many "trick or treat" callers at all ... seems my friends noticed the lack of callers too ... hmmm ... I'm just popping in with a little card for the Color Splash challenge over at Play Date Cafe ... such a pretty picture 

I went with another Christmas card ... trying to get as many as I can done ... here's my effort ...

I love this holly stamp ... It's an Anna Griffin and I picked it up on Ebay ... the sentiment stamp is WM and that beautiful lace is from my swap partner Chriss Blagrave. I used flower soft for the 'snow' on my poinsettia and added touches of glitter to my holly.

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments of late ... I really appreciate each and everyone ... I am still struggling without a kitchen sink but the work is well underway ... then I discovered that the cupboard doors that have been delivered are the wrong ones! ... Why did I know that would happen? ... Seems it will take another 3 weeks to get the right ones ... Thank goodness I'm at Practical Philosophy tomorrow to ensure I don't get stressed ... just let everything go .... Actually it makes me realise just how fortunate we are ... some people don't even have running water or kitchens do they ... so I am thankful for all I have ...

Till soon my friends ... keep safe

Ros

Snow Angel & Top Mouse ... Yay!!

Not only have I had to order a new printer ... but my camera seems to be playing up now and my pictures are not so good .. Still I wanted to play along at the Shabby Tea Room challenge and I know I am cutting it fine ... the challenge finishes tonight ... 
The challenge is to "case" one of the DT cards ... I chose to "case" Debbie's ... you can see her card Here ... I loved the bear idea so decided to try and keep all the elements Deb used but with a different theme ... mine is a Snow Angel ... 

 ... a snowflake on his 'wand' ( this cute pin was a gift June)... I got the star in, the button and twine, a heart and even a heart halo ... I used this pretty piece of lace in place of Deb's crochet piece ...

The little bear is from Meljen and I paper pieced him and drew the wings onto some card - cut out and glittered. I just wish the pictures were better ... it's a lovely blue is reality and so very sparkly.

Before I finish I would like to say Thank You to ...WaltzingMouse for making me Top Mouse this week ... I am really honoured ....

Till soon

Ikea Christmas

Well Happy Halloween to you all ... I hope you have fun!
Hubby and I went off to Ikea a couple of days ago ... after the workmen had left ... we were able to grab a meal and just stroll around for a while leaving behind the total disarray at home... I came across these cute little reindeer tree ornaments .... 

 I was thinking 'Christmas cards' at the time ... and something I could whip up pretty quickly (ha! it took me hours) ...  I think they were about £1.99 but ... as they are made out of rather thick chipboard ... I discovered that with a little bit of wiggling and gentle tugging ... I could actually split each one into 3 ... This meant that I had 2 patterned (from the front and back) and one plain ... here's what I came up with 

The patterned side with a little bit of stamping ....

Just frosted his antlers a bit too ...

Then the plain one I glittered twice ....

Luscious MME paper from the Signature Christmas range ... 

Because this reindeer was not smooth ... after applying the glitter it ended up with a furry look which was an added bonus ... So what do you think? 

Till soon

Ros

Can the girl do a Layout?

It's been the darkest day .... so I apologise now for my photos ... It's been hectic ... men dismantling my old kitchen ... plasterers and electricians coming and going ... and my brother and SIL came with Ross .. Oooh it was so good to see Ross again ... he's grown since I last saw him and is such a bundle of love ... 
They brought me some lovely pictures of my great niece Sophia and when everyone had gone I decided to do a layout ... I confess that it has been years since I did one and I am just not sure that I get it right ... What do you think? ...

Isn't she just beautiful ... I know... I'm biased ...

I think I need to do more of these ...

Have a lovely weekend my lovely friends

Till soon

Ros

Ruby Wedding

Hello ...

I had to make a quick card last night ... One of my Husbands friends will be celebrating his Ruby Wedding anniversary this weekend and my husband only just found out ... men!
Thankfully it fell into place without too much planning ....

Hope they like it ...

Have a lovely day ...

Ros