Birthday bloomer

Hello dear blog friends ... I have so much to do and so little time ... as well as trying to do my Christmas cards ... cut and prepare things for the school tomorrow .... club night tonight ... I have a lot of birthdays this month too ... It was my one of my friends' birthday yesterday so this is a card I made for her ... 

I always do inserts for my cards and this takes a fair bit of time ... finding a verse, printing it etc., and I completed the card and drove in the ice to my friend's house with the gift and card wrapped prettily ...

It was only on the way home I realised that I hadn't signed the card! OMG I felt such a fool ... and neither my friend nor her family said anything ... they obviously didn't want to embarrass me ... I confess that this is not the first time I have done this either ... and like before I had to make the call to apologise and ask that they sign it themselves. Fortunately on both occasions ... it caused a laugh ...

Thankfully this is the last night at the Thursday club ... Tuesday was the last night at Philosophy and I took a card in for everyone with handmade treats ... I need to slow down ...

So now I am off to see to my husband's eye drops ... 

Have a great day ... Till soon

~ Ros ~

Let it snow ...

Hi there ...
It's another challenge at City Crafter Challenge  today and the theme is "Let it Snow" ... well it is winter and most of the UK is covered in snow ... So, this week we are hosted by our lovely Cheryl  who is also sponsoring us with a fabulous prize ... go check it out .... Our GD is Luz Maria Bruna ... this talented lady makes the most fabulous scrapbook pages ... please go and visit her and see for yourself .... you will be amazed.
On to my card ... 

Yep, it The Snowman again ... this time I've used MME DP and some plain white CS which I embossed

my snowflake is cut from felt and glittered ... backed with some tulle and the beautiful button is from my swap partner Chriss ... I also added Diamond dust to the snowman

Can you see the little border? this is a vinyl border that I've had for the longest time in my stash and finally it has a place ....

I hope you will be joining us this week at City Crafter Challenge ... if you need more inspiration please pop over and see the lovely cards done by  our Guest Designer and the rest of the DT ...

Till soon keep safe and stay warm

~ Ros ~

2nd Post ...

Hi there ... 
This is my second post today so if you missed my Pixie Dust post ... please scroll down ...

I just have a few more cards to share with you ... I haven't been able to enter sweet Mona Pendleton's (aka Cupcake Creations) challenge for a while and as I needed to make a card for my Aunt's anniversary ... I managed to combine the two ... this is the colour combination ... another beautiful photo from Leslie at A Creative Mint ...

and here is my card ....

I love those cute little birds ... really do remind me of my Aunt and Uncle ... so close and adoring of each other ... The bird images are from PC crafters and papers are digital from Pink Petticoat

The flower is Prima ... leaves punched from Kraft CS ... Fancy tags die cut for the sentiment which was computer generated .. pearls and ribbon from stash ...

I also have a couple of Christmas cards to share ...

Websters digital ... which I printed twice so I could cut out bits and decoupage them on pop dots 

Computer generated sentiment  and the little deer was also adhered with pop dots and the tree glittered (of course)

And this next card is for a friend of mine who adores the "The Snowman" ...

The background paper is also Websters (non digital) ... which I stamped as well and the image is from a chipboard set of "The Snowman" images

Look how icy he is ... covered in Diamond dust ...

I'll be back tomorrow with a new challenge at City Crafter ... look forward to seeing you ...

~ Ros ~

Pixie Dust Paperie ...

Hello ...
How are you all? Here we have freezing fog and venturing out is not good ... My friends partner slipped today on the ice and has broken his collar bone in 2 places!! and my husband has to go to hospital tomorrow to have cataracts done so I will be waiting patiently till he can come home.


The good news however, is that I am guest designing for Pixie Dust Paperie  all this month (Yay!) ... and ...  I got to use the brand new kit ... Times Square Twenty 11 which goes on sale today!  ... A beautiful kit filled with lots of my favourite brands ... So here are some peeks for you ...


 First a layout ... can you guess who? .... The date is very significant ...

... and next a picture frame for our little princess....

 If you'd like to see more of these and how I did them ... please hop on over to Pixie Dust Paperie and let me know what you think ...

Till soon ... be safe

~ Ros ~

More Christmas cards ...

Hi ... How are you all?
I was at the club Christmas party and disco last night ... It was such fun and a great turn out considering the weather ... The group had a wonderful time dancing the night away ... even those in wheel chairs were moved around to the music and thoroughly enjoyed it! All the volunteers brought food so there was plenty to go around and I came home very tired but content ... seeing their happy faces ...
Today I got to spend more time in my craft room ... and though I made quite a few cards yesterday ... they are now winging their way across the Atlantic ocean ... so I won't post and spoil the surprise ...
Last year I found this great site called "Go Make Something" Here is the link ... they have some wonderful freebies and I used one of the Santa's today .... 

Because it is dark here ... my photos aren't brilliant and I'm not too sure that you can see the sparkle on Santa or the felt snowflakes ...

I've use a mixture of Webster and MME ... lace, tulle, glitter, satin ribbon, prima roses, stars and berries.

I also want to show you a lovely card I got from Deb today ...

How sweet is this? ... Thanks ever so much Deb ... it was a lovely surprise.

And Finally I got another blog award from Stella ... Thank you Stella ... 

So that's me for today ... I have to go out into the freezing now to do some grocery shopping ... I had some workmen here today so couldn't go earlier ... brrr! 

Have a wonderful day / evening ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Thank You Stella

Hello ...
I'm just popping in to say a big "Thank You" to the lovely Stella for a beautiful card and chocolate bar I got today ... 

Isn't that card just beautiful? look at those pretty pearls!

My chocolate is a big letter "R" and unfortunately it didn't arrive in one piece so I have had to eat half of it ... It's really yummy! Just what a girl needs when she is not feeling her best and is full of cold .... Don't you agree?

Thanks again Stella ... and have a lovely day everyone ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~