Winter Wishes

Good morning blog friends ... I have a card to share that will be winging it's way across the ocean to a sweet blog friend ... I missed getting a Christmas card to her and so decided to create a special winter one ... which also qualifies for the new challenge over at Moxie Fab World ... where Gray (or grey as it is here in the UK) is the New Black ... 

I have been playing around with some silver grey fabric I had in my stash ... and I love the look of it against the MME glitter paper (boy this paper will last forever!) ... 

I used my Sizzix to cut some edging and lots of circles which I used to make my embellishment 

topped with another of those pretty silver and pearl centres ... these actually came from some enormous earrings I bought in the sales ... I am always on the look out for these kind of thing and sometime I see the lady on the till eye me up ... probably thinking "what on earth is she thinking ... buying these"

But hey, there were 4 of these on one earring alone ...  at 70p for the pair ... I'm getting a bargain!

So Sylvia ... I am sorry that this is late ... but I hope it is worth the wait and Thanks ever so much for your handmade jewel ... 

and you have the most amazing handwriting! ... how I wish I could write like that (sigh) 

Have a wonderful Sunday 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Eleven Elements ...

That's the challenge over at the Shabby Tea Room this week ... to me it sounded kinda daunting ... but yesterday I made a card for my friend's daughter ... Laura who celebrates her birthday in a few days ... ... and my SIL was looking at it and asking how many papers I used etc. and that caused me to count my elements ... Yahoo! eleven! Really? ... well I counted a few times to be sure ... here we go ...

1. Card stock (printed in vintage cream)

2. Four different papers ( all SU) ... makes 5 ...

6. Crafty Secrets image

7. Stitching

8. Satin ribbon

9. Tape measure twill tape

10. Black tulle

11. Silver and pearl embellishment

Yep ... eleven ... so here is my card ...

I used to take care of Laura ... she kind of grew up with Mikey ... like brother and sister ... often playing but mostly fighting and squabbling! So I taught her to sew ... to cook ... all things creative and girlie ... which proved to be a waste of time (LOL!) and now she is leaving to travel ... so she will appreciated this card and the memory behind it ... and no doubt have a chuckle ...

Before I go ... I wanted to just mention something about Facebook .... I've have a few requests lately to be "friends" which is so nice ... and I have no problem in accepting these requests ... BUT ... I don't usually put anything on Facebook ... Now call me paranoid ... but I am soooo wary ... See, when I lost my Mum ... within days her identity had been stolen ... When I should have been grieving ... I was fighting to clear her name ... it took me 9 months ... It broke my heart all over again ... she never owed anyone in her life ... and bills were piling up from some ruthless evil person, that probably new her and lived near her ... someone she probably trusted ... So forgive me if I do not correspond via Facebook ... ignore requests to give out information etc.,  you might think this strange ... me being a blogger an all but that's just me ...

Till soon 

~ Ros ~ 

         

                          

Cream in their coffee ..

THANK YOU! to the girls at Play Date Cafe ... my card Here made the "Cream in Our Coffee" this week ... I am honoured ...

Today I have been busy making a set of cards for my Aunt ... she struggles to get out now and standing in queues in shops is just to difficult ... and since we have had so many Post Offices closed down ... the queues are so bad in the last remaining ones ... so a few times a year I like to send a set of cards with envelopes and stamps ... all ready for her to use ... she can at least get to the post box ... as long as they don't move them too! 

I try to stick to a colour and style that will suit most occasions and chose to use some MF paper from the fabulous kit Kirsty sent me ... along with some 'dottie' Tim Holtz paper ...

The box is made from heavy cardstock, and she can reuse this when the cards have all gone  ... the Wisp stamp is a digital from Pink Petticoat, which I love and have used many times ... I added "stickles" randomly just to give a bit of sparkle ... 

The border stamp you can see on the box is also digital from my Print Shop program

 ... love those little birdies ...

I kept the cards pretty CAS and flat for posting ....

Some in white CS and some in pearlescent blue

So they will get mailed tomorrow ... 

Well, that's it for today ... my Thursday club starts tonight and I am looking forward to the evening crafting and catching up with my sweet happy group ... We have snow forecast for tomorrow again!

Till soon my dear friends ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Back to normal ...

Hello everyone ... This is just a quick post ... I wanted to thank you for your sweet comments and best wishes for my Wedding Anniversary yesterday ... I had a busy day and a friend came to visit bringing me a beautiful cake stand from Laura Ashley ... for my new kitchen ... isn't it lovely?

Goes so well with my book don't you think?

I haven't made any of these yet ... 'cos I know I will have to eat them ... but don't they look good!

My Husband and I went out for a lovely dinner last night to a little restaurant we like and I wore my gift from him ...

A pretty silver and pearl necklace and bracelet set ... which is very me ...

.. and see the paper tissue rose? ... this was one of two that the waiter at the restaurant made for me and one was wrapped around the wine bottle ... they are a little crushed and hard to photograph ... but I was so thrilled with them ... don't we all love handmade flowers?

Now having taken down my Christmas tree and decorations ... I NEED to do some grocery shopping ...

truly the fridge is empty!! maybe grab sometime for crafting later ...

Till soon keep safe ...

~ Ros ~

City Crafters Challenge Week 38

Hi there ... 
Today marks the start of another challenge at City Crafter Challenge and I have to say that last week's entries were so magnificent that it just gets harder and harder to try and pick out winners ... You people are just so talented ... I'm in awe of some of your creations ...
Today our lovely Cheryl is hosting our first challenge of 2011 and this week we are asked to make a card or project using only WHITE plus one accent colour of our choice ... As today is also my wedding anniversary ... I made a card for my husband and went with black as my other colour choice keeping it pretty CAS ...

I stamped a background using black ink onto white card stock and machine stitched  this onto my main card ... then took another piece of white CS and embossed it and used a spellbinders border die to trim the edge ... next I used a Sizzix die to cut out the heart shape and layered this over my stamped piece using foam squares to give some dimension ... added some lace and a computer generated sentiment and a pretty black glittered heart ....

I always worry that my cards might be a bit 'girlie' ... I think he will like the fact that I made this regardless ...
I do hope you can come and play along with us this week ... please go and check out all the DT work too ... our sponsor is Laura Vigliaro  of Laura's Vintage Garden (Etsy) so there is one super duper prize on offer... click on THIS link to see her Etsy goodies ... AND ... Laura is offering a 10% discount to ALL of our CCCB visitors!!! ... hop over to our blog to obtain the discount voucher ... Hope to see you there ...


Till soon


~ Ros ~

Recycled crafting

I managed to fit in two challenges today ... over at the Play Date Cafe they have a beautiful inspirational photo courtesy of Martha Stewart ... 

Now I had bits of ribbons and bows on my craft table from Christmas gifts (I never throw anything away)  and one of the bows was my incentive to make my card ... just the right colours for this challenge

I rummaged through my papers and found these were going to be a perfect match too ... along with a felt butterfly, buttons and pearls  ... it just all came together ...

I used two tiny pieces of lace to add extra wings to my butterfly and whilst I probably would never have put this together without the PDC challenge ... I'm pleased at how it turned out ...

Jingle Belles 

... is a brand new challenge blog put together by two incredibly talented ladies Lauren Bergold ... and ... SmilynStef ... basically it is to make a Christmas card each week, thereby having a good supply ready come next Christmas ... of course there is a challenge involved and you will have to pop along to the blog to see what this involves each week ... This week we are asked to make a card using something 'new' and something 'old' ... here is my card ...

I know it looks simple ... is simple ... but it took me ages !!?? ...

I used a scrap piece of gorgeous MME paper from over a year ago (kept every last bit of this) and my centrepiece is from a decoration that was on one of my Christmas gifts ... looove it!

My "new" ... is the sweet little glittered doily and  the paper lace ribbon ... both gifts from Stella ... I even used some of the bakers twine she wrapped my gift in ... 

So there is my first card for next Christmas ... if you want to get ahead too for next year why not join in? ... there are also going to be prizes ... now that's another great incentive!

I gotta go ... Ross is coming to visit!

Till soon

~ Ros ~