Jingle Belles ... card 11

Good morning my lovely blog friends ... for the first time in over a week I am starting to feel better ... The sun is shining here too and I have a coffee date with some girlfriends later ...
The last few days I haven't even felt like crafting .... but last night I did manage to make a card to keep up with my venture at Jingle Belles  and we are now on to week 11 ... can you believe it? I know come December I will be sooo grateful that I continued with this challenge ... The only downside? ... well all the cards will be different and it will take me AGES to decided what to send to whom ... I'm a ditherer like that ... So this week  we have a colour challenge ... Kraft, White and Pale Blue as per this picture ...

As chosen by Leslie aka The Crooked Stamper ... This is my version ...

My little Ikea reindeer again ... remember I mentioned to you that these were cardboard tree decorations but I carefully split them into 3 and this one I covered in glitter ... my original post is Here

I used MME glitter paper again together with some blue snowflake paper from my stash and some little tree stickers that I've had for years ... 

The white ribbon is from K&Co ... the blue sparkly one along with the sentiment is from my hoard of stuff! So ... eleven down 40 more to go ...

Don't forget to join in my give away by clicking Here 

Have yourselves a wonderful day ... 'see you' tomorrow

~ Ros ~

Giveaway ...

Hello sweet blog friends ... I promised you a Giveaway ... 

My little blog will be a year old on April 3rd and it has brought me so much joy ... I have laughed and cried with the best of you ... people I have never met but who share their lives with me daily ... make me thankful ... make me smile ... 

I am not going to ask you to be a follower ... I figure that you would do that if you wanted to anyway ... 

All I ask is that you leave me a comment here if you would like this gift and in April I will put all your names in a bag and get Mikey to pick one out ... does that sound ok?

Here we are ... would you like this to grace your craft space?

These letters are wall hangings that are padded and covered in pretty vintage material

Each one stands 5" high 

And they come in their own little bag too ....

This is the back so you can see they are ready to hang ... or you could just stand them up on a shelf if you wanted to ...

So there you go ... my way of saying Thank You! 

Till soon

Ros

Calendar Card

Hi everyone ... I've been pretty rough these past few days ... missed my philosophy class and will be missing club night tonight ... hopefully by next week I should be feeling better (hopefully she says fingers crossed) ... At least I've had time to create a little something for this week's challenge at WaltzingMouse based on this sketch ....

... a little something different ....

... using this beautiful MF paper from Kirsty and a gorgeous free image from Vintage Catnip ...

I cut the 3 'frames' using SB Nestabilities and my Sizzix and adhered them to another piece of card

which I folded first making a spine because the front flap lifts up and Voila!!

... there's a little calendar underneath ...

The beautiful ribbon I used is from Stella ... and the pearls are from my stash ... the calendar is a mini from ebay ... All I need to do now is decide if this should go in my bedroom or craft room ... hmmm ...

Thanks to all of you for your lovely comments ... I love reading them and I am so grateful that you took the time to write them ... Tomorrow I will post details of my giveaway

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Flourishes Challenge

This is a first for me ... I have never entered a challenge at Flourishes ... but having seen the gorgeous work of the DT .. I though I would check it out ... The challenge is Bring back Beautiful .. "Neutrals" ... and the incredibly talented Beate Johns is hosting ... I just hope I got it right with my colours ... 

Dottie paper is SU and I can't remember who makes the other one ... sorry ... The dress form is a digital freebie from Cemerony  and the little card is also a digital from Iralamija's Etsy

A piece of scrap black card and a piece of material from my stash together with some lace and a resin rose complete the card ...

Do you think this fits the challenge? I hope so ... either way I loved making it ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

In My Pocket Challenge

Hi there ... I am back this morning with my City Crafter Challenge post ... where I am hosting this week and we have a very talented Guest Designer ... Monica Skadsem from Norway... If you are into Shabby Chic .. you really need to visit her blog and see the fabulous creations she's made for this week's challenge ... it's AWESOME!! 
 The challenge I have set is to create a card, tag or project which includes some sort of pocket ... I was inspired by these lovely creations from Recycled Rita ... you can find her post of these HERE

Aren't they just the prettiest toilet rolls ever? I've been saving my toilet rolls too just so I can make some of these ... probably with my group ...

I decided to go for a card as I so wanted to use my new things from PTI ... and this is what I came up with 

This is a double pocket card so I could get two pretty tags in ... I made the pockets by just folding a piece of double sided TH paper that was cut to about 8/12" X 11" ... then I stitched it to my card ...

This is how it looks without the tags in 

... and these are my pretty stamped tags ... 

For the buttons .. I first adhered my paper to CS and then cut them ... just to make them thicker ... and the little pin that you see on my card is from Stella ...

I hope you will join us ... I love seeing your creations  ... please take a minute to visit the rest of the DT and see their Gorgeous creations too ...

Kirsty

Linda

Cheryl

See you later!

~ Ros ~

Two Challenges ...

Good morning to you all ... I am still not feeling too well and it seems that my Pilates teacher is also sick so class is cancelled ... I couldn't have made it anyway but really hate letting anyone down 

So I have been able to sit in my little room here and do a couple of things ... first up is a card for this weeks challenge at CR84FN ... this is the colour inspiration picture ...

I have to say that I am so glad I did this challenge ... these are not normally colours I would immediately reach for but when I put them together ... I was amazed at how much I liked them ... more than I could imagine ... so here's my take ...

It's like vitamin C for the soul! (Lol)

I had all these things in my stash ... just waiting to be picked for this challenge .. I have no idea where the papers are from but the one with the little butterfly was from Lynnda and the buttons are from The Ribbon Girl ... 

So what do you think?

2nd Challenge

I  have a note book to share which I made for the challenge at Lilybean's Paperie which is based on another beautiful picture courtesy of the incredible Leslie at A Creative Mint ...

How could I not make my own notebook ... based on this? So here we are ...

A mixture of digital (Vintage Findings by Jen Allyson) printed directly onto cardstock with some Tim Holtz (grey paper) ... a scrap of MF paper and some from my stash ... 

I distressed the small papers too ... the white flower I crocheted and added a tiny cream one to it ... butterflies and lace from my stash too 

Guess I need to do a pen to go with it now ... 

I hope you have a lovely day ... It's still freezing here ... (minus 4C tonight ... Brrr)

Till soon

~ Ros ~