A Challenge & Happy Mail ...

Hello there ...

How are you all? ... I hope the sun is shining down in your neck of the woods ... it is here ... though the temperature is expected to drop down to almost freezing by tonight ... crazy weather ...

I've had a good day ... been for coffee with my friend this morning and an afternoon of creativity ... 

First I have a card and tag which I made for this weeks' colour challenge at CR84FN  based on this pretty picture ...

... and another beautiful, philisophical quote ...

I love this colour combination ... so vibrant and yet I didn't think I was going to be able to put something together ... so I left it a few days and then came up with this 

The background paper is an image from the Graphic Fairy which I enlarged ... my red paper is Core'dinations which I stamped on ... the pretty poppy is from Websters Pages Spring Market 

... a tiny piece of scrap doily, ribbon and sparkly button from my stash ...

I liked this combination so much that I made a tag to go with it too 

My Websters Pages are from the digital collection which gives me the freedom to alter the size of things so that my Poppy is obviously a little smaller on this tag than on the card ...

You can see I had a wee bit of trouble with my sewing machine ... but I think it adds to the tag

Next I want to share some Happy Mail from the ever so kind Amy aka Papertrails Leaver ... you may remember that she won my giveaway and take a look at what arrived today ...

a closer look at the beautiful card ...

"Thank You so much Amy"

I LOVE everything ... the lace ... pins ...  tickets ... everything! ... So very kind of you  

Have yourselves a lovely day / evening and I'll be back with you soon

~ Ros ~

Mother may I ...

Hello and good morning to you ...

Today Cheryl is hosting for us at City Crafter Challenge and has asked that we create a card / project which includes the word Mother or similar (Mom, Mum, Madre etc.,) ... as you know we have already had Mother's Day here in the UK but lots of you will be making your cards and gifts in preparation for your Mother's Day ... so it's a great challenge ...

I chose to make a wall hanging ... using one of my all time favourite photos of my Mum with her first born son ... I never knew my big brother ... he died at 7 months ...  

I think my Mum looks so pretty in this photo ... reminds me of a film star ... hence I chose to use  Websters Pages Hollywood Vogue paper ...

I used ply board for my base which I painted it first,  then added the paper ... adhered some lace to the bottom and sewed on some little crystals ... all the embellishments are from my stash ... the little pin is a handmade gift from sweet Stella  I used a small scrap of Tim Holtz paper to mount my photo too.

Now it's over to you ... please come and join us this week ... if you are looking for more inspiration ... please hop over to the blog  ... see you there!

Have a wonderful day ...

~ Ros ~

Bunny ...

Good morning friends ...

I have a couple of things to share ... first of all my card for this weeks challenge at Jingle Belles Rock and it's week 17 ... 

where does the time go?

This week the challenge is all about recycling / upcycling ... not that I really know the difference ... but I do like to re-use whenever I can ... I keep the tiniest and strangest things ... Anyway back to the challenge which is very aptly named Happy Earth Day ... so here is my Earth Day card

My background paper and sentiment is Echo Park ... which I had left over from the gorgeous December kit from Pixie Dust Paperie ... the ' Carte Postale' with the embossed snowflakes is from an old shop bought card ...

The heart and wavy border are both cut from cardboard packaging ... and glittered up a little ... I left the border smooth and 'peeled' the heart ... cardboard cuts brilliantly with the Sizzix

The greenery on the heart is a bit of tinsel from an old decoration and one of my berry stems

the ribbon and little mulberry paper trees are from my stash ... 

So I did recycle / upcycle quite a bit here ... and I plan to use a lot more of that Cardboard to make some gift tags with ...

Now I would like you to meet bunny ...

Isn't she just the cutest? got to show you some more pics of her

She ... is called Yvette ... why? ... well my Mum was called Yvette (her father was french) and as a small child she was nicknamed Bunny ... something to do with a cute little angora hat she wore that her Mother knitted for her ... so my Mum is spending Easter with us after all ...

Have a good one!

~ Ros ~

Sweet Baby Card ...

Hello sweet blog friends ...

I know I've been absent for a while ... just things to do and a few hospital appointments to see to ... and I have at least been keeping up with visiting your blogs and seeing your beautiful creations ... I couldn't go a day without doing so ...

I just had some time to make a card for two challenges ... first up 

CR84FN24 ... with this beautiful colour palette

... and such an inspiring quote ...

and also WatzingMouse Sketch Challenge ... which I flipped

It's a beautiful day here again and I have been all over the place trying to take a decent photo of my card .. this is the best I could do ...

Here's my card ...

I printed my CS cream and used pale blue paper from Prima's Jack and Jill together with some Tim Holtz paper ... that sweet baby image is from Printable Heaven 

The flower is also Prima and the leaves I punched out ... scrunched seam binding from Bluebird Lane at Etsy ... the little button was a clear button which I altered using a little text paper and some glossy accents ... 

Have you any plans for Easter? ... I am just taking things as they come ... When my Mum was alive she always came and celebrated Easter and Christmas holidays with me ... and yes ... we saw each other practically every day .... somehow it's never the same ... but I have wonderful memories ... and many of my son with all his Easter Eggs ... Lol!

 I am thankfully for all I have ... my Husband and my Son here with me ... my family and my friends ... and my thoughts are with those less fortunate

Whatever you have planned ... I wish you all a blessed Easter ... may love and peace be with you

Till soon

~ Ros ~

CCCB Blog Winner

Hi there ... 

I promised you that I would be back with my winner for the $10 Pixie Dust Paperie gift certificate 
Thank you to everyone who left me comments and played along with our celebration blog hop ...
and of course grateful thanks to Pixie Dust Paperie
The Winner is ...

Cindy

I used the random generator to pick my winner but really don't know how to get this thing on my blog 

Anyways ... Cindy to claim your gift certificate just send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com  

City Crafter Challenge

Good Morning everyone ... are you well? ... I hope so ...

It's Tuesday again and time for another new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog Thank you to everyone who celebrated our First Birthday last week ... we really appreciate your support and the winners will all be announced soon ...

This weeks' challenge is brought to us by Linda ... My Happy Place ... who has just become a Grandma to the beautiful baby Miles ... Congratulations Linda! Please pop over to her blog to see pictures of Miles and leave her some love ...

Linda's challenge for us this week is to create a Gate Fold card ... It's been ages since I did one of these and if you are a little unsure about doing them ... there are some wonderful tutorials on the web ...
I chose to use some digital papers from Websters Pages (Lullaby Lane) 

and the beautiful butterfly sitting on the rosette is a sticker from the Lullaby Lane sticker collection available at Pixie Dust Paperie ... 

the only other things I added was some lace a couple of rhinestones and some stitching

A peek inside shows the same papers ... just ready for you to write or stamp your own sentiment

I apologise that some of the pictures are a little dark or shaded ... whilst I love the sunshine ... it can make it difficult to get some decent shots ... 

So now it's over to you ... I am so looking forward to seeing what you talented people can come up with ... every week you turn out amazing creations for the team to admire and drool over ... can't wait to see this weeks' entries ...

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments

Till soon keep safe

~ Ros ~