Jingle Belles Card 20

Hi Everyone ...

I hope you have all had a good day ... it's wet and windy here and not too warm either ... I'm hoping things improve a little soon ...

Since we still have Blogger up and running I thought I'd post my card for this weeks challenge at Jingle Belles Rock ... This week we are asked to feature Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and this week there is also a Lucky Day ( Friday 13th) ... when one of the entrants will be chosen to be a guest star ... Lauren and Stef who constitute the 'Belles' in Jingle Belles Rock ... have made lovely cards for us to be inspired by ... just in case anyone is struggling to get into the Christmas mode ... so go have a look ... and if you have never stopped by Stef's blog ... or ... Lauren's blog  .. I highly recommend that you do ... they are so creative and each Thursday Stef has a link list to other blogs that are so inspiring ... well worth visiting ...

So on to my card ... I used another vintage image and framed it with some canvas ... which was actually the negative left from cutting a backing for a previous card Here ... waste not want not ...

The papers are MME (again!) and the twine is from my sweet blog friend June ... I love this stuff but it isn't something that I can get here ...

a couple of little 3D stickers and some pompom trim from my stash and card number 20 is done ...

See my Christmas card box is getting fuller

"Yay!"

Have a lovely evening ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

New Book ...

Hello ...

What a day it has been ... here was I at the end of a busy week with a free morning and a fresh cup of coffee ready to visit you all and what?!!**??

 No Blogger! 

It was so weird ... being out of touch from blogland for so long ... 

I realised just how bad it would be to not have you all there in my life ... maybe it was a reminder to be thankful ... and I truly am ... for your friendships ... and dare I say ... thankful to blogger for making it possible ...

Anyway ... I did manage to create something whilst checking blogger every five minutes ... See ...  I bought the new online magazine Inspired Ideas from Here and was sooo taken by something created by Denise Sharp   (hers was a badge) ... that I had to try it for myself ... it's a collection of butterflies ... printed onto a sheet of a book page ... then you stick several of the pages together to make it thick(ish) and cut out all the butterflies (20 of them) and glue them randomly onto a circle (she used a button) ... you have to buy the magazine to see what she did next ... Gorgeous! Well I did this and wondered what I was then going to do with it ... so I made a book box to put it on ... Lots of pictures here 

I used Tim Holtz papers to cover the outside ... love this paper 

see all those little butterflies ...  aren't they sweet?

I glued them to a cardboard circle ... then onto a rosette and then on to another rosette made by gluing lace to a larger circle (am I making sense?) ...

Inside ... covered with one of my favourite Pink Paislee papers

A closer look

This is very solid as I like to use heavy CS and then back it with cardboard

It measures 5" wide by about 6.5" high ... 

I like to use these boxes for all sorts of things ... I store my handmade flowers in them and other little treasures ... if you are interested in peeking at some others I have done click these links 

Pink ... Blue ... Baby ... Garden ... Piano 

Phew! ... Now I have to go grocery shopping ... and maybe later I can finally catch up with visiting you all 

Have a wonderful evening 

~ Ros ~

Happy Birthday Ross

Hi there ...

Yesterday my beautiful great Nephew Ross celebrated his 9th birthday ...

I haven't seen him in a while but I know he had a great stay with his grandparents last week 

I made a little card for him ... very similar to one I have done before ...

I love this 'Birds on a Wire' digital stamp from Hero Arts ... and I isolated one of the birds as you can see using my computer and printed it twice ... once on my card stock ... then paper pieced over it. The banner is also digital from Michelle underwood at Two Peas ... called "That was Yesterday" ... again I printed it twice and paper pieced it ...

Of course as I have already mentioned before ... this day is tinged with sadness as we also lost Ross's daddy the day after his 3rd birthday ... so my thoughts and my love are with my brother and Sil today.

I also want to thank Stella ... for passing on this blog award to me ... Thank you sweet friend!

And a big Thank You to all of you who take the time to leave me comments ... I really do appreciate each and every one of you ... 

I'll leave you with this thought .. something I heard at my philosophy class last night 

"You can wrestle with life or you can dance with it ... "

I hope you choose to dance ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

By the sea ...

Good morning sweet blog friends ... it's a new challenge at City Crafter today and this week our lovely Kirsty is hosting ... the theme she has chosen for us is "By the sea ..." and this is the lovely inspiration photo 

I love this picture ... reminds me of days gone by ... once when I was little my parents took my two brothers and I to the beach ... of course my brothers were playing in the dunes and were supposed to keep an eye on their little sister ... I was about 4 ... but they ran off and left me somewhere on the dunes ... I can still remember it ... I could hear my Mum calling but couldn't see her ... then our faithful German Shepherd came bounding up the dunes and found me ... She continued to bark until my parents got to us ... what a relief! 

Anyway ... back to the challenge ... we have the talented Shannon Baker  a digital stamp designer as our sponsor this week and the DT all got to use one of her pretty stamps ... the challenge is to create a card or project related to the sea ... I used the lovely lighthouse stamp ...

I actually painted this using Photoshop on the computer ... even the clouds ...

I printed the image twice and ran one through my Sizzix using my TH brick embossing folder then cut out just the lighthouse and paper pieced it ...

Can you see the brick effect? 

my papers are a mix of digital ... the text paper from Antique findings by Jen Allyson and some TH paper ... everything else is from my stash ... the little starfish was a charm from a bracelet ... just had to use that ... Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Steph aka Sweet Craf-Tea Chick please pop by and welcome her ... and check out all the cards from the rest of the DT ...

So ... I hope you will join us again this week ... everyone likes the sea right? and you can use anything related to the sea ... boats ... deck chairs ... umbrellas ... beach huts ... whatever comes to mind ... just have fun! 

Have a lovely day ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles ...week 19

Can you believe we are up to week 19 already with our Christmas cards at Jingle Belles Rock? I'm so glad that I stuck with this challenge and I am enjoying each and every week ...

This week the challenge is "Vintage" ... whatever vintage means to you ... or you could just use something vintage on your card ... I used a free vintage image that I found on the web ... this is my card

when I think of vintage I always think of glitter and sheet music for some reason ... anyway my doily is glittered but I'm not sure it shows up that well

How about you ... are you still playing along with the challenge? It's never too late to start ... so why don't you hop over to the blog and take a peek ...

Now I'm off to Pilates ... haven't been for a few weeks due to all the bank holidays ... so I'm not looking forwards to it ... I just know I will be aching like mad later ... the best I can hope for is that I get through the whole lesson ... Lol!

Have a good day 

~ Ros ~

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Good morning ...

I'm just popping in to wish you all a Happy Mothers Day ... we have already celebrated this here in the UK

but I know that there are lots of you ladies around the world celebrating today ...

Motherhood to me is the best gift ever ... hard work but incredibly worthwhile ... whether it be to a group of children or just one ...  even if you're "Mom" to a pet ... cat ... dog whatever ...

I read somewhere that Motherhood is like having your heart walk around in someone else's body for the rest of your life ... how true ...

Have a wonderful day wherever you are ... 

I also wanted to just say a couple of "Thank You's"

  ... To sweet June Lanum for sending me some lovely happy mail

 ... and to WaltzingMouse for my Top Mouse award this week ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~